Do you work in IT? Hyper-V is all over the place Microsoft has about 25% marketshare in the server virtualization market. It isn't as technically good as VMWare but it is significantly cheaper. I know of many shops that run it, so e actually run both VMWare and Hyper-V. I know of no place that runs Xen other than web hosts.
What provider are you talking about? Verizon and AT&T combine for a huge majority of marketshare and provide the best coverage in the US. AT&T will soon complete it's purchase of TMobile leaving only Sprint as the only major non-Apple carrier.
Also you can purchase an iPhone 3GS or the iPhone 4.
I've been on interviews for programming jobs where they didn't ask any true technical questions. They only asked you to talk about what you have worked on in the past and questions about team work. Not surprisingly they had many programmers who couldn't develop anything.
If your going to make stuff up I guess it can't do anything.
No platform can run any application, even with virtulization you can't apps on other platforms.
iPad has a built in web browser why can't you use any website? I'll give you a hint goto the icon named safari.
All iPads can connect to wifi some can connect to celluar networks as well, so you can connect to networks.
You can't open any file but you can open many types of files. Such as word, excel, PDF.
I have an iPad and I also have multiple computer degrees, I don't find apple hostile. They simply have a different vision than other companies. Some ways better some ways worse. However apple has sold more i devices than there are fanboys so they must be doing something right.
even less than the OS is openness. It's funny when I see people on here say Android sells a lot because it is open. I think Android sells a lot because they have buy 1 get 1 sales and many cheap models.
Android phones are winning marketshare but the iPhone 4 is the single most selling model in the world of all cell phones not just smart phones. So did Apple really lose to Adroid wining. I find it funny how in smart phones only one can win. It would be like saying Mercedes won and BMW lost because there are more MB on the road so they won.
What can't you do on a tablet? You can't program or do some advanced graphical work but I certainly can do anything else. If I need to program I can rep from it to a server or workstation.
The thing is Apple has never really lost marketshare with the iPhone. android is getting more marketshare from new users, and at the expense of blackberry and windows phone. I sure apple would like more marketshare but considering all they sell right now is the 4 and 3GS that isn't too bad. I think the fundamental flaw in smart phone thought is that ut will mirror PCs, why can't it go like a different market for computing devices, the gaming device. There have always been at least two players in this market I think smart phones will be similar. If Apple fails then HP or MS will step up.
You sound like the executive at IBM who said there would be a market for about 5 computers world wide. Tablets are the future of portable computing, laptops are dinosaurs. Look at the ad sales numbers they are incredible and it is not because people want to own an apple product, if they did they would have plenty of other options. The tablet already has the ability to replace laptops and desktops for most home computer users. If you take away tech geeks and graphic artists the iPad and Xoom can pretty much do everything a home user wants games, browse, mail, video, word processing even.
The small size makes it more difficult to justify. It is smaller than iPad Xoom and the forth coming touchpad. The small sized tablet just hasnt been able to get any marketshare look at the galaxy it barely sold. The lack of mail and calendar apps is just plain silly, every smartphone and computer ships with these. The only thing this Tablet will do is reduce the value of RIM stock.
Just use google apps iPhones, androids, web browsers can all connect just fine. It doesn't sound like you are putting up sensitive data that can't be used in the cloud for security reasons.
It takes less jobs produce ebook than hard copy books, Idon't understand how you could possibly think it doesn't?
Also the whole point of technological innovation is to do more with less. Look at the projections even China is projected to start loading manufacturing jobs in the next 30 due to automation. Also the United States is currently the worlds largest manufacturer, so what do you mean by nothing is made in the US anymore?
What do you mean regular folks can't even afford an iPad? Sure the poor can't but the middle class can, why do think it sells so well at 499? If regular folks couldn't afford it, it would be a failed product. In America the middle class has HD tvs, Xbox360s, and other consumer electronics the iPad is no different.
Books are printed, packaged, and shipped this envolves thousands of jobs the majority of which will be replaced by technology and a few IT workers. Yeah you still need authors and editors but that is only part of what's envolved, I wonder if you ever had an economics class or seen a factory or distrubution center.
The history of computers has been replacing jobs this is no different. Typically new areas of the economy will have labor demands that will eventually fill the void of jobs lost. This is how technology effects economies, well before computers thousands of years ago even. the difference is the speed technology innovation is increasing making this occur more rapidly. the idea of new sectors in the economy springing up in the future is little solace though for the laid off.
.Net is great for portability in the Microsoft ecosystem. However the big problem is COM and ActiveX. Take a look at Office 2010 is a list of features that don't work on the 64 bit mode. MS even recommends you install Office 32bit on AM64 systems because of this.
Migrating non-.Net corporate applications from 32XP to 32Win 7 is very difficult. I can't wait for Windows 8 so we can deal with x86, AM64, and ARM Windows all with their own incompatibilities. On the server Windows is easy because they are moving to all AM64 but on the client it will be a nightmare.
I can see how people could argue for the other potential problems you listed but how can you say there is a documentation problem. Windows comes with extensive help, they maintain online libraries of all products and API's. They reLly have three different sites of documentation between microsoft.com, technet, and msdn. Plus they have paid staff that answers questions in their forums. If you think documentation is lacking you haven't beeem reading it.
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Do you work in IT? Hyper-V is all over the place Microsoft has about 25% marketshare in the server virtualization market. It isn't as technically good as VMWare but it is significantly cheaper. I know of many shops that run it, so e actually run both VMWare and Hyper-V. I know of no place that runs Xen other than web hosts.
I think the upside is for Nintendo because this is great advance marketing of their new system.
