Another boring money post

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Where does MS growth come from?

What do you mean? They don't have any as the graph clearly displays. In fact, they have negative growth.

[MJZiggy]

What do you mean? They don't have any as the graph clearly displays. In fact, they have negative growth.

Think! Critically!

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Think! Critically!

You worded your question very poorly. It's a really stupid question. Where is Microsoft supposed to grow you ask? IDK, maybe all of the fields that Apple/Google/whomever has beat them in?? The Zune was a failure. Windows Phone 7 is incredible and would be the talk of industry instead of Android if it came out 2 years earlier. There are countless examples of this. For a company of their size, why are they not creating new products and creating entire markets? Apple did this with the iPad, iPod and iPhone. What has Microsoft done this in? Google is better at search and web services. Apple is better at integrated user experiences.

Their failures in consumer electronics are truly shocking and quite well documented. They have the home court advantage and could make a truly wonderful experience (like Apple does) so easily... They have the OS market, so everyone is already running for their software... If they could just get the integration and hardware parts down they'd be unstoppable. Fortunately for Apple, Microsoft didn't really innovate for the last 10 years so they did not use this to their advantage. As I've been saying for weeks... right now, with Windows 8 and WP7, this is the most exciting time in Redmond that I can remember, so ~15 years or so.

[MadtownPacker]

Partial - Are you gonna start this shit again? I can see the path you are on. Why do you have to put me in a bad spot?

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Partial - Are you gonna start this shit again? I can see the path you are on. Why do you have to put me in a bad spot?

Nah man I'm cool. RG & Zig love to metaphorically poke the bear. I'm gonna go for a month or so soon anyway. Getting back into bad habits.

[MadtownPacker]

Nah man I'm cool. RG & Zig love to metaphorically poke the bear. I'm gonna go for a month or so soon anyway. Getting back into bad habits.

If you cant take your meds and be cool then do what you have to do. I will talk to RG and ziggy.

[mraynrand]

this is the most exciting time in Redmond that I can remember, so ~15 years or so.

I know what you mean - I Moved out in 1995. I miss the exciting days of the Power Macintosh 6100. Of course nothing can compare with the excitement in July, 2001, when the Power Mac G4 Cube hit the market for the low, low price of $2000! What a product!



Exciting times. But not as exciting as Apple Lisa - woo, hoo, she was a hottie!

[mraynrand]

Partial - Are you gonna start this shit again? I can see the path you are on. Why do you have to put me in a bad spot?

He's OK. RG gets way too heated up.

Take it easy people, this isn't FYI!!!

[retailguy]

If you cant take your meds and be cool then do what you have to do. I will talk to RG and ziggy.

There's no need to talk to me.

[Zool]

I know what you mean - I Moved out in 1995. I miss the exciting days of the Power Macintosh 6100. Of course nothing can compare with the excitement in July, 2001, when the Power Mac G4 Cube hit the market for the low, low price of $2000! What a product!



Exciting times. But not as exciting as Apple Lisa - woo, hoo, she was a hottie!

I used mine to cook food...well until the processor melted to the MB.

[Zool]

The iTunes issue is one of convenience. The iPod hardware issue is that it lacks a bit in sound reproduction capability.

Actually this again is iTunes and their shitty low rips of music. I think most of their stuff is 132 instead of 192 to save size. I've heard rumor that Spotify will have lossless available.

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Isn't iTunes now giving really high quality stuff? I've haven't purchased music since a Blink-182 CD like 10 years ago.

[Upnorth]

Whats iTunes?

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And just like that, the tablet market split in two. Amazon is definitely selling these at a loss. Apple may have to adjust pricing. Amazon is going to be selling these for $100 soon if the zdnet article is to be believed.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/amazons-kindle-fire-just-nuked-the-tablet-market-winners-and-losers/59147

Amazon just split the tablet market with Apple. The Kindle Fire is subsidized because you’ll shop more. Apple will stay high-end. Every tablet maker in the middle is screwed.

Amazon killed the "Android" tablet today. I say "Android" because this is running a 2.x version of Android that is tied tightly to Amazons services much like iOs is to Apples (cue complaining). I think it's great. People are going to jailbreak it and get incredibly cheap hardware. I wonder if Amazon will lock the boot loader to prevent rooting? It wouldn't be crazy since they're selling it at a loss.

Cannot emphasize enough that are now two players in this game. Amazon and Apple. All other tablet makers are completely irrelevant until Win8.

[SkinBasket]

So... remind me again what you get with a "high-end" iPad that you won't be getting with the Amazon device at a much cheaper price? I mean other than an increase in gay sex? Wasn't that the conclusion with the phones?