__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Friday 01 June 2007 19:01 \__
> On May 31, 10:06 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Wii will rock you
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Fortune's Jeffrey M. O'Brien explains how Nintendo's new game machine
>> | won over the world - and beat the pants off Sony and Microsoft.
>> `----
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>> http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/06/11/100...
>>
>>
>
> The trolls keep pointing at Sony's shortcomings, because they run
> Linux and they want to make Linux look bad. But the real story is
> that Microsoft is still losing money in the games department and not
> doing too well in market share. And the larger story is that they
> are not doing well in any area where they do not have their monopoly
> position to leverage---search, music (zune), games, entertainment
> centers, imbedded devices---that is, in any area where they have to
> face real competition. There remain, of course, the cash cows,
> Windows itself and Office, but the threats to these are looming. And
> their attempts to move into new fields, like the new touch-screen
> computer, don't look too impressive to me. They might be holding
> their own in servers. I wouldn't invest in MS right now.
Those 'touch screens' turns out to be just 5 cameras underneath the surface
(or "Surface"). Don't expect production (or energy consumption) to make this
consumer ready. It's like a custom-built device that will remain utterly
expensive and will be lucky to find a niche (some very high0end hotels).
Think of it as the 10,000-egg omelette that's only made a few times, for
show purposes.
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