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Article #620192Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners (was: Xerox company sold)
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 02:29
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 02:29
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On 2018-02-03, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: > AT&T also wrongly predicted that Western Electric would continue to > be profitable. It knew at the time [Alvin Von Auw] that customer > ownership of sets and wiring was no long cost-effective. However, > it probably could not have predicted that W/E's business model of > building equipment strong enough to withstand a nuke attack was no > longer working, and consumers wanted cheap equipment, even if it > meant frequent replacement. That is, consumers would rather have > a cheap crappy $10 phone replaced every year than a solid durable > $40 phone lasting for 40 years. 'zackly. The Economy depends on consumers being stupid. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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