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(Vanity) What superior products were defeated by inferior ones and why
01/13/03 | self

Posted on 01/13/2003 3:13:17 PM PST by rudy45

Some examples come to mind, such as Betamax vs. VHS. Can you think of others? I'm doing a presentation on how an inferior product, with the right strategy, can overome a superior one.

Thanks.


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To: Neanderthal
Rear drive cars are balanced better. All sport cars are rear drive. Front drive cars have complicated doo-dads like "constant velocity (CV) joints" that eventually break down. The only advantage of front drive, except lower weight and smaller size, is better control on snow and ice.

Excellent point about the CV joint. Wrong-wheel-drive...er...front-wheel-drive is a significant 'dumbing-down' of automotive technology.

61 posted on 01/13/2003 3:44:03 PM PST by Petronski (Love my RWD, body-on-frame Ford Crown Victoria.)
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To: Neanderthal
The only advantage of front drive, except lower weight and smaller size, is better control on snow and ice.

Many cars are designed by people who live where that is a big consideration. After you do three 360's, slide down an embankment and into a tree you think about these things.

62 posted on 01/13/2003 3:44:09 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Learn to listen to your inner grizzly)
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To: Diogenesis
Hey, the books aren't closed on cold fusion yet!
63 posted on 01/13/2003 3:44:24 PM PST by Arkie2
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To: rudy45
PINE vs all GUI-based email programs that have ever come down the pike. With PINE back in the late 80s and early 90s, I could plow through 150 messages in five minutes, and those messages were available to me the MOMENT they arrived in my Unix account. Now it takes for-ev-er to page through every individual message, waiting for my hard drive to spin and open or delete each message, and I don't even know they've arrived until minutes or even HOURS after they've arrived at my account, because my email program only checks for new mail every fifteen minutes or so.

The future sux.

64 posted on 01/13/2003 3:45:07 PM PST by Timesink (Poodle: The Other White Meat)
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To: rudy45
The Pony vs the Twist!
65 posted on 01/13/2003 3:45:12 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Someone left the cake out in the rain I dont think that I can take it coz it took so long to bake it)
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To: dep
Good article, thanks. It also reiterates the inferiority of Intel's x86 architecture.
66 posted on 01/13/2003 3:45:50 PM PST by ThinkDifferent
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To: Skooz
Florida State over Nebraska, 1993 Orange Bowl. The worst officiated game in the history of organized sport. Period.

Second worst! Soviets over USA, basketball, gold medal game, '72 Olympics! Exclamation point!

67 posted on 01/13/2003 3:47:10 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: rudy45
I think that your entire premise of 'superior' products being superceded by 'inferior' products is facetious.

If an 'inferior' product beats a 'superior' product, then the 'inferior' product really was the 'superior' product, and vice versa.

The German army was 'superior' to the US army in World War 2, but who got beaten by who?

68 posted on 01/13/2003 3:47:17 PM PST by Frohickey
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To: Frohickey
The German army was 'superior' to the US army in World War 2, but who got beaten by who?

Simple. The Germans got slaughtered...by the Red Army.

69 posted on 01/13/2003 3:48:58 PM PST by Petronski (Love my RWD, body-on-frame Ford Crown Victoria.)
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To: templar
Ever try a dvorak keyboard?

I'm yussing w on now $$%%^%#

70 posted on 01/13/2003 3:50:03 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: new cruelty
Van Halen v. Van Hagar v. Van Sharone v. Sans Halen

I was just thinking that - howz about synth VH outselling non-synth VH?

71 posted on 01/13/2003 3:50:22 PM PST by Senator Pardek (I luv crackpots)
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion
QWERTY keyboard layout vs. the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard.

The problem is once you know QWERTY you can't deprogram yourself to use any other system. Once you learn QWERTY your fingers are PERMANENTLY hard-wired.

72 posted on 01/13/2003 3:51:16 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: new cruelty
the astrodome v. reliant stadium and minute maid field (aka enron field)

You'll find few people with greater fondness for the Astrodome than I but it's hard to call it superior to Reliant Stadium as an NFL facility. However, if Reliant Stadium were designed the way Minute Maid Park is it would have a giant hill at the 30 yard line and about five rows of seats midway in one of the end zones (not to mention nowhere to park).

73 posted on 01/13/2003 3:52:47 PM PST by Tall_Texan (Where liberals lead, misery follows.)
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To: Senator Pardek
'howz about synth VH outselling non-synth VH? '

howza bout xtina (as she refers to herself) aguillera outselling anying incarnation of VH?

74 posted on 01/13/2003 3:54:30 PM PST by new cruelty
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To: rudy45
What superior products were defeated by inferior ones and why

Doug Forrester and The Rule of Law were defeated by Frank Lautenberg, because the NJ Supreme Court is corrupt.

75 posted on 01/13/2003 3:54:32 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: dennisw
Although Stirling engines haven't yet been used in any production vehicles, most early problems of bulk and reliability appear to have been ironed out,

I've built several sterlings. Power to size is always quite low. They do have a real potential for low power generators though. I under stand that linear sterlings have been designed for use in satelites, but I don't know it they are in use. Water pumps using the sterling engine have been available for shallow well use for a number of years. I can see a great number of applications that could be on the market immediately, but not vehicles. And, of course, there's always the cute little fan that runs off of your monitor heat.

76 posted on 01/13/2003 3:54:44 PM PST by templar
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To: rudy45
Technicolor vs One-Strip color. Why they did away with Technicolor I don't know. The old color films were much SUPERIOR to what followed. BTW, The Godfather was one of the last films to use Technicolor and it really shows in the cinematic quality of that movie.
77 posted on 01/13/2003 3:56:02 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: ThinkDifferent
Today, things are starting to get interesting again with Mozilla.

Any downside to downloading and installing Mozilla? Does it "take over" my PC or anything? Easy to remove and return to Explorer?

78 posted on 01/13/2003 3:57:29 PM PST by Protagoras
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To: spectre
57 Thunderbird.

The History Channel had a show on this topic recently.

79 posted on 01/13/2003 3:57:29 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: RossA
60's BeeGees vs Disco BeeGees ("Gotta Get A Message To You," "To Love Somebody" etc were great songs, but all they're remembered for is "Stayin' Alive." Yuck!
80 posted on 01/13/2003 3:57:37 PM PST by xlib
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