do we have...
1. If you're the kind of person who likes to have total control over every aspect of your life, boy, do we have a product for you. It pauses live TV, skips commercials, memorizes your viewing habits, etc., etc.
"do we have a product for you" is clearly not a question, but why did the speaker put the word "do" in front of the sentence?

2. ...what the law of diffusion of innovation tells us is that if you want mass-market success or mass-market acceptance of an idea, you cannot have it until you achieve this tipping point between 15 and 18 percent market penetration, and then the system tips.
What does "tip" mean?

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do we have...
1. If you're the kind of person who likes to have total control over every aspect of your life, boy, do we have a product for you. It pauses live TV, skips commercials, memorizes your viewing habits, etc., etc.
    "do we have a product for you" is clearly not a question, but why did the speaker put the word "do" in front of the sentence?

2. ...what the law of diffusion of innovation tells us is that if you want mass-market success or mass-market acceptance of an idea, you cannot have it until you achieve this tipping point between 15 and 18 percent market penetration, and then the system tips.
     What does "tip" mean?

Answer

1) Boy, do we ever! This is just an idiomatic phrase for expressing extreme certainty. This phrase is popular in advertisement or among salesman but has become something of a joke. It is associated with false or forced enthusiasm.

2) The phrase is 'tipping point' and is a fixed idiomatic phrase. When you tip (push the top while the bottom remains fixed, so that one side is higher than the other) an object, there comes a point where you've tipped it so far that it will fall over ('tip over') (http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/10346516.jpg). That is the tipping point. When something is at a tipping point, it has been tipped so far that something dramatic or significant will happen as a result of it being pushed further.

"After yesterday's violence, the situation is at a tipping point."

Answer

1. this is an idiomatic expression used when someone is excited "do I have a surprise for you!!!!!!!!!" it is used for emphasis.

2.tips in this case means "happens" or "moves forward"

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