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This constant 'Microsoft is doomed' meme is really beginning to annoy me. Yes, their heyday has past when everyone had a PC running Windows in their homes, but
by MarcScott 13y ago
This constant 'Microsoft is doomed' meme is really beginning to annoy me. Yes, their heyday has past when everyone had a PC running Windows in their homes, but that does not mean the end of Microsoft.
"Tablets and smartphones are the future of computing" to which I say bollocks. If I'm working a 9-5 job and need a computer, I don't want to be two finger tapping on a virtual keyboard. Can you imagine the epidemic of RSI that would ensue. I want a keyboard, a mouse and a monitor, and I don't give a shit what they,re plugged into, but I highly doubt it's going to be a £400 iPad with no access to the file system. I'd rather use a Raspberry Pi if I have real work to do.
Yes, the vast majority of users just want access to Facebook and Twitter, but in business you want a Windows, OSX or Linux PC.
If developers were to actually start developing all iPad apps on iPads I might consider the battle lost, but as far as I'm concerned the PC maybe in decline, but that's to be expected after a boom. It will level out eventually.
- cliveowen 13y agoimho that's the point, the consumer market will rely almost exclusively on smartphones and tablet, while the business market will remain just the same. So, in the worst case, Microsoft will became a purely business company, a new IBM if you will. Microsoft will do just fine.
- MarcScott 13y agoCouldn't agree more.
- crander 13y agoThat's called retreating 'upmarket' and it usually (historically) fails. IBM is the exception. As clichéd as the Innovator's Dilemma is now, I find very few folks who have actually read it and processed all the strategies, and case studies in the book. Spinning off a wholly independent entity that can compete at the new price level/market is Christensen's recommended approach. It's all in the book.