What a charmer. Developers had been on the App Store. And now they're in both, because you have to be crazy to turn down an installed base of 400 million customers for your app.
Apple will not be able to demand these premiums much longer if their market share doesn't pick up. To now they have used the prospect of denying a carrier the iPhone to keep their subsidy up. Since the Android phones are more profitable and more plentiful to the carrier, carriers will eventually say "meh. Let the other guy take the less profitable phone."
The lawsuit involves specific models of phone in the US jurisdiction of the court. Here we are talking about global numbers and all models of smartphone. Your iPad comment likewise ignores this global vs regional, model scope discrepancy, and drags in the type of object confusion also.
These are some impressive numbers. Over the year ago quarter Android's market share increase is more than Apple's entire market share, and the market grew 42 percent overall as well. Uptake has been astounding. 104 million phones in a quarter. A normally slack quarter. Wow.
Apple is seeing decent growth in unit numbers also, even with a new iPhone on the way.
Between Apple and Android they have a full 85 percent, leaving just 15 percent for everybody else. Not one other player has 5 percent. It has become a two horse race.
I would dispute one part of the article: "Legal Challenges Are Effective". Obviously if that were true the numbers would be vastly different. Lots of lawyers are being annoying and making good money. They can get injunctions against individual versions of individual vendors' products in individual jurisdictions. What they cannot do is stop the horde of manufacturers, vendors and product versions that they haven't sued yet, or in other parts of the world. There are neither enough lawyers nor courts in the world to do that. A lawsuit is a point attack and like a sword it can be brutally effective against a point target, but against a swarm of bees it is completely useless.
Geez, what do you think that lame tablet can do? Let's review what a real OS needs, from the Windows XP spec:
Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)
At least 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM (128 MB is recommended)
At least 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available space on the hard disk
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
Keyboard and a Microsoft Mouse or some other compatible pointing device
Video adapter and monitor with Super VGA (800 x 600)or higher resolution
Sound card
Speakers or headphones
Oh my, how ever is a 1600 MHz 4+1 core Tegra 3, 1GB RAM, 16GB SSD tablet ever going to get across that high bar?
This is supposed to happen. The mods are going to go back and forth on this one for a while. Don't worry about me: I have infinite Karma. I can bear it - I do this all the time. I'm actually a honeypot the admins use to detect moderation abuse, among other things. Only the noob astroturfers try that now and they immediately lose their mod privileges and get their IP address flagged for monitoring.
It's not possible for Apple or Google to be more evil than Microsoft is. Exploiting the emotions of the soon-to-be widow of a Mac conference organizer stricken by cancer with fake sympathy for the purpose of getting on the schedule to destroy his life's work is about as low as it goes. Several times during the corporate mandatory training an employee trainee was moved to ask: "how do you sleep at night?"
To get above that on the evil scale they'd have to start conducting medical experiments on unwilling subjects, or build some large ovens - which is out of scope for a technology company.
Wow that's a thoughtful, complex post. Let's deal with these issues one at a time.
Para 1: Bill is gone. Bill Gates remains the chairman of the board at Microsoft, and hand-picked all the other board members - who pick the CEO and evaluate his performance, give him goals and guidance, set his pay, bonuses and options, and set policy. Bill is still very much responsible for what goes on there, and weighs in on every big decision.
Para 2: Steve Ballmer. You neglected to mention the sea of red ink that is Microsoft's Online Services Division. I happen to like the direction Steve Ballmer is taking Microsoft. Clearly this is a man with vision and purpose who is ready and able to take the company where I want it to go. It takes Marvel Comics level superpowers to get rid of this much cash flow, to destroy a 42 percent success in mobile market share from 2007 given their advantages and high hopes, to so capably destroy the morale and productivity of the world's best developers, to put a company with this much income in $55B of debt. So let's lay off of Steve-o, mmkay? I like him where he is, sweaty shirt and all.
Para 3: No more Big, Bad MS. With the OOXML debacle that nearly ruined ISO, their recent rape of Nokia, their current ongoing rape of OEMs, retail vendors of both their products and Windows PCs, their planned rape of software distributor partners, developers and competing independent software vendors and much much more they prove every day that they have not changed. Last week they confirmed they're going to murder the advertisers they bought relationships with in an acquisition by making "Do Not Track" the default in IE. Just yesterday it came out that the new replacement for Hotmail, Outlook.com is incompatible with Android. The "new kinder, gentler Microsoft" is a myth. They have now declared war on absolutely everybody on Earth, including the people who pay for their products and excepting only the Women's Temperance Union and media executives. Naturally this means I expect them to announce an embedded bittorent feature for IE that involves a drinking game next.
