Jeff Wright >> Bundling. Isn't that similar to what railroads did in their >> early years. Cost a run to some popular location where they >> had competition below the cost to operate that route and >> charge other routes with little/no competition much more for >> rates. (I'm sure there are more recent occurrences be >> jabbering fool, ooops to late, I'm already doing that<g>)
> So? What is wrong with that? That *is* competition and it > still goes on today in other markets. Joe Computeruser wants a computer to do email, web surfing and word processing. Look Dell offers a bundle here and it comes with MS Office for $150 or WordPerfect that only has word processing for $250. Office has word processing, a spreadsheet and a powerpoint. Office has three times as much stuff and it's for an office. It has to be better. > No amount of bundling would have benefited MS if WP was > seen as the better product. Oh sure it would - marketing is a great thing. Do think people buy stuff off of informercials. You bet they do. > A DVD player for my car that I'm considering buying for > long trips has all accessories included with it and is > priced better than competitors; competitors charge extra > for the goodies. Should they be prevented from doing > that as anti-competitive? Does the company have a reputation of trying to eliminate competition? Is there active competition (as opposed to Windows and iPod)? (Yes, I know that there are multiple manufacturers of MP3 players, but so far I haven't seen anything close to being what could be considered an iPod killer). -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Whip me, beat me, make me code in COBOL!! ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
