Yeah, same is true for my GPS watch. I know that it *can* make it through a few runs but anxiety over it running out mid run forces me to charge it every day.
I hate Apple as a company. Look through my past comments and you'll see that I bash them probably even more than they deserve. Yet, even I think this is a silly argument. We aren't coming full circle. It's more like we're just further along on a spiral staircase. Our positions may seem to line up in a superficial way (winding / charging) but the circumstances and what you get for the effort is are very different.
Dropbox et al have built a business model on selling what MS and Google are now abundantly giving away for free. I'm sure they care quite a bit and it will be interesting to see how they respond in an effort to stay relevant.
I'm using a tiny fraction of the 5Tb they already give me even though I put all my photo's, music, home video, documents, etc up there. So it's already basically unlimited.
I think Bank of America tries to solve this by having an Account Image that you are supposed to recognize before entering your particulars. The MITB would need to know which image to show me as well as pop up what looks like a real sign in screen.
Windows 7 would be fine for me if I only had one system. I don't though. I have a bunch of systems and it's sooo nice to have settings and things just auto sync between them without a bunch of hackery. The onedrive integration is much better in Win10 than Win7 too.
Windows has started going the other way. Win8.1 runs faster on my main dev box than Vista did and one of the main goals of Win10 is to bring along old systems and get as many people as possible to move on up. No doubt this has hurt the hardware folks though as there's less and less reason to buy a new system.
My main dev box at work started as a Vista system. Upgraded through Win7 and now it's been upgraded to Win8.1. It only feels slow compared to my much newer system at home. It doesn't take any longer to load files or reboot than it ever did. In fact it's only gotten faster as I've upgraded. What I don't do is install a bunch of crap on it that's going to run in the background. At home it's much the same only I run most of the systems as a standard (non-admin) user. Want to stop pretty much all drive by installs in their tracks? Run as a standard user.
Your criticism is two years too late. This isn't one size fits all. Win8 was one size fits all with the "Everyone gets a start screen" attitude. This is bringing back what made Windows great, user choice. Don't like the start screen? Fine, use the start menu. Not happy with that? Fine customize it till the cows come home. It will work differently on different devices which is exactly what people have been asking for.
Both wrong. The first Build was in 2010 where they gave out the Samsung slate running the first public developer release of Win8. I still use mine every day. 2011 they gave out Nokia 920 phones. 2012 was Surface RT tablets. 2013 Build was Surface Pro tablets with a crappy Acer 8" thrown in. 2014 they gave out Xbox units (but not for dev which made it strange) and $500 credit at the MS store.
Oh, I didn't say anything about revenue. I completely agree that Apple is a really well run money generation machine. They've always done well selling Macs even though the market share was low. Back in the day when I would talk to my mac friends they would assure me that they liked it that way; Apple wasn't going to compromise in pursuit of market share.
Then the iPhone was a hit. It seemed like everyone had one and my friends were all happy to crow about their fat market share and I don't say I blamed them. It feels good to back a winner. WP isn't going away though. Unlike Blackberry, MS is still making money hand over fist in other places and the mobile segment of their strategy is too important to give up on. They'll just keep pouring money into it until it has momentum to self sustain. That's what they did with xbox, windows server and even office back when it was the underdog.
As a fan of WP I have gained an appreciation for how my Mac friends feel on the PC side. Meanwhile Google is just going to keep pushing the peddle and Android will seep into every nook and cranny of our lives. Not a pleasant thought but I don't see anyone catching them any time soon.
I agree that Windows Phone has very little market share. If we think of this in PC terms, Android is MS, Apple is still Apple and MS is Linux. As of 2nd quarter data: Android:84.7% Apple:11.7% and MS:2.5%
My point is that it doesn't make sense to talk about Apple as though they're part of a Coke/Pepsi style duopoly. There's really just Android with everyone else way back there.
Those stats mix in tablets where Apple does have a solid lead. Looking at just 2nd quarter phone data from IDC: Android:84.7% Apple:11.7% and MS:2.5%
If this were the PC days Andorid would be MS, Apple would still be Apple, and MS would be Linux so it doesn't make sense to talk about Android and Apple as though they're a Coke/Pepsi style duopoly.
Youtube really needs to take the lead in solving vertical video syndrome. I'm sure they can autodetect when some lunkhead is pushing up a vertical video and scrunch it into full view. It would look horrible but might convince people to turn the damn phone. They could also keep a count and after three strikes just refuse to accept vertical videos from the offending party.
The apps isn't really even that big of an issue any more. There will always be a gap in the number of apps but it's getting closer in terms of a usefulness gap. With the exception of an official Starbucks app there's not anything I feel I'm missing.
I get your point and it's a good one but I just want to put a pin in the myth of the mobile OS duopoly. Windows Phone isn't very far behind IOS. Both are waaay behind Android. It's more accurate to think of it as an Android monopoly and then everyone else.
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I know it seems crazy but the Apple watch doesn't have GPS. Microsoft did it right.
Yeah, same is true for my GPS watch. I know that it *can* make it through a few runs but anxiety over it running out mid run forces me to charge it every day.
Oh, it relies on winding. It's that the winding happened so long ago people don't think of it in those terms.
