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A comment on Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by Razengan on Friday July 19, 2019 @10:54AM (#20479129)
Apple is still the "tall poppy" that people feel the need to cut down.

When Microsoft's money gets posted they get applauded as if they're the underdog, but whenever Apple's profits are posted many people try to point out how it must because they're doing this and that wrong.

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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by outside1234 on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:26PM (#20480667)
Really? I think this crowd is actually pretty positive on Apple for the privacy stances et al.
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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by rowanG077 on Friday July 19, 2019 @12:57PM (#20480370)
It has nothing to do with being the "tall poppy". It has something to do with the public image of the company. Microsoft has created a massive amount of goodwill by doing incredible things for communities. Apple on the other hand is doing one fail after the other and isn't listening to customers.

That's why Apple gets the hate.

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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by maximente on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:27PM (#20481207)
> Microsoft has created a massive amount of goodwill by doing incredible things for communities

i can't tell if this is sarcasm, recency bias, or something more nefarious. have you heard of embrace, extend and extinguish?

but, i'll bite - what incredible things for communities have they done?

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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by rowanG077 on Friday July 19, 2019 @03:21PM (#20481663)
I have heard of it. I have also heard of this little thing called change. afaik Microsoft hasn't recently done anything like embrace, extend and extinguish.

> but, i'll bite - what incredible things for communities have they done?

Visual studio code. .NET core. Making visual studio free. WSL, joining the linux foundation, typescript. I could go on...

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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by scarface74 on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:50PM (#20480894)
Apple only gets hate by the geek community.
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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by mhermher on Friday July 19, 2019 @03:48PM (#20481863)
They just get hate from people that just want to use a normal macbook.
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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by rowanG077 on Sunday July 21, 2019 @03:52AM (#20490399)
No. Designers at my company are also livid that there macboks keep breaking after a couple months of use.
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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by Razengan on Sunday July 21, 2019 @07:49AM (#20490938)
People at MY company are all happy with everything about the new MacBooks.
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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by rowanG077 on Sunday July 21, 2019 @11:36AM (#20491782)
I wonder if they will still like them once half their machines no longer have functioning keyboards.
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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by Razengan on Sunday July 21, 2019 @07:16PM (#20494297)
Most of them have been using them since 2015-2016 and they're still all fine.
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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by rowanG077 on Monday July 22, 2019 @05:14AM (#20496382)
Yes those were the last generation were the keyboards are fine. No one uses computers older then 3 years here so we have large issues with having to send back macbooks multiple times a year.

I generally judge a company on what they have done recently not what they did 4 years ago.

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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by Razengan on Monday July 22, 2019 @07:00AM (#20496854)
> Yes those were the last generation were the keyboards are fine.

No, those were the ones with the first-generation butterfly mechanism, and they have gotten better since then.

No one I know has had to return a MacBook. Even the one from 2011 that I sold to a friend around 5 years ago, which is still being happily used by his children.

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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by rowanG077 on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:18AM (#20497257)
Which macbooks do they have? 13 inch ones?
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