What provider are you talking about? Verizon and AT&T combine for a huge majority of marketshare and provide the best coverage in the US. AT&T will soon complete it's purchase of TMobile leaving only Sprint as the only major non-Apple carrier.
Also you can purchase an iPhone 3GS or the iPhone 4.
does this surprise anyone?
I've been on interviews for programming jobs where they didn't ask any true technical questions. They only asked you to talk about what you have worked on in the past and questions about team work. Not surprisingly they had many programmers who couldn't develop anything.
MS has good dev tools butthere upgrade wizards for .net 1.1 to 4.0 suck so why would I trust one for another platform.
If your going to make stuff up I guess it can't do anything.
No platform can run any application, even with virtulization you can't apps on other platforms.
iPad has a built in web browser why can't you use any website? I'll give you a hint goto the icon named safari.
All iPads can connect to wifi some can connect to celluar networks as well, so you can connect to networks.
You can't open any file but you can open many types of files. Such as word, excel, PDF.
I have an iPad and I also have multiple computer degrees, I don't find apple hostile. They simply have a different vision than other companies. Some ways better some ways worse. However apple has sold more i devices than there are fanboys so they must be doing something right.
even less than the OS is openness. It's funny when I see people on here say Android sells a lot because it is open. I think Android sells a lot because they have buy 1 get 1 sales and many cheap models.
Android phones are winning marketshare but the iPhone 4 is the single most selling model in the world of all cell phones not just smart phones. So did Apple really lose to Adroid wining. I find it funny how in smart phones only one can win. It would be like saying Mercedes won and BMW lost because there are more MB on the road so they won.
What can't you do on a tablet? You can't program or do some advanced graphical work but I certainly can do anything else. If I need to program I can rep from it to a server or workstation.
The thing is Apple has never really lost marketshare with the iPhone. android is getting more marketshare from new users, and at the expense of blackberry and windows phone. I sure apple would like more marketshare but considering all they sell right now is the 4 and 3GS that isn't too bad. I think the fundamental flaw in smart phone thought is that ut will mirror PCs, why can't it go like a different market for computing devices, the gaming device. There have always been at least two players in this market I think smart phones will be similar. If Apple fails then HP or MS will step up.
I think you just described the use case of a smart phone. Tablets are portable but consumers aren't going to want to carry two devices everywhere.
I want a video of Amazon's data center about 36 hours ago instead.
You sound like the executive at IBM who said there would be a market for about 5 computers world wide. Tablets are the future of portable computing, laptops are dinosaurs. Look at the ad sales numbers they are incredible and it is not because people want to own an apple product, if they did they would have plenty of other options. The tablet already has the ability to replace laptops and desktops for most home computer users. If you take away tech geeks and graphic artists the iPad and Xoom can pretty much do everything a home user wants games, browse, mail, video, word processing even.
The small size makes it more difficult to justify. It is smaller than iPad Xoom and the forth coming touchpad. The small sized tablet just hasnt been able to get any marketshare look at the galaxy it barely sold. The lack of mail and calendar apps is just plain silly, every smartphone and computer ships with these. The only thing this Tablet will do is reduce the value of RIM stock.
You mean like how open Linux desktops beat closed Windows desktops in terms of users?
Just use google apps iPhones, androids, web browsers can all connect just fine. It doesn't sound like you are putting up sensitive data that can't be used in the cloud for security reasons.
It takes less jobs produce ebook than hard copy books, Idon't understand how you could possibly think it doesn't?
Also the whole point of technological innovation is to do more with less. Look at the projections even China is projected to start loading manufacturing jobs in the next 30 due to automation. Also the United States is currently the worlds largest manufacturer, so what do you mean by nothing is made in the US anymore?
What do you mean regular folks can't even afford an iPad? Sure the poor can't but the middle class can, why do think it sells so well at 499? If regular folks couldn't afford it, it would be a failed product. In America the middle class has HD tvs, Xbox360s, and other consumer electronics the iPad is no different.
No jobs will be lost?
Books are printed, packaged, and shipped this envolves thousands of jobs the majority of which will be replaced by technology and a few IT workers. Yeah you still need authors and editors but that is only part of what's envolved, I wonder if you ever had an economics class or seen a factory or distrubution center.
The history of computers has been replacing jobs this is no different. Typically new areas of the economy will have labor demands that will eventually fill the void of jobs lost. This is how technology effects economies, well before computers thousands of years ago even. the difference is the speed technology innovation is increasing making this occur more rapidly. the idea of new sectors in the economy springing up in the future is little solace though for the laid off.
Depends on the code base...
Big deal Atom is just x86 plenty of other OSs run on the architecture other Linux's, BSDs, Solaris, etc...
VB6 all depends on if MS chooses to build in the runtimes into Windows 8. I would be more worried about native COM.
.Net is great for portability in the Microsoft ecosystem. However the big problem is COM and ActiveX. Take a look at Office 2010 is a list of features that don't work on the 64 bit mode. MS even recommends you install Office 32bit on AM64 systems because of this.
Migrating non-.Net corporate applications from 32XP to 32Win 7 is very difficult. I can't wait for Windows 8 so we can deal with x86, AM64, and ARM Windows all with their own incompatibilities. On the server Windows is easy because they are moving to all AM64 but on the client it will be a nightmare.
I can see how people could argue for the other potential problems you listed but how can you say there is a documentation problem. Windows comes with extensive help, they maintain online libraries of all products and API's. They reLly have three different sites of documentation between microsoft.com, technet, and msdn. Plus they have paid staff that answers questions in their forums. If you think documentation is lacking you haven't beeem reading it.