Look at this image. This was suggested by Twitter. At this point they may not be able to get any better results than this without some human intervention.
This is the same reason why I almost never get a good suggestion from NetFlix and Pandora dishes out songs that I cannot stand despite hundreds of ratings I have given.
Steve Jobs wanted iPhone 5 rather than just an iPhone 4S. Overworked Apple employees resisted and there was mutiny. Instead of the Apple board throwing him out again, they gave him the option of stepping down.
Shareholders were getting increasingly unhappy about the costly short upgrade cycles and the money spend on research to get new models of the popular products. They could as well milk the product until consumers no longer would buy it while slowly bringing newer models. It would be more profitable to bring a minor update every 15 to 18 months.
iPhone 4S is in that right direction. Apple knows one thing, that they couldn’t call it iPhone 5 and they are right about it. Only geeks could recognize the value went in. For most consumers, it looks like iPhone 4 and it is just iPhone 4. It just got faster. May be a better camera. They would buy it anyway.
The only people who will hold off buying the 4S would be the ones that are looking for a different look or form factor or whatever you call it. Then when the withdrawal kicks in, they will fall in line too.
As of now it doesn’t work. I guess unless VMware updates Workstation 7, my only option is either to upgrade to Workstation 8. Or I can try it out at home using Virtual Box or whatever else supports it.
Update: After upgrading to VMware workstation 8, I was able to complete the install. Created a new VM rather than upgrading the VM from 7.x to 8.x. Installing VMware tools caused blank screen and had to roll back using restore feature. It is DEL button and not F8 that you need to press in order to get in to restore mode when booting up.
For the past few days I noticed that the mouse movement on my Windows 7 (x64) VM was sluggish. I checked if I installed any Microsoft mouse software because that is what I am using. There was none. Since I had previous slowness and errors for Windows 7 virtual machine due to WDDM display driver issues, I tried tweaking a few display settings. That didn’t help either. I checked all VM settings with another VM (Windows XP) that didn’t seem to have any mouse issues. They were pretty much the same.
Then I realized that I have removed USB Controller from hardware on all virtual machines. I added it back and then VMware saved the settings and continued the virtual machine and brief pause. Now my mouse is working as expected.
So, Windows 7 requires USB controller where as Windows XP can work without it and have no problem.