Microsoft needs to hire more people in marketing. Whoever thought up of this name "Surface", needs to be fired.
Hey, didya hear about this hot new tablet? It's called "Surface"!!!
It's an homage to Michael Jackson and his son "Blanket".
This makes it a cooler name than you could ever imagine!
It's that kind of thinking which led to Steve Jobs being drummed out of Apple by the Board of Directors in the first place, who thought Apple had outgrown it's startup leadership. It's not an "Apple gizmo fad", but a company which (under visionary leadership) has transformed the world multiple times, with:
* the first microcomputer (Apple ][)
* first GUI user interface (Macintosh)
* first useful mp3 player (iPod)
* first useful desktop certified UNIX (OSX)
* first useful smartphone (iPhone)
* first useful tablet computer (iPad)
* &etc
My point is that, as a company, they have a decades long track record of providing groundbreaking, useful technologies. They have had flops. They may not be the first to market in a niche, but when their products ship they come to define the niche.
The biggest threat to Apple IMHO is that it:
* concentrate too much on consumer and ignore enterprise level solutions
- why does not OSX server have built-in iOS policy enforcement features? (instead of relying on 3rd parties) etc etc etc.
- why has the MacPro line not been updated still long after xServe discontinued?
* corporate management brain rot redefines Apple as a "cash cow" instead of continuing the tradition of useful and world transforming innovation established by Jobs & company.
They can continue to push current technologies down the road, with faster/larger capacity devices, but this is incremental improvement. How far can they push the "digital hub" paradigm? What's the next innovative paradigm? What can they do new?
* iTV (if they can make it not suck like AppleTV)
* enterprise deployment and management solutions, better business quality scheduling and groupware built-in
For the last decade I have looked at the market capitalization of stocks like RIM, Motorola, Nokia, Dell, HPQ, MSFT as fodder for Apple growth. This has been immensely profitable to me. The numbers at Apple look great at this market cap, it should be sustainable as phone and computers have fairly limited lifespans and computer market share had lots of room for growth. But how far up is up? Management at Apple must be genuinely visionary, and not what generally passes for this across the industry.
I care about whether a sitting President lied about anything. If there's one person in the country we should expect to be integrity personified...
When Bush lied, people died.
Not true.
On 9/11, no one knew how vast the problem was, just that the nation was somehow under attack.
This is why they grounded all planes in the entire US, not just over certain airspaces.
It would have been entirely appropriate to have sent out a national warning, and to urge everyone to a high alert status of a problem of unknown extent.
ie. "Nation under coordinated domestic terrorist attack of multiple targets. Observe caution and report suspicious activity to local police immediately. Tune into news and keep informed.", etc.
On 9/11 no one knew how big the problem was. We had not seen anything of this type in current generations.
(I Am an OSX user... I do not share your pain)
When I was learning to drive, my teacher told me before you dodge (or brake for) any deer on the road, always check rear view mirror to make sure a semi trailer isn't following you to brake and kill 15 people behind that. It's easy to say deer.
But what if it's a kid. Gets harder right?
I am glad this robot car takes that decision off my hands yeah?
If there's a semi on your ass and you haven't slowed down to allow for their lack of breaking room, then you are at fault for not diffusing a dangerous situation.
You should always be checking your rearview mirror, and taking tailgaters into the overall account of danger. and reducing it accordingly.
Mod parent up!
Do you even remember how Apple was viewed before 1997?
I brought a Mac magazine to school and was teased and laughed at....
Ditto that.
A low point for me was being ridiculed by Sears Auto tire monkeys for wearing an Apple "Been There, Done That" T-shirt while I was waiting for tires to be put on my car. Apple was circling the drain until Steve came back and set Apple back on course.
Steve is an amazing example of what corporate management should be.
His greatest skills are:
* understanding what technology can accomplish
* the vision to imagine a future where these technologies accomplish real-world needs while being simple to use
* knowing how to deliver value, in terms of hardware/software implementation and user experience
* the ability to surround himself with people who can deliver, and to drive them to actually accomplish it
Usually you only get one or two of these qualities in a person, and then they may not have the additional skills (and luck) required to get into a position of authority to make a difference.
It's sad that this is so rare.
If not for Jobs, I think we'd all still be in the mid-80's of computer technology today. Yes Moore's Law would have made everything faster, but the interface, interoperability, devices, and quality would not be there. Imagine a Windows boot stomping a human face forever.
No one is talking about *finding* DNA in meteorites, just amino acids and other chemical precursors (which are *used in* DNA).
I am just hoping that Homoerotic Encryption doesn't catch on.
In Knoxville, TN they used to have mannequins in police cars at the side of the interstate to slow traffic. If you needed help, you could expect only to receive what a mannequin could offer...
Else you're just the comic foil of the next election.
Mr. Trump, is that you?
Doesn't this make you want to have an internet kill switch in the US?
Mr. President, we must not allow a kill switch gap!
The problem is that the statement "there are ghosts" is not falsifiable. There isn't an experiment you can perform that will prove they don't exist. Maybe the experiment scared them away, or they just didn't turn up etc.
The statement "there are no ghosts" is falsifiable. It can be proved wrong by demonstrating the existence of the ghost.
Au contrare.
"there are ghosts" is falsifiable.
Just find a ghost and ask them if they exist.
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
