Apple has a pretty high bar to jump over, |
At some point, absolute price is an issue. |
But how reliable was the reporting, media execs asked. Who were their sources? How about if one of the citizen reporters had it in for one of the Republicans? I didn't add my two cents on that point at the meeting. Here it is now: As a reader, I'm happy to look at that citizens' reporting. It's additive. There was nothing. Now there's something. True, the anonymous reporters are not accountable for their work. So I wouldn't cite it, journalistically, as evidence that a certain Republican voted one way or another. |
Consumers are looking at price first and then styling, ... They are hesitant to buy a machine with a 15-inch flat panel screen, which costs $900 to $1,000 itself, when they can buy a 19-inch traditional CRT monitor for less than $400. |
Dell ( DELL ) is still the No. 1 PC company. I don't think that's likely to change anytime in the near future. |
Despite the modest unit increase, August was not a blockbuster month for handhelds, |
Despite the modest unit increase, August was not a blockbuster month for handhelds. |
Everybody is going into this Christmas season with very limited expectations, and anything they can throw at the marketplace to get people to go out and buy is going to be a positive. |
Historically, November is the month when manufacturers and retailers vie for consumer dollars, simply to generate the most revenue at the start of the holiday buying season. |
I still think it's a bad idea and a bad fit. |
I'm not sure you're ever going to see one company able to give you a seamless digital experience. The fact is it's all going to have to be interconnected and it's going to have to be offered by multiple companies and you, as the consumer, are going to have to be the integrator. |
If desktop prices were weak, it must have been that they didn't see enough trading up during the end of the holiday season. |
If you look at why people are not buying PCs, most of the things I've seen say it's not price, it's the usability, ... Consumers are asking themselves, 'Why do I need to upgrade?' So by reducing prices, I don't know that there is this huge unmet demand that's going to bring in a lot of new purchasers. |
In some instances, companies are still just skimming the cream off of the early adopters and migrating into the masses, |
In some instances, companies are still just skimming the cream off of the early adopters and migrating into the masses. |