Reading these comments -- pretty much all condemning a product on the basis that it isn't an Apple Product -- "If it's not Apple and especially if it's Microsoft, it garbage" seems to be the mantra.
Thankfully, Apple itself has never taken on that level of hubris. Steve knew the value of humility and that, despite his confidence in his organization, it's success and the failure of others was never a guarantee...
The great ones always respect their opponents and judge their products on their merits. Thankfully, Apple still seems to have carried on that tradition of humility.
You're ignoring the fact that has been pointed out multiple times, this seems to be by all measures a product MS already announced — the Courier — almost a decade ago and never shipped. Not to mention Ballmer's iPhone comments, the subsequent morbidly late and doomed release of Windows Phone, and their failure to capture much of the tablet market. But sure, let's wait and see!
The "Steve knew..." is getting dangerously close to a "If Steve were alive..."
Reading off a litany of Microsoft failures to prove that THIS product MUST fail, pretty much proves my point about hubris.
And, I am sorry, to point out that Steve was smart enough to avoid that trap and, as I pointed out, hopefully Apple will continue that tradition.
But, we live in a free country. You can pretend that Apple cannot ever fail and Microsoft cannot ever succeed if it gives you comfort....
THE COURIER LIVES!! One of the other crazy concepts that came out of MSFT labs but was shelved cuz it didn’t run office.
I can't believe more ppl didn't comment about the Courier. I got my hopes up so much for that thing before it transpired it was merely vaporware - not even physically possible to build at the time.
I still like the clam-shell idea; I still play a 3DS from time to time and prefer it to my son's non-folding 2DS when we battle. I've been tempted many times by GPD's gear but the high-price and lack of warranty put me off once it's in the basket.
This is the GPD Win 2 - full windows 10 in a 6" clamshell design - remote xbox/ps4 play and steam gaming, not to mention all the emulator back catalogues.
Reading these comments -- pretty much all condemning a product on the basis that it isn't an Apple Product -- "If it's not Apple and especially if it's Microsoft, it garbage" seems to be the mantra.
Thankfully, Apple itself has never taken on that level of hubris. Steve knew the value of humility and that, despite his confidence in his organization, it's success and the failure of others was never a guarantee...
The great ones always respect their opponents and judge their products on their merits. Thankfully, Apple still seems to have carried on that tradition of humility.
You're ignoring the fact that has been pointed out multiple times, this seems to be by all measures a product MS already announced — the Courier — almost a decade ago and never shipped. Not to mention Ballmer's iPhone comments, the subsequent morbidly late and doomed release of Windows Phone, and their failure to capture much of the tablet market. But sure, let's wait and see!
The "Steve knew..." is getting dangerously close to a "If Steve were alive..."
Reading off a litany of Microsoft failures to prove that THIS product MUST fail, pretty much proves my point about hubris.
And, I am sorry, to point out that Steve was smart enough to avoid that trap and, as I pointed out, hopefully Apple will continue that tradition.
But, we live in a free country. You can pretend that Apple cannot ever fail and Microsoft cannot ever succeed if it gives you comfort....
No, we’re referring solely to what appears to be nearly this exact same product, announced nearly a decade ago. That’s not the same thing as listing a litany of failures, and certainly nothing like the “Reading these comments -- pretty much all condemning a product on the basis that it isn't an Apple Product -- ‘If it's not Apple and especially if it's Microsoft, it garbage’ seems to be the mantra.” you claimed was happening.
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Pro is coming next year as we already know and the mini we'll find out about soon enough, but nice try.
Is this an example of "Whataboutism"?
It will change the computing landscape forever
I still like the clam-shell idea; I still play a 3DS from time to time and prefer it to my son's non-folding 2DS when we battle. I've been tempted many times by GPD's gear but the high-price and lack of warranty put me off once it's in the basket.
This is the GPD Win 2 - full windows 10 in a 6" clamshell design - remote xbox/ps4 play and steam gaming, not to mention all the emulator back catalogues.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/dont-expect-microsofts-andromeda-this-year-or-maybe-ever/