Some apps are system sellers. To take an example from another market, if you want Super Smash Bros. Brawl, it doesn't matter how many games the Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3, and PC can run; you need a Wii. I don't own an iPhone and am therefore not familiar with the apps considered system sellers on that platform, but I imagine that they exist.
I don't think the platform killer-game analogy works with iOS versus Android. Nearly everything is developed for both platforms, and in the rare case that one is not available on the other, there are hundreds of alternatives.
Who cares which one has more apps? This is the same argument as the mid-90s "Windows is better than Mac because there's more software" argument. Exactly how many word processors do we need again?
The thing about Lion is if you ignore the tablet influenced features, you forget they are there and just don't use them. I'm with you. Something tells me Microsoft will get this part all wrong in their effort to jump on the tablet bandwagon (2 years late).
Please explain how you can make file copies better.
For one, start by telling the user that there's not enough space on the target volume BEFORE starting the copy. Let users copy a file from one location to another while it is in use. Give realistic feedback about how much time is remaining. That's just three off the top of my head.
Here, here. I don't think even the newest Mac convert coming from iOS land uses Launchpad. It is semi useful for people who can't find their apps (in the apps folder, or by using spotlight, derp), in that it will show you every app that is on your computer. I actually bought something from the App store and couldn't find it (couldn't remember what it was called). Ok, that's a stretch, but true story...
I hope Windows 8 is at least interesting. Win 7 is good because it works like Win XP should have worked 10 years ago, instead of having to wait years for usable service packs, and still be stuck with the goofy Fisher-Price interface. Win 7 fixed all that, but now just feels long in the tooth. Maybe MS can actually innovate for once (at the UI level, that is) and not just make something different to be different.
The phase "scapegoat" has mutated from the term "escape goat" in biblical times and referred to one of two goats sent for sacrifice which was allowed to get away: http://www.keyway.ca/htm2004/20040924.htm
That's all nice talk, until somebody actually does it, however, it's exactly that--talk. Jobs actually did what everyone else claims is so easy to do, without actually doing it themselves.
By the way, "innovate" and "invent" aren't the same thing. You seem to be conflating the two.
And what Daimler model are you talking about? Every Daimler sedan available in Germany is available in the US (with different engine/safety/environmental specs).
I think Harry Potter analogy is in order. What if Coach handbags and the lot started manufacturing one of those Bag of Holding bags, but Gucci stuck to the traditional leather bag?
Saturn died because they made shitty cars that competed with too many other shitty GM brands. Or they imported shitty Opels and rebranded them. I think at one point, every Saturn model was a rebranded car from a European or Japanese company that GM was part-owner of.
Let me simplify. Upstate NY is like parts of the Pacific Northwest or Western Europe (Germany and the Czech Republic, for example), but with shittier weather. Good education, good people, too damned cold.
Game of Thrones. It will never come to DVD, or by the time it does, I will have exactly zero DVD capable devices in my house. Of course.torrent is doing me just fine, but I'd prefer to DVR it without paying a mortgage just to have 1,000 movie channels in order to record 12 1-hour episodes.
It ain't engineers or technicians that want to change things....
Us engineers and technicians understand the whole, "If it ain't broke, why fix it?" mentality.
Speak for yourself. I'm always looking to improve stuff.
Now, with that said; there is a problem with modern TV. It takes too damn long to change channels. Seriously, it takes a couple seconds per channel. To me, that's a critical design flaw that needs to be fixed, especially since that's a recent development with cable boxes. So there you go, the industry created a real problem. Now they need to fix it.
But nobody seems to be able to answer the big question: what exactly is so broken about TV anyway?
This irks me. Not even addressing the content available on TV, let's just look at what's wrong the device itself: Cost, form-factor, size, energy requirements, ergonomics, useless remotes...for starters. Seriously, this sort of nonchalant attitude about consumer devices is why consumer devices suck.
Now I have other first-world problems to go complain about...
No, the definition of ageism is acting up on that value assessment.
You don't have to act on any strongly held bigoted belief to be a bigot, outside of opening one's bigoted mouth and sharing those bigoted ideas with others. Just because somebody isn't in the position to deny a job to somebody doesn't mean they aren't bigoted.
I'll give you an example. Saying the older guy is less valuable than the younger guy, without providing any empirical evidence to support that notion, is ageism without "acting up on that value assessment". Just stating it on an Internet forum is bigoted enough.
When you make comments like a younger person is more valuable and more flexible than an older person, without any evidence to support that, it is the DEFINITION of ageism.
I suppose you wouldn't hire a woman either, because she has to "miss days" to do things like have babies and cook dinner. And you can't really hire a guy with preexisting medical conditions either, right?
Besides, I'm willing to bet that "some old guy" misses fewer days of work than "hungover stayed up late playing too much WoW guy".
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Some apps are system sellers. To take an example from another market, if you want Super Smash Bros. Brawl, it doesn't matter how many games the Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3, and PC can run; you need a Wii. I don't own an iPhone and am therefore not familiar with the apps considered system sellers on that platform, but I imagine that they exist.
I don't think the platform killer-game analogy works with iOS versus Android. Nearly everything is developed for both platforms, and in the rare case that one is not available on the other, there are hundreds of alternatives.
