[THIN] Re: Oracle buys Sun
- From: Nick Smith <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:28:01 +0100
Except...Apple don't get games. The one thing (Well, alright, price as well)
preventing Apple form winning the domestic computers wars is that they have
(relatively) few games. If you are a hardcore gamer of any sort then you are on
consoles or PC. Steve jobs stood up recently and said something along the
lines of 'The i-phone is the best gaming device out there'...which is true if
the sort of games you play require minimal interaction, which massively limits
what you can actually do. Which is why the vast bulk of i-Phone games are
playable for 5 minutes of fun but no more.
HE just doesn't get it. If he did, Apple would have had a games division
beating the pants off Microsoft, and be actively encouraging eg MMORPGs to port
to Apple instead of X-Box.
Add Nintendo - who really really do get games (Even more than Sony or
Microsoft), and some amazing things could happen.
<Ducks, expecting head to be chopped off>
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Douglas A. Brown
Sent: 21 April 2009 05:24
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Oracle buys Sun
now that would be cool but can't apple just turn the iPhone in to the wii?
they don't need Nintendo, do they? heck, with the 3.0 release of the iPhone
will come new rights for ISVs which allows them to create more detailed plug-in
for the iPhone. For example, someone will be able to create a blood pressure
reader and have it plug directory in to the bottom of the iPhone. OR, they
could create a steering wheel, joy sticks, all sorts of stuff as now you have
the ability to plug in to the device, where currently we can't do that.
Imagine a box, like the old Atari where you just slap the iPhone in the box
uses it but also has its own added processing and graphics power. Other than
the games I don't see why they would want Nintendo. Maybe customer base but
come on, Apple has EVERY one, except for the Gates and Ballmer families, as
customers in some way.
I think the iPhone 3.0 will really change a lot. It will be flipping cool to
see the devices people make for it. I can think of a slew. The box is open
with 3.0 OS and the SDK... (almost, I want background processes but then that
would destroy battery life and I would love to see Apple open the app store but
then they have to bend over for ATT&T, which I find funny. ATT&T should do
what Apple wants vs. the other.
DB
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Greg Reese
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:12 AM
To: Thin
Subject: [THIN] Re: Oracle buys Sun
I still want to see Apple buy nintendo. The wii joins the appletv, iPhone and
ds combine. Nintendo game downloads on iTunes.
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 20, 2009, at 10:14 PM, "Douglas A. Brown"
<dbrown@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:dbrown@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I agree with you Steve. Oracle is one of the biggest funders and participants
in the Xen open source project, and many others... I have a good friend that
works there now, in the Oracle VM group, and he is constantly telling me how
much they love open-source...
I think this is a very interesting buy. However, I wish Microsoft would have
bought them and just shut them down. I wish Gates would have spent his money
(billions) on just buying up all the competition... lol... A billion here, 5
billion there... I'm a PC. LOL!
DB
Douglas A. Brown
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Microsoft MVP, Windows Server
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Greenberg
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:09 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [THIN] Re: Oracle buys Sun
I seriously doubt Oracle will kill long standing OPEN SOURCE projects!!
Steve Greenberg
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Reese
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 5:02 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [THIN] Re: Oracle buys Sun
You can kiss MySQL goodbye too. IBM might try to take over OpenOffice if
possible.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms
<jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Sorry here is the link to the press release
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018363
Jim Kenzig
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Jim Kenzig
<jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
This is so terrible in so many ways. I proclaim Java to be on its deathbed.
Openoffice will die a slow death also. My Sun severs are weeping.
Jim Kenzig
Please excuse any typos.
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