glorified car show. we have all these things kind of a confluence of all these things. it s the year of fill in the blank. every year it doesn t quite happen. it takes a long time to get to the consumer and has to face leg regulatory hurdles. how about from the perspective of technology companies, how important is this? monday night there s going to be a keynote speech by sam sung s to executive. they will talk about the internet of things and the importance of connecting all the devices in your house through your phone. say for instance you re driving hope and want to turn on the thermostats or unlock the door before you get to the front door. samsung is in a good position to do that because they bought a company called smart things. if you go through your house,
the excitement is sort of overrated these days. you know, we re constantly barraged by announcements and pseudoannouncements of the next big thing. i think it s more valuable to pull back and look at the big picture and long story. if you look at not just apple and sam sung but look at the competition between apple and google, you can even add microsoft and facebook to this, to a degree. these companies all have a long-term goal. they are looking 20 years ahead, not necessarily looking to the next quarter or next year or who owns the next device. the battle for the operating system of your computer is long over. the operating system of your tablet or phone is pretty much locked down between two or three companies. and the real question here is who s going to be the in control of the operating system of your life? what you saw with apple yesterday is a move into real
mp3 players on the market. ipad was a superior mp three player. samsung is doing it and apple is copying. you have written extensively that it was built into apple s core, no pun intend. if sam sung does this stuff, does apple risk looking like a copycat. there s merit to that. so take a step back. samsung announce there d going to do some things, a report that apple might be doing something a little under a year from now. so, i would say, if samsung comes out with something that is great and successful around the world, and apple then does something very similar, then i
personal friend. personal friend of mine. we re close. nate silver number one, dominated talk in 2012. and the rise of big data and all the things that people think come from data, one of the things i love about nate, he recognizes the numbers alone don t solve don t give all the answers. right. you have to be creative. as his sports predictions prove. there was a 98.6378% chance he was going to win this year. well, you know, he looks at numbers in the way that no one else does and that s what makes nate he picks the right numbers. there s so many bad numbers out there. last year there were so many numbers, and he picked the right polls. i think these are the served the themes that people are missing in general about data. people think data is going to give everyone the right answers and you have to look at it the right way. your friend number two sam sung the chief designer of samsung. dong-hoon chang.
crews. there is not a lot going on here. midnight opening resonates with the consumers that it is easier to stay up late than wake up early and go shopping and i tell you, they lined up days ago for the red hot door buster deals. folks were camped out and best buy handed out a voucher system at 10 o clock last night. and the first thipping to go on the list. 40 inch to should i ba flat screen tv for 180 bungs. but you didn t have to camp out over night. bunch of the door busters are still on hand. $800 for the sam sung tv regularly. 1500. andy of the 250 computers in stock and tablets and this computer as well. not because fewer people are shopping but they are better prepared. there will be fewer foot