google - no longer a one trick pony

0. search - no competitor
1. youtube - no competitor
2. android / nexus phone,tablet - competitors: iphone, lumia, ipad, surface tab    beware
3. g-tv/Q for living room - competitors: xbox, ps3    beware
4. g-mail
5. g-cloud - competitors: amazon, azure    beware
6. g+/orkut  - competitors: facebook     beware 
7. g-maps - competitors: apple maps, bing maps     beware
8. g-apis
9. chrome/firefox - competitors: IE     beware
10. g-glasses [ a new market segment ! ] - borg [human+machine]
all successful and all make up a wonderful ecosystem, complementing each other

- beautiful and oozing cool

I am so happy to see Google, Microsoft and Apple
out-innovating each other [actually entering each other surfs] ,
and consumers benefitting.

Windows Phone 8: Do you think Nokia is doomed ? Do you think Microsoft just backstab it ? 20 reasons the answer is NO

[In no particular order]

1. do you know that Facetime and Siri DO NOT WORK on IPhone 3,3G,3GS, and 4 ?

2. do you expect a phone without a camera to take photos after an OS upgrade ?

3. did you hear of wp7.8 - 3rd upgrade for wp7 ?

4. do you know that except Samsung, the other android phones makers earn in cents ?

5. did you ever hear about commodity devices and downward price spiral ?

6. do you know that a painted rock with a sony or apple written on it would sell, but that a nokia written on a gold tablet cannot sell in US ?

7. do you know that android 2.3.x share is 65% and android 4.x is 7% ?

8. do you know that wp8 has 18months guaranteed upgrades period ?

9. do you know that a phone lifetime is <6months and not 10years like a gaming console ?

10. do you know that a phone is no longer a phone but is a computer ?

11. did you hear about 'smoked by windows phone ?'

12. did you understand that a single core wp7 beat dual core android, iphone and others

13. did you hear that wp8 is dual core qualcomm snapdragon, not to mention the ecosystem benefits of w8 surface tablet, w8 pcs, xbox.

14. did you hear about asha line of nokia basic phones

15. dont you think/speculate the prospects of being the sole-licencee/exclusive maker of surface tablet will be good

16. do you pick RIM or NOKIA as having more prospects for the coming 2 years.

17. do you see any differentiators in nokia like those of RIM [enterprise friendly, secure backbone]

18. do you realize that if RIM jumps on the Android bandwagon, it can win because of its differentiating factors; but nokia cannot and will have a single thread to hang on like htc one

19. do you realize that nokia[2008] is no comparison to samsung [a conglomerate]

20. do you know that Android guys have to pay licensing fee; and running/battling in courts with Apple/Microsoft?

Is a Ubuntu's Windows moment coming up ?

Its a level playing field out there !

1. With Microsoft entering the PC H/W fray, its possible that the HP's and DELL's will align with Ubuntu more than ever to be relevant.

2. Lets see if HP/DELL+MS can regroup and deliver good punches instead of pointing fingers at each other over the post-pc debacle.

3. Metro makes windows a new operating system [perception] and hence chances are people give a try at ubuntu or mac[cost factors nullify mac for majority]

4. Already ubuntu's making waves as the most popular cloud-os choice

5. Free as in Free beer,  and Free as in Freedom. Competing against free is really tough.
Android takes over the mobile space, Ubuntu the desktop space, Redhat the server space. [hopefully]
Which leaves us with tablet space [for now, there's no stopping the ipad juggernaut]

Microsoft Surface Tablet - just enjoy the marvel !

Just enjoy the cool tech ! Dont be a biz analyst !

Those new covers don’t just include a keyboard—they’ve been engineered so that they can distinguish between typing and inadvertent movements.

There’s a slim vent that runs around the entire outer edge of the Surface for Windows 8 Pro. That vent allows heat to dissipate (quietly, one hopes, with little or no fan noise) no matter where you’re holding the device.

Watching the magnetic catch on the cover as it makes its mechanical connection to the Surface is nothing short of miraculous. It’s the feature that early adopters will show their friends when they ask, “Why is this thing special?”

I think you could probably fold and unfold that kickstand 10,000 times without affecting its latch. That’s how firm and solid it is in action.

In your hands, the feel of this device is nothing short of astonishing. It’s light, but it doesn’t torque in the slightest.

 USB Port

 16:9 wide screen

Source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/what-oems-desperately-need-to-learn-from-microsofts-surface/5149

Google's Envy - Microsoft's Pride

Microsoft is befriending Open [all is fair in love and war]

1. Outercurve is the torch bearer of the new open MS
2. Play fair and square with competing/upcoming tech on Azure - Hadoop , Linux , Java , PHP , NodeJS...
3. Advocate of DNT and other pro-consumer privacy policies
4. Contribute to and get leverage from FOSS [linux, webmatrix, mvc, razor, jquery, orchard...]
5. Participate in Google Summer of Code
6. OData

Microsoft is Kool

1. XBox
2. Kinect
3. Smart Glass
4. Kinect Glasses
5. Metro
6. Surface
7. Bing
8. Geeky stuff: Nuget , Powershell , MVC , Razor
9. Strong vibrant socialized community in MSDN, Stackoverflow, Codeplex
10. on{X}
11. Creates apps for Android and IOS
12. Mayhem

Microsoft is on par with respect to Web stuff

1. Html and Web standards are no longer foster children or an after thought. They have equal status to biological children such as Silverlight
2. IE 10 is on par [99.999%] to chrome, firefox, etc with respect to web standards
3. ASP.net has native support for; and encourages trendy kool kids of javascript world such as modernizr, jquery, etc
4. ASP.net now sees its RESTful architectures [web-api] as first class citizens

Samsung : Torch bearer of InfoTech and Consumer Electronics

You cant help but wonder at the journey of Samsung !

1. World's-largest IT producer, surpassing the previous leader, HP in 2009
2. Dominates the world TV market since 2006
3. Maintains the leading sales position for eight years in a row in LCD panels
4. With Galaxy Sxx , the company's SMARTPHONE lineup was first place in global sales figures since 2011
5. Top supplier in the HOME APPLIANCES market.
6. Among top 20 brands respected and recognized world over.
7. LEDs + Mem Chips [dram,sram] + Basic Phones + PCs
8. Sponsor of 2012 Olympics
9. Has "Admiration, Trust, Good Feeling and Overall Esteem" world over
10. Consumer Electronics - dvd, mp3, air conditioners
11. Supplies key components to all major mobile hardware companies.
12. Employees: 160,000   [ MS - 92,000    Apple - 60,400    Google - 33,000 ]
13. Friends of Google and whatever it takes to succeed; market driven partnerships with MS and Apple.


Silly people think google or microsoft will take over the home.