Para 5. Immortal desktop victory. It's not enough to take ground. Once you take ground, you have to hold it. MS won mobile with 40% share too [link above], once upon a time. And now they'r
Obviously they'll take share and make money by making Windows not work as well on the hardware of their OEM competitors. That won't be hard to do as they must write the drivers for the hardware - the OEMs can't - and these days they're streaming updates so they can make your Dell PC gradually progressively worse instead of waiting for a new Windows version. This has been their go-to strategy with software competitors since, I think, 1986.
OEMs have always known that Microsoft did this to software vendors, and they looked away because they were getting theirs. Lotus, Borland, Aldus, Ashton-Tate and many others fell the same way. Well now it's the OEMs turn to play Microsoftball blindfolded and with their legs hobbled, giving their competitor an advanced look at their strategy.
This is not how copyright works. There is no rule that says that a creator cannot offer their product under many different license terms, nor requiring them to conform to the license terms they require of others. It remains their product to do with as they will until they transfer ownership of the copyright.
The codec is open source. It's not Google's fault your device's vendor won't implement it. If it was an iPod Touch you could do it yourself.
Breaking the openness of the web? Maybe you haven't heard the news today: Microsoft's new Outlook.com doesn't work fully for Android devices. And this very article is about Microsoft wanting to balkanize the web standards we all use once again. Google's work is outstanding in the field.
Oh, I know - it's heresy to say such a thing here. But I really like the direction the man is taking the company right now. It's beautiful it its own way - the butterfly dissection way. He is the artist who is sculpting this crescendo of change. Change is good. I hope they keep him for a long time, maybe even until the end.
Your suggestions for process changes aren't going to happen. Microsoft employees aren't interested in those things. They're interested in working the politics of their environment and those issues take the fore for them. Software development is a minor side issue they have to barely tolerate.
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Logarithms, how do they work?
Wait till you see the sharks.
Start moving significant quantities of spent fuel to dry cask storage. Then ask again. This should be no problem at all.
This is a very good question. I have asked this question myself. It is not however, on point. I didn't say they should drop the price.
What a charmer. Developers had been on the App Store. And now they're in both, because you have to be crazy to turn down an installed base of 400 million customers for your app.
The Apple v MS settlement in 1994 included mutual cross license of all patents up to 1999. The two are probably still cooperating on some level.
This logic is what kept RIM complacent until it was too late.
That makes the right strategy "All my wealth for defence, not one dime for tribute." Pay the danegeld and you'll never get rid of the Dane.
Actually it is meaningful. It tells you if a prospective product is a likely dead end. It tells you where the developers are going to go.
Apple will not be able to demand these premiums much longer if their market share doesn't pick up. To now they have used the prospect of denying a carrier the iPhone to keep their subsidy up. Since the Android phones are more profitable and more plentiful to the carrier, carriers will eventually say "meh. Let the other guy take the less profitable phone."
The lawsuit involves specific models of phone in the US jurisdiction of the court. Here we are talking about global numbers and all models of smartphone. Your iPad comment likewise ignores this global vs regional, model scope discrepancy, and drags in the type of object confusion also.
Selling 100 million phones at $100 profit each is also preferable to selling 100 million desktops and laptops at an average profit of $25 each.
Samsung's smartphones alone sold 2x Apples'.
These are some impressive numbers. Over the year ago quarter Android's market share increase is more than Apple's entire market share, and the market grew 42 percent overall as well. Uptake has been astounding. 104 million phones in a quarter. A normally slack quarter. Wow.
Apple is seeing decent growth in unit numbers also, even with a new iPhone on the way.
Between Apple and Android they have a full 85 percent, leaving just 15 percent for everybody else. Not one other player has 5 percent. It has become a two horse race.
I would dispute one part of the article: "Legal Challenges Are Effective". Obviously if that were true the numbers would be vastly different. Lots of lawyers are being annoying and making good money. They can get injunctions against individual versions of individual vendors' products in individual jurisdictions. What they cannot do is stop the horde of manufacturers, vendors and product versions that they haven't sued yet, or in other parts of the world. There are neither enough lawyers nor courts in the world to do that. A lawsuit is a point attack and like a sword it can be brutally effective against a point target, but against a swarm of bees it is completely useless.
How did I know that someone would be here hating on Google even for this.
Geez, what do you think that lame tablet can do? Let's review what a real OS needs, from the Windows XP spec:
Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)
At least 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM (128 MB is recommended)
At least 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available space on the hard disk
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
Keyboard and a Microsoft Mouse or some other compatible pointing device
Video adapter and monitor with Super VGA (800 x 600)or higher resolution
Sound card
Speakers or headphones
Oh my, how ever is a 1600 MHz 4+1 core Tegra 3, 1GB RAM, 16GB SSD tablet ever going to get across that high bar?
TANSTAAFL
This is supposed to happen. The mods are going to go back and forth on this one for a while. Don't worry about me: I have infinite Karma. I can bear it - I do this all the time. I'm actually a honeypot the admins use to detect moderation abuse, among other things. Only the noob astroturfers try that now and they immediately lose their mod privileges and get their IP address flagged for monitoring.
