Just read this on John Dvorak's blog about his thoghts on this years CES conferance and loved it:
Tablet PC - More Gates yabbering about his pet toy, all talk no action. I was a heavy believer 4 years ago, lost my religion however. Want to worship again, but then this thing called ‘reality’ is out there.
360 - Yeah yeah, whatever. It would help if people could freaking actually BUY them. Money-losing rathole, now with an additional HD-DVD upgrade option needed. The Live strategy will backfire, don’t place all chips on that.
Media Center with DirectTV - Score one. That’s the one smart move. Tho, with Direct TV PVR, umm why do you really need Media Center? And cable companies themselves doing PVR functionality. Media Center too geek toy.
Vista - Umm yeah? Rehash. So? Rehash. Yeah? Oh really, so?
Mobile - What? Bit player, hitching ride on a Palm device, another division forever treading water.
VIIV - Ummm, marketing spazzing up Intel, eh? Never mind that Cell chip.
Portable Media Centers - Oh do be serious. I bet the people that own these are but in the dozens. An iPod this is not.
Future home tech rot - Yeah yeah, maybe if like Gates, rich beyond dreams, and have time to tinker with all this lucid dreaming. Otherwise pay no heed.
HD-TV - Taking credit for the HD? Saying 360 the primary thrust spurring HD adoption? What arrogance. No doubt real consumer electronics companies none too happy with Microsoft pissing in their pools and stealing the credit.
Urge and Starz! - MS-MTV? Content partnerships, the backing of Microsoft means a sure fire death, if going by history. Ironic timing, on the death of MSNBC, they get into content again, songs and movies. Blah. DOA.
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