From: Steven Sinofsky < Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 5:26 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Re: I am and have been! > HTC is going out of business. 3 years ago this week I talked steve out of buying them -- "don't buy a hardware company that makes bad hardware". They were worth like $68 then. He will buy Nokia or Elop will build Android phones to stay CEO and to keep from bankruptcy. Ooops. So now he has a devices and services strategy that involves 10000 people in Finland. While Apple and Google are announcing "made in America". Sent from Windows Mail on Surface RT http://blog.learningbyshipping.com I @stevesi From: Jeffrey Epstein Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 10:25 AM To: Steven Sinofsky BE PATIENT , IT will be fun, stay low for two weeks please http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9239676/HTC_abandons_plan_for_large_Windows_RT_tablets_report_says? taxonomyld=125 On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Steven Sinofsky < > wrote: steve is insisting on speaking. that means no one knows what will be said until the morning of june 20. he will almost certainly make news inadvertently. he will craft some new message about how to segment the market. my bet is he doubles down on what intel is doing which is technically problematic. his whole issue is that he thinks pcs are expensive relative to tablets and wants a $199 tablet which can only be done on ARM if it competes. he doesn't get it-- literally dozens have tried to explain. then no matter what he says, after him they have to explain the product that was actually built. so it will be disconnected. there's a small chance he does nothing and says little, but then that will be news. I bet he pushes to preannonce hardware (new surface) he is so desperate. EFTA_R1_00065576 EFTA01761040