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What I think is most interesting about this is that 1. People continue to compare Microsoft and Apple as if they were directly competing, in spite of the fact
by romey 15y ago
What I think is most interesting about this is that
1. People continue to compare Microsoft and Apple as if they were directly competing, in spite of the fact the Apple is [primarily] a hardware company and MS is [primarily a software co.
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2. In spite of being primarily a hardware company, Apple is still able to be more profitable than Microsoft. They truly do release their hardware as if it were software, iterating and releasing a new version nearly every year. Even more surprising is that people actually buy this new hardware annually, as if it were a software upgrade
- raganwald 15y agoHardware is not software, but it's trending in that direction. The price of the raw components keeps falling, we are headed towards a future where a tablet is really a hardware dongle for an operating system or an advertising platform.
- johncoltrane 15y agoIts not only blog commenters, pundits or people. You wouldn't believe how much MSFT people are fixated on Apple despite having no direct competition between each other (except Zune Vs. iPod, but I would say it doesn't count). The fruit word and the fruit logo used to come up in almost every external powerpoint presentations/briefings five or four years ago, it was crazy. They are/were fascinated by Apple and lack any ability to even understand how they work and, of course, learn from them. For some reason, I find it hard to imagine a keynote in Cupertino with a pixelated Windows logo in every slide. But I might be wrong. I hear now they are fascinated by Google, now.