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Not quite that way.
"They can't ship units unless the retailer orders them, and the retailer isn't going to order them unless they are selling."

Not necessarily so.

Microsoft asked the PocketPC manufacturers to make them and pay these hardware manufacturers by subsidizing the cost of making these PocketPCs and sell the PocketPCs at a loss (a fact) just like the X-Box. The difference between the X-Box and the PocketPC is that Microsoft wants to keep its name on the X-Box but let the manufacturers keep their own name on the PocketPCs even though it is Microsoft that is paying for the production of the PocketPCs.

The manufacturers don't take financial risk for Microsoft's gain. Who would? It is Microsoft who wants to look good and so it is throwing money from the desktop and office monopoly here and there to try to impress everyone even though Microsoft is losing money on these PocketPCs.

The retailers are not necessarily ordering the PocketPCs because they are selling. Microsoft 'wants' the retailers to market the PocketPCs and pays them to help sell them. The retailers are paid to try to sell the PocketPCs (in other words, retailers are Microsoft salesmen). If retailers are not paid by Microsoft to sell them, who will want to carry them and pay Microsoft thru the manufacturers first.

Yes, it is correct that units shipped does not necessarily mean units sold. Microsoft just wants to look good even the product is the money loser.
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This can't be!  ShadeTree | 04/30/04
I don't think you understand monopoly  Robert Crocker | 04/30/04
Note the time and date please....  quietLee | 04/30/04
I think it is you that doesn't understand!  ShadeTree | 04/30/04
So, I could have grabbed that market share also...  el1jones | 04/30/04
Yup, Microsoft uses its advantages  Anton Philidor | 04/30/04
RE: Microsoft uses its advantages  JakAttak | 04/30/04
Correction needed.  systemcleaner | 05/01/04
BeOS will make it better?  Teknophobic | 05/03/04
Umm Monopoly on the desktop  voska | 04/30/04
Screen Real Estate  Martin Marvinski | 04/30/04
What do these numbers reallly mean?  tic swayback | 04/30/04
Perhaps a more meaningful figure  quietLee | 04/30/04
What you put in one end of the pipe, comes out the other.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/30/04
But it's meaningless  tic swayback | 04/30/04
(NT) .....if you forget to light it, and suck really, really hard :o)  Jack-Booted EULA | 05/01/04
And we all know how much he sucks. (nt)  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 05/02/04
Shipping more units  MalumRegnat | 04/30/04
Not quite that way.  systemcleaner | 05/01/04
Tilting the numbers  tic swayback | 05/01/04
PocketPC Vs. Palm  mabricen | 04/30/04
RE: 3 products  JakAttak | 04/30/04
MSN messanger bytes  voska | 04/30/04
treo 600  TWRX | 04/30/04
Treo 600 needs Wndows Mobile  Teknophobic | 05/03/04
Really nothing to brag about.  systemcleaner | 04/30/04
Microsoft doesn't sell PPCs...  Confused by religion | 05/01/04
You don't know what you are talking about or you pretend to.  systemcleaner | 05/01/04
No, you're wrong.  Teknophobic | 05/03/04
The FACT is...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/02/04
Good choice of words.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 05/02/04
Taking is the key word  martman100 | 05/03/04
Not  Teknophobic | 05/03/04
The FACT is... RTFA  OldeTimeGeek | 05/03/04
Palm Is Losing on it's Own  jskoller | 05/06/04

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