101 Dumbest Moments In Business 311
hhutkin writes "It's that time again. Business 2.0 posted their 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. Of course, they lambast Enron, but they also slam Ginger, a laptop computer made for the steering wheel of your car, Steve Ballmer dancing, and some other really dumb stuff from the past year."
Biggest famous mistake=Osborne's Interview 60 Min (Score:5, Insightful)
Mr Osborne is a multimillionaire with his portable computer (pre Compaq competition) and his Osborne 1 is famous, though not too high tech).
60 minutes asks him if he is rich enough and if Osborne 1 is good enough.
Osborne foolishly boasts " THE OSBORNE 1 is NOTHING COMPARED TO HOW GREATE THE OSBORNE TWO WILL BE!!!!!!!"
That boasts puts him out of business the next month practically.
Its is now called the Osborne syndrome.
Apple computer avoids this mistake.
Do you see the mistake?
Not one customer wanted to ever buy an Osborne 1... they all waited for an Osborne 2 that could never ship because the inventory was killing the company in unsold computers with no buyers.
One foolish public boast about new model.
Its one of histories top 100 mistakes, and its a silicon valley top 10 mistake.
If its not in the list then the list is not authoritative complete or correct.
They should consult this slashdot thread and read at "level 0".
people never moderate anymore.
slashdotted at number 40 (Score:3, Insightful)
Why do /. ters hang out at a site where, even with broadband, it's likely the site they want to acess is unavailable?
"One of the injured, a VP for product marketing aptly named Dana Frydman, tries to put a positive spin on having her feet flame-broiled like so much ground chuck. "It made you feel a sense of empowerment and that you can accomplish anything," she tells the Miami Herald.
The above from the fire walking marketing types is my favourite thus far. Doesn't the response say it all. The glass is half-full, I live in the best of all possible worlds and I love Mary Poppins. Marketing... fundamentalist religions got noth'n on it.
Re:Why WONT Slashdot fix the PAGE WIDENING BUG??? (Score:1, Insightful)
slash and pre-google caching (Score:3, Insightful)
google cache [google.com]
how about adding a feature to slash that will pre-google-slash (cache) any referenced post and then automatically insert the google-cache reference next to the original link? ... anybody ... anybody...
CmdrTaco
Excellent idea maybe make it a Subscriber feature (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:102: getting slashdotted... (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't call it a wise business decision to prepare for a 12 hour long 100-fold increase in web traffic on the off-chance that one of your pages might get posted to
That said, they really should have been able to react more quickly, so that the downtime was minimized.
(Well - I think I sat nicely on the fence there.)
Re:XBOX marketing campaign backfires (Score:3, Insightful)
Hey, that sounds like that campaign where people spraypainted TUX on everything... and got in trouble for it. Wasn't that IBM who did that?
I guess stupidity is universal.
Simon
Re:Biggest Mistake : Apple killing of MacOS for OS (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:I guess I've been living in a cave (Score:4, Insightful)
It selects for "blood pumping action" by sending adrenaline junkies to dance with publicity junkies.
Both sides of the equation firmly believe in the maxim "_Anything_ for a good story."
Re:Give this marketing guy more money! Now! (Score:1, Insightful)
Everquest is a tiny, tiny, part of Sony's software business if you include Playstation games. It would not surprise me at all to learn that, for example, the CEO of Sony had never heard of Everquest, but you can be damn sure he's heard of Gran Turismo and Crash Bandicoot. Playstation games are a signifigant portion of Sony's business. PC games (Including EverQuest, but not much else) are barely a blip on the corporate radar.
But I do understand exactly what that Ninentdo PR person was getting at, and why he'd say it the way he did. From a marketing and sales point of view, Sony IS a hardware company, and Microsoft IS a software company. Nintendo wants to be a GAME company, and though I personally prefer both the PS2 and X-box to the Gamecube, I think Nintendo has a better idea what they're doing than either of Sony or MS. They're just marketing to a different audience, one that's a lot bigger for games than what Sony and especially MS are going for: children.
Nintendo is also unique among the three in being primarily a game company. Both Sony and Microsoft could easily withstand a total flop of their respective consoles. Nintendo doesn't make anything else.
Re:Biggest famous mistake=Osborne's Interview 60 M (Score:5, Insightful)
The list focused on the top 101 business mistakes of last year.
people never moderate anymore.
Yeah, and they never read the articles, either.
Apple killing of MacOS for OS X! (Score:4, Insightful)
I won't even go into picking apart your rant. Your lack of power of the English language says it all.
Research your facts before you waste space. Whether Apple is wrong or not, no one is ever in the mood to listen to what seems to be a village idiot, talking much but saying little of factual consequence.