You wouldn't, if like me you live in L.A. I thought I was done with his asinine "monkey boy" antics from Seattle. Now he is performing nightly on our local sports news. I'm in hell!
Can wait to see how he screws up a Basketball team.
I said this when I first hear he bid 2M for a team which is not worth anything close to that. Here we got an owner of the team making and obviously idiot of himself only to have the NBA sanction him and for the owner to sell the team for a huge profit which is owned by a Charitable Trust.
The moral of this story is if you have crap team make public ass of yourself, only to then make the team worth more and find someone like Ballmer to over pay.
Boy the NBA Taught Donald Sterling a lesson didn't they, wouldn't you have like to take a $12M investment/hobby and turn it into $2B because you make everyone think your a racist.
You wouldn't, if like me you live in L.A. I thought I was done with his asinine "monkey boy" antics from Seattle. Now he is performing nightly on our local sports news. I'm in hell!
Microsoft built their business on letting someone else find a new market, become dominant, and then they would compete ferociously until the other guy stumbled. See: IBM, Borland, Netscape, DEC, SGI, Palm, Sony...
But Google (services) and Apple (mobile devices, music) have been able to keep Microsoft largely out of their established businesses. Microsoft hasn't given up on their "long game" strategy of waiting for their competitor to make a mistake. But that's the only way they win. Microsoft has high trepidation for entering new businesses where they can't leverage their existing product hegemonies (Windows and Office). Ballmer killed the Courier concept and instead bet the company on Surface, and look how it ended for him.
"No company in the world has the mix of software skills, cloud skills, and hardware skills we have assembled," Ballmer wrote."
Really? Does he really believe in that statement? If yes, the entire message makes no sense.
He does believe that, but even Sony used to say that they should have been the company that created the iPod and the iTunes one-two punch because they had both entertainment and hardware divisions, if only those business units would work together, waaaah!
The problem is: the time has passed when having "all the right skills" is all it takes. The ecosystems are in place, entrenched and established. Microsoft is going to have to offer a breakthrough rather than a competent clone of an Apple device or Google service to win. And it is not configured to invent, only compete feature-for-feature and wait for the other guy to fail. Take Cortana for example: it might be better in some cases than Siri or Google Now but so what? It doesn't matter any more.
A response from Nadella -- also filled with neologisms -- is also included in the post and thanks Ballmer driving Microsoft to a "mobile-first, cloud-first world."
In other words, an "Apple-first, Google-second world."
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I wonder if ESPN will be harder to manipulate than cnet, zdnet, et. al.
Comments like "HAHAHA, an athlete with no keyboard!! for 800 dollars!!" are now coming to basketball
*Ballmer runs out of the locker room*
"Wooooo!!!! Wooooo!! WOOOOAAARGHHH!!!
C'MON!!!! C'MON!!! GIVE IT UP FOR MEEEEEEARGHH!!!
WHO SAID SIT DOWN!!!??!!
I HAVE 4 WORDS FOR YA!!!
I.... LOVE... THIS TEAM!!!!! YEAHHHRGH!!!!"
You wouldn't, if like me you live in L.A. I thought I was done with his asinine "monkey boy" antics from Seattle. Now he is performing nightly on our local sports news. I'm in hell!
youtube.com/watch?v=mriKM_39cfE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
*dials phone*
"Donald, is there any way we can work something out???"
I said this when I first hear he bid 2M for a team which is not worth anything close to that. Here we got an owner of the team making and obviously idiot of himself only to have the NBA sanction him and for the owner to sell the team for a huge profit which is owned by a Charitable Trust.
The moral of this story is if you have crap team make public ass of yourself, only to then make the team worth more and find someone like Ballmer to over pay.
Boy the NBA Taught Donald Sterling a lesson didn't they, wouldn't you have like to take a $12M investment/hobby and turn it into $2B because you make everyone think your a racist.
Ballmer pays 2 Gb for the losingest team in basketball...yawn!
You have my sympathy. That really sucks.
Really? Does he really believe in that statement? If yes, the entire message makes no sense.
The statement is true. The answer to each of the three sections, however, is simply “none whatsoever”.
Early.
Apple pays 3 Gigabucks for the most successful headphone business in the world, and everybody bitches and moans about what a stupid idea it is.
Ballmer pays 2 Gb for the losingest team in basketball...yawn!
The Clippers have become really good over the past couple of years.
On another note, does Satya ever take off that blue blazer?
Microsoft built their business on letting someone else find a new market, become dominant, and then they would compete ferociously until the other guy stumbled. See: IBM, Borland, Netscape, DEC, SGI, Palm, Sony...
But Google (services) and Apple (mobile devices, music) have been able to keep Microsoft largely out of their established businesses. Microsoft hasn't given up on their "long game" strategy of waiting for their competitor to make a mistake. But that's the only way they win. Microsoft has high trepidation for entering new businesses where they can't leverage their existing product hegemonies (Windows and Office). Ballmer killed the Courier concept and instead bet the company on Surface, and look how it ended for him.
He does believe that, but even Sony used to say that they should have been the company that created the iPod and the iTunes one-two punch because they had both entertainment and hardware divisions, if only those business units would work together, waaaah!
The problem is: the time has passed when having "all the right skills" is all it takes. The ecosystems are in place, entrenched and established. Microsoft is going to have to offer a breakthrough rather than a competent clone of an Apple device or Google service to win. And it is not configured to invent, only compete feature-for-feature and wait for the other guy to fail. Take Cortana for example: it might be better in some cases than Siri or Google Now but so what? It doesn't matter any more.
Let's look at Balmer's failures and apply them to the Clippers...
Remove the start menu = erase all the lines on the court
Color the Zune in crap brown and puke green = Change the Clippers colors to crap brown and puke green
The Surface is and upside-down laptop = turn the hoop 180° so you have to shoot the ball upwards though it
Clippy the annoying help assistant = Clippy the annoying mascot
Fundmental change the whole user-interface = replace the basketball with a football
You literally can't, the NBA will step in long before you can screw it up.
A response from Nadella -- also filled with neologisms -- is also included in the post and thanks Ballmer driving Microsoft to a "mobile-first, cloud-first world."
In other words, an "Apple-first, Google-second world."
Indeed.
Good job Steve. Time to come in from the cold.