The iPhone had 18% share of smartphone sales in the fourth quarter. Time to wake up.
And that is what percentage of total portable telephone sales? 3%? 5% Not much more. Dumb phones and feature phones have the bulk. Because apart from teenagers, few want to do everything on their phone.
World wide? Sorry to tell you.. Like with all Apple products. Even worse.
Apple make niche products. Why is that so hard to accept?
"advanced file management, better remote desktop experience, easier notes synchronization and a generally smoother user experience"
I requested those *specifically*!
I love how everybody on Slashdot thinks they're one of the rational people who aren't suggestible. All they have to do is make a name ubiquitous enough that you associate it with something else (that "something else" being decided by their marketing strategy and focus tests) and they've affected you too. It doesn't have to work on a conscious level; in fact it often doesn't.
Almost as entertaining as the ones who have an unshakable faith in their profession to the point where they can't imagine anybody liking anything they have not been told they like..
Advertising does have some small amount of use. It brings products to people's attention. That is about as far as it goes. With me at least.
Well, surely it has been appropriately encrypted with strong encryption and protected with a strong password. After all, those people are not completely incompetent, are they?
Considering who you are talking about.. the answer can be summed up as..
BWHAAAA!!!
I'm thinking that the killer aspect of the iPad is the deal with AT&T. $30/mo for data only? Purchasable/changeable from the iPad itself? No Linux pad is going to get that. AT&T won't give you just a data plan unless you have some serious clout or a hearing disability.
...which would have cost them more than the game will earn in profits.
I doubt it, but still a fatal flaw. Among many.
The game only lasts as long as the servers are up and active.
The servers are up and active as long as the game is still making a profit.
The profitable window for games is not very long.
So the game is fucked by design..
Long live stupid DRM. Every pissed off user is another nail in the coffin.
Toilet seat's a stupid argument. Close the fucking LID, not just the seat. Or do you like water containing urine and feces splashing all over the place?
And for those of us without water tight seals on the toilet?
Not to mention that the top 10 online video service sites other than YouTube already have this implemented in some way too.
So does Youtube. They have been offering streamed movies and TV series for a while now. Some are not available in the UK, so regional restrictions are already in force.
The user submitted stuff may be unlimited, but Youtube does way more than that these days.
Just checked.. Meh.. I have about three or four artists out of the lot. Most of what I listen to is small label stuff. If they did pull out, I doubt I'd notice.
And the Norweigan government matters, why? They're probably a drop in the bucket for Microsoft's revenue.
Then why do Microsoft pursue any dissent in their corporate customers so strongly? And no.. I'm not going to cite examples. We have all heard of the crack sales teams descending on companies and governments who dare to leave the MS embrace, armed with the authority to practically give the MS products away rather than lose an influential customer.
You are absolutely correct. A government switching away from Office is trivial. But only if you are counting licenses. If you count influence, then MS are in for a decidedly nasty future.
And another government rejecting MS file formats is a bad thing for MS. Even a city local government is enough to make MS bring in the heavy negotiators. If the file format goes from essential to optional, then so does Office.
Right.. Said my piece. Astroturf away.
Considering that a physical book can't be "deleted", I don't know. e-books are allright, I supposed, but it's kind of dangerous to think about a world without any physical books. The Nazis burned books, there would be no need with all digital systems, just as was done with the kindle, they can be deleted, even remotely.
Considering the only reader that has the ability to do this is the Kindle, And banned books are rarely carried by mainstream book stores, how exactly is this a problem with e-books? In the real world, how hard is it to make and distribute an underground book? And how hard is it to distribute a computer file globally and secretly?
Oh.. And Godwined.
Then, there is also the privacy issues of digital media. You cannot track what physical books someone is reading, yet with all of the horrendous absuses that have been dealt to our freedoms and privacy by tech companies, it is especially conserning to think of an all digital medium as the only choice for reading. As much as a computer geek I am, I still prefer to crack open a good old fashioned book. Nothing beats it.
