Well, people wanted a "trusted platform", and here's one of the issues with doing that. It appears Apple wants to authenticate devices that pair with iOS. No different from your Palladium or trusted computing, the schemes in place for your XBox (which is nothing more than a low-end PC with a TPC device) etc. But because it's Apple people are whining about it.
So long as he influences in a positive way, everyone gets what they want. There's still profit to be had in these low-cost devices, maybe not as much, but you get a HUGE additional market and more wealthy clients (read: not developing nations) can rev them every year if you want. Who cares about upgrading when your data is stored in the cloud and the new device is only $100?
The key is that BOTH groups gain from this influence, and I thank him for his efforts. Education brings the world's standard of living higher and promotes humankind's progress as a whole. One of these previously-uneducated people may solve the cure for cancer, or do something equally important, and they're just out there waiting to be discovered. Give 'em a chance.
I feel for you. Everyone should have a right to be educated and access to (e)books is central to that.
There are (slowly) more options becoming available... Khan Academy and Project Gutenberg for example. Even entering "free book downloads" in Google returns a lot of stuff.
I would imagine that print-on-demand services would help in cases where it's not offered in other places. I keep hearing about them but I've yet to see one in person... do they really exist (outside a lab)? That would enable you to get around the physical delivery issues and provide a large set of choices without taking too much physical space... there are some things such as textbooks which work better printed than in an ebook format. Whomever successfully implements this in areas such as these will do the world a favor, and possibly also make some money in the process.
+1 Insightful. I've unfriended several people because of their extremist beliefs, their lack of tolerance for others, and/or their association with offensive people or groups. I don't want anyone to think I share their views, and I don't like wincing when I see some of the stuff people are willing to post.
Some people use SO many apps... I have a couple of acquaintances who regularly install apps and it's becoming a real chore to constantly have to block each app. At some point you say "wow this is a lot of work just so I can occasionally hear something interesting about so-and-so".
I haven't played WoW in a long time, not since Burning Crusade. So I missed WotLK.
If I restart my subscription now, and buy WotLK (so I have the most recent content available) do I have to pay again to get Cataclysm? If that's true it probably makes sense to do some catching up using Burning Crusade then wait for Cataclysm... assuming that option is still open.
Apologize in advance if this is obvious to anyone. Thanks.
Red Hat uses deltas for updates by default now, which tends to have a huge impact. In that instance I guess you could go the extra step and distribute deltas by torrent but the additional savings in time would probably be small. That and their servers seem to be pretty fast already.
Apple's market cap is bigger -- substantially so, approx $50 BILLION bigger. And growing, unlike Microsoft's, which has languished. Microsoft has had to announce a dividend just to try and keep investors interested -- their stock has been a very poor return on investment for many years. It's a desperate move.
I hope everyone gathers 'round and delivers to Microsoft the beating they've earned. They've caused SO much damage and left so many companies crippled or dead in their wake.
Schools seem to like the iDevices. If schools are your target market, that's a safe way to go. Do I dislike Android? Absolutely not, it's Linux for the masses. It just hasn't caught on as well with schools as teaching devices yet. It will get there at some point!
I've found the (somewhat pricey) Apple iPad case useful; it lets you prop up the screen at a slight angle when you're in landscape mode. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC361ZM/B
Yep, your points may very well be valid, I was simply showing the source as requested.
But I think by concentrating on volume you are missing the big picture: You can't make up low gross profit percentages with volume. Manufacturing costs per unit may go down, but infrastructure, distribution, support, logistics, packaging, and personnel costs go up as volume increases.
So what these reports (and others) are saying is Apple has the high-end market. Despite a much lower volume they make considerable money. That's interesting for a variety of reasons, and Apple has taken the position that the commodity PC vendors can fight over the scraps.
HP's currently valued at $90B and Dell at 24B. Together they are not quite half the valuation as Apple. Now, valuation isn't everything, but those numbers don't just magically appear, they are based on a lot of other factors, the majority of which have something to do with profitability or a perceived return on investment.
If Apple's tiny share of the market makes it far more valuable than 2 of the top PC manufacturers, what happens if it enlarges its share? And conversely, why should they reduce prices when they have so many buyers at the current prices -- enough to be profitable several times over the competition?
What is particularly interesting is the growth rate. Over a very short period of time, Apple has shipped 16% as many very high-margin devices as compared to BOTH HP and Dell.
They don't need the volume, they will take the profit. Apple now has like 90% of the $1000 and more computer market. They're selling iPads as fast as they can make them available. These devices make Apple hundreds of dollars in profit for each sale. The apps add lots more profit on top, at a low impulse-buy price point that Joe Sixpack can meet easily.
