MacManMaz

What It Would Take To Fix Microsoft For Me

To get back to the topic: What would it take to fix MSFT for me?

I just don't see it happening, but getting rid of Steve Ballmer would be a start.

What an embarrassment!

Apple's Branding Strategy Delivers Superior Results

Rick,

IMHO your article comes off as if you are saying that Apple is just real good at advertising. You missed the bigger picture. Successfully creating new markets (iPod) and revolutionizing existing market standards (iPhone) requires a commitment to excellence in the user experience from Research and Development all the way through to product support. That is what makes it so easy to market Apples brand.

Look at the MSFT. Vista was cleverly marketed and advertised by a company with an established name and should have been a slam dunk.
Vista's failure is not due to poor marketing or lack of flashy commercials, it just sux.

Apple Earnings: The World Is Going Macintosh

Well said Jason.
The numbers speak for themselves.

Now for the other half of the story:
MSFT has nowhere to go but down.
They do not know how to make money without being the dominant monopoly, Lording it over helpless millions. Vista is proof of that.

Will Adobe's New Media Player Play with Users?

As long as it plays nice with all of those billions of iTunes tracks out there now and the iPod, it should be a success. However, if Adobe thinks that it can somehow convince millions to change to another proprietary format... they are dead in the water.

Long live the open market and competition, except when it requires me to change my mind.

Consumers Will Continue to Buy Apple's Fashionable Gadgets

Good Article, but can you keep it quiet until I acquire some more shares?
I am long on AAPL and think that it will be one of the big surprises of late 2008 and 2009.

Apple: Rumors Keep On Coming, But Numbers Will Surprise

BTW dithers,

You would be wise to buy some AAPL stock now. The evil advertising world will help you make lots of money. Then you can waste more of your time posting your insane paranoid rantings about conspiracies.

I am going to enjoy the american dream, thanks.

Apple: Rumors Keep On Coming, But Numbers Will Surprise

It is not Xmas, nor is it back to school, and Apple doesn't have a huge discount sale going on, but my local Apple store was literally packed this weekend. I really have never been at the mall and seen that little store with this many people. I think the wave of iMac sales that started in Sept 07 has turned into a tsunami. The market pundits will learn a valuable lesson about OSX and the popularity of the Mac desktop this spring. Iphones, iPods, and iTunes, are only a part of this juggernaut of innovation called Apple Inc.

Hey Microsoft, I've Got A Better Idea

That's all we need... internet video through a cr*ppy Windows media Player and no other choice. DRM on everything. And years and years before an upgrade that you have to pay through the nose for.

Oh yeah, I can't wait.

There are reasons that Yahoo, Google, and Apple are doing so well, and those reasons come from Microsoft. I don't see them going away.

Microsoft + Yahoo = No Longer a Recipe for Success

Great, just what we all need. The blue screen of death while searching the internet and maps. Oh boy, O boy, I can't wait!

It's pretty obvious that Microsoft is desperate to the point of giving up on it's own developers. They would rather use up all their cash and then borrow even more than rely on their own developers. Apparently, the top dogs in Redmond have finally come to grips with the fact that they just can not create productive, and attractive applications that can compete "off the desktop". This does not bode well for the future in an era when mobile devices will be taking more and more of the add revenue. If this deal were to fail, who else would Microsoft turn to?

Yahoo would be smart to stay far away from this "deal". Let the boys in Redmond have the desktop. There's more potential in the mobile web and web based applications. Microsoft needs Yahoo far more than Yahoo needs Microsoft right now.

Does Apple's Market Share Gain Really Matter?

Up until this last year, it seemed that the only people that I knew considering buying a Mac computer were much younger than me, and most of them didn't have the cash. Thanks to MSFT, Vista has been a huge disappointment to all my generation as we embrace the digital media revolution and start buying and using digital music players, cameras, phones, and movie cameras. We are watching and sharing more digital content every day. Things have changed and we (my generation) are now ready to spend more money on a premium product that just does the job with minimal hassles.

Windows in all it's many versions just does not fill that need. Vista - the supposed multimedia monster that was going to swallow up the mac is a huge failure in that respect. The game has changed and the only team making any yardage is Apple.