'You did a great job' is great. 'You lost the order' is bad. 'We' as a company is a much more consultative word.

Demand was good for the Xbox 360 but the company had supply chain constraints.

That also has put pressure on analysts to report favorably on a company in order to maintain access to inside information,

The company does seem to be doing better already than it did any time it did during 2004, ... The lack of publicly available financials continues to be a hindrance, and that's not a trivial issue.

The growth of the company oscillates between product cycles, and it has a lot of new product coming to market in the next 18 months.

In this business, you have to have good products, good partners, be nimble as a company, financially sound and hungry to innovate, otherwise you're not going to grow your business,