Ignoring Apple because of their market segment would put you in the league of many others that did so in the past, but that turned out not to be such a smart idea as they are now worth more ($262 bln market cap) than either Microsoft ($212) + Nokia ($37) or Cisco ($123) + Oracle ($137). Apple is calling a lot of shots nowadays, and with $45 bln in cash they can deliver some payback as they see fit.
Or they could just swim in pools full of cash. I'm sure there's an app for that.
Every blasted time someone mentions an iPad, some troll comes out of the woodwork to proclaim that netbooks are better. So in some strange way, the iPad may bring netbooks back. At least temporarily.
I don't know how much storage is required for a holographic two hour presentation, but I would guess a hell of a lot more than 50GB.
What if the presentation was stored as a bunch of models and formulas and not as pixels, and our set-top boxes were capable of recreating it in real-time? At some point I think we will be there. As computing power goes up, the need to transfer super-large files which only approximate reality may go down. It's not pixels all the way down, it's formulas and models and wavelets.
Really? Once the laws are in place, it becomes illegal to do many of the things we take for granted. It's not only possible, but already happening.
Amazon deleting books people bought is one example of taking back rights granted to consumers.
My cable company stopped offering a guide channel unless you pay for the digital box -- what happens when the listings are no longer available for free?
Maybe you like music lyrics -- have you seen the number of lyrics sites that have been shut down?
How many games require an online account / online connection to play solo?
How many games require online registration or activation after purchase?
How much computer software auto-updates, sometimes removing features you paid for?
You can't even cross the US border without worrying about the consequences of being caught with encrypted data/partitions.
What is being redefined, slowly but surely, is what rights you have as a computer user, what your computer is allowed to do, and what rights you have to "purchases" of content. Using encryption marks you for greater scrutiny by law enforcement. In some people's minds, merely using DeCSS or other software is against the law. It gets worse every day, in a little less freedom here and a little less freedom there.
We use dedicated hardware for sound input and output, for network communications, for phone-line communications, for wireless communications, for video input and output, for generic input devices (think USB / FireWire / etc)... and you're worried about another $0.50 component to enable us to overlay sprites without redrawing the screen behind them?
And this isn't just about Flash, it's about anytime you need animation of "sprite-like" objects. Your OS could benefit from it with the mouse cursor for instance. I can use up 2-5% CPU on most machines just by wildly flailing the mouse around. That's an extreme example of course.
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Well, people wanted a "trusted platform", and here's one of the issues with doing that. It appears Apple wants to authenticate devices that pair with iOS. No different from your Palladium or trusted computing, the schemes in place for your XBox (which is nothing more than a low-end PC with a TPC device) etc. But because it's Apple people are whining about it.
Thanks, I started my morning laughing. Well done.
It's a feature designed to prevent you from copying and pasting viruses you find on the internet.
So long as he influences in a positive way, everyone gets what they want. There's still profit to be had in these low-cost devices, maybe not as much, but you get a HUGE additional market and more wealthy clients (read: not developing nations) can rev them every year if you want. Who cares about upgrading when your data is stored in the cloud and the new device is only $100?
The key is that BOTH groups gain from this influence, and I thank him for his efforts. Education brings the world's standard of living higher and promotes humankind's progress as a whole. One of these previously-uneducated people may solve the cure for cancer, or do something equally important, and they're just out there waiting to be discovered. Give 'em a chance.
I feel for you. Everyone should have a right to be educated and access to (e)books is central to that.
There are (slowly) more options becoming available... Khan Academy and Project Gutenberg for example. Even entering "free book downloads" in Google returns a lot of stuff.
I would imagine that print-on-demand services would help in cases where it's not offered in other places. I keep hearing about them but I've yet to see one in person... do they really exist (outside a lab)? That would enable you to get around the physical delivery issues and provide a large set of choices without taking too much physical space... there are some things such as textbooks which work better printed than in an ebook format. Whomever successfully implements this in areas such as these will do the world a favor, and possibly also make some money in the process.
+1 Insightful. I've unfriended several people because of their extremist beliefs, their lack of tolerance for others, and/or their association with offensive people or groups. I don't want anyone to think I share their views, and I don't like wincing when I see some of the stuff people are willing to post.
Some people use SO many apps... I have a couple of acquaintances who regularly install apps and it's becoming a real chore to constantly have to block each app. At some point you say "wow this is a lot of work just so I can occasionally hear something interesting about so-and-so".
Drat. I'm cheap. Many thanks.
I haven't played WoW in a long time, not since Burning Crusade. So I missed WotLK.
If I restart my subscription now, and buy WotLK (so I have the most recent content available) do I have to pay again to get Cataclysm? If that's true it probably makes sense to do some catching up using Burning Crusade then wait for Cataclysm... assuming that option is still open.
Apologize in advance if this is obvious to anyone. Thanks.
