ericneo3
ericneo3 t1_je8akug wrote
Reply to Microsoft still doesn't know what to do with its messaging apps. Just look at Skype and Teams. by redhatGizmo
Microsoft would have been so much better off opening up Teams features to the public rather than locking it down for additional price tiers.
If they made Teams the standard messaging, calling and calendar app people would be pushing their workplaces other paid Microsoft products that integrate with it and expand functionality. Instead they've made Teams an only for work app and made it so even if people wanted to use it for home use the home app doesn't provide the same functionality that the business app provides.
ericneo3 t1_je86s9y wrote
Reply to EA is laying off 6 percent of its workers by McFatty7
Can they really afford to?
They like Ubisoft have been releasing duds now for a while and most of their senior staff at their studios left over the last few years.
Apex legends is currently keeping them afloat but that will wane and lose people overtime. If they screw up the next Dragon Age that will be the end of Bioware and if they screw up the next Battlefield that will be the end of Dice.
ericneo3 t1_jdp285r wrote
Reply to Microsoft reportedly orders AI chatbot rivals to stop using Bing’s search data by OutlandishnessOk2452
Lol this is the quickest case of pulling up the ladder so that others cannot also have the success that you have, I've ever seen.
ericneo3 t1_jb444an wrote
Reply to New Bill Could Ban TikTok, Other Foreign Technology Products in US Over Data Collection Concerns by donnygel
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US Companies: Capitalism and competition is the way in the open market but only when we're a monopoly.
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US Companies: Save us GOVT intervention from having to compete in the open market.
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US Companies again: We pay executives stupid amounts of money, but will have to close if the GOVT doesn't bail us out with tax payer money.
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Shitty US Companies: This year we made record profits, so we are firing 10-20% of our work force that made it happen.
ericneo3 t1_j66mlmd wrote
Reply to comment by erosram in Intel Posts Largest Loss in Years as PC and Server Nosedives by Stiven_Crysis
Sounds a lot like ADOBE, DELL, HP, CISCO and LENOVO.
It seems like these companies get big then fire the product people to hire cheap overseas and marketing people, only to find out they cannot do the job then have to take their millions and use it to gobble up all new tech because they can no longer produce it.
ericneo3 t1_j61w0l1 wrote
They will be armed with TWO fax machines.
ericneo3 t1_j5jpqla wrote
Reply to comment by yaosio in Area 120, Google's in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoffs by Last-Caterpillar-112
> Microsoft keeps unpopular software and hardware running
It's too bad Microsoft cannot get the basics of what people want in a cellphone or a portable x86 laptop/tablet.
I cannot count the number of times they bungled the surface line by continually refusing to put a 5G modem in the thing. Now Lenovo and Dell have their business and consumer customers locked down.
ericneo3 t1_j12qx4e wrote
Reply to comment by typesett in New battery is cheaper than lithium-ion with four times the capacity by Ssider69
> bring it to market and we will see how expensive it actually is
I need coffee, I read that as
bring it to market and we will see how explosive it actually is
ericneo3 t1_je8mneg wrote
Reply to comment by lacker101 in EA is laying off 6 percent of its workers by McFatty7
Exactly, countries are labelling loot boxes as gambling so that revenue stream will disappear soon. They also don't have the FIFA license anymore, so there is a good chance a competitor can scoop up that market.