So they make 80% of their revenue from hardware. iTunes exists because of the hardware. All of that other stuff like iAd/iBeacon is probably a rounding error.
There is no evidence that people are willing to drop $50+ on an Apple game.
You do not understand the market presence of Mario. And Nintendo, if they're true to character would be in line with the Apple way of things "Get it right" as opposed to "Throw spaghetti on the wall and see what sticks".
And after the masses string up the producers for their wealth.
Nobody's talking about stringing up the producers for their wealth. They're talking about stringing up the parasites for their wealth. Let's face it, nobody is productive enough to become wealthy from their own productivity - even the best brain surgeons and rocket scientists are barely rich. Those that have become truly wealthy have done so through business - by exploiting the labor of others - or by exploiting markets - simply taking the wealth of others. These people don't make a net positive contribution to society, and yet they're the ones that amass all the wealth. It's the producers that are losing wealth, as the middle class is eroded, and wealth stratification continues to worsen.
If robotics puts people out of work in large numbers today, we need a solution that helps the people put out of work as soon as it happens - not in 2086 after they are long dead.
Or basic income / citizen's dividend. Why, in the most wealthy country in the history of the world, do we have people who are so destitute?
Sounds great, until your wife gets freaked out because the Macbook that's 6 months old has a logic board failure right
You might want to exercise your reading skills (or syntactic analysis if you're a bot) - because the person you're replying to said his wife got an iPad...
She had her personal server already set up before this whole thing with the NSA.
The personal email server was clearly about avoiding FOIA requests and not a reaction to the NSA refusing to give her an expensive device.
I'd post links in support of my claims, but last time I posted about Hillary and email with lots of references, I got moderated Troll. So I'll just post it anonymously without references.
I have as well and not only on this forum. But why not post refs even if you're anon?
Microsoft's overeagerness to screw over their customer just smacks of sufficiently advanced incompetence. Just like when, oh, say, polling places "run out" of ballots. Whocouldanode?
The data is encrypted with a key only Apple knows. Maybe in the future it will be encrypted with a key only YOU know- but the point is that Amazon or Google can't get the data.
In the case of iMessage and PhotoStream, the key is actually one even Apple doesn't know - it's derived from hardware-specific key from your phone, generated with your password/touchID.
So Apple can't see your dick pics and neither can Google (or whoever else they use).
Your list mostly contains red states. The very few blue states on that list are not half as bad. Case in point:
California: Public entities are generally allowed to provide communications services, but "Community Service Districts" may not if any private entity is willing to do so. Texas: The state "prohibits municipalities and municipal electric utilities from offering telecommunications services to the public either directly or indirectly through a private telecommunications provider."
See the difference?
Long time ago, I received two job offers at about the same time. One from Texas and one from Oregon. Not knowing enough about Texas, I seriously considered moving there. I think I dodged a bullet there.
I hear ya. However, ALEC and other corporate vehicles of domination don't rest and will slowly destroy all states ability to govern unless it benefits their corporate masters. Until we solve the problem of money controlling elections, you're going to see more and more of what Comcast and AT&T pulled off in Tennessee - even in blue states. It's like an infection - you cant just play Prince Prospero and try to hole up in your blue fortress away from the disease - it is coming unless we remove the conditions that promote the problem.
In this case, "targetted" is the past tense of the verb "target". For historical reasons, the accepted spelling is "targeted" with just 2 t's in total, whereas the intuitive spelling, with 3 t's in total, is conventially regarded as a misspelling.
Sounds just like cancelled vs canceled. Both are acceptable, though double-L is the more common usage (although that's changing).
Why is that every time you hear these oppressive state laws being made, it is usually safe to assume that it is happening in a Red State? How is it that the Republicans, the champions of liberty and freedom that they are, allowing this to go on?
I live in Oregon. You can buy as many Teslas here as you can afford. And we have a few community broadband networks too. Sandynet is one example that offers 1Gbps service to local residents. And there is no law preventing more from being setup.
You need to blame the ALEC. ie, the corporatist takeover group that's metastasized since Citizens United.
