If they are going to support ARM SOC they will be 32bit there so I doubt they will drop 32bit x86 since intel still produces ATom for Netbooks and some other devices.
Kindle isn't a tablet it is an e-reader. Nook is a disabled tablet to function as an e-reader, very few people actually root it, John Q public doesn't know how to.
It might support 75 user cals but the system resources required to make performance good for SharePoint, Exchange, AD and SQL Server on the same machine would require hardware that would make a distributed multi-server approach cheaper.
Last time I checked more iPads have been sold then all other the sum of all tablets combined seems a little bit more like Linux dominates in the categories I pick and choose.
How do you obsolete the corporate desktop space? Companies have invested millions into custom software that runs on only Windows, do you think they will ditch their very expensive in-house developed software to goto Linux?. These types of migrations take decades to complete. The majority of the places I have worked still have Mainframes performing key processing, they don't actively look for or build new software for these but replacing applications quickly has proven either too risky or too expensive to be completed in short timeframes. I don't even see much of a movement to switch off of windows on the desktop in the corporate space.
I don't know that most of the web data the average home web user uses is served by Linux, perhaps the most by Linux but I don't know a majority. I know Linux owns the small sites marketshare but there is plenty of evidence to support FreeBSD, Windows, and Unix web servers are out there in for e. For example Netflix streaming uses SilverLIght, so they almost are certainly running Windows.
This might come as a surprise to you but the average person does not have a tv powered byLinux, tvs with built in software are relatively new and product turnover rate is not that fast in the tv market.
Windows Server may not be as dominate as Linux but it certainly is not dead. They compete in every server category and have decent market share while it is not dominate like desktops it is still a multi-billion dollar business that is certainly successful. Active Directory, SQL Server, ASP.Net, IIS these are all major products that run on WIndows Server, you can find thousands of jobs on any major job search engine. I think it is a mistake to say MS only has desktop operating systems, it is clearly still a player in the server market.
If theyr're smart Windows Phone 7 will be next. Plus they are foolishly trying to bring laptop style Windows to tablets while Apple is selling millions using iOS.
Where I live Verizon and AT&T are the only two that provide very good service, additionally just because I find this one feature limiting does not nessarly mean I want to switch platforms or carriers.
That still doesn't matter because the hot spot feature really is just software it doesn't really on the carrier. Verizon has the same charge for using a hot spot.
The hot spot feature is such a rip off. I know the carriers forced it to be a system you pay extra for but why is that? With At&t they don't offer unlimited data plans any more so why am I limited on how I use my bandwidth they will charge me extra for the bandwidth why do I have to pay the carier for a software feature?
The iPhone came out years before and had nothing for a point of reference, ms was trying to build something better than iPhone and android years after the first iPhone and couldn't even release something with the same basic features.
Desktop/laptop windows owns the market and they have no real competition so they had the luxury of being able to release a poorly received product. In the phone market they don't have that luxury. I don't see what they can do know to compete since they have little market share, unless they come up with some killer feature nobody else has, and I doubt that exists.
The only Areafor MS is business if they convince their corporate customer to switch off Blackberry. Goto any store and watch what interests people its the iPhone and the big screen Android phones. I suspect Ms is regretting doing the "tile" thing
The next version? It took them years to develop this and it didn't even have copy/paste at launch. They will have minor updates periodically but the next major version is long off. They are so far behind on mobile they don't know what to do.
The nook is sold at its price point because it is expected to bring in ereader revenue. I don't know exactly what it costs to build but Barnes and Noble isn't selling it because they want to sell devices they are selling it to allow them to sell ebooks.
If it wants to compete it will need to be cheaper than the equivalent iPad not the same. If you think primary memory is a selling point I doubt somebody is going to pay for it. also there is debate if the A5 system on chip contains 256 or 512. finally the clock speed of the CPU is 20% higher thatdoesnt mean it is 20% better performance. Tap to sync isn't much of a selling point either since nobody owns a webOS phone to tap against it.
They will need to price under $500 really to compete with iPad given they have a huge software disadvantage and they have essentially equivalent hardware.
Toons of people are rooting them, perhaps literally tons of people. Because it is probably a few hundred to a thousand worldwide. I don't think anybody at Apple is sitting up late at night worried that the normal consumer is going to root ereaders. People want something that works with little configuration. Home users buy the iPad because it's like a small laptop that starts apps instantly , can browse they web, doesn't require constant virus scan updates, and little configuration.
Nerds might not mind rooting a tablet but for Jon Q Public who considers setting up a pop email account difficult it is not an option.
