Its funny how old rivalries never die. Meanwhile, Google and Amazon are bringing better hardware to market faster and cheaper than Apple.
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
#32Apple 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.
Remember when "cool new government technology" was a thing (in movies)? I do. There's a huge debate going on in Redmond right now (ex-MS employee here) on whether to focus on big, rich, slower-moving enterprises, or faster-moving consumer tech. Microsoft has rightly realized that consumer tech (not big companies/government) is setting the agenda for the path of technology, and they're going to fight tooth and nail to…
As far am I'm concerned, there isn't even a contest. The industry should have learned from the iPhone's success and the subsequent BYOD movement: enterprises are composed of people who go home and buy consumer products. The consumer space drives the market and picks the winners.
Re: Here’s how Apple assaulted Microsoft today — in three crushing quotes
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Excel is still king of its domain, though.
Absolutely.
From experience, the global Oil & Gas industry is completely reliant on Excel, and that will not change any time soon. They use it for nearly everything... It's the common UI to bigger, complex systems, and it's the data storage/manipulation tool for more specialized, or "simpler" needs.
Many of the non-Excel applications in this space started out and grew from a monster Excel workbook.
Re: Here’s how Apple assaulted Microsoft today — in three crushing quotes
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember when "cool new government technology" was a thing (in movies)? I do. There's a huge debate going on in Redmond right now (ex-MS employee here) on whether to focus on big, rich, slower-moving enterprises, or faster-moving consumer tech. Microsoft has rightly realized that consumer tech (not big companies/government) is setting the agenda for the path of technology, and they're going to fight tooth and nail to…
As far am I'm concerned, there isn't even a contest. The industry should have learned from the iPhone's success and the subsequent BYOD movement: enterprises are composed of people who go home and buy consumer products. The consumer space drives the market and picks the winners.
There are way more profits to be made in selling enterprise services to mid-size company vs. selling to their employees razor-thin margin gadgets.
And competing in consumer market business (with millions of way faster moving, smaller companies) takes too much resources and focusing.
Apple won because they're all-in into that. Ballmer tried to play too many games at once and proved that his "compete everywhere!" stupid ego was wrong.
Google will be biting pieces from Apple, not Microsoft. Microsoft's salvation is in cloud and enterprise software and services. Once Ballmer announced his departure MSFT stock suddenly became way more attractive first time in decade.
Re: Here’s how Apple assaulted Microsoft today — in three crushing quotes
#35> other companies aren't quite ready to completely embrace the post-PC world, where people are typing on virtual screens rather than physical keyboards
I don't see Apple completely dropping all their various Mac lines. So technically, they have not completely embraced it either. Why do they keep claiming they have?
I can't be the only that cannot efficiently do their job (programming) without a keyboard. Maybe "people as consumers" are typing only on virtual screens but I think there is way too many "people as producers" that need an actual keyboard. Yes, I'm sure there are some people that can make it work for some types of jobs. But I don't think that is a very large segment. So I don't want... we don't need... companies to completely embrace a non-keyboard world. We need companies that can make a good product that can live in both worlds. While what has been offered so far keeps missing the mark a bit... in a way they are closer to this than what Apple has (that we know of).