This is one of the great things about Windows: there's no... it's-your-fault-you-write-your-own-driver dogma.
You are kidding, right? RIGHT? The number one problem people have with windows is drivers. Call for tech support and Microsoft will blame the driver vendor. Call the driver vendor and they'll blame Microsoft. The greatest strength of OS X is the lack of problems with drivers.
Spend $1200 on a MBP now, and reap the cost benefits later, as your Macbook Pro is still running 5 years from now and you are on your second or third Dell Shitbox by that time.
People wanted to have the same system at home as they had at the office.
I loved that argument. The notion I had to have the same computer at home that I did at work wasn't true 20 years ago, and it is especially no longer true today.
No, their culture is to make "insanely great" products, which is the sort of hyperbole they believe in, but gives the haters ample ammo. Contrast that with Dell and their razor thin margins and cheapest commodity components possible, and there's your reason most Apple customers love Apple products and nobody loves Dell.
The means Apple uses to differentiate its products (and thus to get their higher profit margins) is doing a few features really, really well.
Which is what I said. Talk to an Apple employee for 5 minutes and you'll be sick of the term "focus". It's ingrained in their culture, and they believe it. Others think it's a bit corny, but it seems to be working just fine.
Laugh all you want, while I laugh all the way to the bank as I sell another chunk of 100 or so Apple shares for a little spending money. There's a reason they are number one in nearly every business measurable, and it's not because of an incessant hand-wringing over the bottom line.
If anyone doesn't understand this, perhaps they can take a few minutes (preferably before replying) to look into why the company is called Daimler-Chrysler and is not called Chrysler-Daimler.
The only thing to understand here is that it is no longer Daimler-Chrysler, because Daimler could no longer shoulder the burdens of the crappy engineering and horrible business practices of Chrysler. As one of the world's foremost engineering and luxury car firms, Daimler could ill-afford the bad PR associated with their marriage with one of the worst car companies in the world.
Chrysler's culture of cookie-cutter, mass-produced garbage was incompatible with the Mercedes brand from day one.
We wouldn't need unions if we had strong, enforced labor laws set by a central government. But the States Rights! free-tard free-market lobbyists will never let that happen.
Have you been to an Apple store? That has to be the easiest retail job ever. People are throwing themselves in line to buy something. The retail worker just has to ring them up.
Speaking of a swing and a miss, both of you just stood there and struck out looking. Google doesn't advertise to kids because "kid tells parents to buy him cool thing he saw on cartoon ads" doesn't work on non-descript blue hyperlinks from Google.
That would work if Google sold ads that bombarded your senses, but they don't. A child wouldn't even notice a Google ad to click on it in the first place.
That's a different paradigm. Kids watch tv, see an ad, whine incessantly until weak-minded parent caves. Google knows better than to waste resources trying to advertise to kids who, a) have no money, and b) won't be clicking on a bunch of Google ads that pop up on their favorite web pages.
If you are in Europe or elsewhere just ignore this rant, but if you are American, please cite the section of the Constitution that elevates the status of people with kids. Otherwise you can insert your 'assertion' up your ass.
It's not in the Constitution, but it is in the US Tax Code.
I'm a father of three. I am not special because I was able to bed a woman and impregnate her.
There are enough people in this world having more children than they can afford. There is no pressing need for EVERYONE to have children in order to be considered good citizens by your standards.
The reason I had children is none of your business. If I never had children, this world would still have billions of people.
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This is one of the great things about Windows: there's no ... it's-your-fault-you-write-your-own-driver dogma.
You are kidding, right? RIGHT? The number one problem people have with windows is drivers. Call for tech support and Microsoft will blame the driver vendor. Call the driver vendor and they'll blame Microsoft. The greatest strength of OS X is the lack of problems with drivers.
Spend $1200 on a MBP now, and reap the cost benefits later, as your Macbook Pro is still running 5 years from now and you are on your second or third Dell Shitbox by that time.
People wanted to have the same system at home as they had at the office.
I loved that argument. The notion I had to have the same computer at home that I did at work wasn't true 20 years ago, and it is especially no longer true today.