Before the first iPad launched all the analysts expected it to be priced over $1000. Maybe people who post of slashdot thought it was overpriced, but the business sector certainly didn't and competitors still don't know how to compete with similar price and quality.
I found the demo of the webOS tablet very impressive, much more impressive than what other non-Apple companies have shown in their demos(Dell didn't even have a functioning prototype). However how do you know the pricing will be similar? I haven't seen any confirmed pricing or release date.
HP is a long shot because apple has thousands of apps, huge marketing, carriers giving additional marketing, and strong word of mouth. HP has good a good reputation for printers and high end server systems I don't quite know how well they will market a tablet which(at least so far) competes primarily for users outside of work an area where HP has only a marginal reputation.
If I had to guess HP will over price their product and lose out to Apple in the short run. Look at the Xoom it has good hardware but the pricing looks too high and they resided it to market so fast soom of the features won't work until a software update comes out. I imagine Motorolla did this because they fear iPad 2 will own the market for the next 9 months.
I think Google is the bad guys here, they have an algorithm that somebody can easily defeat and then whe. Somebody does they try to punish them. Why do they pay people who ca. Find bugs in Chrome but punish people who the same thing with search.
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this is not all the same. sun was purchased by Oracle this is a partnership. Oracle was doing great Without Sun they will do great with Sun. Nokia doesn't even build hardware that runs the key MS software Desktop and Server Windows, Office, and Xbox.
For the normal home user who browses the Internet, sends emails, and plays games who's doesn't a tablet meet requirements? Tablets also benefit from zero boot time, most people using Windows sit around waiting for the PC to boot and apps to launch. They are not a fad they are going to slowly replace the PC and laptop at home. generation 1 and 2 tablets may have some limitation but they are hardly a toy, they are very powerful computers. $500 for zero boot, all flash memory, laptop replacement seems like a cheap price to me.
iOS that runs on iPad is similar but not the same as iPhone/iPod that is why OS updates don't all come at the same time. I understand that Android is not truly free for Motorolla but they also didn't make it from scratch like iOS and it also doesn't contribute as much to the price as say Windows7 on a Dell laptop. I will agree that Apple benefits from economies of scale, however Motorolla is a huge company as well and should be able to leverage similar advantages.
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If they are going to support ARM SOC they will be 32bit there so I doubt they will drop 32bit x86 since intel still produces ATom for Netbooks and some other devices.
Kindle isn't a tablet it is an e-reader. Nook is a disabled tablet to function as an e-reader, very few people actually root it, John Q public doesn't know how to.
Also Nook doesn't even sell close to iPad look at these unit numbers.. http://blog.suroboy.com/nook-color-ready-compete-ipad-3-million-units-sold.htm
It might support 75 user cals but the system resources required to make performance good for SharePoint, Exchange, AD and SQL Server on the same machine would require hardware that would make a distributed multi-server approach cheaper.
Last time I checked more iPads have been sold then all other the sum of all tablets combined seems a little bit more like Linux dominates in the categories I pick and choose.
A small business server running all the services you just listed could support 5 to 10 users. A mid-sized company has 100 to 5000 users.
How do you obsolete the corporate desktop space? Companies have invested millions into custom software that runs on only Windows, do you think they will ditch their very expensive in-house developed software to goto Linux?. These types of migrations take decades to complete. The majority of the places I have worked still have Mainframes performing key processing, they don't actively look for or build new software for these but replacing applications quickly has proven either too risky or too expensive to be completed in short timeframes. I don't even see much of a movement to switch off of windows on the desktop in the corporate space.
I don't know that most of the web data the average home web user uses is served by Linux, perhaps the most by Linux but I don't know a majority. I know Linux owns the small sites marketshare but there is plenty of evidence to support FreeBSD, Windows, and Unix web servers are out there in for e. For example Netflix streaming uses SilverLIght, so they almost are certainly running Windows.
This might come as a surprise to you but the average person does not have a tv powered byLinux, tvs with built in software are relatively new and product turnover rate is not that fast in the tv market.
Windows Server may not be as dominate as Linux but it certainly is not dead. They compete in every server category and have decent market share while it is not dominate like desktops it is still a multi-billion dollar business that is certainly successful. Active Directory, SQL Server, ASP.Net, IIS these are all major products that run on WIndows Server, you can find thousands of jobs on any major job search engine. I think it is a mistake to say MS only has desktop operating systems, it is clearly still a player in the server market.
If theyr're smart Windows Phone 7 will be next. Plus they are foolishly trying to bring laptop style Windows to tablets while Apple is selling millions using iOS.
Where I live Verizon and AT&T are the only two that provide very good service, additionally just because I find this one feature limiting does not nessarly mean I want to switch platforms or carriers.