Red, Blue, all fair game for the corporatists.
Alabama: Municipal communications services must be self-sustaining, "thus impairing bundling and other common industry marketing practices." Municipalities cannot use "local taxes or other funds to pay for the start-up expenses that any capital-intensive project must pay until the project is constructed and revenues become sufficient to cover ongoing expenses and debt service."
Arkansas: Only municipalities that operate electric utilities may provide communications services, but they aren't allowed to provide "basic local exchange service," i.e. traditional phone service.
California: Public entities are generally allowed to provide communications services, but "Community Service Districts" may not if any private entity is willing to do so.
Colorado: Municipalities must hold a referendum before providing cable, telecommunications, or broadband service, unless the community is unserved.
Florida: Imposes special tax on municipal telecommunications service and a profitability requirement that makes it difficult to approve capital-intensive communications projects.
Louisiana: Municipalities must hold referendums before providing service and "impute to themselves various costs that a private provider might pay if it were providing comparable services."
Michigan: Municipalities must seek bids before providing telecom services and can move forward only if they receive fewer than three qualified bids.
Minnesota: 65 percent of voters must approve before municipalities can offer local exchange services or operate facilities that support communications services.
Missouri: Cities and towns can't sell telecom services or lease telecom facilities to private providers "except for services used for internal purposes; services for educational, emergency, and health care uses; and 'Internet-type' services."
Nebraska: Public broadband services are generally prohibited except when provided by power utilities. However, "public power utilities are permanently prohibited from providing such services on a retail basis, and they can sell or lease dark fiber on a wholesale basis only under severely limited conditions."
Nevada: Municipalities with at least 25,000 residents and counties with at least 50,000 residents may not provide telecommunications services.
North Carolina: "Numerous" requirements make it impractical to provide public communications services. "For example, public entities must comply with unspecified legal requirements, impute phantom costs into their rates, conduct a referendum before providing service, forego popular financing mechanisms, refrain from using typical industry pricing mechanisms, and make their commercially sensitive information available to their incumbent competitors."
Pennsylvania: Municipalities cannot sell broadband services if a "local telephone company" already provides broadband, even if the local telephone company charges outrageously high prices or offers poor quality service.
South Carolina: The state "requires governmental providers to comply
I voted for you twice but you're fucking wrong on this.
I voted for him once, solely due to his "Constitutional scholar" shtick. I figured out that was a blatant lie during his first term, and learned my lesson.
Because Mitt would have been that much better. Seriously doubt it, and this year Trump is singing the same tune as Obama (all your keys are belong to us). In our rigged voting system you pretty much have to vote for the lesser evil (which this year would be Bernie Sanders).
Does this include Apple's signing key which is required to create a firmware image that the phone will run?
Signing keys should be considered speech. It's like saying the government should be able to take over my twitter (or hell, my bank) account and pose as me if they wanted.
I get "normal" battery usage out of my iPhone 4S, which is to say maybe a day if I happen to browse the web a bit, Facebook a bit, make a few calls. 2-3 days on very light usage. But on a recent trip to the US, where I had no cell service, my battery life utterly tanked. I could feel it getting hot in my pocket. My guess was that it was constantly searching for a cell signal it could use, and had ramped up the TX power to max to try and get one. When I twigged and turned off the cellphone feature, battery life returned to normal.
This suggests that if you are in a marginal signal area, your battery could be getting hammered because the phone tries harder to maintain a connection.
Oh, that and the usual suspects - the Facebook app is terrible.
Did you know you can simply shut off the cell/data portion of your phone? If you don't plan on getting signal where youre going, this is a wise choice. In my experience with T-Mobile, I get signal almost everywhere in Europe or Asia where I roamed (and I pay nothing for the data). But if you're not going to get signal just shut off the radio.
Are you signed up for the revolt? That is the only way you are going to get someone in charge who is not an authoritarian, wanting the FBI to get their way. Not a single candidate in either the Democratic or Republican party has mentioned the Constitutional protection which should exist. They have all said that the FBI should be able to do what they want, when they want, to whom they want.