I hate Apple as a company. Look through my past comments and you'll see that I bash them probably even more than they deserve. Yet, even I think this is a silly argument. We aren't coming full circle. It's more like we're just further along on a spiral staircase. Our positions may seem to line up in a superficial way (winding / charging) but the circumstances and what you get for the effort is are very different.
So Microsoft is the Batman?
All app stores are a mess.
So Dropbox has a chance to tread water until MS fixes that.
Not really a bright future considering my point wasn't just about MS. Does the Google client work better? How much free space does Apple give?
Dropbox et al have built a business model on selling what MS and Google are now abundantly giving away for free. I'm sure they care quite a bit and it will be interesting to see how they respond in an effort to stay relevant.
I'm using a tiny fraction of the 5Tb they already give me even though I put all my photo's, music, home video, documents, etc up there. So it's already basically unlimited.
It's not rape when you are giving full consent.
I think Bank of America tries to solve this by having an Account Image that you are supposed to recognize before entering your particulars. The MITB would need to know which image to show me as well as pop up what looks like a real sign in screen.
Windows 7 would be fine for me if I only had one system. I don't though. I have a bunch of systems and it's sooo nice to have settings and things just auto sync between them without a bunch of hackery. The onedrive integration is much better in Win10 than Win7 too.
Self checkout lines reduce the amount of pointless human interaction I have to endure in a day. Totally worth it imo.
Windows has started going the other way. Win8.1 runs faster on my main dev box than Vista did and one of the main goals of Win10 is to bring along old systems and get as many people as possible to move on up. No doubt this has hurt the hardware folks though as there's less and less reason to buy a new system.
My main dev box at work started as a Vista system. Upgraded through Win7 and now it's been upgraded to Win8.1. It only feels slow compared to my much newer system at home. It doesn't take any longer to load files or reboot than it ever did. In fact it's only gotten faster as I've upgraded.
What I don't do is install a bunch of crap on it that's going to run in the background. At home it's much the same only I run most of the systems as a standard (non-admin) user. Want to stop pretty much all drive by installs in their tracks? Run as a standard user.
Your criticism is two years too late.
This isn't one size fits all. Win8 was one size fits all with the "Everyone gets a start screen" attitude. This is bringing back what made Windows great, user choice. Don't like the start screen? Fine, use the start menu. Not happy with that? Fine customize it till the cows come home. It will work differently on different devices which is exactly what people have been asking for.
Pinning things to the task bar is the way to go. I almost never need to use the start page.
Curse my faulty memory circuits!
You are right.
2012 they gave us Nokia 920s AND Surface RT units.
I hope this doesn't mean they're not going to do Build. This has been a pretty sweet gravy train.
Both wrong. The first Build was in 2010 where they gave out the Samsung slate running the first public developer release of Win8. I still use mine every day.
2011 they gave out Nokia 920 phones.
2012 was Surface RT tablets.
2013 Build was Surface Pro tablets with a crappy Acer 8" thrown in.
2014 they gave out Xbox units (but not for dev which made it strange) and $500 credit at the MS store.
Oh, I didn't say anything about revenue. I completely agree that Apple is a really well run money generation machine. They've always done well selling Macs even though the market share was low. Back in the day when I would talk to my mac friends they would assure me that they liked it that way; Apple wasn't going to compromise in pursuit of market share.
Then the iPhone was a hit. It seemed like everyone had one and my friends were all happy to crow about their fat market share and I don't say I blamed them. It feels good to back a winner. WP isn't going away though. Unlike Blackberry, MS is still making money hand over fist in other places and the mobile segment of their strategy is too important to give up on. They'll just keep pouring money into it until it has momentum to self sustain. That's what they did with xbox, windows server and even office back when it was the underdog.
As a fan of WP I have gained an appreciation for how my Mac friends feel on the PC side. Meanwhile Google is just going to keep pushing the peddle and Android will seep into every nook and cranny of our lives. Not a pleasant thought but I don't see anyone catching them any time soon.
I agree that Windows Phone has very little market share. If we think of this in PC terms, Android is MS, Apple is still Apple and MS is Linux.
As of 2nd quarter data:
Android:84.7% Apple:11.7% and MS:2.5%
My point is that it doesn't make sense to talk about Apple as though they're part of a Coke/Pepsi style duopoly. There's really just Android with everyone else way back there.
Those stats mix in tablets where Apple does have a solid lead. Looking at just 2nd quarter phone data from IDC:
Android:84.7% Apple:11.7% and MS:2.5%
If this were the PC days Andorid would be MS, Apple would still be Apple, and MS would be Linux so it doesn't make sense to talk about Android and Apple as though they're a Coke/Pepsi style duopoly.
Youtube really needs to take the lead in solving vertical video syndrome. I'm sure they can autodetect when some lunkhead is pushing up a vertical video and scrunch it into full view. It would look horrible but might convince people to turn the damn phone. They could also keep a count and after three strikes just refuse to accept vertical videos from the offending party.
The apps isn't really even that big of an issue any more. There will always be a gap in the number of apps but it's getting closer in terms of a usefulness gap. With the exception of an official Starbucks app there's not anything I feel I'm missing.
I get your point and it's a good one but I just want to put a pin in the myth of the mobile OS duopoly. Windows Phone isn't very far behind IOS. Both are waaay behind Android. It's more accurate to think of it as an Android monopoly and then everyone else.