From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264848AbTIJOlh (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:41:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264884AbTIJOlh (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:41:37 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:58642 "HELO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264848AbTIJOki (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:40:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3F5F3D0A.8000700@techsource.com> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:02:34 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry McVoy CC: "Martin J. Bligh" , "Brown, Len" , Giuliano Pochini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Scaling noise References: <20030903173213.GC5769@work.bitmover.com> <89360000.1062613076@flay> <20030904003633.GA5227@work.bitmover.com> <6130000.1062642088@[10.10.2.4]> <20030904023446.GG5227@work.bitmover.com> <9110000.1062643682@[10.10.2.4]> <20030904030227.GJ5227@work.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Larry McVoy wrote: > > You don't make that much money, if any, on the high end, the R&D costs > dominate. But you make money because people buy the middle of the road > because you have the high end. If you don't, they feel uneasy that they > can't grow with you. The high end enables the sales of the real money > makers. It's pure marketing, the high end could be imaginary and as > long as you convinced the customers you had it you'd be more profitable. > I think some time in the 90's, Chevy considered discontinuing the Corvette. Then they realized that that would kill their business. People who would never buy a Corvette buy other GM cars just because the Corvette exists. Lots of reasons: It's an icon that people recognize, it makes them feel that other Chevys will share some of the Corvette quality, etc.