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Vista vs. OS X like Sony PS3 vs. Nintendo Wii?
Vista's wheel spinning launch is fairly disappointing so far, and when compared with Apple's ever more popular OS X the battle looks like Goliath vs. David. (well, maybe not David but, a much smaller Goliath) Information Arbitrage manages to make a pretty good case for comparison between the clunking sound Vista's launch made when held up to the light of OS X and the fizzle noise the uber-expensive PS3's launch made against Nintendo's underdog Wii. "[Nintendo] looks increasingly like the nimble, adaptive, consumer-focused company kicking the crap out of the Grand Dame of Gaming. And I am sure over the ensuing months and years we will see more of this stuff happening, where the more consumer-centric, lighter, friendlier applications will dominate the legacy titans of yesteryear. It is all just beginning, and the first and highest profile casualty may well be Sony, closely followed by Microsoft. Anyway..."
Gates' TV appearances on launch day didn't help. He's lord of the geek and, right or wrong, his ability to be smart, social and off-the-cuff takes a back seat to the slightly out-of-phase and too terse delivery of his interview answers. Jon Stewart can make anyone seem comfortable and affable, but failed pretty miserably when it came to Gates. Jobs may not give many interviews, but when he's in front of a camera he's sharp, witty and dare-say hip. Are we headed for a period of revolution where underdogs take out the big guys in tiny customer focused steps or, are we simply witnessing a total failure of Gates PR?
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Subscribe to commentsCarmelzappaFeb 6th 2007 6:35PM
Gates is a geek, he's not social. We know, it's not news. How well the CEO speaks to the public says nothing of the product itself. Vista is an improvement over XP. OSX and Windows have always been two separate things. Leave it at that.
farnsworthFeb 6th 2007 6:10PM
Whatever. This is getting pointless with all the "Vista is disappointing" articles. I have OS X and Vista and like each for what they are. Microsoft does not need to run commercials or bump their marketing for Vista because it will be slapped on every Dell, HP, Gateway, etc. Believe me, Vista will find it's way to 100's of millions of desktops without a problem.
jasonFeb 6th 2007 5:25PM
you are so right. apple is gaining so much desktop operating system share of market that soon we'll all be asking, "microsoft, what's that?"
i doubt that gates' appearance on television is going to hurt or help sales of vista in any way. similarly, jobs' appearance in interviews isn't going to get apple computers in more than 5% of the hands of americans.
james 42Feb 6th 2007 9:05PM
Well if this post isn't flame bait, I don't know what is. However, your bait does not seemed to have caught any fanboys, just the usual restrained (if sometimes sarcastic) DS faithful.
I have not seen any signs that OS X's market share will do anything terribly exciting in the near future. Lets wait for 10.5 and see if there is anything there that can tare users away from Windows.
And if OS X does gain significantly in market share, is that a good thing? If Apple were to replace MS's monopoly, then they would be forced to decouple iTunes, iLife, and a lot of the things that make OS X so compelling. Is that a good thing?
MysteriusFeb 6th 2007 9:50PM
The reports of Window's death have been greatly exaggerated. 'Nuff said.
MooreFeb 7th 2007 7:39AM
4/17 = Feisty Faun.
Sin AdamFeb 7th 2007 10:37AM
OS X? The underdog? More like MS=PS3, OS X=360 and Linux=Nintendo.
There you go.