I remember coding something in PHP about 12 years ago and couldn't believe how slow it was compared to other languages for relatively simple code. I came to the strong conclusion that its deliberately slow so they can sell speed up tools etc, it all made perfect sense from that point. Its amazing how popular php became with this dark little secret, I am impressed their business model did so well, quite clever indeed.

I agree. I think the idea of the tuck manager is just as much an idea based on having a "law" that all trucks still need to be maned. The law for per truck "truck manager" would be to ensure no loss / theft as well as extra safety etc as well as job protection, sure there could be an argument for a lower wage since they dont have to do as much and can even sleep at certain times during travel on the truck but I think it still makes good argument to have truck a manager per truck. I think you other posters are a bit narrow minded to think so simply about the OPs idea.

Sure you can look at it that way but MS ultimately are abount pleasing their share holders, so they are ultimately about maximizing the amount of money they can make. If they can emulate Apple by even 30% success as Apple have done over the last 4 years thats going to be as much as 30 billion dollars in net profit they could have in the bank. Its all about trying and trying again.

Sure you can say they are too late to do that but MS would argue they owe it to their share holders to try, RT doesn't cost them that much at the end of the day and on a long enough time line even going at it is it will probably become profitable for them. This leaves the door open in the murky future for any possible big hit device.

Apple made a lot of money by "popping" up a new software/os platform despite the mass consumers addition to MS Windows. Microsofts style is to just keep plugging away at it until they get their software right. MS would much rather keep plugging away at it and and the end of the long road have success with a cheap ARM SoC backend that costs $10 then an Intel chip that Intel would like to sell for $200.

LOL, You stript out the the reason your self that RT is important. Because you can ship a complete computing device with a $10 SoC/CPU instead of something Intel will want normally x 10 more amount of money.

..Intel has no interest in selling its low power Haswell chips that still barely break 10watts for $10 per chip like the Tegras or Snapdragons sell for! Intel will never want its core market CPU/SoC at $10. EVER!

Everyone likes to think their not cheap but all to often they are, x86 = expensive device. RT = cheap priced device that will eventually do everything you want. There are competing ARM SoC makers pushing now multi Ghz chips at around $10, Apple have their 64bit ARM chip now, and it will only get faster. The days are gone where every geek should worship Intel CPUs as some kind of unreproducible holy grail, its just not the case any more and any advantage is slipping fast. Apple has made so many billions because it was able to cut margins that Intel would normally want to take.

You can't stop that hungry beast that makes companies want more for them selves.

Intel has no interest in selling its low power Haswell chips that still barely break 10watts for $10 per chip like the Tegras or Snapdragons sell for! Intel will never want its core market CPU/SoC at $10. EVER!

This puts Windows RT front an center still for the future. I can't believe how many tech articles are written under the belief that Windows RT was anything other then a long term plan for the future. MS lost big time to Apple because they didn't have an ARM compatible OS ready to go on the best big wave, they wont make that mistake again even if they have to wait another decade to see what the next big wave is.

Apple will continue to work on their own designed 64bit ARM SoC chips, they have just begun, why pay Intel all that money for something they can pop out at at less them $10 a pop them selves?

Funny thing is there are plenty of ASX listed companies that do a lot to contribute to the raw materials of these batteries but just loose money Such as Galaxy Resources and Lynas Corporation. https://www.google.com/finance?q=ASX%3ALYC&ei=CP8lUrirI4elkgWu-AE https://www.google.com/finance?q=ASX%3AGXY&hl=en&ei=P_8lUvCZB4WpkgXQlwE I guess its a lot like farmers and the supermarkets, those at the top get the money.

Too late, its already in progress!