Ballmer: Surface RT sales

[zarx]

Kasz216 said:

zarx said:

Bomba, below expectations.

If they are already saying modest sales in public that is a very bad sign. Downplaying success is the last thing they will ever do, so if the marketing spin is "modest" sales that really means poor.

Actually i'd argue modest usually means mediocre.  Which i'd put a step over poor.

Generaly I think PR is always one step above what the sales really are more or less.

 

Numbers thrown everywhere - Huge Success

Huge Success - Success

Success - Modest Sales

Modes sales - Average/Medicore

Average-Poor/below average

Below Average-huge bomb.

Huge bomb/disapointment-put some money aside to get it 75% off within a couple weeks.

Yea but 

mod·est/ˈmädəst/ Adjective:

1. Unassuming or moderate in the estimation of one's abilities or achievements.

2. (of an amount, rate, or level of something) Relatively moderate, limited, or small.

So using the PR is one step above reality scale and assuming moderate would be at expectations, modest would mean below expectations or less. Seeing as modest means moderate or less.