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Microsoft Posts Anti-Apple Windows Phone Videos of Questionable Taste [Update: Removed]
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So you don't consider portraying a dying of cancer, and now dead, CEO and founder of the other company in an advertisement vindictive? You must be in politics
I didn't see what you saw, obviously you are reading way too much out of it. That's a HUGE exaggeration and kind of sad IMO that people make up crap like that just to make MS look bad. If, and its only an if, they were indeed portraying Jobs why would the cancer matter? Did they portray him in a hospital bed, or in chemotherapy? Seriously, you can deduce that they portrayed a sick, cancer ridden dying man from 3 seconds of the back of an actors head?
Even more interesting is that Apple decided to use BING while at the same time Microsoft is creating ads to try and screw Apple. This is exactly why Microsoft keeps failing. They bite the hand that feeds them.
Microsoft? Please spend your money on innovating product rather than creating desperate ads that make you look foolish to your customers.
More like hooker who lost her looks, younger girls are sitting at the same bar stools she closed deals on years before and she's being a total bitch about it.
It's a little like those guys that hate on the only girl that would dance with them at their high school homecoming dance. Microsoft knows they're not in the same class as Apple when it comes to phones and mobile, and it drives them nuts.
A $99 or freee iPhone costs no more and no less than a $99 or free Android phone. At the end of the contract, both customers have paid precisely the same amount.
I thought the video was funny and the likeness of Jobs was not tasteless at all.
I guess no one here has ever watched SNL or late nite TV?
In any case, for those clinging onto the notion the new iPhones are what everyone wants, I think stockholders have a different opinion:
Apple stock this week. The 11th is the day after the "Big Sell":
I guess no one here has ever watched SNL or late nite TV?
In any case, for those clinging onto the notion the new iPhones are what everyone wants, I think stockholders have a different opinion:
Apple stock this week. The 11th is the day after the "Big Sell":
Apps go into internal storage. There is no unresponsive behavior. The SD card is used for data.
Stocks are the worst indicators of demand or success. They ALWAYS go down after an Apple keynote for some reason. They plunged hard after the iPad 1 reveal.
No Microsoft, and we would have had a real OS war instead of a battle between IT guys and users. It would have been OS/2 vs Mac, and that might have been much better for everyone.
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Which is why they are pointless with proper cloud usage. That was the biggest scam Android devices pulled, claiming the SD cards were useful.
Isn't that the reason we pay the outrageous prices for Apple products and why Apple makes huge profit margins off their customers? If industry leading design and functionality are going away, then when, exactly, do Apple prices (and profits) fall in line with those of HP and Dell?
You should maybe read all the words so you know what I am talking about.
Marketing for phones and tabs with SD cards claim they increase storage. But all they do is let you swap out for different groups of songs. Any cloud system, such as Pandora or iTunes Match, is vastly superior for a phone, and mostly for a tablet. That is the scam. Not being able to put apps on the card makes them pointless to me. A few devices have allowed it.
How on earth would you think a laptop would apply to my comment about phones?
The iPad 1 was a real Apple innovation, and it was a product for a market that didn't exist at the time. It created the market. I think investors and the public, in general, knows where the 5S and 5C stand. The market already exists, is mature and is saturated with regurgitated phone hardware. The 5S and 5C just add to it.
Perhaps those people should read up on the "cloud". Unless you are going to talk about cameras, too.