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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.035311.3542@microsoft.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 03:53:11 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec23.030133.75057@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1992Dec28.233306.1746@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec29.124550.10847@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
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- In article <1992Dec29.124550.10847@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
- >helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >
- >>A companies _customers_ calls the shots no matter how big the company is.
- >>Its the customers who give it the market share that it has.
- >
- >Hmm, so if I contact such a company, tell them what I want of them
- >and tell them I am a customer, they'll tell me, Yes sir, it'll
- >be there first thing? Nah, doesn't even look worth trying. To
- >simple a view maybe.
-
- Read it again - it's customers, not customer. If you and
- a couple hundred thousand of your friends all called and told that
- company what you wanted, you can bet they'd get right on it.
-
-
- >>Look at it this way. The only way a "big company" can put a "little company"
- >>out of business is for the customers of the little company to _voluntarily_
- >>of their _own_free_will_ to _choose_ to buy from the big company instead.
- >>In other words, it is the freewill choice of the customers which puts _any_
- >>company, big or little out of business.
- >
- >And not the potential of a big company to produce at lower costs and
- >the consumers wish to get the cheapest product still valuable. Right
- >you are.
-
- The lower costs and hence lower prices are a motivating factor
- towards those customers moving away. So is superior quality.
- But the ultimate loss in sales comes from the choices of consumers.
-
- -Phil
-
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