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Fat Abe · 04-30-2010, 02:45 PM

Guys (and gals too), lets not forget Google and its Android OS. This is now a four player game.

But as far as applications are concerned, MS still has the lead. Scott McNealey at Sun Microsystems once parodied Powerpoint using a felt-tip pen and a transparent slide. But Powerpoint, like Word, is a full featured application, and therefore non-trivial to re-create, from scratch. Software/hardware companies can talk all they want about OS speed, API feature sets, etc., but it all boils down to the applications. That's why Steve Jobs should be worried- he does not have the talent pool to challenge MS in desktop applications, nor the ace programmers to turn Aperture into a Photoshop killer.

There are so many bloated egos in the software business that I wonder how anyone ever gets anything accomplished, each building their own tower of Babel. Damn you bit twiddlers!

04-30-2010, 02:45 PM	#31
Fat Abe Man Who Stares at Books Posts: 1,826 Karma: 10606722 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: 50th State, USA. Also, PA, NY, CA, and elsewhere. Device: All of the Above	Guys (and gals too), lets not forget Google and its Android OS. This is now a four player game. But as far as applications are concerned, MS still has the lead. Scott McNealey at Sun Microsystems once parodied Powerpoint using a felt-tip pen and a transparent slide. But Powerpoint, like Word, is a full featured application, and therefore non-trivial to re-create, from scratch. Software/hardware companies can talk all they want about OS speed, API feature sets, etc., but it all boils down to the applications. That's why Steve Jobs should be worried- he does not have the talent pool to challenge MS in desktop applications, nor the ace programmers to turn Aperture into a Photoshop killer. There are so many bloated egos in the software business that I wonder how anyone ever gets anything accomplished, each building their own tower of Babel. Damn you bit twiddlers!