The PS3 hasn’t been doing well. It has been getting thrashed by the Xbox 360 and the Wii. To add insult to injury, even the PS2 has outsold it — and it’s obsolete. It now looks like Sony is executing a comeback plan, and that the PS3 may be looking interesting again. The Microsoft patent thing that erupted last week is still in the news, even though it should now be clear to anyone that Microsoft wasn’t actually planning on suing anyone. Maybe it’s time to discuss a mature response to this problem that goes a step beyond “neener, neener, neener.”
Sorry, but if Microsoft's message was, "You know. We realize that the patent system is broken and things can't continue as they have been. Here are some examples we *could* technically sue people over. Lets see if we can fix this together.", then it wouldn't have gotten people pissed off. No, what MS did was fire a shot across the bow of what is currently their most serious and dangerous competition, after a long and productive life as a company that liked to follow such salvos up with shrapnel fired into the competitions sails, if not outright theft, then they said, "Just kidding!!" Well, WTF? At best it was provocative. At worst it means that if they intend to use it as an opening to try to reform anything (which I would find about as believable as the plot to the new Ark movie they are going to start showing in theatres soon), it was roughly the equivalent of Black Beard the pirate going, "Oops! Sorry, I know we where going to meet to talk about finding a peaceful existent here, but you know... its just a habit I have picked up."
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PS3 Comeback?, OSS Being Silly, Lenovo Is Back, Product of the Week
Posted by: Rob Enderle May 28, 2007 04:00 AMThe PS3 hasn’t been doing well. It has been getting thrashed by the Xbox 360 and the Wii. To add insult to injury, even the PS2 has outsold it — and it’s obsolete. It now looks like Sony is executing a comeback plan, and that the PS3 may be looking interesting again. The Microsoft patent thing that erupted last week is still in the news, even though it should now be clear to anyone that Microsoft wasn’t actually planning on suing anyone. Maybe it’s time to discuss a mature response to this problem that goes a step beyond “neener, neener, neener.”
Well, WTF? At best it was provocative. At worst it means that if they intend to use it as an opening to try to reform anything (which I would find about as believable as the plot to the new Ark movie they are going to start showing in theatres soon), it was roughly the equivalent of Black Beard the pirate going, "Oops! Sorry, I know we where going to meet to talk about finding a peaceful existent here, but you know... its just a habit I have picked up."