Well, as a Thunderbird user I don't think this is the end of the world, for now. It's not like they really change anything between versions anymore anyway. Email is pretty much a known thing, and the client gets the job done. There's not a whole lot of innovation going on for desktop clients anymore. Plus, fewer people are using them. The danger is that they so understaff it that things stop working and don't get fixed, but I guess we'll see.
Then of course I read they're going to shift the people over to something completely ridiculous like Firefox OS. Mozilla is really all over the map these days, and the product is suffering for it. Firefox OS is just a stupid idea that will never gain any real traction or have any impact, and most of Mozilla's "goals" these days are terrible. Pretty much any time they touch the UI now they make it worse.
At the rate they're going, the time to migrate away will be coming soon.
When did this start? Game previews (especially ones this far out) are a total waste of time. They're controlled by the publisher, and positive 100% of the time. It's nothing more then free PR for the publisher.
Yeah, I really meant to say "excluding Apple".:) They've got the sales & profit thing figured out.
But RIM and Nokia fanboys like to talk about how they have the greatest platform ever and how Android sucks. Meanwhile both companies are hurtling towards irrelevence with plummeting sales. Obviously the market likes Android more then their miracle platforms, and that's the measure that really matters.
If the rumors of WinRT licenses costing $90/tablet are true, then this is the best thing to do. With licensing costs that high HP can't hope to be competitive with Android on the low end. They'll be going up against the iPad and Surface. Why would you want to buy the OS from Microsoft and then have to compete directly against Microsoft, when both of them also have to figure out how to pull the market away from the iPad?
BB10 happens to be missing a feature - nobody can buy it. Sadly, "it shipped" is a critical feature. It doesn't matter how amazing it is without that one feature.
Meanwhile, Android is a crowded market that has lots of demand. People actually buy Android phones. This is the same mistake Nokia made: thinking that being the big fish in a swimming pool is better then being a small fish in the ocean.
Fanboys love to insult Android as second rate, but their "amazing" vendors would trade places with Samsung in a heartbeat because they (and Android) happen to do really well on the metric that matters in the business world: people actually buy it.
The reality for the 3DS is that the market shifted. A lot of DS's were sold to "casuals". Those people are discovering in droves that their phone also does gaming, and for many of them that's good enough. It's convenient & cheap. Nintendo has no answer for those people since they so steadfastly refuse to make games for other platforms (ie: the hardware people actually have).
Instead they're trying to make people pay a Nintendo hardware tax to play first party games on the 3DS, which is really all it's good for. They've only been moderately successful doing that, because when the price was high enough to make money nobody was buying. Now they're moving units, at a loss. All that for some gimmicky 3D tacked onto what is otherwise a really unimpressive piece of hardware. Yay?
The Wii U Is just more of the same. Pay money for Nintendo hardware because that's where Nintendo's game developers are shackled to. It's a shame, their game developers are some of the best around and I'd love to see what they could do on better hardware. I've had enough though, and I'm not paying the NIntendo hardware tax anymore. If they don't want to make games for hardware that I already have, then I'll buy games from the people who will instead.
Unfortunately for Nintendo, the DS was also popular with groups like commuters on the subway. Those people have all migrated over to tablets and smartphones, and they're not coming back.
Turns out they like the convenience of having one device and the huge selection of games at low prices more then they like gimmicky 3D with no battery life. Go figure.
Smartphones are part tool, part fashion accessory. RIM's phones completely fail at the fashion accessory part today. They're simply not the "it" device anymore. That sent sales in the consumer space into the tank.
On the other hand, the phones are also clunky when it comes to serious app use. They're really good as *phones*, but a lot of people don't actually make many phone calls on their smartphones and instead use them as small computers.
If the stories about WinRT costing $90 per copy for OEMs are true, they're not going to be undercutting anything unless Microsoft charges a ton for Surface. You can't make a cheap tablet when the OS costs that much.
A surcharge for this too? I'm surprised the theatres don't charge extra for that new fangled "air conditioner" technology at this point. Or maybe $1 per speaker in the theatre.
Oh well, just another reason to stay home and watch when it hits on demand for a tiny fraction of the cost.
Since a WP7 phone I buy today won't be upgradable when WP8 comes out in a few months, why would I buy one now?
That doesn't even go into the question of why would I buy one then either, given that it'll be competing against the iPhone 5 and whatever Samsung brings out next. Virtually the entire market agrees on this. Microsoft and Nokia haven't done a decent job of telling people why it's a better phone.
