Apple v Microsoft Ping!
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Posted on 04/18/2010 2:09:43 AM PDT by Swordmaker
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The key is form factor...PC’s operate from small net books to large monster gaming towers. There are small home theater PC’s nearly silent in operation and the size of a shoe box. There is a whole industry that supplies parts, cases, hard drives ect so that folks can build their own PC’s according to need and best price. Windows 7 can operate in all of them. Apple computers don’t have nearly the variety of form factors that can fit in a majority of user experiences. There certainly is no way to legally build one’s own customized Apple machines as the parts industry is almost exclusively designed for PC’s.
I think most folks see mobile products as adjuncts to their main systems, like smaller craft attached to mother ships that go out and come back again to be synched and upgraded when necessary. Apple’s mobile systems still have to play nice with MS systems or else they would again risk being marginalized by other competing mobile platforms.
Where are they going to get the money it would take to do that with? Not in this depression.
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Try squeezing dual 21” monitors into an iPod.
Where are they going to get the money it would take to do that with? Not in this depression.
Well..., Apple is a whole lot better off than any of the other companies in the same field, that's for sure.
I mean, they keep surpassing sales estimates and even keep selling products "even in this depression" ... and are debt free, and have billions of dollars in the bank, just sitting there, waiting for the next project and/or next big product rollout, and their "cash hoard" keeps getting bigger and bigger -- even in this depression.
So, if anyone can do it, Apple can, with the finances they have and the sales that they currently have. And if Apple can't do it with those kinds of finances and wildly successful sales of product rollouts (like they've had), then no one else will be able to "do it either" with their high debt (in those other companies) and lower sales -- "in this depression"...
Computers are being low cost appliances. This is the battleground and where the war will be fought. As for who will will remains to be seen.
I’m self-employed and sitting in my home office using a desktop. There is no way I could ever use a mobile device for all my business applications including updating & maintaining my website, Excel spreadsheets, large Word docs, marketing brochures, business email, PDFs, SKYPE to communicate with my Euro and Far East partners, etc.
My point exactly...different tools for different uses thus, I don’t see the “home desk top” really fading away.
How about a billion dollars in revenue from the iPad’s first few weeks? Or the many billion dollars cash in the bank?
Wireless video. Use whatever displays are simply nearby.
Never say never, you will eat your words.
That's why I do NOT have a smart phone but take a small 9" netbook when I travel. Small but still far better ergonomically to retrieve my email and surf web at night in my hotel room.
Ideas cycle, can you say docking station?
Do you work for Apple? I’ve always wondered because you constantly post pro-Apple articles.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I don’t think so - too many words to type! I understand your point - just doubt if those advances are for me and how I use technology. Now, where’s my abacus?
And Volkswagens have been around since WWII. What percentage of cars on the road are VWs (or Yugos, etc,)? Not everyone wants nothing but "cheap"...
Until they’ve got something that will go head-to-head with Exchange, they’re not going to convince a lot of corporations to forklift their MS systems for Apples.
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Right now, whenever I choose to do so, I turn on my MacBook and have a 9 (nine) foot (diagonal) display at my disposal. And, if I want a bigger screen, I just zoom...
Ever hear of wireless? Bluetooth?
FYI, I bought a wireless projector to use for my presentations. Also works great as a working display...
And I can be (as I am right now) kicked back in my recliner, creating a huge, detailed GIS map composed of dozens of layers (including false-color IR overhead inagery) while working...
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Good FRname -- your technical vision is already "Paleo..."
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