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Title: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Houdini on September 08, 2007, 04:20:11 PM
Microsoft will release a multi-purpose cell phone next year.

I'm taking bets.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: The artist formally known on September 08, 2007, 04:21:07 PM
Duh, but it'll be a phone with buttons and maybe a touchscreen. huge and brown.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Feynman on September 08, 2007, 04:21:56 PM
They don't need to seeing as though they already own most of the smartphone and PDA market with Windows Mobile.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Houdini on September 08, 2007, 04:22:04 PM
Quote from: Reefer on September 08, 2007, 04:21:07 PM
Duh, but it'll be a phone with buttons and maybe a touchscreen. huge and brown.
Why brown?
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Daddy on September 08, 2007, 04:22:40 PM
Only if they some one do a handheld gaming device/cell phone combination.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Houdini on September 08, 2007, 04:23:31 PM
Quote from: JMV290 on September 08, 2007, 04:22:40 PM
Only if they some one do a handheld gaming device/cell phone combination.
NGage?
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Feynman on September 08, 2007, 04:24:13 PM
Microsoft's staying in the software business, thank you very much. Idiot.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Daddy on September 08, 2007, 04:25:40 PM
Quote from: Bassir C. on September 08, 2007, 04:24:13 PM
Microsoft's staying in the software business, thank you very much. Idiot.
brb xbox
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: The artist formally known on September 08, 2007, 04:26:12 PM
Quote from: Bassir C. on September 08, 2007, 04:24:13 PM
Microsoft's staying in the software business, thank you very much. Idiot.
Zune?
Xbox 360?
Keyboards & Mouses?

They're not all software.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Houdini on September 08, 2007, 04:26:18 PM
Quote from: Bassir C. on September 08, 2007, 04:24:13 PM
Microsoft's staying in the software business, thank you very much. Idiot.
Why wouldn't they branch out? They've already proven that they're willing to do hardware.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Feynman on September 08, 2007, 04:26:54 PM
Quote from: Reefer on September 08, 2007, 04:26:12 PM
Zune?
Xbox 360?
Keyboards & Mouses?

They're not all software.


They have Windows Mobile so they're going to keep improving it rather than making another smartphone.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Houdini on September 08, 2007, 04:29:19 PM
Quote from: Bassir C. on September 08, 2007, 04:26:54 PM
They have Windows Mobile so they're going to keep improving it rather than making another smartphone.
But they don't make their own smartphones.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Feynman on September 08, 2007, 04:30:42 PM
Quote from: Guava on September 08, 2007, 04:29:19 PM
But they don't make their own smartphones.


Yeah.... so what's your point? If you're just trying to fuck with one word in that post, you're an idiot.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Houdini on September 08, 2007, 04:33:11 PM
Quote from: Bassir C. on September 08, 2007, 04:30:42 PM
Yeah.... so what's your point? If you're just trying to fuck with one word in that post, you're an idiot.
Making their own hardware would draw more attention to the software, plus they seem to like doing whatever Apple is doing.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Hiro on September 08, 2007, 04:34:35 PM
don't hate on the MS. Sure, nearly everything they make is crap, but come on, Bill Gates donates to charity.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Feynman on September 08, 2007, 04:36:43 PM
Quote from: Guava on September 08, 2007, 04:33:11 PM
Making their own hardware would draw more attention to the software, plus they seem to like doing whatever Apple is doing.


It'd be a waste of time and money to market it like that seeing as though Windows Mobile already dominates the smartphone/PDA market for business users.

Quote from: Hiro on September 08, 2007, 04:34:35 PM
don't hate on the MS. Sure, nearly everything they make is crap, but come on, Bill Gates donates to charity.


You're a fucking idiot. Just Windows and the Zune is shit. psyduck;

And Bill Gates doesn't code everything Microsoft does, you idiot. He's probably one of the least influential people in Microsoft right now.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Houdini on September 08, 2007, 04:36:54 PM
Quote from: Hiro on September 08, 2007, 04:34:35 PM
don't hate on the MS. Sure, nearly everything they make is crap, but come on, Bill Gates donates to charity.
MS = Multiple Sclerosis
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Feynman on September 08, 2007, 04:38:01 PM
Quote from: Guava on September 08, 2007, 04:36:54 PM
I'm not hating on MS. I'm just observing their tendency to mimic Apple.


