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In 1980 I worked as an entry-level programmer at a Sperry-Univac (Unisys) manufacturing plant.
Business programmer or raw-meater?
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Well, are you going to answer?
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In 1980 I worked as an entry-level programmer at a Sperry-Univac (Unisys) manufacturing plant.
Business programmer or raw-meater?
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Well, are you going to answer?
Being the best doesn’t always equate to being the most popular.The irony of vinyl, cassette tape, and VHS is that today nearly everyone simply streams or downloads music and video from the cloud. I understand your point, however I think that the Surface has done something novel: it established the 2-in-1 category and is a growing (in a shrinking PC market) billion dollar business for Microsoft.
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In private enterprise, that’s exactly what it means. Market share is the lifeblood of a product, until that product is surpassed by another product that pioneers an entirely new paradigm.
You no doubt remember the VCR format war. Who won? When that format winner finally succumbed to oblivion, was it the other format that took its place? No, it was a radically different technology that did.
Until interfaces for mobile products change in a similar radical fashion, iOS and Android are it. Android in particular, since it is based on open source code.
Surface, until it does something entirely novel, has no future.
As of now I don’t see Microsoft making phones for the consumer market, but OEMs partners, such as Acer, probably will.Success is never a sure thing. By this time next year we should know if Microsoft's newest strategy for Windows Mobile has merit.
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No doubt Microsoft will keep a very tiny share of the market for awhile, like Sculley’s Apple desktops and IBM’s OS/2 Warp. But Microsoft missed the boat, and unlike the browser wars of the mid-90s, there’s no amount of money that can make that boat turn back around.