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- From: craigdo@microsoft.com (Craig Dowell)
- Subject: Re: Rude behavior on this group.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.233208.27502@microsoft.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 23:32:08 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec17.181301.28130@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1gsq6bINN2kh@transfer.stratus.com> <1992Dec19.062253.5322@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec19.062253.5322@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) (OS/2) writes:
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- [...]
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- >Suppose computer dealers start bundling 2400 bps modem cards (a
- >non-integrated item) in their computers due to high demand, and they will
- >not credit its deletion:
- >
- >Customer#1: "I don't need a modem. Can you credit me?"
- >Dealer: "Screw you. You are in the minority."
- >
- >Customer#2: "I already have a modem. Can you credit me?"
- >Dealer: "Screw you. You are in the minority."
- >
- >Customer#3: "I would like a faster modem. Can you credit me?"
- >Dealer: "Screw you. You are in the minority."
-
- Yes. Now you've got it. The thing you left out were the hundreds of
- interactions that went like this:
-
- Customer n: "You mean I get a modem with this package too?"
- Dealer: "Yes, so many people end up buying a modem separately, we
- use our volume purchasing power to give it to you at a
- much lower cost than you could ever get it."
- Customer n: "Great stuff!"
-
- When the two types of conversations are biased toward the latter, you will
- keep getting your modem bundled in. When the former style becomes a
- significant portion of the coversations you'll see modems dropped from the
- bundle.
-
- It may piss off three people who go somewhere else (and probably get even
- more pissed off there); but it makes lots of people very happy, and therefore
- the owners of the dealer very happy.
-
- The arguments for unbundling degenerate into a situation where a system is
- designed and built at the dealer, from the motherboard on up. I don't want
- expensive 20 nS RAM chips in the cache. I want 40 nS chips in the cache;
- and I want 256K of them. I want a ...
-
- Computers are becoming commodities. You don't custom design a commodity
- product for every consumer.
-
- I simply don't understand the argument. It's like saying that everybody,
- everywhere, should be able to get whatever they want anytime; and if they
- can't, the world is somehow broken. Sounds to me like Governors Clinton and
- Cuomo are behind this :-)
-
- -- Craig
-
- P.S. I want a light switch which has a diagonal action. I demand to be
- able to buy it from Ernst, and at no extra cost and with no extra hassles.
- Why can't I? I think we should all descend on Ernst and beat their
- management about the head and shoulders for being insensitive to the needs
- of their customers. Uh, well customer. No matter! Kill the incorrect
- bastards. Oops --- bastards and bitches.
-
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