Lets agree on one things. Apple is a hardware company. MS is a
software company.
MS will never design nor build computers and devices as slick as
Apple as I do not believe that they invest the amount of money in
them that Apple does. MS makes some good peripherals, like mice,
keyboards and similar.
MS will not come up with Iphones, Ipods, Ipads etc. as they do not
invest that type of money on the hardware. (The Zune has not been
that great, but it has not been that bad. And brown is not a turn
off to me, white is.))
Apple does, they are a leading designer of new hardware items. I
think the reason a lot of people were disappointed with the Ipad is
that it did not live up to it's hype. It was not innovative, just an
enlarged Ipod. I think they expected something a little more daring
from Steve.
The final verdict on all this will be when the rubber hits the road
and the product hits main street. Not just the initial buy in (There
are always those who will buy it right away) but in sustained sales.
The Iphone is still one of the largest selling smartphones out there,
but it has had to go through three generations to continue.
A lot of things still remain to be seen.
Stewart
At 05:46 PM 1/30/2010, you wrote:
I agree with your view of the influence that Apple has upon the
computer manufacturing industry. However, and while this does not
negate the previous sentence, most computer buyers still prefer to
use, by a wide margin, computers that run under Windows as opposed to
the Mac OS.
There is nothing wrong with being the underdog in terms of bigness.
Many folks just love the underdogs of the world, myself included.
Steve
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