Let me correct you - This is not in the context of the American legal system we are talking about. It's not even a common legal system. So they may be held to account for their public promises.
In the Baltic states, the banks have less power than the retailers. But more money does not always result in victories in these countries. Let alone, companies are not allowed to contribute, only individuals are allowed. Last time I checked, there is a law prohibiting the type of funding that is usual in US. And all funding is 100% public - meaning anyone can check who contributed how much.
Since this is Slashdot, I just have to correct you.
Free and equal competition has been maintained, which is a good thing for capitalism and freedom
Free and equal competition is good for free market, and has no impact on capitalism.(Probably free market is the worst enemy of capitalism)
Capitalism can survive and thrive without any competition and freedom.(Somehow, Americans think that capitalism, freedom and "free market" are inherently linked)
There are a lot of examples where freedom is opposed to capitalism.
It's definitely NOT a Microsoft thing to do. They are not screwing over any partner here. And not destroying anything.
All over there are examples of buying up talent and companies and killing off the product.
It's not evil, per se. But in the context of Android vs iPhone, it can be viewed as an "evil" act.
It's less of a problem with having badly written software, than it is a problem of users tolerating that software. I tolerate much more crashes of Windows, than I do on Linux.
As a result of that tolerance, we have widespread bad software.
A) Price is definitelly the "killer" feature of iPad
B) Battery life is too low for a device that dos so LITTLE! There are laptops that do 8-9 hours.
C) Connectivity - oh nice, basically connecting the device to ANYTHING external will render the device not portable. But on this I am not definite, so I put connectivity in the unknown section
D) Usability - we'll see when it comes out.
E) Multitasking iPad is not iPhone. iPhone may skip multitasking, iPad must have multitasking for add-on apps.
I will add to that, that you never know what product line Apple will drop next. And if you need to plan your enterprise infrastructure for more than 5 years, you are screwed with Apple. Microsoft at least lies when it comes to new functionality, but Apple just stays quiet.
Usability and user-friendliness not always results in higher efficiency. For Macs in the enterprise that is definitely true. For example, you would have to kill a lot of time understanding some of the best accounting software(meaning it's not user friendly), but an accountant can do his/her work several times faster than with a user friendly version.
I will definitely call you all idiots. Why? Because iPhone is NOT FOR THE ENTERPRISE!!! It's dead simple. Want a phone/communications device for the enterprise, your way is RIM Blackberry.
A: Replacing workstations? I've seen companies with computers from 2001 still running Windows XP(and noone is planning on changing them!!!), no issues! Do you really think, that not replacing computers is just for Macs?
B: Backup? Made useless, by moving all storage to NAS with RAID-6. And automatic data uploads to Amazon S3.
The main problem with Mac servers is not the software. Though, there are cheaper and more available solutions out there.
It's the hardware. Because, like with the consumer part, the damn hardware is locked down.
My friend, a Apple fanboy and owner of the local Apple dealership, explained it in these words: "Buying servers from Apple, is similar to buying mainframes from IBM. Hardware vendor lock-in, but no positive sides of mainframe technology."
Last time I checked, Outlook will not ask anything as long as you are on a machine that is in that domain.
Say what you want, but Microsoft's products are known to be tightly integrated. In fact, that is their main issue.
On a side note, I love Lotus Notes for the existing extensions it has.
Just because we use thumbs with iPhone does not mean that we would be using thumbs with the iPad as well. Rest the device on your lap and type away.
Then there is no point of holding the device in portrait mode when typing.
I think you should try it out before labeling it a failure.
I, kind of, did. Fortunately for me, I have a detached display panel from a 10.2inch netbook(with the LCD panel). I made a screenshot of the iPod Touch with a keyboard(portrait), scaled it and put it up on the display. I can not reach the buttons at the center with my thumbs. And the display panel is 1/2 inch narrower.
I am criticising a very specific feature, that may have made the device really revolutionary in it's field. Just like iPhones interface was.
Making a sweeping statement that "it will not be used for this purpose" is quite unfounded.
Yes, there will be definitely a subset of people that will find a multitude of uses for it, but generally people already have a second "media center" at home. It's called a computer(stationary or mobile).
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Breaking the law is not necessarily a crime.
Let me correct you - This is not in the context of the American legal system we are talking about. It's not even a common legal system. So they may be held to account for their public promises.
