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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 05 2012 @ 03:00 PM EDT |
And yet Oracles board sat on their hands and watched Larry
pay out $200M in a suit they could have settled for peanuts,
not to mention the millions for the Google suit. M$ had
legal expenses of $1.5B in one year, IIRC, 2002!. Oracles
stockholders are mostly "faceless institutional investors"
(from an earlier comment by ??), who only care about the next
quarters profits, if they care at all. I don't expect much
rational behavior by the market, or big public companies.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 05 2012 @ 06:32 PM EDT |
Besides, I suspect Google will just try to make the 'best'
set of glasses and let cheaper manufacturing eat the market
eventually. They'll make high margins off of advertising
again.
Giving away Google glasses to the disabled is a nice charity
idea - but - realistically - the disabled will be better off
with a polished mass market product that retails for ~100
USD and has some nice apps for disabled people than
something buggy and poorly supported for 2k+.
(Google's advertising-supported cloud model scales with
number really well, but I don't think it is well-suited for
small volume applications.)
--Erwin[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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