11-25-2012, 06:24 PM | #121 |
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True but the thing with Google is unlike other tech companies its eco system is the Internet so what's good for the Internet is normally good for Google.
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11-25-2012, 09:49 PM | #122 |
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11-25-2012, 09:51 PM | #123 |
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Microsoft's world view was to control the OS and basic broad market packages - and leave open the hooks for the equivalent of VAR's to deal with the niche markets. The reason was they wanted to grab the big buck products, and let the rabble have the rest. The results were all sorta of minor incompatibility problems, but a broad swatch of niche products. Apple (from 1980, with one short exception in the mid '90's) tried to control everything. The result was a very consistent result, on average, but a vastly smaller "world". However Apple addressed some niche markets, not due to the needs of the niche markets, but because they were what was available after Microsoft had grabbed the big, mass market applications. Now Apple, through iOS, has become Microsoft. Unfortunately, having got the big bucks, (and the big power), they have no compunction about stepping on those who got them there. This should come as no surprise, they've been doing it for decades. (But always in the name of a smooth-running product!) Think Motorola, Power PC, and soon Intel based software, as Apple migrates iOS to the desktop - using ARM processors... Sadly, Microsoft is doing the same. Starting with Vista, they started killing their "back catalog" of software. Can't run Word 97 in Win 7, go buy a new Word. The old one would work just fine, but there's no money in it for Microsoft, so kill the past. I feel sorry for those professionals dependent on old software, but the big boys don't care. And Apple is a Big Boy now, no matter what the hype machine says...and they want to make you rebuy your system every couple of years for their profits... Last edited by Greg Anos; 11-26-2012 at 05:58 PM. Reason: typos |
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11-26-2012, 08:09 AM | #126 |
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Aren't they just slowing down the migration cycle as was done before.
Computers are pretty good these days. The programs are pretty competent. I can see folks just sitting awhile, for years before moving to do something. Indeed they just miss entire cycles. For example, I missed Vista, and probably will miss W7. My desktop is 14 years old. I am looking into "Chromebooks." Apple, I only fool with for friends or relatives. Is there some hot expensive technology out that I can't resist? Nope. (I just bought a used $36 Droid 1 for use as a tablet.) I am becoming a "bottom feeder." |
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11-26-2012, 10:20 AM | #129 | |
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For professional applications, high-end gaming, and a slew of other functions beyond the ability of mobile OSes and apps, the PC will remain the device of choice for at least several years yet. |
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This has always been the case, but you've got the trend backwards: in every survey for several years now, far more Android/Windows users express an interest in switching to Apple products than the opposite.
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As the kids of this generation grow up they would have grown up buying digital goods and very few physical goods. So for them to subscribe to a gaming cloud service like onlive will make more sense then buying a console. |
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In addition to profit, engagement is another arena in which iOS and Android differ significantly. I have repeatedly asked: what do Android users do with their phones? Despite Android's massive market share, its users lag behind in every metric of mobile engagement: less browsing, less WiFi use, fewer photos uploaded, fewer app purchases, fewer games played, fewer online purchases, and so on and so on. Asymco goes into this today with news that 77% of mobile retail traffic came from iOS devices this Thanksgiving weekend:
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11-26-2012, 11:42 AM | #134 | |
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EDIT: Hmm, I just read about OnLive (never used it before). Seems like you might be right, if the experience is decent. Really interesting. Still a ways off, though, if only for the constraints imposed by most Internet connections that you mentioned. Last edited by holymadness; 11-26-2012 at 12:08 PM. |
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Do I choose OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice.org? Which will give me the best support? Which is more likely to still be a viable project in 5 years time? 10? Of course I might have chosen StarOffice in order to get the hopefully better support that Oracle offered, but StarOffice and its successor are dead now as a result of this infighting. |
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