Five Things Apple Can Learn From Windows 8
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OSX and iOS are converging.
Windows8 is built for notebooks and styluses.
iPad 4 will be due when Windows 8 is being lumped on some beefy "tablet". With a tedious, over weight Office app.
I hope Apple won't be tempted, rather, I'm sure they will not. It looks incoherent: from the the Metro UI's concept of tiles, which I dislike, to the duality of the desktop as an app. Cool for geeks, maybe, horribly confusing idea for anyone else. It's stupid to force a full fledged desktop into a tablet. Yet again, anything with a fan is not really a tablet, that's a PC.
because they detached the rudder 26 years ago.
>Today they are on of the most efficiently operating computer companies out there. They have a vision, they have a solid foundation on which to build, and they have the resources to execute rapidly on that vision.
Sounds like you're talking about Apple of 1982-84. Apple that had had a several years long run under Jobs. Btw, the vision they execute today is the vision outlined in the Jobs' 30 years old Macintosh business plans.
However, the complexities of this are boggling and will make a nightmarish (or nonexistent) security model. It would trully be OLE, take 2 if it worked at all.
This is a year out. When Android 3.0 was previewed 6 months before release, I was amazed. Then I realized how buggy and rushed it was.
Apple sets a very high bar for quality. It will be interesting to see if either Google or Microsoft can compete.
Full disclosure, I've never owned a smartphone or tablet, so maybe I'm just not used to that sort of layout yet. I can't help but think that everything is just randomly dumped together.
That's wrong, the SKUs will be revealed closer to launch. What MS meant was that all the different form factors including ARM will run the full Windows OS.
There will still be Home/Professional etc. etc.