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MS is going down. No doubt. Look at Motorola and Adobe.
by JSno 13y ago
MS is going down. No doubt. Look at Motorola and Adobe.
- michaelwww 13y agoRecord revenue and profits indicate otherwise
- hatred 13y agoWell I can't speak about Motorola but the stock price of ADBE of late suggests pretty strongly otherwise for a dying company.
- cygwin98 13y agoAdobe is the monopoly in the desktop graphics tool market. Not sure why no VC targets it at this moment, which does seem like a slow dinosaur to attack on.
- dserban 13y ago"Once open-source gets good enough, you'd be crazy to compete with it." -Larry Ellison Any startup that sets out to recreate Photoshop would also compete with GIMP and Pixelmator.
- nailer 13y agoPixelmator's proprietary, and can't run on non OS X ATM due to reliance on, IIRC, CoreGraphics or similar. If they recreated those libraries on other platforms they may have a PS competitor. GIMP is poor quality.
- CamperBob2 13y agoPatents.
- JSno 13y agoright. But barely no one likes Adobe flash. Their software quality is getting lower and lower. Too much bureaucracy always shown in these companies.
- middleclick 13y agoOk, now I feel that you are just being racist. This is like clutching at the thinnest of straws.
- CurtHagenlocher 13y agoRacist comments about CEOs of Indian origin have no place on Hacker News.
- middleclick 13y agoI don't think the OP implied it had anything to do with race. I maybe wrong.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoProbably related to who is or was CEO of Adobe Moto. Anyways, correlation is not causation, or in this case, not even meaningful. It was a racist statement.
- rbanffy 13y agoSanjay Jha was Motorola's CEO until the Motorola Mobility division was acquired by Google. Shantanu Narayen is Adobe's CEO. I see a clear pattern here. I'm open to other possible interpretations.
- ConceptJunkie 13y agoA sample size of 2 doesn't make for a compelling pattern.
- eruditely 13y agoI am Indian and I am heavily suspicious towards the very tow-the-line and do not argue attitude many have. Not saying I agree with the comment I responded to, but to say that some general level statements cannot be said is ridiculous.
- rbanffy 13y agoI'd just like to add it would be equally wrong regardless of the origin of the senior exec.
- kunai 13y agoThe sad thing is that I'm of Indian heritage and I have to agree with him. It's not related to race, it's more about the education that most Indians receive. All are taught more about being bean-counters than striving to create new and innovative (gah, hate that word) solutions. I like the Metro approach. It just needs to be split into two configurations for both desktop and a tablet OS, and Microsoft could have a real winner. I'm afraid that we'll backtrack all the way back to the 7 days and inhibit progress. It's been shown to happen in the past, and it's not an illegitimate concern, however racist it may seem.
- yarou 13y agoOnce again, I'm amazed at the level of racist comments on HN. The truly sad thing is, reading this guy's other comments, you get a sense he/she is a truly intelligent person.