Stephen Baker Quotes
- Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.
- People didn't stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs.
- This is the year you really put the stake in the ground.
- To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
- Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell.
- To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
- Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.
- We haven't really given people a reason why they would want to own one yet.
- Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old? ... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell.
- There need to be compelling reasons to replace your PC. And right now there aren't any.
- Apple has a pretty high bar to jump over,
- The PC is a big durable goods item now. When the economy is slowing, people tend to reduce their spending on those kinds of things.
- Typically, we see flat or slightly rising prices in December, because people are usually willing to pay more.
- People didn't stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs.
- If you look at why people are not buying PCs, most of the things I've seen say it's not price, it's the usability, ... Consumers are asking themselves, 'Why do I need to upgrade?' So by reducing prices, I don't know that there is this huge unmet demand that's going to bring in a lot of new purchasers.
- The guns are locked and loaded for some pretty heavy promotions.
- Everybody is going into this Christmas season with very limited expectations, and anything they can throw at the marketplace to get people to go out and buy is going to be a positive.
- The fact of the matter is the product you're looking for is always going to be cheaper, or there's going to be a better product in four months at the same price point. If you wait like that, you'll wait forever. You really have to make a decision that it's time to buy.
- The market is a lot tougher right now. Prices are coming down pretty rapidly,
- Sony has always wanted to go its own way,
- Prices are coming down, and they have the features and benefits people want.
- knocked [his] socks off.
- Historically, November is the month when manufacturers and retailers vie for consumer dollars, simply to generate the most revenue at the start of the holiday buying season.
- They have been aggressive on notebooks, but their notebooks are getting a little old and are at a disadvantage with pricing. Their consumer notebooks are at risk the next few months until they get into new models.
- In the last couple of months, things have been relatively stable.
- Now consumers can buy the computer they want, not just the desktop they can afford.
- There is more interest in these products. Pricing is more reasonable. They're getting smaller, more mobile.
- The thing about all these back-end connections is that there are so many of them. If you asked anybody, there are too many connections, too many options, and too many wires. People are looking for a solution that's more all-encompassing, that makes it easier to plug all that stuff in.
- This is the year you really put the stake in the ground.
- The government is telling us we have to do it. It is a huge freaking opportunity. To be thinking about other things is a waste of time.
- I'm not sure you're ever going to see one company able to give you a seamless digital experience. The fact is it's all going to have to be interconnected and it's going to have to be offered by multiple companies and you, as the consumer, are going to have to be the integrator.
- It makes it difficult for companies to differentiate themselves.
- If desktop prices were weak, it must have been that they didn't see enough trading up during the end of the holiday season.
- You'll see a few times during Christmas time $399 notebooks,
- It's not likely you're going to be able to match the flexibility of the PC [with a low-cost Linux device]. But the opportunity to firewall it off a little bit, to keep it from being the core device, certainly appeals to a lot of developers,
- It is hard to imagine an all-encompassing Sony brand not participating in the DVD market, home audio and speakers, digital cameras, digital camcorders or even PCs,
- But how reliable was the reporting, media execs asked. Who were their sources? How about if one of the citizen reporters had it in for one of the Republicans? I didn't add my two cents on that point at the meeting. Here it is now: As a reader, I'm happy to look at that citizens' reporting. It's additive. There was nothing. Now there's something. True, the anonymous reporters are not accountable for their work. So I wouldn't cite it, journalistically, as evidence that a certain Republican voted one way or another.
- While aggressive competition between retailers, OEMs and component suppliers as well as the holiday seasonal rush helped spur this (price) decline, ... The most prominent culprit was the rise of sub-$800 computers.
- This is a major milestone for AMD, ... This is the first time that a processor family, other than one manufactured by Intel, led the
- Consumers are looking at price first and then styling, ... They are hesitant to buy a machine with a 15-inch flat panel screen, which costs $900 to $1,000 itself, when they can buy a 19-inch traditional CRT monitor for less than $400.
- No one aside from Apple has been able to crack that styling thing, ... There hasn't been a hue and cry for those highly styled, colored PCs.
- The PC is much more of a mature product than it's ever been before, so it's much subject to the vagaries of the overall economy, ... When the economy slows and people retrench, they don't buy durable goods, and the PC is a big durable now.
- Despite the modest unit increase, August was not a blockbuster month for handhelds,
- In some instances, companies are still just skimming the cream off of the early adopters and migrating into the masses,
- Plasma prices continue to free-fall as good availability and wide acceptance of the products spur retailers and manufacturers to maximize their sales opportunities,
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