With Apple, every consumer is chained only to the app store.
iOS users overwhelmingly like having a one-stop-shop with all the apps in. That's one of the things they chose that platform for.
It wasn't sprung on them as a change from previous practice. Indeed before the Apple Store, the mobile app market was tiny. Apple's one-stop-shop popularised phone apps.
And you're pulling this data from where exactly? Your intuition?
Is that why so millions of people fall over themselves to jailbreak the phones?
This is the same for everyone not specially created for MS. MS wanted Apple to change the rules for them and how is that Apple's fault if they said no?
Because Office is not the same as every other 99c fart app on the App store.
Which app on the iPad among the million apps following the "rules" is going get more business sales in companies for the iPad apart from Office? That's a ton of $$$ if you count the huge margins on iPads. Thus, MS is in a way stronger negotiating position than the developer of a fart sounds app. If you can't understand that simple logic, I have nothing more to say to you.
Also, the ads didn't say it was Apple's fault. They said there is no Office for the iPad. If Apple was more greedy, then, as I said it's "partly Apple's fault".
But there are a lot of retailers and etailers and there's competition around their margin.. You can buy Office at Staples, Office Depot, Walmart, Fry's, Microcenter or buy it online from a whole ton of places. With Apple, every consumer is chained only to the app store.
A few weeks ago Microsoft released an ad on TV comparing the iPad and the Surface. One "selling point" was the iPad lacks Office. (I mean, bashing a competitor because you didn't port your software to their platform of all things?)
Then, Microsoft releases Office for iOS? Such disorganization.
One "selling point" was the iPad lacks Office. (I mean, bashing a competitor because you didn't port your software to their platform of all things?)
Also, read the part of the summary where it says Apple's forced 30% cut was keeping Office for iPad on hold, so Apple deserves part of the blame for that and the ad is justified in flaunting Office on Windows RT and Windows 8.
Another difference is that you can plug in a mouse to Windows RT/8 and a proper keyboard, so it makes sense to have the full Office run on it, unlike the crippled iPad.
I was referring to the story submitter 'UnknowingFool', not you. Read his posts on Microsoft and you will understand. Your post was funny and I enjoyed it.
Posted this in another comment too... but here we go:
How is this any worse than all the cellphones/laptops/desktops/tablets with mics and cameras? Won't a simple software update to them enable the exact same thing? Okay, most laptop and desktop cams have a hardwired light that turns on, but almost all phones and tablets dont. How is the Xbox One any worse?
Not sure I am getting you, how is this any worse than all the cellphones/laptops/desktops/tablets with mics and cameras? Won't a simple software update to them enable the exact same thing? Okay, most laptop and desktop cams have a hardwired light that turns on, but almost all phones and tablets dont.
It always amazes me how many people actually think that the Xbox is a highly profitable endeavor for Microsoft. While it has turned profitable recently, the Entertainment & Devices Division (where XBox is accounted for) is only mildly profitable. Nowhere near the profit rate of Microsoft's enterprise and desktop cash-cows. It is a stretch to call the Xbox a fiscal "success", at best one could now say it is not "money-losing". It is highly unlikely that Microsoft could expand the revenues and margins of EDD into a company-sustaining business.
That is because the division includes Windows Phone which isn't making much profit right now, not to mention $250 million of cash payments to Nokia every quarter cutting into the profit.
Even with that, they still make a tidy profit.
The EDD reported revenue of $2.53 billion, a 56 percent increase over the $1.61 billion reported during the same period last year. The company also cited a "video game deferral" of $380 million – an advance on the launch of Halo 4, according to Gamasutra – effectively lowering revenues to $2.15 billion. Even so, the EDD racked up an operating income of $342 million, Xbox Live subscriptions rose, however, as did Xbox Live revenue. Specifically, Xbox Live membership grew 18 percent and now totals 46 million members.
So when people say the Xbox is highly profitable, they're right. And EDD would do very well on it's own, even with Windows Phone, with a profit of $342 million just in one quarter. Only on Slashdot does someone think a hypothetical company that makes >1billion profit in a year is not "sustaining".
Really, where are the numbers? Why is Google hiding the real numbers just like they do for the badly selling Chromebooks? They do release numbers(see Android activations) if they are good, so they must be bad. Even Microsoft has come
The point of Gmail is to get you signed into Google.com so that they can track your search keywords across different machines to show ads related to them. e.g. at home and work.
They are choosing a system which has a record of a number of serious disasters and lack of performance at higher system demand levels.
What serious disasters? Do you have any references that of any, especially ones that say it was because of.NET? Those sound like typical things that people who only read Slashdot for news seem to believe. I remember the London Stock Exchange fiasco, but that was because of incompetent people rather than the technology itself. In the last quarter, Microsoft's Server and Tools division recorded an increase in revenue of 11% despite completely free alternatives available.
if for example your Java supplier has a bad security record, to migrate to a different one which is more responsive
Stop being dumb and bigoted. There are tens of thousands of.NET projects if not more that have succeeded. For example Stack Overflow, which any decent programmer uses.
