Nydius
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I‘m catching up on the pages I missed since last night and I still see people claiming Spencer isn’t conceding. I’ve listened to the whole thing so it’s not like I‘m missing context: He outright said that he doesn’t believe Xbox will out console their competitors even if Xbox makes great games.
How is that NOT admitting defeat? Especially when the history of this industry is full of examples that prove him wrong?
I worked for Gateway from 1997-2003, when they closed the Virginia plant. That was during the heyday of the PC marketing wars between Gateway, Dell, and HP/Compaq. If Ted Waitt or Jeff Weitzen, the two CEOs during my time there, had publicly said something like this (“We’ll never out PC Dell or HP”), I would have been sending out resumes the next day. That is a culture of defeat from the very top and it inevitably permeates all other levels of the company.
How is that NOT admitting defeat? Especially when the history of this industry is full of examples that prove him wrong?
I worked for Gateway from 1997-2003, when they closed the Virginia plant. That was during the heyday of the PC marketing wars between Gateway, Dell, and HP/Compaq. If Ted Waitt or Jeff Weitzen, the two CEOs during my time there, had publicly said something like this (“We’ll never out PC Dell or HP”), I would have been sending out resumes the next day. That is a culture of defeat from the very top and it inevitably permeates all other levels of the company.