Exactly, the average users aren't technical, and this fact highlights exactly what Mozilla lacks: Marketing, publicity.
I remember when IE 4 came out, the marketing blitz was huge, and all the computer magazines had big articles, and everyone downloaded it with great interest. Mozilla has no such marketing, hell, it doesn't even have an obvious way for the average joe to download it. They need a big old button saying "Download Now" on their website, little "Get Mozilla Now" buttons for other websites to use, magazine articles that proclaim Mozilla's benefits over IE, and magazine/TV advertisements, at the very least for the Netscape product.
But that last item they shall not have, because AOL's support for Netscape is ever waning. And the average user won't know what Mozilla is, although they might recall Netscape as a browser Microsoft defeated long ago.
Don't believe what they say about "Safari being a better option" due to better access to the OS. Those comments are pure smokescreens.
The end of Mac IE goes along with their plan to halt Windows IE development...free IE, anyways. Microsoft never fails to look out for the worst interests of competitors, while at the same time making the max cash, and the seemingly innocuous end to IE development has devious goals: Make money off of IE, and force people to buy Windows. How to accomplish this? Get e-commerce sites, and over time other service sites, to use.NET. Only people who purchase Longhorn will be able to use those sites then, and Microsoft gets money from both sides of the equation! Over time, the more rampant Microsoft-only web content becomes, the more users will be driven to Windows. And of course we can't forget that Office will be on Mac only up until it's turned into a service, at which time all Office users will have to purchase the newest Windows machines and pay monthly fees to use it.
It's not a fast-approaching reality, but it's the reality of Microsoft's dreams, and a reality they are slowly creating behind the average consumers' backs.
Great! Now I'll be able to use my Passport.NET account for matchmaking services! I can't wait for Microsoft to begin providing such wonderful subscription services, can you? I'm salivating just thinking of the day when I can pay Microsoft a monthly rate to fulfill all of my gaming, word processing, e-mail and internet needs.
Read the article AT&T-DoCoMo Alliance: This Changes Everything, also on devicetop.com, for the American slant on things. Note that it says "AT&T and DoCoMo also swore allegiance to WAP Next Generation (WAPNG). It's too early to say what exactly that means, but it may portend a merger of sorts between WAP and i-mode." It also talks about how AT&T will be adding a GSM "overlay" to its existing sysyem. So, i-mode's encroachment on Europe and America may eventually lead to more unified world standards, which is a Good Thing.
I thought the "film" look was because of the slow motion tracking 30 frames per second, whereas video looks real due to the high frame rate, making things look more like they do in real life...Actually, you say first that people think video looks more real, but then go on to say that film is more similar to the way we see things--that doesn't really make sense...
Aha! You have two points wrong: Microsoft succeeds on the third time usually, not the fifth, and the X-box is their second, not first attempt. Remember MSX? This means that Microsoft could control the market with an X-box successor in 2006 or so.
I use WP2K for Windows and it seems to work great for me - although HTML conversion sucks, at least it doesn't crash as Word often did when I opened HTML...I'm not sure what features on the box you're talking about, but I don't know of anything I can't do...then again, it's possible that I have a CD of the patched version. However, it seems to me that anyone who works tech support will always see a product as being buggy, because they are exposed to every single bug.
One thing wrong with that statement: IE 5.0 is viable on a 120MHz 16MB RAM machine. I have a 75MHz 16MB RAM machine which loads IE5 in a couple seconds.
They have the product - it's the advertisements. That's what they're making money off of, and that's why there are the "IM Wars" in the first place. The more eyes on a system, the more money from the advertiser.
For all those people asking for gadgets that do a million things at once I pose this question: will they do all those things well? Furthermore, will they be simple to use? The answer to both is most likely no. Without these two factors, no multi-function gadget will be good enough for the mainstream, and I must say that I wouldn't want to use it personally. Of course, yes, there's always Windows CE, but those systems usually eat tons of batteries and anyway, it's Microsoft. As far as this VARO thing it sort of looks like a swiss-army knife of pocket appliances, not doing any of its functions particularly well, but of course I've never used it... However, I must say that the most likely, and probably easiest to deal with, future will involve one-function computing devices, just like kitchen appliances - toasters can't make juice.
