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  1. Comment - The First Google TV device, Logitech Revue, gets unveiled, goes up for sale

    (Oct 6, 2010 - 7:49 PM)

    So...I could pay $299.99 for a Revue and get some basic features and Android. Or I could just plug my laptop into my TV with a HDMI cable like I'm already doing and have the full functionality of my computer for free? Geez, that's a tough choice.

  2. Comment - Conflicting Reports on iTunes Sales Declines

    (Dec 13, 2006 - 1:21 PM)

    Since Apple is a publicly traded company aren't their revenues disclosed every quarter to shareholders? Wouldn't it make more sense to see what the revenues actually are than to randomly sample credit card purchases. If I read the summary of Forrester's report from their website correctly (would have read the report but it's $250), they seem to have used the cost of each transaction to extrapolate data on the total sales. I'm not completely sure if this is the case without actually reading the report, but that would be a completely rediculous way to determine market growth since most people purchase a couple songs at a time rather than albums. But if those same people purcahse a couple songs at a time every day of the year, that's a whole lot of songs. Looking at one of these purchases randomly sampled would show a couple dollars in sales, but that individual customer could still be spending a thousand dollars a year on purchases, which isn't reflected by looking at a single one. The iTunes business model appears to be making a large number of small buys (selling a single show, one or two songs, etc). If the trend is showing that people are making smaller purchases that would only mean that they're actually understanding the system better, not that they are buying less overall. As I said before, I don't have a copy of the report so they probably had a better methodology than was suggested in the report summary. Hmm, if they're charging $250 for the report (which may be garbage), I should have charged at least $20 for this analysis.