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Carl Price · 11-30-2004, 02:09 PM

You have hit my hot button with your post.
The problem as I see it iis not only with the companies themselves but with people like us too. All too often we want what we buy to be the cheapest not necessarily the best quality. For example, in 2000 we had here in Memphis an ISP called Major Internet. They were local, their tech support was local, and they knew what they were doing. They folded in 2001 because they could not get enough subscribers to pay their bills. They only charged $14.95 per month but they couldnt fight the FREE internets and AOHell. While they were going, I asked some AOL customers why they had AOL and not Major Internet. The answer I got was that MI was not as big so AOL had to be better. My stock anwer to that is that AOL is living proof that 30 something million folks CAN be wrong.

The same thing is happening in the browser market today. Opera is by far the best browser, but because it is not free it will never have the market penetration it deserves. When we start being ruled by what's better for us instead of what's cheapest then we can expect better. But we have to be willing to pay for it. Till we ARE willing to pay for quality than we can expect to get the CRAP end of the stick. What are we going to do when all that's available is foreign?

11-30-2004, 02:09 PM	#7
Carl Price Member (11 bit) Join Date: Jun 1999 Location: Memphis, Tn Posts: 1,828	Hot button You have hit my hot button with your post. The problem as I see it iis not only with the companies themselves but with people like us too. All too often we want what we buy to be the cheapest not necessarily the best quality. For example, in 2000 we had here in Memphis an ISP called Major Internet. They were local, their tech support was local, and they knew what they were doing. They folded in 2001 because they could not get enough subscribers to pay their bills. They only charged $14.95 per month but they couldnt fight the FREE internets and AOHell. While they were going, I asked some AOL customers why they had AOL and not Major Internet. The answer I got was that MI was not as big so AOL had to be better. My stock anwer to that is that AOL is living proof that 30 something million folks CAN be wrong. The same thing is happening in the browser market today. Opera is by far the best browser, but because it is not free it will never have the market penetration it deserves. When we start being ruled by what's better for us instead of what's cheapest then we can expect better. But we have to be willing to pay for it. Till we ARE willing to pay for quality than we can expect to get the CRAP end of the stick. What are we going to do when all that's available is foreign? __________________ Carl Have you noticed? Despite the high cost of living it is still the most popular option available. Integrity is it's own reward! The rarest animal in the world is a liberal using his own money. It is easy to be a liberal when the result of your politics still leaves you very well-off. Try letting all that spending hurt and you'll see how many folks are for it! Last edited by Carl Price; 11-30-2004 at 02:13 PM.