Friday Evening Links > Ballmer: killing the iPad is a "job one urgency"

reply to Z80A

Re: Ballmer: killing the iPad is a "job one urgency"

Bill Gates was able to defeat the Mac because John Sculley gave him an opening. Steve Ballmer will see no such opening with the iPad.

Baldy can do it if they redo the Windows 7 GUI specifically for a single style of tablet device and then get 3rd party devs to write specifically for the device.

IMO, Windows 7 tablets don't move well because there is very little "tablet" software for them. They're regular Windows machines with some pen abilities tacked on. The OS is not a "tablet" OS. It's a desktop OS.
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"Our goal (was to make) a billion phones Flash-enabled by 2010...We're actually going to get 1 billion Flash-enabled phones by 2009." -Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch in Nov 2008.

I agree with you.

They need to develop the open standard for such a slate like they do the desktop version of 7... they need to make it more compact and leaner to run on a smaller piece of hardware, allow it to integrate between the desktop and multiple smart phones, and then think more "app-like" in the sense of programs that run on it rather than, as you said, making a different piece of hardware running the same ol' programs on it. I think that's what frustrates netbook users, such as myself. Running office on a netbook isn't a pleasant experience for me to say the least.

Personally, one reason I've also not liked M/S is that the mobile devices I've owned, be it a netbook or phone, HAS lacked the software built around it, and in regards to my WM phone I had, the "apps" were $20+ a piece.. I just couldn't justify spending that much on an app so small.

If M/S wants to "kill the iAnything" they need to actually think MORE like the iDevices.. I can say that many users here would like an apple-like experience that isn't locked down. If MS did this, I think that it would either prove or disprove the point, once and for all, if apple would be a swinging company if they'd just open up. And, too, MS really needs to not try to also reinvent an entirely new way to do something JUST to be different. If there is one thing I do like about the apple platforms, is they get the user interface/experience down pretty well.