  Microsoft Courier tablet is dead. Pioneer Studios offices
closed and employees scattered       Comments     Threshold
RE: fools... By tayb on 5/21/2011 9:17:33 PM , Rating: 2
Management says no because they look at a product, look at the
costs associated with that product, and predict how many they
will sell. There is a reason engineers don't run the company
because sometimes things that are cool are not always things
that are practical and/or make sense.  The Courier would not
have sold well and would not have been a successful product.
Dual screens would have killed battery life, killed performance,
and sky rocketed the price way out of the e-reader/tablet
market. It was a cool concept and I'm sure they learned a lot
during R&D but it was not practical. It would not have performed
well on the market and they would have ended up losing much more
money then they already had.  Microsoft doesn't always kill new
stuff. Take a look at Sync, Microsoft Surface, the Xbox, and the
Zune before it was eventually ki