| Killzone3 said: http://news.spong.com/article/13339?cb=736 "hey we're not a one-product company. Many of our competitors were one-product companies. Now they're not one-product companies, but Sony's just in video games, Nokia's largely just in mobile phones, IBM's largely in enterprise type software situations"
Really, TVs cameras motion pictures music thats Sony you nutcase. |
Gates is confused because he doesn't understand why competition keeps beating Microsoft whenever there is credible competition. Why are Nintendo and Sony beating us for profitability in games? Why is google beating us in every conceivable way for search? Why is beating us? It's very disorienting to be bludgeoned about the head and shoulders every time you enter a market with competition.
It seems there is a lot of confusion about who Gates is and what he does. Gates is not some brilliant coder. He sold DoS to IBM before buying it from the person who wrote it for a tiny fraction of what it was worth. MS made a deal with IBM to sell the operating system for most of their hardware without even having written anything yet. Then, MS stole Apple's GUI after Apple stole the IP from Xerox. Since Windows got a stranglehold on the market, there has been no way for competition to make 100% compatible software (MS sees to that) and competition is always at the mercy of Microsoft to release Office on their platform. Office could easily be duplicated, but 100% compatibility would be absolutely necessary and Microsoft makes sure that is impossible. Gates is ruthless, and he has been in the right place at the right time, but he's no coder.
You could more accurately describe him as a Ivy-League University failure who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
