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"Microsoft's decision to push two different tablet operating systems, Windows 8 and Windows RT, has yielded poor results in the market so far," said Tom Mainelli, Research Director, Tablets. "Consumers aren't buying Windows RT's value proposition, and long term we think Microsoft and its partners would be better served by focusing their attention on improving Windows 8. Such a focus could drive better share growth in the tablet category down the road."
Raja Bose wrote:How much of that Android tablet marketshare is Takla's? Takla is one chankian fella seeing how he leveraged Android to out-maneuver Chacha.
It doesn't matter because the rest of Android's share is still greater than Windows and others. Windows 8 is a bust and we need to move on to Windows 9.
I think they do over here becoz I recall it working on some Android phones. Anyways that is not a deal breaker for me (otherwise I wouldnt even have considered the iPhunwa).
Mort Walker wrote:
Raja Bose wrote:How much of that Android tablet marketshare is Takla's? Takla is one chankian fella seeing how he leveraged Android to out-maneuver Chacha.
It doesn't matter because the rest of Android's share is still greater than Windows and others. Windows 8 is a bust and we need to move on to Windows 9.
What does that have to do with Windows? Are you taking your weekend herps again? Takla is not part of the "official" Android ecosystem (aka OHA) so it does matter within Android what his share is.
^^^Don't know if those metrics are including Amazon as part of Android. My guess is they are since Kindle Fire makes up a significant portion of Android tablets.
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I think they do over here becoz I recall it working on some Android phones. Anyways that is not a deal breaker for me (otherwise I wouldnt even have considered the iPhunwa).
The reason I ask is that technically the 928 may have more capability that may not be useable in all of the US, but may have LTE bands that work in other places. GB stated the GSM version wouldn't work on the 1700/1900 TMO network, but in fact it does. The 920 in its current form supports lots of LTE bands compared to the competition. GB did a great job in that where the others could have learned a lesson. Too bad I can't blow away the OS and put Android on it.
Seems she insists on personally interviewing each potential new recruit and this is causing lot of hassles for their hr dept.
Also she is rejecting good candidates who dont have degrees from prestigious universities.
When asked about it in a all hands reply was why cant we just get better at hiring.
Also no 20% time for other projects will be entertained for folks hoping google policy would be carried over. I agree to that though...yahoo is not in a good warm blanket like goog and needs to focus on key things not way out hobby projects.
Mort Walker wrote: Too bad I can't blow away the OS and put Android on it.
Even if you could, you probably cannot derive the full benefit. Some of the device features like pure view may need API support from the OS. That could be another reason for GB going with M$ - promise to incorporate APIs that Nokia needed for hardware specific to it.
Mort Walker wrote: Too bad I can't blow away the OS and put Android on it.
Even if you could, you probably cannot derive the full benefit. Some of the device features like pure view may need API support from the OS. That could be another reason for GB going with M$ - promise to incorporate APIs that Nokia needed for hardware specific to it.
Anujan wrote:She personally scans the resume & interview scores of all candidates. She cant possibly interview all of them else all she will do is interview.
There is hearsay that Chacha chiefs also personally review all hires.
While all that makes for good PR and cocktail party chatter, it is actually completely BS in terms of any benefit. Its all well and good to do so at a startup level (and must be done) but not when you are running a large company of 10s of 1000s of folks. As for the requirement to be from a prestigious university, Chacha used to filter out folks based on GPA (even experienced folks) - dont know if they do that now universally. That is another way to recruit good drones rather than innovative engineers - this much I can vouch for personally.
We used to have a cheen director who gave candidates a tough time here via telepresence. Was famous for assigning some bug at 10pm ist and demanding an update by 2am ist the same night.
Needless to say code quality was crap and attrition very high. That entire group collapsed here in india and work was talen back to the parent unit, who also deftly got rid of the cheen director
When I used to recruit actively I have seen any number of genuine resumes which look fantastic on paper but within the first 10-15 minutes of f2f evaluation of the candidate would cause me to reject them. After I joined, I pushed HR to remove the prestigious university requirement that our lab had since that was inadvertently filtering out a lot of strong candidates and bringing in a lot of faltu ones whose only achievement was getting admission in some top school or kissing mush of some named big boy in academia. In the end time, resource and money to choose the right candidate is finite so if one depends only on idiotic metrics like paper qualifications, one will end up with some shiny looking drones who looks like geniuses on paper and are absolutely worthless on the job. Like I probably mentioned once before, the most talented and knowledgeable engineer I have ever met took 10 years to get his bachelor's from UCB and had a GPA in low 3.0s. Would he survive Mayer's filter - I doubt it. Then the problem will be, the likes of him will compete against Mayer's co. which is worse news.
Reading this it just strengthens my belief that Marissa is a nitwit who just got lucky back in 1999.
maybe its the strategic pindi type location in palo alto and the benefits to be enjoyed thereof, but stanford alums seem to have this whole complex about letting in only those with blue blood? someone was saying vinod khosla encourages people to re-do their MS/Phd from stanford!
the former manager of my group was another of a similar ilk who had this whole complex about graduating from a top school. got rich by hanging out with the right people and contacts, but bluff was ultimately called and was eased out.
