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Why Yahoo Turned Microsoft Down

Posted by kdawson on from the you-scratch-my-back dept.

quarterbuck writes "The NYTimes has up a great blog post that explains a bit of the backstory behind the Yahoo-Microsoft No-deal. While Jerry Yang did not want to sell the company, it is not likely that he could have said No to Microsoft, and explained it to shareholders, without the help of Google. The article gives reasons behind Google's tossing a lifeline to its biggest competitor, and the 'coop-etition' that has been going on between the two companies, which both emerged out of Stanford University."

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  1. Re:Time will tell... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Wii already has more marketshare than the Xbox and is profitable. What's your point? Your statement would have been qually valid if you said "more wrist-watches were sold last year than 360's or PS/3's" (and since the computing power of a Wii is more-or-less the same as a wrist-watch's, that's an apropos comparison!).

    Face it, the Wii is a super glorified SNES and calling it a "7th Generation" console is true in almost exactly the same sense that someone born in 1946 and someone born in 1964 are both considerd "baby boomers". The Wii has about about as much in common with REAL 7th gen technology as a 1yr old child did in 1965 beside his/her 19 yr old predecessor. Which is to say, not very much at all. It's not a surprise that 10-year-old technology that marginally supports games aimed at someone who's IQ need only approach 100, sold at a price that equates to about 30-cents-on-the-dollar might sell more units than consoles built on modern (c.a. 2004) technology to run complex software at market-prices might... Especially given the con-job Nintendo (and the gaming community in general) is running by having the audacity to compare them in one way (i.e. # of units sold) while ignoring the only comaprison that matters (i.e. performance). The simple fact is that the unit count disparity between the Wii and TRUE 7th gen consoles is essentially represented by a single demographic: legions of techno-tards who, when standing before a wall of boxes at [insert name of retail chain of choice here] saw the 360 and PS/3 at between $400 and $700 sitting beside the $1.69 Wii and thought "well, since these're all the same thing, I might as well get the $2 one!"

    -AC
  2. Re:Time will tell... by dookiesan · · Score: 1, Troll

    People keep saying the wii is about fun. What do you think playing games on the xbox is like? Going to the dentist?

    You didn't check your haxx0r badge when you turned on your wii; you checked it when you spouted the "fun" line. Go ahead and love your wii, but don't tell the rest of us that we're not having fun just because we don't have to justify paying $250 for a gamecube again and realizing that most of the titles on the rack are embarassing TV license kiddie shit.

    I played Mario Kart a lot, but I don't think Gran Turismo is punishment either.