Michael Gartenberg
Michael Gartenberg
Michael Gartenberg is a technology journalist, analyst and blogger. He is an Apple Inc. employee, and was previously a Research Director at Gartner, focussed on the world of the interconnected consumer...
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This is not such a watershed moment for Microsoft, but another step in a process that's been years in the making to get the right devices and the right partnerships out there and demonstrate to the market that this is a viable platform for these types of large scale projects. Typically what you do see in situations like this is that success breeds success.
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The problem was that the devices weren't very good, the screens were terrible, the prices were too high and there was a terrible selection of content.
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The mere notion that a Palm device could be built around anything but the Palm OS means that the market is shifting and that anything is possible.
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The core trend is we're seeing high-speed wireless access integrated directly into the devices rather than requiring an add-on card.
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It does what it's supposed to do, and it does it well.
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Keeping it persistently available is a pretty big deal. I can position things so I can be working on my e-mail or word processing and still have the information available.
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Microsoft has taken a lot of effort developing the phone first.
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When it comes to consumer electronics, the longer you wait, it's always going to be smaller, faster, cheaper.
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The experience isn't going to be radically different for the Apple user after this. There will be some adjustment, some tweaks here and there, but it is not going to be a dramatically different experience.
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For the short term they're already on target with a good relationship. Apple's already reaped a lot of benefits.
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With Mozilla, its core essence has been this notion about doing things for free. So in that case, it is a little different because it somewhat changes the DNA the organization was built upon, and it comes back to the recognition that being paid for services is not necessarily a bad thing.
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We're talking about Apple, so it could be all of those things, none of those things, or something brand new.
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Browsing is a secondary feature that is very important on today's modern devices, but no one wants to spend the time and effort to reinvent the browsing experience when there are already great solutions on the market, ... Nokia is using a best-of-breed browser without the expense of having to build it all themselves.
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Expect that we'll have a lot to say about what it all means as well as the implications over the next few weeks.