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Old 09-17-2002, 12:37 PM  
Snake Doctor
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Originally posted by EscortBiz
Profit is what matters all thwe other stuff is BS

That's true to an extent, but not totally true.
Today's profit isn't the only profit there is, tomorrows profit is just as if not even more important.

Example
Microsoft is losing money on every Xbox they sell. Hardware is low margin, BUT, they know they'll make that back and then some when they start selling the high margin games for the Xbox, since they have the inside track on programming the best games.
The same way they have the inside track on programming the best office suite (high margin) to work with windows (lower margin)

Yahoo is positioning itself to be "THE" web portal. The profit will come when the world wide web graduates from infant to toddler and beyond.

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