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Meatywsg
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Don't see your rationale DD ?
The monitor is a different style, different base stand, different colour. The keyboard is similar however the mouse mat is separate on the HP model and not integrated.
At the end of the day, there's only so many ways a keyboard or screen can look.
People used started to hate Microsoft because of their monopoly, Apple came in and tried to make a difference, they certainly did that, and in a huge way, but now they are the ones holding the monopoly cards on other products, and hence forth Android is born....do you see the cycle ?
Competition is good, in the end the consumer wins and more creativity is born....these tit for tat patent suits are like billy and johnny in the school yard.
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Posted on: 9:57 pm on Sep. 10, 2012
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from Meatywsg on 9:57 am on Sep. 11, 2012
The monitor is a different style, different base stand, different colour. The keyboard is similar however the mouse mat is separate on the HP model and not integrated.
At the end of the day, there's only so many ways a keyboard or screen can look.
Yeah, whatever... if you want to stick your head in the sand, be my guest.
Not sure if you were looking at the same pictures, or even the same product.
I love the old...
At the end of the day, there's only so many ways a keyboard or screen can look.
... dummies argument.
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Posted on: 1:30 am on Sep. 11, 2012
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BKKdreaming
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HP has lots of patents too, so maybe they are not as scared of Apple as other companies.....
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Posted on: 6:44 pm on Sep. 11, 2012
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Meatywsg
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Microsoft vs. Apple
The Dinosaurs and the Next Generations of Tablet Technology
By Amy Kobayashi-Häas
Monday, September 10th, 2012
Armageddon of Tablet Technology
The Next Gadget
Popularity of a technology gadget always starts with need.
If you've visited a doctor in the past few months, then you probably spotted a tablet — or something scarily worse…
Two weeks ago, I filled out the most annoying questionnaire about my insurance information on a poor man’s version of a tablet: a black dry-erase marker with a laminated form. I sat in the waiting room clumsily filling fat letters in the little boxes. Smirking as I squished my 20,000-digit insurance id in the correct field, I imagined the next step would be an over-priced scanner imaging my illegible information and zapping it to cyber infinity.
Good luck reading this handwriting.
My doctor was over-sold for his new Electronic Medical Record system; he either couldn’t afford the nice tablets, or was afraid of them. Stupid.
Doctors offices are and will become desperate for help. Those that achieve the integrated greatness will impress patients by handing them tablets with stress-free stylus pens to answer questions and then snap the tablet back into the doctor’s laptop.
This will be the next gadget.
It will be the flexibility and integration of the laptop to the tablet. The physician and nurse can rotate through tablets as thin as their past “charts” and then snap them into their laptops to type and send data seamlessly.
That is the key: integration and flexibility, and it will spread to households.
Tablets integrating with laptops and phones easily will be the next craze.
In fact, it's already started...
Technology Gods
In current events, while the HITECH Act is demanding Electronic Health Record (EHR) integration, the technology gods have left us.
Who will lead the charge with this new gadget erupting?
Steve Jobs is dead. Bill Gates is retired.
In cyber realms behind the mammoth silicon doors of these giants, talented executives have been girding their loins and strategizing of how to prove their worth, to make their mark...
Who will be the next Jobs? Who will be the next Gates?
They are now striking with their most brilliant ideas, but what can they offer?
Both Microsoft and Apple have major campaigns being waged this next quarter.
The Next Dinosaur
Apple touts the iPhone 5 being released on September 12 with mystery features.
But what is left for an iPhone 5 to do?
Will they make the appearance more square with harder edges? Apple always trends to a different look from their previous model — the cool factor of public recognition: “She has the new iPhone!”
Will Apple offer a 3D hologram popping like the Star Trek hologram deck? Will they add scents, so I can smell the aroma of my Columbian coffee?
What's left?
They will undoubtedly make the camera better, the color sharper, more visual screen space. Yawn. So what?
I don’t need to pay $300 to replace my perfectly fine iPhone 4S so that my screen is an eighth of an inch bigger. And after 6 megapixels, does the camera really matter?
Try an Adobe Flash site on the iPad or iPhone. They don’t work. Where is the USB port to pull my pictures from my iPhone or iPad without a cable? I have a wireless mouse and keyboard, but I need a cable for my iPhone?
I can’t tether my iPhone from my work laptop (making it a hot spot), because iTunes is not part of our technology standard. If I were to use my iPad for work, I would use Microsoft Office apps, but they aren’t the same and they aren’t free.
