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- From: dmccart@gomez.intel.com (D. J. McCarthy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: Intel is wasting too much money on ads!
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- Date: 12 Nov 92 02:20:15 GMT
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-
- Most of this reply is philosophical, and as always, not indicative of
- Intel's real policies.
-
- Thomas Hoberg (tmh@keks.first.gmd.de) wrote:
- > I live in Berlin, Germany. Walking through the streets, I see a big
- > 486(Intel inside) sign on every second billboard all across the city [....]
- > I can not recall that any company however loosely associated with the
- > computer industry has ever come close to putting up that many signs.
-
- I, too, find it unusual to see a computer company advertising so
- much in so many different types of media. (Do the television ads get
- broadcast over there?) But, after all, it's for the same reason that
- anyone else advertises: to spread the company name around and get
- people to recognize it.
-
-
- > I've always paid dearly for my Intel CPUs. I used to think that it was
- > because they had high R&D costs and low yields. I'm getting my doubts.
- > I'd prefer it if Intel were to use it's money pile to make their CPUs
- > cheaper not to pay for ads or lawyers to sue the socks off AMD or
- > Cyrix. They could just keep on being better instead of trying to rape
- > the industry and the computer user.
-
- I don't know if this is true in Europe, but the prices on most
- Intel CPUs here in America have substantially *decreased* since the
- trials and the big-time ads have started.
-
- Ads, trials, and price reductions all stem from a common cause:
- competition. How ads and price reductions stem from competition is fairly
- obvious. How trials stem from competition is something best explained by
- someone with more legal experience than I have.
-
-
- > If this trend continues, I see it
- > as my duty as a citizen, to boycott Intel, just as I would (and have)
- > boycott a political tyrant.
-
- You would boycott a company because they spend some money on
- advertising? I think that would make you a very uncommon individual.
-
- Anyway, if you have gotten this far and you still feel that
- Intel is "trying to rape the industry" by advertising, send me e-mail
- and we can discuss this philosophy further.
-
-
-
- --
- | D. J. McCarthy Just an Intel employee
- | dmccart@gomez.intel.com that happens to have Net access.
- | ...!intelhf!mipos3!modl01!dmccart Not a policy-maker or anything.
-