Joe Wilcox
Joe Wilcox
apple company excited hard hype increasing products quarter revenue
But it's hard to get excited sometimes when your company delivers increasing revenue quarter on quarter, yet you read hype about Apple and their products and they get all the buzz.
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Shortages like this are one of the effects of Apple keeping announcements quiet. Many companies will begin moving product through the channel before an announcement. Sometimes you'll even see Microsoft software on store shelves before it's announced.
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Are they going to knock Apple out of the sky? No chance. Not anytime soon, anyway,
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It is an opportunity for Apple to go out and evangelize the new Intel processors to developers and nudge them to get more of their applications out of the door.
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If Microsoft hasn't significantly improved that experience, and made it as easy as Apple has, that's going to be a big barrier.
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The rules are different for Microsoft than other companies.
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It would be huge for Microsoft if it could dispatch its problems with Europe,
emulation run
Emulation is slower, sometimes much slower, than applications that run natively.
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The response to Opera's free offer was probably a catalyst in this position. It may have confirmed a strategy that the Opera folks were already thinking about.
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There's a different emotional attachment to Office than to Windows. The operating system is like the road, but Office is the car you drive. People have emotional attachments to their cars.
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The three products launched today are the first wave of a tide of tightly integrated products. While some Microsoft executives have said that Microsoft bet the company on Windows Vista, the real bet is on integrated innovation.
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Assuming there may have been, or may be, talks between AOL and Microsoft, the timing of the (Yahoo-Microsoft) announcement may have been intentional to influence those presumed discussions. AOL has to decide does it want to work with the Microsoft camp, go its own way or form a strategic alliance with someone else.
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Conceptually, the changes all sound pretty good. The test will be the execution. We'll see how everything works.
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Conceptually, it sounds good. Execution will tell all.