Yesterday, Steve Jobs of Apple held his usual keynote speech at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference at the Moscone Center, San Fransisco. I usually thoroughly enjoy Jobs's keynotes; they are a well-planned piece of theater, complete with drama, comedy, and even action. In between, of course, some new products are announced, and some meaningless figures are given (classic example of spin doctoring: use only the figures of your strongest market, in Apple's case, the US laptop market; ignore the rest). However, this time, the theater part seemed to far outweigh the new-products-part. And that's a shame. Note: The, Tuesday Eve Column.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Would your prefer the Microsoft approach of promising the world and then not being able to deliver?
To a degree, yes. Even though Microsoft may not deliver all the products, if they announce these products and what they can do they get the ideas out there then others can take the same idea and run with it and make a working copy. Now we can have a promised feature from a third party even if Microsoft couldn't deliver on it. This is all in theory of course, but is plausible.
Member since:2006-04-08
Even though Microsoft may not deliver all the products, if they announce these products and what they can do they get the ideas out there then others can take the same idea and run with it and make a working copy. Now we can have a promised feature from a third party even if Microsoft couldn't deliver on it. This is all in theory of course, but is plausible.
This would be nice if Microsoft earned their money by delivering ideas, but they are supposed to deliver an operating system. Their ideas are usually not even new (Faster Search? 3D-Desktop?). Being sure about what will be in a new version of the OS and what's not is valuable, for business and developers.
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2006-08-02
Would your prefer the Microsoft approach of promising the world and then not being able to deliver? Apple typically takes the more cautious approach so they can over-deliver in the end.