[Jukebox-list] RE: Seeburg's "promise"

[David Breneman]

--- "Mechanical Music of S.F." <mechanicalmusic at hotmail.com> wrote:

> What I like is that they said they'd not be introducing new models
> every 
> year any more.  That didn't last long!  That was also pure fantasy
> unless 
> Seeburg thought the other manufacturers were all going under!

Yes, competitors have a way of changing your plans! :-)  I
worked for AT&T Wireless when digital cell phones were just
hitting the market.  AT&T announced that free cell phones
were going away with analogue service.  If you wanted a
digital phone, you'd have to pay for it, and people would
pay for it because the service was cheaper, and they knew
they'd be saving in the long run; and other cell phone
companies would not give away digital phones because
they were too expensive to give away (and at the time,
AT&T was the only cell phone company in the US with a
digital, PCM, network).  I think that that marketing policy
lasted about two months.


David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com

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