* Posts by aardman

2 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Aug 2010

iPhone 5 rumors: bigger, smaller, cloudy, keyboard-equipped

aardman

How do you spin a lower pixel density?

By saying you view it from further away.

Ballmer's 'lost generation' note finds resonance

aardman

MS = GM 30 years ago.

GM (and Ford & Chrysler) lost a whole generation of US buyers about 30 years ago. Once you lose one generation, you have to work really hard to win the next one. In the US the children of todays more affluent buyers grew up riding their parent's non-US-brand cars and it will take a lot of convincing to get them comfortable even with the idea of buying GM again. Especially since their parents fled the marque and no doubt had nothing good to say about it to their kids.

Microsoft is facing what GM faced in the 80s and like GM it's not doing a thing except say "We're Microsoft, we're invincible."