Apple did make a decision that was adversarial to their business model. Steve Jobs laid down the gauntlet and asked the record industry to allow them to sell music DRM free. Of course, the anti-apple crowd claimed that Jobs was just grandstanding and would never get rid of DRM because it allowed Apple to lock in iPod users. Then....low and behold... Apple got rid of DRM.
Apple does things that are good for the consumer. Their whole business philosophy is to compete on merit by producing "insanely great products", and not by removing consumer choice through lock-in, etc.
Apple produces consumer products and AMD produces components for consumer products. Why would apple want to get into this totally different sphere? Further, what separates apple from everyone else is that they produce high-tech consumer products in which they design the hardware (not build) and write the software. Their whole business model wouldn't work in a pure hardware environment.
Honestly... why do people keep coming up with this crazy merger/acquisition rumors. Sun buying Apple... Apple buying Nintendo.... Apple buying AMD. When will it end?
The ram doesn't come with photoshop.... the pc does come with windows. You're talking apple's and oranges. There is a correlation between windows box pricing the cost of a pc with that same version of windows. The correlation is M$' OEM pricing which is significantly lower than the retail pricing only because of hardware. There's your correlation.
You're lucky. I heard of it after I discovered $16,000 worth of fraudulent AirFrance tickets charged to my credit card. Thankfully, the credit card co removed the charges. My other bankcards were also swapped out by my bank on their own.
Does this mean that the ass-hats that did this are in France? Can we blame France?
This thread was about the features and value of the iPhone. I would say referring to visual voicemail as a feature of the Network and not a feature of the phone is disingenuous. First, Apple developed it and negotiated to have Cingular/AT&T modify their network to use the new feature. To implement visual voicemail requires software on the phone, along with a network that provides the service. However, irrespective of whether the "credit" goes more to the network or the phone, I call it a feature when one phone can do something that no other phone can do. Only the iPhone will have visual voicemail. Don't try to tell me that it's not a feature because others will implement it eventually. That can be said of any feature. Finally, Apple was quick to point out that the iPhone is protected by over 200 patents. Don't be surprised to find that this covers visual voicemail; one of the most compelling features of the phone.
So, don't be so quick to discount visual voicemail and say that it offers no compelling reason to purchase an iPhone over another competing phone.
What's visual voice mail? Video voice mail? So downloading videos... That's a network feature.
Maybe you could bother to understand what something is before dismissing it as irrelevant. It is clear that you have no clue what is visual voicemail. It is a visual way to view and interact with your voicemails...similar to the way you would interact with your emails. Thus, you can listen to any voicemail in any order, as you can view any email in any order and know who them are from. For me, (someone who gets lots of voicemails while unavailable and dreads to go through all of them) this is a killer feature.
Objective Features that are Unique
-Visual Voicemail
-Real Web Access (i.e. not crippled/web clippings)
-Large Memory (4Gig and 8Gig Versions)
Subjective Features that are Unique
-User Interface (This includes Multi-Touch, Hi Res Graphics and the Accellerometer)
-The Best iPod (based on Interface)
-Easy and Powerful Syncing with your Desktop Computer
-The Best PhotoViewer app on a phone
These features are important and unique... that's the source of the buzz.
As far as I understand it, iCal Server was written by Apple using no other OSS, yet they are releasing it as OSS. Therefore, they were not compelled by a license to opensource iCal...they just did it.
How about Bonjour, Darwin Streaming Server, XNU Kernel, Launchd Services and the forthcoming iCal Server which might help the OSS community finally have a competitor to Exchange.
"Apple loves to use OSS... What OSS has it released? Why isn't OS X open sourced?"
Oh....sure.... apple should open source their whole operating system...that makes a lot of sense for them and their shareholders. You sir are a moron or a troll.
If the linux world got behind GNUStep, they would have an opensource version of MacOS X that could (potentially) run Mac apps with only a recompile. This could change linux and thrust it into the mainstream. Imagine... apps like photoshop, office and iTunes for Linux. It would be at least possible.
