[LAU] LightWorks for Linux Demo

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sun Mar 17 02:27:29 UTC 2013


On 03/16/2013 03:19 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 02:00 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 08:36:40PM +0300, Louigi Verona wrote:
>>> I agree. Of course, you cannot make total crap a success, no matter
>>> how much money you spend on marketing, but once you are beyond total
>>> crap, marketing is key!
>>
>> Yeah, I sort of agree, depending on the product, but how do you explain
>> the success of Coca Cola and McDonalds. I reckon they are only
>> successful *BECAUSE* of the marketing.
>>
>> But I suppose there are exceptions to every idea.
>>
>> P.S. I'm not going to debate the quality of Coca Cola or McDonalds, just
>> like I'm not going to debate whether the earth is flat.
>
> As an explanation:
>
> Coca Cola is regarding to sugar and caffeine a drug and in Germany the
> "Besatzerbrause" came with freedom, resp. freedom came with Coca Cola.
> You know Billy Wilder's "One, Two, Three"?
>
> McDonalds at least in Germany, was the first fast food place selling
> burgers that, hard to believe, but true, were better than burgers were
> before we had McDonalds and perhaps they use emulsifying agents that are
> drugs. I don't know, but at least such emulsifying agents are legal in
> Germany.
>
> Now Coca Cola and McDonalds are established and the target group for
> radical commercials are stupid people.
>
> You can't establish something like Coca Cola or McDonalds nowadays

Starbucks. IIRC, 2nd largest restaurant chain in the world now.

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