I think the biggest change is that we are no longer really looking for stores, but showrooms. We need a place where we can go and look at the products, touch them, see if they do what they are meant to do. Then we can buy them online. These showrooms may have some small stock but their revenue will be from renting space to the company to showcase their products.
I will deal with a mega corporation if I know my first amendment rights are being upheld. It is an attemp to block journalism. Because the president only seems to watch tv and doesn’t like what CNN says and it differs from his yes men say to him.
If that happened during the Obama administration there will be hell to pay too. Granted for some people the far left would be fully supportive of this this as it would kill two birds with one stone. However it doesn’t make it right even if it was Fox News.
Because we are crossing into free speech issues here.
Priorities man! This is a blantent way to hinder first amendment rights. Sure giant corporations are bad, however breaking them up to attempt to silence their hired journalists is evil.
For them to directly tell a company that they have to sell a particular unit to make the deal go threw is a bit shady. Then you combine it with the fact that unit they want to sell is a news organization, that tends to be critical of the their boss, or more to the point their boss doesn’t like them because he prefers stations that suck up to him. Is worrying because it seems like the president is trying to mess with the freedom of press in any ways possible.
Now media mergers are not good for the population however preventing them to silence them is just evil.
Or it could be a flop. However unlike other companies Apple at least tries to get into different markets. If they were still only making Macs like in the 1990s then Apple would be doomed. However they jumped onto the MP3 player market and the smart phone market. To keep the company current and to prevent being obsolete.
Apple tends to do a good job at perfecting existing technology and ideas and make a gimmick toy to a successful product that is widely used. But they are not perfect. VR and AR has been problem markets. While cool not necessarily overall useful.
Was her battery life already draining quickly? Older device at the end of iOS chain is also near the end of the expected battery life. Granted if these devices had user teplacable batteries you should be able to use these “premium” phones for over a decade. But like most OS updates the newer OS uses more cpu cycles expecting a faster device so does use more battery. Combine that with an older device with a battery that isn’t holding its charge as well compounds the problem. Yes iOS 11 had some issues but 11.01 seemed to address those problems
Even if Apple didn’t inforce patents it would still get legal suits over patent infringement. Because they are about 10 million patents and undoubtedly any high tech design would come across them. And unlike trademark laws. You don’t have to inforce a patent claim to prove it is valid so you can hold onto it until someone makes a load of money and then you can get a big chunk of cash from it. Vs stopping it before they make a product and you get little.
The problem for a lot of these is a lack of clean, safe and cheap energy. We got dependent of fossil fuels which are dirty, mostly safe and currently cheap. This in general limited our progress in transportation because any faster or less fuel efficient the dirty part of the fuel will have more of a cost then a benefit. We are already paying for the cost now except for a few idiots who want to ignore the problem of the world.
But they get in power from being in these local positions for a few years. If we were more involved in our local politics then national. We may actually get good people at the higher levels.
Even at $1000 for a device it is still affordable for most people to purchase without making major sacrifices in their life.
How many of you get the brand name food at the market and skip the cheaper by $0.10 store brand. Just because you know you get a little bit more quality and consistency with the named brand. And the decision may only add a few more bucks to your grocery bill.
Just as today is voting day in the United stated. Being that it is an off year election only the local officials are running. However the local officials are the ones who will directly control your quality of life and the community, yet we don’t go out and masses and vote for them. Then we get supposed that a million dollars is wasted and the officials just go off unpunished because voting is so low for their positions and local news is so scarce that they can get away with it.
We can live with an idiot baby as president, but we need an adult who is mayor and town clerk. Otherwise we get real problems.
The complexity of business. Samsung OLED display unit isn’t in competition with Apple, Apple is actually their #1 customer. Apple will give them specs and engineering designs which they may be contractual set to not share with its own phone units. So Samsung cannot use Apples specs for their phone. So Samsung phone unit will need to come up with its own specs and have their OLED display unit make it for them. Samsung advantage is that it is the same company they can have these displays a bit cheaper.
I have seen other durability tests where the iPhone X outperform others as well. Now it is still an electronic device with large glass panels. So don’t be using it like it is a harden steal wrench (spanner for these across the pond)
That said the last screen I had broke was from an old candy bar shaped phone I got in 1998. I had broke that plastic screen in 2002 after bumping it slightly on a corner table.
Dude you are getting ripped off at your job if you work in Silicon Valley for 50k. You probably should find a job somewhere cheaper where 50k can give you a middle class life style.
