Oddly enough, if I had to take a long term bet on dominance, I'd be tempted to chose Amazon!
They're the tortoise in the race, slow and steady. They are considering a phone .. and not the slick Facebook stunt of an "app" that is your Home screen. They already have book readers and tablets, admittedly not sexy but cheap and effective. They have your TV and with roku as well as their own TV device soon, they are doing well in the media world. They have the best cloud already, at least in terms of open, complete root access to hardware in the sky with astounding file/storage abilities. They are also pro-internet tax. Why? They want to build warehouses in most states for same-day delivery. They don't go backwards and don't drop services. And they have no interest in the silly hardware wars, they know that even OS X will be commoditized and that there is really no need for Apple vs MS vs *nix. And browsers are now cross-platform. Apple is draconian and apparently lost w/o Jobs, Microsoft has false dominance and its slipping fast. Look how fast RIM lost the phone market. Android already admits that phone OSs are commoditized and the cell trinity (Handset, Carrier, OS) are too. Huge forces are moving to software/cloud as the "it" thing. Facebook, G+, Twitter, Cloud mail (Yahoo, MS, Gmail) are far more important in people's lives than how they access them. And who do you "favor" more? Apple? Pretty bitchy. Google? Pretty good but not packaged and way to many fails. MS? Child, please! Amazon? Prime all the way, baby. Few folks hate on Amazon. Slow but steady wins the race. -- Owen On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Marcus G. Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com>wrote: > On 5/18/13 8:21 AM, Prof David West wrote: > >> MS stock has been on a long down slide since Ballmer took over [..] >> > Not so bad lately.. > > http://investing.money.msn.**com/investments/equity-charts?** > CA=0&CB=0&CC=0&CD=0&D4=1&DD=1&**D5=0&DCS=2&MA0=0&MA1=0&C5=3&** > C5D=1&C6=1999&C7=6&C7D=30&C8=**2000&C9=1&CF=0&D8=0&DB=0&DC=0&** > D9=0&DA=0&D1=0&symbol=us%**3amsft&SZ=0&PT=8<http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/equity-charts?CA=0&CB=0&CC=0&CD=0&D4=1&DD=1&D5=0&DCS=2&MA0=0&MA1=0&C5=3&C5D=1&C6=1999&C7=6&C7D=30&C8=2000&C9=1&CF=0&D8=0&DB=0&DC=0&D9=0&DA=0&D1=0&symbol=us%3amsft&SZ=0&PT=8> > > > > > ==============================**============================== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/**listinfo/friam_redfish.com<http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> >
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