That still doesn't matter because the hot spot feature really is just software it doesn't really on the carrier. Verizon has the same charge for using a hot spot.
The hot spot feature is such a rip off. I know the carriers forced it to be a system you pay extra for but why is that? With At&t they don't offer unlimited data plans any more so why am I limited on how I use my bandwidth they will charge me extra for the bandwidth why do I have to pay the carier for a software feature?
The iPhone came out years before and had nothing for a point of reference, ms was trying to build something better than iPhone and android years after the first iPhone and couldn't even release something with the same basic features.
Desktop/laptop windows owns the market and they have no real competition so they had the luxury of being able to release a poorly received product. In the phone market they don't have that luxury. I don't see what they can do know to compete since they have little market share, unless they come up with some killer feature nobody else has, and I doubt that exists.
The only Areafor MS is business if they convince their corporate customer to switch off Blackberry. Goto any store and watch what interests people its the iPhone and the big screen Android phones. I suspect Ms is regretting doing the "tile" thing
The next version? It took them years to develop this and it didn't even have copy/paste at launch. They will have minor updates periodically but the next major version is long off. They are so far behind on mobile they don't know what to do.
The nook is sold at its price point because it is expected to bring in ereader revenue. I don't know exactly what it costs to build but Barnes and Noble isn't selling it because they want to sell devices they are selling it to allow them to sell ebooks.
If it wants to compete it will need to be cheaper than the equivalent iPad not the same. If you think primary memory is a selling point I doubt somebody is going to pay for it. also there is debate if the A5 system on chip contains 256 or 512. finally the clock speed of the CPU is 20% higher thatdoesnt mean it is 20% better performance. Tap to sync isn't much of a selling point either since nobody owns a webOS phone to tap against it.
They will need to price under $500 really to compete with iPad given they have a huge software disadvantage and they have essentially equivalent hardware.
Toons of people are rooting them, perhaps literally tons of people. Because it is probably a few hundred to a thousand worldwide. I don't think anybody at Apple is sitting up late at night worried that the normal consumer is going to root ereaders. People want something that works with little configuration. Home users buy the iPad because it's like a small laptop that starts apps instantly , can browse they web, doesn't require constant virus scan updates, and little configuration.
Nerds might not mind rooting a tablet but for Jon Q Public who considers setting up a pop email account difficult it is not an option.
Before the first iPad launched all the analysts expected it to be priced over $1000. Maybe people who post of slashdot thought it was overpriced, but the business sector certainly didn't and competitors still don't know how to compete with similar price and quality.
I found the demo of the webOS tablet very impressive, much more impressive than what other non-Apple companies have shown in their demos(Dell didn't even have a functioning prototype). However how do you know the pricing will be similar? I haven't seen any confirmed pricing or release date.
HP is a long shot because apple has thousands of apps, huge marketing, carriers giving additional marketing, and strong word of mouth. HP has good a good reputation for printers and high end server systems I don't quite know how well they will market a tablet which(at least so far) competes primarily for users outside of work an area where HP has only a marginal reputation.
If I had to guess HP will over price their product and lose out to Apple in the short run. Look at the Xoom it has good hardware but the pricing looks too high and they resided it to market so fast soom of the features won't work until a software update comes out. I imagine Motorolla did this because they fear iPad 2 will own the market for the next 9 months.
I think Google is the bad guys here, they have an algorithm that somebody can easily defeat and then whe. Somebody does they try to punish them. Why do they pay people who ca. Find bugs in Chrome but punish people who the same thing with search.
this is not all the same. sun was purchased by Oracle this is a partnership. Oracle was doing great Without Sun they will do great with Sun. Nokia doesn't even build hardware that runs the key MS software Desktop and Server Windows, Office, and Xbox.
LG jumped right on those infringements didn't they? Because the PS3 is a brand new product.
For the normal home user who browses the Internet, sends emails, and plays games who's doesn't a tablet meet requirements? Tablets also benefit from zero boot time, most people using Windows sit around waiting for the PC to boot and apps to launch. They are not a fad they are going to slowly replace the PC and laptop at home. generation 1 and 2 tablets may have some limitation but they are hardly a toy, they are very powerful computers. $500 for zero boot, all flash memory, laptop replacement seems like a cheap price to me.
iOS that runs on iPad is similar but not the same as iPhone/iPod that is why OS updates don't all come at the same time. I understand that Android is not truly free for Motorolla but they also didn't make it from scratch like iOS and it also doesn't contribute as much to the price as say Windows7 on a Dell laptop. I will agree that Apple benefits from economies of scale, however Motorolla is a huge company as well and should be able to leverage similar advantages.