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Quote: Originally Posted by noirdesir How many iPods and iPhones less would Apple have sold if Microsoft had blocked iTunes on Windows? A very significant proportion. If MS had asked for a percentage for each iPod/iPhone synced on Windows, how wo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by noirdesir I have an idea, why not let Microsoft charge one percent of the total amount of every invoice written with Word? Or rather written on a Windows PC. That would be a huge untapped revenue pool for Microsoft. …
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Has anyone ever tried to buy a book on the Sony reader? You can't. The device does not include on-device purchasing. Isn't that odd? C.
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd They dont host any content. Apple are not charging to deliver content. Apple are charging to deliver customers. C.
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning Excellent, it is good to see you finally admit you were wrong. Glad to make you happy. What I should have said was, "Nokia spends $4Bn a year and all they have to show for it is the worst user experience…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Apps written in C# and Silverlight for WP7 should port very easily to Win8. Smartphone is WP7. That's now not 2012. The foundation for Windows developers isn't Win7 or WP7 but .NET, WPF and Silverlight…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht A WP7 skin on top of Win7 is next fastest in time to market. I think such a product will cause massive consumer confusion. Not because it is incompatible with existing software, but because it is compatible w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht MS isn't dumping NT - but they have branched it. One branch for desktop applications and another branch for tablets...unless you believe that they aren't going to continue to evolve windows for the tablet environm…
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I don't think the top grossing, or top downloads necessarily reflect usage. Or why people are buying tablets. But even if they did, the top 100 downloads are dominated by games. Other categories seem equal. And quite a few apps called productiv…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht You mean they're following Apple and not dumping OSX in favor of a mobile OS? Arguably WinCE isn't a horrible foundation either and my preferred one. However, applying the WP7 UI design for a customized Win7 …
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd it advertises to the general market that iOS/OS X is a desktop level OS running on all kinds of machines. I think tablets are heading away from desktops to create a new market, a new set of metaphors, and an …
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Top Grossing iPad apps: #2 Pages #4 Keynote #6 Numbers #8 QuickOffice If you eliminate the games category you're left with a bunch of office productivity apps as the iPad top grossing apps... In terms…
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd To be technical here, all that Apple has to do to make iOS and OS X merge is 1) rename the UKit to Appkit, or vice versa. 2) Add touch events, or click events, depending on which way you went. That is no…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Depends on your definition of well prepared. They have a more or less fully baked multitouch API built into Win7 in part due to the rather derided MS Surface. So in your car dealer example a win7 app can be up…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Firefly7475 Now that is the big question. Where are they headed? They are not headed towards a recreating a desktop-like experience. Back when personal computers were being created, much of the thinking was that …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning It is simply, you claimed Nokia was spending some $4 billion on software R&D alone. I said, and provided proof, no, you are wrong, that figure also includes NSN. It is simple, the figure you provided w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning No, I was proving that the figure you produced was wrong. And if you recall you were wrong, NSN was used as an example to prove you were wrong, which it did. Long story short, you were wrong. I don't …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning None, what is your point? It was provided as proof of your mistake, and it worked a treat. As I understood it, you were trying to explain that Nokia's profligate R&D spending is excused by these variou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Oh, I know what they BELIEVE. But belief doesn't make truth. I don't buy it either. Perhaps the huge wad of cash from MS helped persuade them? C.
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Quote: Originally Posted by emacs72 ... and where are the citations for these figures? Erm . Sony's annual financial reports. They are in the public domain. C.