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May I suggest there are other interesting differences: First, neither company had successfully shipped anything like PDA software at that point. Today, Microso
by raganwald 17y ago
May I suggest there are other interesting differences:
First, neither company had successfully shipped anything like PDA software at that point. Today, Microsoft is has experience with their Tablet version of Windows and and Apple has experience with their wildly successful Touch/iPhone platform.
Second, it was enough for Microsoft to sow enough FUD to destroy the PDA market back then, they were still growing the desktop and notebook markets that they dominated. So their attitude to alternative markets was that if they couldn't dominate it, they should destroy it.
Today, they desperately need new markets to grow. Playing defense by destroying potential markets like tablets through FUD is not going to rekindle their stock growth. They need to develop new monopolies. So they need to win, not just produce a stalemate.
- rbanffy 17y ago"Today, they desperately need new markets to grow. Playing defense by destroying potential markets like tablets through FUD is not going to rekindle their stock growth" Unless there is a credible threat of someone else dominating that market. Then it's "dominate or destroy". The tablet space looks a lot like what Apple encountered with the MP3 player market when they launched the iPod: several products, all of them sucking really bad. I say there is a huge threat of an Apple future in that area.