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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7957658" data-attributes="member: 2525">I named a half dozen indicators. You responded to one and are now acting like responding to one makes all the others meaingless.When all the indicators you have read X, it's a fair bet it's X. Or at least, it's a fair bet you're going to need some evidence beyond instinct to try and prove it's Y instead.Other competitors didn't see the same uptick at the same time and in fact their main competition saw a total dive in that very year. If your theory were correct, that is unlikely to have happened. Except you. That couldn't possibly be an explanation for why you are reaching for so many straws here and ignoring anything which you didn't have an easy answer for to fit your theory, right?VHS was 1) cheaper than betamax and 2) recorded for 120 minutes and then 240 minutes while betamax recorded for only 60 minutes initially. Now both of these factors changed later, but that is what lost Betamax that war. It was NOT superior for those factors. Tech heads thought quality of recording was what made &quot;better&quot; but the reality of price and utility was far more important in to consumers.The popular thing was the best in your example, for the most number of people. But, some people still liked the crunchy rules...I meant the recording quality...of the Betamax and to this day insist it was better.I liked 4e. But I appreciate you admitting you are coming at this from a tribal perspective.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 7957658, member: 2525"] I named a half dozen indicators. You responded to one and are now acting like responding to one makes all the others meaingless. When all the indicators you have read X, it's a fair bet it's X. Or at least, it's a fair bet you're going to need some evidence beyond instinct to try and prove it's Y instead. Other competitors didn't see the same uptick at the same time and in fact their main competition saw a total dive in that very year. If your theory were correct, that is unlikely to have happened. Except you. That couldn't possibly be an explanation for why you are reaching for so many straws here and ignoring anything which you didn't have an easy answer for to fit your theory, right? VHS was 1) cheaper than betamax and 2) recorded for 120 minutes and then 240 minutes while betamax recorded for only 60 minutes initially. Now both of these factors changed later, but that is what lost Betamax that war. It was NOT superior for those factors. Tech heads thought quality of recording was what made "better" but the reality of price and utility was far more important in to consumers. The popular thing was the best in your example, for the most number of people. But, some people still liked the crunchy rules...I meant the recording quality...of the Betamax and to this day insist it was better. I liked 4e. But I appreciate you admitting you are coming at this from a tribal perspective. [/QUOTE]

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