...for powerful new file systems and the recent merging of user space driver support [slashdot.org] into the kernel... Careful there, you're using./ as a source.
You're completely right, and as such this would be a complete non-story except that this has been going on for six years. At what point does it stop being short-sighted to question repeated 9+ figure (before the decimal) quarterly losses on a product? Could any company other than Microsoft have afforded to maintain "loss leader" status for so long? Could any company have avoided a lawsuit by their competitors over it for this long? The story goes out of the way to make it look like it's the warranty thing that is pushing them into the red, but last I checked $1.1 billion was $700 million dollars less than $1.8 billion... So they would have been eating a $700 million dollar loss even without the warranty thing. That's still a $350 loss per console even after accounting for the "profit" on the high attach rate. wow, replace Microsoft with Bush and replace billion with trillion, and replace million with billion...
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...for powerful new file systems and the recent merging of user space driver support [slashdot.org] into the kernel... Careful there, you're usingTrust me, it will blow you mind
and yet another thing to add to my BitleBee server...