Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 08:51:58 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: dufault@hda.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft (fwd) Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970409085155.006a1a44@etinc.com>
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At 09:39 AM 4/9/97 +0930, Michael Smith wrote: >Amancio Hasty stands accused of saying: >> >From The Desk Of dennis : >> > can compete with their marketing power? Who else could >> > buy WebTV and put the kind of money into it that would be required >> > to make such a stupid idea profitable? >> > >> > Dennis >> >> Okay, I am going to be a nice guy ... Perhaps Sony, Nintendo or Sega have >> the marketing clout and distribution channels to push the WebTV idea. > >... however none of them has ever displayed the courage to push someone >else's stupid idea hard enough to make it a success. Sony is extremely >conservative (and have shown that they too believe that it's owning >content rather than selling the delivery hardware that counts), and >I'm really not sure that Nintendo or Sega would have the faintest idea >how to do it. > >Microsoft are about the only organisation around at the moment that >has a demonstrated track record of buying a mediocre product and >badge-engineering it to success-by-brute-force. Precisely. Any dont forget that microsoft has the luxury of a free O/S that they can customize like no-one else can.....the failure of WebTV was likely to be that its not "like Windows"...any other concern would have to either license from Microsoft, get sued by microsoft or roll their own. Dennis .
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