Stephen Baker
Stephen Baker
Stephen Edward Bakeris a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for the New York Giants...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth30 August 1964
CountryUnited States of America
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You'll see a few times during Christmas time $399 notebooks,
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We haven't really given people a reason why they would want to own one yet.
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It was the one-two punch needed to get consumers in the stores.
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Despite the modest unit increase, August was not a blockbuster month for handhelds,
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Apple has a pretty high bar to jump over,
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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.
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It's never been easy being an Apple partner and it hasn't gotten any easier over the past few years. Apple has a long history of doing direct sales, and the fact is, they're actually pretty good at it. What you have to do as an independent is to look at the next set of things you can do. How can you out-service Apple when they already provide a high level of service?
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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.
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In the last couple of months, things have been relatively stable.
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In some instances, companies are still just skimming the cream off of the early adopters and migrating into the masses.
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At some point, absolute price is an issue.
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Not everything is applicable or transferable, but you try to roll out as much as you can into the big stores.
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It makes it difficult for companies to differentiate themselves.
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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.