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- From: eggert@lclark.edu (Jonathan Eggert)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Forbes Article
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.194336.23824@lclark.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 19:43:36 GMT
- Article-I.D.: lclark.1992Aug17.194336.23824
- References: <1992Aug13.210759.7352@lclark.edu> <1992Aug14.171723.16452@natinst.com> <1992Aug14.225314.15793@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
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- >The author tried to make Atari look bad--plain and simple.
- >
- >He brought up stuff like Sega investing millions of millions of
- >dollars to promote the Sega Masters system while Atari spent hardly
- >any to promote the 7800.
- >
- >DID IT REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Sega wasted money by attempting
- >to fight Nintendo. The Sega Masters was a failure.
- >
- >Of course, if Atari did spend that amount, they may have won the
- >law-suit against Nintendo.
- >
- >We also didn't know EXACTLY what were the reasons behind things
- >such as Jack checking to make sure tips didn't exceed a certain amount.
- >Maybe people were writing down that they tipped $40 and really
- >pocketed the rest? If no one checked, this person could get away
- >with it.
- >
- >I know there are problems at Atari but I think the author had
- >something against the company.
- >
- You may very well be right. Although, I would say that the author more
- likely just wanted to share a little bad news and tech some people a
- lesson about what happens to companies with CEO's who supposedly don't
- change with the market. It's more like an "I told you so" article.
-
- Jon Eggert
-