Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B

Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by braythwayt on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:24AM (#21419171)

Thanks, attribution fixed. Now that we've got that sorted, what do you think of the analogy with respect to this deal? Does it—cough—fit?

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by raldi on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:25AM (#21419186)

Oops, turns out Lyons was just quoting Steve Ballmer:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080206081701/https://fakesteve....

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by braythwayt on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:32AM (#21419238)

It's aphorisms all the way down!

The usual algorithm is to follow the attributions until you reach Samuel Clemons, Benjamin Franklin, Confucius, or Laozi. They are said to have said everything.

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by endtime on Friday November 01, 2019 @12:07PM (#21420291)

> They are said to have said everything.

Which one of them said that?

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by braythwayt on Friday November 01, 2019 @12:34PM (#21420679)

Raymond Smullyan. He established how they could say things about things they said.

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by mikestew on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:50AM (#21419415)

Man, that whole article is worth a read ten years on, in light of the topic at hand. He quotes Ballmer, then shows how Ballmer considering turning around and doing just that for lack of better ideas, all the while (Lyons posits) knowing it won't work.

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