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Article #933Intel is wasting too much money on ads!
From: Thomas Hoberg
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 03:53
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 03:53
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I live in Berlin, Germany. Walking through the streets, I see a big 486(Intel inside) sign on every second billboard all across the city, that means you can hardly go anywhere and not see at least of those signs... I can not recall that any company however loosely associated with the computer industry has ever come close to putting up that many signs. I don't know how much money goes into this, but the only other companies that have been able to afford such extravagance were those that sell cancer sticks (Reynolds et.al.). I've always paid dearly for my Intel CPUs. I used to think that it was because they had high R&D costs and low yields. I'm getting my doubts. I'd prefer it if Intel were to use it's money pile to make their CPUs cheaper not to pay for ads or lawyers to sue the socks off AMD or Cyrix. They could just keep on being better instead of trying to rape the industry and the computer user. If this trend continues, I see it as my duty as a citizen, to boycott Intel, just as I would (and have) boycott a political tyrant. --- Thomas M. Hoberg | Internet: tmh@first.gmd.de 1000 Berlin 41 | tmh@cs.tu-berlin.de Wielandstr. 4 | Germany | BITNET: tmh@tub.bitnet +49-30-851-50-21 |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.netmbx.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!gmdtub!bigfoot!tmh From: tmh@keks.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Intel is wasting too much money on ads! Message-ID: <TMH.92Nov11045316@keks.first.gmd.de> Date: 11 Nov 92 03:53:16 GMT Sender: news@bigfoot.first.gmd.de Distribution: comp Organization: GMD-FIRST, Berlin Lines: 25