“The PC business is rapidly taking on characteristics of the home and consumer electronics industry, which favors economies of scale, pricing power and a focus on individual users and buyers.”
IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, explaining why the PC business no longer fits in his on-demand vision, News.com, 8 December 2004
“The last five years of peer to peer have enabled consumers to explore music that was otherwise inaccessible. It’s going to be very hard to expect the majority of them to turn back.”
Napster founder Shawn Fanning, on the market for his new legit file-sharing startup, News.com. 2 December 2004
“The site was down intermittently this morning. These are complex systems that have problems some times.”
Amazon.com spokesman Craig Berman, on an unplanned site outage during the company’s peak season that blocked one out of five shoppers, News.com, 6 December 2004
“An ad is a quid pro quo relationship between media creators, advertisers and consumers.”
Six Apart executive Andrew Anker, on the prospect of helping bloggers sell out more efficiently, InternetNews.com, 24 November 2004
“All of this will probably make the privacy people puke but they have to grow up.”
London School of Economics researcher Carsten Sorensen, on why Big Brother belongs in the workplace, InfoWorld, 2 December 2004
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