Cash Cow Disease: The Cognitive Decline of Microsoft and Google

Re:Cash Cow Disease: The Cognitive Decline of Microsoft and ... by kenjackson on Friday December 17, 2010 @05:59PM (#2018229)

I took a look at the time line and you appear to have improperly recollected. The Courier leak happened 9/22/2009. The Apple event was 9/9/2009. By the time the Courier leak occurred everyone was already speculating the Apple Tablet was coming out in February as Apple's September event had long passed with no mention of a tablet. See this Mashable story:

http://mashable.com/2009/09/22/microsoft-courier/

MS cancels the Courier on April 29th -- the same month the iPad came out (and actually a day before the launch of the 3G version).

There doesn't seem to be a FUD play at all here, except in the eyes of the most ardent consipracy theorists. RBanffy? :-)

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Re:Cash Cow Disease: The Cognitive Decline of Microsoft and ... by rbanffy on Friday December 17, 2010 @06:24PM (#2018294)

There was an Apple product announcement on October 20th 2009. That's when they announced the new LED-backlit Macbooks, the Magic Mouse and a new line of iMacs. By the time the Courier video was shown, there was a lot of speculation on what would Apple announce that October.

As for the September 9th event, it was disappointing. Lots of people expected a "one more thing" moment with what would become the iPad.

So, it was right after an Apple event and right before a couple product announcements from Apple.

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