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Company is about to announce a new operating system, application store, and file backup service to help it compete with Apple's iPhone, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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If you are going to troll, please be up to date. Thanks!
And if you're going to play nit-picky know-it-all, please try Google. Also spell check. Thanks!
In his announcement to Apple employees, Steve Jobs wrote that while day-to-day operations would be handled by Tim Cook, "I plan to remain involved in major strategic decisions while I am out." So your statement that "Steve Jobs is not currently working for Apple" is factually incorrect. And your implication that he will not be paying attention to competitors is pure nonsense.
Ah yes, I see you are taking the 'mature approach'. Yes, your name calling and taunting will add great value and respect to your comments to be sure. :)
Splashes: Thanks for catching the typo. I misspoke myself and thank you for the clarification. While Mr. Jobs is not invovled in the day to day operations, I am quite sure he is being kept appraised to the situation at hand. But then again, the industry seems to believe that he is on his way out to retirement and that is another aspect that cannot be denied or ignored. Best to keep an open mind about it, I suppose. :)
How many "iPhone Killer" articles have we seen... .. and there still isn't an "iPhone Killer"
I think everyone welcomes competition.. the problem is.. Apple is a unique company.. and has come up with a great mobile solution based. Unfortunately, Apple's competition is so embedded in corporate IT.. it will take a huge paradigm shift for those companies to truly come up with an innovative solution that is on par with Apples.
I welcome the day when it comes....
It'll also be funny when WindowsMobile users discover to their horror that they racked up multi-hundred-dollar mobile bills just to initially sync all their stuff up to "the cloud" (which explains why Apple's MobileMe does all that through your computer, and not via 3G...)
And seriously, Microsoft, you couldn't come up with a more original name than "My Phone?"
The "we want to be Apple" desperation these days is just pitiful. Microsoft is a has-been company without a single original thought in its collective head.
Copy Different.
Whoops, sorry there.... Got caught up in his delusions for a moment. It's nice for people to have a dream to believe in even if it has no bearing in reality.
Your ability to miss the irony and sarcasm eludes even my attempts to perceive it. I find it hard to believe that you would be so clueless, but yet your comments continue to enforce and strengthen that perception by the readers.
You DID understand the comment, yes? I don't have to diagram it out for you, do I?
Nah, he's obnoxious and a nuisance, but harmless. I say let him stay. Eventually he'll tire of his games and either leave or grow up. It's up to him.
Your logic no longer follows. Microsoft phased out the "My" in Windows Vista and 7. Now it's just Computer, Documents, Pictures, etc. If they're trying to follow that line of thought, they need to read their own branding plan.
"Revolutionary?" Well, that pretty much knocks Microsoft out of the running.
Point made.
"The only 'point made' occurs when the top of your head makes contact with something above it."
Ah yes, another insightful and brilliant commentary that benefits your reputation greatly. You have really done a great job of improving the respect and honor befitting a person of your intelligence.
Why would Microsoft wish to bring Apple's rise in this market on more quickly? I suspect a wrong word used here.
Really? The sentence makes complete sense to me.
And Vista.
And newly DRM'ed music.
And Bob.
And Clippy.
And Internet Explorer.
And Ctrl-Alt-Del.
And.....
And the most commonly used OS on the planet.
And the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
And Internet Explorer which sparked enough competition to generate faster and greater advancement for all.
And... well, the list keeps going on.
Trolling is only useful if people actually believe you, PPGREAT.
FACT: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a result of the above activities and a great deal of money dispensed that is tied to the use of MS technology, i.e., 'high tech' schools, etc.
FACT: Internet Explorer, which is the joke of the industry in terms of web standards, security and constantly under scrutiny by the EU to name one regulatory agency?and only grew as a result of the aforementioned monopolistic behavior.
FACT: MS just laid off 5,000 people and showed a decrease in revenues for Windows and Office, it's two bread and butter products?in spite of its monopoly.
FACT: Xbox?I can't comment because I don't own one and I'm not into games.
It's not trolling if you state the truth and can back it up with facts.
Here is a defenition of a monopoly for those who do not know:
1 : exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action
2 : exclusive possession or control
3 : a commodity controlled by one party
By that defenition, Apple is a monopoly too.
1) People use what they want for an OS. Nobody is forcing you to use one OS over another. Your fact is denied.
2) The Gates Foundation is not for setting up 'high tech' schools. Please research that foundation first before making incorrect accusations. Your fact is denied.
3) The fact that IE exists has caused other groups to release more and even more secure products. Why you are against this is beyond me. I would think you'd WANT more and secure products. Your fact is denied.
4) MS reduced head count by 1400 FTE's, and declined renewing contracts with the remainder which will be phased out over the year. Many of those remaining 3600 people will be converted to permanent MSFT FTE's, which will be greatly beneficial to those people. This is public knowledge and has been reported in the news. It's even been here on CNET. Your fact is denied.
5) Xbox: I have both the original Xbox and the 360. I also have a Sony. I got them at the beginning and I just find I don't really enjoy video games all that much anymore. I've moved on. Your fact is... accepted there.
You haven't stated the truth- you have have stated your opinions and the facts don't back them up. But that's fine because your opinion is just that- and anyone can have one.
We don't have to agree. We do have to respect each other's opinons though. AppleRocks1963 has not quite learned this basic concept yet.
It takes more than opening an application store to take on the iPhone. It requires a shift of priorities from the needs of handset makers to the desires of consumers. That's something that will be impossible for MS to pull off, at least for the next few years.
