How Microsoft Always Seems To Be Behind Apple | Mac360

Way back in the day, Apple created the Mac and Mac OS, an easier way to compute. It took Microsoft 10 years of trying, and the result was Windows 95, and Apple dangling from a cliff.

Microsoft copied Apple’s Mac OS as much as it could. Bill Gates knew the future was the GUI.

Apple without Steve Jobs languished and nearly died. Microsoft won. Apple lost. Steve Jobs returned. Microsoft went to sleep while Jobs and Apple invented the future of personal computing– mobile devices to use, love, and cherish.

From the time Steve Jobs cut a financial deal with Microsoft and locked in Office for Mac for a few years, Microsoft fell asleep. After all, who was left to copy? Apple was near dead.

Then, in short order, almost as if on a schedule, Apple invented the future of mobile devices. Classy stores with well arranged products to be demonstrated, touched, held, and purchased.

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Then along came the iPod. The iTunes Music Store. The iPhone. The iPhone App Store. The iPad.

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"I've handled a lot of oversize smartphones in my years as a reviewer. That's a bit of a trick statement, I'll admit, since both handset screen sizes and our perception of them as large or small have grown throughout the years.
Today, phablets like the Samsung Galaxy Mega (6.3 inches), Huawei Ascend Mate (6.1), and Sony Xperia Z Ultra (6.44) aren't merely outliers giving niche users the come hither. They form a fully fledged category of XXL smartphone -- that's only getting bigger.
Samsung, HTC, and Nokia are all releasing, or rumored to be launching, new gentle giants in the coming year. These will join the six biggest cellular screens you can buy right now."

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The biggest challenge for Microsoft's new CEO can be found in one simple question: What's the glue holding the company together?
During the Bill Gates era and part of Ballmer's rein the answer was clear: Windows.

Today Windows isn't necessarily the glue of the company. The new glue may be the cloud.

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The fact that the discipline of economics hasn’t helped us improve our predictive abilities suggests it is still far from being a science, and may never be. Still, the misperceptions persist. A student who graduates with a degree in economics leaves college with a bachelor of science, but possesses nothing so firm as the student of the real world processes of chemistry or even agriculture.

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