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Microsoft Attempting to Lure Away Apple Retail Store Staff?
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I don't see why anyone would imagine it's NOT legal.
Of COURSE it's legal. headhunting happens ALL THE TIME.
There's nothing wrong with it.
You should try landscape mode
Don't worry, I like a good joke (which it was) and I was a bit too critical in the first place.
Unnecessary.
Whatever they do isn't going to help them. It works for Apple because Apple cares about the customers.
M$ just sees numbers. That isn't how retail works. For that fact, neither does "If you can't beat 'em, rip 'em off".
$30 billion in the bank reality distortion field.
Here we go again with the market share thing. You do know why their market share is so high compared to Apple's, don't you? If so you'll know why a lot of Apple fans (me included) want it to stay that way.
Although with convergence, the desktop OS market share will become less important, and therefore so will MS.
Fighting Brands
The Zune, the Mobile initiative, the retail stores are all fighting brands. They are designed to weaken a competitor.
As an example, some years ago Coke introduced "Mr. Pibb" a Dr. Pepper taste alike in Dr. Pepper's home town, Waco, TX.
The Zune, the Mobile initiative, the retail stores are all fighting brands. They are designed to weaken a competitor.
As an example, some years ago Coke introduced "Mr. Pibb" a Dr. Pepper taste alike in Dr. Pepper's home town, Waco, TX.
I'm trying to be realist about the zune I and I'm sure most would like to have the best of the best but some lean toward the zune an become blind. M$ fans will always get zunes but I see more potential in iPhones then anything there is yet to be something the phone can't do especially jailbroken it's endless a bottomless pit of almost perfection but could use more ram n cores
I used xp vista and xp was decent and stable faster etc but win 7 wins IMO. I need something faster n stable for my work. I don't know how people are still using vista I really don't.
Our Apple rep used to man the Apple section at CompUSA. He couldn't wait to get out of there. Good timing on his part, cause they folded six month's later.
If you jailbreak there's fm radio of all kinds but I sense sarcasim so I say this in return
Okay, let me repeat the question I asked before; have you actually used the Zune HD to be forming such an opinion?
I'm not criticizing your country, rather just saying that because the HD is not available there for whatever reason, that you could not have possibly tried the HD to form a credible opinion about it.
Do you need to use it to know it's an ill-conceived, dead-end device?
Unless MS does a helluva lot more with it, it won't last very long. Apparently, we're being told it's not even competition for the iPod Touch. Which leaves it somewhere between "limited" and "pointless."
O RLY?
Actually, yes - it's on my Mac right now (thank you VMware).
So you're arguing that viruses aren't a problem for Windows users?
But apparently Microsoft does.
Well it's good to know you believe what you're told.
Yeah, to pass judgment on a piece of hardware, it's always good to actually play with it for at least a few minutes. It's called "having an opinion based on experience" as opposed to "I read it on the interwebz, so it must be true".
So you're arguing that viruses aren't a problem for Windows users?
haha that one always cracks me up. "I've never gotten a virus, and I don't even run AV software". How would you know if you've never had a virus? Do you know how viruses work in the 21st century?
Unless you're a security expert, you should be running AV on Windows. To do otherwise is stupid and incompetent. Unless of course your machine is not connected to a network. At all.
Insane?!
This just makes me think less of Microsoft (even less). They need to build their own structure and stop stealing from companies that are doing better than them.
If this rumor is true, it makes me want to never buy a single thing from Microsoft for the rest of my life.
Stop copying, create.
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This just makes me think less of Microsoft (even less). They need to build their own structure and stop stealing from companies that are doing better than them.
If this rumor is true, it makes me want to never buy a single thing from Microsoft for the rest of my life.
Stop copying, create.
DP
Well it's good to know you believe what you're told.
Yeah, to pass judgment on a piece of hardware, it's always good to actually play with it for at least a few minutes. It's called "having an opinion based on experience" as opposed to "I read it on the interwebz, so it must be true".
Did we need to play with the original Zune to know right off the bat it was going to go nowhere?
No doubt the Zune HD is a nice music and videoplayer. And?
We've been kind of past that for a couple of years now.
Oh, so you're a market expert now, and because a past product failed this one definitely will? You're sure?
I'm not saying I love the HD, I'm not saying it's a guaranteed success. But competition is a very good thing, and with the recent lackluster iPT updates I'd say Apple needs some fire under their butt to start doing something interesting.