At the End of the Day: Microsoft wants to Win Consumers back big Time, ExtremeTech is Angry with Apple & Google Beats the Street	
At the End of the Day: Microsoft wants to Win Consumers back big Time, ExtremeTech is Angry with Apple & Google Beats the Street
Beyond the major stories of the day, our ‘At the End of the Day’ report takes a final look around the blogosphere at other technology news that was published that might be of interest to our readership.
A series of fixit videos by Carlos are reportedly true internal Apple repair videos, according to Motherboard. There’s one example video below and the rest of them could be found here. The verdict is out as to where the videos originated.
ExtremeTech Published a very angry report today partly aimed in-part at Apple titled “It’s Time to Call Out Laptop Manufacturers for Their Bullshit CPU Throttling.”
The report notes that “Last week, news broke that Apple’s most recent MacBook Pro refreshes with top-end Intel Core i7 and Core i9 microprocessors have major throttling problems. These issues are not unique to Apple but Apple’s Core i9 implementation appears particularly egregious.
At the end the ExtremeTech report notes: “We’re not claiming Apple was the first company to cross the line between ‘flexible configurations’ and ‘Unacceptable throttling,’ but the line has been crossed. This consumer-hostile, bullshit behavior needs to stop and it needs to stop now.” Read more on this here.
Last week Google got hit with a €4.34 billion fine for ‘Android’ OS Breaching EU antitrust rules. Google needed some good news for a change and after the bell today Google parent Alphabet Inc reported that its profit margin rose in the second quarter, delivering investors a long-awaited sign that expenses are coming into check.
Adjusted earnings per share were $10.58, which beat the $9.52 average estimate in research aggregated by Thomson Reuters. Some analysts excluded other items as well, and Alphabet also beat that consensus of $9.59. For more read the full Reuters report here.
Apple will report their Financial Results for Fiscal Q3 2018 on July 31st, 5:00 p.m. ET, 2:00 p.m. PT.
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, Mrs Microsoft herself, wrote late last week that Microsoft has a plan to try to win back consumers with new ‘Modern Life Services. Forget that Microsoft killed off consumer products like Groove Music, the Microsoft Fitness Tracker and the Windows Phone, new Life Services are on the way in 2019.
Yusef Mehdi who got it wrong with Xbox One being the next great thing is now back with a new “Vision” for Microsoft’s partners regarding “Modern Life” stuff in the works.
Mehdi acknowledged that “in the last couple of years, we’ve lost a little of that magic with consumers,” according to attendees who asked not to be named.
Most consumer companies are laser-focused on one thing, Mehdi said. Amazon is focused on shopping; Spotify, on music; Netflix, on movies. Microsoft’s core value proposition is productivity, he said. The company’s job is to try to make productivity more sexy.
Microsoft is targeting so-called “professional consumers” with these services, Mehdi said. These are people who already know how to use technology but need to figure out how to use it better to make them more productive. The goal of these services will be to give users back time and help them focus on what matters to them.
In his tweet there was a lot of feedback about hoping to see a Microsoft phone device. This was what Wired was interesting in too but was shot down. So Microsoft is still lost because they’re not following what real Microsoft fans/consumers want the most: a hot Surface Phone that could take on Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Pixel.
What Microsoft fans really want isn’t being acknowledged because Mehdi says it’s their upcoming ‘Life Services’ that consumers really want. In the end, Microsoft isn’t a little lost with consumers, they’re lost big time. Sorry Medhi. For more on this, read the full ZDNet report here.
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Hi Lyn, nice to see to after a while. I feel, we kind of take each other for granted, which is not right. We take it for granted that we love and care for each other - thats' the way it is supposed to! But we must express ourselves more and more. In most cases even though love is still there, it needs to be whetted. I would love to do things differently to spice it up, I would like my partner to express and do little little things for me to show That I am still special. It makes so much difference!
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thanks so much wish you the same if you are married and if you are not yet i pray you will have a wonderful married life whebn you eventually get married
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I love my pet so much. I actually put my pet on my bed each night. i see to it that he will be okay especially when it comes to his health. I bring him every month to his vet for check ups. And i really spoil him when it comes to food. my vet told me that my pet is overweight so his on a diet right now. and i love to watch movies especially if the story is about dogs. Like beethoven, airbud, spot, benjie, lassie, and eight below i really love it.
My pets mean the world to me. They are like apart of the family. I have indeed seen this movie and it was a really good one. We like to buy all of the dog movies that are out there. And there are many of them out there.
I have been wondering if comics is a valid educational tool or medium, and I'd like to know what you guys think of this. Do you think comics should be given the same attention textual books are getting?
yeah i do think it all depends on what kind of comics is used. If the comics is really intended for educational purposes then that's great. But usually comics are more entertaining if used for education than just books or plain text. =)