The thing is they have the Star Wars and lord of the rings sets. But they have a castle set that is like it always was. I was at the Lego store and they have 2 lines of space sets that aren't tied to any movies or franchises.
Having never seen one in person, I wonder how fast you can really type on those covers. If they will be as good as a traditional keyboard or the speed most people can get will be somewhere inbetween a normal keyboard and the virtual screen keyboards all tablets have.
"When I hear about 600,000 apps, I’m just in awe. As I’ve said many times before, however, I don’t think it’s the right number for comparison. Nobody is using more than a couple dozen applications on their device."
Even If I don't count the many games and educational apps my kid use I still see many more than a couple dozen apps that I used in the last week on my ipad.
Also I don't think hooking a mouse to a tablet is a great feature for surface. It just shows me Microsoft doesn't know how people use tablets. Perhaps they should goto a coffee shop and look at all the people using there competitors tablets. the keyboard can make sense if you type large emails or even do word processing, but I would guess most don't use physical keyboards enough to need to purchase one.
Ipad 200,000+ apps, Windows RT has notepad and Office for people who see a tablet and think I want to crunch spreadsheets on that(which you can do on ipad for 9.99 app). advantage ipad
The difference is Apple came to market with the ipad first and has a large marketshare with users that have a penalty to switch since all the apps they bought wont work on Surface. then there is the kindle fire and nook which are less than half the price competing on the low end, who is this product marketed to?
If you are last to market you need to give some reason to switch to your product. Simply saying its Windows doesn't help, Windows Phone doesn't have any real marketshare. On the phone side they already lost with this strategy, an ARM tablet running a version of Windpws most people don't know how to use priced at the sme price as a product that had 3 years of mostly positive buzz around it doesn't make much sense. Plus if a ipad mini is release next week nobody will even notice the 499 surface since all the tech press will talk about is ipad minis and ios maps.
When I hire I find most self taught aren't very good either. I think those with a degree generally have better breadth and depth with different technologies and theories. This is partially because a degree forces you to do some things you aren't interested in. But if you're looking for corporate developers go with information systems majors. Databases design and applied programming languages are more useful to most internal business analyst/developer types than compiler design, Assembler language, and even C.
I would mod you up if I could. That's the biggest problem with most people I work with they want to solve Ll problems with the tool they are best with even if that tool isn't the best for the problem at hand. This applies at all sorts of IT layers: desktop software, OS, development languages, database platforms, ect... It's the old if all you have is a ha,met everything looks like a nail problem.
while I could answer your second question I think there are plenty of good Windows Server Administrators who could not. That type of questioning is more for a DBA or a developer type than a server administrator at any of the places I have worked
Mac has been increasing for home marketshare pretty good though. It will never compete(atleast highly unlikely) in the corporate space though. I bet if you could count all iPads in fortune 500 companies though you'd see what Microsoft is worried about.
re you implying that 10 years ago the Windows ecosystem wasn't as big or bigger than it is now. If anything it has shrank some because of the effect of smart phones and the iPad.
From a UI perspective there is nothing really wrong with the ribbon, it's just unfamiliar when you first use it. Overall I don't think it is any better or worse than a traditional menu system.
Windows 8 UI will be fine for people who want to learnd it. But at work where atleast half the people hate change the UI will cause endless complaints.
There is no certainty that Android will start taking share from IPhone, it hasn't happened yet, I don't see it happening in 2012. the difference between Apple and Google is that Apple is number two in marketshare but number one in revenue. Google needs to find a way to make android more profitable, winning marketshare certainly hasn't helped.
They are so far behind in marketshare they need to do more than create a competing phone, they need to create a better phone. It's hard to see how they can claim much marketshare quickly. the churn rate on iPhone is quite low and people who have those phones generally purchase apps they may be be hesitant to abandon for the MS phone which has a fraction of the apps that iOS has available. On the Android front there are way more models than wp models which creates great pricing deals on the 6 month old models. No I ink MS is like the Tandy of mobile phones.
The problem could just be a lack of capacity planning. When management says we are going to add $1 million worth of iPads on to our mail system plus let users use iPhones and droids the mail admins should be evaluating their infrastructure.
Locking in cheap prices is not anti-trust, they have economies of scale because they can produce a lot of a product on initial order because they know it will sell.
