Damn man, Tandy, that's a name I haven't thought of in years. Them along with Texas Instruments and Commodore were the big guys in the 80's, then poof, they gone.
The next Sears?
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Are you just messing with us?
I know it's out there, they just seem a little wobbly since Jobs died.
they have actually made more money since he died, although their stock is tanking today.
Texas Instrument is every where in my field but I can't tell if people just still have their old calculators from college days. Those things last forever. I have 3 graphing calculators and all of them are still monsters after nearly 20 years.
This is w-o-w.
"Shares of Apple are off $3.22, or 2.7%, to $115.23 in afternoon trading Tuesday - meaning they've fallen more than 14% since hitting their high of $134.54 on April 28. Given the massive size of Apple's market value - this sell off is enormous in that it has wiped out $113 billion in paper wealth. The sell off essentially erases more than the entire market value of corporate giants including Nike (NKE) at $98 billion or McDonald's (MCD) at $95 million, separately."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2015/08/04/apple-stock-implosion-billions/31110665/
I know people from college who worked at the Radio Shack HQ in Fort Worth. They all took off for greener pastures before the company tanked. Their corporate culture supposedly sucked and everyone there knew the place was on its last legs.
That worked really well with the ESPN Phone from a decade ago. Wow, that failed horribly.
Add my vote to McDonalds. Way too much competition; dated product; snob factor (the walmart of fast food) ....not sure if they can reinvent themselves.
Hotel chains started removing them from hotel rooms and they noticed a large drop in business traveler clients. The questioned their clients and they found that they preferred the phone book bc they could search for escort services discretely and not be recorded on a smart phone search history or a work computer search history. They are now back in most business traveler hotels.
As long as there are still 4-10 yr old boys and girls and fat poors in Gainesville that want their mcnuggets and french fries, there will be Mcd's
ha! those programs have been around since the days of the moto razr flip phones. I used to use them all the time. Then I imported the contacts into Outlook and I should never hopefully have to transfer contacts again.
espin link: http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/27/9045639/espn-direct-consumer-sales-eventually-iger-says
mathis' post about bestbuy was pretty interesting, didn't know that but smart approach to changing consumer behavior - hopefully that buys them a few years. i actually go out of my way to buy crap there b/c i just like having them around - sorta how people opted for mom/pops while bigboxes were moving into town... bigbox retail has become 2015's mom and pop.
and totally agree on your last point re: the GOP haha
Probably done to distance themselves from the dying segment. I made fun of said dude (who's relatively high up in their food chain, basically their hatchet man) for selling pagers and he went off on a rant about how they've dominated the market share in the past five years in various spytech (mainly surveillance and communications) and have done well in pushing forward an agenda in the public space to push for increased body cameras and surveillance equipment ON cops. Don't think all of the media push on civilian killings came from nowhere, Leos have been killing innocents since before there WAS such a thing. That push came from big biz, that push for body cams means billions of taxpayers dollars re routed to companies like Mototrolla.
http://www.motorolasolutions.com/en...plications/vievu-pvr-le3-wearable-camera.html
Microsoft bought the phone part of Nokia. They still have their maps service (about to sell to Damlier iirc) and their networking. They are still dabbling with devices, too, as they just unveiled plans for a VR camera. They have also said they will re-enter the phone market whenever their non-compete with MS is over.
I don't see movie theaters going away. Still a lot to be said for seeing a movie on the big screen, especially the blockbusters.
So if people are spending less time going to the mall, movies, sporting events, bookstore, walmart, target, etc...
Where are people going more? Restaurants, fitness, vacation, bars, parks?? I have no idea what you humans are doing all day!
Where are people going more? Restaurants, fitness, vacation, bars, parks?? I have no idea what you humans are doing all day!
It's just MORE proof Idiocracy is not a movie but a prophecy.
http://www.11points.com/Movies/11_Hidden_Secrets_in_Idiocracy
I found it funny you had Taco Bell in your sig thanks to this movie and Demolition Man.
Still waiting for Taco Bell to become the only restaurant on the planet, it will be amazing!
Wasn't there something about Burker King being huge in Europe, and them having a guerrilla campaign in the U.S. (Random spots of the king at sporting events) in an effort to bring them back here?
Vinyl is making a comeback of sorts. Or did you mean songs grouped together as an album regardless of the medium?
Manual driving could be truly going away. The google car keeps getting in accidents and none of them are its fault. It will take some time to get past the fear of being out of control, though.
A lot of newer, premium-ish, cars already have lane assist that keeps you in your lane, hands-free. Also, distance control that controls the accelerator to keep you a driver specified distance from the car in front of you and park assist that automatically parallel parks for you. Most of the features of a self driving vehicle are already on the road, it's just a matter of integrating everything.
Also, a road with all self driven cars or all human driven cars is much safer than one that's 50/50. If I were an auto company, I'd be trying to partner (google/apple) or buy as many companies in the self-driving tech space as possible.
In a world of self-driving electric vehicles, traffic and emissions will be greatly reduced.
Songs grouped together in a collection to describe a mood or time in a persons/generations moment of life.
The art of an album aka, collection of songs. This also goes along with rock bands.
I think music is going to explode over the next 10-20 years with a collection of one hit wonders that will in itself be like one massive album. But instead of bands being responsible to create, it will be solo artist collaborating as whole to define a generation.
For an example, when I want to reminisce that's my high school days, I can pop in sublime or an 311 album. The next generation won't do that...they will filter the playlist they want to listen to by year and use that to take them back to that moment in time.
I know that's deep...but music is much easier to make and take to market with the technology and Internet that is available now...which is probably a good thing. Think of all the Kurt Cobains of the world that were never discovered. Now they can be.
So you're saying the next generation will pioneer what I'll call a digital "mixtape".
Because that's already happened, years ago. If I want to think about college (late 90s), I can either pop in a mix tape, burned mix CD, or a spotify playlist I put together.
This isn't necessarily a revolutionary thing, unless I'm misunderstanding you.
I know they paid a ton of money to have "King" at the horse races, and to walk out with mayweather
I'm going to say Sprint. And in a bigger sense, the entire contract postpaid model of mobile. I think bring your own device is the future. I know Verizon is still the gold standard or whatever, but I think Verizon and Sprint are going to struggle without quality MVNOs.
they're certainly not in trouble like Sears & the others mentioned in this thread, but their same store sales have not been good for the last few quarters (and were terrible in the most recent quarter released). I'd imagine they will get things ironed out (they really need to because Bloomin Brands is very much counting on that line to be their growth engine over the next 5+ years).
