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Why VHS Was Better Than Betamax
Vladimir Kornea writes "This article argues that 'when someone buys and uses a product, the technological aspects are a small and often uninteresting part of the decision' and that the when the 'whole product' (a term commonly used among marketing people) is considered, VHS was better than Betamax, and that the Wintel PC is better than the alternatives." Update: 01/29 04:26 GMT by T : Apologies for the dupe.
Just posted Sunday: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/26/028207
So I can understand how some of the more popular topics get posted more than once, but a topic like this isn't really big news.
Do the editors ever even bother to look at the front page? Are there people who resubmit stories time after time just so we can make fun of the editors posting dupes?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/26/028207 &mode=thread&tid=126
Two days ago.
Ah it seems like only yesterday I was reading this very same story.
I guess it just goes to prove that there's nothing new under the sun...
or is it that the technology news cycle is simply accelerating to the point where upgrades, viruses, security patches and new releases, reports and share market fluctuations are passing us by at such a rate that it only seems like we're reading yesterday's news today?
Perhaps this is where all that dark matter really is residing...
I'll stop now.
I am a leaf on the wind
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/26/028207 &mode=flat&tid=126
That may be true that dupes are tiresome, this topic is as interesting as the 50-year-old LP format vs. 20-year-old CD format wars.
"All art is quite useless." -- Oscar Wilde
I don't think you got the point of that post you just replied to there pal.
- sigs are for wimps.
I don't think you got the point of that post you just replied to there pal.
Get it now?
- sigs are for wimps.