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Felt like a legit update... Looking forward to putting these units up against the Surface line we currently deploy... I believe they have a good chance at crush

Felt like a legit update... Looking forward to putting these units up against the Surface line we currently deploy... I believe they have a good chance at crushing competition!

wffurr 5y ago
s/crushing competition/providing a great experience to their customers
- JasonFruit 5y ago
  That's how competition-crushing is done, ideally.
  - fabianhjr 5y ago
    Normally though competition crushing is done through anti-competitive practices. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Anti-competitive_practices https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Anti-competitive_practices
    - bscphil 5y ago
      Or, more charitably (?), marketing.
      - dan-robertson 5y ago
        The theme of the comment thread is that companies in the past (example: Microsoft) got in serious trouble for talking about crushing the competition. While companies want to do better than the competition because it means more sales and more revenue, they are meant to do it by providing better products or services rather than by causing competitor companies to go out of business granting the survivor a monopoly, even if either motivation leads to the same outcome.
        bscphil 5y ago
        "providing better products or services" and "causing competitor companies to go out of business" are related, though, not two wholly separate ways of doing business. If you provide a better product or service at a better price point, you'll win more and more of the market for the product or service.
        Jensson 5y ago
        If you offer a targeted price reduction to unsustainable levels in all areas a competitor operates and says you do it to crush the competition then you will have a really bad time in court. If you however said that you did it to provide better services to those poor people then at least you have a fighting chance. I guess this change in wording is why we mostly stopped seeing companies taken to court over anti-competitive practices in USA. Since we reworded all the "crush the competition" to "provide better services" the courts are now unable to tell when companies are behaving in an anti-competitive manner.

Felt like a legit update... Looking forward to putting these units up against the Surface line we currently deploy... I believe they have a good chance at crushing competition!

wffurr 5y ago

s/crushing competition/providing a great experience to their customers

JasonFruit 5y ago
That's how competition-crushing is done, ideally.
- fabianhjr 5y ago
  Normally though competition crushing is done through anti-competitive practices. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Anti-competitive_practices https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Anti-competitive_practices
  - bscphil 5y ago
    Or, more charitably (?), marketing.
    - dan-robertson 5y ago
      The theme of the comment thread is that companies in the past (example: Microsoft) got in serious trouble for talking about crushing the competition. While companies want to do better than the competition because it means more sales and more revenue, they are meant to do it by providing better products or services rather than by causing competitor companies to go out of business granting the survivor a monopoly, even if either motivation leads to the same outcome.
      - bscphil 5y ago
        "providing better products or services" and "causing competitor companies to go out of business" are related, though, not two wholly separate ways of doing business. If you provide a better product or service at a better price point, you'll win more and more of the market for the product or service.
        Jensson 5y ago
        If you offer a targeted price reduction to unsustainable levels in all areas a competitor operates and says you do it to crush the competition then you will have a really bad time in court. If you however said that you did it to provide better services to those poor people then at least you have a fighting chance. I guess this change in wording is why we mostly stopped seeing companies taken to court over anti-competitive practices in USA. Since we reworded all the "crush the competition" to "provide better services" the courts are now unable to tell when companies are behaving in an anti-competitive manner.