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.:Cyb3rGlitch:.
Jul 26, 2008 12:33 PM
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"And, who knows, by then even Apple may have got its enterprise act together."
Not going to happen any time soon. They proved this with the iPhone. They can't handle services for the mass market. That, and their marketing is only suitable for the niche community such as desktop publishing services.
Comment made about the PC Authority article:
Microsoft claims Windows 7 is on track?
January 2010 launch date 'looking good', says Steve Ballmer, adding that the new OS is "starting to look great". Great news if you're considering skipping Vista.
What do you think? Join the discussion. |
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Slatts
Jul 26, 2008 3:36 PM
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Microsoft has a strange and wondrous way of tracking time. Release dates have a way of passing without anything happening. I'll believe it when I see it. |
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bbjai
Jul 26, 2008 6:11 PM
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Office turned out alrite |
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tnetech
Jul 26, 2008 7:08 PM
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What are the chances that Microsoft can accurately give us a date for Windows 7 launch more than 18 months out.
They have never done anything else on time!
http://tnetech.net |
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Jim.Dude
Jul 27, 2008 2:46 PM
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.:Cyb3rGlitch:. wrote:"And, who knows, by then even Apple may have got its enterprise act together." Not going to happen any time soon. They proved this with the iPhone. They can't handle services for the mass market. That, and their marketing is only suitable for the niche community such as desktop publishing services. Comment made about the PC Authority article: Microsoft claims Windows 7 is on track? January 2010 launch date 'looking good', says Steve Ballmer, adding that the new OS is "starting to look great". Great news if you're considering skipping Vista.What do you think? Join the discussion.
The iPhone is a raging success. I think the problem wasn't with their enterprise act, whatever that means, but just that they didn't bank on it being THAT big a success. I think even Apple were surprised by how popular it was!
Besides, when was the last thing that microsoft produced that people went ballistic for? |
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.:Cyb3rGlitch:.
Jul 27, 2008 2:58 PM
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Jim.Dude wrote:Besides, when was the last thing that microsoft produced that people went ballistic for?
Windows 95. :P
But seriously, Microsoft markets their products differently. They don't generate hype because their market is business, not the niche 'style conscious' market Apple aims at. |
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Jim.Dude
Jul 27, 2008 3:05 PM
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95...lolz
But how is the iPhone a niche market? It's completely and utterly dominated the phone market and basically bitch slapped everything else around it. I mean, the worldwide sales figure are some 3 - 4+ million.
http://www.intomobile.com/2008/01/15/apple-on-market-for-200-days-sells-4-million-units-worldwide.html
Seriously, is there anything else out there that sells as fast as the iPhone? I'm thinking maybe only the iPod? |
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Slatts
Jul 27, 2008 7:03 PM
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I'd say it's got a ways to go before it gets out of the niche market category
Nokia sold 115.2 million mobile phones in the first quarter of 2008, as its market share slipped slightly to 39.1 per cent |
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Jim.Dude
Aug 2, 2008 1:11 PM
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True, true...but how long has Nokia been in the phone market? Now how long has Apple been in the phone market? It's hardly a fair comparison.
But even still, amount of market share doesn't equate to niche. By that logic, we could say that ATI or AMD are both niche, since they have less market share than Intel or nVidia, yet we know that the 4870 is a mainstream graphics card and that the Athlon is a mainstream desktop processor. |