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qirex posted:it's possible the Xbox beat the ps4 in November because they were selling one with three free games for as low as $329, I imagine they'd want to avoid the stink of being outsold everywhere in the world for 12 months straight because they can easily spin "barely won one month in one country thanks to deep discounts" into "Xbox won Christmas"  we moved a million units this month!
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neil young sucks
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Shaggar posted:neil young sucks 
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Dec 2, 2014 19:09
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Fabricated posted:at some point they'll literally just give them away for a month and be like they didn't do this for the surface when it would've been literally cheaper than the advertising campaign, they're not going to do it for the xbone
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Dec 2, 2014 19:11
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i hope they never stop advertising the surface, it's like an extended meta-joke
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Dec 2, 2014 19:14
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"i wish my macbook had a kickstand and USB!!!"
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Dec 2, 2014 19:14
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microsoft needs to figure out a new voice because this weird "productivity!" thing they're doing now makes absolutely no goddamn sense microsoft should be taking their branding cues from the empire in star wars instead of whatever the gently caress they're doing now
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Dec 2, 2014 19:15
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I think a lot of people massively underestimate the importance/worship of revenue and revenue growth in companies two scenarios: 1. sell a million xbones for $200 2. sell 600,000 xbones for $400 with a $200 rebate most companies would actually prefer scenario 2 because it's more revenue even though that revenue was more expensive to get because on a balance sheet you can say well we're still investing but we can slash that later and look at that $240 million!!!
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Dec 2, 2014 19:19
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the narrative should be "a system with as few barriers to productivity as possible, not needlessly complex, and just works with your existing enterprise infrastructure" but that's too close to the apple sell story so microsoft just keeps introducing things like ~live tiles~
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Dec 2, 2014 19:20
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they should also get yung lean to do their commercials, c levels love yung lean
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qirex posted:I think a lot of people massively underestimate the importance/worship of revenue and revenue growth in companies this is literally corporate america
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duTrieux. posted:microsoft needs to figure out a new voice because this weird "productivity!" thing they're doing now makes absolutely no goddamn sense
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Dec 2, 2014 19:24
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pono: for dads, by dads
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duTrieux. posted:microsoft needs to figure out a new voice because this weird "productivity!" thing they're doing now makes absolutely no goddamn sense 
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hrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggg
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actually microsoft should just stop marketing altogether for a while
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shut it the gently caress down until you can get someone to figure that poo poo out
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Pinterest Mom posted:pono: for dads, by dads that man is enjoying his neil young so goddamn hard
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Pinterest Mom posted:pono: for dads, by dads loving boomers
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AtomD posted:shut it the gently caress down until you can get someone to figure that poo poo out
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qirex posted:I think a lot of people massively underestimate the importance/worship of revenue and revenue growth in companies even better, in scenario 2 the average sales price and therefore gross profit margin is higher. the rebate comes out of the marketing budget so it doesn't impact gross margins. Microsoft are the masters of this kind of accounting, particularly in their money losing units like Xbox and bing.
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brand guidleilnes? what are thosE?
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Pinterest Mom posted:pono: for dads, by dads I enjoy The Boss and a few things by Jackson Browne. does that make me a dad?
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Dec 2, 2014 19:50
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more proof that our present time is actually a cyberpunk hell world but without all the neon everywhere.
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tbh i'd answer yes to the right image but would be counting paid for company dinners
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Shaggar posted:neil young sucks shaggar is wrong
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qirex posted:I think a lot of people massively underestimate the importance/worship of revenue and revenue growth in companies this also works the other way if it's convenient to the company, like how piracy cost the mpaa double all the money in the world somehow, or how movies like forrest gump lost money so welp can't give the author any money in that case! and let's not forget the psychological experiment: would you rather 1. get $100 and everyone else gets $200 2. get $50 and everyone else gets $20 and it turns out most people go with option 2 
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The Management posted:even better, in scenario 2 the average sales price and therefore gross profit margin is higher. the rebate comes out of the marketing budget so it doesn't impact gross margins. Microsoft are the masters of this kind of accounting, particularly in their money losing units like Xbox and bing. a large number of rebates are never turned in, because  , so using rebates to "lower" the price is actually less expensive than it looks at first
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Dec 2, 2014 20:42
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prefect posted:a large number of rebates are never paid out, because their requirements are deliberately engineered to be nearly impossible to satisfy, so using rebates to "lower" the price is actually less expensive than it looks at first
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg1gbVGk19k
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Shaggar posted:neil young sucks
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for some reason this reminds me of those contrived videos they'd make where some dude is in a scenario that just happens to be perfectly solved by some minor new feature in windows vista or w/e
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Dec 2, 2014 22:29
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http://www.bing.com/trends/us/top-searches welp
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bing users: confused old people, small children, microsoft employees
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THC posted:he trolled the tar sands pretty good so he's fine idk what ur referring to but its more likely he sucked and was terrible because hes neil young.
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univbee posted:this also works the other way if it's convenient to the company, like how piracy cost the mpaa double all the money in the world somehow, or how movies like forrest gump lost money so welp can't give the author any money in that case! wouldn't option 1 make you poorer in terms of purchasing power than you would be had you rejected both options
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like your share of global wealth just got smaller
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of course the second option is better. everyone still benefits so stfu
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Snapchat A Titty posted:like your share of global wealth just got smaller no, because the money in question isn't being Created
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