I'm prepared to nominate my Asshat of the Year award (you didn't know I had one?), even though it's only January.
It's Scott Henson, "Director of Platform Strategy" at Microsoft, who, in an interview with Ars Technica was quoted as saying that the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive would likely never be internalized into a future version of the console because "[we] don't want to charge customers $200 extra for something that may be the next Betamax."
If you're missing the huge foot he stuck in his dumb ass mouth, I'll complete his sentence with what he basically said without saying it:
"[we] don't want to charge customers $200 extra for something that may be the next Betamax (by including it in the chassis of the XBox 360), instead we'll charge customers $200 extra for something that may be the next Betamax (by making it an add-on)"
If I had bought an XBox 360 HD DVD add-on, I'd be returning it to the store saying "hey, I'm one of those customers who got charged $200 extra for something that Microsoft says 'may be the next Betamax'. Now give my freakin money back."
URL: http://rus.berrett.org/blog/
Title: Re: asshat of the year
Comment/Excerpt: the year is still young... so you might be jumping the gun. Maybe you could do asshat of the month and then award asshat of the year from the candidate pool of 12 asshats of the month? It would guarantee you at least 13 blog entries per year. ;)
Name/Blog: Khan
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Title: Blog entries per year
Comment/Excerpt: I'm already averaging > 12 per year, TYVM! I think a better format is to pass the baton to a superior asshat, allowing the current asshat to bear the crown until then. ;-)