That's annual vs quarter. I'm not sure how long Microsoft has been selling Surface, and I'm not sure the financial reporting period for their 10K filing (I don't believe it's 12 calendar months). But I'm guessing you're comparing many more months of Surface sales versus 3 months of iPad sales.
Well said. No one cares about Windows 8 (most sales are the ones they instantly book from their volume licensing programs and OEM pre-loads) and Surface has been a failure, along with phones and their Nokia partnership. Microsoft used to be able to buy marketshare, but now that they're competing in so many markets, how much longer can they dump money?
And only because they know they can point, click, paycheck. They are the "maintenance men" of the 21st century. Little to no education, fumbled around as hobbyist and turned it into a job.
I don't use any service that doesn't allow me to export all my RSS feeds without a couple of clicks. It took me literally 2 minutes to move from Google Reader to theoldreader.com.
Why would you have to "fiddle with bluetooth" ? You set it up once and it works forever. Personally I just bring my MBA to meetings. Citrix or Office for Mac. Dropbox when I'm out of office or just WiFi + UNC paths when I'm in the office. MUCH better keyboard, higher res and larger display, equal (or better) battery life. I'm not sure what makes the Surface Pro better for that use case?
Which is a great use case, and works really well. Unfortunately, your market is basically business people who would be willing to forgo an ultabook (or macbook air) and use a Surface with a worse keyboard. What percentage of the market is that, really? 99% of consumers don't really care about those features. They just want to watch movies and do light web browsing. For the once in a blue moon they need a spreadsheet or a word processor, they just sit down at their PCs or full blown laptops. The Surface Pro does several things ok and none of them great, and is very expensive. I think (and the market seems to back me up) people would rather have two devices: a tablet and a computer, and use whichever is better for a specific task.
They're just RSS readers, accessible from any device. So I can login to my account from my phone, tablet, any computer, etc. It's all hosted on the internet so you never lose anything. Settings move with you, some have really nice mobile apps, etc.
Isn't that great for you as a consumer? They have to continually win your business, day by day, month by month. And if they fuck you just ONE time, you can flip them the bird and jump ship. This should create a highly competitive market and we should really benefit as consumers, right? I'd kill for this same economic model in say, broadband providers. Can you imagine?
What an interesting post. First you point out that there's no good RSS readers charging $5 a month then you call everyone cheap for not paying for a service that doesn't exist.
I switched to tt-rss. highly configurable, run it yourself, open source, mobile apps, etc. I'm tired of jumping ship at this point I'll just do it myself.
Double what? It's a high end smartphone, it's on par with most other high end smartphone costs. Are you comparing it to a phone on contract, or cheaper phones, or maybe USED phones?
You can get closed loop water cooler setups that you just screw in now for like $100. It's really not considered exotic in custom PCs at all anymore. Source: I just built a new PC (air cooled, by the way).
They wouldn't take a 75% paycut across the board obviously, just that some procedures duration need to be updated. Ever wonder why your doctor always seems to want to stick a camera in your ass? Turns out he gets paid 5x his time to do it. So bend over -- KA-CHING!
I don't see how this is horribly slow? 170hp in a very light (carbon fiber) and very small car makes for totally reasonable performance for the average human.
I just built a PC with 16GB, the RAM itself only cost about $140. The whole build was under $1k. My first PC was around $2,400. Not sure how 20GB of RAM is unrealistic?
I can't imagine they would actually have so little foresight as to call it "New Technology". I mean, what comes next? "Newer Technology" ? "New-New Technology" ?
"Priced inflated beyond worth" but they keep selling them. Does not compute. You don't seem to understand that Cisco is a software company and not just selling you a box filled with ASICs.
Great story of bad network administration by the way. You don't take config backups (using a free tool like rancid) and don't know that your hardware has a software license key that needs to be transferred, but somehow your ignorance is Cisco's fault.
I really do not understand how people like you stay employed in IT.
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That's annual vs quarter. I'm not sure how long Microsoft has been selling Surface, and I'm not sure the financial reporting period for their 10K filing (I don't believe it's 12 calendar months). But I'm guessing you're comparing many more months of Surface sales versus 3 months of iPad sales.
I have a macbook air, iPad and iPhone 5. I don't have iTunes installed anywhere it wasn't preloaded (iOS) and on those devices I don't open it.
