Settling old debts

So I need to do either a blog post on microsoft guy or VC..

Hmmm..

Actually, its going to be: why I'd rather blog about VC over microsoft guy, then I'll write another post on what I learnt from VC.

Now.. Back to Chewy, first impression he gives me is that he's a salesman, and not just any salesman, but a pyramid scheme salesman, don't ask me why, it's just a gut feeling.

His lesson of "other people are not the same as you are" is not anything groundbreaking or new. He just packaged it nicely with his stand up comedian act. Lets look at things from a different perspective.

When microsoft just entered china, they sold their chinese products with similar prices with that of their american counterparts. Guess what, you could buy a full copy of windows 7 for 4 RMB, fully cracked, bugless, guaranteed to work, and a much better 1 to 1 product exchange service microsoft ever imagined. Needless to say, Microsoft got owned, and they adapted, to significantly reducing their prices to levels affordable to the chinese public, but setting the language packs to chinese only(meaning you were stuck with win7 that said 我的电脑 and you can't change it to My Computer), this was prolly to ensure others won't exploit the price difference and sell them overseas.

Guess what, it still didnt work.

So what does this tell us? Other people are NOT the same as you are. What works in the states and europe will not work in a completely different demographic. Well we get that. So whats the point of complaining that marketeers are not putting in effort???

/aside What is a Marketeer??? Is it like a musketeer? Except with a marker? /end-aside

I'm pretty damn sure there have been companies that have tried lowering prices aggressively to try to get an edge in the market, someone would have tried something already if something is wrong. Either that or it just didn't work. Yes, I agree if you wanted to beat the field you need to do something special. But hey, I sure as hell don't see microsoft doing anything agressive with their marketing strategy..

I understand that coming back from the states, he must be really bewildered by how our market works, but here's something you need to learn from bush. You canNOT force what works for you down other people's throats! Bush tried that with his version of freedom and democracy and justice and tried shoving it all in one go down Iraq and Afghanistan. Guess what, it DIDNT work. So you don't get to take whatever "aggressive marketing strategy" you have to asia and come and judge us. Because you have no idea how the population here think and live.

Remember, others are different from you.