If people expect treating each other like strangers on the subway will make a better workplace, and if the company only promotes lax, lazy, quiet, and completely unstimulating environment - well, i can understand the divas better then the people that fail to *care*.
UK "justice" is pretty messed up - a private entity can prosecute individuals.
Ars has a great article about how FACT put the owner of SurfTheChannel behind bars for four years. Maybe this is why UKNova are complying with these idiots.
Now if I was either too lazy or unskilled to properly secure my hardware I have the right to allow some other company to do it for me by creating a 'walled garden' as it were, but I should always have the right to say screw you I want to run this program anyways, acknowledging the risks involved.
No need: I'm sure your customers were happy, not complaining about not having enough cores. Yet there were people out there who did want more and indeed there were machines with more than that. My laptop runs 1366 too but I can certainly imagine a number of reasons someone might want a larger and/or higher DPI screen.
As for snobby, you're the one who thinks you know more about selling machines than Apple. I think they might have sold a few more than you.
I bet when you were selling that low-end crap a few years ago people weren't complaining about not having enough cores or fast enough WiFi either, but here you are selling (somewhat) better machines now. That's progress. Some people don't know what they need until its cheap enough that they happen to buy it anyway. Some of us understand the benefits of better equipment and are willing to pay more to have it.
Why do all that when I can walk into an Apple store and walk out with a machine that's ready to use, and loaded with the OS I want? I built my own machines for decades, now I let someone else do it for me.
It's an option in a sea of options and they all involve tradeoffs of some kind, that's all I'm saying. It's not a "non-entity" simply because you deem it expensive.
Different people have different requirements and for some (millions and millions in fact) a Mac is a great choice. There's no need for condescension based on requirements and preferences.
No, just the - by far - most popular one ever. Same with phone. And tablet. That's why other companies have copied all three.
Who cares how many Acer model T5X laptops sold last year?
No one. But your Acer is not a platform, it's just another PC. However if you're interested in market share you must take OSX into account, and by extension the best selling laptop in the US - Mac. Same with MP3 players. And phones. And tablets.
Definitely risky. The funny thing is the main reason for this is a single UI element - the start button. If they had left it in place and let people access the Metro UI from the charm menu barely anyone would be complaining.
Metro is decent and I'm sure people don't mind it being there, but forcing it on desktop users is a mistake.
So you add up all the vendors because you believe Apple has taken an us-vs-the-world approach? First of all, while I'm sure they would be flattered you base your economic perspective on what you believe to be their strategy, usually product sales counts are compared against competing products, not ranges of products from swaths of companies grouped by arbitrary characteristics of the product.
Hey look, LG is losing because they sell less phones with 16GB of flash than all other companies combined!
But that aside, I don't think Apple is as us-vs-them as you suggest. They release innovative, ground-breaking products, companies copy them, and then suddenly every knockoff shop on the corner has one for sale. That's not Apple choosing to take on the world, it's the world eating Apple's breakfast. All's fair in love and capitalism but come on, you have to admit, this isn't how Apple wanted the playing field to be. It was forced on them.
MS copied MacOS. Everyone tried to copy the iPod but they all sucked. Then Google copied iOS and gave it away for free and the haters come along and say it's Apple-vs-everyone-who-wants-a-free-OS.
Every smartphone made in the past few years is better because Apple made the iPhone, and this is the thanks they get.
"Command line" is not a market, it's an interface. "Personal computer" would be the appropriate label. Apples were and still are the best selling command-line machines of all time.
"WIMP", too, is an interface and separate from the hardware so there should be two columns. Apple lost the GUI wars to copycat Microsoft, but they're now the #1 seller of laptops in the US so hardware-wise that bottom-center checkmark is dubious.
Smartphone and tablet should be separate columns. iPhone and iPad are still the best selling Post-PC devices despite competition so I wouldn't hold my breath on those last checkmarks either.
They forgot iPod of course, where competitors never caught up. Name still synonymous with MP3 player.
While it's nice to hear the EU wants everyone to stop selling surveillance gear to the US and other repressive regimes, I fear the US makes much of its own.
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Totally agree.
On it.
If people expect treating each other like strangers on the subway will make a better workplace, and if the company only promotes lax, lazy, quiet, and completely unstimulating environment - well, i can understand the divas better then the people that fail to *care*.
Hear, hear!
UK "justice" is pretty messed up - a private entity can prosecute individuals.
Ars has a great article about how FACT put the owner of SurfTheChannel behind bars for four years. Maybe this is why UKNova are complying with these idiots.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/private-justice-how-hollywood-money-put-a-brit-behind-bars
This should be +5, best post here.
