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i'd argue that this is a myopic view. isn't the success of a product or company determined by customers? and the customers are making decisions which include ev
by officialjunk 13y ago
i'd argue that this is a myopic view. isn't the success of a product or company determined by customers? and the customers are making decisions which include evaluating competitors...
- hga 13y agoBut if you fail to technically execute, as Microsoft's competitors did except for Word Perfect, customers won't even get a chance to evaluate your product. If you're late and your product is impossibly buggy, like Word Perfect, even your most loyal customers will defect. I'm assuming people who watch gaming will be able to apply the above sort of analysis ... but that of course depends on just how awful these failing products were, something I don't know.
- officialjunk 13y agostill, if there was no competition for a word processor, then WordPerfect would have been the only option for customers that wanted a word processor...
- hga 13y agoClearly you never used Word Perfect for Windows ^_^. OK, I didn't, but a lawyer friend who was a very loyal to the DOS version did, and gave up because it kept dropping his tables and such to the bottom of the document. I guess you could have used it as an electronic typewriter for the most basic of stuff, but in your hypothetical I would have gone back to TeX, Scribe or even nroff if I really needed things like tables. However, I didn't have to do that, I could and did buy a copy of Microsoft's solid Word for Windows (on floppies, even).