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What you said doesn't make any sense. First of all, Windows 8 or RT is not really a copy of iOS in the sense that Apple scaled iPhone and its software up from t

What you said doesn't make any sense. First of all, Windows 8 or RT is not really a copy of iOS in the sense that Apple scaled iPhone and its software up from the iPhone with only a bump to the resolution. Android is way more a copy of iOS than anything Microsoft out there. Tim Cook called Windows 8 trying to merge a refrigerator and a toaster. Someone at Microsoft countered by saying it was converging a oven and a toaster and making a toaster oven. So, there's a fundamental difference between their visions for tablets with Android aligning itself with Apple on this. >By following this methodology they'll always be worse or the same as their competitors. There are a whole bunch of people who want a device that goes between an iPad and the Macbook Air and Apple doesn't seem to care. For those people, Windows 8 (on something like Surface Pro with the keyboard) may actually be better than "same or worse" than iPad or other Android tablets. >Eventually they'll find a way to lock them out, and then the market will suffer from stagnation. For almost all the products that lost to Microsoft, it has been significant missteps by the rivals while Microsoft concentrated on making the best product(usually by version 3). It was the same with Excel, Word, Windows and even IE (see http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html and http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000027.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000027.html ) For the latest example of this happening, see XBox 360 vs. PS3. >This to me is far more evil than anything Apple has ever done. As long as Microsoft has this culture I can't respect them as a company. Making better products than their rivals is evil compared to things like charging 30% forcibly for all in-app purchases and rejecting a Android magazine app from the App store?

pippy 14y ago
I was concentrating on their creation process and it's impact on innovation and the technology industry as a whole. Regarding your example, tablet devices Android and iPad have distinct methodologies, Android being open and developer orientated while iPads are consumer focused. The app stores have both positive and negative points, but to software developers it's been a huge opportunity. It's funny you should mention the stagnated gaming industry. The current consoles are nearly a decade old, and Nintendo seem to be the only ones thinking outside the box.
- gvnonor 14y ago
  Android is open source, but that isn't reason enough to rip off someone else's UI. Atleast Microsoft's innovating and not just copying stuff wholesale(which admittedly it used to do a lot in the past). Regarding opportunity, the MS store will very likely be the biggest opportunity for software developers in a decade. There are more than 500 million Windows 7 users, and assuming that only 20% of those people upgrade, devs will still have a 100 million strong customer base.

pippy 14y ago

I was concentrating on their creation process and it's impact on innovation and the technology industry as a whole. Regarding your example, tablet devices Android and iPad have distinct methodologies, Android being open and developer orientated while iPads are consumer focused. The app stores have both positive and negative points, but to software developers it's been a huge opportunity. It's funny you should mention the stagnated gaming industry. The current consoles are nearly a decade old, and Nintendo seem to be the only ones thinking outside the box.

gvnonor 14y ago
Android is open source, but that isn't reason enough to rip off someone else's UI. Atleast Microsoft's innovating and not just copying stuff wholesale(which admittedly it used to do a lot in the past). Regarding opportunity, the MS store will very likely be the biggest opportunity for software developers in a decade. There are more than 500 million Windows 7 users, and assuming that only 20% of those people upgrade, devs will still have a 100 million strong customer base.