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- From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: 68050
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 11:22:51 PDT
- Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
- Message-ID: <D2150056.i2lsbg@erics.infoserv.com>
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- Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com writes:
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- > Eric Smith writes .....
- > The reason that Apple has an alliance with IBM now has to do with corporate
- > alliances and shrinking market share for both companies, not with IBM's
- > technical expertise.
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- > ------------------
- > Why would two companys that were competing with each other get together with
- > each other so they could decrease the others market share. That sounds like a
- > dog chasin' it's tail to me......
-
- Well, that's not what I said. Apple's and IBM's share in the PC/workstation
- market is already shrinking. This alliance is aimed at countering other
- companies' marketing startegies that have been designed to get more share
- of that market.
-
- > then again I don't know anything about bussiness.
-
- You said it.
-
- > Lets face it .... IBM is good at makin' RISC ships, Motorola is
- > good at developing technology to mass produce complex microprocessors, and
- > Apple is good at designing software and users intfaces that are easy to use
- > and productive. Instead of being imature like the rest of the world these
- > three companies know that "Hey my competetition is better at doing that than I
- > am... I wonder how they do it??? Imagine what we could do if we worked
- > TOGETHER and SHARED our knowledge with one another".
-
- Joe, what color is the sky in your world? Companies don't build products
- for their level of technical excellence. Apple and IBM have no desire
- to share technology in order to build better products from a technological
- standpoint. Customers purchase products because they have certain needs,
- and companies build and sell products that fulfill those needs. Beyond that,
- corporate alliances are made for strategic marketing reasons. In this case,
- more than anything, Apple wants access to IBM's distribution channels,
- and IBM wants a software provider to replace Microsoft, who they're pissed
- at for dumping the joint OS/2 effort in favor of their own Windows product.
-
- You may make up your own opinions, but have you been following what's
- been happening in the industry in the last few years at all?
-
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- Eric Smith
- erics@infoserv.com
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