Seems fair
It was seeming overly harsh BUT the fact part of it is served and he should be able to take a place at uni makes it seem reasonable. IF he ends up having uni offers retracted then I'll swing my opinion back the other way though :)
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Uptime always has to be balanced against cost. Twitter (you seem to have a spelling problem) might have decided the remote possibility of a double failure was better than the cost of a more redundant system since it's not a website which actually matters.
Of course an arrogant techy arsehole wouldn't know about things like business costs, only about insulting people they think they are superior to.
"I suspect that he's less worried about a competing store, more being railroaded until MS have the only store on the platform."
Being able to buy software is far too ingrained for MS to take it out anytime soon - even Apple don't do that. Of course WOA is different but that's a special case more like the iPad where this IS the way things work, on a new type of device. But a PC and buying software from any vendor just go hand in hand and realistically even MS don't have the clout to make that happen.
Does anyone know enough about the technical side to explain if this is a real technical issue? Is it potentially something you could do yourself - in fact can WinPhones BE rooted/jailbroken? We've seen you can put Android on an iPad for instance, can you on a WinPhone?
Serious answers only please ;)
Apple, like MS, sell a few different handsets for different pocket depths.
- MS sell the 610, a budget (£160) handset to compete with low-end Androids (and it is pretty nice)
- MS sell the 710, Apple sell the 3GS
- MS sell the 800, Apple sell the 4
- MS sell the 900, Apple sell the 4S
I don't think MS need multiple manufacturers - or that it especially will help. The Nokia models right now seem pretty sweet.
They stopped growing because they got everyone* in the main countries they operate in. Why is holding steady at a billion users seen as a failure?
*obviously not literally but if you look at a key target market like student/20s, they really don't have much left to aim for.