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Microsoft Working On Its Own App Store
CWmike writes "Microsoft is working on a software distribution scheme along the lines of Apple's iPhone App Store, CEO Steve Ballmer said yesterday at a developer's conference in Sydney, Australia. 'There's not much money being made, but the general concept of giving developers a way not only to get their code distributed, but to really get visibility for the code, is a good idea,' Ballmer said. Ballmer hinted that something similar would be coming soon from Microsoft. While he said Micrsoft was not ready to detail the works in progress, he said '... fear not, we're hard at work, and you'll see some of the benefits [of that] with some of the concepts, particularly Facebook's.'"
I'm pretty sure the mouse came from Xerox PARC.
No, Doug Englebart invented it at SRI.
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You do realize people have been buying music and software from Microsoft Online services for over 7 years right?
Really? MSN Music launched in 2004, a year after the iTunes Music Store (2003), and it is the first online music store from Microsoft that I can find any references to. I'm aware that Microsoft has had an online software store for a few years, although I've yet to encounter anyone who's bought anything from it (and any non-geeks who are even aware of its existence).
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Same can be said for nearly every console ever apart from the Wii. The PS3 is still selling at a loss a few years on, and in a recent interview I think it was Kaz Hirai (probably wrong) that said they wouldn't recoup the losses made from the PS3 "in his lifetime"
An app store would theoretically allow free apps, as does the iPhone app store. How are they different?
Ever used the iPhone app store? Which allows for updates as well? Also, Windows apps tend to not need dependencies installed.
I'm pretty sure Apple invented the iPod.
That was Kane Kramer. http://gizmodo.com/5046463/apple-admits-british-man-invented-ipod-in-1979-uses-him-to-win-patent-lawsuit
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The poster compared it to apt-get. Apt get allows for updates and upgrading as well as checking for dependencies. I repeat... how is an app store like a repository???
Never once has [iphone app store] supplied the source code for me.
How did the source code requirement suddenly crop up? It wasn't in GGP. Source is not necessary for an MS Windows app store/repo anyway. If this keeps my family members from downloading crap from stupidweatherbugspywareriddledsite.example.com , I think it's a good thing.
your point would be...
Just what you took time to demonstrate in your post, Microsoft was doing all of this crap before Apple.
Therefore, the comment "Monkey see, Monkey do", would better be suited at an attack at Apple, as they are the 'me too' once again. Of course their fanbois wouldn't know this, and probably still think they invented everything, as long as Apple marketing tries to make people believe it.
And yes Apple INTENTIONALLY tries to create this perception. When they run ads about the first 64bit computer - which the UK made they stop saying (and OS X still isn't even 64bit), and then use their marketing strength of cool to run ads about the iPhone or iPod 'revolutions' and then describe features that have been available for years.
But since the basic consumers and Apple fans didn't realize it existed before, they run to buy it and give Apple all the technology credit for crap they ripped off. Yes even the iPhone is a sad knock off. It looks like a rotary dial phone compared to phones in Japan and is very featureless compared to basic Windows Mobile devices people had been using for years. Can anyone say freaking voice dialing even, who in their right mind would release a bluetooth enabled device without any voice features? (And don't say iPhone=multi-touch, it is even a rip off, google TED multi-touch, let alone the Tablet PCs that were multi-touch enabled years before.)
I am tired of the myth of Microsoft is copying Apple crap, especially when Apple vampires the entire industry, puts a cute logo on it and people think it is the gold standard. Some of us had multi-GB MP3 players in the mid 90s, and phones with touch interfaces, real 3G, and even an OS running our own applications for almost 4 years before the iPhone.
The only thing Apple has done well is offer few choices and lock users into their products further, so people that are dumb as rocks feel 'comfortable' about using the product and don't have to worry about even which store to buy the song from.
So ya, Monkey See, Monkey Do - Apple keep up the rip offs for as long as people are stupid enough to believe your marketing, a time will come when people find out they were duped.