"customer-centric approach we take to our products"

Since when does Microsoft has a customer centric approach?

Inflicting Windows8 on people was anything but customer centric, and for that too, we want an apology btw.

Expected sales numbers?

If there is a correlation between the size of a tablet and the sales numbers then Microsoft could be onto something.

Let's see.

10.6 inch = 4 tablets sold

7 inch= 4*(7/10.6) = 2.64 tablets sold

That's like a 50% increase in sales. Not bad.

What?? Stupid idea, I know but it's almost Friday and I need to start training.

Cheapest place is Tesco

The Nokia 510 is available on Tesco Mobile for 80 pounds. Ok it's locked but Tesco Mobile is a decent network.

Personally, I prefer to wait for the new Nokia Asha range. They will be even cheaper and built just as well.

There are 130,000 on the Nokia S40 platform and the battery lasts for 5 days.

Windows8phone has failed to get any traction in the market place (yes I know about Poland and Ukraine), and those devices are too little, too late, whatever the price of the handset, and/or the amount of advertising money and/or product placement they throw at it.

Firefox OS will probably be the nail in MS Phone coffin.

Analyst wrote..

Stop reading.

They can't stop copying Apple

Now they even miss the ANALysts expectations...

The cost doesn't matter

There is something really awe inspiring about those "crazy idea" types building.

It's only private money being used here, no taxpayer was hurt during the build, and it's not like Apple is bleeding cash anyway.

I hope they build it, just to inspire the next generation of architects.

Lack of Applications?

A friend of mine wanted to swap her iPhone for one of those.

She checked whether her banking App was available, no it wasn't, to be fair it's only on iPhone.

She then found out that What'sApp which she uses all the time wasn't available either.

She ended up moving to sim only on the iPhone and told me that she'll wait for the iPhone6.

Phil

Surface killer?

Nope, Surface doesn't need a killer, it commits suicide very well on its own.

"I just wanted it to end," he said.

That's what a lot of people think when visiting Belgium.

Bing? Yahoo?

Two turkeys trying to be an Eagle.

When was the last time a partnership with MS brought anything but problem?

She should cut her loses and partner with someone who understands the search business.

Yandex, Baidu, some guy down the pub anyone would do a better job.

Otherwise, or as well as, go and see Samsung, give them a billion dollars (which she now apparently has got ) and become the default search engine on Galaxy as the iPhone place is already taken.

You're welcome

Ballmer is a genius

The anti Ballmer rants are getting old.

Let us look at the evidences?

How many CEO do you know who cocked up products launch after products launch for a decade and are still in the job?

Exactly, he is unique

How many CEO do you know who can do Chimps impressions on stage?

again he is a star

How many CEO do you know who could take part in the Chair throwing world championship and win?

Again, yes you got it. Unique I am telling you

long live Ballmer

why no ARM processor?

Those Chromebooks need very little power, why bothering with an expensive processor?

The Samsung Chromebook is the right device, (right processor, right price) but it's the wrong brand.

All we need now is for Lenovo and Asus to start building ARM based laptop too.

Yes I know ChromeOS this, ChromeOS that, and to some extent I agree with the criticisms but for my 9 years old who only uses the thing for homework, flashgames and youtube it's plenty enough.

I am tired of cleaning up the mess he makes of it's windows7 laptop every few weeks. This should do the trick.

P

Chromebook, Chromebook, Chromebook

nuff said

The subject will be: How to avoid flying chairs?

A very useful subject for everyone wanting to work at M$

Rumour has it that he was turned down for the Monkey dance teaching class, due to some hygienic reasons about sweat smell or something..

It makes sense for two reasons. LTE and Launch timing

The current iPhone doesnt work on 800 and 2600 LTE bands which will start being widespread in Europe from May-June 2013 they need to add those bands up.

The second thing is timing.

When they moved from June to November with the iPhone 4S launch, they missed the analysts estimates.

They brought the launch of the iPhone 5 forward (i.e October) but they again missed the analyst estimates as the whole world knew about it.

They need to go back to a May launch in order to avoid missing those estimates again.

In the UK, one of the operator offers a rent an iPhone service, you can keep a phone for just 6 months to a year and move to a new one whenever you feel like it.

If Apple start updating the iPhone twice a year, this type of deal wil make a lot of sense.

Fail and Fail

X86 and HDD.

Nuff said

One really needs to try before commenting

I went to the local Apple store to check out, what I first thought was an overpriced Gadget compared to the competition. (I mean Nexus not Kindle whose business model doesn't suit me).

It just felt right, all sorts of people were commenting how light and usable it was.

The screen size is actually very good.

I always thought the Nexus was good enough but not perfect, this does feel very close to perfect.

The lightness is incredible, besides the sides of the screen can tell whether you are just holding it or actually clicking on something.

I've tried various company remote App with it. They all worked great and it actually felt like I have been using them wrong on my laptop for all these years.

I didn't miss the lack of retina at all and I now can't see the point of the iPad2.

Going from 9.7 inch to 7.9 inch doesn't feel like you're losing anything.

It's not a shrunk device, it's a different device.

I still think it should be £239 though not £269

Good deals?

Will there be a firesale before Christmas?

I am sure that would be an opportunity for them to get some cash in before closing and hopefully give the poor guys working there some well needed overtime cash to get through their search of a new job.

I didn't really see a direct talking down of the competition in his Surface remark?

He was asked about the Surface and he said: "I didn't use it but what we read is that it's a confused and a compromised product".

Well, i've read several Surface articles, and the conclusion is most often than not ,great hardware bar to , poor software, no app. and in my world that's a confused and compromised products.

The flood of "amazing, great, fantastic etc etc" by the Apple management is indeed becoming really annoying but what would we want a CEO to say? "This is the most average product we've ever built ."

Disappointing products running Windows?

How is this news?

Samesung?

It all looks good, one only needs to swap that chromeOS thing by Ubuntu and go to town.

Unfortunately, this is a Samesung and the usual pathetic attempt at copying everything Apple does is there for everyone to see.

At $250 I'll buy it just for fun, but I don't spend money with copyright breakers or Chelsea sponsors.

Samesung is both

The real issue is Internet Explorer

Let us assume some people like the look of it, like the 32 Gig for the price of the iPad3, and don't realise or not about iPad2 resolution for the price of iPad3 or the total lack of application on the RT platform, then there is still one massive elephant in this room left.

Internet Explorer.

The main use of a tablet is web surfing and I can't think of any reason besides torture who can lead to someone using that abomination of a web browser.

At least let us have Chrome or Firefox on the thing.