Comments on: Microsoft Courier Shaping Up as a Truly Novel iPad Competitor

By: Courier

Courier — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:47:29 +0000

This is great news.

I’ve updated movemarket.ie to reflect this.

Cheers!

This blog attacted a lot of attention in the papers over the last few days…

By: Courier

Courier — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:44:35 +0000

I love my ipad, fantastic for when I am on the road or travelling. Its making a huge difference even to break the ice for meetings

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:05:14 +0000

Yupp ... Apple sure would've been in a bind; had MicroSoft made that ...

By: GENGHIS7777

GENGHIS7777 — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:24:13 +0000

Yes, the opportunity to use a stylus and touch is a big point of difference.

Just because the footage "released" thus far has a vertical hinge design, doesn't mean to say that a single screen compact version couldn't come out in the future.

Gottalove that implementation of copy and paste. Straight out of the Newton UI.

This could be the spiritual descendant of the Newton we've been keeping an eye out for.

By: JAMES

JAMES — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:15:02 +0000

ya, pain in the ass for your everyday apple-tard. Apple really is making the computer culture stupider isn't it?

But for people with patience and half a brain, this will be a great tool for many PRACTICAL everyday uses. not just watching fucking movies, reading magazines, and playing video games.

By: Tim F.

Tim F. — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:48:57 +0000

“Not only that, but these previews are emphasizing the Courier’s strengths over the iPad without addressing things like media playback. The impression I get isn’t that the Courier is bad at those things, just that they’re taken as given.”

I find this far from the case. How do you watch video on it? Oh, you watch it on a screen the size of an iPhone or with a quarter inch bar in the middle of it. Any application which is not ideal for 2 screens/2 panes sucks. Anything you want “full screen” no longer works: games, video, anything that isn’t “two pages” or two interfaces, etc… doesn’t work as well.

We keep seeing the digital journal, address book, etc. because that’s what it does best. If other apps/interfaces were also developed and kicked ass, they would show them too.

By: shiva

shiva — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:31:58 +0000

i am all for competition. but would just like to say this:

never underestimate microsoft. microsoft, google and possibly apple have some of the best talents in the world. and microsoft does spend a lot on research.

microsoft may not get it right the first time but they eventually get it right. history is littered with examples of this: IE, Windows 7, Bing, MS Office, Zune HD.

courier is opening up a completely different market so microsoft will be able to get second dibs even if they fail the first time without loosing bragging rights as the innovator of this segment.

By: Technology: MS Courier .. Kindle Killer or Hype? « Agony's Blog

Technology: MS Courier .. Kindle Killer or Hype? « Agony's Blog — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:51:13 +0000

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By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:50:50 +0000

Seems to me to be more Microsoft panicking, trying to lure people away from the iPad with false hopes of what may come. As they say, lets see what actually turns into reality but it proves once again, Apple has inspired others to do great things and we have Apple to thanks for that!

By: Pragmatic

Pragmatic — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:19:04 +0000

@chano
Every device, xbox, ipods, cars, have some degree of failure. Microsoft fixed the xbox, apple has fixed problems when they’ve cropped up. I, myself, had two xboxs get the dreaded RRoD. They fixed them, I still use them. I don’t much care for ‘Ballmeh’ either. I don’t think he’s visionary. I do like J Allard, he has vision and the ability to follow through. I’m not saying who’s right and who’s wrong, I’m just saying that I think a lot of people will be very excited for this product (no matter who makes it)
Oh, and your half-assed attempt at wit doesn’t suit you, you’re not very good at it…you just come across as angry.