Microsoft: Surface Tablet May Alienate OEM Partners 164
HangingChad sends this excerpt from PCMag:
"Microsoft this week admitted that its upcoming Surface tablet might hurt its relationships with PC maker partners. As first noted by the New York Times, Redmond said in a Thursday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that 'our Surface devices will compete with products made by our OEM partners, which may affect their commitment to our platform.'"
The filing also made note of the difficulties in building up another app marketplace: "In order to compete, we must successfully enlist developers to write applications for our marketplace and ensure that these applications have high quality, customer appeal and value. Efforts to compete with these application marketplaces may increase our cost of revenue and lower our operating margins."
Really? (Score:4, Informative)
You have to mention everything that could be a potential threat to your business in SEC filings. Not particularly interesting since this is "may do this, may do that."
Re:They're Concluding Microsoft Wants to Be Apple (Score:5, Informative)
Consumers can run Linux and not even be aware of it.
It's step onto this side of the 90s timewarp you appear to be posting from.
Re:I dont want an "App" store at all (Score:2, Informative)
dude, you're stupid. the appstore model is actually a copy of debian's "apt-get". apt-get is basically a "free appstore". you know the convenience of "apt-get install xyzapp" and it works automagically? well that's the convenience the appstore brings. also since the appstore takes care of your bandwidth costs and hosts promotional content and puts you in a place where costumers can actually find you i don't think 30% is very expensive at all. that's the problem with geeks, they have no clue about how to run a business. now get back to work before you boss sees you browsing slashdot again and chews you out, peon.
Re:They're Concluding Microsoft Wants to Be Apple (Score:5, Informative)
I just read this article on Forbes. It looks like they've come to the same conclusion I have.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/06/21/microsoft-first-branded-tablets-next-their-own-cell-phone/ [forbes.com]
Re:They're Concluding Microsoft Wants to Be Apple (Score:3, Informative)
Hooray for Pyrrhic victories!
I don't think many people realize that Android is Linux. Not one of the people I work with could tell you what version they have on their phones. The only thing they can tell you is which applications they can or can't get compared to the iPhone. Of the people that have the iPhone that I work with, one of them is a fanboi and the others can barely operate their own computers.
If MS can get their store in order and have decent hardware, they'll do just fine. You'll still have your Linux, everyone else will still be clueless, no matter what platform their phone runs.