chutzpah

macxpress said:

muthuk_vanalingam said:

macxpress said:

Just don't text Android users...problem solved!

And live in a narrower world.

Who would ever wanna associate with someone using Android? Clearly they don't have good judgement. 

ArianneFeldry said:

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.

Hotmail into Outlook is a loser?
Vizio is still used today, how is that a loser?
Skype became Lync which was used for Teams, one of the largest collaboration apps, but somehow that's a loss?
Yammer is used as an "internal Facebook" for companies, how is that a loser?
Nokia got them patents and an in on hardware
LinkedIn is doing quite well
Same with GitHub
You say people don't see these implementations in desktop Windows, but you don't see how this stuff is implemented internally or through business software. 

tundraboy said:

chutzpah said:

zomp said:

 Curious to know the percentage of people who own and use any branded phone over 5 years old. The only reason why I'm so negative to this story is that I feel Europe would love to bring down success. I'm sorry, but if you don't like a brand, then buy the other brand. It's a simple as that - I haven't purchased a ford car since 2002 because they didn't last long, so I moved to Hyundai. Why doesn't France just say "don't like apple, buy Samsung" or visa versa. Back before apple, all phones were junk and didn't make it past a couple of years.

You're joking right?

Feature phones lasted ages.  Nokia phones in particular were famous for being basically unbreakable unless you went massively out of your way and threw them under an actual bus.  The software was simple and solid, so didn't stretch the hardware, battery life was measured in weeks rather than days, they just went on and on.

They were junk in terms of what they could do in comparison to a modern smartphone, but lots of them were built to last.

Seriously?  You're putting up Nokia and feature phones as an argument to prove that Apple is intentionally designing iPhones to be obsolete in 5 years?

Where is Nokia's phone business now?  Nonexistent.  Why? Because they were stuck on feature phone tech and couldn't innovate fast enough, well enough to the next level i.e. smartphones.

Smartphone innovation goes at breakneck speed.  There is no reason to build hardware that lasts well more than 5 years if it it won't be able to run the software and handle the data bandwidth that will come out in 5 years.

zomp said:

 Curious to know the percentage of people who own and use any branded phone over 5 years old. The only reason why I'm so negative to this story is that I feel Europe would love to bring down success. I'm sorry, but if you don't like a brand, then buy the other brand. It's a simple as that - I haven't purchased a ford car since 2002 because they didn't last long, so I moved to Hyundai. Why doesn't France just say "don't like apple, buy Samsung" or visa versa. Back before apple, all phones were junk and didn't make it past a couple of years.

fastasleep said:

foregoneconclusion said:

jeffharris said:

Does this mean we’ll see some native Macintosh games? 

Negatory. 

LOL why not?