- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:24:40 -0400
- To: Dharmesh Mistry <Dharmesh.Mistry@edgeipk.com>
- CC: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, www-forms@w3.org
Dharmesh Mistry wrote: > I agree with Mark Birbeck, however taking a pure technology route we all > know that BetaMax was better than VHS, but VHS won the standards war. We may all know that, but that doesn't make it true. VHS won because it was better along the axis that consumers cared about more: recording time. BetaMax was superior along an axis that consumers cared about much less: picture quality. See http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,881780,00.html -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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