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Exactly, the average users aren't technical, and this fact highlights exactly what Mozilla lacks: Marketing, publicity.
I remember when IE 4 came out, the marketing blitz was huge, and all the computer magazines had big articles, and everyone downloaded it with great interest. Mozilla has no such marketing, hell, it doesn't even have an obvious way for the average joe to download it. They need a big old button saying "Download Now" on their website, little "Get Mozilla Now" buttons for other websites to use, magazine articles that proclaim Mozilla's benefits over IE, and magazine/TV advertisements, at the very least for the Netscape product.
But that last item they shall not have, because AOL's support for Netscape is ever waning. And the average user won't know what Mozilla is, although they might recall Netscape as a browser Microsoft defeated long ago.
Don't believe what they say about "Safari being a better option" due to better access to the OS. Those comments are pure smokescreens.
.NET. Only people who purchase Longhorn will be able to use those sites then, and Microsoft gets money from both sides of the equation! Over time, the more rampant Microsoft-only web content becomes, the more users will be driven to Windows. And of course we can't forget that Office will be on Mac only up until it's turned into a service, at which time all Office users will have to purchase the newest Windows machines and pay monthly fees to use it.
The end of Mac IE goes along with their plan to halt Windows IE development...free IE, anyways. Microsoft never fails to look out for the worst interests of competitors, while at the same time making the max cash, and the seemingly innocuous end to IE development has devious goals: Make money off of IE, and force people to buy Windows. How to accomplish this? Get e-commerce sites, and over time other service sites, to use
It's not a fast-approaching reality, but it's the reality of Microsoft's dreams, and a reality they are slowly creating behind the average consumers' backs.
Great! Now I'll be able to use my Passport .NET account for matchmaking services! I can't wait for Microsoft to begin providing such wonderful subscription services, can you? I'm salivating just thinking of the day when I can pay Microsoft a monthly rate to fulfill all of my gaming, word processing, e-mail and internet needs.
The million mirrors thingy is already out--it's called DSP and it's what most projectors these days use.
Read the article AT&T-DoCoMo Alliance: This Changes Everything, also on devicetop.com, for the American slant on things. Note that it says "AT&T and DoCoMo also swore allegiance to WAP Next Generation (WAPNG). It's too early to say what exactly that means, but it may portend a merger of sorts between WAP and i-mode." It also talks about how AT&T will be adding a GSM "overlay" to its existing sysyem. So, i-mode's encroachment on Europe and America may eventually lead to more unified world standards, which is a Good Thing.
I thought the "film" look was because of the slow motion tracking 30 frames per second, whereas video looks real due to the high frame rate, making things look more like they do in real life...Actually, you say first that people think video looks more real, but then go on to say that film is more similar to the way we see things--that doesn't really make sense...
Aha! You have two points wrong: Microsoft succeeds on the third time usually, not the fifth, and the X-box is their second, not first attempt. Remember MSX? This means that Microsoft could control the market with an X-box successor in 2006 or so.
I use WP2K for Windows and it seems to work great for me - although HTML conversion sucks, at least it doesn't crash as Word often did when I opened HTML...I'm not sure what features on the box you're talking about, but I don't know of anything I can't do...then again, it's possible that I have a CD of the patched version. However, it seems to me that anyone who works tech support will always see a product as being buggy, because they are exposed to every single bug.
One thing wrong with that statement: IE 5.0 is viable on a 120MHz 16MB RAM machine. I have a 75MHz 16MB RAM machine which loads IE5 in a couple seconds.
They have the product - it's the advertisements. That's what they're making money off of, and that's why there are the "IM Wars" in the first place. The more eyes on a system, the more money from the advertiser.
For all those people asking for gadgets that do a million things at once I pose this question: will they do all those things well? Furthermore, will they be simple to use? The answer to both is most likely no. Without these two factors, no multi-function gadget will be good enough for the mainstream, and I must say that I wouldn't want to use it personally. Of course, yes, there's always Windows CE, but those systems usually eat tons of batteries and anyway, it's Microsoft. As far as this VARO thing it sort of looks like a swiss-army knife of pocket appliances, not doing any of its functions particularly well, but of course I've never used it... However, I must say that the most likely, and probably easiest to deal with, future will involve one-function computing devices, just like kitchen appliances - toasters can't make juice.