Compared to what phones. There are some phones built like a tank. While the iPhone 4,5,8 and 10 have a front and back glass panels. Also these new devises are bigger. So there is more room for breakage. It can still be the strongest glass but still be damaged. Also as of not these were not real world tests. They were rigged tests for reproducibility.
Normally there is a balance between flexibility and hardness. A screen that will not easily shatter is also more likely to be scratched.
Apple, Samsung and Google are making competing products for the same user base where they are trying to make the ultimate premium phone. The other makers are trying to either make gaming phones, or inexpensive phones. Or phones with extra ports or add on parts.
Apple and Samsung are the luxury car market thus they are compared against. While some good devices are more like sports cars which may perform faster but has less features. Or some will be like pickup trucks that can do a heck of a lot but may be large and bulky.
Just because the Apple iPhone X is getting good reviews and it isn’t suffering from a something gate yet. Doesn’t mean you need to buy it you can get an other device and still had made a good purchase because your needs are different.
Yea I want reviews give praises to my phone! Not theirs. I want confirmation bias to my favor. Because I put thought in what device I want to have and I had weighed the pros and cons and made my decision. How dare someone else make a different choice! They must be paid off or just stupid. Because these benefits were all about the features that I had decided I didn’t need as much compared to other features and benefits.
The problem is you can’t trust an algorithm to determine is something is suitable or not. The internet has a lot of content however it is managed by an algorithm so odd gaps get by. Where in the old days all public content was censored by a select group of humans.
I mean besides improving human rights, but in general China with new Environmental Laws, and fair advertising laws. It appears they are taking full advantage of America's new isolation and separation from the world market. To really get a head start on changes to the world and economy, while America as its largest competition puts its head in the sand, and pushes for the quick buck at the expense of long term advantages. By the time enough Americans realize how far behind we get, we may be too far behind to catch up to the world market.
They don't want Computer Science Grad students either. They want someone who can implement the stuff that the Execs had purchased from a vendor who lied threw their teeth to sell. It uses "Advanced AI" to do stuff your existing product already did.
Tuition reimbursement, is a good way for a company to keep their staff from leaving the company. They will be working as long as they are in school, and may be up for promotion by the time they are done. If they are not up to promotion, then they will quit the job without having to get fired, and with the higher education they will be more employable, so you don't feel guilty of getting rid of an employee.
As one of those STEP MBA, it comes down to a bunch of factors. 1. Ageism: As a Gen-Xer, I am getting too old to be attractive to the hot new tech companies. They look at skills such as SQL, C, C++, FORTRAN, SOAP, Unix systems as skills of a bygone era. While GO and Swift and No-SQL, RESTFUL Services as the future, Even if I put this new stuff on my resume, it is covered by the fact that I know the Old stuff too, and people think I am just padding my Resume.
2. Skill sets gap: What you study in Grad school vs. what the industry needs is quite different. If you code stuff too advanced then what the others can comprehend, then your code is mostly useless, because you will be stuck maintaining it, and not moving onto the new product, So you need to keep your skill at a level where the others can cover for your.
3. Limited Promotion Chain: As a tech worker, you can only get so far up, until the company decides you are too expensive for what they need. So you need alternate non-tech skills to keep yourself as a valuable asset.
4. Able to Talk the Talk: Having a technically competent MBA on your team is quite useful, as they can often explain things on how the bosses see things. Here is an actual Cost Benefit analysis of making your program run 10x faster, by fixing the indexing, at the cost of an 1 hour downtime. Present new ideas in terms of the company strategy. And being able to isolate the tech workers from a lot of the Executives bad decisions.
5. A way out of tech: As part of ageism, there may get to a point where I will not be able to adapt to the new technology. So with my MBA I can go directly into management even in a different sector all together.
You can get Honda Fit which does 95% what a Roles Royce at 1/8th the cost. You can make your dinner at home, or go to a fancy restaurant and get the same food at the cost of a month of grocery trips.
The thing is freaking people out is that it went over the 1k mark. while the other in the same category are in the 0.95k mark. So it passed a threshold from our base 10 mathematics (Or base 2 if you get the extra storage).
At this phase of the game, iPhone users will stick with iPhones, and Android Users will stick with android, unless one side really makes a bad product, or a side can come up with something past the rectangle screen. There isn't much point getting so angry at the person who wanted a nice phone which will be on their person for 3 or 4 years.
