21tiger

The iPhone 4S got an 8.6?

*facepalm

Big Ass Table meet Big Ass Painting.

I guess you missed the part where they almost went out of… business?

“Maybe I’m just old school, but to me the best "hang out" is with friends over coffee at Starbucks”

fake shock

You are aware that nobody is using G+ right? It’s a flop. Your attempt at shocking with ‘whimsical’ and ‘charming’ traditionalism is the rule, not the exception.

Windows 8 Air Communication and Play Edition…

All will be revealed in a few months.

Now if only someone would invent Airplay….

…. D’OH!!

Yeah, good point.. WTF did you morons thing ‘Staff Favorites’ was? Obviously those were recommendations from real people.

Android should become its own thing.
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hold on a sec, i want the irony of that statement to soak in…

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one more second…

Service Packs on OS X are called ‘Security Updates’
Free of charge.

Nice try.

“At least Google ads aren’t as intrusive as flashing banners on some other sites.”

Yeah, you’re right, it’s a win win.. Text ads are less heinous, and actually more informative.

But don’t kid yourself: Google has this thing called GoogleTV. If they could get it to work properly, Google would have lots of graphics, and amazing metrics on what shows people watch, etc.

With GoogleTV, you’re basically watching the Nielsen box everyday. But we all know that.

“(b) the general consensus is that, even though MS has been at it since, what, XP?, fractional scaling still looks like garbage in most apps.”

Right. What’s 1.25x of 1 pixel… Crazy idea.. :S

Actually ‘plebs’ didn’t invest in this. Plebs in the US don’t have a pot to piss in, nevermind a roof over their heads.

I think you’re mixing up MONEY and PEOPLE… ‘Marketshare’ here is a bizarre term to use, since lots of people have accounts on multiple social networks.

Put it this way… % of internet traffic for Facebook is big deal. And they put ads all over the site. The problem they’re facing is that people come to Facebook to see their friends.

Ironically a business that started from the social networks of college students has come back to bite them in the ass. College kids have no money.

You can put an ad on facebook, and you’ll probably get lots of clicks (if you don’t, no one cares.. its PPC ad dollars). The question is… people who click to your site through Facebook.. do they ever BUY anything? yes we all know the clichees about finding ‘women on the site who are engaged and looking for bridal services’… how about OTHER kinds of businesses? That’s where FB is struggling. And that’s where they’re very very very different from Google. It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what Facebook IS.

Yes Facebook is addictive, and Mark is brilliant for not plastering it with ads back in 2006. The Timeline and everything they’ve done is brilliant. But the efficacy of Facebook ads is something that can EASILY be measured. It’s not rocket science. You put in $300, and you get 300 or so clicks on your site. And from that you might get one or two email signups… maybe even a sale. If advertisers identify FB as a waste of money, it’s not a sustainable business. Okay, I take that back. FB can be a great place to ‘get the word out’… but as a place to ‘look’ for customers, it’s kind of a dud.

“What about the Instagram boys? Wasn’t that largely a stock deal? Before they even get their shares the deal is no longer the much touted Billion Dollar (for zero revenue) deal it once was? How are they feeling this week?”

Wow.. Good point! :S

Amen. This comment makes me vomit. Is this guy on drugs?
Like is this what people at Google tell themselves at night to justify being the worlds biggest ad network?

TOTALLY!!!

“The funniest part is that you don’t even have to close any applications to power off your PC.”

Not sure what this means. Just close your laptop. It’s called sleep mode. WTF are you shutting down your computer for?

You’re insane right?

“Dear Nintendo,

I know you’ve got lots of cool new projects you’re working on, but would it be possible….. no just hear me out… to port The Legend of Zelda series… I’m sure you could fit it all on one disc…to Xbox360? I know I know.. sounds crazy right… but think of the fans—————You’re right, that’s was an insane suggestion. Okay, go back to work. Sorry for wasting your time with my inane thoughts. I’ll go back to eating sandpaper and smearing shit on the wall."

Facebook stock?

“answering that “what we’re working on now feels like the most important and the best work we’ve done.”"

Damn I thought he was gonna say, “The APPLE TV OF COURSE!” :P

“If they could price it as competitively as Mac prices their upgrades, I think it has a damn good shot. $30, not ~$200.”

First of all, flagrant foul for calling Apple ‘Mac’… that was awesome

Secondly, no way in HELL can MS have agressive pricing like Apple has OS upgrades and iWork/iLife (Eg. 79 for a suite of apps, 2 bucks per app). It’s just not going to happen. All those are money losers. Apple makes money on hardware, MSFT makes money on software.

So the hypothetical there.. you can just forget it.. not gonna happen.

So it’s a public Bada?

Microsoft absolutely must develop a platform like metro
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Everyone outside MS thinks Metro should be a ‘distinct’ OS, (like iOS).
It’s not. It’s a design language. That’s the problem. MS didn’t actually make a ‘mobile’ OS. They made a design language based on the Zune Tile UI. They still just have one OS. And it’s okay on Computers. Not meant for tablets.

Whether they follow Apple into a ‘Cars + Trucks’ pair of Operating Systems later on is another story… for now, the MS company line is… PCs will never go out of style and We will never been in the post-PC or post-Windows era.*

*Soon after Ballmer made these claims, the new company policy has been to name every single device and piece of software either a ‘PC’ or ‘Windows’…Whether it’s a watch, a toilet seat cover, or a James Bond Death Ray

;-P

FFS Ballmer, spare us. Windows will come preloaded on every PC in the store. Sales numbers are not interesting. What’s interesting about Microsoft is… will touchscreen laptops ever take off. If they do, then Windows 8 is useful. If they don’t, then Windows 8 is a POS, a waste of time, and iPad will rule the world.