I think Macs are priced too high, but to the average consumer their normal choices are Mac which is over priced but comes with a high quality parts and good support or buy Acer, HP, or Dell which will be cheap but probably won't have as long of life span and has questionable support. I'll tell you one thing my wife has a apple laptop and it's battery performance exceeds any Windows laptop I've had for personal or work use. Not just in how long a charge lasts when she first got it but also in the lifespan of the battery. I can remember one laptop where the battery would only hold a twenty minute charge after 6 months, replaced the battery and less than a year later the same thing happened again.
It would be hard to creat an anti-trust case when there are many other large companies bringing similar products to the table that consumers could buy.
How did you come to this conclusion? I can can goto Starbucks, restaurants, supermarkets, and youth sporting events and very commonly see a tablet somewhere. Generally it is the iPad rarely it is something else, if you want you could say tablets aren't useful, just iPads but that isn't true. You have your head in the sand, tablets are here until somebody thinks of something's better and it isn't a laptop.
Here is a prediction by summer of 2012 if iPad 3 is out the total of all iPads plus kindle Fire will surpass 100 million units sold. Just because , HP, and HTC have been failing to sell tablets does not mean that tablets are failing. There are plenty of computers that failed when they first started moving away from Mainframes as the only computing model. Comodore had several failed models, the Tandy was only mildly successful, Atari made a computer that failed, and other companies at the time made plenty of failure as well. I was only a kid at the time so I can't remember them all and I'm too lazy to research it.
there is a middle ground. You can have separate networks, one that only allows Internet and corporate mail access and another that allows server access. you could support email access on any device that supports active sync, a help desk that can't connect an iPad, droid, or iPhone to a mail server is not help desk. You could limit your support to that, want to access an intranet application require a corporate desktop or server. VPN only for corporate laptops and so forth.
the big problem is corporate purchasing. It is hard for A company to buy an iPad for a few users, especially since they are u sure how productive they will be. but it is very easy for a motivated employees to buy an iPad and possibly see so ething they could do at work.
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Really technology leads to lower paying jobs? Is that why we all make less money than the average person made in 1700?
The thing is they have the Star Wars and lord of the rings sets. But they have a castle set that is like it always was. I was at the Lego store and they have 2 lines of space sets that aren't tied to any movies or franchises.
Having never seen one in person, I wonder how fast you can really type on those covers. If they will be as good as a traditional keyboard or the speed most people can get will be somewhere inbetween a normal keyboard and the virtual screen keyboards all tablets have.
Is this Microsoft's attack on the App Store?
"When I hear about 600,000 apps, I’m just in awe. As I’ve said many times before, however, I don’t think it’s the right number for comparison. Nobody is using more than a couple dozen applications on their device."
Even If I don't count the many games and educational apps my kid use I still see many more than a couple dozen apps that I used in the last week on my ipad.
Also I don't think hooking a mouse to a tablet is a great feature for surface. It just shows me Microsoft doesn't know how people use tablets. Perhaps they should goto a coffee shop and look at all the people using there competitors tablets. the keyboard can make sense if you type large emails or even do word processing, but I would guess most don't use physical keyboards enough to need to purchase one.
Ipad 200,000+ apps, Windows RT has notepad and Office for people who see a tablet and think I want to crunch spreadsheets on that(which you can do on ipad for 9.99 app). advantage ipad
The Xoom was priced a lot higher than the ipad, I don't recall the market responding to this "better" product.
The difference is Apple came to market with the ipad first and has a large marketshare with users that have a penalty to switch since all the apps they bought wont work on Surface. then there is the kindle fire and nook which are less than half the price competing on the low end, who is this product marketed to?
If you are last to market you need to give some reason to switch to your product. Simply saying its Windows doesn't help, Windows Phone doesn't have any real marketshare. On the phone side they already lost with this strategy, an ARM tablet running a version of Windpws most people don't know how to use priced at the sme price as a product that had 3 years of mostly positive buzz around it doesn't make much sense. Plus if a ipad mini is release next week nobody will even notice the 499 surface since all the tech press will talk about is ipad minis and ios maps.
When I hire I find most self taught aren't very good either. I think those with a degree generally have better breadth and depth with different technologies and theories. This is partially because a degree forces you to do some things you aren't interested in. But if you're looking for corporate developers go with information systems majors. Databases design and applied programming languages are more useful to most internal business analyst/developer types than compiler design, Assembler language, and even C.