Who cares which one has more apps? This is the same argument as the mid-90s "Windows is better than Mac because there's more software" argument. Exactly how many word processors do we need again?
Script kiddies are capable of breaking NSA encryption? How come none of them work for foreign governments then?
Frequency hopping, anyone? Good luck jamming the entire RF spectrum.
The thing about Lion is if you ignore the tablet influenced features, you forget they are there and just don't use them. I'm with you. Something tells me Microsoft will get this part all wrong in their effort to jump on the tablet bandwagon (2 years late).
Please explain how you can make file copies better.
For one, start by telling the user that there's not enough space on the target volume BEFORE starting the copy. Let users copy a file from one location to another while it is in use. Give realistic feedback about how much time is remaining. That's just three off the top of my head.
WHY???!?!?!?!
Because for years newbs and Windows switchers have complained about the multiple window metaphor and lack of full screen mode?
Here, here. I don't think even the newest Mac convert coming from iOS land uses Launchpad. It is semi useful for people who can't find their apps (in the apps folder, or by using spotlight, derp), in that it will show you every app that is on your computer. I actually bought something from the App store and couldn't find it (couldn't remember what it was called). Ok, that's a stretch, but true story...
I hope Windows 8 is at least interesting. Win 7 is good because it works like Win XP should have worked 10 years ago, instead of having to wait years for usable service packs, and still be stuck with the goofy Fisher-Price interface. Win 7 fixed all that, but now just feels long in the tooth. Maybe MS can actually innovate for once (at the UI level, that is) and not just make something different to be different.
The idea is that most people might not even end up needing to use the desktop.
Apple figured this out a long time ago but all you naysayers on here just called it "an oversized iPhone that doesn't make phone calls".
For all intense purposes your saying the same thing.
Same difference.
I could care less.
The phase "scapegoat" has mutated from the term "escape goat" in biblical times and referred to one of two goats sent for sacrifice which was allowed to get away: http://www.keyway.ca/htm2004/20040924.htm
supposively
Maybe "your" the moron...
That's all nice talk, until somebody actually does it, however, it's exactly that--talk. Jobs actually did what everyone else claims is so easy to do, without actually doing it themselves.
By the way, "innovate" and "invent" aren't the same thing. You seem to be conflating the two.
And what Daimler model are you talking about? Every Daimler sedan available in Germany is available in the US (with different engine/safety/environmental specs).
I think Harry Potter analogy is in order. What if Coach handbags and the lot started manufacturing one of those Bag of Holding bags, but Gucci stuck to the traditional leather bag?
Saturn died because they made shitty cars that competed with too many other shitty GM brands. Or they imported shitty Opels and rebranded them. I think at one point, every Saturn model was a rebranded car from a European or Japanese company that GM was part-owner of.
Let me simplify. Upstate NY is like parts of the Pacific Northwest or Western Europe (Germany and the Czech Republic, for example), but with shittier weather. Good education, good people, too damned cold.
Game of Thrones. It will never come to DVD, or by the time it does, I will have exactly zero DVD capable devices in my house. Of course .torrent is doing me just fine, but I'd prefer to DVR it without paying a mortgage just to have 1,000 movie channels in order to record 12 1-hour episodes.
You cannot comprehend History Channel's program, therefore, aliens.
For most people, there is more good quality programming than there is time to watch.
It ain't engineers or technicians that want to change things. ...
Us engineers and technicians understand the whole, "If it ain't broke, why fix it?" mentality.
Speak for yourself. I'm always looking to improve stuff.
Now, with that said; there is a problem with modern TV. It takes too damn long to change channels. Seriously, it takes a couple seconds per channel. To me, that's a critical design flaw that needs to be fixed, especially since that's a recent development with cable boxes. So there you go, the industry created a real problem. Now they need to fix it.
Exactly.
But nobody seems to be able to answer the big question: what exactly is so broken about TV anyway?
This irks me. Not even addressing the content available on TV, let's just look at what's wrong the device itself: Cost, form-factor, size, energy requirements, ergonomics, useless remotes...for starters. Seriously, this sort of nonchalant attitude about consumer devices is why consumer devices suck.
Now I have other first-world problems to go complain about...
No, the definition of ageism is acting up on that value assessment.
You don't have to act on any strongly held bigoted belief to be a bigot, outside of opening one's bigoted mouth and sharing those bigoted ideas with others. Just because somebody isn't in the position to deny a job to somebody doesn't mean they aren't bigoted.
I'll give you an example. Saying the older guy is less valuable than the younger guy, without providing any empirical evidence to support that notion, is ageism without "acting up on that value assessment". Just stating it on an Internet forum is bigoted enough.
When you make comments like a younger person is more valuable and more flexible than an older person, without any evidence to support that, it is the DEFINITION of ageism.
I suppose you wouldn't hire a woman either, because she has to "miss days" to do things like have babies and cook dinner. And you can't really hire a guy with preexisting medical conditions either, right?
Besides, I'm willing to bet that "some old guy" misses fewer days of work than "hungover stayed up late playing too much WoW guy".
That's pretty disingenuous. The unemployment rates for college graduates in the tech industry is well below 3%.