It may be true for expensive physical products, but when the price is low (as $10 is compared to a $500 tablet), the price is dominated by other factors.
For years publishers had been crying that the reason for the high price of books was due to the high expense of production & warehousing. Enter ebooks and those expenses are gone. Sure there are some new expenses, but nothing even remotely approaching production and warehousing. Logically, the price of ebooks should be reduced but instead have been artificially propped up with the agency model.
"other factors" is just a nice way of saying greed.
Why only CEOs? Maybe it's because they set the direction of the company. Maybe its because they have outrageous salaries in comparison to the rest of the workforce.
consumers aren't going to accept $80-$100 game titles, especially not with mobile game prices in the 99 cent â" $4.99 range.
Does anyone actually believe this? It gets repeated over and over, but it makes zero sense. There isn't a single gamer that can't recognize the difference between the complexity of a mobile game and something like Skyrim.
I get the feeling that this statement is just being repeated over and over in a lame attempt to brainwash people into believing it.
Clearly the intent of the poster was placed upon the state of inebriation. Your last paragraph also deals with this. So in context it would seem that your link suggests that the definition of 'drunk' could be called into question, but it actually just outlines what constitutes 'operating a motor vehicle'. So yeah, it IS pretty easy to avoid drunk driving, contrary to your assertion.
That's the big problem whenever someone trots out the "our founding fathers" argument. People assume that they were a unified front and all shared the same vision and philosophies, when in fact you could find a wide range of opinions. Some espoused rewriting the Consitution on a regular basis.
So when people cite "what our founding fathers would want", I always wonder which one(s).
I think George Lucas ought to be careful of movie scenario he puts on his movies.
Children watching the movie might just do what the hero does - hide inside a fridge, - and suffocate, just like that poor child who died 4 decades ago
Indeed. I hear there have been a rash of small children jumping out of crashing planes and trying to sail gracefully to the ground using only an inflatable raft. Most don't make it, and of those that do, none have successful in riding the raft safely down the side of a mountain and over waterfalls.
The real reason why it is successful is because people are stupid enough to think all Apple products are top shelf.
It's kind of funny that there are people that still cling to this anti-Apple argument. Any person who objectively evaluates various tablets after actually using them admits that the Ipad is far and away the better, more polished product. I've been waiting for a non-Apple tablet for a long time, but each new product is just a new pretender.
For something to dethrone the Ipad, it will need to be as good as (if not better) AND come in at a lower price. That's a tall order.
Apple products have always been about form over function - people would even buy them if the cases were empty.
Funny how people love to trot out this argument, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Even the topic here (Siri, in case you forgot) is entirely about functionality.
Just a fyi - what YOU perceive to be a valued function may not be the same as what the person next to you values.
Ebook prices are NOT falling, I don't know where you are getting that idea. Prices are increasing. Usually they are on par with the physical equivalent. Ebooks of a hardcover book are around $14-15. Ebooks of paperbacks are usually MORE expensive, since the physical book gets a discount and ebooks are rarely discounted.
Book publishers are just as bad (if not worse) than the recording industry.
Wow, what a visionary. Other predictions include: the world economy may start to show signs of weakness,the Middle East will become an area of political unrest, and computers will become commonplace.
These and other predictions can be found in 'The Big Book of Things That Are Already Happening'.
This might have been noteworthy years ago, but this is pretty commonplace in the here and now.
plenty of top-notch games can be downloaded in a minute for a dollar.
Apparently their definition of 'top-notch' is much more lenient than mine. 99.9% of smartphone games are crap. And most of the remaining could be more accurately described as 'diversions' than 'games'.
I have a bunch of games on my Ipad and Iphone, but none that I would want to play for more than 10 minutes at a time.
In short, I would rather have 1 Dragon Quest game for $40 than 40 $1 games.
They know nothing about it? Hardly. Quite a bit is known. The iPhone has been around for 4 generations of devices, each one being an extension of the last. Generation 5 will be an extension of gen 4. So already there is quite a bit known.
The other day I went running. I thought it would be fun, as haven't gone running in years. Today my legs are so sore! After some research on the web, I found that there are thousands of people that have sore legs after running! Clearly, this is some sort of health risk, and there is a conspiracy between the athletic supply companies to keep peddling their wares and suppressing discussion of the discomfort brought on by running.
I, for one, will never run again. I will encourage my family and friends to do the same.
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It may be true for expensive physical products, but when the price is low (as $10 is compared to a $500 tablet), the price is dominated by other factors.
