Not to mention we're busy wasting trillions of dollars on nebulous domestic spending programs to visit a rock that doesn't have the juice it did back in the day.
Maybe the selfishness and corporatism of the Human race, which will one day spawn some interstellar Godwin's Law, somehow caused the blue kittens' world to be flooded.
I found the IMAX "experience" entertaining, while at the same time thinking that if I watched this movie from my couch in 2D and 720p, I would have turned the dreck off halfway through.
When Android and Apple were joining, not only were they innovating, but they were establishing a market - smartphones for non-business consumers.
They didn't need to battle each other for market share, both were simply carving up an emerging customer base.
Microsoft enters the market at a time when most people who are interested in smart phones already have one. Their market share will have to be established by taking customers away from other platforms (very expensive), not grabbing people new to the game (cheap).
This is true, but this is a market where it typically takes around 2 years to even get a shot at a customer.
It will be exceedingly difficult for MSFT to gain a foothold in any market where it's 4th or 5th to the party, let alone this one.
What's their niche? In the desktop world they have business, but Blackberry owns business in the mobile world. Consumers will choose Apple or lower-cost Android devices more than likely.
It's hard to imagine a featureless and slow Windows Phone having anything very attractive to the average mobile customer strolling into an AT&T or T-Mobile store.
It's funny to me that Motorola is saying international users will be left on 1.5 "for the best user experience", but US owners are supposedly still going to get it.
It's probably just a quibble with the carriers about money. But then you have Motorola with this sock puppetry, acting as if it's about the users.
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Not to mention we're busy wasting trillions of dollars on nebulous domestic spending programs to visit a rock that doesn't have the juice it did back in the day.
Maybe the selfishness and corporatism of the Human race, which will one day spawn some interstellar Godwin's Law, somehow caused the blue kittens' world to be flooded.
I found the IMAX "experience" entertaining, while at the same time thinking that if I watched this movie from my couch in 2D and 720p, I would have turned the dreck off halfway through.
So? It's not like it will ever be as good as Dune. /noseup
The Matrix should have had sequels.
It should have had sequels that didn't suck.
Sadly?
I only remember WinCE phones... those WinME phones much have been REALLY crappy! :-)
When Android and Apple were joining, not only were they innovating, but they were establishing a market - smartphones for non-business consumers.
They didn't need to battle each other for market share, both were simply carving up an emerging customer base.
Microsoft enters the market at a time when most people who are interested in smart phones already have one. Their market share will have to be established by taking customers away from other platforms (very expensive), not grabbing people new to the game (cheap).
If you've got a Kin?
So there's supposedly 500 people right there.
This is true, but this is a market where it typically takes around 2 years to even get a shot at a customer.
It will be exceedingly difficult for MSFT to gain a foothold in any market where it's 4th or 5th to the party, let alone this one.
What's their niche? In the desktop world they have business, but Blackberry owns business in the mobile world. Consumers will choose Apple or lower-cost Android devices more than likely.
It's hard to imagine a featureless and slow Windows Phone having anything very attractive to the average mobile customer strolling into an AT&T or T-Mobile store.
Huh? Printers?
I haven't had one of those in 5+ years.
Ink always dried out from lack of use.
Mobile would certainly be a place where he could get a good look at incompetence.
Hasn't he heard? OSS is long-term credible, so FUD can't be used to combat it.
you teasmoking bagcocker!
I was wondering:
What have they actually sold recently?
Who bought it?
What of their property is still in use anymore?
The company claims that the System V software on the block will be free of any bankruptcy-related liens or encumbrances.
O noes! Probably!
May I pay you for protection against lawsuits that you may decide to file against me one day, regardless of their merit?
It was $699 per processor, so... 0 processors!
As your customer, will you ever-so-graciously promise not to sue me for using Linux?
If someone doesn't mod you up in a timely fashion, SCO will sue them for violating their license agreement.
Too bad Microsoft is infringing on no fewer than eleventy billion SCO patents too.
We're finding places where, line by line, they have stolen code that we stole from someone else!
They're about to sue Linus Torvalds, after which they will own everything. (maniacal laughter)
They won't.
2010 may finally be the year of 100MPG on the Car!
Even IE6 has been patched to the point where it's acceptable, or at least tolerable, for us. Again, when the switching costs are in view.
We also have many vendor websites that are IE only, or at least don't work as well with other browsers.
Sure, that sucks, but we have to get work done. IE is more or less being dictated to us from upstream.
It's funny to me that Motorola is saying international users will be left on 1.5 "for the best user experience", but US owners are supposedly still going to get it.
It's probably just a quibble with the carriers about money. But then you have Motorola with this sock puppetry, acting as if it's about the users.