Posted on 06/23/2012 7:18:05 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
Because their technology is what we’re stuck with.
>>That’s pretty harsh.
Tell the class about who Anders Hejlsberg is and then quack about “harsh”.
Ecosystem: the symbiotic relationships between hardware platform, operating system, applications, networking, software delivery, device drivers, etc. If any of those is inadequate, all other related products suffer. Jump starting the whole interconnected set of dependent products is what makes or breaks a broad new technology. Apple pulled it off with iOS, M$ with Xbox; many have likewise tried but failed.
Oh. It's a conspiracy, I tell ya!
But, MS also has a long string of failed initiatives. They always seem to come out with things designed to compete (rather late in the game) with some other products, but then only give them half their attention, leaving the users stranded. Only time will tell how this one pans out.
Yawn.
Tell the class who Anders Hejlsberg is and then quack about conspiracy.
[OTOH, from what I’ve heard the whole TCP/IP stack has been rewritten, so hopefully these got the same treatment.]
A rewritten duck is still a duck.
[the best video game online system on the planet, which has been hugely successful,]
Only if you consider manufacturing a generation of Useful Idiot consumer game players to be “successful”.
The same generation who voted Hope Change and Comrade Chairman Odumbo into the White Hut.
Ask the consumers what the purpose for governance is that’s specified in the American Declaration of Independence.
The Ameriquest Generation doesn’t have a clue - but they sure like to worship their toys.
Such desperation!
Why equate people who use a game system, with the people who voted for Obama? What is the interrelationship? When you don’t really have a good argument, why reach for a desperate and incoherent argument?
You’d do well to study the story of the fall of Osborne Computer and how their “trial balloon”, as you call it, or an early announcement of a product that didn’t yet exist, in other words vaporware, contributed to the fall of the company. (I fully anticipate your response of “that’s different”. That’s what “liberals” do.)
The Osborne announcement concerned a real product too, as I recall.
What I disagree with you on, referring to your previous post, is that the Microsoft announcement was a matter of fact trial balloon, a common occurrence in business, as you stated. Unless you are connected with Microsoft and have inside knowledge, then you know as much as the rest of us do, and can only speculate, OK?
I think the trial balloon period in the case of Surface has passed, and that Microsoft, having conducted focus groups has developed this product in response to its research, and now is attempting to corner the market, that is to say, by announcing a tablet that is “revolutionary” because it includes, GASP! a keyboard and runs Windows, they are encouraging consumers to delay their purchase decisions and wait for the real thing.
I don’t condemn them for it, or argue that the iPad or the Samsung product is better, I have no loyalties to toys of any kind.
[Why equate people who use a game system, with the people who voted for Obama?]
Oh it’s not just a game system, but a generation that games the system and worships the toys it uses to do so instead of worshiping its Creator.
Just as described in Romans 1:20+
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Oh, it is a game system alright. That’s all it is, and it’s not a religious item, nor an evil item, nor a political item. It’s not from any one religion, nor from any one political persuasion. It’s not republican, nor democrat, nor independent, nor communist, nor socialist. And, it’s not a device that can be used to lure people to vote for any one politician or party.
It’s a game system! For crying out loud!
Why go into wackiness in order to try to make a point?
Oh, it is a game system alright. That’s all it is, and it’s not a religious item, nor an evil item, nor a political item. It’s not from any one religion, nor from any one political persuasion. It’s not republican, nor democrat, nor independent, nor communist, nor socialist. And, it’s not a device that can be used to lure people to vote for any one politician or party.
It’s a game system! For crying out loud!
Why go into wackiness in order to try to make a point?
[It’s a game system! For crying out loud!]
What is the 1st commandment?
>>That’s all it is, and it’s not a religious item,
An item can be an object of worship without having an overtly religious nature.
Romans 1:20++
But, you’re still in denial about what the Surface is or will be. It’s a tablet, but, not like the others in the market right now. It’s two different tablets; one Intel-based, and one ARM-based, but both running a version of Windows 8 that performs to specifications that match the different hardware inside. It’s about ONE OS to join the different form-factors, including desktops and laptops and ultrabooks and tablets and smartphones. Android doesn’t do that, and iOS doesn’t do that.
You can be dismissive about the keyboard, but, it’s not just another keyboard and it’s not an afterthought, like with the iPad, where if you want a keyboard, you either settle for the on-screen keyboard, or you have to purchase a keyboard as an attachment. Plus, there is the USB port, for attaching other equipment, such as hard drives or bigger screens or even a regular-sized keyboard; whatever can be attached on the USB port, can be used on the Surface(s).
The biggest draw, to me and to a lot of other people, is the OS, or Windows 8, which, even in “beta” mode, is superior to iOS or Android. And, it’s backwards compatible with the millions of software that was written for the prior versions of Windows. That makes for a huge and immediate range of software which neither Apple nor Google can match. The only thing I can see that, for now, the iPad has as an “advantage”, is the retina display. But, that part is actually overkill and unnecessary.
But, the MS tablets aren’t in the marketplace yet, but, being Microsoft, you can’t count them out, especially with the clout and budgets and research and work they’ve put into creating this new and updated marketplace.
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