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| From | Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: Steam Machines at GameStop |
| Date | 2015-10-29 18:35 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <d9f776FggnsU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:26:58 -0500, chrisv wrote: > ronb wrote: > >> chrisv wrote: >>> >>> Nobody wrote: >>> >>>>http://www.gamestop.com/steammachine >>>> >>>>Just in time for the Xmas shopping season! >>> >>> You mean that they are actually going to put them out there and let >>> the market decide? Imagine the "confusion" over yet another gaming >>> platform. >>> >>> This would never gotten past the "committee". They would have >>> declared that it's "junk" and "not a good deal", and it would have >>> never seen the light of day. >> >>The "Committee" was preoccupied with finding a larger supply of lemons >>and sour grapes from their produce providers. > > Well, that's too bad, because we all know that bickering committees are > the best way to determine which products are produced and offered to the > public. Bickering committees are best at allocating resources, > and best at determining the proper levels of choice, quality, and > prices. > > We can't just the *market* decide those things, can we??? The 'market' has been deciding for all these years. But you know it costs real money for them to bring the Steam Machines to market, right? So do you think one person decided if that was the right thing to do? Or, and this is more likely, a 'committee' decided on whether there was a real market and if so, is it big enough and profitable enough to invest in. That's how businesses bigger than the mom and pop ones do things. Not some pie in the sky crap you linux loons think exists. The good part for those hardware makers that are taking the chance on Steam boxes is they can be repurposed as Windows machines at the drop of a dime if things don't pan out. IOW, the risk for the mfgs isn't all that great after all. -- Lloyd
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Steam Machines at GameStop Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-10-28 23:25 -0500
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 13:41 +0000
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Charmed Tuna <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-29 10:48 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-10-29 19:45 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-10-29 20:39 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Charmed Tuna <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-29 21:22 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Charmed Tuna <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-29 21:39 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Charmed Tuna <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-29 21:51 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Charmed Tuna <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-30 09:22 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 13:29 +0000
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Charmed Tuna <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-30 09:47 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 13:59 +0000
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Charmed Tuna <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-30 10:14 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-10-30 10:22 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Charmed Tuna <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-30 10:31 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-10-30 10:42 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Charmed Tuna <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-30 10:48 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 14:55 +0000
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 14:36 +0000
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-10-30 10:47 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Charmed Tuna <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-30 12:25 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 14:34 +0000
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Charmed Tuna <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-30 10:37 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 14:43 +0000
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Charmed Tuna <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-30 12:21 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 16:25 +0000
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-29 09:48 -0500
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 14:56 +0000
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 15:04 +0000
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-29 13:26 -0500
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-10-29 14:33 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Charmed Tuna <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-29 16:59 -0400
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-29 19:56 -0600
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-30 15:48 -0600
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-10-30 11:12 -0500
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-11-02 08:02 -0600
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 14:15 +0000
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 18:35 +0000
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 15:02 +0000
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 14:54 +0000
Re: Steam Machines at GameStop Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 15:03 +0000
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