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Ballmer: Microsoft-Powered Tablets Are 'Job One Urgency'
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At Microsoft, we look at what our competition is doing, then copy it. Five years later. And instead of making a pared down OS that might work, we put a full version of Windows on it. So you can access all of the Microsoft programs you know and love. As long as you're willing to wait for them to load.
Microsoft. Three steps behind.
(Seriously, the mobile market is iOS and Android. Period.)
Microsoft. Three steps behind.
(Seriously, the mobile market is iOS and Android. Period.)
Great. The KIN of Microsoft tablet will be released in 2 or 3 years and it will suuuck.
Courier is a vaporware concept based on 2-decade old Apple tablet concept video.
Just google: "microsoft dilbert committee"
Courier is a vaporware concept based on 2-decade old Apple tablet concept video.
Just google: "microsoft dilbert committee"
1)Competition is good...maybe Apple will quickly reduce the price and/or increase the storage capacity of the $499 iPad.
2)MS is likely just powering the device...meaning, supplying the OS. Hardware vendors (as it has always been in the Microsoft/PC world) will actually be creating the hardware...how cool, small, large, heavy, light it is depends on the vendors.
3)If MS does plan on creating the OS AND the hardware, and thus not allowing hardware vendors to use the MS OS, I would guess that whatever MS creates won't be as cool as Apple. Functional?...probably...but not as cool.
4)Companies have been trying to build/market/sell tablet thingies for decades. Finally the timing was right with touchscreen technology, battery life, CPU power, portability, internet/wifi, etc. that Apple was really the first to the market...in reality with the iPhone and/or iPod Touch...not the iPad. Now that the iPad seems to be in demand, the entire PC-based world is going to target the market. Give this tablet-thingy market 2-3 years and see where the dust settles. Unless Apple gets into the business space for tablet applications (hospitals are a great example), the iPad is going to be limited to consumer apps and consumer market...which may be fine to Apple.
5)MS and the rest of the entire PC world is not just going to sit back and let Apple dominate a completely new computer market. It's one thing that MS and others lost on the consumer-electronics iPod line...it's quite another for a computer-based device that may very well replace a great deal of traditional computers.
-Eric
2)MS is likely just powering the device...meaning, supplying the OS. Hardware vendors (as it has always been in the Microsoft/PC world) will actually be creating the hardware...how cool, small, large, heavy, light it is depends on the vendors.
3)If MS does plan on creating the OS AND the hardware, and thus not allowing hardware vendors to use the MS OS, I would guess that whatever MS creates won't be as cool as Apple. Functional?...probably...but not as cool.
4)Companies have been trying to build/market/sell tablet thingies for decades. Finally the timing was right with touchscreen technology, battery life, CPU power, portability, internet/wifi, etc. that Apple was really the first to the market...in reality with the iPhone and/or iPod Touch...not the iPad. Now that the iPad seems to be in demand, the entire PC-based world is going to target the market. Give this tablet-thingy market 2-3 years and see where the dust settles. Unless Apple gets into the business space for tablet applications (hospitals are a great example), the iPad is going to be limited to consumer apps and consumer market...which may be fine to Apple.
5)MS and the rest of the entire PC world is not just going to sit back and let Apple dominate a completely new computer market. It's one thing that MS and others lost on the consumer-electronics iPod line...it's quite another for a computer-based device that may very well replace a great deal of traditional computers.
-Eric
I am not a Microsoft fanboy, and neither am I an Apple fanboy. I buy products that suits my needs, I got an ipad as a complement for my bulkie Lap Top, and it's been wonderful so far. However, I doubt I would buy version two unless it has a USB port. This is a key feature that would make the iPad much more than a simple "media consumption gadget."
My main problems with the iPad are the lack of connectivity, the lack of a good file management system, and its ridiculously poor wireless reception (my cousin's first generation PSP gets strong signal then my iPad when we are at the same distance away from the router).
First off once the slate us released it will either suck or modaratly be good. Once the market and the tech is ready apple will probably do it the best. So let's see how this turns out
There are videos on youtube that are many years old of Microsoft developing a tablet OS. And I saw a Bill Gates video from 2005 talking about the future and tablets. Also earlier this year, before the ipad was introduced, HP showed off the HP slate.
To be fair, they've copied each other for years. A good company innovates, while stealing as many good ideas as possible.
The picture of Steve Ballmer and the HP Slate was taken at CES, and that was before the iPad was even announced. It looks more like Apple copied the design of the HP Slate FYI.
Come on, now. The great Steve Jobs says that it doesn't have to be "us vs. them". Microsoft should focus more on making good products, instead of controlling more of the market and beating out the other companies.
"We have to let go of the notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose."
-Jobs