Best Buy CEO Retracts iPad Cannibalization Claim
Best Buy CEO Retracts iPad Cannibalization Claim
Posted 09/18/2010 at 3:15am
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Most of the recent buzz in the vexatiously noisy tablet market has been about potential iPad killers. Even though most of that much touted tablet revolution seems perennially stuck in upcoming mode, it hasn't deterred many from imagining a tablet-dominated future. A Wall Street Journal article earlier in the week quoted Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn as saying that the iPad was cannibalizing notebook sales by as much as 50%.
The comment attributed to him provided additional fuel for the ongoing tablet-versus-notebook debate, which seemed especially loud this week. But Dunn on Friday retracted that comment. “The reports of the demise of these devices are grossly exaggerated. While they were fueled in part by a comment in The Wall Street Journal they are not an accurate depiction of what we're currently seeing. In fact, we see some shifts in consumption patterns, with tablet sales being an incremental opportunity,” Dunn clarified in a statement.
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Gezzer
September 19, 2010 at 2:29am
I've actually gotten.... well not used to the spam. More like how you start blocking out an annoying high pitched sound if you hear it for too long. Block or lose your hearing, either or. I just skip past them without really noticing then now. Must be because they're posts have such weird formatting, easy to spot.
What really baffles me is why they think spamming MaxPC's comment section will actually result in some one being stupid enough to believe them and hit the sites up. Aren't we all "power users" here? So I assume we have more brains then the average computer user.
Seems to me like they're fishing in some pretty lousy fishing spots. lol
BuLLg0d
September 18, 2010 at 8:30pm
Shameful guys c'mon
You guys are the forward thinking technology leaders but you can't stop thread spam? Not trolling, pissed at the fricking handbags and n1ke wholesale crap.
thesmilies
September 18, 2010 at 8:54pm
DONT YOU DARE IMPLY THEY PUT A SPAM FILTER IN!
We had that, it was awful, it would block legit posts and make everybody rewrite stuff. If anything they just need a 'spam' or a 'flag' button to get stuff taken down.
Kevin_Eleven
September 18, 2010 at 3:46pm
Let's get a lynch mob together, then we can all go find Steve Jobs.
Gezzer
September 18, 2010 at 10:30am
No I'd say he realized his company makes more money selling notebooks. lol
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