What Microsoft and Intel have yet to prove is that there will be significant consumer demand for the concept.
This barrier ensures that no Intel-compatible PC operating system other than Windows can attract significant consumer demand, and the barrier would operate to the same effect even if Microsoft held its prices substantially above the competitive level for a protracted period of time.
It's unclear, then, if there would be significant consumer demand for this more independent effort, no matter how clever it may be.
What's interesting, however, is how significant consumer demand really was for the promotion – something that's hard to see through the Twitter snark.
It's unclear, then, if there would be significant consumer demand for this more independent effort, no matter how clever it may be.
Last week, Walmart CEO Mike Duke announced the company was poised to hit $10 billion in e-commerce sales this year, but the retailer also recently said that it has no immediate plans to expand its U.S. grocery delivery operations outside of tests in California right now, because it's not convinced there is significant consumer demand at this time.
Last week, Walmart CEO Mike Duke announced the company was poised to hit $10 billion in e-commerce sales this year, but the retailer also recently said that it has no immediate plans to expand its U.S. grocery delivery operations outside of tests in California right now, because it's not convinced there is significant consumer demand at this time.
The sale of non-prescription health products is ubiquitous, meeting a significant consumer demand [ 1, 2].
Also a yearly international study tour of the ornamental plant growers, organized by a government consultant, proved to provide significant insight into international consumer demands.
But analysts are not so sure that the Canadian discovery, especially if it turns out to be confined to that country, will have a significant effect on consumer demand in the United States.
Although the recession may technically be over, the end result of this shift in wealth is a vicious circle in which, absent a significant rise in consumer demand, corporations are reluctant to hire, and demand continues to stagnate or decline.