So, um what did they mimic so far?
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Houdini on September 08, 2007, 04:38:18 PM
Quote from: Bassir C. on September 08, 2007, 04:36:43 PM
It'd be a waste of time and money to market it like that seeing as though Windows Mobile already dominates the smartphone/PDA market for business users.
Really? Back it up.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Hiro on September 08, 2007, 04:38:44 PM
Quote from: Bassir C. on September 08, 2007, 04:36:43 PM
It'd be a waste of time and money to market it like that seeing as though Windows Mobile already dominates the smartphone/PDA market for business users.

Just Windows is shit. psyduck;

And Bill Gates doesn't code everything Microsoft does, you idiot. He's probably one of the least influential people in Microsoft right now.
Zune isn't that bad, but you got a point about Bill Gates.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: mariofreak on September 08, 2007, 04:47:04 PM
Quote from: Bassir C. on September 08, 2007, 04:36:43 PM

You're a fucking idiot. Just Windows and the Zune is shit. psyduck;

Since when are either of those shit?
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: guff on September 08, 2007, 04:47:38 PM
Quote from: Guava on September 08, 2007, 04:38:18 PM
Really? Back it up.
quick search turns up a somewhat outdated source (http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8804000399.html) claiming that symbian smartphones are, by far, the most popular, with embedded linux and palm os beating out windows mobile
i would think now, however, that windows mobile would have overtaken palm os
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Houdini on September 08, 2007, 06:11:21 PM
Quote from: Commodore Guff on September 08, 2007, 04:47:38 PM
quick search turns up a somewhat outdated source (http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8804000399.html) claiming that symbian smartphones are, by far, the most popular, with embedded linux and palm os beating out windows mobile
i would think now, however, that windows mobile would have overtaken palm os
I doubt Windows Mobile has overtaken Symbian, though.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Samus Aran on September 08, 2007, 06:14:10 PM
Quote from: Hiro on September 08, 2007, 04:34:35 PM
don't hate on the MS. Sure, nearly everything they make is crap, but come on, Bill Gates donates to charity.


The only reason he's famous is because he stole Macintosh material and modified it for Windows.

...of course, the only reason Macintosh made it is because Apple stole the graphical interface and cursor display system from Xerox.

Just goes to show that stealing is how to make it big. thumbup;
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Blaze-Senpai on September 08, 2007, 06:25:15 PM
Quote from: Kazmanian Devil on September 08, 2007, 06:14:10 PM
The only reason he's famous is because he stole Macintosh material and modified it for Windows.

...of course, the only reason Macintosh made it is because Apple stole the graphical interface and cursor display system from Xerox.

Just goes to show that stealing is how to make it big. thumbup;
Guess Sony stealing from Nintendo doesn't fit in here, because it works both ways </me being stupid>
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: NOA_Haunted on September 08, 2007, 06:41:53 PM
Quote from: Guava on September 08, 2007, 04:33:11 PM
Making their own hardware would draw more attention to the software, plus they seem to like doing whatever Apple is doing.
Xbox?
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Wrench on September 08, 2007, 06:50:56 PM
Quote from: Blaziken Prince on September 08, 2007, 06:25:15 PM
Guess Sony stealing from Nintendo doesn't fit in here, because it works both ways </me being stupid>

And like the 360 controllers using the design of the PS2 controller?

I'm sick of all the shit about Sony stealing everything. Companies use ideas from other companies. Not just Sony.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: UnagiPower on September 08, 2007, 06:52:09 PM
Quote from: WrenchNinja on September 08, 2007, 06:50:56 PM
And like the 360 controllers using the design of the PS2 controller?

I'm sick of all the shit about Sony stealing everything. Companies use ideas from other companies. Not just Sony.


PS2 controller sucks ass. At least the 360 controller is comfortable.
Title: Re: Houdini's amazing prediction thread
Post by: Commander Fuckass on September 08, 2007, 06:53:32 PM
Do you see Title getting banned in the near future?   china;