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1980s Quote by Ted Waitt

“To me, the consumer-electronics business feels a lot like the PC business in the late 1980s. It's an inefficient market.” quote by Ted Waitt — Download Open image

“To me, the consumer-electronics business feels a lot like the PC business in the late 1980s. It's an inefficient market.”

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The complexity increases exponentially when you try and combine two companies that both need to be restructured in their own right.

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I kind of became apolitical.

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PCs will go the cell-phone subsidy route.

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Intel's a great company, and Microsoft is a great company. Everybody seems to do a lot better when there is competition.

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We have to have a successful box business if we are going to go beyond the box.

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Our biggest risk is ourselves.

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If you buy a CD and want to put your favorite songs on one CD, you should be able to do that.

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Being a smaller, nimbler company is better for our customers, employees and shareholders.

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We hope to be a leader in the convergence of consumer electronics and communications.

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We want a Gateway to be the last computer our clients will ever buy.

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You don't know the impact of Windows XP. You don't know what the economic impact is going to be.

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