It's working. Don't mess with it.
/Q: Do people lie on the Internet?
It's not possible for Apple or Google to be more evil than Microsoft is. Exploiting the emotions of the soon-to-be widow of a Mac conference organizer stricken by cancer with fake sympathy for the purpose of getting on the schedule to destroy his life's work is about as low as it goes. Several times during the corporate mandatory training an employee trainee was moved to ask: "how do you sleep at night?"
To get above that on the evil scale they'd have to start conducting medical experiments on unwilling subjects, or build some large ovens - which is out of scope for a technology company.
Wow that's a thoughtful, complex post. Let's deal with these issues one at a time.
Para 1: Bill is gone. Bill Gates remains the chairman of the board at Microsoft, and hand-picked all the other board members - who pick the CEO and evaluate his performance, give him goals and guidance, set his pay, bonuses and options, and set policy. Bill is still very much responsible for what goes on there, and weighs in on every big decision.
Para 2: Steve Ballmer. You neglected to mention the sea of red ink that is Microsoft's Online Services Division. I happen to like the direction Steve Ballmer is taking Microsoft. Clearly this is a man with vision and purpose who is ready and able to take the company where I want it to go. It takes Marvel Comics level superpowers to get rid of this much cash flow, to destroy a 42 percent success in mobile market share from 2007 given their advantages and high hopes, to so capably destroy the morale and productivity of the world's best developers, to put a company with this much income in $55B of debt. So let's lay off of Steve-o, mmkay? I like him where he is, sweaty shirt and all.
Para 3: No more Big, Bad MS. With the OOXML debacle that nearly ruined ISO, their recent rape of Nokia, their current ongoing rape of OEMs, retail vendors of both their products and Windows PCs, their planned rape of software distributor partners, developers and competing independent software vendors and much much more they prove every day that they have not changed. Last week they confirmed they're going to murder the advertisers they bought relationships with in an acquisition by making "Do Not Track" the default in IE. Just yesterday it came out that the new replacement for Hotmail, Outlook.com is incompatible with Android. The "new kinder, gentler Microsoft" is a myth. They have now declared war on absolutely everybody on Earth, including the people who pay for their products and excepting only the Women's Temperance Union and media executives. Naturally this means I expect them to announce an embedded bittorent feature for IE that involves a drinking game next.
Para 4. Ballmer outbound. Steve Ballmer is not retiring for another seven years at least, when his last kid goes off to college.
Para 5. Immortal desktop victory. It's not enough to take ground. Once you take ground, you have to hold it. MS won mobile with 40% share too [link above], once upon a time. And now they'r
68 percent for 2012Q2, and still rising - four times Apple.
Obviously they'll take share and make money by making Windows not work as well on the hardware of their OEM competitors. That won't be hard to do as they must write the drivers for the hardware - the OEMs can't - and these days they're streaming updates so they can make your Dell PC gradually progressively worse instead of waiting for a new Windows version. This has been their go-to strategy with software competitors since, I think, 1986.
Just in case you're going to get all [citation needed] on me... Here's Microsoft's internal communications about doing this to Novell and here is the painful Novell internal emails about how Outlook 95 broke email on install for users Novell's GroupWise. These are just two recently transcribed documents of 3,600 from the Comes v. Microsoft case that was settled just a few days after the plaintiff put the documents up on their website because Microsoft failed to seal them - and they are all very, very bad. Fortunately some thoughtful people archived them.
OEMs have always known that Microsoft did this to software vendors, and they looked away because they were getting theirs. Lotus, Borland, Aldus, Ashton-Tate and many others fell the same way. Well now it's the OEMs turn to play Microsoftball blindfolded and with their legs hobbled, giving their competitor an advanced look at their strategy.
This is not how copyright works. There is no rule that says that a creator cannot offer their product under many different license terms, nor requiring them to conform to the license terms they require of others. It remains their product to do with as they will until they transfer ownership of the copyright.
The codec is open source. It's not Google's fault your device's vendor won't implement it. If it was an iPod Touch you could do it yourself.
Breaking the openness of the web? Maybe you haven't heard the news today: Microsoft's new Outlook.com doesn't work fully for Android devices. And this very article is about Microsoft wanting to balkanize the web standards we all use once again. Google's work is outstanding in the field.
In the news today, Outlook.com doesn't work well with Android. So this deliberate incompatibility thing isn't historical. It continues even to today.
Oh, I know - it's heresy to say such a thing here. But I really like the direction the man is taking the company right now. It's beautiful it its own way - the butterfly dissection way. He is the artist who is sculpting this crescendo of change. Change is good. I hope they keep him for a long time, maybe even until the end.
Your suggestions for process changes aren't going to happen. Microsoft employees aren't interested in those things. They're interested in working the politics of their environment and those issues take the fore for them. Software development is a minor side issue they have to barely tolerate.