It\'s pointless to hold a personal vendetta against a corporation. It\'s not a person. It\'s an organization made up of many people whose composition changes over time.
I\'m not talking about holding a vendetta over time, or even necessarily holding one (in the form of not buying the 6K) right now. However, I think it\'s worth noting, before parting with one\'s hard-earned cash, into just whose hands that cash will be passing. I\'ve seen the argument offered on these forums--not invalidly--that when buying MicroSoft products, remember that some of what you spend will go into a war chest dedicated to the eradication of Linux.
I\'ve voiced elsewhere my reticence to sink ~700 USD into a product that has been premeptively disowned by Sharp, in the consumer marketplace. However, my gleeful contemplation of Sharp failing to sell these things to enterprise by the truckload was not directed against Sharp
per se, but against the rise of a paradigm where future Zaurii are sold
exclusively to businesses--no Amazon or PCConnection \"back door.\"
I actually think the 6K has awesome potential to sell to consumers, but Sharp has retreated farther into their bizarre anti-marketing strategy; instead of simply failing to invite the consumer in, as Sharp did with the 5x00 lines, consumers are being actively \"warned off\" from the 6K. If Sharp achieves economic success by chasing away consumers, Zaurii will become less, not more, available to us in the future.
I remeber an old Dilbert cartoon where the pointy-haired boss announces that, to save costs, all marketing and distribution operations had been eliminated. He explains, \"Our new business model depends on customers driving to our warehouse and begging us for our products.\" In a comic strip, it was funny.
