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Microsoft Employees Love Their iPhones
portscan writes "There is an entertaining and telling article in the Wall Street Journal about iPhone use by Microsoft employees. Apparently, despite it being frowned upon by senior management, iPhone use is rampant among the Redmond rank and file. The head of Microsoft's mobile division tried to explain it away as employees wanting 'to better understand the competition,' although few believe this. Nowhere does the article mention attempts by the company to understand why the iPhone is more attractive to much of Microsoft's tech-savvy workforce than the company's own products."
It's pretty and seductive, but it locks me out of stuff.
And FOSS zealots wonder why it still isn't The Year of Linux on the Desktop, even if its free and open and all.
Better weaselly PR explanation: "Microsoft employees enjoy the iphone because it is a platform for the exciting apps Microsoft has developed."
So do MS think they can copy it or are they just trying to extract all the ip they can. I doubt they will be able to buy Apple which is there normal path to "creating" new technologies.
Eat a bowel of sliced roasted dicks.
Having used both Apple phones and MS phones, personally though I'd rather go back to having a decent phone (IE good at calls and sms at a pinch), decent pda (email, organiser, some apps) and a decent media player.
Haven't you basically just described an iPhone (try 'Airplane Mode' when you're working on a problem). Most criticisms come from people who were hoping for a portable general-purpose computer, but if you see it as a pretty decent phone and SMS client, a PDA with the option for (quite a lot of) PDA-type apps, plus a decent media player, the lockdown and limitations begin to make sense.
I'll get modded down, but my analogy is extremely apt.
What if I want Steve Jobs to suck my dick?
Seriously, what if I wanted that? What is my recourse? He's not offering it to me, in no way has he even made an overture I can interpret that way, so is my desire in any way realistic?
Actually, said iPhone user also has a contract with AT&T specifying acceptable use of the network. Anyone who doesn't like the terms is free to not buy an iPhone. It has nothing to do with being sold by "corporate masters" or whatever rhetoric the entitlement crowd is spouting this week.
You're also free to whine about it on the Internet. Good luck.
Do you hate chlorine in swimming pool water, too? Just curious.