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Old 05-19-2011, 07:13 PM   #91
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I'm old enough to remember the competition between Betamax vs. VHS. Objectively, Betamax was better, except for price and content. Turned out that what most people wanted was price and content.
And needing two BetaMax cartridges to fit long movies.

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The only serious competition I think we will see for a long while will have to come from Amazon, because only Amazon has the marketing mechanism to compete with the ease of use Apple has, assuming that Amazon can come up with a decent quality Kablet of some kind.
What does marketing have to do with ease of use?

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Meanwhile, that executive's complaints really boil down to "what we are making isn't anything as good as the iPad, and we can't even do THAT right."
What the "executive's" complaint has to do with the "executive's" inability/unwillingness to compete in the marketplace. What we need here is a new executive.
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