Van Baker
Van Baker
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What Intel hopes it will do is attract consumers and commercial buyers back to a more expensive PC, so they can sell their higher-end processors.
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First and foremost, Xbox 360 is a game machine, and so is anybody going to go out and buy an Xbox 360 if they're not a gamer because it's got multimedia capability? No,
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I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors. They approached this from the point of view that hardware is a bad thing when it comes to postage, and I think this is the correct assessment. The small business buyer and the consumer do not want to have to manage a postage meter, even if it is a dongle on the PC.
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I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors, ... They approached this from the point of view that hardware is a bad thing when it comes to postage, and I think this is the correct assessment. The small business buyer and the consumer do not want to have to manage a postage meter, even if it is a dongle on the PC.
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The impact is pretty simple. In the short term, nobody buys anything.
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In many ways, I do view portable media players as a technology in search of a market. If I'm carrying music with me, chances are I want to carry something that's a little smaller than a personal music player.
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They just changed the rules of the game completely. Rival players are going to look big and clunky by comparison.
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Not very many companies are bold enough to shoot their best-selling product at the peak of its popularity. That's what Apple just did.
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It's very important for Apple. It changes the rules of the game.
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The Mini is small enough that people will consider adding it to their living room consoles. The transition of bringing the computer into the living room won't happen overnight, but this is a good first step.
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There is still a lot of confusion around the connected home. Reducing it will be the challenge to keeping the momentum going.
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We don't see any reason that this will slow down anytime soon. The transition of entertainment from analog to digital, of time-shifting and place-shifting, is just getting under way.
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Consumers who were thinking about Macs but hesitated don't have to worry anymore about not being able to run PC software that didn't run on a Mac.
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The transition is not going to happen overnight.