Why Apple lowered prices

Tommy Troll

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Jul 16, 2009, 1:12:23 AM7/16/09

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Feeling the pressure

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10288022-37.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0

TT

yog

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Jul 16, 2009, 5:28:20 AM7/16/09

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On Jul 16, 10:12 am, Tommy Troll <tom_e...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Feeling the pressure
>
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10288022-37.html?tag=newsEditorsPic...
>
> TT

ZnU

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Jul 16, 2009, 12:50:00 PM7/16/09

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In article
<b4ff7839-a371-41b7...@h18g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>,
Tommy Troll <tom_...@earthlink.net> wrote:

I'm sure that's just a completely accurate account. Of course Apple
legal called and said "Hey, you need to stop running those ads, we
lowered our prices." Because that's totally how the legal department of
a Fortune 500 company deals with the COO of another Fortune 500 company.

Now, if you told me that Apple's legal department had contacted
Microsoft with specific objections about how the ads were misleading, I
might believe that. Because they are. I rather suspect something like
that is precisely what happened, and this Turner guy is paraphrasing a
little too liberally (i.e. basically making stuff up).

--
"The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and over-exacting to
anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it
must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll." -- John Maynard Keynes

MuahMan

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Jul 16, 2009, 1:17:39 PM7/16/09

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On Jul 16, 12:50 pm, ZnU <z...@fake.invalid> wrote:
> In article
> <b4ff7839-a371-41b7-9213-9b0e3f9c7...@h18g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>,

> Tommy Troll <tom_e...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Feeling the pressure
>

> >http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10288022-37.html?tag=newsEditorsPic...

>
> > TT
>
> I'm sure that's just a completely accurate account. Of course Apple
> legal called and said "Hey, you need to stop running those ads, we
> lowered our prices." Because that's totally how the legal department of
> a Fortune 500 company deals with the COO of another Fortune 500 company.
>
> Now, if you told me that Apple's legal department had contacted
> Microsoft with specific objections about how the ads were misleading, I
> might believe that. Because they are. I rather suspect something like
> that is precisely what happened, and this Turner guy is paraphrasing a
> little too liberally (i.e. basically making stuff up).
>
> --
> "The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and over-exacting to
> anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it
> must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll." -- John Maynard Keynes

What's misleading are the Mac ads. Get off Jobs' dick!

MuahMan

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Jul 16, 2009, 1:56:29 PM7/16/09

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This comment was pretty funny:

Sounds plausible. If their fans can all come of as such preening
insufferable d-nozzles than one can imagine how their legal minions
are wound up. I wish they'd taped the call.

Don't worry Macolytes, the .85% gain in global marketshare over the
last 2 years will continue its mighty Long March now that Dear Leader
Kim Jong Jobs is back.