There is an excellent comment on cnet today:
"-Continual management upheavals, and major corporate-level re-shufflings.
-Poorly-received new products.
-Highly-questionable pronouncements of nearly-inconceivable market-successes, despite obvious, massive, consumer, and industry, resistance to its products and policies.
-Numerous, problems with product, and service, releases and adoption.
-Financial, and sales, reports which seem to fly in the face of nearly every independent analysis.
-Rabid company-paranoia, fear, and suspicion of nearly every external market-element.
-Numerous reports that, internally, management is saying (and admitting) one thing,... and publicly, acting entirely differently.
-Low internal-moral.
-Massive SPIN, and advertising, campaigns.
-Sudden, irrational, almost desperate, acquisitions (which in some cases may mean that the company is going to need to borrow massive amounts of capital).
-Trying to wring, absolutely, every-penny out of customers, and business-partners.
-Sudden, repeated, about-faces regarding numerous products and policies.
-Wild claims about the actions of (any, and all, perceived) 'competition'.
-Unbelievably-widespread, marketplace suspicion, dissatisfaction, and anger, with the company.
-And, numerous ongoing competitive, and legal, problems
All in all, Id say that, this really is a 'textbook-case'."
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