Jon Rubinstein, head of the iPod division added that, in Apple's experience, customers just don't want radios on their iPods. "Believe it or not, we don't get a lot of requests from customers" for a radio, he said. "We're very hesitant to add new features unless we feel a significant portion of the customer base want it."
A lot of customers thought radio is so common a feature and Apple should be clever enough to notice that.
They need to feel our need. Guys, please write to Apple and let them know we want it!
I mean, when you are to replace somebody, you've got to provide close to 100% compatibility.
- "Authentic AMD" is successful to replace "Genuine Intel" because its Athlon can execute the same binaries to the extent that "you can't tell the difference" (unless you use Intel compilers)
- Firefox is successful to replace IE because it doesn't only match IE but also outdoes IE in many ways. Certainly, keeping the web pages the same look and feel has been really the top priority on its feature list.
Now the same has to happen on OpenOffice before you can tell people that OOo is going to replace the MS Office.
I don't know others but I have been trying OpenOffice.org with high hopes every time a substantial new release is out. And every time I was disappointed.
Like it or not, we need (and expect) excellent MS Office import/export capability. We are doing business at the end of the day and most of our biz partners are using Word/Excel/PP.
Until now, I still see lots of glitches here and there when I am importing some MS files.
How can I expect my users to accept these glitches when they switch over to Desktop Linux or even just OpenOffice.org on top of Windows?
It's certainly be nice to have some open-source Skype-grade competitors coming up.
But I am sure this is not likely be one of them. Skype's PSP architecture is still unique and SIP-based products are simply not going to get any close (to this architecture) in the short run.
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SGI *was* cool. How many of you has actually help the company by really *buying* some stuff from them?
Apple *was* cool and *is* cool. I, like many many many of you, own an iPod.
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/11/ 21/495466.aspx
Great news... they are opening up something (XML format to be used in Office 12) which is in future. Bravo.
How about the legacy Office formats? I'll say, "Well... hmm... ar... We are going to drop those anyway and it's not worth doing that."
Jon Rubinstein, head of the iPod division added that, in Apple's experience, customers just don't want radios on their iPods. "Believe it or not, we don't get a lot of requests from customers" for a radio, he said. "We're very hesitant to add new features unless we feel a significant portion of the customer base want it."
A lot of customers thought radio is so common a feature and Apple should be clever enough to notice that.
They need to feel our need. Guys, please write to Apple and let them know we want it!
I mean, when you are to replace somebody, you've got to provide close to 100% compatibility. - "Authentic AMD" is successful to replace "Genuine Intel" because its Athlon can execute the same binaries to the extent that "you can't tell the difference" (unless you use Intel compilers) - Firefox is successful to replace IE because it doesn't only match IE but also outdoes IE in many ways. Certainly, keeping the web pages the same look and feel has been really the top priority on its feature list. Now the same has to happen on OpenOffice before you can tell people that OOo is going to replace the MS Office.
I don't know others but I have been trying OpenOffice.org with high hopes every time a substantial new release is out. And every time I was disappointed. Like it or not, we need (and expect) excellent MS Office import/export capability. We are doing business at the end of the day and most of our biz partners are using Word/Excel/PP. Until now, I still see lots of glitches here and there when I am importing some MS files. How can I expect my users to accept these glitches when they switch over to Desktop Linux or even just OpenOffice.org on top of Windows?
And never restore to the original without first testing your backup on a dummy!
It's certainly be nice to have some open-source Skype-grade competitors coming up. But I am sure this is not likely be one of them. Skype's PSP architecture is still unique and SIP-based products are simply not going to get any close (to this architecture) in the short run.