Comments on: Jumping on bandwagons is a bad idea: Part infinity http://shianux.jiyuuu.org/2005/04/23/jumping_on_bandwagons_is_a_bad_idea/ The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:26:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Lee http://shianux.jiyuuu.org/2005/04/23/jumping_on_bandwagons_is_a_bad_idea/#comment-2702 Lee Thu, 05 May 2005 06:21:57 +0000 http://shianux.jiyuuu.org/?p=110#comment-2702 Hello, I think you got your facts wrong on the HP one, the pre-merger HP was a profitable printer company. The merger with Compaq dragged them down to the current state. The printer business is profitable, so is the server sector, it's the consumer PC business that's gnawing at their wounds. As for jumping on the bandwagon, not all companies fail, Dell has practically jumped on every single bandwagon I can think of, from pocket PC to printers to projectors and their handhelds are currently the best there is in the market. The failure of Creative... that's another story together.... Hello, I think you got your facts wrong on the HP one, the pre-merger HP was a profitable printer company. The merger with Compaq dragged them down to the current state. The printer business is profitable, so is the server sector, it’s the consumer PC business that’s gnawing at their wounds. As for jumping on the bandwagon, not all companies fail, Dell has practically jumped on every single bandwagon I can think of, from pocket PC to printers to projectors and their handhelds are currently the best there is in the market. The failure of Creative… that’s another story together….

]]> By: dks http://shianux.jiyuuu.org/2005/04/23/jumping_on_bandwagons_is_a_bad_idea/#comment-2537 dks Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:20:17 +0000 http://shianux.jiyuuu.org/?p=110#comment-2537 deja vu. from Jos Birken's article "Design or Die" in Wireless World (april edition i believe, i forget) <em>"Design is king, and the unstoppable iPod marketing machine will take care of the rest. Time for Creative to get creative, I suppose." </em> on the other hand, the iShuffle retails at a lowest price point that even some cheapass chinese/korean players, and Apple's broader business plan seems to have shifted, at least in part, towards budget markets (the mac mini). i've even heard somewhere that you could get your iShuffle from your nearest 7-11. that sorta falls outside your <em>services and value</em> vs <em>price and volume</em> catagories, making Apple a HP of sorts, except i doubt Apple's "halo effect" profits were based on cartridge sales. deja vu.

from Jos Birken’s article “Design or Die” in Wireless World (april edition i believe, i forget)

“Design is king, and the unstoppable iPod marketing machine will take care of the rest. Time for Creative to get creative, I suppose.”

on the other hand, the iShuffle retails at a lowest price point that even some cheapass chinese/korean players, and Apple’s broader business plan seems to have shifted, at least in part, towards budget markets (the mac mini). i’ve even heard somewhere that you could get your iShuffle from your nearest 7-11.

that sorta falls outside your services and value vs price and volume catagories, making Apple a HP of sorts, except i doubt Apple’s “halo effect” profits were based on cartridge sales.

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