It seems to me that the vast majority of GNU/Linux development over the past 8 years has been to make the userland more windows-like. Even the mac-like guis are nothing more than window dressing (pun intended). It's a real shame. The Linux community has a nuke in its OS war arsenal, but continues to fight with sticks and stones.
I had a plasma TV and I was having a problem with bad buzzing noises coming from the TV. I thought it was DOA at first, but my electrician told me to remove my CFLs because they create harmonics that travel through the wires in the house. I removed them and the problem was solved. I don't see CFLs as a practical replacement for incandescent bulbs.
You sir, are a FUD flinging troll. Macs have supported two button mice, as you would expect, since 10.0. Since Apple has introduced the mighty mouse (about 1.5 to 2 years ago), they have even included a two button mouse with their computers.
Your comment about creating aliases when dragging files off a CD couldn't be anything short of a complete fabrication. Such an action would result in the file being copied as any user would expect.
Also, thanks for the history lesson on MacOS 9 that was EIGHT years ago. Somehow, this is relevant today. Perhaps we should also discuss Windows 3.1. Also, if you bought M$'s marketing that Win95 really had preemptive multitasking, then I find it hard to believe that you used that either.
You say you developed software for MacOS? I find that hard to believe. You didn't know that macs have two button mice or that files copy when you drag from a cd to a desktop/disk and you claim to develop for the Macintosh? Suuuuuuure.
GNUstep could be that amazing development environment for linux. It (NeXTSTEP) was designed to be the perfect environment for producing elegently powerful apps very rapidly with as little code as necessary. If this project was strongly adopted by the community, the number and quality of linux apps would increase.
Unfortunately, the project seems like its stuck in stasis.
Creative professionals use windows for content creation? When did this start? Really... I'm not trolling, but how many people does this actually affect? I think M$ wrote these people off years ago.
The potential killer for M$ here is that there are more and more content creators everyday with the popularity of digital cameras, video cameras, cheap home audio mixer packages , bloggers and the boom in podcasters. Almost all home users could be considered content creators.
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Apple did make a decision that was adversarial to their business model. Steve Jobs laid down the gauntlet and asked the record industry to allow them to sell music DRM free. Of course, the anti-apple crowd claimed that Jobs was just grandstanding and would never get rid of DRM because it allowed Apple to lock in iPod users. Then....low and behold... Apple got rid of DRM.
Apple does things that are good for the consumer. Their whole business philosophy is to compete on merit by producing "insanely great products", and not by removing consumer choice through lock-in, etc.
Apple produces consumer products and AMD produces components for consumer products. Why would apple want to get into this totally different sphere? Further, what separates apple from everyone else is that they produce high-tech consumer products in which they design the hardware (not build) and write the software. Their whole business model wouldn't work in a pure hardware environment.
Honestly... why do people keep coming up with this crazy merger/acquisition rumors. Sun buying Apple... Apple buying Nintendo.... Apple buying AMD. When will it end?
The point is that there is a relationship between the hardware and the software by virtue of the OEM. You can't dismiss that.
The ram doesn't come with photoshop.... the pc does come with windows. You're talking apple's and oranges. There is a correlation between windows box pricing the cost of a pc with that same version of windows. The correlation is M$' OEM pricing which is significantly lower than the retail pricing only because of hardware. There's your correlation.
Is this the WOW that M$ is peddling?
You're lucky. I heard of it after I discovered $16,000 worth of fraudulent AirFrance tickets charged to my credit card. Thankfully, the credit card co removed the charges. My other bankcards were also swapped out by my bank on their own.
Does this mean that the ass-hats that did this are in France? Can we blame France?
This thread was about the features and value of the iPhone. I would say referring to visual voicemail as a feature of the Network and not a feature of the phone is disingenuous. First, Apple developed it and negotiated to have Cingular/AT&T modify their network to use the new feature. To implement visual voicemail requires software on the phone, along with a network that provides the service. However, irrespective of whether the "credit" goes more to the network or the phone, I call it a feature when one phone can do something that no other phone can do. Only the iPhone will have visual voicemail. Don't try to tell me that it's not a feature because others will implement it eventually. That can be said of any feature. Finally, Apple was quick to point out that the iPhone is protected by over 200 patents. Don't be surprised to find that this covers visual voicemail; one of the most compelling features of the phone.
