thomas barta

Member since: Jul 17th, 2005

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Microsoft set to destroy Apple in every games market (Download Squad)

Mar 8th 2010 8:55AM Gee, 5 years ago, if you had said Apple was actually challenging MSFT in games, people would have laughed in your face. MSFT's time is passed, like Edsel, or Atari. With MSFT's current management, I don't see them clawing their way back to the top.

Sting, Sarah McLachlan are hiding in your Garage(band) (TUAW.com)

Apr 29th 2009 3:45PM Norah Jones' half-sister = better than either Sarah or Norah (IMHO).

Is Apple (AAPL) a bargain? (BloggingStocks)

Nov 12th 2008 8:34PM AAPL a bargain? They'll beat MSFT on market cap by this time next year, IMHO.

Microsoft adds Universal, NBC to Xbox Live Marketplace, calls #1 in HD (Engadget)

Jul 14th 2008 3:39PM #1 HD provider? Rubbish! More titles does not equal more downloads, and, last I checked, Apple TV was way ahead of XBox on downloads. XBox is actually playing catch-up, also, because they initially bet on HD DVD, even though it was obvious a long time back that that format was doomed.

A MacBook Air and an XO walk into my office... (TUAW.com)

Feb 20th 2008 12:59PM "Are these pics taken in your garage? Dirty cables thrown all over the place on some desk from Salvation Army...

This is no place for a Macbook Air."

MacBook Air Version 2: You have to promise Apple in writing you will hire an interior designer before you "unbox" it.

Is Google playing Microsoft to Facebook's Apple? (Download Squad)

Nov 2nd 2007 9:52AM Marky (poster 1) is dead on. MSFT got to be a huge monopoly through the back door. Certainly, they do not nor have they ever had any technologically competent products. "Open Social" is the way it should be; it will benefit the USER to be able to interact across the various Web 2.0 platforms. So what if it benefits Google, too. I bet Ballmer is throwing chairs around the room right now, having blown 240 MILLION on Facebook. I bet in 5 years, MSFT will be pushing some kind of "open Social" knock-off based on C# that will be full of security holes and buggy as the rain forest.

AT&T could win reprieve from FCC's broadband rules (Engadget)

Oct 11th 2007 5:01PM No worries, I have some ATT stock. Would that they could take the REST of that 700 MHz band.... Could lead to some cool iPhone tie-ins.

Did Apple (AAPL) lose a big retail opportunity? (BloggingStocks)

Sep 17th 2007 12:57PM The Macs would just sit on a the shelves of a big box store, devaluating, because nobody on staff would have any clue about how to sell Macs. They don't comprehend PC's any better, but they THINK they do.

Family values? Facebook bans photos of breastfeeding (BloggingStocks)

Sep 15th 2007 3:18PM Absurd, considering topless beaches are normal in most countries.

Money Face-Off: Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates (BloggingStocks)

Sep 15th 2007 1:30PM Gee, on the one side you have a guy that makes fun, useful, beautiful, products that actually WORK; on the other side, you have a guy that uses threats and monopoly tcatics to sell awful products that are almost universally despised. Tough choice.