Go Epic/Microsoft.
Split apart Apple and let Tim cool his heels in jail for a few months for the lies he's told.
Split apart Apple and let Tim cool his heels in jail for a few months for the lies he's told.
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Rivalry Between Apple and Microsoft Heating Up Again Over Augmented Reality, Gaming, and More
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When was the last time you actually got a blue screen of death? Over the last 5 years, the only times I ever got the blue screen of death was when I was overclocking my computer.
Microsoft products are not downright inferior. Microsoft has the most popular productivity apps like Microsoft Office, they have their own gaming platform like xbox and PC gaming, and they even produced a better mouse than Apple. Magic Mouse = complete joke.
So instead of getting a 30% cut from xCloud sales now they get nothing as it is web based now 🤣😁🤪. Not like Apple Arcade ever stood a chance.
BSODs are very rare. Like less than 2 per year, and usually right after a dodgy update. Generally goes away when the hotfix gets pushed a week or two later.
This actually is not true. I know of multiple businesses that decided to drop their use of Mac Pro machines in favor of Dell XPS Windows 10 machines. This was during the Mac Pro "garbage can" days, when Apple was seemingly waiting for another millenium to come out with an updated Mac Pro.
The shocker was that these new machines being purchased were for content creation, the very thing everybody tells us Apple is so good at.
I am happy to see Apple deciding to poop or get off the pot and get moving on new machines with their own silicone. This shows a commitment that most people and companies were not seeing when they were deciding to move to Windows.
We just need a good fight, that's all. I mean, it's either that or eat more tofu, right? Fight! Fight!
That video is example #8982 of the pot calling the kettle black. No style? I think there's plenty of splashback from THAT mud puddle, at least from that period in time.
Bloomberg is on one side of the aisle and they're one of the ones I don't watch or read anymore because I don't think I can trust them to leave their smarmy wording at last night's scrabble game or treat any story with fair reporting.
And I'm not the only one. Just sayin'.
Your candidness is recognized and appreciated. I am excitedly looking forward to the M1 versions of iPad and Mac Book Pro. (Whoops, I almost called it an "iMBP", hehe!)
Yeah, me too. Although I'm not considering an M1 MBP just to use it as a Windows machine. I already carry two laptops, an iPad, and two iPhones with me whenever I travel. More would be .. not ideal.
So you take the mobile segment and make that the whole story about why there's no real rivalry?
Wow, talk about fitting reality to your preconceived image of it. It must be your super power, but I wonder, does it give you headaches when you use it for dis-ingenuousness? If not, can you teach the rest of us how to do it too?
There's a LOT of stuff Apple doesn't make until everybody and his brother is already making it. This is not a bad thing.
Wow, short, sweet, and to the point! Thread closed due to unnecessary use of resources! 😁
This guy's Stupid Opinion isn't wrong at all! Or stupid! Okay, I'll show myself out now...
Not really seeing the rivalry. Apple will dominate the consumer AR space (thanks to their iphone install base and affluent user base), while Microsoft probably sees a niche in enterprise use cases (eg: marketing to industries like medicine, military and education, where aesthetics don’t matter as much).
There may be some markets that overlap, but otherwise, they will largely keep to their own respective territories.
There may be some markets that overlap, but otherwise, they will largely keep to their own respective territories.
Just so you’re aware - there are no “xCloud Sales”. xCloud is a part of Game Pass. There are no in-app purchases on Android or iOS (when there was a beta app). You sign up on your Xbox or the website. Apple wouldn’t have made a dime off of this.
MS a rival? I think that’s laughable at this point, Microsoft is only relevant in the game because of the long standing need in the enterprise. I may get dunked on for this, but, I believe most would choose Apple if they had a choice.
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That needs to be considered in the context that MS decided quite early on that Hololens wasn't going to be a consumer product. It's not marketed at consumers, it's not even available to consumers. Instead it's being used in design, manufacturing, research and medical - and also now the military. The demand might be less in those areas than for a consumer product, but MS can put more resources into development if they know they can add a 4 or 5 figure price tag, whereas operating in a consumer environment even Apple have to focus more on the cost per unit. You can't judge the success of a product on its visibility and performance in a market that it's not even aimed at.
So I agree that whilst both MS and Apple operate in the AR space, there's no direct competition at this time as both have their eyes set on very different markets and I don't see Apple wanting to move into MS's market as, if anything, it's moved out of the professional market as a whole over recent years.
In my experience, this isn’t true. I see more and more Windows computers amongst clients in various industries these days. Price, decrease in reliability/stability of macOS, more parity of development/design software across platforms are all factors. The difference really isn’t that big anymore.
Isn't this the company that saved Apple before it went bankrupt?
Fair enough, in my industry, I see more people converting to macOS as they deem in much more stable. However, most of us have a work Windows machine, and remote into them through VPN when necessary, otherwise we use Macs. Its all subjective though.
Yep, exactly this.
I use a Mac for private and Windows for work. But I've seen a lot more issues on the Mac side than the Windows side. I wouldn't game on Mac at all, why?
Because Apple haven't made the effort to make it a viable platform so I won't reward them with my money in that regard.
Industrial world is not Mac. At all.
I tried to look for some ModBus programs the other day and the pool from which to choose on the Mac side is stupidly small.
Don’t recall saying the “world”. Specifically the industry I work in, and I never said what that was.
Ok, and?
When someone says 'industrial world' it typically means production and processes and such like. There are industries that don't fit under that banner and if that's what you are in then great. If not great.
I don't think it's going to improve or detriment to my day either way if you did say what your industry was.
As I said before, the world runs on windows. Starbucks patrons run on Mac.
Posts like this are hilarious and stupid in equal measure.
Bear in mind that not an insignificant number of those running toward Apple will be running Windows in them and/or remoting into a Windows machine or environment which kind of nullifies about half the criticism.
I agree. Not sure why they still buy
Windows machines but they do.
You’d have thought it would be easy to transition by now.
Actually no. MS never saved Apple, that‘s an urban myth. See
Stop the lies! The day that Microsoft 'saved' Apple
Last week, with Apple overtaking Microsoft in market capitalization — and with the floating of a crazy rumor that Microsoft's Steve Ballmer would talk up iPhone and Visual Studio 2010 at the keynote of next month's Apple Worldwide Developer Conference — news stories on the Web, in print and on...
www.zdnet.com
Quote „The day before the announcement Apple had a market cap of $2.46 billion,[147] and had ended its previous quarter with quarterly revenues of US$1.7 billion and cash reserves of US$1.2 billion,[148] making the US$150 million amount of the investment largely symbolic. Apple CFO Fred Anderson stated that Apple would use the additional funds to invest in its core markets of education and creative content.[145]“
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#Microsoft_deal
there was lots and lots of "shade" thrown the opposite direction as well, so I decided to bring some people back to the reality of the situation.