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9th Engineer · 07-13-2006, 01:00 PM

The computer market is hard to crack sometimes because it's often not the best product that sells best. The percentage of people who have any amount of computer savy is abysmaly low, so whatever people are used to is what they'll buy. For years after Windows 98 Microsoft released dud after OS dud and people bought them because that's all they were familiar with and couldn't be bothered to learn how to use a new and better one. I'm not really trying to defend either side here, just pointing out one persistant and frusterating nuance of that market.

07-13-2006, 01:00 PM	#7
9th Engineer Bioengineer and aspiring lawer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 872	The computer market is hard to crack sometimes because it's often not the best product that sells best. The percentage of people who have any amount of computer savy is abysmaly low, so whatever people are used to is what they'll buy. For years after Windows 98 Microsoft released dud after OS dud and people bought them because that's all they were familiar with and couldn't be bothered to learn how to use a new and better one. I'm not really trying to defend either side here, just pointing out one persistant and frusterating nuance of that market. __________________ The most valuable renewable resource is stupidity.