Microsoft's response to Apple's win is probably the most cringeworthy of all. Blatantly admitting Windows Phone can't make a dent in the market on merit, but instead requires the court room to do so, Bill Cox, senior director of Windows Phone marketing communications, said: "Windows Phone is looking gooooood right now." Nauseating.
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Member since:2008-09-21
Your sidenote about Apple need to sue to compete, to not go down and lose, hits the nail. Apple is constantly losing market share against Android and they focus on patents rather then products to stop that. Sueing and turning your "coolness factor" down is not helping to prevent a future decline but its accelerating the downfall. Apple depends, like no other brand, on its reputation and public image. They are actively damaging that for a 1 billion $ peanut. Then Samsung just ships lesser rounded corners at black rectangle in the future and it will sell like before cause nobody buys there devices cause of the black rectangle corner-percentange.
Edited 2012-08-25 17:18 UTC
Member since:2007-11-11
But you have to admit that if you take the latest Android and iOS and put them side by side they DO look a heck of a lot alike. And most of the people I know that bought an Android phone, including members of my family, bought them because they are cheap while still working a lot like the iPhone. And as much as I can't stand Metro even I have to admit that nobody is gonna mistake that for iOS!
So while I don't really have a horse in this race, I'm sticking with my dumbphone because I have a nice EEE and WiFi is everywhere here, I can see why a layperson would sit the two side by side and have trouble telling whose is what.
Personally I hope this brings some actual innovation to the field as I think ALL the current mobile UIs suck in various degrees and I'd love to see someone come out with something better.
At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!
The day has finally come! Jolla has finally announced the launch device for its Sailfish operating system - and by god this is a looker. It's decidedly different from other phones out there, but it has good specifications and carries a relatively reasonably price tag - EUR 399, and it's up for pre-order today, shipping in the fourth quarter of this year.
Why does Google get so much credit in the technology industry? Why, despite the company's many obvious failings, do many geeks and enthusiasts still hold a somewhat positive view on the all-knowing technology giant? A specific talk at Google I/O this week provides the answer.
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"Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening." That's one way to start an insider explanation of why Windows' performance isn't up to snuff. Written by someone who actually contributes code to the Windows NT kernel, the comment on Hacker News, later deleted but reposted with permission on Marc Bevand's blog, paints a very dreary picture of the state of Windows development. The root issue? Think of how Linux is developed, and you'll know the answer.
This is one of those news items that's fun to write, fun to read, fun to comment on, and where no one will be able to say anything unkind. It's all just one big ball of awesome fluffiness. TuneTracker, the BeOS radio automation software, has just released something very special: TuneTracker System 5, the first version designed entirely and specifically for Haiku. In fact, it actually includes Haiku in the software package. Better yet, TuneTracker also unveiled several system-in-a-box products - which have Haiku and TuneTracker pre-installed.
Exactly twenty years ago, a document was published that played a huge role in establishing the web as we know it today. Twenty years later, and this simple and straightforward document is proof of an irrefutable fact: while closed technologies can change markets, open technologies can change the world.Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.Nokia has posted its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2013, and just like the quarters that came before, there's not a whole lot of good news in there. The rise in Lumia sales still can't even dream of making up for the sales drop in Symbian phones, and when broken down in versions, the sales figures for Windows Phone 8 Lumias in particular are very disappointing. In North America, Nokia is getting slaughtered.
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2005-07-06
I'm cheering the industry - which has, sadly, been dealt a heavy blow. Samsung, Apple - they can all disappear for all I care. The industry is all I care about.
Same here - both of them suck; Samsung and their shit support for older devices with Apple believing that the only way they can compete is to sue competitors into a new dimension. Both of them suck but until things change in the United States, the crucible of IT, things won't change internationally.