Microsoft is a SOFTWARE company, its only foray in modern time to hardware - the Zune - has been a commercial failure, maybe 3% of the market to Apple's 85% (iPods). This has given them NO confidence (1) to risk another hardware product line, nor (2) to compete against their WM OS reseller/VARs like HTC etc. Just not happening.
"Eludium-Q36 @ May 5th 2009 2:41PM Microsoft is a SOFTWARE company, its only foray in modern time to hardware - the Zune - has been a commercial failure, maybe 3% of the market to Apple's 85% (iPods). This has given them NO confidence (1) to risk another hardware product line, nor (2) to compete against their WM OS reseller/VARs like HTC etc. Just not happening."
Xbox? Xbox360? Last I checked Apple didn't even have a gaming department, much less a console? So that piece of 'modern-time hardware' looks like this Microsoft 100% Apple 0%
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Microsoft is a SOFTWARE company, its only foray in modern time to hardware - the Zune - has been a commercial failure, maybe 3% of the market to Apple's 85% (iPods). This has given them NO confidence (1) to risk another hardware product line, nor (2) to compete against their WM OS reseller/VARs like HTC etc. Just not happening.
"Eludium-Q36 @ May 5th 2009 2:41PM
Microsoft is a SOFTWARE company, its only foray in modern time to hardware - the Zune - has been a commercial failure, maybe 3% of the market to Apple's 85% (iPods). This has given them NO confidence (1) to risk another hardware product line, nor (2) to compete against their WM OS reseller/VARs like HTC etc. Just not happening."
Xbox? Xbox360? Last I checked Apple didn't even have a gaming department, much less a console? So that piece of 'modern-time hardware' looks like this Microsoft 100% Apple 0%