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“It’s not for nothing — Apple has revolutionized the mp3 player, smartphone, and tablet-computer markets with incredibly well-thought-out and forward-thinking products,” Comeau writes. “Simultaneously, the company became the world’s best electronics retailer, climbed the PC market-share ladder, and built an unmatched stable of loyal fans.”
“Now the competition wants their own Apple-like movements, driven by Apple-like products and Apple-like business models,” Comeau writes. “Can it work?”
“Microsoft’s leadership assumes following Apple’s lead will generate Apple-like success,” Comeau writes. “It isn’t the craziest solution for Microsoft’s current malaise, but it’s also not the most creative.”
MacDailyNews Take: It’s all they know, Mike.
Comeau writes, “As for HP, I like that it’s taking a clear step towards proprietary, all-in-one products that are well-differentiated from the competition. I just worry that it can’t go all the way. Given the sheer size of its PC business (25% of the market), HP will always have to keep a foot in the Windows camp.”
MacDailyNews Take: Always is a mighty long time. This is tech and things can change in a heartbeat. Microsoft can die much faster than many people seem to realize.
Comeaiu writes, “Both companies also lack something very important: time in the game. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are embarking upon business strategies Apple has pursued for the past three decades, and they’re doing it with product lines that are years behind the times… I’d just like to know: If Microsoft and HP are focused so much on copying the Apple of today, how can they possibly compete with the Apple of 2015 or 2020?”
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MacDailyNews Take: They can’t.
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
Anyone interested in a used copy of “Learn Microsoft Bob for the Kin”?
I’d add that the revolution started before the iPod-it started with OS X. That’s just taking a little longer than the others to go totally main stream in people’s point of view.
At the beginning of this year I made a prediction that by year 2020 no one will remember Micro$oft. As in IT regaining perfect vision. 2020, get it?
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So far things are looking up.
Not too thrilled with the advertising inserts. Who does that? Right in the middle of a story…
M$ is left with their Windoze teams running the show (with their profits and thus political power within the walls of Redmond).
The right play would bee to take the Zune, errr, Windoze Phone 7 Plus Home Edition, OS and expand it to a tablet.
But the Windows team – like the Ring of Power – is far too powerful and crushes all in it’s OS path from within.
Thus, a sloppy, lame “be all to everyone” Windoze touch OS for a tablet will emerge, only to get crushed by Android, and iOS iPads.
HP will screw up also. Their public statements alone show they have very little strategy, and won’t win by supporting both OS’s. They should make their own push with the Palm OS, because surely they must know a Windoze tablet will do nothing. Their next and only play is Android…
kneugent: Welcome to the new world of attempting to get your eyeballs and cash anyway possible. It will only become worse as time goes on. Oh well, someone has to pay for these sites.
• Because Apple can make very stable stripped down OS X operating system for any new device and can add back in features at will, HP hasn’t got a prayer.
• Because Apple can design low powered processor chips and HP can’t, they haven’t got a prayer.
• Because Apple has iTunes, local Apple Stores, online Stores, personal money being spent for a premium high quality products and services that work seamlessly together (without daily crashes, viruses, spyware, …), a new billion dollar server farm, etc. HP can’t!
• HP’s biggest problem is Microsoft!
Are they planning to copy also Steve jobs? a clone perhaps?
@gksmith – LOL. I hope it didn’t see TOO much wear and tear.
“Microsoft can die much faster than many people seem to realize.”
Microsoft can also stick around longer than we’d hope. Their most recent financial report shows they can still rake in money from their near-monopoly Windows and Office franchises.
@Jersey_Trader
“…without daily crashes, viruses, spyware, …), a new BILLION DOLLAR SERVER FARM, etc. HP can’t!”
There. Fixed that for you. Whew!
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@gksmith,
What exactly was it used for?
A lot less Flash around here these days
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Oohh – I forgot, ClickToFlash is good!
Apple believes it’s products and services are the best in the world and builds them with that as their driving force. Want to buy one?
Microsoft builds products that do everything (almost) that Apple products do) and might even be shinier). Their products sometimes are less expensive too. Want to buy one.
Which would you buy???? The difference is obvious
“No one can deny that Apple has dominated the technology conversation over the past decade.”
I can.
Apple has been doing wondrous things for decades but did not break into the mass consciousness until the rise of the iPod about five or six years ago. Tech pundits, investment analysts, and the man on the street all ignored Apple’s genius for so long, the default notion was the company was going out of business. A few short years later it’s the second biggest company.
Went into an Apple Retail store a while ago. Packed, wall-to-wall, customers streaming in and streaming out with white Apple bags and computer boxes. How are those microsoft stores doing?
“MacDailyNews Take: Always is a mighty long time. This is tech and things can change in a heartbeat. Microsoft can die much faster than many people seem to realize.”
We need to get real about this. Microsoft has a greater than 90% market share of desktop and laptop machines worldwide. This is simple fact.(Some reports put it higher than 95%.)
Even if Microsoft’s market share worldwide fell consistently by 5% for each of the next 12 years (something that is unlikely to happen) it would still hold onto more than 50% of the market.
No matter what people say, Microsoft is not going away any time soon.
True, Microsoft makes a vastly inferior product. True, their “innovation” consists of buying other companies or copying companies that do truly innovate. True, they haven’t created something that is a real paradigm shift–ever.
However, their market share and installed base will carry them for *at least* another 10 to 15 years and quite probably another 20 to 25 years. Just look how long it is taking Dell to die and they never had over 20% of the market!
@lfthnd
The Apple product!
(because for Apple, I am the customer. The customers of MS are Dell, HP, Lenovo… Norton, McAfee and the IT guys. And MS does everything, to serve them well, that means: bloat the software so I have to buy a new machine every two years and let the network be as unreliable as possible so I have to call the IT support… Security? Oh yes, “ask our partners from Norton”
Please excuse my naivety, but why is hp scared of venturing outside the windows os space with it’s own webOS? would microsoft punish them somehow with preferential treatment, and if so isn’t that illegal nowadays? It’s not the 90s anymore
M$ — a twice convicted illegal monopoly — would be nothing without there 80% ‘Office’ profits.
If ‘you’ didn’t need ‘Office’, ‘you’ wouldn’t need Windows.
Take ‘Office’ away from them.
“Please excuse my naivety, but why is hp scared of venturing outside the windows os space with it’s own webOS?”
A webOS is just a sophisticated web page or related group of web pages, not a computer operating system.
Remember there was a time before the web. Computers required, and still require an operating system.
Just because a search engine company like Google likes to think it is creating an operating system does not mean it is actually doing that. The members of the “marketing” human sub-species may choose to call it that, but they don’t know what the hell they are talking about. They think you can relabel water and call it something else, so……
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
Sure you can. MicroSoft has done it this way for EVER!
Not a great rep to have, but there none-the-less.