[Coco] From the "not only is the horse out of the barn, but the barn has collapsed dept"

[Joel Rees]

2019年4月13日(土) 2:42 David Gettle <david17361 at gmail.com>:

> You almost quoted what I told the board of directors in the three page
> letter I sent them back in the early 1990's in your email to me. Though I
> also sighted that cancelling development of the Color computer series, that
> at the time was out-selling IBM PC's was a contributing factor to the end
> of Tandy Computers.
>

Could you unpack that a little?

The assertion needs some context and background to be meaningful.

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 1:29 PM rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I agree with you. I always felt that RS offered there best products when
> > the R & D‎ was done in house.   This allowed radio shack to sell a
> superior
> > product at a competitive price.   This in house R &. D afforded the
> company
> > to flood that market with there own brand multiplying the profits
> > exponentially.   When RS sourced out third party hardware they needed to
> > purchase the product in bulk to secure a price that would allow a similar
> > profit ratio as before. The changing pace of technology meant that they
> > moreover found themselves sitting on obsolete technology that couldn't be
> > turned over in time to allow profitability to be sustainable
> >
> > Anyway that is just my opinion
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
> >   Original Message
> > From: David Gettle
> > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2019 12:58 PM
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] From the "not only is the horse out of the barn, but
> > the barn has collapsed dept"
> >
> >
> > I could go into the RadioShack bankruptcy in depth myself, as I predicted
> > it 20 years in advance of it happening (I was off by a week as to when it
> > would occur, but I was dead on as to who would rescue Radioshack from
> > extinction and the second bankruptcy that occurred) and even told the
> > RadioShack board of directors how to avoid it. But, in short, the author
> of
> > the article above may have stumbled onto a contributing factor, but he
> > missed the root cause that started the whole thing. The Board of
> directors
> > caved to the demand of investors to sell off their manufacturing (which
> > started with the computer division, instead of selling their products to
> > their competition. If RadioShack had continued to manufacture product and
> > sold their brand of products to other companies, the companies buying
> > RadioShack brand products would have kept the company afloat financially
> > for an indefinite time.
> >
> > I was a store manager, and stock holder for them when they made this
> stupid
> > decision. In college my Business Management term paper was a study of
> > RadioShack from founding until 1991 when I wrote the paper. As an
> > employee-stock holder I had access to information the general public and
> > non-employee stock holders didn't, and in some cases had access to
> > information before other stock holders and the public. Which is why
> > employees were restricted from selling their stock at certain times of
> the
> > year, because RadioShack would release information to employee-stock
> > holders before the general stock holders.
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 12:09 PM John Guin <johnguin at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > This writer contends that the CDi (remember that thing?) is the real
> > > reason Radio Shack got out of the computer business entirely.
> > >
> > > https://tedium.co/2019/04/09/windows-3.1-obscurities
> > > Estimated reading time: 14 minutes
> > >
> > > I don't follow the logic myself but it seems like it might be an
> > > interesting read for this crowd.
> > >
> > > Enjoy!
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> > >
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