Hah! That is a prescient set of observations there supahwiz - including your sig line.... Although a number of us are avoiding Galt syndrome by trying to whip the millennials into shape - 9th place trophies & all.
What uhhhh - what about the Kinect? Granted Ballmer is a saleschmuck running a massive tech. co. but come on man - Minority Report on an XBox!?
That's just groovy.
Hey...I'll tell you why the Ipod is selling. Much of the PC usin' world has @ least a modicum of Mac envy. You'd have to live under a rock not to see that Apple does everything first in the consumer PC space....(mouse, GUI, USB, dual monitors, scalable icons etc. ad nauseum). This envy is a mild tug at the heartstrings, however, and seldom justifies paying twice as much for a computer. The Ipod scratches this envy itch rather nicely for about $300...the consumer price point at which an item can not be considered an impulse purchase.....genius.
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Hah! That is a prescient set of observations there supahwiz - including your sig line.... Although a number of us are avoiding Galt syndrome by trying to whip the millennials into shape - 9th place trophies & all.
What uhhhh - what about the Kinect? Granted Ballmer is a saleschmuck running a massive tech. co. but come on man - Minority Report on an XBox!? That's just groovy.
HAH!...you're exactly right re. DRM.
Hey...I'll tell you why the Ipod is selling. Much of the PC usin' world has @ least a modicum of Mac envy. You'd have to live under a rock not to see that Apple does everything first in the consumer PC space....(mouse, GUI, USB, dual monitors, scalable icons etc. ad nauseum). This envy is a mild tug at the heartstrings, however, and seldom justifies paying twice as much for a computer. The Ipod scratches this envy itch rather nicely for about $300...the consumer price point at which an item can not be considered an impulse purchase.....genius.
Infinitesimal.