![]() Google Voice app that makes a shred of sense at all. I haven’t heard a single explanation for the rejection of the Ditching Windows Mobile and focusing on Android sounds smart to me. Why? Because it’s the best option for the company right now. He used that logic to justify why his company was betting the farm on Google’s Android. He pointed to Nokia and Symbian, Apple and its iPhone OS and RIM’s BlackBerry OS. Jha stressed that handset makers need to pick a single smartphone OS and devote resources to it in order to win. Om Malik interviews Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha:Īs part of our conversation, Dr. Many thoughtful remarks, both in agreement and disagreement. Hacker News Thread on ‘Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline’ ★ We’re going to readjust those prices north” with Windows 7. “The theory was wrong,” said Ballmer, in that Microsoft didn’t tap enough untapped demand to compensate for the price hit. That’s due both to expected popularity of a new class of higher-end and higher-priced netbooks, a new pricing strategy around Windows 7 that the company hopes will result in far more upgrades to premium SKUs, and a reversal of a strategy in the last year to cut prices to spur demand in emerging countries. Of course, Ballmer also explained that the company’s goal is to raise PC prices in the next year. And it’s okay-feel free, so long as you’re running Office.” I see a lot of Apple logos,” he said during his opening remarks. “We have low share in the investor community. I’m at Microsoft’s financial analysts meeting in Redmond, where Ballmer joked about the many Apple laptops in use by the financial analysts in the room. Peter Burrows reports on Microsoft’s financial analysts meeting: here) are arguments that Microsoft wants PC selling prices to continue to drop. Several of the objections to my “Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline” piece (e.g. iPhone OS 3.0.1 ★įixes the SMS vulnerability. It’s not that they need those customers, but that they used to drive the industry’s technical agenda, and now they don’t. It’s not so much that if Windows 7 were good, it would attract some Mac users, but rather that if Microsoft were driven by technologists rather than sales and marketing guys, they would be hungry to build an OS that wins those switchers back. Of years in part because Windows Vista was such a mediocrity. And Apple has made major inroads over the past couple OS was floundering and it wasn’t clear that the company was going Windows 95 and Windows 98 that Gruber refers to happened, Apple’s Operating-system market share have happened when one OS has been Operating systems and the most striking significant shifts in History suggests that people don’t like to switch People from leaving Windows he was talking about whether it’llĬonvince Mac users to switch from Macs, and saying that if Windows and That’s OK.’ ★īut Gruber wasn’t talking about whether Windows 7 will stop more ![]() Harry McCracken: ‘Will Windows 7 Win Back Defectors to the Mac? Probably Not. And, more importantly from Microsoft’s perspective, something that will persuade the legions of their most important customers - IT managers - that it’s time to move on from Windows XP. It’s not going to get Mac users to switch, but it is going to stop a lot of Windows users from switching. “Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances.” Ian Betteridge Says I’m Wrong About Microsoft ★ He laughed off Apple as a minuscule player in the computing market and mocked some of Google’s efforts to develop software to run on PCs. Ballmer defended Microsoft’s position in other markets. ![]() He’s Like Grand Moff Tarkin Come to Life ★ If you guess our coupon code, you can get 20% off in our online “Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.” Management application - we followed the lead of a well known great When we designed Things - our powerful yet easy to use personal task ![]() They have a coupon code for DF readers, but it’s in the form of a riddle: It’s no exaggeration to say that Things sports one of the most influential UI designs in recent years. My thanks to Cultured Code for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Things, their excellent, award-winning task management app for Mac OS X and iPhone. Is it possible to do copy and paste, find and replace, undo and redo, on a document that may top a hundred gigabytes, and make it feel natural? Where do we run into trouble? Cultured Code ★ This app is about exploring the implementation of standard desktop UI features in the realm of files too large to fully read into main memory. Peter Ammon has released a major update to HexFiend: Linked List: July 2009 Friday, 31 July 2009 HexFiend 2.0 ★
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