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...Americans. Some terms are merely colorfully descriptive: a No-Tell Motel (1974) is a cheap trysting place; an Oklahoma credit card (1966) is a siphon tube used for stealing gasoline; a kiskeedee (1857) is a French-speaking person who is unable to understand English and keeps asking, "Qu'est-ce qu'il dit?" (What is he saying...
...also features one of Toshiba's finest-quality color screens (albeit a tiny 5 in. wide) with a pointing device built into its panel. The only downside is a microkeyboard that requires Horowitz-like dexterity. Despite the Libretto's $1,999 price tag (vs. $500 to $700 for Windows CE clamshell handheld devices), Toshiba expects to sell thousands to space-conscious execs and techies who know smaller, faster, better is also cooler...
...failure. Imperial America at its most foolish. Five years ago, Parisians smoking cigarettes at Les Deux Magots sniggered into their cafe au laits as Disneyland Paris opened. No way would the land that invented Existentialism, perfected ennui and made dourness hip go for the hyperactive cheeriness of Mickey Mouse. Ce n'est pas possible. For a while, it seemed like they were right. For its first few years of operation, Disneyland Paris was a laughing stock, losing money, attracting small crowds and providing ample ammunition for America bashers all across Europe. But the folks at Disney were patient. The company...
Gates does not hide his cutthroat instincts. "The competitive landscape here is strange, ranging from Navio to even WebTV," he says. He is particularly focused on Navio, a consumer-software consortium recently launched by Netscape and others designed to make sure that Windows and Windows CE (its consumer-electronics cousin) do not become the standard for interactive television and game machines. "I want to put something in our product that's hard for Navio to do. What are their plans?" The group admits that their intelligence on Navio is poor. Gates rocks harder. "You have to pick someone in your...
...make a profit at $10, given what they are putting in. Gates turns stern. They are missing the big picture. "Our whole relationship with the consumer-electronic guys hangs in the balance," he declares. "We can get wiped." Only the paranoid survive. "The strategic goal here is getting Windows CE standards into every device we can. We don't have to make money over the next few years. We didn't make money on ms-dos in its first release. If you can get into this market at $10, take it." They...