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It's fairly wonderful when someone comments with more then "right on" or "you suck". Today I am going to respond to Link's thoughts on my last post on the front page. It’s no lie that I love the sound of my own voice(or... writing voice?) so we're going have this out right here.
The response to "Your Mom is magic.." found on the comments page:
Link said..."If you are looking for a social networking site that actually has a "goal" in mind... you might want to check out Linked In. Other than that, I don't think you are going to be able to fight the ease of use and silly nature that MySpace allows. Why exactly did you build a MySpace profile if you hate it that much? Second, taking it in the teeth would be something along the lines of large droves of people switching to MacOS or Linux... unfortunately, people are excited about the Mac because they WILL be able to run windows on it. If people were that into another operating system, they would have purchased a Mac long ago... The only people taking it in the teeth are the vendors building "Vista only" software who are ready to ship, and coincidentally losing tons of dollars because of M$FTs decision to hold off. Now put that in your cauldron and "magic" it..."
Just to clear up the MySpace thing real quick. I made a profile because I felt that I should at least give it a chance even if it has never really interested me. Usually when 50 million or so people can put up with something on the internet it can't be all that bad. Of course I know now that myspace is about as rewarding as a frontal lobotomy. Who knows what will be in store for www.myspace.com/wehaveyourbaby, I mean, I fucking stole the name "wehaveyourbaby" from Without Influence, heh. Oh, most of the asshats on Linked In (like you) must be thinking "I have a MySpace site to be a Real Unique Person(TM) so now I need to have a Linked In account! Now I can make sure everyone knows my job title and company I work for, yay! This is productivity at it's finest." Whatever... waste of time...
It's not that I'm a hater of M$oft but they have done nothing special in the last five years(or 11 years, as XP is just Windows 95 SP15). They did get Xbox-95 out the door and also Xbox-98(err 360) which I will own once I have $400.00 burning a hole in my pocket. But the days of innovation in Redmond are numbered. Sure, We'll see new cool shit after delays, botched releases, etc(Tablet, and Tablet SP2 oragami...HAHAHA!). Will we ever see anything groundbreaking again(or on schedule)? Go take a look at I, Cringely on PBS. Here is a quote from this story...
"If Microsoft really wanted to compete -- if they really wanted (or even knew how) to truly defend their turf, here is what they would do. They would throw away Vista and develop a new operating system, one that is simpler, lighter, and more secure -- an OS that would run on any machine now running Windows 2000 or XP. They would price it right, which is to say cheap ($49.95). The associated and trimmed-down version of Office would be priced the same ($49.95). The upgrade market is probably five times bigger than the OEM PC market, so Microsoft needs (but probably doesn't realize it) an OS that will run well on most of the PC installed base. It needs to set the pricing of the OS so that we'll run to the store to get it. Instead of designing products exclusively for new equipment, now it's time for Microsoft to focus on the installed base.
Remember, $49.95 is more than Microsoft gets for an OEM Windows license, and OEM sales will continue simply because computers die and need to be replaced. Microsoft COULD win both ways, but probably won't risk it."
He’s right on the money… All I am saying is that with all the "innovation" we're promised no real decent ideas make it from our champions of technology. It's not JUST M$oft, but they are a good(the best next to IBM?) example. It must be nice to have some money on the bank to shield you from poor planning, products, etc.
The reason why I said Apple was dropping the ball is that now we can use Windows on the Mac, now we can own a Mac and use our PC by soft booting into Windows. How long do you think it would take for us to just skip using out Windows apps? Not long I bet... How about Google being platform agnostic, soon all we will need is a web browser to do many thing (ajax anyone?)...
The response to "Your Mom is magic.." found on the comments page:
Link said..."If you are looking for a social networking site that actually has a "goal" in mind... you might want to check out Linked In. Other than that, I don't think you are going to be able to fight the ease of use and silly nature that MySpace allows. Why exactly did you build a MySpace profile if you hate it that much? Second, taking it in the teeth would be something along the lines of large droves of people switching to MacOS or Linux... unfortunately, people are excited about the Mac because they WILL be able to run windows on it. If people were that into another operating system, they would have purchased a Mac long ago... The only people taking it in the teeth are the vendors building "Vista only" software who are ready to ship, and coincidentally losing tons of dollars because of M$FTs decision to hold off. Now put that in your cauldron and "magic" it..."
Just to clear up the MySpace thing real quick. I made a profile because I felt that I should at least give it a chance even if it has never really interested me. Usually when 50 million or so people can put up with something on the internet it can't be all that bad. Of course I know now that myspace is about as rewarding as a frontal lobotomy. Who knows what will be in store for www.myspace.com/wehaveyourbaby, I mean, I fucking stole the name "wehaveyourbaby" from Without Influence, heh. Oh, most of the asshats on Linked In (like you) must be thinking "I have a MySpace site to be a Real Unique Person(TM) so now I need to have a Linked In account! Now I can make sure everyone knows my job title and company I work for, yay! This is productivity at it's finest." Whatever... waste of time...
It's not that I'm a hater of M$oft but they have done nothing special in the last five years(or 11 years, as XP is just Windows 95 SP15). They did get Xbox-95 out the door and also Xbox-98(err 360) which I will own once I have $400.00 burning a hole in my pocket. But the days of innovation in Redmond are numbered. Sure, We'll see new cool shit after delays, botched releases, etc(Tablet, and Tablet SP2 oragami...HAHAHA!). Will we ever see anything groundbreaking again(or on schedule)? Go take a look at I, Cringely on PBS. Here is a quote from this story...
"If Microsoft really wanted to compete -- if they really wanted (or even knew how) to truly defend their turf, here is what they would do. They would throw away Vista and develop a new operating system, one that is simpler, lighter, and more secure -- an OS that would run on any machine now running Windows 2000 or XP. They would price it right, which is to say cheap ($49.95). The associated and trimmed-down version of Office would be priced the same ($49.95). The upgrade market is probably five times bigger than the OEM PC market, so Microsoft needs (but probably doesn't realize it) an OS that will run well on most of the PC installed base. It needs to set the pricing of the OS so that we'll run to the store to get it. Instead of designing products exclusively for new equipment, now it's time for Microsoft to focus on the installed base.
Remember, $49.95 is more than Microsoft gets for an OEM Windows license, and OEM sales will continue simply because computers die and need to be replaced. Microsoft COULD win both ways, but probably won't risk it."
He’s right on the money… All I am saying is that with all the "innovation" we're promised no real decent ideas make it from our champions of technology. It's not JUST M$oft, but they are a good(the best next to IBM?) example. It must be nice to have some money on the bank to shield you from poor planning, products, etc.
The reason why I said Apple was dropping the ball is that now we can use Windows on the Mac, now we can own a Mac and use our PC by soft booting into Windows. How long do you think it would take for us to just skip using out Windows apps? Not long I bet... How about Google being platform agnostic, soon all we will need is a web browser to do many thing (ajax anyone?)...
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