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« Last post by rgdot on March 09, 2012, 03:59 PM »Canada is US-lite™
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Protecting their way is part of the "profit". How? they will go down in flames otherwise so lower profits for longer time is better than conceding.-rgdot (March 08, 2012, 02:19 PM)
How do they know that? And if they go down in the process because they hung on to the old ways in the interest of protecting perceived profit instead of adapting to change their business model to keep up with their consumers, then don't they lose out in the end? Because that's the way things are going...
Even the language- conceding instead of serving. In the end, if you depend upon a consumer for your livelihood, you are in the business of serving, not competing with your clientele. So in order to serve them (and in the end yourself), it would seem to behoove you to listen to and work with your customers instead of digging your feet in an alienating your client base.
Thoughts?-wraith808 (March 08, 2012, 03:01 PM)
But I've heard it's insanity to continue to do the same things and get the same (or worse) results. Their current tactics are *not* resulting in increased profits. The amount they spend on lobbyists and the amount of ill-will they create far outweigh the few results they do get.
Even when shown the truth, they still fight against it. Case in point- Apple wanted to increase the length of the samples available in iTunes because research had shown that this increased purchases. [1], [2]
Even given this, the music industry fought against it, first saying no, then attempting to get performance rights for a 60-90 second clip. Greed is the only explanation for something that's better for the consumers and the publishers to be held for ransom like this.-wraith808 (March 08, 2012, 02:09 PM)
A simple explanation of how the current patent system hampers innovation
Some CMS's have options or plug-ins to generate static html and present that, instead of re-building each page from the database each time it's requested. Usually for performance reasons. Doesn't yours?-Ath (March 03, 2012, 11:42 AM)
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