Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 08:45:47 03/12/01
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On March 12, 2001 at 10:16:14, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>Well Christophe, let me tell you something about marketing. After all, more
>than 10 years ago, I was creative writter in Mc Erickson. I remember something
>of all that shit. First, three weeks are an eternity. In three weeks thousands
>of could-be purchases can be lost to competence. And second, of course there are
>victims: not the purchasers of F6, that got his upgrade, BUT the other
>programmers or companies that did not sell his product because the customer
>bought the other one. And all this is double truth in this tiny market where:
>A) people, a you know well, get angry if they does not receive the new toy at
>once.
>b) people not always have enough money to indulge every drive to purchase.
>The combination of those factor produce a clear result: the guy purchase the
>first new program available and then has not money for the next one. So, one of
>the victims was you, Crhistophe. Surely a lot of Tiger were not sold because F6
>was in the shells before, not matter how akward and unfinished was.
>Salut
>Fernando
Yes, that's true.
Christophe
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