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Microsoft Executive on Apple: 'iPhone 4 Might Be Their Vista'
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It is an issue with mine at various locations around the country, but not others. I think whatever the issue is, the symptoms are location dependent so some people may have the issue and not realize it. I'd like someone to collect a bunch of phones and travel around the country and try and replicate the problem to get a better idea if this is phone/location/people or a combination there of dependent.
Amusing. The iPhone can be fixed with a very small strip of duct tape. There wasn't enough duct tape in the world to fix Vista.
The only thing that could fix Vista was a missile.
Because then it'd be dead and put out of its misery.
the reception issue is nowhere near as bad from my brother's experience for owning a Vista. Good thing i bought my previous laptop one year before Vista release
Microsoft is on it's way down. They lost touch with innovation, and run everything by committee. When someone at MS has a good idea like Courier, they fire them. They are the next IBM, they will fall. All the smart developers went to google or are developing on the app store.
I would say in the next 5 years, there's no need for Windows. Everything that companies need will be hosted by Google and 100 other cloud companies. Consumer market will be owned by Apple, Google, and Amazon. Yes, currently, you can't do everthing on a iPhone, iPad, or Android device, but slowly, every day a new app comes out in the app store that makes Windows less needed. Actually, for email, web browsing, I don't know when I went to my computer. It's just so much faster, instant on, no virus, less power, etc to use my iPhone or iPad.
I would say in the next 5 years, there's no need for Windows. Everything that companies need will be hosted by Google and 100 other cloud companies. Consumer market will be owned by Apple, Google, and Amazon. Yes, currently, you can't do everthing on a iPhone, iPad, or Android device, but slowly, every day a new app comes out in the app store that makes Windows less needed. Actually, for email, web browsing, I don't know when I went to my computer. It's just so much faster, instant on, no virus, less power, etc to use my iPhone or iPad.
This has gotten so out of hand. I haven't dropped one damn call on my iPhone 4 and love it about 10X as much as my old iPhone 3G. I have NEVER owned a gadget let alone a phone that works this well. It is unbelievable how ridiculous this has gotten. It really is sad that everyone isn't having the same experience I'm having, which has been flawless. I'm not lying either so don't give me that crap, even though just because I said that, people are going to call me a liar.
I do hope Apple does something soon though, as I am getting tired of defending this phone, and having no one believe me.
I do hope Apple does something soon though, as I am getting tired of defending this phone, and having no one believe me.
Fair play, fair game
Vista was a major OS getting bad reception and all sorts of issues, whereas the iPhone is just a product that would be replaced in a year or so, anyway. Of course, it has the bad reception and the issues...
I don't think that it causes Apple Inc the same damage in their image of what MS had to experience, but I understand Microsoft. This is a very good chance to get back on all the smugness and kick the rotten Apple. After all, Apple has been officially mocking Microsoft, often with no good reason.
Get a Mac? Get back at Apple!
Vista was a major OS getting bad reception and all sorts of issues, whereas the iPhone is just a product that would be replaced in a year or so, anyway. Of course, it has the bad reception and the issues...
I don't think that it causes Apple Inc the same damage in their image of what MS had to experience, but I understand Microsoft. This is a very good chance to get back on all the smugness and kick the rotten Apple. After all, Apple has been officially mocking Microsoft, often with no good reason.
Get a Mac? Get back at Apple!
No problem!!!!
Mi iPhone 4 NO tiene ningún problema de señal ya lo tape por todos lados y no pierdo nunca la señal, entonces? que dicen a eso? Para mi que es pura mala publicidad y envidia!!!!
Mi iPhone 4 NO tiene ningún problema de señal ya lo tape por todos lados y no pierdo nunca la señal, entonces? que dicen a eso? Para mi que es pura mala publicidad y envidia!!!!
Computerworld reports that Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner today compared Apple's iPhone to his company's much-maligned Vista operating system, suggesting that Apple might be headed for a similar experience to that of Microsoft in terms of customer response and criticism.According to the report, Turner also took the opportunity to poke fun at the iPhone 4's signal issues in promoting Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system.Turner's comment follows a full-page ad in The New York Times from Verizon and Motorola promoting the Droid X by poking fun at Apple CEO Steve Jobs' recommendation that iPhone 4 users "just avoid holding it in that way."
Meanwhile, a new survey from ChangeWave Research shows just 2% of respondents who are planning to buy a new smartphone in the June-August timeframe looking to buy a Windows Mobile phone, while 50% are planning to purchase an iPhone. The survey was, however, conducted before the iPhone 4 was released and its signal issues became known.
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You will have to purchase $59 antivirus software and you will be in constant contact with the long lost nigerian prince who wants to give you a ton of money so that he can get his inheritance out of africa.
OK guys, Name ONE SINGLE SPECIFIC known problem with Vista that hasn't already been fixed. The problems were always just hype.
Are you guys forgetting the Apple COVER UP of this problem saying it's a SOFTWARE ISSUE? Also, for those who say that the iPhone is fixed by a simple RECALL - Are you serious? Yeah, that makes it a small issue.
Tony
it's still a bloated piece of crap os my windows xp ran faster on my windows pc that i had than vista did
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What are the first 5 digits of your iPhone's serial number?
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What are the first 5 digits of your iPhone's serial number?
OK - Name ONE THING that was broken in Vista that got fixed. Yeah, I thought you couldn't....
Vista was never broken. It got a bad reputation because it was designed on the assumption that computers would be higher in performance than the previous generation, so MS added some resource intensive graphical elements. As it turned out, there was an influx of NETBOOKS that hit about the same time (unpredictably) that Vista could not run on very well. So it SEEMED bloated that it didn't run well on a highly underpowered 1 GHz single core processor.
This doesn't happen to Mac OS because they control both hardware and software on their platform, so they KNOW what's coming.
In the end, these OS's are all kinda the same.
Tony
What is it then? Some sort of blank slate?
Sadly I don't understand the gadget people.
Like all those Apple ads that did nothing to tell us why OSX was good and spent all their time telling us how rubbish Windows was? I'm not defending this MS chap, I think openly trash talking your competition makes you look childish. Tell us why your product is good, not why the competition is crap.
Even if Apple fix the problem tomorrow, it will take longer for them to fix the damage this has done to the image of the iPhone.
What a douchebag. Hey, at least my iPhone 4 works as it should MOST of the time. My agency still uses XP, they won't even touch Vista.
Hey Kevin Turner,
Vista: "Just avoid installing it. Period."
Hey Kevin Turner,
Vista: "Just avoid installing it. Period."
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It really takes some cajones for an ms exec to be making fun of someone else's cell phone when they JUST killed the Kin after literally about two weeks on the market.
It really takes some cajones for an ms exec to be making fun of someone else's cell phone when they JUST killed the Kin after literally about two weeks on the market.
Of course it runs slower. The same way that DOS runs a LOT faster than any Windows. It was meant to be next generation and thus added graphical overhead and ease of use features that take more power. The expectation is that the computers that it runs on would have more power. Nobody expected the sudden craving for underpowered computers like netbooks and tablets, so Vista looked like a resource hog.
Vista is world's better than XP as long as you don't try to run it on a Netbook. The problem was that these underpowered computers should be running a different OS. It's like trying to run Snow Leopard on the iPad.
Tony
In Microsoft's defense (and I can't believe I'm saying that), Vista was made much better via service packs. No software upgrade on this planet is gonna fix the antenna problem on the iPhone. That's why if I was forced to choose, I'd take bad software over bad hardware every time.