Van Baker
Van Baker
loss
I think this is going to be a loss for Apple.
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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.
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The most important things are that these are the top two TV shows, and they have set the bar at $1.99 per episode.
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This is the first true Internet appliance that will come into the consumer space.
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Right now, it's no more than a couple of ideas in his head that still have to be turned into games.
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Many consumers are uncomfortable trying to figure out how to print envelopes on their printers. And the alternative of printing the postage on the letter itself requires a window envelope, which most consumers are not using.