Re:Google's Napoleonic Moment
by nl on Monday July 09, 2012 @11:41PM
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And there is why you don't take business strategy from random Forbes writers.
* The author took his wife's behaviour and generalized it to represent the entire marketplace. I use the Kindle app on 2 different tablets in preference to my Kobo, and anecdotal evidence is just as relevant as his.
* He claims the copy-catters will beat them both [on price]. As has been previously discussed on HN, Google has priced the Nexus 7 pretty close to cost. No copy-catter is going to going to undercut that with similar features for a while yet.
* "Office is the Microsoft weapon for Surface" The iPad seems to be doing just fine by destroying the Office monopoly in the enterprise.
* "Business apps from Microsoft's parters will be MS's secret weapon." How's that working out for Windows Phone 7?
It's pretty clear the author is a MS fanboy who hasn't accepted the fact that MS has to do a lot of work to remain relevant. An "Enterprise Strategy" is great, but the iPhone showed CIOs back in 2008 that all the strategy in the world is useless when your CEO decides they want an iPhone (or, now, and iPad).
* The author took his wife's behaviour and generalized it to represent the entire marketplace. I use the Kindle app on 2 different tablets in preference to my Kobo, and anecdotal evidence is just as relevant as his.
* He claims the copy-catters will beat them both [on price]. As has been previously discussed on HN, Google has priced the Nexus 7 pretty close to cost. No copy-catter is going to going to undercut that with similar features for a while yet.
* "Office is the Microsoft weapon for Surface" The iPad seems to be doing just fine by destroying the Office monopoly in the enterprise.
* "Business apps from Microsoft's parters will be MS's secret weapon." How's that working out for Windows Phone 7?
It's pretty clear the author is a MS fanboy who hasn't accepted the fact that MS has to do a lot of work to remain relevant. An "Enterprise Strategy" is great, but the iPhone showed CIOs back in 2008 that all the strategy in the world is useless when your CEO decides they want an iPhone (or, now, and iPad).