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I think the biggest change is that we are no longer really looking for stores, but showrooms. We need a place where we can go and look at the products, touch them, see if they do what they are meant to do. Then we can buy them online. These showrooms may have some small stock but their revenue will be from renting space to the company to showcase their products.
Amazon.com?
I will deal with a mega corporation if I know my first amendment rights are being upheld. It is an attemp to block journalism. Because the president only seems to watch tv and doesn’t like what CNN says and it differs from his yes men say to him.
If that happened during the Obama administration there will be hell to pay too. Granted for some people the far left would be fully supportive of this this as it would kill two birds with one stone. However it doesn’t make it right even if it was Fox News.
Because we are crossing into free speech issues here.
Priorities man!
This is a blantent way to hinder first amendment rights.
Sure giant corporations are bad, however breaking them up to attempt to silence their hired journalists is evil.
For them to directly tell a company that they have to sell a particular unit to make the deal go threw is a bit shady. Then you combine it with the fact that unit they want to sell is a news organization, that tends to be critical of the their boss, or more to the point their boss doesn’t like them because he prefers stations that suck up to him. Is worrying because it seems like the president is trying to mess with the freedom of press in any ways possible.
Now media mergers are not good for the population however preventing them to silence them is just evil.
That is why they removed the headphone jack. That little extra space allows room for natural battery expansion and prevent explosions.
Or it could be a flop. However unlike other companies Apple at least tries to get into different markets. If they were still only making Macs like in the 1990s then Apple would be doomed. However they jumped onto the MP3 player market and the smart phone market. To keep the company current and to prevent being obsolete.
Apple tends to do a good job at perfecting existing technology and ideas and make a gimmick toy to a successful product that is widely used. But they are not perfect. VR and AR has been problem markets. While cool not necessarily overall useful.
Was her battery life already draining quickly?
Older device at the end of iOS chain is also near the end of the expected battery life. Granted if these devices had user teplacable batteries you should be able to use these “premium” phones for over a decade. But like most OS updates the newer OS uses more cpu cycles expecting a faster device so does use more battery. Combine that with an older device with a battery that isn’t holding its charge as well compounds the problem.
Yes iOS 11 had some issues but 11.01 seemed to address those problems
Even if Apple didn’t inforce patents it would still get legal suits over patent infringement.
Because they are about 10 million patents and undoubtedly any high tech design would come across them. And unlike trademark laws. You don’t have to inforce a patent claim to prove it is valid so you can hold onto it until someone makes a load of money and then you can get a big chunk of cash from it. Vs stopping it before they make a product and you get little.
The problem for a lot of these is a lack of clean, safe and cheap energy.
We got dependent of fossil fuels which are dirty, mostly safe and currently cheap.
This in general limited our progress in transportation because any faster or less fuel efficient the dirty part of the fuel will have more of a cost then a benefit. We are already paying for the cost now except for a few idiots who want to ignore the problem of the world.
But they get in power from being in these local positions for a few years. If we were more involved in our local politics then national. We may actually get good people at the higher levels.
Even at $1000 for a device it is still affordable for most people to purchase without making major sacrifices in their life.
How many of you get the brand name food at the market and skip the cheaper by $0.10 store brand. Just because you know you get a little bit more quality and consistency with the named brand. And the decision may only add a few more bucks to your grocery bill.
Just as today is voting day in the United stated. Being that it is an off year election only the local officials are running. However the local officials are the ones who will directly control your quality of life and the community, yet we don’t go out and masses and vote for them. Then we get supposed that a million dollars is wasted and the officials just go off unpunished because voting is so low for their positions and local news is so scarce that they can get away with it.
We can live with an idiot baby as president, but we need an adult who is mayor and town clerk. Otherwise we get real problems.
The complexity of business. Samsung OLED display unit isn’t in competition with Apple, Apple is actually their #1 customer. Apple will give them specs and engineering designs which they may be contractual set to not share with its own phone units. So Samsung cannot use Apples specs for their phone. So Samsung phone unit will need to come up with its own specs and have their OLED display unit make it for them.
Samsung advantage is that it is the same company they can have these displays a bit cheaper.
I have seen other durability tests where the iPhone X outperform others as well. Now it is still an electronic device with large glass panels. So don’t be using it like it is a harden steal wrench (spanner for these across the pond)
That said the last screen I had broke was from an old candy bar shaped phone I got in 1998. I had broke that plastic screen in 2002 after bumping it slightly on a corner table.
Dude you are getting ripped off at your job if you work in Silicon Valley for 50k.
