Comments on: The Rise and Fall of Flip: What Went Wrong http://gigaom.com/2011/04/12/rise-and-fall-of-flip/ Fri, 24 May 2013 09:22:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ben Nash http://gigaom.com/2011/04/12/rise-and-fall-of-flip/#comment-616350 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:25:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=329318#comment-616350 I have to say it. I tried to contain it. But here goes: Cisco’s Flip flopped.

]]> By: Grag http://gigaom.com/2011/04/12/rise-and-fall-of-flip/#comment-616343 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:09:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=329318#comment-616343 You’re not asking the right questions.

Is Kaplan sad? No, no he’s not. He made off with tons of money. Look at the smile on his face in Kara’s video.

Is Chambers contrite? For wasting tons of his shareholders money and laying off hundreds of people (after outsourcing support jobs earlier)? No, not really. Read what he said:

“As we move forward, our consumer efforts will focus on how we help our enterprise and service provider customers optimize and expand their offerings for consumers, and help ensure the network’s ability to deliver on those offerings.”

Can you parse that sentence? Does it make any sense at all?

If Cisco is so focused now, why didn’t they kill the pointless Cius tablet they’re still working on for no good reason. Why didn’t they either fold or declare the Umi as a strictly business video conferencing solution given that its pricing makes it dead on arrival as a consumer product.

Ask those questions. Ask who at Cisco helmed this thing into the ground. Ask if any of those executives got the axe yesterday, for backing this stupid purchase.

]]> By: arse http://gigaom.com/2011/04/12/rise-and-fall-of-flip/#comment-616300 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:43:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=329318#comment-616300 “Why didn’t they flip Flip?”

]]> By: MTS http://gigaom.com/2011/04/12/rise-and-fall-of-flip/#comment-616283 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:43:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=329318#comment-616283 I think you buried the most important question in the 2nd to last sentence.

Why didn’t they sell the product line/technology to a consumer electronics or camera company? Or a consumer products-oriented PE firm? Not only would it be a better financial outcome, but it would allow them to save some face.

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