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[Roy J. Tellason]

On Thursday 03 August 2006 12:31 pm, Jules Richardson wrote:
> I get the impression that the high-end market was always this way - with
> companies / sales-force trying to convince people that they *needed* the
> latest gizmo even if they didn't. For the home market though, it seems like
> a more recent thing.
>
> e.g. take PCs (please! ;)  - Back in the early 90's you could choose
> whether to have an accelerated graphics card or not, a caching disk
> controller or not, a CDROM drive, a large or small hard disk etc. - at
> least the customer had the choice. These days they don't get given that,
> and everyone has to have the complexity whether they actually want/need it
> or not...

The thing is,  for techy-type people who want those choices,  that's great.  
The average mass-market customer not only doesn't want those choices, they 
don't understand them,  and so they want someone else to make the choices 
_for_ them.  Which is why m$ is going so far compared to other choices in 
that market.

Personally I don't like the choices they make,  and don't like the way that 
every single time I end up having to use something on that platform I end up 
feeling like I'm fighting it,  but that's me.  And I suspect a lot of the 
folks in here,  but definitely _not_ the mass market,  unfortunately.

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