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  • Feral Interactive will ship driving simulation game 'Dirt Rally' on macOS later this year

    calicali
    Apple TV please!
    watto_cobra

  • Dow Jones blames 'technical error' for news claiming Google would buy Apple

    calicali
    9 Billion... who believed this?

    How did a troll get ahold of the Dow Jones Newswires?
    chiajbdragonLukeCagebb-15dysamoriacornchipwatto_cobra

  • Microsoft pulls plug on Windows 10 Mobile, says userbase too small to support apps

    calicali
    anome said:
    cali said:
    hodar said:
    eightzero said:
    When is the funeral?
    That was the part I remember the most during their "Release", was the "Funeral Parade".  The sheer arrogance of MSFT, they arrive to the market 3+ years late, without any new features, and then stage a funeral on how they are going to kill Apple.  Then they released a Lumia 1020 with 41 MP camera, when the tech clearly didn't support that level of technology.  No cut and paste, when every competitor already had it.

    How many times have they done this same dance?  Surface 1, Surface 2, Surface RT, Kin1 and Kin2, Zune, Windows phones - all cancelled without support, leaving their user base suck with an unsupported platform.  You would think that people would catch on eventually.
    They didn’t arrive to the market late. They had phones years before iPhone. iPhone wasn’t the first phone in the world even though most kids think so. 

    No, they weren't late to the market, but they were late to realise that the market had changed, and they had to adapt. MS were arguably at the top of the "smartphone" market prior to 2007, and mistakenly believed that meant they understood it. They failed to realise that, rather than having the best platform, they just had the least bad platform available. They were completely unprepared for anyone to bring something better to market, and for users to start buying it. Then they relied way too much on people sticking with the familiar - people know Windows, so let's run Windows on everything - rather than trying to innovate.

    It would be trite to say it was all Ballmer's fault. There were a lot of people involved in a series of bad decisions, but as CEO at the time, Ballmer does have to take a lot of the blame.

    Apple was late to the market.

    No it wasn’t ballmers fault, it was Apple’s fault. The iPhone destroyed everything. As much of a monkey that Ballmer was, no one could have saved MS from iPhone. Remember Windows and blackberry were doing GREAT. The only reason android is around is because Eric and others had inside info and their goal was to make cheap knockoffs for...cheap. Had Google been in MS’ shoes too, iPhone would have ruled both market share and profit share. iPod anyone?

    The problem was Steve thinking MS was the enemy when the bigger snake was lying with him the whole time. 
    watto_cobracornchip

  • Microsoft pulls plug on Windows 10 Mobile, says userbase too small to support apps

    calicali
    tmay said:
    cali said:
    hodar said:
    eightzero said:
    When is the funeral?
    That was the part I remember the most during their "Release", was the "Funeral Parade".  The sheer arrogance of MSFT, they arrive to the market 3+ years late, without any new features, and then stage a funeral on how they are going to kill Apple.  Then they released a Lumia 1020 with 41 MP camera, when the tech clearly didn't support that level of technology.  No cut and paste, when every competitor already had it.

    How many times have they done this same dance?  Surface 1, Surface 2, Surface RT, Kin1 and Kin2, Zune, Windows phones - all cancelled without support, leaving their user base suck with an unsupported platform.  You would think that people would catch on eventually.
    They didn’t arrive to the market late. They had phones years before iPhone. iPhone wasn’t the first phone in the world even though most kids think so. 
    The current market is defined by the original iPhone. If there was a market for phones before that, it died when the iPhone arrived, so yeah, MS arrived to the market late.
    You mean they arrived late to the iPhone copycat market.

    Remember Ballmer’s “we are selling millions of phones every year. Apple is selling 0.”
    anton zuykovStrangeDayswatto_cobraretrogustocornchipjony0

  • Apple's iPad Pro to gain Face ID with TrueDepth camera in 2018 - report

    calicali
    Is he gonna be considered a genius for predicting the predictable?

    You know where FaceID will be really useful? Apple Watch.

    How is Apple gonna handle online Apple Pay payments with FaceID?
    Nod to pay?
    Automatic pay once you click?
    doozydozenAvieshek