Interesting Technology

[il d00d]

you would never make it as an inventor would you?

mitt

An inventor of impractical things, no

jesus, we get it. you think this is the best thing since sliced bread. stop being such a microsoft fanboy.   

Haha... hush, you 

[threatens to bring up past arguments...]

[KnightofNi]

An inventor of impractical things, no

Haha... hush, you 

[threatens to bring up past arguments...]

i really do like this idea.

it's one step closer to the book that penny had in inspector gadget.
i wanted that book in the worst way.

[CairnsDuc]

So let's see what failure system this Microsoft product will bring into the everyday vernacular
"Red ring of Death"
"Blue Screen of Death"

[mitt]

So let's see what failure system this Microsoft product will bring into the everyday vernacular
"Red ring of Death"
"Blue Screen of Death"

Doesn't apple have one of those phrases too?

mitt

[KnightofNi]

Doesn't apple have one of those phrases too?

mitt

yeah

it's "you need a diff program to run that on this system"

[CairnsDuc]

Doesn't apple have one of those phrases too?

mitt

Yeah it's called "Have your Credit Card Ready"

They are trying to charge you for everything now, even a simple update for my 6 month old iPod touch is nearly $10.

[mitt]

I was thinking the "ball of death" but couldn't remember it last night

mitt

[herm]

isnt it the pinwheel of death?
thats what my dad (a macophile) calls it

[Johnny OrganDonor]

If I recall correctly, on the old Mac systems, a round black bomb with a lit fuse would appear during a crash.  If you saw that, it was usually very bad.

[il d00d]

Unfortunately, the Courier cannot be resurrected as easily as this thread.  Alas, it is a goner

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/29/microsoft-confirms-kills-courier-in-one-fell-swoop/

Now that Apple has proven that most people just want a web browser it kind of a shame this thing will never see the light of day.  And now that I think of it, it may have been unlikely to have ever been produced - Microsoft developing hardware?  Aside from Apple, manufacturers seem to be taking the "if we make it they will come" approach to the tablet and the operating systems they will run. It seems like the hardware manufacturers are really driving the efforts today. 
But it is also surprising that MS did not see what probably would have been a loss leader project through - they could have taken the Xbox approach and lost some (well, lots of) money in exchange for for future market share.  Instead, they are probably going to throw more money at Windows Mobile 7, which I don't think has any chance of gaining any ground on Apple, RIM, or the heir apparent Google.

[Drunken Monkey]

From what I've read (and experienced as an ex-MSFT guy) the snakes nest that is internal Microsoft politics killed the tablet.

Windows guys didn't want it cutting into their OS sales.
Office guys didn't want to support handwriting
X-Box guys didn't want it cutting into their game sales.

So it never made it out the door.

Mind you, I'm not running out the door to buy a iPad.

The whole apple iPad/Iphone model reminds me of Singapore:
Clean
Efficient
Disturbingly Authoritarian.

[herm]

...snip...
The whole apple iPad/Iphone model reminds me of Singapore:
Clean
Efficient
Disturbingly Authoritarian.

so, if you jailbreak the iWhatever, do you get caned, or have a hand cut off? maybe its a graduated system of punishment?

[Scooter Montgomery]

Add Wikipedia and GPS and you have the Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy.