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He outright typed it, doesn't just suggest. Forgive me... "As Jason Snell put it, imagine how much money Apple could have lost if only it had a netbook."
by imok20 17y ago
He outright typed it, doesn't just suggest. Forgive me... "As Jason Snell put it, imagine how much money Apple could have lost if only it had a netbook."
- jacobolus 17y agoNo, you are mis-reading: the “analysts” said that Apple would lose money if they didn’t make a netbook; instead, they made boatloads of money. Snell is snarkily pointing out that said analysts got things precisely backwards backwards by rhetorically asking how much they’d “lose” with a netbook. There’s no suggestion that they’d actually have lost money, or gained money, from a netbook. It’s pure snark, posed as a counterfactual rhetorical question. No one can really know how things would have gone with an Apple netbook: the point is only to call out those who second-guessed Apple’s strategy and have now been made fools of.