There are signs that Apple will succumb:
•Playing catch-up – Apple announced they would not be doing a hybrid: a laptop/tablet combination. They are focused on making a smaller tablet, the Apple Mini. A smaller tablet. Really? They are already rampant on the market. The seven-inch Kindle Fire alone supposedly has 22% of the tablet market currently. Again, Apple is playing catch-up.
•Commonplace Intuitiveness – Apple had gripped the phone market by making their products intuitive, so easy anyone could use. However, Apple has lost their foothold. An IDC survey released last month showed Samsung’s Droid surpassing Apple’s iPhone. The court battles have begun with Apple claiming Samsung copied their intuitive design. Apple is now threatened, and their formerly intuitive design is now commonplace.
Microsoft Attacks
Microsoft is about to launch the Windows Surface RT tablet with a Windows 8 operating system in October.
A couple months later, it will launch its stronger tablet: the Windows Surface Pro.
All the bells and whistles of the competitors seem to be there: sleek design, powerful, great storage, very thin, attractive…
What will set Microsoft apart are these advantages:
•Convertible tablet – The tablet will be able to be “docked” to use as a laptop (or docking station for the RT) or removable to be exclusively a tablet. This will be the biggest upcoming gadget trend.
•Windows 8 –This will allow businesses and homes to function with their normal software on a tablet. Windows 8 will integrate phones, tablets, desktops, laptops — everything — together seamlessly. The Windows 8 operating system has been touted to be better than all other phone or tablet operating systems.
•Office 2013 – Office 2013 will be installed with the new tablet. This saves a fortune in licensing. I paid over $500 per user for Office 2007 licensing four years ago for my company, and that was with discounts. This alone is a huge savings.
•Touch-cover keyboard – People like the feel of keyboards. There is just something about pressing buttons that will keep us returning.
•Streaming wireless – Gone are the annoying USB cords that are required for every iPhone and iPads. Microsoft’s tablet will be able to stream information and even will integrate with the Xbox 360.
Consulting companies are fast and furiously writing software specifically for Windows 8. They are writing software before the Surface RT is even released.
The top software development language is currently Microsoft.Net. Unfortunately, it does not work on iPads. It needs Windows.
Multi-billion-dollar Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software has to run on desktops, laptops, and tablets. Technology leaders do not want to invest in writing two sets of code, one for Apple tablets and one for the “real” system...
Tech recruiting companies have 80 positions for every Microsoft.Net resume and cannot fill them. If they find a good candidate, the candidate is off the market within a week.
The surge in information technology is surprisingly to write software for a device that has not even reached market.
No one is doing these Herculean efforts in preparing for the iPhone 5 or the Apple Mini...
The general public will yawn when they see the latest and greatest from Apple compared to what will be possible with Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Windows Surface RT and Pro.
And, like twenty years ago, Microsoft will undercut Apple with pricing to win the market share.
Rumor has it that Microsoft may even offer the Surface RT for as little as $200.
Kind Regards, Amy Kobayashi-Häas
Medical IT Director and Contributor to Wealth Daily
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Posted on: 12:28 am on Sep. 12, 2012
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from BKKdreaming on 6:44 am on Sep. 12, 2012
HP has lots of patents too, so maybe they are not as scared of Apple as other companies.....
Maybe they should try to be original and innovative, then?
Remember, Meg Whitman is in charge over there.
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Posted on: 1:55 am on Sep. 12, 2012
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from Meatywsg on 12:28 pm on Sep. 12, 2012
Microsoft vs. Apple
The Dinosaurs and the Next Generations of Tablet Technology
Damn, you just try so damn hard, don't you?
The iPad's already firmly in the medical industry :
http://www.padgadget.com/2012/02/08/medical-industry-fast-adopting-ipad/
http://www.repinteractive.com/ipads-are-invading-the-medical-industry/
http://mobihealthnews.com/special-issue-ipad-in-healthcare/
Microsoft is both a late arrival, and a Johnny-Come-Lately, with inferior technology... Sure, there'll be a couple of clueless administrators that will be frothing at the mouth to waste money on anything non-Apple, who'll realize, too late, that there's no software on that platform.
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Posted on: 2:01 am on Sep. 12, 2012
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koolbreez
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No software on that platform? There is more Windows based software than Apple could ever dream of. Apple software is always the after-thought once the Windows software is developed. No software on that platform....lolol, get real.
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Posted on: 5:36 am on Sep. 12, 2012
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Meatywsg
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Source: BBC
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19557497
Apple unveils the latest version of its iPhone this Wednesday. It will be the first since the death of Steve Jobs.
