Watching BP try to plug the biggest oil spill in history while staging photo ops for the media feels like watching a new definition of evil unfold — until the realization sets in that we’re likely watching the death of a company. “Evil” has been used to describe Microsoft, and Google wrote it into its mission statement as something it wouldn’t do. Little did anyone realize that its definition of “evil” was whatever it currently wasn’t doing. Apple has started doing some things that I think solidly cross the line as well. In the shadow of BP, an exploration of evil seems appropriate.
The article is hilarious. Congratulations on your new career as a humorist. I liked the one where Apple was doomed too. Dave Barry's got nothing on you.
There will be no Microsoft tablets shipping in appreciable numbers this year. Win Mo 7 has a choice of shipping and being laughed at, or pushing the schedule and being forgotten - in either case this is over. Call his methods evil if you want but Steve Jobs knows what he's doing and he executes well. We don't want more PCs. We're ready to move to the next level. Giving Apple an entire year head start on transforming the entire computing expericence is more than a "missed cycle" - it's an abdication of leadership, and it was long overdue. New players will now invent the appliances my kids will come to associate with technology and we will soon forget the bad old days when one company prevented progress to retain its control. Apple will be among them, as will Google. Microsoft has chosen not to even participate. They didn't just miss a cycle - they're incapable of making this turn.
Have you even tried the iPad? Have you held it in your hands? Have you bent it to your use? I've seen you in person with your Kindle, and you seem to like that even though that's a weak device with a different sort of monopoly attached. That was not remotely interesting. I have iPads finally - and the device is amazing, perhaps even to the point of being "magical". What it means for the future of computing has to be experienced to be believed. Engage the included Citrix client and behold the future of user interfacing. With a proper cloud-backed touch-centric desktop it's a slam dunk. It's not even a fair fight. This one is completely over before it started.
I've tried to educate you before and failed, Rob, and you know it. Give me some respect now and try the darned thing if for no better reason than I was right and you were not.
And come on Rob. Give us one more SCO article for old times' sake. It's Case Closed day. Give it all you've got, but don't forget to mention the Royal Bank of Canada / BayStar connection where a Microsoft rep offered to backstop an investment in SCO because fair is fair and it's in the public record. Link: http://news.cnet.com/Canadian-bank-backs-away-from-SCO/2100-7344_3-5208396.html
And what's with wasting all that gas in a dinosaur for a day or two? You still don't get it even when it is wasting away all over your coastline. Still drag boats etc, swamp buggies all that sh*t. No one is going to take you seriously when you just waste and waste. And the defective technology was American owned and run,the same as most of what is there in the gulf. To be really fair you and that guy from Hawaii should be having a poke a little closer to home. And leave Steve alone.
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BP, Google and Apple: Who's Evil Now?
Posted by: Rob Enderle June 7, 2010 05:00 AMWatching BP try to plug the biggest oil spill in history while staging photo ops for the media feels like watching a new definition of evil unfold — until the realization sets in that we’re likely watching the death of a company. “Evil” has been used to describe Microsoft, and Google wrote it into its mission statement as something it wouldn’t do. Little did anyone realize that its definition of “evil” was whatever it currently wasn’t doing. Apple has started doing some things that I think solidly cross the line as well. In the shadow of BP, an exploration of evil seems appropriate.
There will be no Microsoft tablets shipping in appreciable numbers this year. Win Mo 7 has a choice of shipping and being laughed at, or pushing the schedule and being forgotten - in either case this is over. Call his methods evil if you want but Steve Jobs knows what he's doing and he executes well. We don't want more PCs. We're ready to move to the next level. Giving Apple an entire year head start on transforming the entire computing expericence is more than a "missed cycle" - it's an abdication of leadership, and it was long overdue. New players will now invent the appliances my kids will come to associate with technology and we will soon forget the bad old days when one company prevented progress to retain its control. Apple will be among them, as will Google. Microsoft has chosen not to even participate. They didn't just miss a cycle - they're incapable of making this turn.
Have you even tried the iPad? Have you held it in your hands? Have you bent it to your use? I've seen you in person with your Kindle, and you seem to like that even though that's a weak device with a different sort of monopoly attached. That was not remotely interesting. I have iPads finally - and the device is amazing, perhaps even to the point of being "magical". What it means for the future of computing has to be experienced to be believed. Engage the included Citrix client and behold the future of user interfacing. With a proper cloud-backed touch-centric desktop it's a slam dunk. It's not even a fair fight. This one is completely over before it started.
I've tried to educate you before and failed, Rob, and you know it. Give me some respect now and try the darned thing if for no better reason than I was right and you were not.
And come on Rob. Give us one more SCO article for old times' sake. It's Case Closed day. Give it all you've got, but don't forget to mention the Royal Bank of Canada / BayStar connection where a Microsoft rep offered to backstop an investment in SCO because fair is fair and it's in the public record. Link: http://news.cnet.com/Canadian-bank-backs-away-from-SCO/2100-7344_3-5208396.html