TI degrading specs of existing parts without changing part numbers

Having a significantly better product than your competitors does make it easier to sell. You may never have been in a position to notice this. In a really small market, this may not be worth the trouble.

Sure, blowaway products help sell.

But many customers buy stuff because it's reliable, and well documented, and well supported, and long-term available. That is especially important in the aerospace and semiconductor industries.

And another powerful reason people will buy from other people is because they like one another. You may never have been in a position to notice this.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. Safe choices are popular, but even the safes choices were once new parts.

Not so much popular there as a bias imposed by the capital intensive nature of those industries. Every last little bit has to work before the whole monster can start making money.

There are all sorts of ways of getting popular. Ignoring those occasions when somebody has done something stupid may make you popular with them, but everybody else who has been stuck with cleaning up the mess will be less charmed.

I was active enough where I worked that people did have opinions about me - I'd guess that I was mostly liked, and mainly by people that I though well of, but one's own opinions on the subject aren't worth much.

Or does he mean his ears have buttocks????

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