pagancow posted:

qirex posted:

You guys are right, of course. I'm just being a dumb fool and trying to save some face. I backed the wrong horse and I feel like an absolute jackass now. My friend once bet me that the PS3 would overtake the 360 after 3 years on market and I mocked the sh*t out of him after he lost that bet because he was so smug and so confident that it would happen. Karma is f****** real. I know that now. I didn't even care except to rub it in his face and in the faces of people like him. "They'll win cause they're sony and they always win". I call it the sony smugness. F**** annoying.

So after the xb1/ps4 launches, he bet me that ps4 would have a 2:1 edge at the end of 2015. I took that bet and ran. Sure, Microsoft can't f*** this sh*t up that badly, can they? They had the drat dudebro's eating out of their drat hands. Holy sh*t. I was their #1 motherf**** fan. I deserve this because I couldn't take the high road when I won that initial bet. This sh** is PS2 vs. XB all over again drat. 125mil + to probably 38 mil if they're lucky. They're gonna 3:1 these asses. Now he's gonna have that sh** grin wide as the f***** mississippi when I see him in a couple months.

Sure they could maybe pull a "kinect" out of their asses again to make it more respectable but that's a long shot at best. These guys. These f******* guys. DRM. poo poo hardware. F***** the indies early and often. Being cheap as f***** where it counted. Spending assloads of benjamins on NFL and other TV sh** no one gives two sh** about. $499 and mandatory kinect? Are you sh***** me? Where's the hidden cameras? Input One? How about Input None you epic friggin' fools. Now they're trying to play catch up like a fat man tryin' to catch a runaway dog. Lassie's long gone home muthaf****.

Sony's got you beat in every facet that matters: games, price, power, brand, mindshare, etc, etc. et muthaf**** c. You did this. You deserve all of this. You could have paid someone to come up with the worst possible way to launch a follow up console to the 360 and he wouldn't be able to come up with half the f*** up sh** they ended up with. Holy sh**. Unbelievable. I'm done.

qirex posted:

You guys are right, of course. I'm just being a dumb fool and trying to save some face. I backed the wrong horse and I feel like an absolute jackass now. My friend once bet me that the PS3 would overtake the 360 after 3 years on market and I mocked the sh*t out of him after he lost that bet because he was so smug and so confident that it would happen. Karma is f****** real. I know that now. I didn't even care except to rub it in his face and in the faces of people like him. "They'll win cause they're sony and they always win". I call it the sony smugness. F**** annoying.

So after the xb1/ps4 launches, he bet me that ps4 would have a 2:1 edge at the end of 2015. I took that bet and ran. Sure, Microsoft can't f*** this sh*t up that badly, can they? They had the drat dudebro's eating out of their drat hands. Holy sh*t. I was their #1 motherf**** fan. I deserve this because I couldn't take the high road when I won that initial bet. This sh** is PS2 vs. XB all over again drat. 125mil + to probably 38 mil if they're lucky. They're gonna 3:1 these asses. Now he's gonna have that sh** grin wide as the f***** mississippi when I see him in a couple months.

Sure they could maybe pull a "kinect" out of their asses again to make it more respectable but that's a long shot at best. These guys. These f******* guys. DRM. poo poo hardware. F***** the indies early and often. Being cheap as f***** where it counted. Spending assloads of benjamins on NFL and other TV sh** no one gives two sh** about. $499 and mandatory kinect? Are you sh***** me? Where's the hidden cameras? Input One? How about Input None you epic friggin' fools. Now they're trying to play catch up like a fat man tryin' to catch a runaway dog. Lassie's long gone home muthaf****.

Sony's got you beat in every facet that matters: games, price, power, brand, mindshare, etc, etc. et muthaf**** c. You did this. You deserve all of this. You could have paid someone to come up with the worst possible way to launch a follow up console to the 360 and he wouldn't be able to come up with half the f*** up sh** they ended up with. Holy sh**. Unbelievable. I'm done.

homo punching bag posted:

can you even trade in an xbone at gamestop?? would they even accept it or are u just stuck with it?

pagancow posted:

Sniep posted:

Sniep posted:

Blackula69 posted:

that can't be real

Sniep posted:

Blackula69 posted:

that can't be real

pram posted:

it isnt!! you've been taken for a joyride my friend

duTrieux. posted:

i bought an xbox one controller to use with my pc and i ended up getting a "day one" limited edition for, like 30$ cheaper than something nib

Sniep posted:

qntm posted:

about $230 it says here

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Microsoft Launches iOS Celebrity News App, 'Snipp3t'
If you can't go about your day without quick access to your favorite celebrities, Microsoft has you covered.

