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"Arny Krueger" wrote:

Corrected formatting!

Please see:

http://www.engin.brown.edu/courses/e...rawford-NEW-PR
ODUCT-DEVELOPMENT-print.pdf

This doc also cites Ex-Lax and Callaway golf clubs.

starting with the foil in the lower left hand corner of page 11 that reads:

Why CD?
Compact disk process around since the 1950's.
- market ready for innovation
- alliance of key industrial leaders
- superior product


This is the generally-accepted factual story, not the self-pitying
vinylphile conspiracy theory.

The point I argued was the importance of bullet point #2 "alliance of
key industrial leaders" in removing the competing medium from the
marketplace.

Your original point was that lps disappeared because consumers abandoned
lps as soon as they knew about the technical superiority of cd. Not so
simple as that.

Stephen