For whom would "innovative" be a buying criteria? Quality, features, ease of use, battery life, available apps, price, availability, cachet, styling... buying criteria. Innovative... not buying criteria.
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Microsoft Posts Anti-Apple Windows Phone Videos of Questionable Taste [Update: Removed]
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For whom would "innovative" be a buying criteria? Quality, features, ease of use, battery life, available apps, price, availability, cachet, styling... buying criteria. Innovative... not buying criteria.
They call him Tim, people interpret that as Steve.
Some people just want to be butt hurt. It wasn't in bad taste like the headline suggested, and it wasn't nearly as funny as MS hoped. Overall it just felt bland and desperate to me.
But the sheer attention it's getting from this forum and apple evengelists like daringfirecrotch fireball is giving it way more traction than it would have had on its own.
That means the Apple community at large was just successfully trolled by Microsoft. MS takes down the video after it makes its rounds and sits back to watch as the apple community poisons their own forums (45 pages and counting!) and propagates the video on their own.
Brilliant, except it didn't accomplish anything in the end for MS. It's kind of like farting on someone's pillow when you really want to punch them in the nose.
Some people just want to be butt hurt. It wasn't in bad taste like the headline suggested, and it wasn't nearly as funny as MS hoped. Overall it just felt bland and desperate to me.
But the sheer attention it's getting from this forum and apple evengelists like daring
That means the Apple community at large was just successfully trolled by Microsoft. MS takes down the video after it makes its rounds and sits back to watch as the apple community poisons their own forums (45 pages and counting!) and propagates the video on their own.
Brilliant, except it didn't accomplish anything in the end for MS. It's kind of like farting on someone's pillow when you really want to punch them in the nose.
I feel your pain, Mate. I know how these mean words can hurt.
I'm here for you...
(Billing will follow)
But it doesn't feel as heartfelt if I have to pay for it, Shrink (never thought I'd be saying that again this week).
Though honestly, judging from some of the reactions we've been seeing in this thread, I think your skills and talents would be put to better use elsewhere around here.
I just bought an Windows Phone to lay in my drawer, so they would just pleeease stop vining for a day or 2 at Microsoft
As sad as someone who is *obviously* not an Apple fan coming to an Apple fan site to troll?
I dunno. I thought his suggestion that you should all just relax was pretty spot on.
Is it an Apple "fan site", or an Apple discussion site?
By your logic, anything other than total and absolute approval and support of everything that Apple does, or produces, constitutes trolling.
Interesting definition...
hell i was thinking of sticking a pin in my copy of Windows 7 and letting that sit in a drawer like a voodoo doll.
You can't change the premise or logic will lead you to the wrong conclusion. Clearly.
Anything that gets Apple of their lazy @$$. I mean WTF? Seriously they consider the 5s an upgrade? I've been a loyal Apple fan for a while now, and I'm seriously pissed off. I like the fact that Microsoft took a jab and that Apple shares dropped. Not because I wish ill will, but because they might get off their lazy @$$e$ and start innovating again. I used to be excited when new iPhones would come out. I'm tried of Apple making users look like idiots to Android users. Yeah, it shouldn't matter what others think, but it always feels like Apple takes 1 step forward and 2 steps backward. Even Phil Schiller looked like he was struggling to sell it to the audience because of how lame it was. /endrant
How fast we forget apple making fun of Microsoft, but when its the other way around ,
The video is funny for sure!
Plastic phone, WOW, camera 15% better, WOW
Apple is not apple with out Steve, I do own and will at least for the next few years buy iPhone, but I'm not head over hill as I used to be about their products, sadly.
, The video is funny for sure!
Plastic phone, WOW, camera 15% better, WOW
Apple is not apple with out Steve, I do own and will at least for the next few years buy iPhone, but I'm not head over hill as I used to be about their products, sadly.
It is an upgrade, in much the same way that the current Macbook Pro is an upgrade from last years.
A lot of people are still expecting the huge leaps in design and functionality we were seeing back around 2007-2010, and, barring a few rare exceptions, that's just not gonna happen anymore. The mobile market has started to mature, the same way the PC scene did back during the turn of the century. It's all about incremental speed boosts and updates these days, with a few nice extra features thrown in when they become small enough or affordable enough.
In other words, the days when you'd upgrade your phone every year to get the absolute latest killer features are long over. It's something you'll do every 2-3 years now. From that perspective, the 5S is a great phone for someone coming from an iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, or 4S. But if you currently have the 5, it's just not worth it.
Very good post! It surprises me how the media and folks in general think that a company can whip out earth shattering products year after year. No other company is doing it, but since Apple done it a few years back they have this expectation set. Let's face it, phones are tapped out. The only huge changes you will see going forward until a major breakthrough will be design, battery, and feature bloat. Funny thing too is the fact that the S upgrade cycle has always been a slight increase over previous models.
Major innovation now has to come from different areas like TV, game consoles, and wearable technology and maybe others we haven't thought of like in car technology.
Renz that was well written and I'd have to agree with you. I'm just throwing a hissy fit because I expect more. I do see the incremental upgrades and have always stated to others this is the case with the "s" models. I just feel like there could have been "one last thing".
Love it how the mac community hates this video and the windows fans love it.
http://winsupersite.com/mobile-devi...ws-phone-video-takes-lapsed-iphone-innovation
Paul Thurrott is a well respected Microsoft centric journalist, and I respect his work. But I still find this video somewhat distasteful. It lacks the comedy of the old mac vs PC guy ads, and simply is very dry humour.
http://winsupersite.com/mobile-devi...ws-phone-video-takes-lapsed-iphone-innovation
Paul Thurrott is a well respected Microsoft centric journalist, and I respect his work. But I still find this video somewhat distasteful. It lacks the comedy of the old mac vs PC guy ads, and simply is very dry humour.
Probably got 1000 angry e-mails from some upset Apple fans that were offended by the use of a mock Steve Jobs