And again.. Please please explain to me how my reader is sending information back to base. A French company made my reader based on a Chinese produced generic design, which I got at an English book store. No wifi, no 3g, and I use a Linux library manager to organise my books. And I get my books from all over the world via the net. How exactly is this going to report me to the stazi for reading anarchy for dummies?
Please understand. The Kindle is one brand of reader made by one company. The only reader with the ability to delete books is the Kindle. The only reader that I know of that sends reading information back to the mother ship is the Kindle. So buy a different reader. And if you buy books over the net, or pay with a credit card, how exactly is it that you imagine your purchases are not recorded?
There are many many readers. Some basic, some fancy. And as soon as the Chinese companies really get going and break the £100 mark, it will be impractical to say the least, if not impossible to trace books. While it will be so incredibly simple to upload a few banned books to wikileaks or some similar site for global instant distribution. Impossible to close down without a world government. You could possibly even spam a politically sensitive book to such a level that the authorities couldn't even consider arresting everybody, so you would be safer than if you tried to hide a paper book.
But if you want to be paranoid.. Check out the existing news media, and the difference between the way news is reported in different countries. That is something worthy of attention. Not a possible slim chance of e-books being edited by mysterious government departments of truth.
And the difference here is that an ebook requires technology to be read,
Like a light bulb you mean. Or do you only read during the day?
and the DRM surrounding ebooks is a catch for readers.
Yep. Couldn't agree more. It's a brick wall for me. This is why I don't buy any e-books from mainstream authors and publishers. I didn't buy any DRM crippled music either, but I buy DRM free music.
I have a few dozen books on my reader at the moment. All free of cost and free from DRM. And a few authors and publishers are experimenting with DRM free books too. Which I am perfectly willing to buy if they are what I want to read, and I am wiling to pay the asking price.
The ability to upgrade reader and transfer your books to the new reader etc.
Thanks.. But I already have this. I use a reader that has the ePub format, and if I used DRM encumbered books, my reader also supports the Adobe DRM. So I am not shacked to a single model or a single brand. Mine is a Bookeen Cybook. I can get any of the Bookeen models, or any of the Sonys, or any of a multitude of others. And I am not limited to some daft e-book store that only supports one brand. I can buy books from just about any book store.
And what to do when there is a malfunction.
Well lets see.. What do you do when your computer breaks down? Or your MP3 player? Do you have to buy all your music and applications again? Is your computer a unique device that you will never be able to replace because it was made by aliens from a dying world using technology they took to their graves? Or do you do like everyone else and replace consumer electronics when they die? e-books are computer files. Infinitely copyable, so backing up your library onto a CD is very easy, and if you didn't. Most book shops keep a record of purchases for you to download again.
Paper books don't require power to use.
And a can of Tuna doesn't require a fish tank. What is your point?
Paper books are going nowhere. So nobody is forcing you to use an e-book reader. I can even put my reader on my book case without anything exploding. And I am not banned from every book store now I have a reader.. I'd be amazed if e-books take over in my lifetime. If ever. But.. Those of us who have bought and use our readers are enjoying them. According to a recent survey, 90 something% are happy with their readers. Some people even use phones as readers, or PDAs instead of expensive dedicated devices... And no doubt the coming avalanche of tablet computers will have at least one e-book application on them. The device is not really relevant. The media is. And it is already here. Please try to find at least one argument that is not significantly flammable.
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The iPhone had 18% share of smartphone sales in the fourth quarter. Time to wake up.
And that is what percentage of total portable telephone sales? 3%? 5% Not much more. Dumb phones and feature phones have the bulk. Because apart from teenagers, few want to do everything on their phone. World wide? Sorry to tell you.. Like with all Apple products. Even worse. Apple make niche products. Why is that so hard to accept?
I've seen pictures.. It was bloody huge..
"advanced file management, better remote desktop experience, easier notes synchronization and a generally smoother user experience" I requested those *specifically*!
So Gnome2.30 was your idea..
I think you need a different word. Extended perhaps.
Umm... You forgot the word "known"... Can't count what you are not aware of..
Confirmed. Just popped up for download now.11:03 GMT.
