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Is Microsoft a consumer company or not? In the categories that matter to consumers, where’s the music player, where’s the phone, where’s the tablet? It’s sort of gradually falling away. That’s OK. They don’t have to be a consumer products company; Samsung looks a lot more like a consumer products company than Microsoft to me. Maybe that’s not a good thing to be. It may be hard to be a consumer products company. Ask the Japanese consumer electronics companies.
— Sun Microsystems co-founder and venture capitalist Bill Joy