SaiK wrote:well, what is wrong with hiring good talents?
SaiKollah, good talent is not defined by school pedigree or GPA. In the end you are hiring an individual so you have to look beyond paper qualifications. Otherwise it is no better than arranged marriages of yore where how gori the bride was determined whether she would be a good wife or not.
Khosla is as MUTU as it gets unfortunately. To be fair to him, apparently he was MUTU even before his SUN days, as some people who were chaddi buddies with him have indicated. So he has not changed. There is no problem with graduating from a top 3 school, after all if it is a top 3 school it became that for a reason. But comparing 2 individual's capabilities based on which school they went to or which advisor they had is like estimating a male interviewee's intelligence through precise measurements of his d1ck or a female interviewee's intelligence through estimates of her cup size.
I agree.. at the same time there are KB walas who seek a strong GPA more than pedigree or madrassa jaat. From a ballpark value, there is a higher likely chance that traits and orientations can get the job done by way of responsibilities that they are now required to perform or booted.
bhaat phor the big heavy weight institutions get their names for? naam badnaam kar sakta.. so they ensure, they are in closed circles always. and it is always the elites rule in amrikka too.
Raja Bose wrote:
Khosla is as MUTU as it gets unfortunately. To be fair to him, apparently he was MUTU even before his SUN days, as some people who were chaddi buddies with him have indicated. So he has not changed. There is no problem with graduating from a top 3 school, after all if it is a top 3 school it became that for a reason. But comparing 2 individual's capabilities based on which school they went to or which advisor they had is like estimating a male interviewee's intelligence through precise measurements of his d1ck or a female interviewee's intelligence through estimates of her cup size.
And, no harm and no foul in someone choosing to be more american than americans, is it?
Let him be. As I see it, the better we get, the more reason our descendents will have, for following us rather than some avg. whitey.
^^^Rubin mian might have other reasons - time will tell. Re. unification of chrome OS and Android, this abdul predicted that back in 2010. It will happen at some point, its not a question of "if", its a question of "when". Historically Chacha has not been too good at masking his intentions.
So Andy Lubin will work on some new special projects? Sounds like he's being sent to the turkey farm or office under the stair well.
Perhaps he'll leave soon. Imagine this for a nightmare management team: Rubin / Forstall / Sinofsky.
Their company would develop a Google Glass ripoff, running Windows 8 with "no compromises," and it would ship on time even if it wasn't finished.
Rubin wouldn't survive if you put him in a room with Forstall and Sinofsky. Those other 2 are pit bulls who would rip him to pieces. Rubin is a genuinely nice guy....very rare at his level (but then he didn't get to his level by the normal corporate ladder climbing which these other 2 did - that probably purges one's soul in the process).
Massive Khujli. Though Mortullah, an interesting stat:
According to the WSJ, he also shared company data indicating four times as many customers had switched to iPhone from Android during Q4 as the reverse.
Massive Khujli. Though Mortullah, an interesting stat:
According to the WSJ, he also shared company data indicating four times as many customers had switched to iPhone from Android during Q4 as the reverse.
What less would you expect him to say the night before Sammy's Time Square Unpacked Event? Especially when there are a slew of Android devices coming out in the next few months. S4, One, Sony, X devices, and Nexus.
BTW, Sammy expects to sell 10 million S4 units in a month, not as great as iPhone, but still not shabby. There is still the S3+ and Note 3 coming out as well. I know you don't like Sammy, but of late they are simply the best Android phones out there.
I don't like Sammy for the way they design their products and of course their work culture. Currently the best Android phone out there imo is the Nexus4 and that ain't no Sammy.
Raja Bose wrote:I don't like Sammy for the way they design their products and of course their work culture. Currently the best Android phone out there imo is the Nexus4 and that ain't no Sammy.
The Nexus 4 suffers from over heating issues (see Anand Tech about thermal throttling), it is also too fragile, and has terrible battery life for a 4th quarter 2012 device. The way they design their products is subjective and I'm buying a phone or device and most people don't plan on working for them.
Someone has floated a rumor that samsung secretly recruited high level russian scientists and uses a rus method called triz in their labs. This is allegedly the source of their 3d eye tracking technology.
Having lost in market share, apple msm seems to be put in strength to "prove" samsung is less innovative...yak yak the only thing that matters is the cash register and product pipeline.
Samsung is already planning a huge new development center somewhere in the usa. I recall seeing a architect rendering of it.
Singha wrote:Samsung is already planning a huge new development center somewhere in the usa. I recall seeing a architect rendering of it.
Arrey Saar, not 'somewhere'.....its in San Jose, down the road from the Balaji Temple.
Mort Walker wrote:
Raja Bose wrote:^^Its all subjective. Opinions cannot be objective and neither are stats.
Read Anand Tech's review of the Nexus 4.
I did and he seems to love the hardware despite those minor issues. In fact I would say LG did more justice to the Nexus line than Sammy which kept their Nexus offerings fairly shitty so that their Galaxy line didn't get overshadowed.
Are you taking your weekend herps again? 
Takla is not part of the "official" Android ecosystem (aka OHA) so it does matter within Android what his share is.
It was a joke.
