| | Now, getting back on topic - let's see the
list get a little productive. . . | | Opinions are going to differ on
whether or not TI cheated us. I accused | them of doing just that in
one of my emails to Paul Fischer, and he had a | good point - in TI's
opinion, none of us with HW 1.00 were cheated. | | Instead, TI gave HW
2.00 buyers a "free upgrade" of sorts -- were TI really | out to cheat us,
new 89s would not sell for the same price with a more | expensive 12 MHz
processor. Paul compared it to car dealerships -- all they | do is
stick on a new number for the model year, and they can change the car | all
they want. And they don't tell you everything that has changed. | |
The ONLY reason TI is getting flamed like this from us is because of one |
poor marketting decision - whether a calc is HW1 or HW2 is not distinctly |
obvious at first glace. If "HW2" was written on the calc and noted in
big | print on the box. If they called it the 89+ or the 89-2, we would
not | complain. It's all psychological -- humans, as a whole, tend to
look at how | they were cheated rather than how they were pompered. |
| Regardless, the issue could go either way. There's simply no point
in | complaining -- what's done is done/ Realize that what you say will
have no | impact on TI whatsoever - the problem is corporate marketting,
which will | not change its ways for any reason other than greed. If
you're going to | complain, do it amongst yourselves so that those of us who
understand its | futility don't have to look at it (yes, I get the digest
version of the list | and have to scroll past it to read other messages - not
just delete it =) | | -Scott | | |
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