They've already entered the death spiral. Most of their income was from OEM sales. Those have been gone since the recession started and PC manufacturers are warning that we haven't hit the bottom of that slump. But even back when times were good, that company had to start witholding dividends, avoiding taxes, and generally cooking the books. BillG's not going to be at the helm. Notice the timing of his departure? Notice the shift from R&D to marketing, litigation and legislation?
This is how a death spiral starts. To preserve revenues, a company raises prices, which leads to lower volume which leads to...
People are going to complain no matter what you do. At least in this case they're forewarning people about it.
It's not as cheap as those 5-10 year anniversary releases companies are putting out these days with some little featurette or out-takes.
If people can't wait a little longer than it was obviously worth it to them to buy the first release.
It's called politics.
A bunch of old white men have nothing better to do than to waste our money passing bills that are useless but make them look like fargon geniuses (to the average idiot American) so they can get re-elected and pocket some more campaign funds.
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They've already entered the death spiral. Most of their income was from OEM sales. Those have been gone since the recession started and PC manufacturers are warning that we haven't hit the bottom of that slump. But even back when times were good, that company had to start witholding dividends, avoiding taxes, and generally cooking the books. BillG's not going to be at the helm. Notice the timing of his departure? Notice the shift from R&D to marketing, litigation and legislation? This is how a death spiral starts. To preserve revenues, a company raises prices, which leads to lower volume which leads to ...
People are going to complain no matter what you do. At least in this case they're forewarning people about it. It's not as cheap as those 5-10 year anniversary releases companies are putting out these days with some little featurette or out-takes. If people can't wait a little longer than it was obviously worth it to them to buy the first release.
I walked in on my parents once when they were having a(n AP) quickie.
It's called politics. A bunch of old white men have nothing better to do than to waste our money passing bills that are useless but make them look like fargon geniuses (to the average idiot American) so they can get re-elected and pocket some more campaign funds.