Steve Baker
Steve Baker
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It's not the products -- it's the business model,
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It's not as big a gamble as you would imagine it would be. It's all geared to hotel rooms and increasing the length of stay in hotel rooms.
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It's hard to make money in this market if you are not Apple. Now There is little barrier to anyone wanting to enter the market.
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It represented something that we believed to be a piece of Americana pop culture.
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We're hard pressed for labor more than for warehouse space. But we're going to be hard pressed for warehouse space.
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We'll be delivering what's in the lines as soon as we have the power back on.
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We don't have that kind of borrowing power.
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They have been very aggressive about getting share and getting shelf space. We haven't seen a lot from Intel.
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Back-to-school tends to be a very different buying season than others -- much more focused on needs than wants. Productivity products are the big sellers because the money is still coming from Mom and Dad.
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There's a huge amount of demand defined by lower prices and growth in broadband and wireless networks. Consumers in the U.S. are adding PCs to their home inventory and finding new and different ways to use them.
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Another thing about back-to-school is that the marketing push from retailers is getting earlier and earlier. It used to start beginning of August, but now we're seeing it as early as mid-July.
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I think you'll see companies like HP and Compaq diversify their consumer product lines to take advantage of all the digital technologies that are migrating from the consumer electronic side of the business, into the computer side of the business.
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Jeff is excited not only by the passion of the organization, but the passion of the fans and the storied tradition of football in Cleveland.
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People are excited about it because this really makes sense safety wise, health wise and economically.