Microsoft acknowledges the Apple threat in SEC filing
Summary: In their mandatory 10-Q filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for 2008 Microsoft acknowledges Apple's success, but without mentioning them by name.A competing vertically-integrated model, in which a single firm controls both the software and hardware elements of a product, has been successful with certain consumer products such as personal computers, mobile phones and digital music players.
In their mandatory 10-Q filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for 2008 Microsoft acknowledges Apple's success, but without mentioning them by name.
A competing vertically-integrated model, in which a single firm controls both the software and hardware elements of a product, has been successful with certain consumer products such as personal computers, mobile phones and digital music players.
Microsoft does, however, mention that it has two "vertically-integrated" products (the Xbox 360 and Zune) but that producing more may "increase [its] cost of sales" and "reduce operating margins."
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Does this really justify its own dedicated post?
Just thinking aloud.
Problems vs. Opportunity
don't recall that Apple hung a "No Microsoft" sign on the
iPhone App Store.
Microsoft bought THE software for running Windows on
Mac and walked away from the Mac market at the Intel
switch. Two companies have moved in (and Sun's
VirtualBox is Mac native) and seem to be doing okay.
Microsoft also walked away from the Mac browser market.
What does this say about Microsoft's real feelings about
cloud clients who run other operating systems?
Does it really so befuddle Microsoft when they see other
people profitably selling to Windows users without
controlling the operating system?
And if Apple were honest...
Not sure about that...
about this Ms is not Apple's target market what Apple's
target Market is.... is to convince others (Most of whom
happen to be MS customers) that doing things "The Apple
Way" is the better option. However I don't think Apple feels a
need to emulate MS in this.
Pagan jim
Microsoft-made Windows Mobile Phone
Certainly some of the bugs are software-related, but in many cases it's hardware bugs or a poorly integrated ROM image that causes glitches.
Even if people wouldn't agree that a phone would be a good idea, it is weird that Microsoft's only hardware contribution (aside from the zune and xbox) is a mouse and keyboard.
It really shows they can't think outside the box. They're suck in a "software" company mentality and don't see themselves as a "technology" company.
Not that strange
but...
Not the point
I assume you meant "stuck"....:P
sentence that much funnier.
Now you get what I like about Apple and you might be
right if MS produced it's own phone made specifically to
use it's phone OS a better product is likely to happen.
How do I know this? Because that is what Apple has been
doing for years now and it's the primary reason I choose
Apple over others it's the control of all the pieces to make
the better whole.
Pagan jim
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trying to providing better products for consumer market.
And not try to "imitate" or "emulate" whatsoever its competitors are trying to do. It should try to create an
identity of its own (not that it doesn't have one; what I
mean is that it should try to differentiate itself from its
competitors) just like how Apple gained a foothold in the
computer space by introducing products that triggered a
revolution, not solely because of their design but because
of the quality and stability they offer the users.
Sometimes, it's more of how we look into ourselves, and
less of comparing ourselves to others. XD
Isn't there anything better to blog about?
So what was the point?
Well.....
MS, Dell and Apple. Now Market Share has always been the
club to use to point out just how BIG MS is. Same for Dell
but to a lesser extent and that same Market Share has
constantly been used to point out how "small" Apple is. So
when the famed GIANT takes time to point out the insect it
would seem to point to a sea change of sorts.
Pagan jim
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RE: Microsoft acknowledges the Apple threat in SEC filing
compromise OS for every Tom or Dick or Crap
computer brand and multiple combos of cards and
so forth is never going to work and has not
worked heretofore. Just think how often you are
driving and see on the side of the road with the
hood up some dope with his muscle car with
expandomatic injectors and double brekafrex
mods to his engine stuck and dead in the water.
This is just the same as guys who without real
engineering knowledge mix and match
components to make their wonderful fluorescently
accented dumb super mod computers. Putting
engineers to work to design both the software and
integrate it with matched components is the way to
get compatibility. Just imagine if you were to take
a plane in which the parts were not integrated
vertically by the manufacturer..You know, let's get
the navigation from Frank and the engines from,
whathisname and maybe the landing gear mod
from Joe...Spare me...It is the same..No wonder
Micro is finally starting to see some awareness in
the population who had been snowed by the early
so called IBM clones that somehow they have a
business machine unlike that silly Apple toy...Well,
I say that they took the wrong road and some are
starting to find that the other guy gives them
everything smoothly integrated and fully and
always functional. No wonder Micro is
worried..they ought to be and it is going to get
worse as those ipod users start to buy serious
hardware/software integrated by Apple for their
burgeoning new business ideas as they mature
into a future market.
RE: Microsoft acknowledges the Apple threat in SEC filing