Comment Re:Get your resumes ready guys! (Score 1) 400
And yet, Mac sales are either down or flat. But yes, iPad sales are up.
And yet, Mac sales are either down or flat. But yes, iPad sales are up.
It always amazes me how many people actually think that the Xbox is a highly profitable endeavor for Microsoft. While it has turned profitable recently, the Entertainment & Devices Division (where XBox is accounted for) is only mildly profitable. Nowhere near the profit rate of Microsoft's enterprise and desktop cash-cows. It is a stretch to call the Xbox a fiscal "success", at best one could now say it is not "money-losing". It is highly unlikely that Microsoft could expand the revenues and margins of EDD into a company-sustaining business.
That is because the division includes Windows Phone which isn't making much profit right now, not to mention $250 million of cash payments to Nokia every quarter cutting into the profit.
Even with that, they still make a tidy profit.
The EDD reported revenue of $2.53 billion, a 56 percent increase over the $1.61 billion reported during the same period last year. The company also cited a "video game deferral" of $380 million – an advance on the launch of Halo 4, according to Gamasutra – effectively lowering revenues to $2.15 billion. Even so, the EDD racked up an operating income of $342 million, Xbox Live subscriptions rose, however, as did Xbox Live revenue. Specifically, Xbox Live membership grew 18 percent and now totals 46 million members.
So when people say the Xbox is highly profitable, they're right. And EDD would do very well on it's own, even with Windows Phone, with a profit of $342 million just in one quarter. Only on Slashdot does someone think a hypothetical company that makes >1billion profit in a year is not "sustaining".
Please produce for our enjoyment those real numbers that evil Google is hiding from us.
Seven.
Really, where are the numbers? Why is Google hiding the real numbers just like they do for the badly selling Chromebooks? They do release numbers(see Android activations) if they are good, so they must be bad. Even Microsoft has come
I think the "aren't sharing the details" refers to sharing details with the public till Apple rolls out a fix, not Apple.
The point of Gmail is to get you signed into Google.com so that they can track your search keywords across different machines to show ads related to them. e.g. at home and work.
They are choosing a system which has a record of a number of serious disasters and lack of performance at higher system demand levels.
What serious disasters? Do you have any references that of any, especially ones that say it was because of
if for example your Java supplier has a bad security record, to migrate to a different one which is more responsive
Like who?
you base your product on
Stop being dumb and bigoted. There are tens of thousands of
Yet Apple gets a free pass on iPads, same with firms such as Motorola. How much is WindowsRT selling and how much of a threat is it to freedom compared to the iPad?
N'mind that they've been criminally lax in improving their software
They have added Secure Boot support in Windows 8 to precisely combat undetectable malware, yet we have people blaming them for it.
Right after they arrest Android developers for the huge malware problem on Android, and then Apple developers.
"91.3% of smartphone malware/viruses written for Android"
"Apple's iOS, Microsoft's Windows Phone and Blackberry are free of any malicious activity"
http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3448046
"Newly Discovered Android Malware Was Downloaded Millions Of Times"
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/20/newly-discovered-android-malware-was-downloaded-millions-of-times/
Last week, American security researcher Jacob Appelbaum found that malware on an Angolan human-rights activist's Apple laptop was "signed" with a legitimate Apple developer ID, allowing it to slip past Apple's baked-in Gatekeeper security software. A new and unusually sneaky piece of Mac malware, discovered last week, has been linked to a larger online espionage campaign being waged from India.
The campaign, dubbed "HangOver" after a text string in the malware code, appears to be based in India and focuses on stealing industrial secrets from companies all over the world.
http://www.technewsdaily.com/18120-hangover-malware-india.html
How come the "Superior UNIX design" that have lead to tens of thousands of +5 Insightful Slashdot posts over the years doesn't protect Android and OS X? If the blame goes to the users, why are you trying to blame the Windows dev team?
I want to know exactly what idiot gave Microsoft the authority to create a law enforcement unit other than their jackbooted licensing audit thugs from the Business Software Alliance.
Needs a judge's approval.
But we’re very careful about how we do this. We’re not just going out there shooting stuff. We walk in with a pile of legal documents. We’re asking for a judge to agree with what we found.
They switch to Windows servers, it crashes and burns horribly, so they switch back. There's no quality control, no development, it goes to hell, and everyone switches to the far superior service Google offers (since they decided to grow their own and not acquire youtube).
Citation needed.
Anyway, try Outlook.com sometime.
Google is no better at greed for money.
See how Google started removing borders around ads and made the shading super light in order to get ad clicks from older people and people with bad monitor calibration:
http://ppcblog.com/fbf0fa-now-you-see-it
Those carefully and scientifically calibrated colors must be worth atleast few hundred million of extra revenue from their cash cow by making gullible people click on ads mistaking them for real search results.
"Study:Contrast sensitivity gradually decreases with age"
http://www.eyeworld.org/article.php?sid=818&strict=0&morphologic=0&query=
Chrome is a trojan horse to weaken Mozilla which is becoming less powerful because Google uses its ad dollars to bundle Chrome with Flash, Acrobat and Java updates by default thereby reducing Firefox's share and has the nice side effect of reducing Google's payments to Mozilla for searches.
And Web DRM? Of course it's going to be a HTML standard very soon because IE, Safari and... ding! Chrome are going to be supporting it fully with 80% marketshare and people will blame Firefox if Netflix doesn't work in it and recommend you switch to Chrome to see movies! iOS, Android and Windows Phone, BBOS will add support for 100% tablet and phone support for the DRM.
Chrome on Chromebook already has the EME DRM module. Firefox and Opera are powerless to stop it. We have already seen this play out with the h.264 HTML5 video support in Chrome fiasco when Google promised it would drop H.264 from Chrome to push WebM but did not and Mozilla was left holding the bag with WebM and had to recently had to eat crow and add support for patent encumbered H264. The web is owned by the corporates, not individuals anymore, there was some hope when Firefox was at 40%, not anymore. And we all willingly gave them the power by believing in "open" and "do no evil" and switching in droves.
Garbage In -- Gospel Out.
