Apple was the most valuable company in the world from 2021 to 2023. But in 2024, they fell to second place. With Microsoft claiming the title for half the ye...
I don’t agree with the conclusion that they should just have bought more AI chips
All these tech giants have their own area where they are the absolute worst, and other areas where they’re not as bad as some of the others.
Apple sucks on app store restrictions, but on the desktop OS, the respect user privacy more than Google and MS do. Google is the absolute worst on ads, tracking and using search to leverage their monopoly, but they’ve also made a ton of cool stuff, including Android. MS makes the worst piece of shit OS and forces everybody to use it while they make it worse, but I’m sure there’s also something they do right.
VS code continues to be an amazing product. Of course it’s Microsoft so it has a confusing name, there is VS code and VS Code Studio which is a different, and terrible product.
VS is itself short for Visual Studio, the first IDE I ever used, and the first MS product I liked. So VS Code Studio means Visual Studio Code Studio.
Why Visual? Because 25 years ago MS was pushing Visual C++, where you would drag and drop visual components together and then figure out where to put the C++ code to make them work.
Yeah I know. Like I said it’s a stupid name, one only Microsoft would ever come up with.
Calling it visual studio is redundant now because visual studio code doesn’t actually have anything to do with visual studio anymore, it’s just an IDE for a load of different languages, none of which necessarily have anything to do with Microsoft or Visual Studio. Yet it still called VS Code.
At this point the VS effectively doesn’t really stand for anything.
All these tech giants have their own area where they are the absolute worst, and other areas where they’re not as bad as some of the others.
Apple sucks on app store restrictions, but on the desktop OS, the respect user privacy more than Google and MS do. Google is the absolute worst on ads, tracking and using search to leverage their monopoly, but they’ve also made a ton of cool stuff, including Android. MS makes the worst piece of shit OS and forces everybody to use it while they make it worse, but I’m sure there’s also something they do right.
VS code continues to be an amazing product. Of course it’s Microsoft so it has a confusing name, there is VS code and VS Code Studio which is a different, and terrible product.
VS is itself short for Visual Studio, the first IDE I ever used, and the first MS product I liked. So VS Code Studio means Visual Studio Code Studio.
Why Visual? Because 25 years ago MS was pushing Visual C++, where you would drag and drop visual components together and then figure out where to put the C++ code to make them work.
Yeah I know. Like I said it’s a stupid name, one only Microsoft would ever come up with.
Calling it visual studio is redundant now because visual studio code doesn’t actually have anything to do with visual studio anymore, it’s just an IDE for a load of different languages, none of which necessarily have anything to do with Microsoft or Visual Studio. Yet it still called VS Code.
At this point the VS effectively doesn’t really stand for anything.
Symbian and Maemo were better.
Also Nokia was the only non-US company of these.
Yeah, real shame Maemo never got anywhere. I really liked the idea.
Isn’t there supposed to be a phone OS from Mozilla as well. No idea what’s happening with that.