Realism just talking facts but i do like the part of "Sony is playing checkers instead of chess" that is so true! Microsoft are indeed a company good at battling disruption techniques but whoah they havent come a across a giant like nintendo before. Microsoft are going to be jumping into their own graves before they've known they have dug it yet! It's fantastic to see this play by Nintendo panning out so clearly for some but yet so dismissively and blindly by others absolutely fantastic stuff. Business mind games at its best and used so effectively people just don't see it not even microsoft have been able to completely grasp this one because it's on a totally different level from anything they have encountered before.
"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
Bill Gates had Mac prototypes to work from, and he was known to be obsessed with trying to make Windows as good as SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device), as a Microsoft exec named it. It was the Mac that Microsoft took for its blueprint on how to make a GUI.
""Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.""
