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"Rob Stow" <rob.stow@sasktel.net> wrote in message
news:10ahdv89cjmhi06@corp.supernews.com...
> Judd wrote:
>
> > Try reading what I wrote again please. I CLEARLY said "almost nothing
"...
> > as in not nothing but hardly the large installed base of the 32-bit
> > applications. Meaning, few consumers are going to jump on it for the
sole
> > reason of it being 64-bit.
>
> Oh come on, you know how consumers behave a lot better than
> that paragraph indicates. Consumers will buy 64 bit simply
> because that it the latest buzzword. Their understanding,
> or lack thereof, of what "64 bit" is all about is irrelevant.
>
> Its just like when consumers started switching to Windows from
> DOS even though there were no decent Windows apps yet. All
> they understood was that "GUI" was the coming thing and they
> wanted to jump on the bandwagon before it was fully assembled.
> (And they drove me nuts because the all felt they had to
> demonstrate to me that they knew it was supposed to be pronounced
> "gwee" for some stupid reason or another. I resolutely stuck
> with saying G.U.I.)
>
> The most important equation in marketing is
> consumer = lemming
no marketing = people start dancing circles around the globe, white doves
fly away with little olive branches....
"Rob Stow" <rob.stow@sasktel.net> wrote in message
news:10ahdv89cjmhi06@corp.supernews.com...
> Judd wrote:
>
> > Try reading what I wrote again please. I CLEARLY said "almost nothing
"...
> > as in not nothing but hardly the large installed base of the 32-bit
> > applications. Meaning, few consumers are going to jump on it for the
sole
> > reason of it being 64-bit.
>
> Oh come on, you know how consumers behave a lot better than
> that paragraph indicates. Consumers will buy 64 bit simply
> because that it the latest buzzword. Their understanding,
> or lack thereof, of what "64 bit" is all about is irrelevant.
>
> Its just like when consumers started switching to Windows from
> DOS even though there were no decent Windows apps yet. All
> they understood was that "GUI" was the coming thing and they
> wanted to jump on the bandwagon before it was fully assembled.
> (And they drove me nuts because the all felt they had to
> demonstrate to me that they knew it was supposed to be pronounced
> "gwee" for some stupid reason or another. I resolutely stuck
> with saying G.U.I.)
>
> The most important equation in marketing is
> consumer = lemming
no marketing = people start dancing circles around the globe, white doves
fly away with little olive branches....