Recent content by a5cent

Casual IT users? Nope. In some corporate settings? Unfortunately... Yes... (most definitely if we take the 10 year mark). If you can't define what you mean by "good enough", then you logically can't ask whether something will meet that standard. Without a definition such questions are just...

To be clear, you mentioned: make and receive calls text messages maps/GPS etc a UI suitable for general phone use enough apps to be "good enough" Whether the device will sport a UI that is suitable for general phone use is difficult to discuss because that's highly subjective. IMHO...

We already know MS foldable device will do all those things, except possibly the last. Having enough apps to be "good enough" is a highly subjective metric. What we do know is that it will have fewer apps than W10M did when it launched. Is that enough? I don't know. Either way, that fact is...

Flog it baby, flog it! Erm... or lead it to water... or whatever... you know what I mean. [emoji16]

Maybe. I figure not many follow this stuff as closely as we do, and even here many initially had trouble understanding what MS is doing. I keep correcting this sort of thing because if someone doesn't understand it then nothing MS does appears to make sense and discussions here become...

Nope. At the moment MS has a grand total of zero mobile OSes and zero mobile device sales, yet they've never been more profitable. The areas where MS does well are expected to grow even faster going forward. It's obvious that MS can be plenty successful without addressing the app gap. Maybe...

No. MS has stated many times that this will NOT be a smartphone, but a PC with phone capabilities. The difference is in the app ecosystem. Do you think your PC has an app gap? I suspect not. Same thing applies here. If you're NOT looking for a very portable touch enabled PC, but rather for a...

This is a terrible idea (and not entirely correct). Either clone, where the point is to not have to reconfigure anything, or do a clean install that gives you a clean and pristine starting point without baggage that was intended for an entirely different PC. A reset typically installs an OEM...

Depends on what you mean by asking "what's better". Technically, in terms of getting an install that is best suited to your hardware, has no leftover junk, and is most likely to work error free, a clean install is always best. Clones are a quick and dirty method to get something up and running...

Yup, time will tell. I didn't really want to add anymore to this, but now need to clarify that absolutely nobody, least of all me, is claiming that software can work without associated hardware. Of course MS will be expanding their data centers and the like, but that's not what they will be...

Using your definition of "infrastructure" I can see where you are coming from. We both know MS sees a large part of their future and growth in their role as an infrastructure provider. However, we don't share a common understanding of what that means. I think that has absolutely nothing to do...

Ehm... What? Why? Is one company not allowed to service both corporate customers AND consumers? MS is not going to build a mobile device that attempts to compete with iOS or Android as a consumer product. That war was lost. That doesn't mean MS must instantly stop developing every other product...

The only way you can say this is by ignoring a huge part of our economy. When was the last time you purchased a $300'000 soldering robot, an EUV solution to build integrated circuits or business intelligence software? These are things a consumer will never need. That is to say that the vast...

Yes. There is a lot of innovation outside the U.S. For example, most hardware components in the iPhone were neither designed nor built in the U.S. That just has absolutely nothing to do with the problem MS had. As innovative as some other economies are, MS, Google and Apple are platform...

What do you mean by "great phone experience" and "not-phone"? AFAIK its highly likely that MS' foldable device will allow users to make phone calls. If that's true then it WILL act as a phone! It just won't be MARKETED as one, because most people equate phone with smartphone and that term (for...