Red Hat uses deltas for updates by default now, which tends to have a huge impact. In that instance I guess you could go the extra step and distribute deltas by torrent but the additional savings in time would probably be small. That and their servers seem to be pretty fast already.
Sort of like installing Tomato on Linksys routers? Oh, wait, we like that.
Apple's market cap is bigger -- substantially so, approx $50 BILLION bigger. And growing, unlike Microsoft's, which has languished. Microsoft has had to announce a dividend just to try and keep investors interested -- their stock has been a very poor return on investment for many years. It's a desperate move.
I hope everyone gathers 'round and delivers to Microsoft the beating they've earned. They've caused SO much damage and left so many companies crippled or dead in their wake.
It's about time, and I've got my popcorn ready.
I haven't used any OCR on iOS but I was able to find several apps. One named Prizmo seems to offer this feature. http://www.google.com/search?q=ocr+iphone&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Schools seem to like the iDevices. If schools are your target market, that's a safe way to go. Do I dislike Android? Absolutely not, it's Linux for the masses. It just hasn't caught on as well with schools as teaching devices yet. It will get there at some point!
I've found the (somewhat pricey) Apple iPad case useful; it lets you prop up the screen at a slight angle when you're in landscape mode. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC361ZM/B
That's a good point for others to see. In my case they're older children. Thanks.
I will buy the Zen magnets instead. Screw the Buckyballs people for being such dicks.
Yep, your points may very well be valid, I was simply showing the source as requested.
But I think by concentrating on volume you are missing the big picture: You can't make up low gross profit percentages with volume. Manufacturing costs per unit may go down, but infrastructure, distribution, support, logistics, packaging, and personnel costs go up as volume increases.
So what these reports (and others) are saying is Apple has the high-end market. Despite a much lower volume they make considerable money. That's interesting for a variety of reasons, and Apple has taken the position that the commodity PC vendors can fight over the scraps.
HP's currently valued at $90B and Dell at 24B. Together they are not quite half the valuation as Apple. Now, valuation isn't everything, but those numbers don't just magically appear, they are based on a lot of other factors, the majority of which have something to do with profitability or a perceived return on investment.
If Apple's tiny share of the market makes it far more valuable than 2 of the top PC manufacturers, what happens if it enlarges its share? And conversely, why should they reduce prices when they have so many buyers at the current prices -- enough to be profitable several times over the competition?
Civilization has ended. Hope you enjoyed the show.
Take a look... choose your source... it's been broadcast all over. http://www.google.com/search?q=apple+90%25+1000&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=snq&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=v&ei=Q1-aTPHsDoKC8ga60Jko&start=10&sa=N
What is particularly interesting is the growth rate. Over a very short period of time, Apple has shipped 16% as many very high-margin devices as compared to BOTH HP and Dell.
They don't need the volume, they will take the profit. Apple now has like 90% of the $1000 and more computer market. They're selling iPads as fast as they can make them available. These devices make Apple hundreds of dollars in profit for each sale. The apps add lots more profit on top, at a low impulse-buy price point that Joe Sixpack can meet easily.
Ignoring Apple because of their market segment would put you in the league of many others that did so in the past, but that turned out not to be such a smart idea as they are now worth more ($262 bln market cap) than either Microsoft ($212) + Nokia ($37) or Cisco ($123) + Oracle ($137). Apple is calling a lot of shots nowadays, and with $45 bln in cash they can deliver some payback as they see fit.
Or they could just swim in pools full of cash. I'm sure there's an app for that.
Every blasted time someone mentions an iPad, some troll comes out of the woodwork to proclaim that netbooks are better. So in some strange way, the iPad may bring netbooks back. At least temporarily.
I don't know how much storage is required for a holographic two hour presentation, but I would guess a hell of a lot more than 50GB.
What if the presentation was stored as a bunch of models and formulas and not as pixels, and our set-top boxes were capable of recreating it in real-time? At some point I think we will be there. As computing power goes up, the need to transfer super-large files which only approximate reality may go down. It's not pixels all the way down, it's formulas and models and wavelets.
What is being redefined, slowly but surely, is what rights you have as a computer user, what your computer is allowed to do, and what rights you have to "purchases" of content. Using encryption marks you for greater scrutiny by law enforcement. In some people's minds, merely using DeCSS or other software is against the law. It gets worse every day, in a little less freedom here and a little less freedom there.
We use dedicated hardware for sound input and output, for network communications, for phone-line communications, for wireless communications, for video input and output, for generic input devices (think USB / FireWire / etc)... and you're worried about another $0.50 component to enable us to overlay sprites without redrawing the screen behind them?
And this isn't just about Flash, it's about anytime you need animation of "sprite-like" objects. Your OS could benefit from it with the mouse cursor for instance. I can use up 2-5% CPU on most machines just by wildly flailing the mouse around. That's an extreme example of course.