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Microsoft vs. the Cloud

"Microsoft just came in and picked up the desktop piece despite what some bad European Union and U.S. Department of Justice politics-based legal findings say."

Huh? The biggest monopolistic move in the last 20 years and this is your comment?

And they're still paying for their brutal anti-competitive moves.

MSFT is a shell game, collecting on a hand-cuffed stream of income that their 'partners' are trying to escape from.

Who Will Win the Home Entertainment Battle?

I think Apple TV looks weak in its current release, but I'm betting on the Apple DNA for hugely successful innovation.

I believe the next release will include the same integrated nVidia GPU we find in the MacBook line. (They might even include a DVD, but not BD.)

And then, their own 'Tivo' functionality.

Apple TV 3 (my guess here) would support downloaded content, Walmart content, DVR content, reliability, security, ease of use, and

GAMES as in the Wii genere.

If Apple delivers this, we'll have a whole new ball game. Why?

They'll deliver with brilliant marketing.

Revisiting the iPhone’s Browsing Market Share (Part II)

"I also received hate-mail from iPhone-junkies."

Easy to say. It's a meme. On your 1 you did receive 3 aggressively expressed comments from Apple fans, 1 from a Windoze guy, and 7 well behaved folks expressing skepticism with your mistaken conclusion.

I commend you for correcting yourself on the significance of AdMob, but I really didn't see much 'hate mail'.

Another Salvo in the Apple vs. Microsoft Ad War

"Please name me just one thing a PC can't do, that a Mac can."

Here's a start:

Easy, intuitive editing of:

- movies
- photos
- music (GarageBand)

Superb and easy creation of beautiful multi-media keynotes/lessons/slide...

Easily and reliably download and play all types of multi-media from the biggest (by far) media store in the world (iTunes on Windows is an Apple sw.)

- Set and forget reliable automatic backup, recovery, and global time spanning retrieval.

- Synching email, calendars, tasks across multiple iPhones and iPod touches, multiuple PCS, multiple Macs.

- Set and forget complete backup and restoration of multiple iPhones and iPod touches to Macs and PCs.

I think there are at least 10 to 20 more things to add, but I'll leave that to some others.

Disclosure: Of Course I'm Long Apple!

Does a Mobile Internet Devices Market Exist?

Seems to me the iPod touch w/ its 3.5" screen expanded to 5" would be perfect and dominant in the MID space:

- added 3G connectivity to ATT and tMobile
- Expanded graphic keyboard
- More Multitouch gestures
- Wifi (Skype) phone/video capability
- All the iPod touch functionality, reliability, security, usability, coolness, and 100s of Apps

No one else can go there. Instant executive, mobile, college, teen (and military patrol!) must have device priced at $150 above current touch pricing.


Got iTablet killers? Not for a couple years, my friends.

Disclosure: OCILAP (Of course I'm Long Aapl!)

Revisiting the iPhone's Browsing Market Share

"US/WW Share of smartphone traffic" - NOT.

Seems like the other mobiles are going to special mobile websites audited by AdMob.

"Oh. Isn't that cute? They can access the internets!"

Well, it's true in the sense that the other mobiles are true 'smartphones' while the iPhone is really in a class by itself - the only pocket <standard> web browser.

Apple as a Target

"Ah, ya know, I remember, a decade ago, when Microsoft was in every company's cross hairs and Apple was basically irrelevant. The world has turned upside down."

Yeah. It's a wonder, but we do see a strong difference in responding to the challenge then and now.

Msft knifed Netscape and was found guilty of monopolistic 'malpractice'.

Apple will take these guys out by out innovating w/ products, ecosystems, quality, security, and marketing. No contest.

DECE will either die and go away or succeed in being adopted by Apple.

And then they'll still need to deal with trying to make money in Apple's iWorld!

Consortium To Standardize Digital Rights Management, Take On Apple

Erick,

Hate to break it to you, but this is Msft trying to take over DRM. Haven't you noticed?

Msft has failed (till now) with its crapware, but just wait until the new standard is announced! What a surprise when this thing appears to be somewhat advantageous to msft! Who'd a thunk?

Msft leading a collusive attack on it's enemies (In this case Apple and Disney.) is Msft doing what it does best.

Apple innovates the future.

Msft innovates collusion.

Web Browser Wars: Google Looking Beyond Market Share

Chrome is a huge gambit for Google. Will they deliver a great product within the next year? (On the Mac and Linux, too?)

If this were Apple, we'd be confident; Google has a lot of smart people. I hope they're successful. We need another excellent powerful innovator on the Web to advance the technology and to ensure we don't have to experience a "night of the living dead" scenario w/ msft technoshit.

Seeing an End to the iPod's Hegemony

Kevin! This one paragraph is too ridiculous. Don't you know nuthin'?

"Yes, true, if that's the way music shifts, Apple may in fact get there first. The iPhone is already completely capable of becoming a cloud music player -- just look at the success of Pandora on the iPhone. But chances are Apple will try to protect its closed iPod/iTunes model, leaving an opening for a competitor -- perhaps a start-up still in someone's garage -- to do things a whole new way and give Apple something to worry about."

So, Kevin. Do you really think Jobs would "leave an opening" when all he would need to do was 'invent' subscription music?

Come on. You're better than this. (Hope your mama doesn't read this column.)

(Anyway, thanks for the laugh.)

Apple TV or XBox: Which Is the Living Room Winner?

Mathew!

"The AppleTV and the Xbox are about the same price at $350 or so..."

That's probably Canadian, but in the US we're paying $229.

The xBox weighs in at $400+ w/ hdmi (cable incl) and 120gb drive.

Did the 'Enron of Norway' Pull a Fast One on Microsoft?

@ GaryD

Denying legitimacy because of grammar (its vs it's) is so infantile.

Please stop.

Microsoft's iPhone Envy Is Starting To Show

IMHO, Win Mobile is toast, just like Plays Anywhere, and The Social. Not a good time to be long msft.

Seven Reasons for Enterprises to Follow the Microsoft/Google Battle

Dana,

I think Apple and it's close friendship w/ Google will also be very much a partner/challenge to MSFT. Apple's licensing of MSFT's Exchange Srvcs will benefit both companies, but the iPhone, the smallest Trojan Horse ever, will also be the most powerful Trojan Horse, ever!

The timing of the Plays for Sure, Vista, and Zune failures couldn't have been worse. Apple is transcendent and MSFT is sucking wind.

The challenges MSFT faces are enormous; they really need to circle their wagons because the Vista failure is incredibly damaging and, also, many developers are wary of them, remembering MSFT as the raider/pillager from the north who, all too often, 'cut off the air supply' of too many creative and promising developers.

IPTV Industry Is Up and Coming

Shlomi,

I'm interested in what you have to say about this:

Isn't it rue w/ all the demands being placed on internet backbone bandwidth, real time IPTV may suffer considerably, perhaps terminally? (Pun unintended, but I'll take it.)