You probably should find a job somewhere cheaper where 50k can give you a middle class life style.
Compared to what phones. There are some phones built like a tank. While the iPhone 4,5,8 and 10 have a front and back glass panels. Also these new devises are bigger. So there is more room for breakage. It can still be the strongest glass but still be damaged.
Also as of not these were not real world tests. They were rigged tests for reproducibility.
Normally there is a balance between flexibility and hardness. A screen that will not easily shatter is also more likely to be scratched.
Apple, Samsung and Google are making competing products for the same user base where they are trying to make the ultimate premium phone. The other makers are trying to either make gaming phones, or inexpensive phones. Or phones with extra ports or add on parts.
Apple and Samsung are the luxury car market thus they are compared against.
While some good devices are more like sports cars which may perform faster but has less features. Or some will be like pickup trucks that can do a heck of a lot but may be large and bulky.
Just because the Apple iPhone X is getting good reviews and it isn’t suffering from a something gate yet. Doesn’t mean you need to buy it you can get an other device and still had made a good purchase because your needs are different.
Yea I want reviews give praises to my phone! Not theirs. I want confirmation bias to my favor. Because I put thought in what device I want to have and I had weighed the pros and cons and made my decision. How dare someone else make a different choice! They must be paid off or just stupid. Because these benefits were all about the features that I had decided I didn’t need as much compared to other features and benefits.
The problem is you can’t trust an algorithm to determine is something is suitable or not. The internet has a lot of content however it is managed by an algorithm so odd gaps get by. Where in the old days all public content was censored by a select group of humans.
I mean besides improving human rights, but in general China with new Environmental Laws, and fair advertising laws. It appears they are taking full advantage of America's new isolation and separation from the world market. To really get a head start on changes to the world and economy, while America as its largest competition puts its head in the sand, and pushes for the quick buck at the expense of long term advantages. By the time enough Americans realize how far behind we get, we may be too far behind to catch up to the world market.
They don't want Computer Science Grad students either. They want someone who can implement the stuff that the Execs had purchased from a vendor who lied threw their teeth to sell. It uses "Advanced AI" to do stuff your existing product already did.
Tuition reimbursement, is a good way for a company to keep their staff from leaving the company. They will be working as long as they are in school, and may be up for promotion by the time they are done. If they are not up to promotion, then they will quit the job without having to get fired, and with the higher education they will be more employable, so you don't feel guilty of getting rid of an employee.
As one of those STEP MBA, it comes down to a bunch of factors.
1. Ageism: As a Gen-Xer, I am getting too old to be attractive to the hot new tech companies. They look at skills such as SQL, C, C++, FORTRAN, SOAP, Unix systems as skills of a bygone era. While GO and Swift and No-SQL, RESTFUL Services as the future, Even if I put this new stuff on my resume, it is covered by the fact that I know the Old stuff too, and people think I am just padding my Resume.
2. Skill sets gap: What you study in Grad school vs. what the industry needs is quite different. If you code stuff too advanced then what the others can comprehend, then your code is mostly useless, because you will be stuck maintaining it, and not moving onto the new product, So you need to keep your skill at a level where the others can cover for your.
3. Limited Promotion Chain: As a tech worker, you can only get so far up, until the company decides you are too expensive for what they need. So you need alternate non-tech skills to keep yourself as a valuable asset.
4. Able to Talk the Talk: Having a technically competent MBA on your team is quite useful, as they can often explain things on how the bosses see things. Here is an actual Cost Benefit analysis of making your program run 10x faster, by fixing the indexing, at the cost of an 1 hour downtime. Present new ideas in terms of the company strategy. And being able to isolate the tech workers from a lot of the Executives bad decisions.
5. A way out of tech: As part of ageism, there may get to a point where I will not be able to adapt to the new technology. So with my MBA I can go directly into management even in a different sector all together.
You can get Honda Fit which does 95% what a Roles Royce at 1/8th the cost.
You can make your dinner at home, or go to a fancy restaurant and get the same food at the cost of a month of grocery trips.
The thing is freaking people out is that it went over the 1k mark. while the other in the same category are in the 0.95k mark. So it passed a threshold from our base 10 mathematics (Or base 2 if you get the extra storage).
At this phase of the game, iPhone users will stick with iPhones, and Android Users will stick with android, unless one side really makes a bad product, or a side can come up with something past the rectangle screen. There isn't much point getting so angry at the person who wanted a nice phone which will be on their person for 3 or 4 years.