From:	Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: The talks on my Cyberware post.
Date:	Sun, 3 May 1998 01:06:03 -0700

Michael Broadwater wrote:

> >You *don't* see seven generations of the same product at a retail market
> >at the same time.

> I would agree with you except that you changed your definition in the middle
> of the discussion. "Market" and "retail market" are different
things. A
> ham fest is a market, though it may not be a chain of stores. If you keep
> things more consistent, you may avoid another faux pas in the future.

The original post suggested all seven varieties would be out and able to
be purchased (through apparently normal channels); that may have been an
oversight on the author's part. Given the implied
on-a-retail-shelf-near-you presence of the cyberware, I assumed the same
connotation would carry over. My apologies if you never happened to
read the original post.

That being said, *you* might see 286s still on the market; average Joe
consumer doesn't go looking for them, however.

> You may not find 7+ generations of cyber equiptment together at your local
> Sr mall equivalent store, but that does not mean you won't find it together
> when sold on the street. Those suppliers will carry what people will
> purchase, and for the people who will buy from them, this could be anything.

You'd find that after-market vendors like those also won't follow a nice
strict pattern of cost, availability, and function that the original
post suggested. Once you get to the level of ham fest, too many other
variables come into play, and you lose the nice neat progression the
original author laid out.

Anything can be found on the street, true; that doesn't mean I'd use -
to make an extreme analogy - 78 rpm records as the baseline for
determining what the cost of a sim chip should be.

Incidentally - and I hope this doesn't come across as rude or anything
(but it's 2am and I'm beat) - but I've made and belabored my point.
I'll leave it to the original post's author to accept or refute (or let
lie).


- Matt

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