There are two mistakes a vendor can make that it may not be able to recover from. One is to build too many products, which stay in inventory and prevent future sales; and the other is to have too few products and lose out of sales as a result. Nintendo did the latter, and that will be a problem for the company in 2008. With CES and Macworld starting, let’s chat about how Apple can beat CES — and then we’ll see if it does — and focus on the lessons Apple teaches that few seem to be actually learning. We had the big battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray and one needed a decisive win.

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