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join:2009-11-23 | Ballmer: killing the iPad is a "job one urgency" Good luck Baldy. You'll need it. | |
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 | | | Re: Ballmer: killing the iPad is a "job one urgency" That's Uncle Fester to you. | |
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join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | 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. | |
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join:2009-11-23 Reviews:
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| Re: Ballmer: killing the iPad is a "job one urgency" 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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| | | | fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | Re: Ballmer: killing the iPad is a "job one urgency" 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. | |
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join:2009-11-23
1 edit | Re: Ballmer: killing the iPad is a "job one urgency" And all the iPad-like tablets have been an abject market failure. It's because their software was a complete joke.
Hardware features are meaningless without good software designed for it. | |
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| KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | honestly i think our best hope for a non-Apple pad device will be running Android. I cant see MS being able to shed its desire to make its software work in Consumer and Enterprise markets.
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | 'Suspicious' Android wallpaper app nabs user data “Even good apps can be modified to turn bad after a lot of people download it,” MaHaffey said, Mobile Venture Beat reports. “Users absolutely have to pay attention to what they download. And developers have to be responsible about the data that they collect and how they use it.” ® There HAS to be something said about apple's control over their app store... this issue seems to be becoming a little more normal for my taste at least than it really should.
I think that most people are used to going to their "provider's store" and feeling protected that the apps have been screened and checked out.. to do so otherwise would make me feel about as comfortable as going to Best Buy to purchase software off the shelf and walking away confident that the software I'm about to install on my PC won't be some kind of virus, maleware, or other trojan out to get my information. Yes, there are still going to be some programs available retail that can be considered bad (Sony.. thanks!) but, the chances are that buying something off the shelf is going to be much more secure and safe to use over something you get on line in this situation.
Seems that Google is going to have to maybe start screening their apps a little closer.. doesn't mean NOT allow apps like apple does at times, but at least screen them, or at least admit that most of the stuff there is free-ware like "at your own risk" ... seems that it pretty much is "at your own risk" yet they're not going to ever say that. | |
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| | Broadband Bill What does this mean? "broadand, content and transmission elements." | |
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join:2008-05-11
Proctorville, OH | Time is a friend The open source movement will solve this... it just takes a few more "tic tocs"... It is not like Microsoft or even Apple will have anyway whatsoever to stop us. | |
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| | Ditching landlines? Yes, because i just love using my 20/5 mobile wireless tv device, oh wait, i don't have one.
Sorry, i don't want my cell contract to be how i watch tv, i'm perfectly content with my wired content.
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