Posts by David Simpson 1 319 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2009
Cars destroy roads because they are very heavy and have a large power output. Neither pedestrians or cyclists do so find a new piece of nonsense to moan about troll. Instead of demonising other people ask the government why they don't even spend all the road tax they raise on the roads never mind fuel duty.
Cars destroy roads because they are very heavy and have a large power output. Neither pedestrians or cyclists do so find a new piece of nonsense to moan about troll. Instead of demonising other people ask the government why they don't even spend all the road tax they raise on the roads never mind fuel duty.
Cars destroy roads because they are very heavy and have a large power output. Neither pedestrians or cyclists do so find a new piece of nonsense to moan about troll. Instead of demonising other people ask the government why they don't even spend all the road tax they raise on the roads never mind fuel duty.
The sad truth is when Microsoft don't strategically close a market to potential rivals they don't have a chance !
Windows Phone 7 & 8 is suffering from Sony disease - to much vertical integration, it is missing features to try and push you into other Microsoft purchases like Xbox, they are dying a death in 5 years, Microsoft will be a console maker and very little else.
"Windows 8, though, was a radical departure that Microsoft had to flaunt. It introduced touchscreen input"
~Nope touchscreen input has existed since XP tablet edition. Windows 7 even had gestures, they just finally managed to make a touchscreen UI in Windows 8, not hat anyone cares anymore.
If Google can centralise updates and combine Chrome OS with Android we really will see Microsoft sinking to rule the living room games market and hopefully are children can grow up in a software world without Microsoft.
So feel free to use a sub-standard mobile platform if you think that brings competition to a market that is spilt quite well between two tech giants, bring a 3rd party to the table that locked down the previous desktop market so it contained only themselves. Something they were fined for doing multiple times, why on earth would anyone want Microsoft back in the mix again ?
"This is a "bottom up" approach to technological adoption and it causes angst among managers"
This is back to front the so called "top down" approach brought us the 90/00's nightmare that was Windows lock in, "Bottom up" has been giving us much easier products to use in the real world.
If any of you paranoid crazies have watched commercial television or movies or music for the past 50 years, or read any newspaper or magazine then I hate to tell you this but you've been playing the game for longer than Google has existed, put your tin foil helmet on and stop boring the rest of with your conspiracy nonsense.
So iOS and Android have dithered by breaking sales records - Android now being the largest mobile OS with over half a billion activations, and Microsoft have a chance because so far hardly anyone has bought a Windows Phone and Nokias sales are still in decline.
If it isn't too much of a stupid question, what on earth is this article talking about ?
Why drop one failed OS to take up development of another ? Sales of Symbian tanked years ago, as HP learnt with WebOS, if something fails in the market buying it won't magically change that.
Microsoft could fork Android just like anybody else, at least it is a successful product.
You lack any skill with metaphor !! Every brand of car has identical controls and uses petrol, which you can get at any local station. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IOS OR ANDROID.
We were all stuck for nearly twenty years with only a choice of Microsoft why would anyone let them back into a position of dominance ? They abused it so badly they were sued and fined numerous times - Those of us with memories longer than ten years remember that. Google for all it's perceived evils at least give away their OS for free and base it on Linux. Anyone is free to change or fork Android for anything they want, which is surely a much better position Microsoft every put the market in.
The biggest thing dragging Microsoft down is Ballmer. Microsoft refuse to understand those of us who used Windows from the 90s onwards would have gladly chewed off their arm to get away from it ! No-one is willing to give them the marketshare in mobile that they once enjoyed and greatly abused on the desktop.
Microsoft stink and within ten years will only be known for their games machines......with any luck.
Android had both a touchscreen interface and a blackberry style one, surprisingly enough iFans only post blogs about the blackberry style one since that plays up to their nonsense - it was only 5 years ago most adults can remember that far back especially when we were using the development tools they gave away.
Nokia/HTC/Samsung/LG/SonyE were already releasing both touchscreen and keyboard phones.
So if industrial espionage was actually involved then why was Schmidt not in court ? Why was Jobs seen having coffee with Schmidt right up too his death. The whole IT industry has been moving toward mobile for years as chip size and power requirements have shrunk - Stop acting like it was such a huge surprise.
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