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Hi,
Agree with what you said and certainly respect your experience with any
brands.
Yes, there are many reasons for companies changed brands but for this cases,
one of the major reasons is lost of billions of dollars and those money were
supported by some other governments as well as for the initial sales and
market shares.
It is not my intension to initiate debates over brand loyalty (although I
did sense and anticipate your response) as any brand would have any number
of loyal customers.
Again, as I said, I respect each one's choice and their own experiences as
long as it is not within my official recommendations.
You asked me and I replied with care, and that's the end.
Best wishes.
"Galen" <galennews@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> In news:e3cNAnaQFHA.2384@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
> xfile <cou-cou@remove.nospam.com> had this to say:
>
> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am hesitate to say anything about it other than one thing - do you
>> know BenQ is also its new brand to replace so many other brands used
>> before?
>> Well, most companies don't change brand names too often, right? So I
>> guess that pretty much tells you something about the company.
>
> I guess there's some logic behind that. I don't buy OEM computers any
> longer as a general rule. I either build them myself or have them built
> for me through various online shops. I do know, on the other hand, that I
> have two old Acers, almost bought an Acer tablet (I opted for a Motion)
> recently, and I have a not-so old Acer lappy that all still work and in
> their day (more so with the earlier products) they were truly top of the
> line. In 1998 or 99 I was able to get one Acer with an AMD K7 500 MHz with
> 256 MB of RAM that was top of the line then (and I remember thinking I'd
> never had to buy a new computer because it was 'blazingly fast') for a
> very good price and it's still functional today. That particular one has
> been given away to a friend of mine who doesn't have a lot of money but
> has a lot of interest, in case you're curious it's name is "Tribe" because
> I was forever smacking the side of the case and saying "Where the h*** are
> we going Tribe?"
>
> Changing one's name or different product lines could also be seen as
> innovation as well I suppose? As I said though I've moved on from OEM buys
> as a general rule except I tend to stick with Toshiba laptops and now I've
> bought two Motions though neither of them will recognize my handwriting
> and I suspect that the other brands won't either. It does fine when I
> write in all capital letters but I can type faster than that. Basically
> all that digression means that I've no idea what Acer has been up to
> lately but if they're following the trends I've seen with a number of
> other large OEMs then they're customer service has gone downhill, they're
> prices have lowered but could be better, and they are still making money
> hand over fist from the first time computer buyers or people who buy based
> on brand recognition which isn't always a good thing.
>
> Galen
> --
> Signature changed for a moment of silence.
> Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side.
>
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