Upgrading, catching up, and shooting for par [PC market economics]

In general it is not odd for buyer and seller to have different perspectives. Indeed, ever since PCs migrated from the hobbyist community into the business community, such a difference has existed in the PC market. Buyers and sellers are not playing on the same course. Why does this matter? Because most PC engineers I know do not talk to their biggest customers-business managers. As a result, most PC engineers do not understand how their biggest customers think on the most basic level. These problems illustrate a more general economic phenomenon that goes to the heart of how computer technology spreads in the US economy.