I criticize Apple for a lot of things too, but this is not the topic of the thread..
Every opinion is subjective, so you must hate Apple...Explain. This is not even an argument. I think you should be more open to criticism. Ohhhh. I have no issue criticising Apple or MS where is it du, and praising either when it is due. Your beef is with MS, as I said, one way traffic. Microsoft has done a lot of mistakes so has Apple, and so IS Apple according to many Apple users and it seems that they are trying to correct a lot of them with Windows 10. That doesn't put them in front of the game, but on the right course to become relevant again. Windows is more relevant than OS X, 20:1 They lost their importance when they lost the mobile wars to Apple and Google..LOL, seriously? Desktop success or lack of it has ZERO to do with mobile success. Two unrelated product lines that are not the cause of the other, nor offer a benefit to the other
I said before that I don't see how this will change with Windows 10, especially on Phones. What is the feature we heard about last week that will make people switch to Windows based phones? We heard nothing. Only that the background is behind the tiles..and that we get Microsoft Office, which we already have on iOS. Apple has integration as a major factor. You can cobble it together in Android, but its messy, Apple does that wonderfully. W10 will unify desktops, tablets, phones, making getting a W10 phone a much more engaging option if you use Windows, and as we know, circa 94% globally use Windows.
Windows Phone must become much better than the competition in order to start getting some traction. Lumia are very nice phones, they lack nothing on hardware, OS, where they lack is apps. W10 may well increase the interest in devs to support apps
On the desktop front, there is no war to fight. Microsoft has already won that war years ago. It's about making the desktop important again and correcting the abomination called Windows 8.I guess that makes Yosemite also an abomination? Going by the complaints over bugs, issues, flattening, dumbing down, going back to ML, etc W8 was a change that no one liked. Yosemite, iOS7 and 8 were changes that few liked (flattening) and W10 is how much different to W8?? The full start menu is back and some other stuff. Its not 10, its Win8 fixed. Microsoft is not completely admitting its failure, and that is my problem with that. Off course the are, they are releasing W10 which is W8 fixed, thats an obvious admission. I wish they stopped talking about hybrids and how great they are. So you want them to market their hybrids as no good? You don't want them to advertise them as being good? Weird. You take all this too personally. Cos you think they are no good? Read posts by Apple and Windows users, they are a nice piece of kit, the SP3.
Who wants to use a surface as a tablet? It's too big! The same goes for the iPad Pro, in case that's real..Compromise is always needed when designing a new device, but too much compromise makes the user experience suffer. At the moment this is what's happening with all hybrids. Windows 10 is supposed to make this work better, but it cannot change the compromises the hardware was designed with, to satisfy the hybrid requirement. There are pros and cons, for hybrids or separate devices, its all in the implementation.
But of course, I am a hater, so please stay in denial. OK. My suggestion is don't hate cos you should do as you are an Apple fan. MS can make stuff that is as good, or is better, thats the denial. I am not saying W10 is that, nor is SP3, etc, it could be, or it might not be, but SP3 is nice, W10 is nice, what MS doing with their platforms is nice. Its getting closer to the Apple ecosystem. In short they are copying Apples model, albeit not 100% obviously.
When Microsoft finds a way to overcome the compromises that need to be made in order to create a hybrid device, then I will find them useful. Their idea is good, but their execution is bad. It's not Microsoft's fault though, we just don't have that kind of technology yet to support hybrid devices in an optimal way..
Somebody else mentioned Parallels and why it's number one product sold. Windows is useful for a lot of things that a Mac doesn't cover. I also use VMWare because of many reasons:
- I want to check the Windows world too
- I need to use Visio every other month, because of my work. I could use my windows laptop that I have from my job, but I prefer to use Windows on a Mac. They look better.
- Other people might have some other software need that the Mac doesn't cover. It's great that we have the choice..
- Most people need software for their work, because Microsoft is the number one company when it comes to business. For private use Mac users don't need Windows at all (unless they want to game seriously - I prefer to play on my PlayStation 4)
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It's pretty easy to explain actually. I want to use the tools I think they are the best for the job. iPhones are the best smartphones for me, so I appreciate the integration.
I also believe that the PlayStation 4 is better than the XBOX One as a game console, so I don't care about the XBOX. I am sure a lot of people think that, judging by the sales of the consoles the last 12 months.
Another general comment: I am not the only one saying Windows 8 sucks, the surface is a failure and that Windows Phone is lame. The market does! Just look at the numbers and the sales of the aforementioned products..
The market will speak again about Windows 10 and I believe it will make the OS a successful product.
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