Thursday, January 17, 2008

ZunePhone Puts the "Micro" in Microsoft

This video cleverly demonstrates the kind of micro-thinking that continues to entrench Microsoft in the self-defeating strategy of trying to keep up with Apple.

If they're going to keep copying Apple, they really ought to improve on the product with its blatant imitations rather than making messier, clumsier versions, and much, much later to boot. In business, if you can't innovate something, you take an existing idea and make it better, not crappier. Facebook wasn't a new concept, but it sure cornered the market by creating the easiest, most dynamic social networking site around, pretty much burying innovators like MySpace in the wake of its runaway freight train success.

Vista. ZunePhone. Where does it end, Bill?

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