Is Microsoft about to come back with a BANG?

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Last month the Samsung Galaxy outsold the Apple IPhone for the first time and for the first time in 5 years, the Iphone was toppled as the title fell to a new contender.

There have been issues with apple products recently, whether by espionage techniques or simple faults and maybe this is the dominance of the company coming to an end.

Later this year Microsoft will be releasing their Surface Tablet which will be a direct rival to the IPad, I for one am looking forward to a Microsoft tablet and especially one that runs windows (Google android never really does it for me)

My predictions will be that the Microsoft Surface Tablet will be the number one seller for tablet PCs at xmas 2012 and the samsung Galaxy Phone will be the number one seller in the smartphone category.

So where does that leave Apple?

Does anyone else think that Microsoft is about to come back with a Bang!?
#apple #galaxy #ipad #microsoft #surface
  • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
    Hmmmm, yep the Samsung s3 is selling well, l recently checked with Telstra, (AU) and it sold out of it's s3, in silver, Australia wide, (they may still have them offline?).

    As for Apple falling behind l doupt it, they will come up with something cool, then after time the competition will get there foot in the market, etc.

    I suspect that Apple with it's upcoming TV, ipad and iphone system will blow people away!

    Apart from being able to do what current systems can do, (flick an ipad image, video onto your TV, etc they will no doubt push it further).

    Possibly flick video, music, text, etc it to any TV or computer that is within WiFi range, have anyone who walks into your house automatically have a puppy graphic lick your screen and yelp or bark if you are new to this WiFi setup, etc.

    Possibilities are endless, and l tend to think that they will dominate this market for a while, depending on how impressive the rabbit is, that they pull out of the hat?

    Not sure about iphone, ipad markets, but l have heard that they are working on the TV, etc or iTV concept at present.

    Shane
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Evans
    Originally Posted by Cyberdog1 View Post

    Does anyone else think that Microsoft is about to come back with a Bang!?
    It came back with a Bing bang.

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    • Profile picture of the author Cyberdog1
      Originally Posted by Daniel Evans View Post

      It came back with a Bing bang.

      BING BANG! - YouTube
      Bing Bang, waller waller bing bang.

      Is this really what we've come to!
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  • Profile picture of the author hardraysnight
    all microsoft need to regain credibility is have a big sale, too expensive, which opens the door to...
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  • Profile picture of the author JustinDupre
    Microsoft's going to have a tough battle ahead of it if it wants to dominate the mobile market. The recent announcement that Windows 7.5 smartphones can't be updated to Windows 8 isn't helping them at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Worner
    I know of a lot of game developers for iPad who are really starting to get pissed off with Apple.

    Apple are demanding that in order to develop for iOS they will need to purchase Mac computers. (The overpriced pieces of sh*t they are)

    They are really starting to alienate a lot of their developers.

    -Chris
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  • Profile picture of the author bigjonnyg
    cant wait to get that new phone!
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    • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
      I know of a lot of game developers for iPad who are really starting to get pissed off with Apple.

      Apple are demanding that in order to develop for iOS they will need to purchase Mac computers. (The overpriced pieces of sh*t they are)

      They are really starting to alienate a lot of their developers.

      -Chris
      Yep, l get that!

      My brother, (which is a big Apple fan) recently tried to give me an iphone, (older model) but since l have Microsoft computers and know what a nightmare it can be trying to partition the hard drive and pop Apples OS on there in order to do anything with it, apart from it making a nice door stop, that was it!

      Unless l coughed up serious cash to get an Apple PC.

      :rolleyes:
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    • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
      On a scale of 1 to 10...

      Apple products "wow" factor = 10
      MS products "wow" factor = 5 or 6 (I mean seriously, you don't see anyone camping outside of a store overnight waiting to buy the newest Windows smartphone!)

      Apple's marketing department = 10
      MS's marketing department = 3, maybe a 4 at best

      There is a reason why Apple is the most profitable tech company in the world (by far). Unless MS makes some MAJOR changes, I just don't see them being able to truly compete with Apple (at least with regards to smartphones and tablets). I think that Apple is just too far ahead of them in both the product creativity department AND in the marketing department.
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