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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 18 2013 @ 11:46 PM EDT |
Todays flyers from Future Shop and Best Buy have them listed at $349. Still
$100+ more than the Nexus, Playbook or HP Slate with less functionality.
Maybe if they bundled them with the Lumia and a full copy of windows 8, they
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 19 2013 @ 05:32 AM EDT |
What advantage could MS derive from having a loss at this time?
Assume they planned this to happen, how do they benefit?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: jesse on Friday, July 19 2013 @ 07:39 AM EDT |
These machines can't even be retargeted.
Not good for the scrap heap with all the hazmat contents either.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: albert on Friday, July 19 2013 @ 04:00 PM EDT |
"Reducing the book value of an asset because it is overvalued compared to
the market value. A write-down typically occurs on a company's financial
statement, when the carrying value of the asset can no longer be justified as
fair value and the likelihood of receiving the cost (book value) is questionable
at best."-----"Write-downs are typically reflected in a company's
income statement as an above-the-line expense, thereby reducing net income.
This, however, is not always a bad thing, since a write-down is simply a paper
loss, which, since it lowers net income, will reduce a firm's tax burden.
Companies will usually attempt to time large write-downs together, so they can
"take a bath" in one reporting period with the hope of quickly
recovering in the next period." - Investopedia
Most big corp accountants know what they're doing, unlike the management. :)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 19 2013 @ 07:43 PM EDT |
The black hole is the Surface RT, the failure to find buyers for
x86 software running on ARM. But how's Surface Pro doing?
A serious question because I'm getting glossy flyers falling
out of my morning paper "Finally a tablet with work ethic",
for HP ElitePad & W8Pro.
The graphics are amusing, executives hunched over toy keyboards,
or displaying the device to a colleague like they'd never watched ST.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 09:45 AM EDT |
Not the Mainstream Media of course, but Charlie Demerjian at
SemiAccurate has covered this, and so did I. So it really isn't that big a
surprise.
Well, the write-down amount is. I knew it wasn't likely to sell well when they
announced the original price. There's a big difference from "not selling
well"
to total disaster, which is what the numbers here imply.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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