“We expect the Surface pads to have a similar impact on the PC industry as the Zune did in portable music players,” commented Canalys Analyst Tim Coulling.
If someone said that about my product, I’d just kill it and close the company.
Microsoft Surface will be the next Zune
Analysts missed it on the iPad and iPhone too. 🙂
That’s exactly what Michael Dell said about Apple…
True, but these comments were funnier 🙂
Really—someone, anyone? So if I said “I expect The Loop to have a similar impact on tech journalism as the Zune did in portable music players,” you’d shut it down?
Well yes, of course he would!
🙂 True.
LOL
He might not shut it down, but surely he would fire the writers, both of whom have suspect character – one of which with an abundance of unruly facial hair, the other with an extreme lack of any hair. 😉
I assume Apple should have shut down the iPod, iPhone, and Mac business every time an analyst said they were going to be dismally unsuccessful. It would be a drastically different landscape today if people ran businesses the way you suggest.
Relax, it was funny. Don’t get hurt.
But Jim, then you wouldn’t get a helicopter ride to work everyday!?!
By that rule, Apple would have had to kill all of its products and close the company thousands of times.
Not hurt– was in jest… but rhetorically, responding to hyperbole with greater hyperbole is suboptimal. 🙂
🙂
Oh; and keep all the shareholders money?
It occurs to me that you can tell someone’s age by the way sarcasm and irony go completely over their head.