John Baird
Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States
>>>>>>>By "apparently short-lived paradigm" do you mean tablets?
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>>>>>Yes. Microsoft chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie doesn't think tablets will last.
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>>>>It sure doesn't look that way to me. The iPad has been a runaway success, and now a million competitors are joining the fray. If they don't last there will have been a lot of manufacturers who were wrong.
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>>>>Not to be cynical or anything but maybe Microsoft/Mundie have selfish reasons for pooh poohing the category. They don't really have a horse in the race, do they? Caught flat footed by Apple yet again.
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>>>Yep they sure were.... how dare they come up with a natural body motion sensor that has applications in far more fields than time-wasting. The Kinnect is phenomenal and will usher in a new era of games, business and scientific applications as they hone the technology. Just imagine a surgeon controlling an operational robot simply by moving his hands and fingers in the air.... I think they caught apple in the headlights...
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>>That does sound intribuing. Not a tablet, though, which is what was being discussed.
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>You made a blanket statement: "Caught flat footed by Apple yet again." I just pointed out where MS is choosing to innovate in areas that matter....
Innovate? Did you really say that?
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