Yet Apple gets a free pass on iPads, same with firms such as Motorola. How much is WindowsRT selling and how much of a threat is it to freedom compared to the iPad?
Last week, American security researcher Jacob Appelbaum found that malware on an Angolan human-rights activist's Apple laptop was "signed" with a legitimate Apple developer ID, allowing it to slip past Apple's baked-in Gatekeeper security software. A new and unusually sneaky piece of Mac malware, discovered last week, has been linked to a larger online espionage campaign being waged from India.
The campaign, dubbed "HangOver" after a text string in the malware code, appears to be based in India and focuses on stealing industrial secrets from companies all over the world.
How come the "Superior UNIX design" that have lead to tens of thousands of +5 Insightful Slashdot posts over the years doesn't protect Android and OS X? If the blame goes to the users, why are you trying to blame the Windows dev team?
I want to know exactly what idiot gave Microsoft the authority to create a law enforcement unit other than their jackbooted licensing audit thugs from the Business Software Alliance.
Needs a judge's approval.
But we’re very careful about how we do this. We’re not just going out there shooting stuff. We walk in with a pile of legal documents. We’re asking for a judge to agree with what we found.
They switch to Windows servers, it crashes and burns horribly, so they switch back. There's no quality control, no development, it goes to hell, and everyone switches to the far superior service Google offers (since they decided to grow their own and not acquire youtube).
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With Apple, every consumer is chained only to the app store.
iOS users overwhelmingly like having a one-stop-shop with all the apps in. That's one of the things they chose that platform for.
It wasn't sprung on them as a change from previous practice. Indeed before the Apple Store, the mobile app market was tiny. Apple's one-stop-shop popularised phone apps.
And you're pulling this data from where exactly? Your intuition?
Is that why so millions of people fall over themselves to jailbreak the phones?
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/latest-jailbreak-statistics-jaw-dropping-154024296.html
http://www.geek.com/apple/stats-reveal-evasi0n-ios-6-1-jailbreak-1538656/
Looks like you're falling victim to ex post facto reasoning and attributing Stockholm syndrome to iOS users.
This is the same for everyone not specially created for MS. MS wanted Apple to change the rules for them and how is that Apple's fault if they said no?
Because Office is not the same as every other 99c fart app on the App store.
Which app on the iPad among the million apps following the "rules" is going get more business sales in companies for the iPad apart from Office? That's a ton of $$$ if you count the huge margins on iPads. Thus, MS is in a way stronger negotiating position than the developer of a fart sounds app. If you can't understand that simple logic, I have nothing more to say to you.
Also, the ads didn't say it was Apple's fault. They said there is no Office for the iPad. If Apple was more greedy, then, as I said it's "partly Apple's fault".
But there are a lot of retailers and etailers and there's competition around their margin.. You can buy Office at Staples, Office Depot, Walmart, Fry's, Microcenter or buy it online from a whole ton of places. With Apple, every consumer is chained only to the app store.
A few weeks ago Microsoft released an ad on TV comparing the iPad and the Surface. One "selling point" was the iPad lacks Office. (I mean, bashing a competitor because you didn't port your software to their platform of all things?)
Then, Microsoft releases Office for iOS? Such disorganization.
There is no Office for iPad.
Atleast read the post titles of the top two posts before rushing to post your two cents you think are worth millions.
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3865737&cid=44005893
As usual it's typical summary fail.
One "selling point" was the iPad lacks Office. (I mean, bashing a competitor because you didn't port your software to their platform of all things?)
Also, read the part of the summary where it says Apple's forced 30% cut was keeping Office for iPad on hold, so Apple deserves part of the blame for that and the ad is justified in flaunting Office on Windows RT and Windows 8.
Another difference is that you can plug in a mouse to Windows RT/8 and a proper keyboard, so it makes sense to have the full Office run on it, unlike the crippled iPad.
I was referring to the story submitter 'UnknowingFool', not you. Read his posts on Microsoft and you will understand. Your post was funny and I enjoyed it.
That is more due to tablet sales than Windows 8, Mac sales are also flat or declining.
"They have nothing to fall back anymore" ? Just the Server & Tools division had 11% increase in revenue last quarter.
The same in the DC metro area.
The submitter is an anti-Microsoft troll.
Typical Slashdot ignorant bullshit again.
Revenues:
Business Division (ie, Office): $24B
Windows & Windows Live: $18.8B
Server & Tools: $18.7B
Entertainment & Devices: $9.5B
Online Services: $3B.
Operating Profit in one quarter:
Operating Income by Division FY13 Q3:
Windows: $3.46B
Server and Tools: $1.98B
Online Services: -$262 M (loss)
Business: $4.1B
Entertainment and Devices: $342M
Are there any good GPS Nav systems with dashcam functionality? I think Garmin used to make one but can't find it.
It's such an obvious idea, not sure why we aren't seeing more of such models.
Posted this in another comment too... but here we go:
How is this any worse than all the cellphones/laptops/desktops/tablets with mics and cameras? Won't a simple software update to them enable the exact same thing? Okay, most laptop and desktop cams have a hardwired light that turns on, but almost all phones and tablets dont. How is the Xbox One any worse?
