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By: ryanmatic » Blog Archive » Once again, Wired misses the point

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By: Robb

Robb — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:38:24 +0000

@nimbus
Do your homework. Nuff said.

By: nimbus

nimbus — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:24:33 +0000

Great article.

Also, the Xbox 360 is NOT doing great. Their FPS games are selling well, but the original Xbox was a 5 billion dollar hole in the wallet. The 360 has RRoD (red rings of death) for about 40% of the units out. The PS3 has actually outsold the 360 within the same year time frame and it’s about $100 more than the 360, while the 360 launched worldwide with NO competition for an ENTIRE YEAR. The PS3 suffered M$-FUD for 8 months before it even came out and the FUD still flows.

Anyways, great article. One of my favorite websites.

By: UrbanBard

UrbanBard — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:05:04 +0000

It’s hard to tell what those market share figures mean, johnnyapple. I just don’t find that global figure to be useful for more than its propaganda value.

It does bring up the point that that many devises are more powerful than desktop computers were even ten years ago.

By: johnnyapple

johnnyapple — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:43:06 +0000

“Daniel says that the current iPods are OSX with a Pixo front end to run the display” oops, I think that was an April fools joke.

I don’t believe the global PC market share numbers include Win CE, XBox or Zoon. They do of course count cash registers and ATMs and lot’s of other computers that really aren’t personal.

One could argue that Apples OS X share should include Apple TV, iPhone and iPod touch because those actually are OS X computers and all of them are personal. As you point out and most of us understand, not everything branded as Windows is actually running Windows.

Anyway Urban, you’d be more fun to talk to than write to. It’s easy to read things differently than the writer intended. I re-read my “will” opening comment and couldn’t quite figure out what the hell my point was.

By the way Daniel, is that little black dot on the left edge of the print out the cats…. eeew!

By: Robb

Robb — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:14:03 +0000

@Brau
Don’t buy into the FUD on the Xbox 360. The Xbox is a solid franchise that too often gets lumped into the “M$ is bad!” arguments.