Steve Baker
Steve Baker
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Back-to-school tends to be a very different buying season than others -- much more focused on needs than wants. Productivity products are the big sellers because the money is still coming from Mom and Dad.
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I think you'll see companies like HP and Compaq diversify their consumer product lines to take advantage of all the digital technologies that are migrating from the consumer electronic side of the business, into the computer side of the business.
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I think it was my dad's compensation for having all boys, you know.
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There's a huge amount of demand defined by lower prices and growth in broadband and wireless networks. Consumers in the U.S. are adding PCs to their home inventory and finding new and different ways to use them.
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People are excited about it because this really makes sense safety wise, health wise and economically.
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More and more of the scam artists we deal with are outside the United States. It's especially a problem with the Internet, ... because there really is an international component to it.
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Another thing about back-to-school is that the marketing push from retailers is getting earlier and earlier. It used to start beginning of August, but now we're seeing it as early as mid-July.
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From the PC side this year, we'll see a lot of commercial notebooks with the Napa launch, We'll hear a lot more about notebooks with wireless WAN built into them. That's most certainly a crossover technology.
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Sales in the first-half of this year have been pretty strong. But one of the biggest issues is the tough year-over-year comparisons.
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I always tell people I'm married to my job. I've met wonderful people here who have taken me under their wing.
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It's the whole function of how you get your money back. You don't just get it from the gate. You get it through extended stays in hotel rooms. People who plan to come when something is new, they'll get them. Now it'll take an extra half-day to see everything, and they'll get that extra night in the hotel.
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It represented something that we believed to be a piece of Americana pop culture.
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I knew of 15 that were coming and expected more, but never expected this many, ... Based on what we're hearing, we'll probably have 60 or so by the time this is over.
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They advertised that if you gave them $250 a month upfront, that your money would end up making $10,000 a month,