Jason L Ward

Columnist/Contributer @WindowsCentral: #Warditorials😎Freelance Writer/Analyst/#Microsoft Watcher/Poet/Preacher:Rom 1:16/Husband to @lizbethpoet & Proud Father!

[Jason L Ward @JLTechWord]

You found it🙂Original @Microsoft analysis delivered via engaging storytelling: #Warditorials😎@leolaporte @shanselman https://t.co/qJSXlGsq80

[Jason L Ward @JLTechWord]

Hi @techwithshikhar in your 3/11/26 DT piece on #multitasking on the #iphone #foldable you note a 2 app side by side limit & state #Samsung & others aren't doing anything different🤔However the #Fold7 allows 3 apps arranged as you'd like(pic1)or any # of #floatingwindows(pic2).😎

[Jason L Ward @JLTechWord]

So, what are we
"guesstimating" Apple's MacBook Neo price will be?🤔The new iPad Air is $799 and the new MB Air is $1099 from $999.
Did Apple bump the MB Air up $100 to make room for an affordable "premium" $899 Macbook?

[Jason L Ward @JLTechWord]

5 Facts Not Everyone Knows About Microsoft https://t.co/qCGQRpZz8H

[Jason L Ward @JLTechWord]

@zacbowden SurfaceDuo 2 is still my daily driver. I so wish Microsoft stayed focused.

[Jason L Ward @JLTechWord]

@mistagreg @ATT 😅

[Jason L Ward @JLTechWord]

Why isn't @ATT carrying the Pixel 9 Pro Fold? 😒

Interested in the Pixel 9 Pro Fold? You won't be getting it from AT&T

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Apple AI on device is equivalent to other tiny models.

Apple AI Server is equivalent to GPT-3.5ish

Frontier models they are not, but will still give you supercharged Siri & okay-ish writing help. I don’t think this has much to do with high-end use cases. https://t.co/wAiSz2OB5S

[Jason L Ward @JLTechWord]

How Quantum Computing-powered AI can go horribly wrong:

https://t.co/eWpqZHFIQy

Is quantum computing a genie we will wish we kept in the bottle? @windowscentral @JezCorden #quantumcomputing #AI @Microsoft #Microsoft

[Jason L Ward @JLTechWord]

Microsoft is refining its focus on its quantum computing vision. Here's a 2017 article I wrote about
@Microsoft's quantum computing vision, and its implications: https://t.co/UuV7AzC21P.

@WindowsCentral
@JezCorden
#quantumcomputing

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

On September 19, 1991, while hiking in the Ötztal Valley in the Alps, German hikers Erika and Helmut Simon stumbled upon what they initially thought was the body of a recently deceased mountain climber.

However, it turned out that this was a remarkably preserved mummy, later named Ötzi, which had been encased in ice for over 5,300 years.

The mummy was surrounded by various artifacts, including a bow and a quiver containing arrows, a copper-bladed axe, a flint dagger with a wicker sheath, birch wood vessels lined with maple leaves, remnants of a backpack, a leather pouch holding small items, and clothing and shoes made from fur and leather, among other minor items.

Researchers analyzing Ötzi concluded that he likely met a violent end due to an arrowhead found lodged in his left shoulder and other injuries on his body, suggesting he was the victim of murder.

[Jason L Ward @JLTechWord]

#Microsoft announced AI-enhanced #CopilotPlus PCs that outperform M3 Macbook Airs! If you missed the event watch it here at 2pm PT:
https://t.co/F5dg5h7VM8
"(An on-demand recording of our Microsoft event keynote will be made available (here) at 2pm PT today.)"

[Jason L Ward @JLTechWord]

4. "there's no M-series competitor" narrative that began in 2019/2020 to continue to flow as the limited data (though some can be fished from the non-descript graphs #Apple provided showing some M2 comparisons)"forces" the press into ignorance(lack of info)-induced "silence."🤔

[Jason L Ward @JLTechWord]

1. Apple's "Scary Fast" or "Scared of Qualcomm Event."😉Apple chose to compare its new #M3 chips to M1 rather than its most recent & more powerful M2 chips. Why?
Just days before Qualcomm showed #SnapdragonXElite dramatically outperforming M2. Apple needed "big percentages"...

[Jason L Ward @JLTechWord]

3. to what M3 brings compared to M2. The blow for blow narrative/press that would ensue would disrupt Apple's current - "in a league of its own" narrative. It doesn't want that discussion. Thus, being intentionally vague it strategically keeps the comparisons at bay allowing the

[Patrick Moorhead @PatrickMoorhead]

Some exceptional early benchmarks from Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite. In many ways, they validate the claims made by the company at last week’s Summit. I could see these getting better over time with more OS and driver optimizations.

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

I've seen enough of these comments since the original post that I kind of feel like I have to respond. I'm not trying to make excuses. I absolutely am not trying to make excuses. But the deficiency in apps given our starting point was so broad let this becomes the de facto answer.

I get it, there were people who had FOMO because they couldn't play the latest version of Candy Crush or Angry Birds. The Chase banking app wasn't available. I get it. But, again, combinatorial math makes it so that everybody is going to likely have one app that they can't get that their friends have that allows the discussion to pivot on "there weren't enough apps."

If you look at the rate of growth of our app store versus Apple and even Google in their first handful of years, it was tremendous. We had a spam app problem where people were putting wrappers around websites and we had some other challenges, but the rate of growth was fantastic, and we engaged student developers to great success as well.

That said, the starting point meant we were always going to have an apps problem. Therefore pointing to the apps as the reason for failure is almost as if you are saying de facto we should not have started.

We built an amazing product. I actually think the biggest problem with our developer story was that we did not allow the tools that we used internally to be used by developers externally. Therefore the app experiences diverged. This was a lesser known problem.

Monetization was a challenge because of # of customers. At the end of the day, it's hard to get developers excited when you can't sell the phones. It's hard to sell phones when salespeople in the stores have an iPhone on their hip and when the Windows Phone stuff is in the corner after a week or two of a big marketing push.

This inability to pierce the salespeople at the points of retail is one of the big reasons why I was not a supporter of the Amazon Fire Phone when we started work on the Kindle app for it at Amazon. But that's a story for another day.

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

We were fighting an uphill battle trying to get the carriers to feature our phones with their sales people. You're just not going to win if you're getting generation behind handsets from Samsung, LG, etc. This was a primary reason why we had to buy Nokia. Even with that, getting the salespeople off the iOS bandwagon was almost impossible for the in-store sales. They would focus on us for a week or two around a launch, and then we got pushed to the corner of the store.

The go-to answer was always to point to the size of the app store, which is just a lazy answer. Unfortunately, the sales people in the carrier stores would default to that answer, and then that's game over. We had a lot of the major apps, but if you're missing that one core app that a salesperson used in the top 50, that ripple effect from that one salesperson was a really rough go. The combinatorial math got out of control when you consider the number of salespeople and likelihood of one of their required top 50 apps not being on the Windows Phone platform.

[Jason L Ward @JLTechWord]

https://t.co/tGhfbVqvjd

[Windows Central @WindowsCentral]

Microsoft had every opportunity to make the Surface Duo a success. Here's why it failed.

Analysis: https://t.co/W3whgvgR5I #surface #surfaceduo2