Except Ballmer and co. are still running MS. Not quite an awe-inspiring recipe for change.
Does MS have a Steve Jobs-type figure ready to swoop in and re-invent the brand and their business? Sometimes that's what it takes. I don't see any visionary at MS. Do you?
Yes. But the signs for it aren't very encouraging. Anything can happen. But if nothing fundamental changes at MS (and nothing has, by the looks of it) it'll probably be more of the same.
With what we'e seen today from MS and Nokia, it's getting harder and harder to notice. Apparently, this is defined as a radical change at MS. LOL
Of course. It's called "Market Realities." Something MS and a few others in the same boat have yet to wake up to.
Absolutely. They've earned it. I'm also passionate about seeing things clearly. A lot of that clarity involves acknowledging an Apple-dominated market reality in one way or another - whether in terms of ideas, products, mindshare etc. There's no point in denying it, and more importantly, there's no point in pretending it has no effect. The effect is palpable and far-reaching, for the industry at large and consumers alike. Apple sneezes, and everyone else reaches for a Kleenex.
MS has, is, and judging from what we're seeing, will, perform way below expectations, way below what their R&D and mass of human capital suggests is possible. And in light of Ballmer's track record, his attitude, beliefs about tech and the people he chooses to surround himself with, what's going to change? And when? And why should anything change at all, given that the very Board that Ballmer is responsible to appears wholly complicit in his "strategy"?
I don't work for Apple.
And yes, I'm quite biased. I'm biased against ****, and the companies that think it's perfectly fine to mass-produce it, and then either laugh about it or act completely incredulous when a) consumers end up not wanting it, or b) someone else comes along and proves it to them.
