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Microsoft having a funeral for iPhone

18 points by mahmud 16y ago

towndrunk 16y ago
Some how I have a feeling this little show is going to come back and bite them.
- brownleej 16y ago
  It does seem a little soon in the war to be declaring Mission Accomplished.
okeumeni 16y ago
Really??
megablast 16y ago
I don't see this as more than the guys having a bit of fun, after probably a very hectic work schedule. Great to see them celebrating in this way. Of course, I don't see Microsoft displacing the iPhone at all, but they do have deep pockets.
- mahmud 16y ago
  Agreed. I didn't like the blog's tone, the team has every right to party. However, I found the iPhone funeral interesting, given how it's Android that's eating everyone's lunch. http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1434613 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1434613
  - Paulomus 16y ago
    The blog did file it under "Apple Fanboyism" and "Microsoft Bashing", so at least they were honest about where they were coming from. I presume that since Android is being touted as an "iPhone Killer", it will have to kill the iPhone first before people want to bury it in turn.
  - rimantas 16y ago
    given how it's Android that's eating everyone's lunch. Yep, Apple is so losing money with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Interesting, did gartner take the last two into account? iPod touch runs iOS and gets FaceTime, I presume this may come to iPad too.
- sgk284 16y ago
  I was there for this celebration. It was all in good fun. The funeral was such a small portion of the day, it's being way overblown. It was like 15 minutes of an all day carnival. There was games, monster trucks to ride in, live music, and all other kinds of celebratory stuff going on (face painting ftw!). There was an all out party going on. I'm on the Windows team, but the WinMo7 guys worked their asses off and actually made something pretty friggin cool. They deserved to party. As for Microsoft's chances in this market, people never thought Microsoft would dominate Sony in video games. I wouldn't count Microsoft out just yet... it'll be interesting to say the least.
  - sdbryan 16y ago
    I thought Microsoft was burning something like a billion dollars a year in losses in order to in order to be in the video game console market. Is that impression wrong? Has MS made a profit yet in games?
    - cubicle67 16y ago
      They haven't recouped all the money they'd invested yet (still about $4 billion short), but they are now turning a profit of a few hundred million each quarter
      - gmlk 16y ago
        Meaning they stopped digging a deeper hole? Or that they do continue to dig, only now it's filling up faster then they can dig?
        cookiecaper 16y ago
        Meaning that in a few years their investment in the games market will have paid off probably. Investments are long-term strategies.
        glhaynes 16y ago
- marknutter 16y ago
  There are other ways to celebrate. MS doesn't exactly get to have fake funerals for devices they haven't even begun to compete with. If MS were a small startup, it'd be cute. As a huge multi-billion dollar company, it's just silly.
streamline 16y ago
A reason why I would join Microsoft / Google rather than Apple. I have found employees of the former two to be much more interactive with outside world, compared to Apple employees. Also Microsoft, Google and other companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Oracle, Twitter go to great lengths to make sure that they provide best compensation and benefits to their software engineers, somehow Apple always makes their software engineers look like secondary citizens and i doubt if they even pay well.

18 points by mahmud 16y ago

towndrunk 16y ago

Some how I have a feeling this little show is going to come back and bite them.

brownleej 16y ago
It does seem a little soon in the war to be declaring Mission Accomplished.

okeumeni 16y ago

Really??

megablast 16y ago

I don't see this as more than the guys having a bit of fun, after probably a very hectic work schedule. Great to see them celebrating in this way. Of course, I don't see Microsoft displacing the iPhone at all, but they do have deep pockets.

mahmud 16y ago
Agreed. I didn't like the blog's tone, the team has every right to party. However, I found the iPhone funeral interesting, given how it's Android that's eating everyone's lunch. http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1434613 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1434613
- Paulomus 16y ago
  The blog did file it under "Apple Fanboyism" and "Microsoft Bashing", so at least they were honest about where they were coming from. I presume that since Android is being touted as an "iPhone Killer", it will have to kill the iPhone first before people want to bury it in turn.
- rimantas 16y ago
  given how it's Android that's eating everyone's lunch. Yep, Apple is so losing money with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Interesting, did gartner take the last two into account? iPod touch runs iOS and gets FaceTime, I presume this may come to iPad too.
sgk284 16y ago
I was there for this celebration. It was all in good fun. The funeral was such a small portion of the day, it's being way overblown. It was like 15 minutes of an all day carnival. There was games, monster trucks to ride in, live music, and all other kinds of celebratory stuff going on (face painting ftw!). There was an all out party going on. I'm on the Windows team, but the WinMo7 guys worked their asses off and actually made something pretty friggin cool. They deserved to party. As for Microsoft's chances in this market, people never thought Microsoft would dominate Sony in video games. I wouldn't count Microsoft out just yet... it'll be interesting to say the least.
- sdbryan 16y ago
  I thought Microsoft was burning something like a billion dollars a year in losses in order to in order to be in the video game console market. Is that impression wrong? Has MS made a profit yet in games?
  - cubicle67 16y ago
    They haven't recouped all the money they'd invested yet (still about $4 billion short), but they are now turning a profit of a few hundred million each quarter
    - gmlk 16y ago
      Meaning they stopped digging a deeper hole? Or that they do continue to dig, only now it's filling up faster then they can dig?
      - cookiecaper 16y ago
        Meaning that in a few years their investment in the games market will have paid off probably. Investments are long-term strategies.
        glhaynes 16y ago
marknutter 16y ago
There are other ways to celebrate. MS doesn't exactly get to have fake funerals for devices they haven't even begun to compete with. If MS were a small startup, it'd be cute. As a huge multi-billion dollar company, it's just silly.

streamline 16y ago

A reason why I would join Microsoft / Google rather than Apple. I have found employees of the former two to be much more interactive with outside world, compared to Apple employees. Also Microsoft, Google and other companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Oracle, Twitter go to great lengths to make sure that they provide best compensation and benefits to their software engineers, somehow Apple always makes their software engineers look like secondary citizens and i doubt if they even pay well.