For years publishers had been crying that the reason for the high price of books was due to the high expense of production & warehousing. Enter ebooks and those expenses are gone. Sure there are some new expenses, but nothing even remotely approaching production and warehousing. Logically, the price of ebooks should be reduced but instead have been artificially propped up with the agency model.
"other factors" is just a nice way of saying greed.
Why only CEOs? Maybe it's because they set the direction of the company. Maybe its because they have outrageous salaries in comparison to the rest of the workforce.
Does anyone actually believe this? It gets repeated over and over, but it makes zero sense. There isn't a single gamer that can't recognize the difference between the complexity of a mobile game and something like Skyrim. I get the feeling that this statement is just being repeated over and over in a lame attempt to brainwash people into believing it.
I see what you did there.
Clearly the intent of the poster was placed upon the state of inebriation. Your last paragraph also deals with this. So in context it would seem that your link suggests that the definition of 'drunk' could be called into question, but it actually just outlines what constitutes 'operating a motor vehicle'. So yeah, it IS pretty easy to avoid drunk driving, contrary to your assertion.
Pretty sneaky, sis.
www.eye.fi
Keep a laptop nearby and have all the media transmitted wirelessly to it.
So when people cite "what our founding fathers would want", I always wonder which one(s).
Indeed. I hear there have been a rash of small children jumping out of crashing planes and trying to sail gracefully to the ground using only an inflatable raft. Most don't make it, and of those that do, none have successful in riding the raft safely down the side of a mountain and over waterfalls.
It's a shame, really.
How does trolling get modded as insightful?
This was in a SF Weekly article back in 2010. http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-09-08/news/farmvillains/
There's a big difference between being "curious" and downloading and saving it to an easily hidden & portable device for future usage.
Take off your tinfoil hat and put on a thinking cap.
Which sounds great until you realize that the constitution is more complex and more open to interpretation than most people realize.
Sounds perfect. Another self-resolving problem.
Ah, so you must be the proverbial troll living under the bridge.
Sorry, you can't have my phone.
It's kind of funny that there are people that still cling to this anti-Apple argument. Any person who objectively evaluates various tablets after actually using them admits that the Ipad is far and away the better, more polished product. I've been waiting for a non-Apple tablet for a long time, but each new product is just a new pretender.
For something to dethrone the Ipad, it will need to be as good as (if not better) AND come in at a lower price. That's a tall order.
Funny how people love to trot out this argument, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Even the topic here (Siri, in case you forgot) is entirely about functionality.
Just a fyi - what YOU perceive to be a valued function may not be the same as what the person next to you values.
I think his point is that he's an insane zealot that loves hyperbole.
Wow, trolling in the summary?
Thank you for writing an excellent summary of the update.
Ebook prices are NOT falling, I don't know where you are getting that idea. Prices are increasing. Usually they are on par with the physical equivalent. Ebooks of a hardcover book are around $14-15. Ebooks of paperbacks are usually MORE expensive, since the physical book gets a discount and ebooks are rarely discounted.
Book publishers are just as bad (if not worse) than the recording industry.
Saying something again doesn't mean that you were right.
Wow, what a visionary. Other predictions include: the world economy may start to show signs of weakness,the Middle East will become an area of political unrest, and computers will become commonplace.
These and other predictions can be found in 'The Big Book of Things That Are Already Happening'.
This might have been noteworthy years ago, but this is pretty commonplace in the here and now.
Apparently their definition of 'top-notch' is much more lenient than mine. 99.9% of smartphone games are crap. And most of the remaining could be more accurately described as 'diversions' than 'games'.
I have a bunch of games on my Ipad and Iphone, but none that I would want to play for more than 10 minutes at a time.
In short, I would rather have 1 Dragon Quest game for $40 than 40 $1 games.
It's Spider-man, not Spiderman. Unless the new character is Saul Spiderman from upstate New York.
They know nothing about it? Hardly. Quite a bit is known. The iPhone has been around for 4 generations of devices, each one being an extension of the last. Generation 5 will be an extension of gen 4. So already there is quite a bit known.
The summary and article is just a bunch of FUD.
The other day I went running. I thought it would be fun, as haven't gone running in years. Today my legs are so sore! After some research on the web, I found that there are thousands of people that have sore legs after running! Clearly, this is some sort of health risk, and there is a conspiracy between the athletic supply companies to keep peddling their wares and suppressing discussion of the discomfort brought on by running.
I, for one, will never run again. I will encourage my family and friends to do the same.