Jobs on Longhorn
I agree with Jobs. The PC
guys have always just sat on their hands and had other companies innovate for them. In their defense, why spend the money when you can copy other people's best ideas for a fraction of the cost? Look at the past few operating system release screenshots and compare them to Apple a few years back? Look at Dell's Music DJ MP3 player and compare it to iPod? The list goes on and on.
"No, because there's hardly anybody investing a lot of energy in engineering on the Wintel platform outside of Microsoft and Intel, right? Dell doesn't spend much on engineering. Gateway probably spends zero. These guys don't engineer anything anymore. What you're really asking is, can we out innovate Microsoft? And I would give you a resounding yes. I think we are, in almost every category of software that we're in. ... Way more now [than in the past]"
Do you agree or disagree? What are your thoughts? Comment on the
discussion forum.
Link Roundup
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Kerry girl now denies all the allegations.
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John Kerry scandal gets more legs.
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Intel will launch a 4-way die desktop Pentium M CPU.
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Washington Post asks, "What's after Google?"
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