jack dee

Will Microsoft Get Squeezed by Chrome OS?

it might be like you got a car and cant get parts, but we are talking a thirty year old car!
Win 3 was another time, you cant expect any company to support a format for 30 years.

Further more, MSFT is the gold standard for backwards compatibility
Apple has dumps it users completely. They dropped everything pre OSX! now thats a crime.


On Nov 24 08:55 AM unfaire wrote:

> If my memory is correct, in the mid 80's, while IBM was offering
> $200 OS2 for PC, Microsoft came out with Windws 3 for only $27 or
> so including Words, Excel, and PowerPoint. I got both of them but
> I immediately abandoned OS2 for Windows for the latter's easy of
> use as well as integration of various aspects of PC operation. At
> the time, OMB OS2 was the defacto standard for big corporations and
> corporate IT people were looking down at Windows as cheap toys.<br/>Now
> 20 years later, Microsft is behaving like IBM then, and worse. I
> do appreciate the new Windows 7 and the all the wonderful features
> of Windows. But Microsoft is now behaving like (and as) monopoly
> with little regards for users. For example, we have files which go
> all the way back to Windows 3 and Microsoft has abandoned the backward
> compatibility for their own products. It is like you bought a car
> and after a while you cannot get its parts anymore. But, cars get
> junked but our files do not.
> Windows also got very intransparent about interface with non-Windows
> software and hardware and that interface keeps some vendors like
> Adobe tied so tightly with Windows. Of course, with each upgrade
> of Windows, we have to do the expensive Photoshop upgrade and that
> keep both of them very happy.
> But, we start to see the terrible effects of this intrasparent interface.
> Just ask someone with Windows Vista or Windows 7, they suffered so
> much Blue Screen Of Death as well as Screen Freeze. And, they are
> VERY slow in fixing them and the vendors like HP are hanging their
> customer high and dry.
> I believe many people are hoping Google Chrome OS or anyone else
> will come to relief them from the high cost and unnecessarily complicated
> Windows monopoly.
> Someday, someone will succeed in dethroning Microsoft, as Microsoft
> did to IBM, big corporate users notwithstanding, if Microsoft keeps
> going the way they do today.

Apple's Tablet: Consumers Will Buy, But What About Businesses?

I have openly stated I am long MSFT GOOG MOT, and yes they all compete with apple, but I have also clearly stated, at the right price I would buy apple.
So shill no. Investor tired of seeing silly fanboys pumping apple with half truths and out right falsehoods yes.

A quick read through your 6 comments shows 100% apple supporter, with barbs tossed at anyone who says boo to apple..

So , does that make you a shill........


On Nov 20 01:06 PM JWUSC wrote:

> I'm trying to do some DD of my own regarding the commenter's here
> on SA, so maybe you could help me out, jack.
>
> Exactly how much does Micro$uck pay you to shill for them here? It's
> pretty clear to anyone who reads tech articles on this site that
> you are an astroturfer of the most obvious sort, I was just wondering
> what the going rate for that job was from the desperate folks in
> Redmond.

Will Microsoft Get Squeezed by Chrome OS?

I love the graphic it shows the MS logo being squeezed by two larger company logos.

Why not do a graphic that shows apple @ 5% of the size of MSFT and google as less than 1%.

Oh , hold on I know, because that would give a good visual on the so called squeeze.

But never mind, I understand fully, you need to make out like MS is in real trouble.

Win 7 is selling faster than any OS MSFT has ever released in its entire history. Punters love it, corp loves it. whats left to say.....

Apple's Tablet: Consumers Will Buy, But What About Businesses?

Just a little DD could help you so much brewer, from your comments it is clear you lack any understanding of the tech market outside of your iphone imac navel gazing.


On Nov 20 09:59 AM brewer wrote:

> >>And again there are already big player working to bring the medical
> profession into the computer age, why would they want to switch horses
> mid river?
>
> The same reason you always give up on a horse. It's lame.

Apple's Tablet: Consumers Will Buy, But What About Businesses?

From what I have seen, most Health care pros using tablets are using a dockable windows based system that is no doubt using custom software created just for the industry. I really doubt they will want to support apple only to have to buy a windows license anyway?

And again there are already big player working to bring the medical profession into the computer age, why would they want to switch horses mid river?

a lot of dreaming going on here.

Amazon, Apple Stock Going Vertical: This Never Ends Well

please brewer , learn something about investing. please , read a book or something.
Do really believe the street, has not already factored in accounting changes? Do you? Really ? You think only you and a few of your buds figured it out?


>>>>Do you have any idea what the earnings are going to be when they change accounting this quarter???<<<...


On Nov 19 11:54 AM brewer wrote:

> FUD, pure and simple, someone wants to buy in cheap or is shorting,
> no doubt.
>
> As the previous comments stated, Apple is simply NOT overvalued.
> Do you have any idea what the earnings are going to be when they
> change accounting this quarter???
>
> Reminds me of all the numskulls that thought it was a 'premium' brand
> that 'no one would buy in a recession'. Which was totally incorrect,
> they sales have gone UP during the recession.