I love how everybody on Slashdot thinks they're one of the rational people who aren't suggestible. All they have to do is make a name ubiquitous enough that you associate it with something else (that "something else" being decided by their marketing strategy and focus tests) and they've affected you too. It doesn't have to work on a conscious level; in fact it often doesn't.
Almost as entertaining as the ones who have an unshakable faith in their profession to the point where they can't imagine anybody liking anything they have not been told they like.. Advertising does have some small amount of use. It brings products to people's attention. That is about as far as it goes. With me at least.
Who the fuck is dumb enough to look for advice from advertising?
Suggestible people.. They will be along any minute claiming that advertising prescription drugs is essential for the free market to survive.
Well, surely it has been appropriately encrypted with strong encryption and protected with a strong password. After all, those people are not completely incompetent, are they?
Considering who you are talking about.. the answer can be summed up as.. BWHAAAA!!!
Reading comprehension FAIL. What idiot types their shopping list and saves it in the Windows system file directory?
You really shouldn't ask questions like that..
I'm thinking that the killer aspect of the iPad is the deal with AT&T. $30/mo for data only? Purchasable/changeable from the iPad itself? No Linux pad is going to get that. AT&T won't give you just a data plan unless you have some serious clout or a hearing disability.
Or a USB dongle?
And services to the hair replacement industry...
...which would have cost them more than the game will earn in profits.
I doubt it, but still a fatal flaw. Among many. The game only lasts as long as the servers are up and active. The servers are up and active as long as the game is still making a profit. The profitable window for games is not very long. So the game is fucked by design.. Long live stupid DRM. Every pissed off user is another nail in the coffin.
And they tend to get annoyed when you bring a spanner near their nuts.
Toilet seat's a stupid argument. Close the fucking LID, not just the seat. Or do you like water containing urine and feces splashing all over the place?
And for those of us without water tight seals on the toilet?
Gimp is not nearly as important in the world of free software as Photoshop is in the proprietary one. 25 years of vi, that's a milestone.
So both unimportant then...
Not to mention that the top 10 online video service sites other than YouTube already have this implemented in some way too.
So does Youtube. They have been offering streamed movies and TV series for a while now. Some are not available in the UK, so regional restrictions are already in force. The user submitted stuff may be unlimited, but Youtube does way more than that these days.
Isn't the iPad essentially a netbook of the future?
Not quite.. It's a netbook of little features.
Somebody should make a cutesy "Hello Kitty" version of a Mi-Go to be the logo and mascot for Meego.
Nah.. Just give Tux neko ears..
Anyway I wonder if you could take this machine into court and claim that it is only doing what an artist would do.
Not if it's like UK courts. The artist can sit in on the trial, but can't draw while in the court room.
Just checked.. Meh.. I have about three or four artists out of the lot. Most of what I listen to is small label stuff. If they did pull out, I doubt I'd notice.
And the Norweigan government matters, why? They're probably a drop in the bucket for Microsoft's revenue.
Then why do Microsoft pursue any dissent in their corporate customers so strongly? And no.. I'm not going to cite examples. We have all heard of the crack sales teams descending on companies and governments who dare to leave the MS embrace, armed with the authority to practically give the MS products away rather than lose an influential customer. You are absolutely correct. A government switching away from Office is trivial. But only if you are counting licenses. If you count influence, then MS are in for a decidedly nasty future. And another government rejecting MS file formats is a bad thing for MS. Even a city local government is enough to make MS bring in the heavy negotiators. If the file format goes from essential to optional, then so does Office. Right.. Said my piece. Astroturf away.
Considering that a physical book can't be "deleted", I don't know. e-books are allright, I supposed, but it's kind of dangerous to think about a world without any physical books. The Nazis burned books, there would be no need with all digital systems, just as was done with the kindle, they can be deleted, even remotely.
Considering the only reader that has the ability to do this is the Kindle, And banned books are rarely carried by mainstream book stores, how exactly is this a problem with e-books?
In the real world, how hard is it to make and distribute an underground book? And how hard is it to distribute a computer file globally and secretly?