In the Baltic states, the banks have less power than the retailers. But more money does not always result in victories in these countries. Let alone, companies are not allowed to contribute, only individuals are allowed. Last time I checked, there is a law prohibiting the type of funding that is usual in US. And all funding is 100% public - meaning anyone can check who contributed how much.
The basis of capitalism is capital. Period.
Free and equal competition is good for free market, and has no impact on capitalism.(Probably free market is the worst enemy of capitalism)
Capitalism can survive and thrive without any competition and freedom.(Somehow, Americans think that capitalism, freedom and "free market" are inherently linked)
There are a lot of examples where freedom is opposed to capitalism.
Maybe there is a right that I am not aware of? (I can't even believe I am brining up this point)
It's definitely NOT a Microsoft thing to do. They are not screwing over any partner here. And not destroying anything.
All over there are examples of buying up talent and companies and killing off the product.
It's not evil, per se. But in the context of Android vs iPhone, it can be viewed as an "evil" act.
It's less of a problem with having badly written software, than it is a problem of users tolerating that software. I tolerate much more crashes of Windows, than I do on Linux.
As a result of that tolerance, we have widespread bad software.
Ubuntu does have a root account. It's just that it's password is not set(and is explicitly locked), so you can only get there by the way of sudo.
I will add that Windows users are more tolerant for badly written software(like periodical crashes).
A) Price is definitelly the "killer" feature of iPad
B) Battery life is too low for a device that dos so LITTLE! There are laptops that do 8-9 hours.
C) Connectivity - oh nice, basically connecting the device to ANYTHING external will render the device not portable. But on this I am not definite, so I put connectivity in the unknown section
D) Usability - we'll see when it comes out.
E) Multitasking iPad is not iPhone. iPhone may skip multitasking, iPad must have multitasking for add-on apps.
I know people who where impressed by the price of the device...
What!?!?!?! Why were the same "tinker-happy nerds" so happy with iPhone!?!?!?!?! Maybe because, iPhone actually brought some innovation to the market?
Why would you need MS Office and Adobe's whole suite on a server?
How is your post related to enterprise use of Apple products?
I will add to that, that you never know what product line Apple will drop next. And if you need to plan your enterprise infrastructure for more than 5 years, you are screwed with Apple. Microsoft at least lies when it comes to new functionality, but Apple just stays quiet.
Usability and user-friendliness not always results in higher efficiency. For Macs in the enterprise that is definitely true.
For example, you would have to kill a lot of time understanding some of the best accounting software(meaning it's not user friendly), but an accountant can do his/her work several times faster than with a user friendly version.
I will definitely call you all idiots. Why? Because iPhone is NOT FOR THE ENTERPRISE!!! It's dead simple. Want a phone/communications device for the enterprise, your way is RIM Blackberry.
We are talking business here. So if XServe RAID would have actually been a "great success" commercially, they would not have left it.
A: Replacing workstations? I've seen companies with computers from 2001 still running Windows XP(and noone is planning on changing them!!!), no issues! Do you really think, that not replacing computers is just for Macs?
B: Backup? Made useless, by moving all storage to NAS with RAID-6. And automatic data uploads to Amazon S3.
I second that!
The main problem with Mac servers is not the software. Though, there are cheaper and more available solutions out there.
It's the hardware. Because, like with the consumer part, the damn hardware is locked down.
My friend, a Apple fanboy and owner of the local Apple dealership, explained it in these words: "Buying servers from Apple, is similar to buying mainframes from IBM. Hardware vendor lock-in, but no positive sides of mainframe technology."
Last time I checked, Outlook will not ask anything as long as you are on a machine that is in that domain.
Say what you want, but Microsoft's products are known to be tightly integrated. In fact, that is their main issue.
On a side note, I love Lotus Notes for the existing extensions it has.
Then there is no point of holding the device in portrait mode when typing.
I, kind of, did. Fortunately for me, I have a detached display panel from a 10.2inch netbook(with the LCD panel). I made a screenshot of the iPod Touch with a keyboard(portrait), scaled it and put it up on the display. I can not reach the buttons at the center with my thumbs. And the display panel is 1/2 inch narrower.
I am criticising a very specific feature, that may have made the device really revolutionary in it's field. Just like iPhones interface was.
Yes, there will be definitely a subset of people that will find a multitude of uses for it, but generally people already have a second "media center" at home. It's called a computer(stationary or mobile).
There is this little thing, called Apache Solr.