Thursday, 29 July 2010

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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- a tremendous whack.

-- Winston Churchill
Publications Hardware-Software Game Quantifications
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The simulation model I created to analyze the Hardware-Software Game can be used to provide estimates for specific market scenarios.  In particular, the model can be used to estimate:
  • User demand for new systems hardware for different combinations of the price of hardware, the size of the installed base of new system users, and the amount of content available for the new system;
  • User demand for new systems software for different combinations of the price of software, the size of the installed base of new system users, and the amount of content available for the new system;
  • HW’s optimal response (price of hardware) to SW’s provision of content for the new system;
  • SW’s optimal response (provision of content for the new system) to HW’s installed base of new system users.