Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
Source, Mike? Thank you, Mark Snyder -Original Message- Keep in mind, Apple's markup is about 50%...so HP could come in under. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** **

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread mike
Yes, I'm playing a little fast with the 50% remark but this area of margins has been talked about in articles many times, here is one. The PC vendors typically have much much smaller margins due to competition amongst themselves.

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread mike
http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2010/02/01/apple-ipad-to-deliver-50-margin-says-analyst/tab/article/ On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) mark.sny...@ngc.com wrote: Source, Mike? Thank you, Mark Snyder -Original Message- Keep in mind, Apple's markup is about

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
Okay, but that reference is for iPods and is a year old. You were talking about PCs. Why are you crossing devices to compare? The iPod actually took so much market share competing with its rivals that many of them are gone or marginal. Your assertion is as suspect as your method. Thank you,

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread mike
Sorry for the double post, forgot the URL. http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcpop.com%2Fdoc%2F0%2F527%2F527783.shtmlsl=zh-CNtl=enhl=ie=UTF-8 On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:26 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: This unit would be considered I think competition for the iPad,

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread mike
This unit would be considered I think competition for the iPad, it's about 300 bux. The biggest benefit of course for the iPad is the app store, makes entering this market near impossible for anyone. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) mark.sny...@ngc.com wrote: Source,

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread tjpa
Tough competition... Apple said it sold one million iPads as of Friday, just 28 days after the touch-screen tablet computers went on sale in the U.S. Demand is such that consumers looking to purchase one of the devices face wait times of up to a week or more.

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread mike
Weird...I walked into an Apple store and saw them ready for buying. And yes..almost impossible competition. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:50 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: Tough competition... Apple said it sold one million iPads as of Friday, just 28 days after the touch-screen tablet computers

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:46 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: What's next? Fusion Garage is still promising JooJoo delivery in a few months. Anybody want to wager on that? (On a side note, what't up with that name? I can understand changing it from CrunchPad, you don't want the word

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread David K Watson
Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Furthermore, it's something I should have known, since my son was very fond of the Tak video games and Nickelodeon series, Tak and the power of Juju. Just about all the jujus in the series were ridiculous in pretty gross ways, that can't help the JooJoo's

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-02 Thread David K Watson
MS aren't the only ones killing their prototype if this rumor bears out: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/hewlett-packard-to-kill-windows-7-tablet-project/ HP is apparently killing its Slate tablet. It really isn't surprising, given that it was supposed to have more ports and memory than the

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-02 Thread mike
Keep in mind, Apple's markup is about 50%...so HP could come in under. There are net tops with win 7 and multiple ports for under 300. On May 2, 2010 7:40 PM, David K Watson davidkirkwat...@gmail.com wrote: MS aren't the only ones killing their prototype if this rumor bears out:

[CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-04-30 Thread Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
Ars posted a nice post mortem article on the Courier: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/04/courier-no-more-not-that- it-ever-was-a-post-mortem.ars What do you think - Has M$ lost their ability to design marketable new products, misunderstood the main criteria for UI design, let perfect