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Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate'
zacharye writes "Microsoft is no stranger to criticism these days, and the company's new Windows 8 platform is once again the target of a scathing review from a high-profile user. Well-known Internet entrepreneur and MIT professor Philip Greenspun handed Windows 8 one of its most damning reviews yet earlier this week, calling the new operating system a 'Christmas gift for someone you hate.' Greenspun panned almost every aspect of Microsoft's new software, noting that Microsoft had four years to study Android and more than five to examine iOS, but still couldn't build a usable tablet experience..."
You've obviously never worked with Apple or an Apple shop.
That is unfortunately not true. Whatever you think of Jobs showmanship, or the manipulative way me said "magical" every 5 damn seconds. They do have a massive distortion filter...and the whole media industry bent on lying on there behalf. The reality is though that device that Jobs finally held aloft, was a compelling device, and in three cases the first mass market one of its kind [note not the first, best features].
Apples shares are taking a massive dip right now [The value of dell wiped off their cap in a day!!], and its simply due to Apple only having the "distortion field in effect" not the compelling products. In context of this article Microsoft never had them.
And of those dozen, have you actually found one that works ?
The latest Android is still just fucking awful. Even if you go though the hassle of rooting it or installing some kind of modded OS on the thing, it is terrible.
The iPad is popular for a reason. No, not marketing or blind herd obedience, but because the thing is actually an excellent product.
I used one of the Samsung iPad knockoffs just a few days ago again, and couldn't stand it. All the while, the owner was talking about how much better the specs are on his Samsung compared to the ancient gen-1 iPad I have.