“Interviewed at the company’s Professional Developer Conference, the veteran developer tried to downplay apps as a lure and insisted that ‘all the apps that count’ will be available on every smartphone as the time to write and port code is much shorter than on the desktop,” Electronista reports. “Ozzie instead implied that it was the OS itself and its built-in features that would make the difference.”
MacDailyNews Take: So, even if he’s right, which he isn’t, the hopelessly outclassed Microsoft loses in those categories, too.
Electornista continues, “The comments are considered by attendees and critics to be a spin downplaying Windows Mobile’s weaknesses.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft had its giant, bloated ass handed to it by Apple quite some time ago. Ozzie and Co. are obviously still having difficulty seeing anything but ass even today. Maybe that explains their product lineup.
I agree with that. I also agree that the heart is not important to the body and a motor is not important to a car.
What ever happened to “Windows is better than Mac because there are more programs?”
So now when Apple has WAY more apps, the quantity is not important . . . ?
” … all the apps that count will be available …”
This makes perfect sense. But let me choose the Apps. There are 128 apps on my iPhone right now. Just get rid of of the other 99,872. Those don’t count.
Well,
He’s right in that of the 100,000 apps for the iPhone out now
only about 80,000 of them are actually useful. HAH
Microsoft – We’ll say anything!
What’s the point in developing and marketing a Mobile OS if you can’t use Mobile Apps idiot.
“. Ozzie and Co. are obviously still having difficulty seeing anything but ass even today.”
Funny
Tell that to anyone who’s found a few truly useful but “niche” apps…pretty much anyone who has an iPhone. What delusions and lies!
I bet all the “rolled eyes” in the room nearly caused the building to turn on its side when he said it. You’re not fooling anyone, dude.
“What ever happened to “Windows is better than Mac because there are more programs?””
It’s being filed away in the same folder as “The Mac is a toy. There aren’t any games for it.”
Is he saying goodbye to their ¡Deverlopers¡ ¡Deverlopers¡ ¡Deverlopers¡…. ¡Deverlopers¡ ¡Deverlopers¡ ¡Deverlopers¡…?
Can we all now say together: “Ozzie, such distorted reality. You must truly live in the land of Oz.”
@myname My thoughts exactly! Guess that only applies to the desktop (or whatever suits them)
It’s a rounding error!?
Yeah. All the apps that count will be on every smartphone, because all smartphones have the same hardware and they all have the same development costs. Oh, and they all have the same sized customer base.
And everybody knows the reason people buy iPhones is because they love the OS so much. The apps have nothing to do with it. I mean, when you use a computer or a smartphone or whatever the thing you do the most is just play around with the operating system, right? You don’t spend your time RUNNING APPLICATIONS or anything! That’d be ridiculous.
…I wonder if Ray Ozzie is aware that he’s spouting utter bullshit, or if he’s so clueless he actually believes it? I’m inclined to say he actually believes it. Can anybody take one look at Windows and tell me with a straight face that Microsoft’s chief software architect ISN’T a braindamaged clown?
Don’t they ever get tired of being wrong? so wrong? I mean, every time they predict something or they say something is not important, it results backwards. How do any body in microsoft dare to make predictions or minimize products or services?
Why my spell checker wants to put “microsoft” with capitol “m”? that name doesn’t deserves a capitol “m”.
You tell ’em Oz! What’s really important is having M$ Store employees line dancing while customers shoplift during their “cool moves.”
Both Oz and Linus (of Linux fame) have become sad former shells of their former selves. Wow how times have change.
BTW, who would want Cheif Architect for Microsoft as a title. Ugh,
I think it is long past time to be attributing a “Reality Distortion Field” to Steve Jobs. Micro$oft is really the one with an RDF, since they cannot see reality undistorted at all. Steve Jobs actually has a Reality Enabling Field, since he brings the things he imagines into existence.
Yes the company that derided the iPhone when it launched with the claim that it couldn’t compete with WM because it only had a few hundred applications as opposed to WM’s thousands. Do they really think they can fool so many people so much of the time? It certainly shows what they think of their customer’s intelligence.
Shameless Spin
One of the points of the old Windows vs MacOS argument was that Windows had more apps, so was there much superior to classic MacOS. Funny apps are no longer important when Windows trails.
I actually agree that 3rd party apps aren’t the be all and end all. Remember, the original iPhone was still waaaaay better than any WinMo phone, even without jailbreaking. And that was when they probably had the largest mobile developer community around.
Still, the fact of the matter is the iPhone as both the better user experience AND more and better apps. It’s no contest.
Note to Ozzie:
The Berlin wall is down already.
His point is that the apps that count will either be first party developed apps, or they will be cross developed and available on all platforms, which means that if you can get find my car on your iphone, your also going to get find my car on your blackberry and windows mobile device.
So his point is that its going to be the OS that people use to make their decision since all the apps will be available to every platform.
And in all reality, i think this is a bit true. Look at the Video game world. xbox and ps3 have almost all of the same games. The big difference is the “killer apps” and the over all experience.
this is why xbox kicks ass. And this is also why the iPhone kicks ass, because the experience is awesome.. You can get a bunch of the same apps on the blackberry app world, but no1 cares because the blackberry experience sucks.
So in a way, this guy is right. But its not windows mobile that is going to win.