That Other Other Steve

Wow. Big news. Msft should go android now. http://t.co/FCgzzYw4HH
— mark pincus (@markpinc) August 23, 2013

History's biggest acqui-hire: What if Microsoft gets a new CEO by buying Yahoo?
— Christopher Mims (@mims) August 23, 2013

Why not “retire” immediately? Can’t even leave properly.
— Marco Arment (@marcoarment) August 23, 2013

From @dinabass sources, 4 on MSFT's internal list of CEO candidates: Tony Bates, Qi Lu, Satya Nadella, Terry Myerson http://t.co/DuDAH1T8Nm
— Sarah Frier (@sarahfrier) August 23, 2013

By announcing his own retirement, Ballmer just drove the value of his 300M $MSFT shares by ~$1B.
— Zach Epstein (@zacharye) August 23, 2013

"No chance the iPhone is going to get any significant market share."
— MG Siegler (@parislemon) August 23, 2013

My worst 2012 Worst CEO List: Mason $GRPN; Ballmer $MSFT; Johnson $JCP; Pincus $ZNGA; Perez $EK (or whatever its symbol is now)
— Herb Greenberg (@herbgreenberg) August 23, 2013

If only Ballmer had been shouting "mobile developers! mobile developers! mobile developers!"
— Josh Constine (@JoshConstine) August 23, 2013

In the last 20 years he's had big wins as well as loud failures. it's a hard role to fill. talking about @benaffleck as Batman of course
— Frank X. Shaw (@fxshaw) August 23, 2013

What Steve Ballmer achieved at Microsoft is actually amazing. It's underrated simply because consumer tech casts an irrationally big shadow.
— Anil Dash (@anildash) August 23, 2013

"You can tell which is his office at MS HQ. It's the one where they took the desktop away and hid it in a cupboard." http://t.co/syt8YUSYU9
— Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) August 23, 2013

All joking aside, MS needs some external to come in and look objectively at their businesses and cut/expand accordingly. No more status quo.
— Paul Thurrott (@thurrott) August 23, 2013

Notable: In 2010, Ballmer indicated he’d stay CEO until around 2018. http://t.co/sN6W9NBDMK
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) August 23, 2013

Way off. Marissa Mayer for CEO of MicroHoo."@mims: Elon Musk for CEO of Microsoft."
— Amir Efrati (@amir) August 23, 2013

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Mobile Word Processor: Clutter Free And Connected

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It is amazing how clutter free the new mobile word processor Quip is. And good thing it also has a desktop option. Guess what, it is the same clutter free word processor. I think the app has legs. You immediately notice the difference. And collaboration is in built. That is so in tune with the mobile, always connected era.

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41 Megapixels Are Really About Zoom

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A smartphone is a wonderful thing, except it has a lousy battery. A smartphone camera is a wonderful thing - I don't use a real camera anymore - but the zoom on it is ridiculously poor. The photo quality is fine with eight megapixels. Enter 41 megapixels. Are photos now going to be five times sharper? Maybe, maybe not. But I think what is more likely is photos of objects five times as far are going to be just as good. And I like that idea.

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Superphone

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A smartphone is a smartphone, but what is a superphone? I guess you take the smartness for granted, and build immense capabilities. I'd like my superphone to have a super battery. That would be the first thing. A battery that lasts for 24 hours even when put through non stop super use. And recharges itself in five minutes.

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its battery life, and its ability to withstand drops from great heights. .... Think about your device. Battery life is a huge issue. You shouldn’t have to worry about constantly recharging your phone. When you drop your phone, it shouldn’t go splat. Everything should be a ton faster and easier. There’s real potential to invent new and better experiences. ..... you shouldn’t need to carry a charger around with you to make it through the day. If your kid spills their drink on your tablet, the screen shouldn’t die. And when you drop your phone, it shouldn’t shatter

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Dropbox Mobility

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Google's lament with Facebook was it stands behind a wall, we can't search. Then Steve Jobs brought along iPhone apps that were even further behind the wall. An app was not like a website. You couldn't search. And the data the app collected mostly stayed not among apps, but inside that app itself.

Looks like Dropbox wants to shake that thing. Dropbox is a cloud inside the cloud.



Dropbox Offers a Way to Free Data from Mobile Apps

setting out to build “a fabric that ties together all devices, services, and apps … the Internet’s file system” .... the Sync API, allows mobile apps to save data to a user’s Dropbox account so that the app can be synched across multiple devices .... The Sync API could also erode some of the restrictions imposed by the competing mobile “ecosystems” of Apple and Google by making it easier to switch between them without leaving any data behind. For example, someone who had been using an image editing app for Apple’s iPad could install the same app on an Android tablet and find the edited photos on the new device. ..... “The Sync API allows iOS and Android developers to focus on the core aspects of their app and leave the complexities of working across platforms to us” ..... Dropbox’s leaders are carefully planning how to compete with Apple. ..... Apple and Dropbox are the two cloud services most used by U.S. consumers, with 27 percent and 17 percent

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