Well said. No one cares about Windows 8 (most sales are the ones they instantly book from their volume licensing programs and OEM pre-loads) and Surface has been a failure, along with phones and their Nokia partnership. Microsoft used to be able to buy marketshare, but now that they're competing in so many markets, how much longer can they dump money?
And only because they know they can point, click, paycheck. They are the "maintenance men" of the 21st century. Little to no education, fumbled around as hobbyist and turned it into a job.
I don't use any service that doesn't allow me to export all my RSS feeds without a couple of clicks. It took me literally 2 minutes to move from Google Reader to theoldreader.com.
Why would you have to "fiddle with bluetooth" ? You set it up once and it works forever. Personally I just bring my MBA to meetings. Citrix or Office for Mac. Dropbox when I'm out of office or just WiFi + UNC paths when I'm in the office. MUCH better keyboard, higher res and larger display, equal (or better) battery life. I'm not sure what makes the Surface Pro better for that use case?
Which is a great use case, and works really well. Unfortunately, your market is basically business people who would be willing to forgo an ultabook (or macbook air) and use a Surface with a worse keyboard. What percentage of the market is that, really? 99% of consumers don't really care about those features. They just want to watch movies and do light web browsing. For the once in a blue moon they need a spreadsheet or a word processor, they just sit down at their PCs or full blown laptops. The Surface Pro does several things ok and none of them great, and is very expensive. I think (and the market seems to back me up) people would rather have two devices: a tablet and a computer, and use whichever is better for a specific task.
They're just RSS readers, accessible from any device. So I can login to my account from my phone, tablet, any computer, etc. It's all hosted on the internet so you never lose anything. Settings move with you, some have really nice mobile apps, etc.
Isn't that great for you as a consumer? They have to continually win your business, day by day, month by month. And if they fuck you just ONE time, you can flip them the bird and jump ship. This should create a highly competitive market and we should really benefit as consumers, right? I'd kill for this same economic model in say, broadband providers. Can you imagine?
You forgot tt-rss!
What an interesting post. First you point out that there's no good RSS readers charging $5 a month then you call everyone cheap for not paying for a service that doesn't exist.
I switched to tt-rss. highly configurable, run it yourself, open source, mobile apps, etc. I'm tired of jumping ship at this point I'll just do it myself.
I'm tired of getting bounced around (greader, theoldreader) so I'm just going to run TinyTiny RSS on a dedicated box myself.
Double what? It's a high end smartphone, it's on par with most other high end smartphone costs. Are you comparing it to a phone on contract, or cheaper phones, or maybe USED phones?
You can get closed loop water cooler setups that you just screw in now for like $100. It's really not considered exotic in custom PCs at all anymore. Source: I just built a new PC (air cooled, by the way).
Mayonnaise and vinegar on fries both sound really good and I'd like to try them both. Insects sound disgusting. Bad analogy.
We already eat insects.
They wouldn't take a 75% paycut across the board obviously, just that some procedures duration need to be updated. Ever wonder why your doctor always seems to want to stick a camera in your ass? Turns out he gets paid 5x his time to do it. So bend over -- KA-CHING!
I don't see how this is horribly slow? 170hp in a very light (carbon fiber) and very small car makes for totally reasonable performance for the average human.
I just built a PC with 16GB, the RAM itself only cost about $140. The whole build was under $1k. My first PC was around $2,400. Not sure how 20GB of RAM is unrealistic?
I can't imagine they would actually have so little foresight as to call it "New Technology". I mean, what comes next? "Newer Technology" ? "New-New Technology" ?
You mean the one I had millions of dollars to fund the development of? Golly I'll have to check and get back to you.
"Priced inflated beyond worth" but they keep selling them. Does not compute. You don't seem to understand that Cisco is a software company and not just selling you a box filled with ASICs.
Great story of bad network administration by the way. You don't take config backups (using a free tool like rancid) and don't know that your hardware has a software license key that needs to be transferred, but somehow your ignorance is Cisco's fault.
I really do not understand how people like you stay employed in IT.
They won't let you put smartnet on a used device
I SmartNET used devices from NHR several times a month.
It is when it's detached and asynchronous. In fact it's not really even RAID anymore.