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Zune HD: Still Not an iPod Killer

When you say "Hopes were high when Microsoft (MSFT) introduced the Zune in 2006", exactly whose hopes are you talking about? No one, and I mean no one I know had high hopes! In fact, they had NO hope. Its freaking MSFT! They suck and everyone knows it. As does their lame new ZUNE HD, which by the way, isn't really HD but they called it that anyway - it is MSFT afterall. Don't walk away from this product, RUN!

Why Android Is Gaining Ground on Apple

What a crock, and also a worthless "article". Only a fool would claim that Apple is being anti-competitive by tying iTunes to its own products. First, other devices CAN access iTunes data as has been repeated over and over again, just not as seamlessly as you can with Apple's own products. Further, why in the world would Apple have to / need to / or be required to share their intellectual property beyond their own products! Its a platform and ecosystem they invented, developed and marketed to the tune of MILLIONS and MILLIONS of dollars. What total nonsense that they should then make it easy for competitors to "borrow or steal" it! Others keep trying to "steal" Apples functionality / access instead of creating their own products and services from scratch, and then they whine about it just like you're doing when they can't. Let these other companies invest their own millions in developing competing products.

Microsoft vs. Apple - Which Is Worth More?

you are exactly right - folks, it is easy!!!!!! to switch from windows to mac, especially when you look at what you have to do to switch from Windows xp to Windows 7 - what a friking joke! Also, if you take your brand spanking new marvelous Mac to the apple store along with your PC, they'll do it for FREE!!!!!!!!!! What a concept! Or you could go to the Windows store -oops, con't do that.


On Sep 08 08:48 AM User 131476 wrote:

> You are entitled to you opinion on the value of the two companies.
> However, when you state that "it is a lot harder to switch from Windows
> to Mac" you provide no evidence to back this claim. Instead, you
> are trying to drive down AAPL to profit from your short position.
> Stick to analysis of the value of the two companies - something that
> can be compared on an objective basis. We don't need your bias with
> regard to operating systems or user stupidity.

Microsoft vs. Apple - Which Is Worth More?

Excuse me Roger, but you just described how Microsoft doesn't know how to innovate, but knows how to copy. Duhhhh! And you throw in some nonsense about unions. Roger, you don't really belong here, sorry.


On Sep 08 09:48 AM roger that wrote:

> Microsoft is in no way comparable to the GM of the 80s and 90s. Microsoft
> is doing its best to innovate. In fact, it has taken up almost every
> innovation that has come along recently. It is offering almost all
> the innovations Apple has come up with. It is offering many innovations
> Google has come up with. And it is offering most of the innovations
> in gaming that Sony has come up with. Microsoft is no slouch at innovations.
> And I doubt it will suffer the fate of GM. For one thing, it is not
> in the grip of big unions, as GM was.

Microsoft vs. Apple - Which Is Worth More?

The author needs to find a day job. What nonsense. Sudo analytical babble.

Back to School on the Cheap: Another Round of Mac vs. PC

@ Jack Dee - you are clueless aren't you - OSX market share has increased dramatically, especially when factoring in the iphone and ipod touch - yes, they run on OSX fool! Further, MS Windoze is NOT the system of choice for 95% of users as, guess what, a significant number of users are forced to use it by their companies and if many of those had a choice, they'd choose MACs! So before you start mouthing off about FACTS, you really ought to learn some.


On Aug 11 07:39 PM jack dee wrote:

> Windows is the system of CHOICE. 95% of machines are running windows,
> and that number is not going down.
>
> Apple has less then 4% of the global market and has been completely
> unable to increase that market share.
>
> You can huff and puff but these are FACTS kids.
>
> Windows will not be displaced for a long time to come, not matter
> how many silly stories with special cases, how some guy sold a this
> cheap mac stories you come up with.

Back to School on the Cheap: Another Round of Mac vs. PC

By the way, the chart is misleading. It seems to reflect all back to school purchases which cover kindergarden - college students. For college students, a COMPETENT computer is required (read "no bottom of the barrel wintel machine OR netbook crap") which would move electronics purchases higher as a percentage, and would make the Mac the best value choice.

Back to School on the Cheap: Another Round of Mac vs. PC

Congratulations! You made the right choice. A used Mac is FAR better than a brand new cheap bottom of the line windows machine, or even one tricked out - that's value!

