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Remains of the Day: Rainbow connection
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KrasniOktabr 
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 09:59 PM
Wait until Greenpeace finds out the solar cells are made from baby seal pelts.
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Posted 18 May 2012 - 05:05 AM
@Robbie Bach - Suckiness is in Microsoft's DNA and there's noting you can do to change that. The name "Zune" should have been your first clue.
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Posted 18 May 2012 - 05:49 AM
Yes. Of course. They would have made an iPhone. Except that it would have looked like a Blackberry, "featured" a WAP browser, and run Windows for Mobile version 6. And you could have run Excel on it, because that's a good idea. And it would have come with a stylus. And nobody would buy them. And Microsoft wouldn't invest in anything that resembled innovation with it, because the existing platform was "good enough." But other than that, totally like an iPhone.
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Posted 18 May 2012 - 06:28 AM
Macworld, on 17 May 2012 - 03:31 PM, said:
Former Microsoft Entertainment & Devices head Robbie Bach has some lessons to impart. About the Zune. “If I had hindsight, 20-20, and could do Zune over again, we would skip portable media players completely,” said Bach, speaking at an event this week. Instead, he said, they just would have made an iPhone. Bam! Easy peasy.
No they wouldn't have. If they would have tried the Windows division would have taken them down faster than a DOJ antitrust probe!
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Posted 19 May 2012 - 01:52 PM
joebot, on 18 May 2012 - 05:49 AM, said:
Yes. Of course. They would have made an iPhone. Except that it would have looked like a Blackberry, "featured" a WAP browser, and run Windows for Mobile version 6. And you could have run Excel on it, because that's a good idea. And it would have come with a stylus. And nobody would buy them. And Microsoft wouldn't invest in anything that resembled innovation with it, because the existing platform was "good enough." But other than that, totally like an iPhone.
It would have failed and then instead of reading this article about how they would've built an iPhone we'd be reading about how they would have made the definitive tablet computer. There is a reason hindsight is 20/20: so much easier to innovate the future when the future has come and gone.
Except for Microsoft. MS doesn't innovate. Silly Microsoft.
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