This isn't an Apple product. People won't buy it just based on the name (though the iPhone also happens to be a pretty good phone). Windows isn't a positive brand, so Microsoft has to sell it. They've failed.
That's because they expect people to come out of school already able to do exactly what it is they want them to do. You know, rather then training them.
That's a lot of money when we're talking about OEMs. It pushes what would be a $400 tablet to $500, and suddenly it's competing against the iPad. With those kinds of licensing costs you're not going to have an easy time in the low end at all, and Windows 8 will get totally destroyed by Apple in the high end.
According to this, NOT making your bed is better then making it when it comes to dust mites. Obviously washing the sheets and such regularly is a good idea, but you don't have to make the bed to do that.
I don't know about you, but I don't tend to have too many house parties in my bedroom. There's a living room and a kitchen for that.
I also don't see any gain in discipline or self-respect. I do see a few minutes of my life that I won't get back being spent on something that in my house serves no purpose whatsoever. So I don't do it.
The only people worse then programmers at design are designers who have become totally disconnected from their audience. Like say, the ones doing this. The audience is programmers. They probably know what they want, and the areas Visual Studio needs improvement in were not caps locked menus and monochrome grey icons.
Also, all caps is harder to read: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15990443 . We've known this for decades. It was determined before Microsoft existed. They were with the program for a while, then this "Metro" disease showed up in Redmond and now everybody is screwing everything up and calling it Metro (though when they call VS Metro I really don't know what they're talking about, unless Metro is code for ugly).
And while we're on it, what does Apple have to do with this? You're saying they should bash Apple for something that Microsoft just changed their UI to do. Since Microsoft wasn't doing it and now is, why wouldn't we go after them for screwing it up when they had it right before?
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Which was then promptly beaten into submission by Apple not allowing it. So that whole trend is going places.
Well, as a Thunderbird user I don't think this is the end of the world, for now. It's not like they really change anything between versions anymore anyway. Email is pretty much a known thing, and the client gets the job done. There's not a whole lot of innovation going on for desktop clients anymore. Plus, fewer people are using them. The danger is that they so understaff it that things stop working and don't get fixed, but I guess we'll see.
Then of course I read they're going to shift the people over to something completely ridiculous like Firefox OS. Mozilla is really all over the map these days, and the product is suffering for it. Firefox OS is just a stupid idea that will never gain any real traction or have any impact, and most of Mozilla's "goals" these days are terrible. Pretty much any time they touch the UI now they make it worse.
At the rate they're going, the time to migrate away will be coming soon.
When did this start? Game previews (especially ones this far out) are a total waste of time. They're controlled by the publisher, and positive 100% of the time. It's nothing more then free PR for the publisher.
Why is this now something worth being posted?
Yeah, I really meant to say "excluding Apple". :) They've got the sales & profit thing figured out.
But RIM and Nokia fanboys like to talk about how they have the greatest platform ever and how Android sucks. Meanwhile both companies are hurtling towards irrelevence with plummeting sales. Obviously the market likes Android more then their miracle platforms, and that's the measure that really matters.
And if they should just be happening to be charging mobster level service charges on those transactions...
Considering the asian servers were down over a full day to remove duped items and fix the problem? I doubt it.
If the rumors of WinRT licenses costing $90/tablet are true, then this is the best thing to do. With licensing costs that high HP can't hope to be competitive with Android on the low end. They'll be going up against the iPad and Surface. Why would you want to buy the OS from Microsoft and then have to compete directly against Microsoft, when both of them also have to figure out how to pull the market away from the iPad?
It's insanity to even try.
BB10 happens to be missing a feature - nobody can buy it. Sadly, "it shipped" is a critical feature. It doesn't matter how amazing it is without that one feature.
Meanwhile, Android is a crowded market that has lots of demand. People actually buy Android phones. This is the same mistake Nokia made: thinking that being the big fish in a swimming pool is better then being a small fish in the ocean.
Fanboys love to insult Android as second rate, but their "amazing" vendors would trade places with Samsung in a heartbeat because they (and Android) happen to do really well on the metric that matters in the business world: people actually buy it.
Funny how the market doesn't agree with you.
In the end sales happen to matter, and WP7 doesn't have them.
The reality for the 3DS is that the market shifted. A lot of DS's were sold to "casuals". Those people are discovering in droves that their phone also does gaming, and for many of them that's good enough. It's convenient & cheap. Nintendo has no answer for those people since they so steadfastly refuse to make games for other platforms (ie: the hardware people actually have).
