Thursday, July 18, 2013

Tabula Rasa

Microsoft Tablet fail $900m and counting My comment? Zune^2

3 comments:

Cinco-X said...

Perhaps they can donate that early inventory to schools, taking a write off...a 5% or revenue for the quarter "lesson" isn't that bad, though I wonder if it wasn't in fact more expensive since the Windows8 interface (designed for this tablet) disaster probably also affected their OS revenues as well...

Rob Dawg said...

The more their monopoly power erodes the worse their business models appear. What surprises me is Apple stock not responding to the upside. F.D. Have an AAPL position.

Cinco-X said...

Global Warming - From Science to Agitprop

...a nugget of science: no 15-year period of global temperature yields a statistically significant trend. But then, to its embarrassment, neither could the Met Office demonstrate a statistically significant trend in global temperature for the last 130 years.

That doesn't mean observed temperatures did not rise - they did - or that global warming, whether man-made or not, did not happen. Rather it illustrates the sheer difficulty in demonstrating whether the rise is outside a range of random natural variation and of moving from the physics of the test tube to the immense complexity of the atmosphere.