Of course, you're wrong. Besides the fact that there are plenty of people who can read and afford computers, you make no mention of the #1 driver for economic and improvement: business!
Why plop down a warehouse or plant in a nation with no dependable way of communicating with it? Access to the Internet will attract business, which will create jobs and bring an influx of money.
Further, PCs aren't the only things that can benefit humanity with access to the Internet. You're thinking inside the box. Developing nations have solved many problems without our confined 1st World ideas. I don't believe you need to sit an Tanzanian in front of Wikipedia to call the Inet an African success story. Creative uses will come from uncommon and unexpected corners, just as they always have. This is just one more tool, and one from which Google/will/ profit.
PS - Once you're in the position to call $3 billion dollar shots like these, I don't call you an accountant anymore. You're management.
Tell that to the professors who assign a new edition every year. Really. Tell them. Do you want names? I've got names.
*Just paid $200 for a "new" Calc. book*
It's a canard to say that the problem with Vista is that "the hardware is not ready for it".
Agreed, but...
If Saab made a car that could only run on some super high-test gasoline that is not sold in gas stations, would you say that "the gasoline was not ready for it" or that "it was a stupid design and poor business decision to release it"?
This is a really terrible idea. Yea, people would take advantage of it and it would NOT boost net sales, which is the real figure that matters (Net Sales = Sales - Returns/Allowances).
Also, short term (week/month long) loans are very easy for corps to get, and much less expensive than "hanging on" to customers' monies while they take advantage of a paperwork/database-intensive return policy.
I kind of feel their pain. I understand that third party sites force an oligopoly to compete as if it were in a monopolistic competitive environment.
Chastising airlines because they aren't making common sense business decisions (Indeed, sometimes their decisions defy logic) is useless. Oligopolistic competition isn't like the economics you learned in grade school. It's much more complex, and if you review this decision in terms of economics, it makes sense.
That said, I'd cry if every airline did this.
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Of course, you're wrong. Besides the fact that there are plenty of people who can read and afford computers, you make no mention of the #1 driver for economic and improvement: business!
/will/ profit.
Why plop down a warehouse or plant in a nation with no dependable way of communicating with it? Access to the Internet will attract business, which will create jobs and bring an influx of money.
Further, PCs aren't the only things that can benefit humanity with access to the Internet. You're thinking inside the box. Developing nations have solved many problems without our confined 1st World ideas. I don't believe you need to sit an Tanzanian in front of Wikipedia to call the Inet an African success story. Creative uses will come from uncommon and unexpected corners, just as they always have. This is just one more tool, and one from which Google
PS - Once you're in the position to call $3 billion dollar shots like these, I don't call you an accountant anymore. You're management.
Tell that to the professors who assign a new edition every year. Really. Tell them. Do you want names? I've got names. *Just paid $200 for a "new" Calc. book*
It's a canard to say that the problem with Vista is that "the hardware is not ready for it".
Agreed, but...
If Saab made a car that could only run on some super high-test gasoline that is not sold in gas stations, would you say that "the gasoline was not ready for it" or that "it was a stupid design and poor business decision to release it"?
Yes.
Yes. Economics 101. There are alternatives to Microsoft. It is therefore not a monopoly.
shoot, man...welcome to stats.... >.> Nebu's right.
This is a really terrible idea. Yea, people would take advantage of it and it would NOT boost net sales, which is the real figure that matters (Net Sales = Sales - Returns/Allowances). Also, short term (week/month long) loans are very easy for corps to get, and much less expensive than "hanging on" to customers' monies while they take advantage of a paperwork/database-intensive return policy.
I kind of feel their pain. I understand that third party sites force an oligopoly to compete as if it were in a monopolistic competitive environment. Chastising airlines because they aren't making common sense business decisions (Indeed, sometimes their decisions defy logic) is useless. Oligopolistic competition isn't like the economics you learned in grade school. It's much more complex, and if you review this decision in terms of economics, it makes sense. That said, I'd cry if every airline did this.