A Sudden Appetite for Web Based Computers

The carriers subsidizing computers is the death knell of the industry. The carriers are the commodity service but under this scenario they dictate the market, just like they have in the cell phone industry - suppressing innovation, prohibiting features and services on devices that conflict with their own objectives, ruining the market and driving out profits for the manufacturers - let the consumer be damned pushing the manufacturers to squeeze costs, hold back innovations and accept minimal returns. The computer industry should resist this trend - it is the rush to the bottom that offers no way out from unprofitability, or minimum profits at best. They will lose control of their own destiny. This practice should be illegal. Let the carriers discount THEIR services when you sign up for wireless broadband with your computer instead. That makes much more sense, and is the right business model for the PC manufactures. Otherwise, what is the cost of a new computer? FREE with two years of service. A free product has no value! And the brand is destroyed.

Search Engine Wars: Bing Gets More 'Eye Time' than Google

Absolutely worthless "study" and article - a sample of 12 has no meaning whatsoever.

Why I'm (Still) Long Apple

@Thompson - your posts just keep getting more and more moronic! The referral wasn't that Mac users can access Google, but that Google's online offerings are like the mac ecosystem. But being an idiot MSFT defender you wouldn't understand this concept would you? MSFT has never built great products, or had high customer satisfaction ratings like Apple. Do you think just maybe there is a reason for that?


On May 25 01:23 AM Josh B Thompson wrote:

> >MSFT, on the other hand is directly in Google's sights. They both
> >are hardware-agnostic
> - MSFT is hardware-agnostic? - that is a beyond foolish description
> of MSFT's connection to hardware.

Why I'm (Still) Long Apple

@Thompson - nonsense - you are delusional - all of the early reviews of Windoze 7 state pretty much the exact opposite of what you say here.... Get real!


On May 24 01:06 PM Josh B Thompson wrote:

> The name of the article suggests self-doubt; you should have left
> out the (still). The article did not discuss that windows 7 is addressing
> all the strength and weakness comparisons that you made. The version
> that comes out after Windows 7 will make ALL the bells and whistles
> currently considered "Apple like" mainstream. Bringing bells and
> whistles to the mainstram is MSFT's DNA.

Microsoft vs. Apple: Monopolist vs. Innovator

The response below is from a typical uneducated brainwashed MSFT user....


On Mar 31 06:06 AM Soccerfanyes wrote:

> Apple = Toys
> Microsoft = Tools

Microsoft vs. Apple: Monopolist vs. Innovator

The authors comments regarding Apple are grossly off point. Apple is so successful not through bundling, nor through controlling the hardware as well as the software, but because they are truly customer focused - with a passionate mission of creating the best consumer experience. (Did you ever hear those words come out of MSFT? Not.) They are passionate about delivering ease of use, stable products, superior operating environments (hardware and software combinde), market leading and exceptional customer service, and innovating in areas that people really care about. And your comment that Apple's products cost twice as much as a comparable PC are just flat out wrong and misleading. Shame on you! If that were the case their margins would be near 100%! PC's are a commodity and sold as such, stripped down at the low end of the market (you know, the one's MSFT's new ads describe), while Apple sells high value computing systems that contain advanced hardware and software, bundled with market leading applications, that out perform the competition, and create market leading, and significantly higher, usability and satisfaction levels.

Microsoft vs. Apple: Monopolist vs. Innovator

You make is sound like we should feel sorry for MSFT because of their need to support this monster which they created. In fact, they created their own quagmire by continuously building bloated products, continuously adding features and functions that 99% of users could have cared less about, just so they could force you into a new version, while stealing from your pocketbook. And worst of all, their business model said it was ok to send out defective and extremely buggy software because they then could justify that you needed to purchase the "new and improved" version. And this isn't even getting into their anticompetitive behavior - this company should have been broken up a long long time ago. (Just look at how they are trying to bury Linux in the international market.) And adding insult to injury, their new marketing campaign doesn't even try to sell or position their own software, its pushing low end hardware from other companies (using actors pretending they're real consumers), and doing so like these low end, underpowered pc's are some kind of gift from heaven. May they continue their loss of market share....