Instead they're trying to make people pay a Nintendo hardware tax to play first party games on the 3DS, which is really all it's good for. They've only been moderately successful doing that, because when the price was high enough to make money nobody was buying. Now they're moving units, at a loss. All that for some gimmicky 3D tacked onto what is otherwise a really unimpressive piece of hardware. Yay?
The Wii U Is just more of the same. Pay money for Nintendo hardware because that's where Nintendo's game developers are shackled to. It's a shame, their game developers are some of the best around and I'd love to see what they could do on better hardware. I've had enough though, and I'm not paying the NIntendo hardware tax anymore. If they don't want to make games for hardware that I already have, then I'll buy games from the people who will instead.
Unfortunately for Nintendo, the DS was also popular with groups like commuters on the subway. Those people have all migrated over to tablets and smartphones, and they're not coming back.
Turns out they like the convenience of having one device and the huge selection of games at low prices more then they like gimmicky 3D with no battery life. Go figure.
Which also won't run on ARM Windows 8.
So all those people buying iPads that don't have any other Apple equipment are really just blind Apple fanboys?
Yeah, that must be it. It couldn't possibly because it happens to be a good device or something...
Smartphones are part tool, part fashion accessory. RIM's phones completely fail at the fashion accessory part today. They're simply not the "it" device anymore. That sent sales in the consumer space into the tank.
On the other hand, the phones are also clunky when it comes to serious app use. They're really good as *phones*, but a lot of people don't actually make many phone calls on their smartphones and instead use them as small computers.
If the stories about WinRT costing $90 per copy for OEMs are true, they're not going to be undercutting anything unless Microsoft charges a ton for Surface. You can't make a cheap tablet when the OS costs that much.
A surcharge for this too? I'm surprised the theatres don't charge extra for that new fangled "air conditioner" technology at this point. Or maybe $1 per speaker in the theatre.
Oh well, just another reason to stay home and watch when it hits on demand for a tiny fraction of the cost.
Since a WP7 phone I buy today won't be upgradable when WP8 comes out in a few months, why would I buy one now?
That doesn't even go into the question of why would I buy one then either, given that it'll be competing against the iPhone 5 and whatever Samsung brings out next. Virtually the entire market agrees on this. Microsoft and Nokia haven't done a decent job of telling people why it's a better phone.
This isn't an Apple product. People won't buy it just based on the name (though the iPhone also happens to be a pretty good phone). Windows isn't a positive brand, so Microsoft has to sell it. They've failed.
That's because they expect people to come out of school already able to do exactly what it is they want them to do. You know, rather then training them.
When I'm buying a home tablet I don't care about Office. I do care about price.
Unless they're just going exclusively after the corporate market, this strategy is suicidial.
Corporates also want that shiny toy that the CEO sees his kid with and decides he should have one too.
That's not a Windows tablet.
That's a lot of money when we're talking about OEMs. It pushes what would be a $400 tablet to $500, and suddenly it's competing against the iPad. With those kinds of licensing costs you're not going to have an easy time in the low end at all, and Windows 8 will get totally destroyed by Apple in the high end.
Learn to cook instead. If you can make her dinner and show off a clean kitchen, she's not going to give a damn that you didn't bother making the bed.
According to this, NOT making your bed is better then making it when it comes to dust mites. Obviously washing the sheets and such regularly is a good idea, but you don't have to make the bed to do that.
I don't know about you, but I don't tend to have too many house parties in my bedroom. There's a living room and a kitchen for that.
I also don't see any gain in discipline or self-respect. I do see a few minutes of my life that I won't get back being spent on something that in my house serves no purpose whatsoever. So I don't do it.
That's nice. And here in the real world, a surprisingly large number of IT jobs want people with CS degrees.
Since this is a question about the real world, please take your BS and kindly shove it.
The only people worse then programmers at design are designers who have become totally disconnected from their audience. Like say, the ones doing this. The audience is programmers. They probably know what they want, and the areas Visual Studio needs improvement in were not caps locked menus and monochrome grey icons.
Also, all caps is harder to read: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15990443 . We've known this for decades. It was determined before Microsoft existed. They were with the program for a while, then this "Metro" disease showed up in Redmond and now everybody is screwing everything up and calling it Metro (though when they call VS Metro I really don't know what they're talking about, unless Metro is code for ugly).
And while we're on it, what does Apple have to do with this? You're saying they should bash Apple for something that Microsoft just changed their UI to do. Since Microsoft wasn't doing it and now is, why wouldn't we go after them for screwing it up when they had it right before?