| Kyros said: Business is business. Successful companies adapt, beg, borrow and steal. No they don't! This only works for a while in a real market. Give to the customer, what the customer wants! Is still the main business sentence and the basis for a long successful live as a business. Customers may be stupid but if they start to loose trust in a company you have a huge problem. So you may make more money by being the company equivalent of an asshole but this won't last. So but why is Microsoft so profitable then and has been for years? Because its a damn monopoly. IT makes almost all of its profit with its Operating System and Office products both of which have essentially no competition to fear because MS has 95% of the market in both. In almost all sectors where this doesn't help them they suck. Their Zune player is a failure. XBOX a huge money sink. Online they are killed by Google. Their mobile OS plays second fiddle to Symbian and has a bleak future against Android and Apple. They are modestly successful in databases and web servers (after years of losses and suckitude in both) and have great development tooling with Visual Studio but this is peanuts. |
You have a choice. Period. No one is putting a gun to your head and telling you to buy any MS product. Buy a laptop with XP, uninstall it and put on the OS of your choice. Yeah, including Linux and OSX. It's not a monopoly - a state having just one power company is a monopoly. M$ offers products that you can choose to buy or not. Consumers RARELY get what they want. I want a car that can fly, go 500 mph and go underwater. Will I get that car? I couldn't afford it and no one could buy it for me anyhow.
We are presented options and can buy it based on what's available with some leeway for personalization. And your hate for MS products runs deep. The Zune has brought some rather cool features to the MP3 market, including built-in wifi, the ability to beam songs to other Zunes, built-in FM radio (on a video playing MP3 player). And really, your opinion is really just that in the end - your biased opinion.
You should give credit to where credit is due. If something that you think sucks is a success, quit playerhating and acknowledge it is a success. Whether you or I or anyone thinks it should succeed isn't the point. The point is - it has succeeded and how you will embrace or shun the product.
