David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK, so some engineers and technical people did expect a pretty large > volume of PC sales. > Yup. They made it happen. They risked inventing cheap printers, for example, hoping there would be a mass market for them. Too bad you did not act on your assumption or you might be another of the > billionaires on record. > I did the best I could! I did okay. In a boom like that, there are as many way to lose money as there are to make it. If cold fusion starts to boom, remember that. Look at solar cells now. I stayed clear of the dot-com boom because every time I looked a company I thought to myself, "I could do that easily. If I can do it, any competent programmer can, so where is the competitive advantage?" I was right about most of them, but way wrong about Amazon! I should have bought their stock. I know nothing about the stock market, so I steer clear of it. The thing is, I thought WordPerfect was a lot better than Microsoft Word. They are all but dead and gone so I guess product quality is not the right metric. - Jed