The Power of Instant Approval

You are completely right,

Apple is also restricting access to end users , and restricting end users access to products. Being a gate keeper is a tricky biz, just ask Billy boy.


On Nov 17 12:51 PM brewer wrote:

> Four whole weeks to get approved? Whine me a river. Apple is doing
> EVERYTING other than the actual writing of the app. Marketing, hosting,
> delivery, billing, etc... etc... etc....
>
> Go to the Zune store if you want... LOL

The Power of Instant Approval

As long as AAPL does not become the dominate smart phone platform , they can get away with controlling access to market, but should apple "win" and have effective control of the smart phone app market, do you really think the DOJ would allow to pick winners?


As to "windoze" wtf has that got to do with anything, we are talking about Apples app store, not win 7. But if you do want to talk about windows, just keep in mind that neither win 7 nor OSX try to control access to consumers or restrict users from running whatever they like.

AAPL has a tiger by the tail, the app store may very well cost more in lawyers fees and lobbyists then it ever earns.
On Nov 17 12:49 PM brewer wrote:

> @jack dee:
>
> Actually, you can run anything you want on your own phone. What you
> can't do is put any Windoze type trash on the app store. Big difference
> there.
>
> You can jailbreak your phone for nothing and run whatever you like,
> your own stuff, other illegitimate stuff. Or, you can pay $99 for
> the dev kit and run whatever you write on your own phone. Knock yourself
> out. But if you want it on the *app store* then Apple gets to review
> it first. It's their store.

The Power of Instant Approval

So apple tells you what they think is ok for you to run on a phone that you own, and you think thats OK?

If MSFT or AAPL decided to tell you what programs you where allowed to use on your desktops how would you feel about that?

The Power of Instant Approval

Of course if apple did end up controlling the smart phone market, they would have DOJ oversight and most likely be forced to spin off the app store.

It just common sense. Apple would also be forced to allow anyone to develop ANY product for the phone and be forced to open all standards. But hey thats just the way it is, you dont have to break any laws to get broken up....

Will Mobile App Pricing Fall to Zero?

Ah I see Thomas , you changing what you said and pretending to be right

I quote you
"""In the 1990s, all the software in MS Office would have sold for over $1,000 dollars. """"


Fact in the 1990s all the software in Office sold for far far less than $1000 adjusted or non adjusted dollars.
And in the 1990s MS Office had just what you are talking about.

.

Please if you are going to write something dont make things up and then later try to pretend you meant something else. Your intent was clear and clearly incorrect.

Will Mobile App Pricing Fall to Zero?

>>>>one of the world’s most powerful companies, now gets slightly over $100 for MS Office. In the 1990s, all the software in MS Office would have sold for over $1,000 dollars. <<<<


That is complete utter trash, made up junk.

In the mid 90s MSFT charged far far less than $1,000 for office, did you just pull that number out of your hat or what..


In 1994-1995 MSFT took in a little less than 5 billion, and sold over 7 million copies of office alone. even if you assumed that MSFT sold nothing but office, not a single other product $1,000 per copy would exceed totel rev by billions.
SO please dont make up trash to support your story.

and as to MSFT getting $100 for office, please wake up and compare Corp seat to corps seats not some bs student ed to corp seats.

rant over..

Why Research in Motion Is a Takeover Target

That is a lie JamesApple there is no penny blackberrys, just phones tied to contracts , and if you think its free try my offer to you....

Hey James I got a free BMW for you, just buy my two year service contract......


On Nov 12 03:56 PM JamesApple wrote:

> True enough, you can still buy a PennyBerry from Amazon today, that
> is, of course, if you do want a PennyBerry.

Motorola's Droid Comes in Peace - For Now

I think many of you are completey missing the point.

Todate iphone has been doing great with great margins. But the vast majority have not purchased any smart phone due to the cost of data plans/call plans.

with Android all this is changing, plans will come down and use will sky rocket as everyone begins to purchase smart phones. This will degrade margins as smartphones will be the only game in town, and Pay as you go wil continue to reign


long goog mot

Why Research in Motion Is a Takeover Target

I sense there are a lot of analysts on the wrong side of Rimm, and any deal would provide an exit point for them.

And yet a Rimm merger could be interesting. With who though? MSFT, is interested in its next gen phone OS, not owning yet another platform, having 3 is bad enough.

Nok, could have some interest, but again, platforms, and if getting a new one why not just jump on the goog platform..

Partnership might be a way forward, goog or msft could "buy" the blackberry with heavy funding and stick android / wm7 inside.

Every player with a big stack and any kind of draw will play this hand to the river. But remember this is a cash game, not tournament, so while one or two will go broke many will walk away with fortunes......