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| Goz:
Cat fight! |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: RandyT on April 13, 2005, 11:39:19 am ---I was inspired by urebel's page, as well as the thoughts of another user here. I deviated from both of them, as I often do, and created my own vision of what I thought would be possible/beneficial. I'd like to thank both of the parties responsible for the inspiration, but the functionality and methodology is not the same as the published examples and, as has been assured to me by outside professionals, unique. It is methodology that is being questioned, not concept. RandyT --- End quote --- Howver, at least at face value, it was the whole concept, and not the methodology that Andy was initially questioning. Whether his question was meant as a way of seeing whether or not he should try to exploit the methodology I guess time will tell. |
| jer2665:
I gotta say I really appreciate all the work randy, and andy and all the others do for this, as i'm sure none of them can quit their jobs and rely on the community, but they all sell great products for good prices, so we aren't all screwed by bigger companies who don't care about the do it yourself'ers. |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: jer2665 on April 13, 2005, 11:56:06 am ---I gotta say I really appreciate all the work randy, and andy and all the others do for this, as i'm sure none of them can quit their jobs and rely on the community, but they all sell great products for good prices, so we aren't all screwed by bigger companies who don't care about the do it yourself'ers. --- End quote --- Yes, I have to agree that it's great watching Andy and Randy introduce products that we didn't know we needed until they developed them. 8) --- Quote ---Tiger-heli, what i got from your whole point is that Andy is doing business. Whether he has a problem with the item or not, if people will and want to buy them, why not sell them? I work for a boat dealership, used to be in accessories, I don't like some of the items we sell, I don't feel it's necessary or whatever, but I'd order them and keep them in stock because people want it. I want to have what people want, so they don't buy some stuff from me, then go down the road to the next boat dealership and pick up others. Obviously in business you'd want as much of a market share as you can get. While these are still just small business, it's still out to make some money. my analogy isn't the best, but it should get the point across. --- End quote --- Well, I can follow the analogy. Let me give you a similar one. I work part-time for an auto parts store. Some of the products we sell, I don't particularly like, but we keep them. I don't push them on people, but if they want them they are free to buy them. OTOH, there are products that I don't like that I know our competitor's carry, and I will refer people to them if they really want the product and I can't talk them out of it. That's just good business. But we would lose a LOT of credibility if the store ran an ad stating that Brand-X transmission additive didn't work well, then figured that since eveyone was still buying Brand-X transmission additive, we had better come out with a Brand-Y transmission additive that was basically the same thing, but told everyone else how well it worked. Another example - A couple of years ago, I was in the Ford dealership for some warranty work and overheard the regional sales guy prepping the salesmen. He was trying to move Escorts and wanted the salesmen to mention that it had fuel injection so it didn't have problems with altitude changes, and it had dual diagonal brake systems, so if one brake failed it wouldn't skid to one side or change directions. Exactly what competing carburated vehicle did he think I might be looking at in 2003? A Yugo? A used 1984 Accord? And the dual diagonal braking thing was a NHTSA mandate from something like 1970. Sure, it's marketing, but is it a good way to do business? OTOH, I guess this shows the level of competition, which can only be good for end-users like us. |
| Flinkly:
so andy, do you know of a competitively priced analog stick that has a good feel to it? i did ask randy about this in the GP thread, and he had some good points on price and feel of analog sticks. i only ask since it seems to me that your creating an analog stick interface that mimics 49/8/4/2 and even analog sticks. please tell me if i'm wrong, cause i wouldn't want to add to the fight. i am glad that it's a competative market, but...i just hate to see you guys fight. or whatever you wanna call it. now let me get back out of the way before you guys start back up the fisticuffs... |
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