Asher Moses reports for The Sydney Morning Herald, “As virtually the entire consumer electronics industry throws its weight behind tablet computers, Microsoft’s global chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie said today that he did not know whether the booming new category was here to stay.”
MacDailyNews Take: The perfect man for the job.
Moses continues, “Speaking at a lunch held in Sydney by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), Mundie, who reports directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, said he did not know whether tablets like the iPad would ‘remain with us or not.'”
MacDailyNews Take: That’s okay, neither does Ballmer.
Moses continues, “Mundie’s views diverge from that of Apple founder Steve Jobs, who believes tablets form an integral part of the ‘post-PC’ era… Microsoft has consistently criticised tablets for lacking traditional PC features like keyboards. Ballmer has previously said the iPad was just a new type of PC form factor.”
MacDailyNews Take: Let’s see, should we listen to the guy who “doesn’t know” who’s with a company that, after a decade of trying, has sold fewer tablets than Apple lost in shipping during the last year, or should we listen to the guy who showed the world how to correctly do the personal computer, the modern OS, CG feature films, the personal media player, the smartphone, and the tablet, among other things? Tough choice.
Moses continues, “Microsoft founder Bill Gates attempted to kick-start the tablet revolution over a decade ago when the company supported a range of laptop-like devices with screens that could swivel to become tablets, operated by a stylus. However, these types of tablets never took off and it took Apple’s iPad to bring the technology to the masses. Now, tablets are the fastest-growing category of computers but it is largely a two-horse race between Apple and Google’s Android.”
MacDailyNews Take: Mundie’s brand of stupidity must be contagious. Asher, if tablets are largely “a two-horse race between Apple and Google’s Android,” then Apple is a Triple Crown winner and Google’s Android just dropped to the ground, a newly-born illegal clone created from Apple’s DNA, struggling to stand up on wobbly legs. Some “two-horse race.”
Moses continues, “Several Windows 7-based tablets have been announced – Acer launched two in Australia today – but these have been heavily criticised because they do not offer a more modern touch-friendly interface, instead attempting to shoe-horn the regular desktop version of Windows into a tablet form factor.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Matt C.,” “Jason N.,” “Tim H.,” “CJ,” and “mastcell” for the heads up.]
Yeah… But…. But.. But….. I can still get a netbook for under $499.00 and it’s just as good….. Right? GMAFB!!!
Just when I pondered Microdog could not become any more CLUELESS!!! UN F kn BELEIVABLE!
You gotta admit, after those wacky statements coming from Dell, Microsoft and Dell are a match made in purgatory.
Indeed! These are people who don’t know that they don’t know.
My Dell Venue Windows Phone 7 beat that iPhone suckers. AMOLED and other features that your phone lacks.
“Two-horse race?” Android’s not even a horse, it’s a freakin’ jackass – just like Mundi. I love these tech execs trying to downplay iPad’s impact to cover up their own incompetence. They’re not only late to the game, they’re playing the wrong game. iPad is playing the user experience game, while Android is going after specs. In the meantime, iPad’s selling out stadiums all over the world while Android’s got a few fans in the seats at the local field house and even those fans are leaving after the first quarter after they realize how bad their team sucks. The only game Android is playing with Apple is the ass kicking game and we all know who’s winning.
It’s not just tech execs, but the entire news media is intent on telling people there is a booming new tablet sector, when in fact it is one product from one company, and they just can’t bear to say that. The Android tablets are less than a rounding error, and if tech patents have any meaning at all, Android devices will cease to exist.
“Two-horse race”?
Yeah, heard that before in 73′. Mudie sounds like the owner of Sham, he finished last as well.
Mundie said he did not know whether tablets like the iPad would ‘remain with us or not. I mean, they don’t even come with a stylus, or a keyboard, or a mouse, or a CD-Drive, or anti-virus software partners. I dislike Apple’s strategy. I dislike it a lot.’”
Monkey See….. Monkey #2 !,,, OH! this is getting WAY too easy.
iPad is “here to stay.” The competing tablets will come and go. Many will not even “arrive” before being canceled.
But if you’re talking about 10 years from now, Apple may have the “next big thing” by that time. The first iPod was released almost 10 years ago. That first iPod is barely recognizable compared to an iPod touch, and a tiny iPod nano can hold more songs in a fraction of the original’s chunky volume and weight. Just ten years… Imagine what an “iPad” 10 years from now will be like, compared to today’s “archaic” models… probably barely recognizable.
iPad: Wiping out netbook sales.
It’s a fad. 😉
Mundie is also a Bilderberger – definitely a negative in my book.
I think you have misspelled that guy’s name, it is not Mundle it is Muddle.
The first MacDailyNews Take should have been “that’s OK… he’s not so sure about Ballmer remaining also.”
