ArianneFeldry

danox said:

Microsoft, please complete the deal, please….

What a waste Microsoft just pissed $69 billion dollars down the drain, exceeding, Google, and HP in one shot, this waste of money means don’t expect any significant hardware development for Microsoft in the future.

The Microsoft boneyard gets bigger

* The big Acquisition losers of Microsoft Over the years…..

Web TV $425 million dollars.
Hotmail. $500 million dollars.
Vizio $1.4 billion dollars.
Titus communication $1 billion dollars.
Navison $1.4 billion dollars.
*aQuantive $6.4 billion dollars wrote off in 2012 i.e. (a completewrite off shortly after acquiring)
*Skype Technologies $8.5 billion dollars.
*Yammer $1.2 billion dollars.
*Nokia $7.2 billion dollars.
*LinkedIn $26.5 billion dollars
*Git hub $7.2 billion dollars.
*ZeniMax Media 8.1 billion dollars.
*Nuance Communications to $20 billion dollars.
****Activision $69 billion dollars (Biggest in Microsoft history)****

Note, most were software acquisitions, which upon completion, most of the value of the software company dissipates rapidly, similar to Twitter, as an example.

Most of Microsoft acquisitions were complete right offs in the end. You certainly did not see most of the so-call tech implemented into their finished software i.e., their desktop OS or their web services division software in any meaningful way that justified the inflated prices that they paid for these boondoggles.

In contrast, Apples largest merger in the last 25 years was only $3 billion dollars, Apples best acquisition cost $400 million but it came with the best CEO in the last 25 years, and three other acquisitions, PA Semi, Intrinsity, and Anobit critical to Apple’s, Arm SOC’s development, cost Apple a total of 1.1 billion dollars.

mfryd said:

chutzpah said:

mfryd said:

ArianneFeldry said:

macxpress said:

The EU might as well just be Apple's new design/engineering team. They're doing a great job at stifling innovation by mandating ports and speeds....let's not stop there! What's next, Apple has to make every new iPhone with a minimum 50MP camera? Or, perhaps they will mandate that all new iPhones must be able to run both Android and iOS? 

How exactly is telling Apple to get with the times and use a modern port that allows for a 40Gbps standard stifling innovation? Was Apple stifling innovation when they moved to only USB-C on the Mac? How about with the iPad? Or was Apple being innovative when they did nothing with Lightning to improve speeds? Oh, an adapter allowed for USB 3.0 speeds on one iPad. How innovative!

Why are you mad that the EU is telling Apple that they cannot sell you a device limited to 480Mbps when transferring data?

They are telling Apple that they can't use something better than USB-C for wired charging.

No they aren't.  The regulations do not say anything like that.

Perhaps I misunderstood the EU regulation.  My impression was that if the phone used wired charging, that had to be over a USB-C connector using the USB standard.

This would preclude Apple using a different connector that was rated for higher voltages and/or currents.  

The EU Directive specifically requires that devices specifically incorporate the USB Power Delivery standard, and that any additional charging protocol allows for full functionality of USB Power Delivery.  

The Directive imagines that divergent solutions might be developed in the future, and says that the Commission should take action towards promoting and harmonizing such solutions to avoid future fragmentation of the market.

In other words, if a company develops a better mouse trap, they need to share it with other companies, thus eliminating any competitive advantage.

The primary purpose of the directive is to make charging standard, and to eliminate proprietary (and perhaps superior) charging methods.  They feel that it is better to stick to the lowest common denominator, so that chargers/cables are interchangeable, than to let companies produce unique and better products.

Whether or not one agrees with this is a separate issue.  However, that's clearly the intention of the directive.   https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32022L2380

macxpress said:

The EU might as well just be Apple's new design/engineering team. They're doing a great job at stifling innovation by mandating ports and speeds....let's not stop there! What's next, Apple has to make every new iPhone with a minimum 50MP camera? Or, perhaps they will mandate that all new iPhones must be able to run both Android and iOS? 

lkrupp said:

BiC said:

Darn it! Now I have to go back to Torrents. Sad Sad Day.  What am I going to do with all my computers with a DVD reader.

Are you proud of being a common thief? You’d rent a DVD but steal a stream?