Comment Re:The year of the Linux Tablet (Score 1) 487
"Downward slide could be of losses, profits, marketshare, negative marketshare, wavelength of dominant colour of product logo etc. Since it was unqualified, your statements about Apples finances were presumptuous in the context. That is all."
Downhill slide could have something to do with losses, the flip side of them aka profits, marketshare or any other in metrics us for a discussion about a business's economic performance.
Negative markeshare has no bearing on such a discussion since it is not a real metric that is pertinent in analyzing business performance that I am aware of.
Likewise, measuring the wavelength of the dominant color of a product logo although interesting does not in an of itself lend weight to such a discussion without some hypothesis of how it relates to a particular companies success or not. Wavelength of the color on the company logo is not generally a metric used in analysis of business performance.
What is fairly obvious is that by downhill slide, the OP is not talking about Apples corporate sledding party, the rains possibly effecting the position of the corporate headquarters, or any other such nonsense one might wish to pull out of the air. But when I asked my original question it was for clarification about the OP's meaning of downhill slide as related to Apple.
It is precisely because I was wanting characterization of the downhill slide of the OP that I asked my original question. Once more, asking a question and trying to elicit information is reasonable step and not presumptuous. That is what forums are for. discussion.
"Yes, but then it makes it impossible to avail of the defence that the comment was only a question and not a statement"
I can't even relate to what you are saying by this.. Question/Statement in the context of a forums is what a forums are all about. The sentence above doesn't even make sense. You will have to construct it more adeptly or I will only be able to guess at what you mean.
In the spirit of forging ahead with our converstaion I will guess again at your meaning.
Likely, you think that my question is a statement. It wasn't it was a question. You somehow seem obsessed with saying my question was a statement. If one asks a question and then goes on to have further discussion with other people in the context of a forum with questions and statements, that does not make the original question a statement because the original question gets modified to a statement by subsequent discourse somehow. You have an interesting way of thinking about these things I will give you that. The tenacity with which you are trying to turn my question into a statement is quite extraordinary really. To what ends? For what purpose?
I can only guess at that as well. It seem possible that in your mind, if you somehow turn this simple question into a statement, then it magically invalidates any discussion I was having. Why you would wish to hold fast to trying to invalidate when I am saying is perplexing and I cannot even quess what your ultimate motivation is. Nonetheless, my commentary is out there and anyone can read it, not read it, challenge what i am saying, agree with what I am saying or whatever. The discussion is on the web and will continue to be in our small little corner of the inter webs.
But what end is there to debating whether something I said was correctly formed or not, Especially, when it is completely a simple point to understand. That is what is interesting to me about our little back an forth right now. A forums is people discuss things all the time using a vast range of writing and using all kinds of words and approaches to communicate. Why exactly fixate on a pretty mundane question and mount such a monumental effort to turn it into something it is not. That is fascinating to me.
Another thought just popped into my head in my attempt to quess at what is going on here. Perhaps you are attempting to setup a false dilemma whereby a question is ok to ask, but a question that is somehow a statement is invalid. Then you could thread the needle to extend you point by further by saying that my subsequent discussion after my initial question qualified my question in a different light and invalidated what I was saying. Hmmmm..
That might be why you said:
"you were completely hiding behind the facade of your first post here that I replied to being a "question"."
Just guessing though. Could you attempt to clarify you motivations? It might help my understanding of what set you off about my particular commentary on this vast forums.
"You can make a replacement post that does not harp on "question", and I will gladly consider it.
Are you trying to get me to post something different about the issue at hand that you brought up? What sort of replacement post are you hoping for exactly?
"But I refuse to play in this ping-pong between "it was just a question not a statement" and "nothing wrong in making a statement".""
Are either of my above quotes not so?
Interesting you don't want to delve into this more since you brought up the idea that my question was a statement and seem insistent that this is the case.
Do you have the same issue with other peoples questions and statements that litter this forum? What is the particular sticking point with my commentary that has gotten you fixated exactly. I feel like there is something more that you are not really talking about. Instead you are hiding behind trying to make sure I understand that what I have said may in some way not be valid or pertinent to what was being discussed.
Does this happen to be something particular with conversations of Apple and Android? Why does this discussion interest you to such a degree?
Are there other examples of peoples comments where you have made similar points?
I am frankly fascinated by what you have been trying to do. It is somewhat unique and so I would enjoy continuing the discussion. Perhaps we would need to move off the trying to make my question a statement ping pong as you say.