[asterisk-biz] PBX Functionality for Less than the Price of a KeySystem (3Com Asterisk IP Telephony Appliance)

[Steve Totaro]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel
<trixter at 0xdecafbad.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:13 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
>> So to sum up Alex's very long winded explanation.  It is the "status
>> quo" that Jay called BS.  I guess some people are not ready for the
>> paradigm shift or they were and now want to shift if back.
>
> I concur that it is the status quo, at least for the most part.  Gregory
> appears to also with his comment elsewhere about how its because people
> will pay it.  This largely makes me curious as to what Jay's answer is.
>
> While there is a certain price range that most consumers will pay, too
> much and they wont see the value, too little and they will perceive it
> as inferior even if its not, this applies to almost all products so its
> not a hardware or telephony related thing, instead a general marketing
> thing.  This probably does influence it a bit, although how its
> marketed, to which group of consumers is what sets this range.  I was
> also led to believe that it was more of a telephony specific reason as
> to why its so expensive though.
>
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>

I will give Jay the benefit of the doubt, but he is usually very quick
to reply these kinds of messages.  Maybe he is on vacation or
otherwise not interested or checking his email right now.

Or possibly he does not care to eat crow.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro