The Lumia 950 and its bigger sibling are intended not as a revolution, but as a solid foundation to a brighter and better future for Microsoft’s mobile efforts. They should be judged on that basis, not on whether they’re able to make a dent in the Apple and Google duopoly. To achieve that lofty goal, Microsoft will need multiple generations of devices as well as the collaboration of other service providers willing to bring their apps to its platform. Tomorrow’s event will be indicative of how progress is going along that path, while also giving us a pair of interesting new devices to talk about.
I have little to no hope for Windows Phone. It’s done.
One interesting note for tomorrow’s Microsoft event: there’s rumblings and rumours about Google unveiling official Google applications for Windows 10 tomorrow. It’s nothing solid, and take it with some salt, but it wouldn’t be that surprising – just as Microsoft needed Apple almost 20 years ago, Google may need Microsoft today.
Is it me or verge’s articles are like teenager’s written essays; Very shallow and populistic! Maybe that’s why they are getting popular, or age target is different!?
I reviewed what I wrote and it looks like I have to sleep!!!!
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Pretty much, yes, but also, most articles are written at a 6th grade level. That’s what they historically taught at journalism schools. Explain complex topics, simply. But I guess you’re saying it was written by a Teenager, rather than for them. That’s different. Well, its not exactly the New York Times.
Eh, The Verge is a site for bullshit hype and fanboi wars. They’ve never had any journalistic pretensions at all, they just want people to covet more lifestyle gadgets. Just look at their Apple Watch ‘review’: it’s so overly well done in design, and so shallow in content; they decided it was an historical event long before they received the device, and spent months on the presentation.
If gamergate wanted to attack corruption in * journalism, they should’ve defaced The Verge.
Google doesn’t really need Microsoft. They may be making somewhat cozy with the patent issues, but that’s really about as far as it goes. Microsoft Windows is a platform Google has to deal with, just like they have to deal with OS-X, iOS, and Linux. Microsoft, however, understands that it needs Google to maintain any relevance at all in the mobile market as Google’s the only platform independent services provider that potential customers want. Google doesn’t *need* Microsoft to remain relevant in its core business. Google’s services are designed to be platform independent and that won’t change. The services clients can be deployed on whatever platform be it desktop, mobile, or independent web browser Google wishes to support.
I thought the ‘maybe Google need Microsoft” line to be an odd one as well.
I can’t see any world in which Google need Microsoft, as I (and everyone else) can access all of Google’s services without a single Microsoft product being involved, which is how Google likes it I assume.
The link to MacWorld 1997 should explain things. Microsoft needed Apple to stave off antitrust concerns, and thus, invested in Apple to keep the company alive and have someone to point to when antitrust regulators came a’knockin’.
Google is facing antitrust investigations too, and thus, they need Microsoft all the same.
I tried to tell my Apple fan coworker that was the reason Microsoft helped Apple out, and of course he disagreed and said it was because Steve Jobs was awesome or something.
It’s funny how obvious MS was in their moves back then. It’s also interesting to wonder had Commodore not filed for bankruptcy in 1994, or Atari hadn’t pulled support for the Falcon in the same year they released it… it could have been either one of those innovative companues that could be making billions today. Then again both of those companies almost purposefully refused to innovate since the early 90s, expecting their name and fans alone to carry them… something Apple still seems to survive and profit on.
But the antitrust investigations against Google are the result of the lobbying done by Microsoft and their friends. It would be like Google giving-in to blackmail.
There is also the other problem of Android losing it at the high and mid range which will hand the market to Apple and in turn the advertising dollars along with the high value customers over to Apple as well resulting in Google left with low value customers left that are vast in numbers but weak in purchasing power (which as a result gives them very little leverage when it comes to maintaining margins on advertisements). With the Windows 10 Mobile there is the potential for grab the medium to high end with Microsoft providing a platform for Google to monetise with its own ad system and Microsoft hopefully able to make the investment to at least break even.
…that they succeed, at least in the business market. They’re very good products on their own, and it would be a real shame to see them go.
[rant]This is what happens when the largest section of the market is represented by sheepy hipsters and electronicware-toting teenagers… Sigh.[/rant].