I agree. Microsoft is a threat because of their monoply. They are very good at locking-in users, however they are starting to feel threatened by Linux and the negativity they received after the release of Vista. Hence the 'release party' move (as well as various open source initiatives) to improve their product marketing by building a grass roots community.
I also see Apple as a challenge from a usability/design point of view, but not so much from a business aspect, because they don't have so many users (even though they're better than MS when it comes to creating lock-in). Tim, I'd ignore Microsoft's release party idea completely. Any mention of it, just brings them back into public consciousness, when they should be becoming irrelevent. Much better to just talk about the awesome Ubuntu parties instead! 2009/9/6 doug livesey <biot...@gmail.com>: > How do you see apple as a threat? > I can see them as a challenge, and something to raise the game for > free OS developers, but a threat? > Do you mean that they are practicing seriously monopolistic practices? > (Serious question, btw, not trying to start a flame war.) > Cheers, > Doug. > > On 05/09/2009, Tim Dobson <li...@tdobson.net> wrote: >> Matt Jones wrote: >>> I wonder where they got this idea from? >>> http://houseparty.com/windows7 >> >> Apple? >> >> In all seriousness, I was thinking of "throwing" a windows 7 release >> party (in my windows free house) and sending them home with a karmic CD... >> >> Tbh though, I don't really care about microsoft these days, I see Apple >> as much more of a threat because they have user loyalty. >> >> Tim >> >> -- >> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >> > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
