My main point is that people too easily write-off the Balmer-led Microsoft. The Kinect is THE fastest selling consumer electronics device in history, as an example. In history!

What I like about Patrick’s article is that he saw a way to say their approach sucks. I find it fascinating

I own an xbox (but not a kinect), dont own an iPhone (prefer Android) but have 3 iPods at home. I reckon that makes me fairly balanced.

I mean, the author has a point about seeing the future. No doubt about it, Kinect was released as a toy.

But does that mean theres no future vision for it? Hell no. The idea that this author can see applications for Kinect that MS is a bit presumptuous to be honest. Every man and his dog can see the potential.

Also, the author (lets say ‘he’)obviously has no idea of MS’s strategy for the xbox either – if he’s ever followed MS’s Marketing he’d know they see the xbox platform covering more than just gaming. Netflix? Last.Fm? Facebook?

But the downfall is the last paragraph, Apple saw the future? Hmm, well they built an ipod, added a touch screen (ipod touch), added phone capabilities (iphone), then made the screen bigger (iPad). All these products have revolutionised each product industry – no doubt and thank god.

But they were all logical progressions of PAST iterations. If the iPad had come out in say, 2005, before touch screens and apps stores, then I’d buy into the whole ‘They did not let the past or present inform them. ‘ spiel.