This is an undocumented feature. How is this Apple drumming up good PR when they haven't even announced the feature exists, or why it exists (yet)?
Apple's goal is to be as profitable as possible
No, their culture is to make "insanely great" products, which is the sort of hyperbole they believe in, but gives the haters ample ammo. Contrast that with Dell and their razor thin margins and cheapest commodity components possible, and there's your reason most Apple customers love Apple products and nobody loves Dell.
The means Apple uses to differentiate its products (and thus to get their higher profit margins) is doing a few features really, really well.
Which is what I said. Talk to an Apple employee for 5 minutes and you'll be sick of the term "focus". It's ingrained in their culture, and they believe it. Others think it's a bit corny, but it seems to be working just fine.
Laugh all you want, while I laugh all the way to the bank as I sell another chunk of 100 or so Apple shares for a little spending money. There's a reason they are number one in nearly every business measurable, and it's not because of an incessant hand-wringing over the bottom line.
What term do I hate more than "fanboi"? Why, "patent troll", of course.
Can you get any less objective reporting when you drop "patent troll" into an article?
Minimum wage (an artifact of the early labor movement) is fair in this regard.
It's fair all the way up to the point where it's about half of a livable wage.
Why is anyone even bothering to report this story?
Because the socially challenged slashdot everyman loves to bitch about Apple's success. It's something they don't understand.
If anyone doesn't understand this, perhaps they can take a few minutes (preferably before replying) to look into why the company is called Daimler-Chrysler and is not called Chrysler-Daimler.
The only thing to understand here is that it is no longer Daimler-Chrysler, because Daimler could no longer shoulder the burdens of the crappy engineering and horrible business practices of Chrysler. As one of the world's foremost engineering and luxury car firms, Daimler could ill-afford the bad PR associated with their marriage with one of the worst car companies in the world.
Chrysler's culture of cookie-cutter, mass-produced garbage was incompatible with the Mercedes brand from day one.
Nice. Blame one American company for the ills of Chinese civilization and governmental tyranny. Well played, troll.
Yeah, I want to work for you.
Enforceable labor laws are far more efficient than the special interest of labor.
We wouldn't need unions if we had strong, enforced labor laws set by a central government. But the States Rights! free-tard free-market lobbyists will never let that happen.
Have you been to an Apple store? That has to be the easiest retail job ever. People are throwing themselves in line to buy something. The retail worker just has to ring them up.
... since everyone else in the human race thinks you're an elitist twat.
Ahh yes. I have an iPhone and a Macbook, just like millions of others. I'm so ELITE!
It is the goal of producers to maximize profit.
Not at Apple. The goal is to focus on a few features and do them really, really well. Maximizing profit is just a byproduct of that, not a means.
There are thousands of people that would love to have an Apple retail job. Good luck with your union.
Sorry, I meant as opposed to passively watching Saturday morning cartoons, where they are bombarded by ads.
Speaking of a swing and a miss, both of you just stood there and struck out looking. Google doesn't advertise to kids because "kid tells parents to buy him cool thing he saw on cartoon ads" doesn't work on non-descript blue hyperlinks from Google.
That would work if Google sold ads that bombarded your senses, but they don't. A child wouldn't even notice a Google ad to click on it in the first place.
That's a different paradigm. Kids watch tv, see an ad, whine incessantly until weak-minded parent caves. Google knows better than to waste resources trying to advertise to kids who, a) have no money, and b) won't be clicking on a bunch of Google ads that pop up on their favorite web pages.
You seem to be of the opinion that either someone watches their kids 100% of the time or 0% of the time.
This is slashdot. All logic is binary.
If you are in Europe or elsewhere just ignore this rant, but if you are American, please cite the section of the Constitution that elevates the status of people with kids. Otherwise you can insert your 'assertion' up your ass.
It's not in the Constitution, but it is in the US Tax Code.
I'm a father of three. I am not special because I was able to bed a woman and impregnate her.
There are enough people in this world having more children than they can afford. There is no pressing need for EVERYONE to have children in order to be considered good citizens by your standards.
The reason I had children is none of your business. If I never had children, this world would still have billions of people.