So, don't be so quick to discount visual voicemail and say that it offers no compelling reason to purchase an iPhone over another competing phone.
What's visual voice mail? Video voice mail? So downloading videos... That's a network feature.
Maybe you could bother to understand what something is before dismissing it as irrelevant. It is clear that you have no clue what is visual voicemail. It is a visual way to view and interact with your voicemails...similar to the way you would interact with your emails. Thus, you can listen to any voicemail in any order, as you can view any email in any order and know who them are from. For me, (someone who gets lots of voicemails while unavailable and dreads to go through all of them) this is a killer feature.
Objective Features that are Unique
-Visual Voicemail
-Real Web Access (i.e. not crippled/web clippings)
-Large Memory (4Gig and 8Gig Versions)
Subjective Features that are Unique
-User Interface (This includes Multi-Touch, Hi Res Graphics and the Accellerometer)
-The Best iPod (based on Interface)
-Easy and Powerful Syncing with your Desktop Computer
-The Best PhotoViewer app on a phone
These features are important and unique... that's the source of the buzz.
Read my comment. I said moron OR a troll.
As far as I understand it, iCal Server was written by Apple using no other OSS, yet they are releasing it as OSS. Therefore, they were not compelled by a license to opensource iCal...they just did it.
"What OSS has it released?"
How about Bonjour, Darwin Streaming Server, XNU Kernel, Launchd Services and the forthcoming iCal Server which might help the OSS community finally have a competitor to Exchange.
"Apple loves to use OSS... What OSS has it released? Why isn't OS X open sourced?"
Oh....sure.... apple should open source their whole operating system...that makes a lot of sense for them and their shareholders. You sir are a moron or a troll.
If the linux world got behind GNUStep, they would have an opensource version of MacOS X that could (potentially) run Mac apps with only a recompile. This could change linux and thrust it into the mainstream. Imagine... apps like photoshop, office and iTunes for Linux. It would be at least possible. It seems to me that the vast majority of GNU/Linux development over the past 8 years has been to make the userland more windows-like. Even the mac-like guis are nothing more than window dressing (pun intended). It's a real shame. The Linux community has a nuke in its OS war arsenal, but continues to fight with sticks and stones.
I had a plasma TV and I was having a problem with bad buzzing noises coming from the TV. I thought it was DOA at first, but my electrician told me to remove my CFLs because they create harmonics that travel through the wires in the house. I removed them and the problem was solved. I don't see CFLs as a practical replacement for incandescent bulbs.
You're describing the GNUStep project. Sadly, it doesn't get the attention that it should.
You sir, are a FUD flinging troll. Macs have supported two button mice, as you would expect, since 10.0. Since Apple has introduced the mighty mouse (about 1.5 to 2 years ago), they have even included a two button mouse with their computers. Your comment about creating aliases when dragging files off a CD couldn't be anything short of a complete fabrication. Such an action would result in the file being copied as any user would expect. Also, thanks for the history lesson on MacOS 9 that was EIGHT years ago. Somehow, this is relevant today. Perhaps we should also discuss Windows 3.1. Also, if you bought M$'s marketing that Win95 really had preemptive multitasking, then I find it hard to believe that you used that either. You say you developed software for MacOS? I find that hard to believe. You didn't know that macs have two button mice or that files copy when you drag from a cd to a desktop/disk and you claim to develop for the Macintosh? Suuuuuuure.
GNUstep could be that amazing development environment for linux. It (NeXTSTEP) was designed to be the perfect environment for producing elegently powerful apps very rapidly with as little code as necessary. If this project was strongly adopted by the community, the number and quality of linux apps would increase.
Unfortunately, the project seems like its stuck in stasis.
Creative professionals use windows for content creation? When did this start? Really... I'm not trolling, but how many people does this actually affect? I think M$ wrote these people off years ago. The potential killer for M$ here is that there are more and more content creators everyday with the popularity of digital cameras, video cameras, cheap home audio mixer packages , bloggers and the boom in podcasters. Almost all home users could be considered content creators.