To say the least; we all know Apple is the number one company that can keep secrets buried till the final day; Microsoft on the other hand thinks that secrets are too sacred to be concealed.
WWDC 2009, the expected time for the launch of the new iPhones is just days away now and we are yet to know anything concrete about the device(s) except rumors. Fall of 2009 is comparatively miles away, we know what Microsoft would be doing then.
Microsoft has officially announced that the company would renovate their Zune into something modern. All the clunky buttons are going away Read More...
How long will it take for other competitors to come up with something very near to Apple's iPhone? What are the necessary steps to be taken to outshine the iPhone? Here we have some strategies straight from the desk of Nokia. Nokia has come up with a plan to tie up with Microsoft to fight the Smartphone battle and Microsoft reportedly has agreed to give whatever is needed to see the iPhone replaced by what is supposed to come out of this Micro-Nokia union.
Microsoft has agreed to provide Zune software to Nokia to produce something that is innovative and unique Read More...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has sent out an email to all Microsoft employees announcing that Apple delivers a complete user experience and is thriving, and Microsoft now needs to copy Apple again. Ballmer claims:
In the competition between PCs and Macs, we outsell Apple 30-to-1. But there is no doubt that Apple is thriving. Why? Because they are good at providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment to choice often comes with some compromises to the end-to-end experience. Today, we’re changing the way we work with hardware vendors to ensure that we can provide complete experiences Read More...
It’s just one of those days where I keep running into satire—and it’s so annoyingly subtle that I’m not even sure it’s there. I just wrote about Apple’s “miserable weekend sales” in “Apple hatred at its worst!,” and now here’s another one.
Chris Green at ITPro claims that Microsoft is planning a Zune-based smartphone. This is what he says:
…such a device is in the works, which is great news as it would easily provide respectable competition to Apple’s iPhone.
All the components are in place – Windows Mobile as the underlying OS, the Zune user interface for the front-end, tweaked and extended…
Thankfully, Read More...
Thanks to iPhone, its competitors are also doing better business. See here.
Competitors earnestly have reason to welcome Apple to the market. Sales show that what's been good for Apple has been verrrry good for smartphone makers. Retail sales of the BlackBerry, for example, are up 38 percent in the year since the iPhone's introduction.
Somehow, that’s not surprising at all. After the iPhone, other phone manufacturers started “innovating” with touch screens, fewer buttons, accelerometers, and the like. The article draws a valid parallel between how the iPod virtually created the portable music player industry, and how the iPhone is doing the Read More...
