yes and no,
Apple has had issues with gaining market dominance-and not from lack of
effort or deep pockets they've have a dodgy history with gamers for
instance who are willing to spend lots of money on software and a bit on
hardware. One common argument is something like oh but you can custom
There has been a lot written about the demise of MS - with many giving
them about five more years of semi-dominance. Steve Ballmer
consistently takes the top spot on the list of CEOs who should be
fired, MS stock has been on a long down slide since Ballmer took over,
the board has no
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..
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,
On 5/18/13 10:04 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Microsoft has false dominance and its slipping fast.
Although Amazon is on top of the infrastructure as a service market,
Microsoft is much better positioned to control the software as a service
world. This is because they control the most common
Well, yes the stock price is usually a good indicator
how people judge the chance of future success. Maybe
I am wrong? My doubts were based on the following
observations:
a) Microsoft successfully managed to alienate many of their
loyal developers and now even their main customers,
i.e. small
Oops, a typo. I meant of course
There main software is called Office, and it is
used in offices. The new Windows 8 does not fit
well into traditional offices.
On 05/18/2013 08:42 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
Well, yes the stock price is usually a good indicator
how people judge the chance of future
Aargh Their main software of course. You see English
is not my first language :-( Sorry.
On 05/18/2013 08:45 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
Oops, a typo. I meant of course
There main software is called Office, and it is
used in offices. The new Windows 8 does not fit
well into traditional offices.