Oh.. And Godwined.
Then, there is also the privacy issues of digital media. You cannot track what physical books someone is reading, yet with all of the horrendous absuses that have been dealt to our freedoms and privacy by tech companies, it is especially conserning to think of an all digital medium as the only choice for reading. As much as a computer geek I am, I still prefer to crack open a good old fashioned book. Nothing beats it.
And again.. Please please explain to me how my reader is sending information back to base. A French company made my reader based on a Chinese produced generic design, which I got at an English book store. No wifi, no 3g, and I use a Linux library manager to organise my books.
And I get my books from all over the world via the net. How exactly is this going to report me to the stazi for reading anarchy for dummies?
Please understand. The Kindle is one brand of reader made by one company. The only reader with the ability to delete books is the Kindle. The only reader that I know of that sends reading information back to the mother ship is the Kindle. So buy a different reader. And if you buy books over the net, or pay with a credit card, how exactly is it that you imagine your purchases are not recorded?
There are many many readers. Some basic, some fancy. And as soon as the Chinese companies really get going and break the £100 mark, it will be impractical to say the least, if not impossible to trace books. While it will be so incredibly simple to upload a few banned books to wikileaks or some similar site for global instant distribution. Impossible to close down without a world government. You could possibly even spam a politically sensitive book to such a level that the authorities couldn't even consider arresting everybody, so you would be safer than if you tried to hide a paper book.
But if you want to be paranoid.. Check out the existing news media, and the difference between the way news is reported in different countries. That is something worthy of attention. Not a possible slim chance of e-books being edited by mysterious government departments of truth.
And the difference here is that an ebook requires technology to be read,
Like a light bulb you mean. Or do you only read during the day?
and the DRM surrounding ebooks is a catch for readers.
Yep. Couldn't agree more. It's a brick wall for me. This is why I don't buy any e-books from mainstream authors and publishers. I didn't buy any DRM crippled music either, but I buy DRM free music.
I have a few dozen books on my reader at the moment. All free of cost and free from DRM. And a few authors and publishers are experimenting with DRM free books too. Which I am perfectly willing to buy if they are what I want to read, and I am wiling to pay the asking price.
The ability to upgrade reader and transfer your books to the new reader etc.
Thanks.. But I already have this. I use a reader that has the ePub format, and if I used DRM encumbered books, my reader also supports the Adobe DRM. So I am not shacked to a single model or a single brand. Mine is a Bookeen Cybook. I can get any of the Bookeen models, or any of the Sonys, or any of a multitude of others. And I am not limited to some daft e-book store that only supports one brand. I can buy books from just about any book store.
And what to do when there is a malfunction.
Well lets see.. What do you do when your computer breaks down? Or your MP3 player? Do you have to buy all your music and applications again? Is your computer a unique device that you will never be able to replace because it was made by aliens from a dying world using technology they took to their graves? Or do you do like everyone else and replace consumer electronics when they die? e-books are computer files. Infinitely copyable, so backing up your library onto a CD is very easy, and if you didn't. Most book shops keep a record of purchases for you to download again.
Paper books don't require power to use.
And a can of Tuna doesn't require a fish tank. What is your point?
Paper books are going nowhere. So nobody is forcing you to use an e-book reader. I can even put my reader on my book case without anything exploding. And I am not banned from every book store now I have a reader.. I'd be amazed if e-books take over in my lifetime. If ever.
But.. Those of us who have bought and use our readers are enjoying them. According to a recent survey, 90 something% are happy with their readers. Some people even use phones as readers, or PDAs instead of expensive dedicated devices... And no doubt the coming avalanche of tablet computers will have at least one e-book application on them. The device is not really relevant. The media is. And it is already here. Please try to find at least one argument that is not significantly flammable.
Erm.. the OS will clearly say 'Evaluation Copy' on the right. See http://www.istartedsomething.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/windows7rc_large.jpg
True.. But given the ability for ignoring stuff like virus scanner trial expirations, this is hardly screaming at the top of it's voice.