craighal | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 14 2008 | news, Microsoft, windows, apple
Interesting comments and perspective from Brad Brooks. I like the "i" way vs. the "you" way juxtaposition. Windows "without walls" is an effective campaign against the walled garden Apple offers. Still, it's hard to compete in certain scenarios with the elegant, reliable and deterministic Apple experience.
Quoted: Ahead of what many expect to be the introduction of cheaper Macs, a top Windows exec says Apple users pay hidden costs.
Quoted: There really is a tax around there for people that are evaluating their choices going into this holiday season and going forward. There's a choice tax that we talked about, which is, hey, you want to buy a machine that's other than black, white, or silver, and if you want to get it in multiple different configurations or price points, you're going to be paying a tax if you go the Apple way.
- craighal | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 22 2008 | microsoft, apple, news
This guy is an idtiot. Apparently he missed the whole idea that "PC" means "personal connection". So yeah Dvorak, these people don't really think they are pieces of plastic with chips and circuitry.
Quoted: These dingbat Microsoft ads kind of miss the point. The people don't symbolize anything. They say who they are and that they are a PC, which makes no sense whatsoever because they are not PCs. They are people. They use a PC, but they are NOT a PC, unless they are mentally deranged.
- craighal | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 17 2007 | apple, design, news
Nuff said...
Quoted: Secret 1: Engineering supports design -- no exceptions.
Quoted: Most companies bring designers in late in the product development process to create an experience "wrapper" around all the features and technologies the engineers and marketing people created. At Apple, designers rule. Apple's brilliant designers figure
- craighal | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 13 2007 | microsoft, apple, google, news
Great article...
Quoted: Rather than busting up Microsoft, the <anti-trust> deal blocks Microsoft from hindering rivals who would build applications that run on Windows--and Jobs has been using that ruling to turn Apple into a Windows software powerhouse ever since.
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