[usefulcat]

I'm curious about how Apple "killed Intel's smartphone ambitions"?

Otellini on the iPhone:

"We ended up not winning it or passing on it, depending on how you want to view it."

"At the end of the day, there was a chip that they were interested in that they wanted to pay a certain price for and not a nickel more and that price was below our forecasted cost. I couldn't see it. It wasn't one of these things you can make up on volume. And in hindsight, the forecasted cost was wrong and the volume was 100x what anyone thought."

[AtlasBarfed]

"And in hindsight, the forecasted cost was wrong and the volume was 100x what anyone thought."

And in hindsight, he was a moron, unqualified to lead an engineering company.

When people point to MBAs ruining Intel. Point to that statement.

You could invest in emerging markets.

Or rearrange financial statements deck chairs to hit your stock options and roll your eyes at the nerds.

[EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK]

It's easy in hindsight, nobody knew iphone would take off so strongly. Did you sell the house and load up on Apple stock at the time?

[tachion]

While I agree it's easy in hindsight, you're not comparing apples to oranges here: comparing the comment author to a person running a business, with very high expertise in particular subject (chip making) and general subject (technology), having access to information not accessible to others (Apple plans and visions about the product, tech specs required, price asked, etc.) is not even close to being the same thing. I can see how a much better decision could be made very realistically given that expertise and information no one else had and yet the worst possible was made.