I would mod you up if I could. That's the biggest problem with most people I work with they want to solve Ll problems with the tool they are best with even if that tool isn't the best for the problem at hand. This applies at all sorts of IT layers: desktop software, OS, development languages, database platforms, ect... It's the old if all you have is a ha,met everything looks like a nail problem.
while I could answer your second question I think there are plenty of good Windows Server Administrators who could not. That type of questioning is more for a DBA or a developer type than a server administrator at any of the places I have worked
Mac has been increasing for home marketshare pretty good though. It will never compete(atleast highly unlikely) in the corporate space though. I bet if you could count all iPads in fortune 500 companies though you'd see what Microsoft is worried about.
re you implying that 10 years ago the Windows ecosystem wasn't as big or bigger than it is now. If anything it has shrank some because of the effect of smart phones and the iPad.
From a UI perspective there is nothing really wrong with the ribbon, it's just unfamiliar when you first use it. Overall I don't think it is any better or worse than a traditional menu system.
Windows 8 UI will be fine for people who want to learnd it. But at work where atleast half the people hate change the UI will cause endless complaints.
Very few entry level salaries at retail stores pay "living" wages. I don't think you understand that low skilled jobs don't pay high wages.
I don't think you would do any better at Best Buy and that is about the closest thing I can think of.
There is no certainty that Android will start taking share from IPhone, it hasn't happened yet, I don't see it happening in 2012. the difference between Apple and Google is that Apple is number two in marketshare but number one in revenue. Google needs to find a way to make android more profitable, winning marketshare certainly hasn't helped.
They are so far behind in marketshare they need to do more than create a competing phone, they need to create a better phone. It's hard to see how they can claim much marketshare quickly. the churn rate on iPhone is quite low and people who have those phones generally purchase apps they may be be hesitant to abandon for the MS phone which has a fraction of the apps that iOS has available. On the Android front there are way more models than wp models which creates great pricing deals on the 6 month old models. No I ink MS is like the Tandy of mobile phones.
The problem could just be a lack of capacity planning. When management says we are going to add $1 million worth of iPads on to our mail system plus let users use iPhones and droids the mail admins should be evaluating their infrastructure.
Use it to buy iPads after everyone complains they bought junk nobody uses.
Locking in cheap prices is not anti-trust, they have economies of scale because they can produce a lot of a product on initial order because they know it will sell.
I think Macs are priced too high, but to the average consumer their normal choices are Mac which is over priced but comes with a high quality parts and good support or buy Acer, HP, or Dell which will be cheap but probably won't have as long of life span and has questionable support. I'll tell you one thing my wife has a apple laptop and it's battery performance exceeds any Windows laptop I've had for personal or work use. Not just in how long a charge lasts when she first got it but also in the lifespan of the battery. I can remember one laptop where the battery would only hold a twenty minute charge after 6 months, replaced the battery and less than a year later the same thing happened again.
It would be hard to creat an anti-trust case when there are many other large companies bringing similar products to the table that consumers could buy.
How did you come to this conclusion? I can can goto Starbucks, restaurants, supermarkets, and youth sporting events and very commonly see a tablet somewhere. Generally it is the iPad rarely it is something else, if you want you could say tablets aren't useful, just iPads but that isn't true. You have your head in the sand, tablets are here until somebody thinks of something's better and it isn't a laptop.
Here is a prediction by summer of 2012 if iPad 3 is out the total of all iPads plus kindle Fire will surpass 100 million units sold. Just because , HP, and HTC have been failing to sell tablets does not mean that tablets are failing. There are plenty of computers that failed when they first started moving away from Mainframes as the only computing model. Comodore had several failed models, the Tandy was only mildly successful, Atari made a computer that failed, and other companies at the time made plenty of failure as well. I was only a kid at the time so I can't remember them all and I'm too lazy to research it.
there is a middle ground. You can have separate networks, one that only allows Internet and corporate mail access and another that allows server access. you could support email access on any device that supports active sync, a help desk that can't connect an iPad, droid, or iPhone to a mail server is not help desk. You could limit your support to that, want to access an intranet application require a corporate desktop or server. VPN only for corporate laptops and so forth.
the big problem is corporate purchasing. It is hard for A company to buy an iPad for a few users, especially since they are u sure how productive they will be. but it is very easy for a motivated employees to buy an iPad and possibly see so ething they could do at work.