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http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/04/the-rise-and-fall-of-amd-how-an-underdog-stuck-it-to-intel/

Read this, in it’s entirety por favor amigo. AMD owes its stumbles largely due to poor management, not because they were not creative with regards to technology. Every time they leapfrogged Intel in the technology race, they would shoot themselves in the foot and put themselves at a disadvantage due to overspending, mismanagement, or lack of foresight.

If anything Intel is better at planning, budgeting, bringing product to market on time, forecasting supply and demand, and marketing. Honestly, it’s a wonder that AMD even survived the 2000’s and didn’t collapse during the recession.

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I’m all for it!

Maybe this will get companies to start making some serious android controllers as well. What do we have so far? Gametel, Moga and Nyko? That’s it? Quite depressing.

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The big differentiator here is that Steve Jobs wasn’t all about Steve Jobs, he was about Apple, he was about a creative technological revolution. He was a product man, he knew how to drive the market, how to technology into the hands of people that didn’t’ know they needed something like an iphone, ipod, macbook or ipad. The ipod and itunes kickstarted the digital music distribution revolution, and the iphone and ipad kickstarted the mobile computing revolution.

I’m an Android fanboy and even I have to give credit to where its due.

Steve Jobs didn’t have to sell you Steve Jobs, he only had to sell you his company, and his persona bled into every piece of technology that he released. Whether he was perceived by his peers, the industry, and the public as an intolerable asshole is totally irrelevant.

Until Kanye can learn to take Kanye out of the product, and focus on whether whatever the fuck he is selling is any good or not, I really don’t think anyone outside of his hardcore fanbase will be able to take him seriously. I don’t see Metalheads, classical, Jazz, or EDM fans lining up to buy Kanye Hip Hop albums.

Kanye isn’t revolutionary. The problem that I have with him and others of his ilk are that they go through great lengths to try to prove how relevant to modern culture. Will I am and Kanye are the biggest pop culture clowns out there.

You don’t hear musical acts like Trent Reznor or BT making a big ruckus over their technological prowess and cultural relevance, and they are the ones that have truly moved music forward.

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You are reinforcing his point.

DC didn’t just stick to comics the same way that Nintendo is sticking to their own consoles. DC took batman and made one of the very first seriously toned comic book movies of the modern age: Batman (1989). DC got into video games, licensed their property on anything they could from pajamas to lunchboxes to toys to cartoons and so on and so forth.

DC saw that comics were not going to keep them afloat and decided to increase awareness of their product by other means than putting a comic on a newstand every Wednesday afternoon.

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They don’t even have to have Netflix or a blu-ray drive, just make a great console…

You need to read people’s comment’s more clearly before issuing a reactionary statement. He was saying that apps for these services are not exactly necessary for it to be a good gaming console, it just needs better games, a more modern approach.

Furthermore: Every single generation, Nintendo makes a half assed attempt to reach out to their previous core audience by partnering with 3rd party developers to make “hardcore” games that are exclusives.

With Gamecube, it was resident evil 1 remake and resident evil zero and eternal darkness, with wii it was No More Heroes and Mad World. In the end, Nintendo ends up folding and going back to the same old franchises that they have used since the late 80’s to keep them afloat, Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and now pokemon and the like.

That may have worked when the stakes were low, but it doesn’t’ work so well these days where one botched product can break a company and an under performing game launch can tank a studio.

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This is just my personal experience in my area (it will vary where you live) but the 2G on T-mobile was actually faster than the 3G on Sprint. Sprint has just bogged down considerably where I live to the point where data was practically unusable.

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You see? The kids listen to the rap music…

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