There's not a darn thing innovative about the Xbox 360. It's no better than the PS3. If anything the Nintendo is the most innovative with the interactive features it offers.
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Microsoft to Launch iPhone Rival on Verizon Early Next Year?
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There's not a darn thing innovative about the Xbox 360. It's no better than the PS3. If anything the Nintendo is the most innovative with the interactive features it offers.
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Preach on brother.
Every phone on Verizon is nerfed so that signal quality can be maintained. I'm sure this unholy union will pave the way for some new totally effed up DRM.
Preach on brother.
Every phone on Verizon is nerfed so that signal quality can be maintained. I'm sure this unholy union will pave the way for some new totally effed up DRM.
I got my first smart 'phone in 2001. It ran Windows Mobile and I thought it was great. Several smart 'phones later I found the most disappointing aspect of my experience was the lack of development of the WinMo OS. In 2 years the functionality of my iPhone OS has advanced in it's functions, far more than WinMo did in my previous 6 years.
I agree, when I was with them the sound quality was better than at&t IMO. My only issue with at&t is when I talk to people I will have full bars on 3G and it sounds like the person I am talking to is breaking up like I have zero bars. I'm glad I don't use the cell phone part of the iPhone a lot or this would get to me.
They do, and its a failure. If they join forces with Verizon, then it'll be double the failure
Seems they are not making as much money of Windows Mobile as they would like, lol.
Isn't their current strategy with Windows Mobile winning over the enterprise?
Market Value, April 28
Apple: 110.61B
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:aapl
Microsoft: 177.37B
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:MSFT
Logic fail. MS is not 10 times the size of Apple.
Do you know that overwhelming majority of world use GSM phone?
Verizon does not use GSM; instead, Verizon uses an incompatible format called CDMA.
Amen to that. One reason Verizon wouldn't do the iPhone in the first place was they wanted to be able to limit whatever they wanted, feature-wise. Verizon phones are always crippled compared to what the phone is supposed to be able to do.
What did the Zune bring to ipod users, absolutely jack. That's the problem with Microsoft, they have money from their Windows and Office monoplies to throw at projects even without making any money off it and without bringing anything much to the field. Look at Xbox and Zune and their search engine for example. The Xbox has turned out to do ok but they've poured like around 6 billion into it without making any money until recently, same thing they're doing with their search engine while getting mauled by Google. If Apple was to go into some of these money losing ventures, they would get mauled by the press who believe the company is still doomed to fall under. I hear they are also going to be opening "money making stores". Sigh.
I thought it was the Palm Pre that forced Apple to release copy and paste, can you guys make up your mind?I agree. Bring on the competition. The iPhone isn't perfect but well ahead of the game, and much as Apple like to push on, it is very easy to slow things down (and refuse to do things like "Copy and Paste") when you're still making lots of cash...
I thank Blackberry for forcing Apple's to implement c + p
Now I'm not going to say that Apple is the only innovative company on earth, but seriously??? You call this Microsoft innovating??? WOW!
They rip apart everything Apple has done with the iPhone from day one and say how bad it will fail and that their business model is superior and now they will just copy it all like they always do after every other company has already tried to copy it and failed and after they have eaten their words and watched the immense success and innovation that Apple has lead, meanwhile almost every sector of their company is eating #*@% and dying.
Ya, Microsoft innovates.
Not quite double
MSFT 2008 Total Fiscal Year Earnings: ~ $60 Billion
MSFT 2008 Net Revenue: ~ $17.5 Billion
Apple 2008 Total Fiscal Year Earnings ~ $38 Billion
Apple 2008 Net Revenue: ~ $6.75 Billion
Neither company is doing poorly... Every company is cyclic, Microsoft is struggling but to count them out is stupid.
It wasn't too long ago that Apple was on the ropes.
At least Apple is making money off Macs and they are clearly the only company offering an alternative for consumers, Linux is irrelevant. Many companies have fallen against Windows but Apple is still here offering an alternative for us and they are making a killing of Macs not unlike the money losing "ipod killer."
Is Microsoft getting ready to admit Windows Mobile is a failure?
Now I'm not going to say that Apple is the only innovative company on earth, but seriously??? You call this Microsoft innovating??? WOW!
They rip apart everything Apple has done with the iPhone from day one and say how bad it will fail and that their business model is superior and now they will just copy it all like they always do after every other company has already tried to copy it and failed and after they have eaten their words and watched the immense success and innovation that Apple has lead, meanwhile almost every sector of their company is eating #*@% and dying.
Ya, Microsoft innovates.
These guys are proper clowns. They scrapped Play for Sure and released the Zune, now they are coming to make their own phone even though they have Windows Mobile, and what do you know they also want to open their own stores?
Microsoft and Verizon both Suck!!!!
Microsoft has always done this, they just copy what is out there that is successful and they try to make a profit in a hot market, aka X-Box, ZUNE, Windows. The problem is, when they make this stuff, its usually trash and barely works likes it suppose too. Verizon has the best cell towers and coverage, no doubt, but they nickel and dime a person to death and lock lots of features on these phones. V-Cast sucks, their Apps suck and the verizon software really sucks. Verizon are just really greedy bastards. Now if Verizon would just let the iphone alone and have full access to their network, i would buy an iphone on verizon, but i serious doubt verizon would get rid of their v-cast and all their other crappy apps and software just for apple, i bet the compromise will be that apple has to include v-cast, ringtones and all the other crap verizon offers on the verizon iphone.
Microsoft has always done this, they just copy what is out there that is successful and they try to make a profit in a hot market, aka X-Box, ZUNE, Windows. The problem is, when they make this stuff, its usually trash and barely works likes it suppose too. Verizon has the best cell towers and coverage, no doubt, but they nickel and dime a person to death and lock lots of features on these phones. V-Cast sucks, their Apps suck and the verizon software really sucks. Verizon are just really greedy bastards. Now if Verizon would just let the iphone alone and have full access to their network, i would buy an iphone on verizon, but i serious doubt verizon would get rid of their v-cast and all their other crappy apps and software just for apple, i bet the compromise will be that apple has to include v-cast, ringtones and all the other crap verizon offers on the verizon iphone.
They've been itching to manufacture hardware for ages, the problem was just that they were worried about competing with the manufacturers who buy (and ultimately, sell) Windows. So they went into areas where they didn't risk angering HP, Dell and the others. They started with mice and keyboards. Then gaming consoles. Then music players. And now, phones. The phone thing is interesting because that's the first time they're going head to head with other manufacturers who license Windows, and I'm guessing that they're testing the waters to see if it might be feasible to go into computer manufacturing.
And yet many of the mac users here that like to bash MS own a Xbox360. If they can take majority share away from the dominant sony playstation without any innovation, imagine what they could with some!
Agreed and the main reason it's beating Sony. I think the Xbox was the first console to come with an integrated hard drive.
To say Microsoft didn't innovate with the X-box product line is disingenuous.