Microsoft will ‘crush’ Google, ‘muscle-out’ Apple in smartphone/tablet markets
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Re: Microsoft will ‘crush’ Google, ‘muscle-out’ Apple in smartphone/tablet markets
#2> Given that Google gives most of its products away for free, you have to question how seriously they take them.
That guy is an idiot.
Re: Microsoft will ‘crush’ Google, ‘muscle-out’ Apple in smartphone/tablet markets
#3Fantasy world, this guy lives in it.
Re: Microsoft will ‘crush’ Google, ‘muscle-out’ Apple in smartphone/tablet markets
#4tl;dr Apple is not building any features that MSFT can't copy, because Google gives it away for free it must be a toy to them.
Sounds more to me like an analyst who either a.) bought a lot of MSFT shares or shorted Google/Apple, or b.) works for a company that bought a lot of MSFT shares or shorted Google/Apple. His 'criticisms' of both are specious at best. To rebut his claims about Apple: "no one ever got fired for buying IBM". And as for Google, RedHat has a $1b a year business case for free software.
This guy doesn't understand mobile at all. It's sad if he's able to move the markets with his comments.
Re: Microsoft will ‘crush’ Google, ‘muscle-out’ Apple in smartphone/tablet markets
#5So a man with - quite literally - a vested interest in Microsoft is... boosting Microsoft? Film at 11.
I would have enjoyed reading a more detailed presentation of Charles Sizemore's analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the three companies he discusses; this soundbite-y stuff is a bit weak and unsatisfying. Why, for example, is end-to-end control of the platform worse than only owning a bit of it? Why is advertising unsustainable as a business model? There isn't enough here to agree or disagree with, it's just an opinion by someone who's (probably unfairly) made to sound like another ex-frat boy with an MBA and a limited supply of non-sporting metaphors.
Re: Microsoft will ‘crush’ Google, ‘muscle-out’ Apple in smartphone/tablet markets
#6haha, laughed my ass off.
Re: Microsoft will ‘crush’ Google, ‘muscle-out’ Apple in smartphone/tablet markets
#7It's difficult to take this article seriously. No claims are corroborated. Interesting to observe that HN took a sensational headline and upvoted. Wish there was a downvote, as it's not worth flagging, but a downvote definitely.
Re: Microsoft will ‘crush’ Google, ‘muscle-out’ Apple in smartphone/tablet markets
#8tl;dr Apple is not building any features that MSFT can't copy, because Google gives it away for free it must be a toy to them. Sounds more to me like an analyst who either a.) bought a lot of MSFT shares or shorted Google/Apple, or b.) works for a company that bought a lot of MSFT shares or shorted Google/Apple. His 'criticisms' of both are specious at best. To rebut his claims about Apple: "no one ever got fired for…
If you look at the words on the linked page, the "analysis" is from Charles Sizemore of Sizemore Capital, and Sizemore Capital "holds a long position in Microsoft".
Re: Microsoft will ‘crush’ Google, ‘muscle-out’ Apple in smartphone/tablet markets
#9So a man with - quite literally - a vested interest in Microsoft is... boosting Microsoft? Film at 11. I would have enjoyed reading a more detailed presentation of Charles Sizemore's analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the three companies he discusses; this soundbite-y stuff is a bit weak and unsatisfying. Why, for example, is end-to-end control of the platform worse than only owning a bit of it? Why is adver…
And the depressing thing that these soundbites already say that he didn't (want to) explain more.
Re: Microsoft will ‘crush’ Google, ‘muscle-out’ Apple in smartphone/tablet markets
#10tr;dr (too rediculous, didn't read)
I hope MSFT does great, not going to make crazy statements like that though.