<Latest news is that MS is now writing off $1,150,000,000 for XBox failures. If you insist that this isn't remarkable you are not being honest.>
>You're right, this IS remarkable. But maybe not in the way you mean... >That $1.15B is going to pay for repairs for which they are not legally >responsible. Remarkable!... Contrast this to Sony... >Oddly enough, you neglected to mention that MS is doing the right thing... Apple, MS, Sony, HP, etc. have all been found with shoddy product. They have all from time to time fixed things on their own. Other times they have not and have found themselves the target of a class action lawsuit. Apple got sued by people who scratched their iPods and thought Apple should replace them. A Korean dry cleaner in DC got sued for $54,000,000 for losing a pair of pants. Before we call the MS action in regards to the XBox "remarkable" you need to make a convincing case that MS would not have been successfully sued over it. MS was already being investigated by the EU's consumer protection agency. With reported failure rates as high as 1 in 3 the XBox looks to me like a shoddy product. (Those of you who want references should go to the Wikipedia article "Xbox 360 technical problems" for a very well-referenced run down.) What is remarkable to me is that a company could market in large numbers a product that appears to have so many problems. As a stock holder I would have expected better engineering, better quality control, and better tracking of problems. How could it have gotten so far without someone blowing the whistle? A $Billion mistake is not an easy mistake to make. That takes special talent. What was MS management doing all this time? That is remarkable. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