To mark the occasion the BBC asked Dan Lyons, Newsweek magazine's technology editor and creator of the satirical blog, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, to pen an article about the firm's progress over past year.
This is his provocative view.
Somewhere up there, I can hear Steve screaming.
Back in 2006 I launched a blog where I pretended to be Apple CEO Steve Jobs. My alter ego, "Fake Steve," had a good run, but I shut it down in January 2011 when it became apparent that Jobs was in poor health. Nevertheless, even now, I'm constantly wondering what Steve would think about whatever Apple is doing.
This week it's the iPhone 5. Everyone pretty much accepts that Apple will introduce it, and there have been so many leaks that everybody pretty much seems to know what it's going to be. Word is it will look a lot like the last two versions of the iPhone, except a bit thinner and a bit taller, with upgraded guts and a refreshed operating system.
Samsung's Galaxy S3 is outselling the iPhone 4S in some countries
If that's correct, I imagine Steve is not happy. First of all, he'd be furious about the leaks. Steve liked surprising people.
More important, is this really the best we can expect from an outfit that claims to be the most innovative company in the world? This is the sixth version of the iPhone, and the user interface still looks almost exactly like the original iPhone in 2007.
The hardware on the iPhone has been the same for two years, since the iPhone 4 and 4S were virtually identical.
Now, having had two years to plot and scheme, Apple's renowned designer Jonathan Ive has replaced the tiny 3.5in (8.9cm) screen with a slightly-less-tiny 4in (10.2cm) screen? Wow. Knock me over with a feather. What do you do with the rest of your time, Jony?
This is what happens when a company is too cheap to invest in research and development. Did you know that Apple spends far less on R&D than any of its rivals - a paltry 2% of revenues, versus 14% for Google and Microsoft?
No wonder the Android platform, where new models appear every week, now represents 68% of the smartphone market, up from 47% a year ago, while Apple slid to 17% over the same period.
In case you're bad at maths, let me work that out for you: Android's market share is now four times that of Apple. Four times!
Worse, despite all its bluster about innovation, Apple has become a copycat, and not even a good one. Why is Apple making the iPhone bigger? To keep up with the top Android phones.
Apple's stock has hit new heights under chief executive Tim Cook
(Phones that, mind you, Apple fanboys ridiculed at first.)
The problem is that the new iPhone won't really give you much more screen real estate than the old one. Worse, it looks ridiculous.
Apple also has become a copycat in tablets. Jobs once said the iPad's 9.7in screen was the perfect size, and smaller tablets made no sense. Then the Android camp had success with 7in tablets like Amazon's Kindle Fire and Google's Nexus 7, and now Apple supposedly will announce its own smaller iPad in October. Talk about thinking different!
What else is there to complain about?
Um, Siri still doesn't work. The oft-rumoured Apple TV doesn't exist yet, presumably because media companies won't let Apple take over their business.
The latest batch of Apple ads were such embarrassing garbage that Apple had to take them down from YouTube. Apple's new guy in charge of retail launched a plan to lay off workers and boost profits, then had to walk it back when people pointed out that this was stupid.
The big $1bn (£650m) patent "victory" over Samsung made Apple look like a bully, and also raised awareness of how good Samsung's latest products are.
Last month, Samsung's Galaxy S3, with its huge 4.8in screen, outsold the iPhone 4S in the United States, the first time any smartphone has outsold the iPhone in the States.
Apple got where it was by taking bold risks. Now it has become a company that copies others and plays it safe.
A company that once was run by a product visionary now is run by a number-cruncher - chief executive Tim Cook, whose claim to fame involves running an efficient supply chain and beating ever lower prices out of Asian subcontractors and component suppliers.
To use a car analogy, six years ago the iPhone was like a sexy new flagship model from BMW or Porsche. Today it's a Toyota Camry. Safe, reliable, boring. The car your mom drives. The car that's so popular that its maker doesn't dare mess with the formula.
Steve Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976. He stepped down as chief executive in August, 2011.
Apple seems less interested in blowing people away than it is in milking profit out of the existing lineup. At this Cook is doing marvellously well.
Sales are booming and will top $150bn this year, with net profit margins of nearly 30%. That's incredible in any business, but qualifies as a miracle when you're selling consumer electronics hardware.
Apple has more than $100bn in cash. Its market value of $632bn makes it the biggest company in the world, bigger than any company in US history.
That's great for Apple's shareholders. But for customers, who cares? In terms of products, Apple has become the one thing it should never be. Apple has become boring.
Somewhere up there, I can hear Steve screaming.
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Posted on: 9:11 am on Sep. 12, 2012
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