You can opt out in OSX. Search Gatekeeper.
Now if I was either too lazy or unskilled to properly secure my hardware I have the right to allow some other company to do it for me by creating a 'walled garden' as it were, but I should always have the right to say screw you I want to run this program anyways, acknowledging the risks involved.
Sounds like Gatekeeper on OSX.
No need: I'm sure your customers were happy, not complaining about not having enough cores. Yet there were people out there who did want more and indeed there were machines with more than that. My laptop runs 1366 too but I can certainly imagine a number of reasons someone might want a larger and/or higher DPI screen.
As for snobby, you're the one who thinks you know more about selling machines than Apple. I think they might have sold a few more than you.
I'm sure it functions but scaling bitmaps to non-native resolutions is really not an ideal solution to higher DPI.
I bet when you were selling that low-end crap a few years ago people weren't complaining about not having enough cores or fast enough WiFi either, but here you are selling (somewhat) better machines now. That's progress. Some people don't know what they need until its cheap enough that they happen to buy it anyway. Some of us understand the benefits of better equipment and are willing to pay more to have it.
Everyone is different.
I hope they do so I can chuckle at all the people here who seem to think they'll never need that :)
It's going to be fun using that with Windows, maybe you should buy a magnifying glass with that...
Why do all that when I can walk into an Apple store and walk out with a machine that's ready to use, and loaded with the OS I want? I built my own machines for decades, now I let someone else do it for me.
(the condescension part was more for jedidiah)
It's an option in a sea of options and they all involve tradeoffs of some kind, that's all I'm saying. It's not a "non-entity" simply because you deem it expensive.
Different people have different requirements and for some (millions and millions in fact) a Mac is a great choice. There's no need for condescension based on requirements and preferences.
Everyone accepts a set of tradeoffs when buying or building a machine. Which non-Apple laptop do you have that has a 2880x1800 display?
You act like Apple invented the mp3 player
No, just the - by far - most popular one ever. Same with phone. And tablet. That's why other companies have copied all three.
Who cares how many Acer model T5X laptops sold last year?
No one. But your Acer is not a platform, it's just another PC. However if you're interested in market share you must take OSX into account, and by extension the best selling laptop in the US - Mac. Same with MP3 players. And phones. And tablets.
Definitely risky. The funny thing is the main reason for this is a single UI element - the start button. If they had left it in place and let people access the Metro UI from the charm menu barely anyone would be complaining.
Metro is decent and I'm sure people don't mind it being there, but forcing it on desktop users is a mistake.
So you add up all the vendors because you believe Apple has taken an us-vs-the-world approach? First of all, while I'm sure they would be flattered you base your economic perspective on what you believe to be their strategy, usually product sales counts are compared against competing products, not ranges of products from swaths of companies grouped by arbitrary characteristics of the product.
Hey look, LG is losing because they sell less phones with 16GB of flash than all other companies combined!
But that aside, I don't think Apple is as us-vs-them as you suggest. They release innovative, ground-breaking products, companies copy them, and then suddenly every knockoff shop on the corner has one for sale. That's not Apple choosing to take on the world, it's the world eating Apple's breakfast. All's fair in love and capitalism but come on, you have to admit, this isn't how Apple wanted the playing field to be. It was forced on them.
MS copied MacOS. Everyone tried to copy the iPod but they all sucked. Then Google copied iOS and gave it away for free and the haters come along and say it's Apple-vs-everyone-who-wants-a-free-OS.
Every smartphone made in the past few years is better because Apple made the iPhone, and this is the thanks they get.
It grinds my gears.
I don't think I want my plants to be "excited".
Amusing indeed - rife with error and omission.
"Command line" is not a market, it's an interface. "Personal computer" would be the appropriate label. Apples were and still are the best selling command-line machines of all time.
"WIMP", too, is an interface and separate from the hardware so there should be two columns. Apple lost the GUI wars to copycat Microsoft, but they're now the #1 seller of laptops in the US so hardware-wise that bottom-center checkmark is dubious.
Smartphone and tablet should be separate columns. iPhone and iPad are still the best selling Post-PC devices despite competition so I wouldn't hold my breath on those last checkmarks either.
They forgot iPod of course, where competitors never caught up. Name still synonymous with MP3 player.
Set-top box market still nascent.
While it's nice to hear the EU wants everyone to stop selling surveillance gear to the US and other repressive regimes, I fear the US makes much of its own.
...that's one way to get rid of Ballmer.
Same, it was one of the best shows on TV.
Millions of BSG fans are laughing at this headline :D
The ad says "114,000 viruses? Not on a Mac."
That is correct.