Snipp3t

Microsoft this weekend released a brand-new app for iOS that lets you "subscribe" to celebrities. In doing so, you set yourself up to receive personalized headlines, social media feeds, and all the other news you can handle regarding your favorite famous people.

And, yes, just about anyone is considered a celebrity in Snipp3t—even Charles Manson himself, reports The Unofficial Apple Weblog.
"Tap on a celebrity to view their detailed profiles and explore a timeline of news stories surrounding them. You can also tap into a news story to get all relevant story content (news articles, photos, videos, and social mentions) in one place," reads Microsoft's description of the app on Apple's App Store.

Searching for celebrities (and news related to them) within the app is pretty similar to a standard Bing search, unless you associate your Facebook account with the app to enable its subscription features. Doing so also allows you to see which celebrities your Facebook friends happen to be following, in case you need to find more people to chat with about Anna Kendrick, The Rock, or whomever.

And if you really want to get heated, you can also share your thoughts about a particular celebrity with your friends or anyone else subscribing to a particular celeb. Now's the time to let all those Justin Bieber fans know what you thought of his latest antics.

The app currently works with iPads and iPhones, though it's been designed for the latter.

Microsoft's app comes several weeks after Facebook released its "Mentions" app, which is specifically for verified public figures such as actors, athletes, musicians, and government officials. The app essentially lets these people more easily manage their Facebook presence and engage with fans on the social network.

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If you can't go about your day without quick access to your favorite celebrities, you need help

Thanks Ants posted:

only ms could launch a new service and have it end up halfway down the page of google results when you search for the name, and forget to make a version for their own platform.

homo punching bag posted:

lmao they didnt forget, they did the math and realized development cost could never be offset by potential ad revenue

Thanks Ants posted:

only ms could launch a new service and have it end up halfway down the page of google results when you search for the name, and forget to make a version for their own platform.

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

this is the company that made a touch-based office for ipad, sat on it for god knows how long, but forced the windows tablet to include an entire windows desktop.

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when Microsoft and Nokia first negotiated about the sale of the handset unit to Microsoft in early Spring 2013, the offer Microsoft made was so undesirable to Nokia, Nokia walked away from the negotiations. Then Nokia rushed the X Series on Android project onto prototype stage (late Spring 2013) by probably altering a few preliminary Asha and Lumia projects onto the Android OS, and when those were leaked, Microsoft rushed in with an improved offer so that the two parties could negotiate a deal.

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Microsoft’s desire and its ‘deep’ understanding of Nokia was based on Nokia’s performance in 2012. Microsoft would think that whatever lesser performance Elop had at Nokia in 2013 was because of resources diverted to the urgent secret project for Project X on Android. So while Nokia reported declining sales and market share all through 2013, Microsoft – i.e., Ballmer – could rather easily look past that, thinking that what he was buying was the Nokia that existed in 2012, and if Microsoft took ownership of the handset business and discarded the nonsense, with full Microsoft marketing muscle etc., they could soon resurrect the troubled handset business back to where it was around 2012.

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Then, while owning Nokia handsets unit for 3 weeks, Nadella saw the first actual performance data and that the basic phones – dumbphones, feature phones, Asha touch-screen internet phones, and X Series Android phones – combined, saw a collapse of 29% of their unit sales in just three weeks.

qirex posted:

http://mobilesyrup.com/2014/08/14/ex-nokia-exec-tomi-ahonen-explains-the-microsoft-nokia-mess/



read the whole thing though

homo punching bag posted:

lmao they didnt forget, they did the math and realized development cost could never be offset by potential ad revenue

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

im the goon

qirex posted:

http://mobilesyrup.com/2014/08/14/ex-nokia-exec-tomi-ahonen-explains-the-microsoft-nokia-mess/



read the whole thing though

qirex posted:

http://mobilesyrup.com/2014/08/14/ex-nokia-exec-tomi-ahonen-explains-the-microsoft-nokia-mess/