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I've been saying the same thing. My coworkers bring up the surface when I mention it, but I don't see it. Tech in general has felt low innovation lately. Its ti
by cmdrfred 10y ago
I've been saying the same thing. My coworkers bring up the surface when I mention it, but I don't see it. Tech in general has felt low innovation lately. Its time for silicon valley 2.
- ferentchak 10y agoWell old Silicon Valley is not done marketing billion dollar web versions of 30 line Unix utilities. Maybe we can make all these things again in VIRTUAL REALITY!!!!
- ep103 10y agoAnd here I thought I was being original, making a series of microservices for linux commandline utilities why grep, when you can grep over the network?
- scholia 10y agoPowerful 2-in-1 that works as a laptop and a tablet; runs sandboxed apps from a web store as well as traditional Windows apps; built in AI assistant; excellent pen operation; built in accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer; cloud integration with OneDrive, Office programs, email etc with the ability to continue work from different devices; face-recognition or fingerprint log-on; increased security features.... Yeah, it's hard to see any innovation compared to your granddad's laptop ;-)
- cmdrfred 10y agoMicrosoft wasn't the first to do a single one of those things. Copying Apple and Google isn't innovative in my opinion nor Websters.
- untog 10y agoAnd Apple wasn't the first to make a touch screen smartphone. They were just the first to do it well.
- cmdrfred 10y agoLets say their implementations are marginally better. * runs sandboxed apps from a web store - Android(2008), IOS(2007) * as well as traditional Windows apps - Only Windows obviously * built in AI assistant - Apple(2011) * excellent pen operation - Wacom(1992) * built in accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer - Every flagship phone since 2005 * cloud integration with OneDrive, Office programs, email etc with the ability to continue work from different devices - Google drive, Google docs, Gmail (2007) * face-recognition or fingerprint log-on - Available on circa 2000 Fujitsu laptops * increased security features - SELinux(1998) I'm not impressed. Most of this stuff has been done for over a decade if the version from 8 years ago is worse that isn't saying much.
- hashhar 10y agoIt's really amazing how the list you created includes different products for each bullet but Microsoft (or M$ if you prefer) combined all of them into a single product which actually functions.
- cmdrfred 10y agoSo if Apple threw a stylus and a word processor on the iPhone they would be innovators too?
- scholia 10y agoMicrosoft had a stylus and a word processor on PocketPC handhelds long before the iPhone, and Apple had them on the Newton, though Palm was there first.... Going back to 1989, Microsoft had a stylus-operated tablet with the GRiDPad, which was running MS-DOS with Extensions for Pen Computing. SketchPad was innovative. Otherwise, such claims generally tend to illustrate that the claimant doesn't know enough computer history...
- hashhar 10y agoWell, I agree with them not being innovators but they definitely made a marketable product. It's the same thing for which business circles praise Apple. Apple turn already known things into a marketable package which is not so different from what Microsoft did here. That's what being a device manufacturer is about. Innovations come in small bursts. Take the Surface Hub as an example.
- lisivka 10y agoYeah, ten year ago it was very innovative.