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S.T.A.G.E. on 29 May 2013
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happydolphin said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

I explained it already, the shareholders complain because they think MS is spreading themselves thin. To be honest they have not been thinking straight since Apple became a refocused and unified the value of their products intergrating them with the IPod and bringing IPhones into the mix. MS cant stand when companies dominate whatever they are good at just by being good. In an industry where MS used to dominate because of lack of choice when you bought your PC Apple has shaken them up a bit in the states. Apple, Sony and Samsung are the reason MS have their hands in everything. MS has a monoply type mindset, they must dominate everything multimedia, OS isnt enough anymore for them. Shareholders dont care if its hurting them on their end and I guess thats been the case.

@bold. That makes no sense. They are a huge business with tons of money, and proper separation of their divisions. The xbox is certainly not what's hurting MS' OS market, it's pretty clear that Apple is giving them a hard time period, and I don't think there is much MS can do about it but try to increase their brand affection with the mainstream consumer which, ta-da, the xbox is achieving for them.

@underlined. For example, tell me how exactly Samsung is one of the reasons MS went with the xbox?

@MS OS not enough. That is just bs, you could say that about any company: Sony, Google, Apple all big companies want to diversify and expand so as to mitigate the risk of having all your eggs in one basket, and go fetch the next available piece of pie.


Tell that to the shareholders. MS non OS profits are nothing to them really as far as they are concerned.