Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Linonut on Friday 14 December 2007 01:16 : \____
>
>> * nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx fired off this tart reply:
>>
>>> Just within this year, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer proclaimed in
>>> January that his Zune music player had grabbed 20 to 25% of the market
>>> within a few months of being on sale, despite knowing that the company
>>> hadn't sold any significant amount. The Soviet looking player got
>>> shipped to 30,000 stores, but nobody bought any until the price was
>>> dropped in a fire sale clearance sale ten months later. Microsoft then
>>> tried to stoke the story that its bargain bin sales were indicative of
>>> high demand for its Zune products.
>>
>> Microsoft -- Making lemonade from lemons
>
> By that sort of definition, CompUSA sees its sales soaring. Hurry up! Maybe the
> business will be saved. Oh wait! It's clearance sale. Bankruptcy?
>
That article was an extremely good analysis, summing up so much
discussion and analysis which has gone on here in cola over the last few
years.
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