____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 28 August 2007 11:49 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 28 August 2007 10:17 : \____
>>
>>> Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> In article <63i3q4-j61.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>> Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Similarly for consumer electronics. Microsoft's Xbox war with Sony
>>>>> doesn't seem to be going all that well for them.
>>>>
>>>> July US sales numbers:
>>>>
>>>> Wii: 425,000
>>>> Nintendo DS: 405,000
>>>> PlayStation 2: 222,000
>>>> PlayStation Portable: 214,000
>>>> Xbox 360: 170,000
>>>> PlayStation 3: 159,000
>>>> Game Boy Advance: 87,000
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ah - thanks:
>>> Sony: 599,000 units
>>> Microsoft Xbox: 170,000 units
>>>
>>> Even on home turf, Sony are outselling Microsoft at better than 3:1.
>>>
>>> Still, the Sony boxes don't explode.
>>>
>>> Anyone tried the PS3 with a Bubba, btw? The UPNP is good, and the
>>> picture gallery thing is a great toy - best picture gallery I've seen,
>>> and it can play the music at the same time :-)
>>
>> Some laptops have exloded like fireworks though, even recently. Sony
>> batteries, I suspect. Then there's the new Sony rootkit. :-(
>> Linux-incompatible... poor us.
>>
>
> Batteries have been a real nightmare. Nokia had to withdraw a load
> manufactured by Matsushita, recently (Panasonic, Technics and many other
> brand names).
This isn't a platform-related issue. Quite software-agnostic, in fact, but one
has to wonder why/how they shove so much power into such small space. This
greed (or grid) for power has shades of Vista.
"Vista" should have a definition that can be used to describe a phenomenon
where as much as one can afford, one shall be forced to consume.
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