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Marc Dufour <emdx@ac*.ne*> wrote:
>> If you work for an auto company, you know that sadly there are many
>> designs that are dictated by know nothing government bureaucrats. 
>
>If the cars were properly designed (by *REAL* engineers instead of
>cost analists and stylists) in the first place, they would have been
>no need for "clumsy" government regulation. The industry is the sole
>responsible for this lunacy.

If the average buyer out there wanted something other than a really
snazzy-looking vehicle for the lowest possible price, then the industry
would put somebody other than stylists and beancounters in charge.  I'd
say the customer has a lot to do with the type of product that's offered.

We see the same thing in dive gear, with life-support equipment offered in
a selection of designer colours.  If people didn't go in and buy all the
colours, then you wouldn't see as many choices in the store.  Likewise for
the equipment-compulsive tek-wannabe diver; there are lots of convoluted
toys out there to bring in his money.  Successful companies are successful
_because_ they know how to find out what the customer wants and how to be
there to give it to him/her.  Companies with an agenda of wanting to give
the customer what they feel would be best for him/her, as opposed to what
he/she wants, are left by the wayside.

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Anthony DeBoer                                  http://www.onramp.ca/~adb/
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