Bill Gates says (when asked about Apple’s ability to get into the living room for home entertainment systems):
They have a huge disadvantage in the kind of variety–design points, price points, distribution approaches. They just don’t get that. They do get to do this tightly coupled monolithic design. What we have to make sure is that we are working with the partners so we get that creativity of the close coupling while the variety of partners is such that we get something they really don’t have.
Yes, Bill.
That’s obviously why Apple had a huge disadvantage into getting into the pockets of a third of the western world with the iPod.
That’s obviously why when your own “Plays For Sure” brand died, you decided to kick your partners in the gut with the new Zune way of doing things and attempt to clone Apple’s success.
That’s the thing about being the richest man in the world. You can just say anything, any old shit and not care about the repercussions. Because, end of the day, you’re the richest man in the world. Ya boo sux.