Re: capitalist competition

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think that Microsoft competes on the basis of marketing.  I don't
think anyone was Microsoft product because they believe that Windows is the
best possible product.  Rather has to do with market dominance.

In the software field, numerous times of companies tried to sell cheap
software unsuccessfully, but did much better once they raise the price.

Jim Devine wrote:

> In the complete version of the book review that Louis posted, the author
> (Paulina Borsook) is quoted as saying that: "It's a dirty little secret in
> high tech that superior marketing and inferior technology will beat out
> superior technology and inferior marketing every time  and that other
> factors, aside from Darwinian fitness, determine which technologies and
> which companies thrive or perish."
>
> isn't that "dirty little secret" the basis of Microsoft's success? (Have
> they _ever_ produced superior technology?)
>
> in addition, it should be mentioned that having good financing,
> relationships with strong bankers, and political connections allows an
> inferior technology to beat a superior one in the process of capitalist
> competition.
>
> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

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