<OT> yet more Gmail invites

Matthew Carpenter matt
Mon Feb 21 14:23:27 PST 2005


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That may be fine if you are a free-mail conossieur.  But the masses are
sheep because they simply won't afford the time to care.  Otherwise
Linux and OpenSource philosophy would have been in 1998 as it is now.
Things take time and effort.  This is slick marketting at its best.

Michael Scottaline wrote:
| On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:00:51 -0500, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com>
wrote:
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|>That is because you are too logical.  Google has just waged an amazing
|>advertising campaign, in order to make a huge presence in an already
|>saturated market.  Did they use TV, Movie spots, or trade rags?  nay.
|>They used Network Marketing and the power of limited supply to create a
|>demand.
|
| <snipagge for brevity's sake>
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|>Some people don't even know what a GMail account *is*, but they want one.
|>
|>How else would Google gain anything more than measley market-share when
|>Yahoo, Hotmail, and others already have free offerings?
|
| ============================
| By doing it better???????????  ;o)
| Mike

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