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Ideas are cheap, execution is everything. You said it yourself, "MS Courier" was a concept - it wasn't actually a product. Your average gifted 13 year old can
by ghshephard 12y ago
Ideas are cheap, execution is everything. You said it yourself, "MS Courier" was a concept - it wasn't actually a product. Your average gifted 13 year old can come up with a lot of great concepts, the challenge is in actually creating them.
Even Apple is running into this - Siri requires a rock solid Wireless connection, without it, Siri no longer works, which kind of defeats the purpose of a mobile voice assistant.
- Shooti 12y ago'Courier was much more than a clever vision. The team, which had more than 130 Microsoft employees contributing to it, had created several prototypes that gave a clear sense about the type of experience users would get. There were still tough hardware and software issues to resolve when Microsoft pulled the plug. But an employee who worked on Courier said the project was far enough along that the remaining work could have been completed in months if the company had added more people to the team. "There was extensive work done on the business, the technology and the experience," said a member of the Courier team. "It was very complete, not a whim."' http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/the-inside-story-of-how-microsoft-killed-its-courier-tablet/ http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/the-inside-story-of-how-microsof...
- skc 12y agoThis is so revisionist. That thing had two screens. How much would it have weighed? What would the battery life have been like? How much would it have cost. These things matter.