Not sure I am getting you, how is this any worse than all the cellphones/laptops/desktops/tablets with mics and cameras? Won't a simple software update to them enable the exact same thing? Okay, most laptop and desktop cams have a hardwired light that turns on, but almost all phones and tablets dont.
Why is the Xbox One being singled out here?
Mac sales are down.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/computer-hardware/idc-pc-sales-drop-precipitously-mac-sales-also-decline-in-major-market-shift-216203
And yet, Mac sales are either down or flat. But yes, iPad sales are up.
It always amazes me how many people actually think that the Xbox is a highly profitable endeavor for Microsoft. While it has turned profitable recently, the Entertainment & Devices Division (where XBox is accounted for) is only mildly profitable. Nowhere near the profit rate of Microsoft's enterprise and desktop cash-cows. It is a stretch to call the Xbox a fiscal "success", at best one could now say it is not "money-losing". It is highly unlikely that Microsoft could expand the revenues and margins of EDD into a company-sustaining business.
That is because the division includes Windows Phone which isn't making much profit right now, not to mention $250 million of cash payments to Nokia every quarter cutting into the profit.
Even with that, they still make a tidy profit.
The EDD reported revenue of $2.53 billion, a 56 percent increase over the $1.61 billion reported during the same period last year. The company also cited a "video game deferral" of $380 million – an advance on the launch of Halo 4, according to Gamasutra – effectively lowering revenues to $2.15 billion. Even so, the EDD racked up an operating income of $342 million, Xbox Live subscriptions rose, however, as did Xbox Live revenue. Specifically, Xbox Live membership grew 18 percent and now totals 46 million members.
So when people say the Xbox is highly profitable, they're right. And EDD would do very well on it's own, even with Windows Phone, with a profit of $342 million just in one quarter. Only on Slashdot does someone think a hypothetical company that makes >1billion profit in a year is not "sustaining".
Please produce for our enjoyment those real numbers that evil Google is hiding from us.
Seven.
Really, where are the numbers? Why is Google hiding the real numbers just like they do for the badly selling Chromebooks? They do release numbers(see Android activations) if they are good, so they must be bad. Even Microsoft has come
I think the "aren't sharing the details" refers to sharing details with the public till Apple rolls out a fix, not Apple.
The point of Gmail is to get you signed into Google.com so that they can track your search keywords across different machines to show ads related to them. e.g. at home and work.
They are choosing a system which has a record of a number of serious disasters and lack of performance at higher system demand levels.
What serious disasters? Do you have any references that of any, especially ones that say it was because of .NET? Those sound like typical things that people who only read Slashdot for news seem to believe. I remember the London Stock Exchange fiasco, but that was because of incompetent people rather than the technology itself. In the last quarter, Microsoft's Server and Tools division recorded an increase in revenue of 11% despite completely free alternatives available.
if for example your Java supplier has a bad security record, to migrate to a different one which is more responsive
Like who?
you base your product on .NET
Stop being dumb and bigoted. There are tens of thousands of .NET projects if not more that have succeeded. For example Stack Overflow, which any decent programmer uses.
Yet Apple gets a free pass on iPads, same with firms such as Motorola. How much is WindowsRT selling and how much of a threat is it to freedom compared to the iPad?
N'mind that they've been criminally lax in improving their software
They have added Secure Boot support in Windows 8 to precisely combat undetectable malware, yet we have people blaming them for it.
Right after they arrest Android developers for the huge malware problem on Android, and then Apple developers.
"91.3% of smartphone malware/viruses written for Android"
"Apple's iOS, Microsoft's Windows Phone and Blackberry are free of any malicious activity"
http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3448046
"Newly Discovered Android Malware Was Downloaded Millions Of Times"
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/20/newly-discovered-android-malware-was-downloaded-millions-of-times/
Last week, American security researcher Jacob Appelbaum found that malware on an Angolan human-rights activist's Apple laptop was "signed" with a legitimate Apple developer ID, allowing it to slip past Apple's baked-in Gatekeeper security software. A new and unusually sneaky piece of Mac malware, discovered last week, has been linked to a larger online espionage campaign being waged from India.
The campaign, dubbed "HangOver" after a text string in the malware code, appears to be based in India and focuses on stealing industrial secrets from companies all over the world.
http://www.technewsdaily.com/18120-hangover-malware-india.html
How come the "Superior UNIX design" that have lead to tens of thousands of +5 Insightful Slashdot posts over the years doesn't protect Android and OS X? If the blame goes to the users, why are you trying to blame the Windows dev team?
I want to know exactly what idiot gave Microsoft the authority to create a law enforcement unit other than their jackbooted licensing audit thugs from the Business Software Alliance.
Needs a judge's approval.
But we’re very careful about how we do this. We’re not just going out there shooting stuff. We walk in with a pile of legal documents. We’re asking for a judge to agree with what we found.
They switch to Windows servers, it crashes and burns horribly, so they switch back. There's no quality control, no development, it goes to hell, and everyone switches to the far superior service Google offers (since they decided to grow their own and not acquire youtube).
Citation needed.
Anyway, try Outlook.com sometime.