Here’s how Apple assaulted Microsoft today — in three crushing quotes
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Re: Here’s how Apple assaulted Microsoft today — in three crushing quotes
#2I don't get the big deal with free OS X updates. Apple sells hardware at a premium and you get the software with it. You can't buy Apple software, so why should you be able to buy software upgrades? It should have always been free, just like iOS upgrades are free.
Re: Here’s how Apple assaulted Microsoft today — in three crushing quotes
#3Now you can create a document on an iPad, edit it on a Mac, and even share it with a friend who’s stuck on a PC.
Yeah, cause google docs has completely destroyed Office.
Re: Here’s how Apple assaulted Microsoft today — in three crushing quotes
#4I thought one of the crushing quotes would be able how much more magical the ipad is when compared to a surface device.
Re: Here’s how Apple assaulted Microsoft today — in three crushing quotes
#5I don't get the big deal with free OS X updates. Apple sells hardware at a premium and you get the software with it. You can't buy Apple software, so why should you be able to buy software upgrades? It should have always been free, just like iOS upgrades are free.
The comparison isn't germane anyway. Apple charges $20-30 for something Microsoft calls a "service pack", which they've always given away for free. I just downloaded Windows 8.1 -- no cost. Amazing how these guys spin stuff and people just eat it up.
Re: Here’s how Apple assaulted Microsoft today — in three crushing quotes
#6Now you can create a document on an iPad, edit it on a Mac, and even share it with a friend who’s stuck on a PC. Yeah, cause google docs has completely destroyed Office.
In my environment less and less people use Office and more and more people use Google Docs. Not because Google Docs are better than Office (they’re worse) but because for a lot of people it just feels like a lot less hassle to create and share documents using Google Docs. If I was Microsoft I would be worried, thing like this tend to get amplified over time.
Re: Here’s how Apple assaulted Microsoft today — in three crushing quotes
#7Apple is after consumers with their new set of never ending, shiny, made in china toys.
That's all cool.
With Ballmer and his me-too copycatting and being always late to the party strategy gone soon, Microsoft better (and likely) will stop playing gadget and widget games and refocus on enterprise software and services department as well as cloud strategy.
Re: Here’s how Apple assaulted Microsoft today — in three crushing quotes
#8Now you can create a document on an iPad, edit it on a Mac, and even share it with a friend who’s stuck on a PC. Yeah, cause google docs has completely destroyed Office.
In a lot of places it has. I can't even remember the last time I opened anything in Office. At work people share links to google docs instead of sending docs.
Re: Here’s how Apple assaulted Microsoft today — in three crushing quotes
#9Now you can create a document on an iPad, edit it on a Mac, and even share it with a friend who’s stuck on a PC. Yeah, cause google docs has completely destroyed Office.
Last check, Google Docs didn't work on the iPad Safari. Has that changed?
Re: Here’s how Apple assaulted Microsoft today — in three crushing quotes
#10Tim Cook describing the Surface as a “sorta-tablet, sorta-PC” thing, reminds my Steve Ballmer mocking the iPhone few yrs ago. In both cases I find it immature and short-sighted.