But whenever Mundie comes, but whenever Mundie comes
You can find me cryin’ all of the time…
Mundie, Mundie
Can’t trust that guy…
“Microsoft has consistently criticised tablets for lacking traditional PC features like keyboards”
Thaaats why they’re called tablets. Geez these guys are idiots.
How did the Sumerians manage to use their tablets without keyboards?
Cuneiform is impossible without a mouse.
Actually, the Sumerians did have to use a stylus with their tablets. 🙂
And the kids these days just don’t know the proper way to cut a reed to make a stylus. Why, when I was young, we even had to grow our own reeds. There was none of this gettin’ a stylus from the Amazons…
“Microsoft has consistently criticised tablets for lacking traditional PC features like keyboards”
If only the iPad was able to use a Bluetooth keyboa . . . never mind.
Why don’t these guys STFU? Instead of people questioning their incompetence all they do is reinforce it. Until anyone of them can put on sale a “game changing” contender, they should just keep their mouths shut. Show us, don’t tell us!
Does anyone know of a new iPad2 YouTube Hitler rant?
Those skits are some of the most, hilarious, imaginative and creative I have seen in a while.
Gene!!!!! YOU IMBICILE!!!! YOU SAID THERE WOULD NOT BE LONG LINES FOR iPad2!!!!! WHAT DO I PAY YOU FOR???!!! APPLE can’t make iPad2s FAST ENOUGH!!!! DO SOMETHING!!! A bomb scare!!!!!! YES!!!! YES!!! That may just work!!!!
GOOD LORD!
Must WE put up with YELLOW JOURNALISM?
SInce that’s the only journalism practiced, we’re pretty much stuck with it…
I like Mundie’s strategy.
I like it alot. 🙂
Did they make this up together with Dell this morning?
Whatever happened to the big a$$ table?
Gee, for about 10 years, MS has been trying to get tablet computers off the ground. Someone else comes along and shows them how it is done, and now they question whether tablets have a future?
Un-freakin believable!!!
What kind of marketshare does MSFT have in the tablet space? Eh? Anyone? Bueller?
“for about 10 years, MS has been trying to get tablet computers off the ground.”
I can’t seem to lift that big a** table either.
This explains an awful lot.
I like their strategy. I like it a lot!
From “rounding error” to “fad”. I guess that’s an improvement.
I believe that Apple 4th quarter 2010 revenue for the iPad was almost $3 billion. Now that’s some rounding error. Apple’s current tablet “fad” made more money for Apple in nine months than Microsoft’s tablet partners made in nine years. Obviously none of those tablets were a “fad”. They were more like “bad”.
Maybe if iPad 3 had a giant slide-out keyboard…
Giant would be the operative word to the Windoze dolts.
They are so lost. They (Microsoft) shouted the rise of the tablets when they introduced their version.
It flopped- HARD!
Now, the tablet Apple produces is almost impossible to get due to actual sells. Now they predict the fall of the tablet.
Which means? The Rise of the Tablets’ is here and Microsoft sees John Conner’s future. It is not what the Micronet wants to see!
It is all good for us mere mortals.
I used to worry that MSFT could rebound under a new CEO if they ever woke up and canned Balmer. With guys like this in the pipeline there is obviously nothing to worry about!
Any day now…Apple will be put back in its place, a beleaguered underdog once again, its products exposed as overpriced toys, its customers no longer drinking the Kool-Aid; Xooms and Zunes, coming in 47 configurations and psychedelic colors, selling out; help desks tripling in size nationwide; the iron curtain back up and comfortably in place.
Somehow—I’m dubious.
Microsoft doesn’t understand hardware. And, unlike Moses, they surely don’t understand conternt.
“global chief research and strategy officer”
LOL, he’s the guy who goes out and buys the latest Apple products for half-assed copying.
“Mundie, who reports directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer”
“Boss, I had to stand in line all night, but I got you the iPad2!”
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer laughs at Apple iPhone on January 17, 2007
Interviewer: “Steve let me ask you about the iPhone, and the Zune, if I may. (Ballmer smiles) The Zune was getting some traction, and Steve Jobs goes to MacWorld and he pulls out this iPhone. What was your first reaction when you saw that?”
Laughter from Ballmer
Ballmer: “$500! Fully subsidized! With a plan! I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard which makes it not a very good email machine.”
It never gets old. Enjoy your crow pie, Mr. Ballmer.
Do they think people are stupid enough to believe their Moronic propaganda? IPads selling out daily has these people delirious with jeaslousy
Yes. Unfortunately. More so in the business world. Every word these morons say are reinforced by corporate IT as truth and their emplyees from CEO down collectively nod and bend over for more MS ramming.