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Article #620193Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners (was: Xerox company sold)
From: J. Clarke
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 02:45
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 02:45
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On 4 Feb 2018 02:29:24 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >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. Funny thing, all my cheap crappy 10 buck phones still worked the last time I had a phone line to connect them to. But I don't feel any need for such any longer.
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