Well, more accurately, BGR would have been 'right on top of it' had they reported it when Apple implemented the dual-boot capability to permit running OS X and Windows side by side and, to some extent, sharing files. That was so many years back I'm not even sure of the total, at least ten. (BGR: Microsoft’s worst nightmare has been realized: Windows apps are coming to Chrome OS)
It's not clear what revelation BGR anticipates as the only real effect is Windows will move from cheap-ass Windows-based systems to cheap-ass Google systems, all of which suffer from the same liability: cheap-ass components.
That may amuse you when my iMac has been belly-up for six weeks but that's a month and a half out of thirty years. It's also notable the hardware did not fail.
The general pitch from Google is to push all applications out into the Cloud (i.e. file server after L.A. silicone) as that doesn't require a powerful computer and then computing can easily go to the masses.
And that's what comes to Microsoft's real biggest nightmare: the masses don't want computers. Lots of gamers love Windows as apparently it was the best but now you can do that with an X-Box or at least quite a bit of it so they come back to finding things for people to do with computers when people don't really want to do anything with them.
Along comes Facebook. Now all you need is an iPhone and that's where Microsoft lost the battle altogether. With every Windows blue screen came another iPhone customer and Windows 10 won't make any difference as the game is already lost and the culture has changed. Kids don't want computers.
Somewhere in that time, Ballmer bought Nokia, promptly wrecking it, and the only thing left which really works is the tablet which is an impressive piece of hardware ... except tablets suck and people don't want them either. They're not powerful enough to do Big Computer Things as the heat would melt them and they're not small enough to be convenient. They're practical in corporate settings and sales support but otherwise they're just more pain-in-the-ass stuff to lug about on a vacation and, uh oh, forgot the charger.
What Apple saw from the start is the important thing is focus on people who have a reason to use computers such as artists, musicians, videographers, etc. No market has to be created, these people just need the tools and if you build them then they will come ... and make Apple the richest corporation in America. Actually iPhone did that but it would never have happened if not for the foundation Apple had built already. I had an iPhone and chucked it but I can't give up the computers because I need what they do and the need hasn't changed significantly since I got the first one, they're just better at it now.
There's a much better nightmare than those. Many are talking now of a cashless society. You can see with juniors who carry nothing but a debit card and will use it for a hamburger at McDonald's.
The beauty part of the cashless society is what happens when someone gets your credit card number. Many of you know already the card you are holding will be immediately invalidated and they will send you another one. Meanwhile, in a cashless society, you cannot even catch a bus, get something to eat, find a place to stay. And that's assuming no malevolence in the basis for cutting off your card. Assuming a nefarious purpose, the bank could bounce you as easily as a kid plays with a yo-yo. Where will you point your NRA guns when that happens.
It's not clear what revelation BGR anticipates as the only real effect is Windows will move from cheap-ass Windows-based systems to cheap-ass Google systems, all of which suffer from the same liability: cheap-ass components.
That may amuse you when my iMac has been belly-up for six weeks but that's a month and a half out of thirty years. It's also notable the hardware did not fail.
The general pitch from Google is to push all applications out into the Cloud (i.e. file server after L.A. silicone) as that doesn't require a powerful computer and then computing can easily go to the masses.
And that's what comes to Microsoft's real biggest nightmare: the masses don't want computers. Lots of gamers love Windows as apparently it was the best but now you can do that with an X-Box or at least quite a bit of it so they come back to finding things for people to do with computers when people don't really want to do anything with them.
Along comes Facebook. Now all you need is an iPhone and that's where Microsoft lost the battle altogether. With every Windows blue screen came another iPhone customer and Windows 10 won't make any difference as the game is already lost and the culture has changed. Kids don't want computers.
Somewhere in that time, Ballmer bought Nokia, promptly wrecking it, and the only thing left which really works is the tablet which is an impressive piece of hardware ... except tablets suck and people don't want them either. They're not powerful enough to do Big Computer Things as the heat would melt them and they're not small enough to be convenient. They're practical in corporate settings and sales support but otherwise they're just more pain-in-the-ass stuff to lug about on a vacation and, uh oh, forgot the charger.
What Apple saw from the start is the important thing is focus on people who have a reason to use computers such as artists, musicians, videographers, etc. No market has to be created, these people just need the tools and if you build them then they will come ... and make Apple the richest corporation in America. Actually iPhone did that but it would never have happened if not for the foundation Apple had built already. I had an iPhone and chucked it but I can't give up the computers because I need what they do and the need hasn't changed significantly since I got the first one, they're just better at it now.
There's a much better nightmare than those. Many are talking now of a cashless society. You can see with juniors who carry nothing but a debit card and will use it for a hamburger at McDonald's.
The beauty part of the cashless society is what happens when someone gets your credit card number. Many of you know already the card you are holding will be immediately invalidated and they will send you another one. Meanwhile, in a cashless society, you cannot even catch a bus, get something to eat, find a place to stay. And that's assuming no malevolence in the basis for cutting off your card. Assuming a nefarious purpose, the bank could bounce you as easily as a kid plays with a yo-yo. Where will you point your NRA guns when that happens.
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