On: Steve Ballmer calls Apple's Mac growth a "rounding error"

[zaidf]

Anyone know how historically significant that billion dollar figure is? Meaning, how is that relative to other tech companies missing their estimates in the recession?

[mikeryan → zaidf]

Significant in regards to what?

At this point the recession is a fairly known quantity and should be factored in to estimates - its not a very solid excuse any more.

Google and Apple topped estimates for the quarter I believe

[zaidf → mikeryan]

Google and Apple topped estimates for the quarter I believe

Cool. That's exactly what I wanted to know.