“Companies such as Microsoft and HP are completely lost,” Rocco Pendola writes for TheStreet. “Unlike Apple, they’re not creating new categories and reinventing and redefining past successes — as has been the case with iPhone and iPad. Instead, they’re taking last gasps at somebody else’s brainchild (i.e., the 3D printing push at HP) and feebly attempting to make up for embarrassing missteps (i.e., Windows 8 and all-in-ones at MSFT).”
“Meantime, Apple continues to operate independent of all this noise. With tunnel vision, Timothy D. Cook and his team dictate the pace in consumer and, increasingly, enterprise tech. HP’s already gone. What they’re doing barely warrants coverage,” Pendola writes. “But, at Microsoft, the real blood is about to hit the streets. This company is scrambling to stay relevant. Outside of Xbox, which it has failed to properly integrate into the Windows/Office whole, Microsoft has got nothing.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
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