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Here's another thing that impresses me.

Last quarter DID NOT include sales of the iPhone 4S in China.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020462420457718...

Wrong. I suggest you read up on the subject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_price

Capital gains

your new studio will not disrupt Hollywood if it runs out of money. that is my point. your new studio has to be able to compete with the existing studios. You have to compete with Dark Knight Rising, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Twilight, Pirates of the Carribean, Spiderman, etc. and you have to do it every week, every month, every year for as long as you can.

American Zoetrope failed because Coppola was self-financing movies people didn't want to watch. Dreamworks failed because they had too many big-budget box office failures AND, because they were a new studio, they did not have a library of old movies that can support their business.

>never produce a film that requires broad mass market success to avoid total financial failure.

You'll avoid financial disaster but you'll never "destroy" Hollywood with this mindset. Copolla and Roger Corman disrupted the movie industry but they did not "destroy" Hollywood.

Its never THAT simple. Harvey Weinstein did the same thing. Still costs him millions to produce a movie and had to strike distribution deals with major hollywood studios. He eventually ran out of money and almost went bankrupt.

Post production cost may be cheaper, but then you have to deal with distribution , marketing, PR, salaries for your cast ($20M per picture for a big movie star), crew, script, Etc.

And then you have to convince millions of moviegoers NOT to watch high budget competition such as Dark Knight Rising, Transformers, Twilight, Spiderman, etc.

Then you need to have something Millions of people want to watch this is the hard part :)

And then you'll kill Hollywood.

Dreamworks SKG tried this a few years ago. it was founded by 3 of the most highly experienced, connected and talented industry visionaries in Hollywood. Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. 2 of them are billionaires and 1 is worth over $700M.

DreamWorks had come close to bankruptcy twice.the studio suffered a $125 million loss on Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, and also overestimated the DVD demand for Shrek 2.In 2005, out of their two large budget pictures, The Island bombed at the domestic box office, while War of the Worlds was produced as a joint effort with Paramount. They eventually ran out of money. DreamWorks scaled back, stopped plans to build a high-tech studio, sold its music division and got out of the distribution business. They eventually ran out of money and sold the company to Paramount pictures. The deal was valued at approximately $1.6 billion, an amount that included about $400 million in debt assumptions. it's a lot harder to start a studio than you guys think.

Of course, there's Pixar. but you need a SJ and a John Lassetter to create something like Pixar.

You need to convince millions of people not to watch Dark knight Rising, Transformers, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Twilight, Mission Impossible, and hundreds of other blockbusters and TV Shows, every year.

Then, the hardest part, you need to come up with something that is Waaaaaaaaaayyyy waayyyyy better than all those movies and TV shows combined -- and do it every single day.

Then, you'll kill Hollywood.

You need to be in the content, distribution, marketing/PR, talent (writing, acting, tc.) business to kill Hollywood. Thn You need to have billions to pay movie stars, scripts, movie rights, distribution, marketing, crew, equipments, etc. you need to have distribution, marketing,etc. muscle worldwide. Then you need to deal with agents, publicists, cast, crew, writers, etc. unions.

You can disrupt technology, but its hard to disrupt content (there are exception ofcourse (3D, IMAX, Pixar,etc.)

Your Samsung Android smart phone,Sony TV, Xbox, Dell laptops, etc. are all manufactured by the exact same people.

>especially once you start considering theft

>where I suspect they will get stolen relatively frequently

I think your assumption is even more flawed. Textbooks are replaced every 3+ years or so, that's a given. You're worried about something that might happen.

You're correct. Edited.

it's called creative destruction.

I agree with this.

iPad 3 499

iPad 2 399

Refurbed iPad 1 $99-$299

Wrong. CEOs have fiduciary duties.

Here's a good title for his biography

The Rise and Fall of Jerry Yang

How he built a great company and then orchestrated one of the greatest destruction of value in the history of business

Yahoo is way under valued. Yahoo was considering selling its stakes in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group for $17 billion. Yahoo's current market cap is $19 billion PLUS $2 billion cash. Does that somehow make the value of its U.S. assets negative?

This is a good thing for Yahoo! Jerry Yang was a good founder and entrepreneur, but he doesn't have the skills or knowledge to run a Fortune 500 company. His decision not to sell to Microsoft and hiring Carol Bartz are some of his most fatal mistakes as Chief Yahoo!

Wait for Google to destroy their dream by releasing a competing product that integrates with Google+ and Google Apps.

evil laugh

Role reversal: Employers say they can't find workers

http://lifeinc.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/13/10142795...

iOS is just getting started.

Android lost 13% US market share in Oct. and Nov. to the iPhone (cnn.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3445664

15 more minutes to go.

it's not fact. you're deluding yourself.

This is not coincidence.

1) the iPhone's availability on Sprint (Oct 2011)

2) HTC revenue dips 30% (November 2011)

I don't think so.

Yeah but Android used to look like this before the iPhone was unveiled.

http://news.cnet.com/i/ne/p/2008/android_prototype_550x385.j...

Funny. You can say the same thing about Windows.

get a refurb iPad 1.

You keep mentioning the price. The price is not an excuse to ship a crappy product.

The iPod Touch starts at $200 and it's a great product.