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We all are, sometimes.
I know I make mistakes, in what I write and how I respond to others' comments. I get mad, and I don't think before hitting send. When I calm down, I remember that and try hard not to throw more stones, while accepting more of those which come my way. It's just words, after all.
You may recall I thought Apple would fall immediately upon Jobs' retirement. I was wrong on that. I'll be wrong again.
Microsoft's Problem Is In Its Own DNA [View article]
I agree. You can't really fault Gates for missing this boat. It's the current regime that has failed in this regard. They never saw the implications of Cloud-China-Breaking Apart the PC into components that Apple saw, and still don't
Microsoft's Problem Is In Its Own DNA [View article]
You're certainly free to disagree. I believe when you write a blog post that much of the value is in the comments, which is why I respond to so many of them.
I think folks like you add a tremendous amount of value to the original post, both for your sharp, informed disagreement and the counter-examples y'all bring to the table.
And, yes, that's a personal thank you from me to you. And to everyone else on the thread.
Amazon failed in music because it lacked a player. And while the Kindle does not out-sell the iPad, it still sells, and sells well. It's a player in the marketplace.
In terms of the new marketplace, where someone else does the making, and you do the ecosystem, Microsoft is not much of a player, except with the XBox and XBox Live. Even there they've given a lot of control over the marketplace to developers and OEMs.
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Sometimes, yes. But when someone suggests Herman Cain as the GOP nominee against the President, and I live in Georgia, have watched Herman Cain through most of his career, I can't help getting the giggling fits.
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Medical care is often better in Mexico, and costs much less, than in LA. Everyone is assured of some care, and many American retirees are moving there because their dollars go further.
I know you feel a need to hate on someone, I know that bigotry is fun, but it won't make you any money. It will cost you opportunity. And I know that opportunity lost will feed you bigotry, but such is the law of the market.
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If you're an American citizen, and I assume you are, it's all yours. So take responsibility for it.
CBO estimates are that the unpaid for wars and the impact of the 2001 tax cuts represent nearly all our structural deficit. Not Medicare and Social Security. Not "the burgeoning entitlement society."
It was the rich and the warriors who took the money. But you're right, someone has to pay it back. You say grandma.
Microsoft's Problem Is In Its Own DNA [View article]
If you bought IBM in 1991 your money went nowhere for many years. It had the same advantages vis a vis Microsoft that Microsoft now has vis a vis tablets.
If Microsoft can't get a handle on the new way of marketing PCs and software, they're where IBM was in 1991.
But, please, I don't mind the disagreement. It is what makes markets. For every seller a willing buyer, and vice versa. Otherwise prices drop to zero and that's no fun at all.
Seeking goodwill for its $39B deal to buy T-Mobile (DTEGY.PK), AT&T (T) says it will restore 5,000 outsourced call-center jobs, and commits to maintaining its and T-Mobile’s 25,000-plus existing U.S. call-center jobs. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson says he has grown comfortable that the firm would still meet its projected cost savings despite the jobs move. [View news story]
This has to be the lamest promise ever. How long a commitment is Stephenson making to those jobs? Regulators would be awfully stupid to buy this deal on that promise.
There have been leaked papers coming out of AT&T showing their aim is to merely consolidate the market and reduce capacity in order to squeeze yet-more money from customers for yet-less bandwidth.
This is the real key to the struggle. How much wireless bandwidth will Americans get, at what cost, and is there another way to get there other than strangling everyone at the expense of the T-VZ duopoly.
The computing industry is hurt by this. Anything that limits digital bandwidth, especially wireless bandwidth, hurts the computer industry's chances for growth. It reduces demand for what the vendors are promising, making it unaffordable.
Microsoft's Problem Is In Its Own DNA [View article]
Typewriters are going to become a peripheral, and will no longer be integrated with the device. They're an option. A mouse is an option. You can plug either into a USB port, or both, and go to town.
That won't happen until most of the pure-client market is absorbed, but it may well happen. What's left inside the main box are the screen and the processing power. Nothing more.
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Microsoft's Problem Is In Its Own DNA [View article]
I know I make mistakes, in what I write and how I respond to others' comments. I get mad, and I don't think before hitting send. When I calm down, I remember that and try hard not to throw more stones, while accepting more of those which come my way. It's just words, after all.
You may recall I thought Apple would fall immediately upon Jobs' retirement. I was wrong on that. I'll be wrong again.
Microsoft's Problem Is In Its Own DNA [View article]
Microsoft's Problem Is In Its Own DNA [View article]
Microsoft's Problem Is In Its Own DNA [View article]
I think folks like you add a tremendous amount of value to the original post, both for your sharp, informed disagreement and the counter-examples y'all bring to the table.
And, yes, that's a personal thank you from me to you. And to everyone else on the thread.
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In terms of the new marketplace, where someone else does the making, and you do the ecosystem, Microsoft is not much of a player, except with the XBox and XBox Live. Even there they've given a lot of control over the marketplace to developers and OEMs.
Microsoft's Problem Is In Its Own DNA [View article]
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My apologies.
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I know you feel a need to hate on someone, I know that bigotry is fun, but it won't make you any money. It will cost you opportunity. And I know that opportunity lost will feed you bigotry, but such is the law of the market.
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CBO estimates are that the unpaid for wars and the impact of the 2001 tax cuts represent nearly all our structural deficit. Not Medicare and Social Security. Not "the burgeoning entitlement society."
It was the rich and the warriors who took the money. But you're right, someone has to pay it back. You say grandma.
I say you.
Microsoft's Problem Is In Its Own DNA [View article]
Microsoft's Problem Is In Its Own DNA [View article]
If Microsoft can't get a handle on the new way of marketing PCs and software, they're where IBM was in 1991.
But, please, I don't mind the disagreement. It is what makes markets. For every seller a willing buyer, and vice versa. Otherwise prices drop to zero and that's no fun at all.
Seeking goodwill for its $39B deal to buy T-Mobile (DTEGY.PK), AT&T (T) says it will restore 5,000 outsourced call-center jobs, and commits to maintaining its and T-Mobile’s 25,000-plus existing U.S. call-center jobs. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson says he has grown comfortable that the firm would still meet its projected cost savings despite the jobs move. [View news story]
There have been leaked papers coming out of AT&T showing their aim is to merely consolidate the market and reduce capacity in order to squeeze yet-more money from customers for yet-less bandwidth.
This is the real key to the struggle. How much wireless bandwidth will Americans get, at what cost, and is there another way to get there other than strangling everyone at the expense of the T-VZ duopoly.
The computing industry is hurt by this. Anything that limits digital bandwidth, especially wireless bandwidth, hurts the computer industry's chances for growth. It reduces demand for what the vendors are promising, making it unaffordable.
So the problem remains.
Microsoft's Problem Is In Its Own DNA [View article]
That won't happen until most of the pure-client market is absorbed, but it may well happen. What's left inside the main box are the screen and the processing power. Nothing more.