The other problem, from a developer perspective, is trying to figure out what platform to target. Because there isn't a lot of consistency between WinMo hardware, how do you know what the configuration of your device is? This'll be a problem for Android as well.
MEtoosoft leapfrogging Apple that was a got a good laugh out of me
there'll probably be more new MS products like
"my life", "my tunes" , "my DVD"
and MS works will probably be renamed as "my Work"
It is true Apple is leading in mindshare but only last for a short period of time. Apple has clearly made touch phones popular and deserves the credit but a year from now. Touch will be the norm for all phones until a new difference maker appears.
Besides, anyone knows that my Ford pickup with the Democratic party bumpet stickers next to the Catholics for Cardinals drinking Pepsi is the only one that matters!
Funny though all they know how to do is react to Apple. Not innovate themselves.
have more market-share than a single phone sold on limited carriers
wat you people fail to understand is market-share isn't important at all
look at GM,ford etc they have decent market-share but their positions r pitiable
it's customer satisfaction and brand that reign supreme
btw Apple makes much more money selling Iphones than Ms selling winmo licenses
If Blackberry's online store couldn't do it, and the Android online store couldn't do it, what makes you think MSFT's online phone app store (which it has already had for a long time under various names) will be a threat to the iPhone?
Mind you, this is coming from a guy who uses a Crackberry, and not an iPhone...
/P
Palm and Blackberry don't really have a point of presence on the net for such things yet. Apple has their product for easy app installation and people are there at Apple's site already for iTunes so it's all built in and handy. MSFT has their Zune software that can do the same thing, or any of the cloud / Live services that they have been rolling out, so they have something to offer there as well.
I have an Apple Touch, but it lacks in performance to any Palm Pilot 15 years ago as a PDA for synching or data handling. It does play music and has limited network connections. Adding apps is easy. Palm could do this as well, I think. MSFT has never made it easy to install apps through Windows Mobile / Active Sync, and yet they have excellent integration with their Office apps.
It's a hard one to call. Apple will never be in the Enterprise market unless they revamp their entire line of thinking. MSFT has never been one for consumer use, preferring the Enterprise market. Palm and Blackberry are sort of in between the two.
I would probably just stand back and see what happens, to be honest.
So why haven't they fulfilled their promise of being an "iPhone Killer" yet?
I suspect it'll take a lot more than a simple applications store to do the job. After all, the iPhone sold like gangbusters even before it got an app store.
That was rumour was proven wrong. It goes and gets a list of apps that are denied access to core location. (apps on that list cant figure out where you are located).
Also I thought one of the main reasons that apples appstore succeeded was because of its sdk that was able to make it significantly easier for the developers to make apps. Along with the fact that you can download it for free (it costs $99 a year to publish apps and sell them) which is significantly cheaper than the other competitors.
Good to know about how that unauthorized apps list works. My point regarding the stores is that there seems to be only one location to get your apps. When there is a large open source community for other mobiles offering tons of downloads how can you possibly compare? When I had a Treo I went to quite a few different sites not owned by Palm to get some pretty cool free apps. I have now done the same with my Crackberry. I know I am not the only one using these sites so until the iPhone apps are as freely available I don't see the store comparisons being worthy. Seems moot to me.
- by the_mrwhite February 9, 2009 10:53 AM PST
- Forget the competetion stuff, MS is always late to the game and IS and will continue to be a "me too" company. We are slowly seeing the demise of MS. Yes they will still sell windows because its the only thing IT departments know and it's job security for them. But I believe you'll see a shift to either Linux or Mac OS's as you can see happening now with OS X with a 10% market share now. Because of the success of the iPod and the iPhone people are seeing that "if their products work this well, I wonder what the computers are like" and thus more and more people are buying them, as indicated by the largest profit Apple has ever made, while MS lays people off for the first time. I lol'd.
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- by viper396 February 9, 2009 11:25 AM PST
- This is business, not a track-n-field event. It doesn't matter who started first but who can continue running the race.
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- by Seaspray0 February 9, 2009 2:11 PM PST
- "MS is always late to the game..." Not true! Apple was late to the game with the iphone. Windows mobile had been out several years prior to the iphone. As for that corporate email you get on the iphone, you can thank microsoft for that. Apple licensed activesync from microsoft. Apple didn't invent the smartphone, they just gave it a new coat of paint and people bought it. And that's exactly what microsoft did years before when they released windows mobile. Now that the paint has dried on the iphone, we'll just have to wait to find out how well a new windows mobile revision will do. If it doesn't stop the bleeding, then iphone will catch up to it. It's as simple as that.
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- by seven7dust February 9, 2009 6:45 PM PST
- "MS is always late to the game..." Not true! Apple was late to the game with the iphone"
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Showing 1 of 3 pages (142 Comments)Being the "me too" company certainly hasn't prevented Microsoft from dominating the desktop nor does it hurt other companies in other field. Even Apple isn't first in everything and Linux certainly can't make that claim.
People like you who seem to get a smug sense of self satisfaction in the economy tanking and companies like Microsoft doing layoffs are pathetic. You don't gain anything. You're just a loser who likes to see other's fail because it justifies your lack of initiative and inability to get ahead.
@seaspray lol! that was funny indeed
which is why they r playing catchup yet again
Apple always come into a market and change everything
they re-invent it almost
the Macintosh in 1985 {Introduced GUI to computers}
the IPod in 2001{changed the music industry}
and now the IPhone in 2007 {changing the mobile phone industry}
So who's late to the game again ?