In fact they have all said Safety is more important than Freedom and Government intrusion. (a couple have intentionally used double speak to try and hide it, but..)
You'll note there isn't a single Democrat who's all-in for the FBI. I'm not happy that no Presidential candidate has completely supported Apple's position (because it's the constitutional position), but if either Trump or Cruz is the candidate for Republicans (90% likelihood), then I'll venture that either Sanders or Clinton will lean to the liberty side of this argument.
....for taking it out to flip a stupid switch. Smart would have been to be on a call himself, and meanwhile in his pocket flip the switch, then act all annoyed and pissed like everyone else.
BTW where could I buy one?
Alternatively to just have it intermittently (1/m) jam the signal for a few seconds. It would let the quiet people playing games to get their fix (as connections heal quickly), but the annoying talkers would get their calls cut. After a few drops, they would just postpone their conversations. Emergency calls would likely be unaffected.
This could have gone on for months or years and people would have just blamed their already shitty mobile providers.
Its only pocket friendly because your pockets are too small. I'm not a big fan of the whole skinny jean hip-huggers so tight they cut the circulation off to your balls and raise your voice an octave.
In all seriousness, I understand how pockets shrink the smaller you are and you can't expect a 110b 5'1'' woman to wear baggy enough clothes to store a phablet in their pocket. However, while phones have gotten bigger, they've also gotten much thinner and many have tapered edges. My 5.7'' screen phone fits fine in my front pocket because of this, while my droid 1 from like 5 years ago was a bulky mess at half the size because of its thickness and sharp edges.
I'm a huge fan of skinny hip-huggers on hot looking gals everywhere, so consequently I'm supporting the appropriate sizing for the new iPhone. Women, feel free to put on you hip huggers!
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Obama, Axelrod and others from his administration and presidential campaign worked for Exelon.
"Apple makes money on hardware and not on the sale of customer data."
iAd ... http://advertising.apple.com/ ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ...
iBeacon
iTunes
All of these use user data to facilitate advertising or other revenue for Apple.
Revenue breakdown for Apple:
http://www.statista.com/statis...
So they make 80% of their revenue from hardware. iTunes exists because of the hardware. All of that other stuff like iAd/iBeacon is probably a rounding error.
Oh and:
http://www.engadget.com/2016/0...
There is no evidence that people are willing to drop $50+ on an Apple game.
You do not understand the market presence of Mario. And Nintendo, if they're true to character would be in line with the Apple way of things "Get it right" as opposed to "Throw spaghetti on the wall and see what sticks".
I'd buy it, if it was at all decent.
And after the masses string up the producers for their wealth.
Nobody's talking about stringing up the producers for their wealth. They're talking about stringing up the parasites for their wealth. Let's face it, nobody is productive enough to become wealthy from their own productivity - even the best brain surgeons and rocket scientists are barely rich. Those that have become truly wealthy have done so through business - by exploiting the labor of others - or by exploiting markets - simply taking the wealth of others. These people don't make a net positive contribution to society, and yet they're the ones that amass all the wealth. It's the producers that are losing wealth, as the middle class is eroded, and wealth stratification continues to worsen.
So Kleptocracy?
Corporations simple pass any added taxes and costs on to the customer
This is provably false. There is a demand/price curve inclusive of taxes where adding to the price lowers the overall margins.
If robotics puts people out of work in large numbers today, we need a solution that helps the people put out of work as soon as it happens - not in 2086 after they are long dead.
Or basic income / citizen's dividend. Why, in the most wealthy country in the history of the world, do we have people who are so destitute?
Sounds great, until your wife gets freaked out because the Macbook that's 6 months old has a logic board failure right
You might want to exercise your reading skills (or syntactic analysis if you're a bot) - because the person you're replying to said his wife got an iPad...
She had her personal server already set up before this whole thing with the NSA.
The personal email server was clearly about avoiding FOIA requests and not a reaction to the NSA refusing to give her an expensive device.
I'd post links in support of my claims, but last time I posted about Hillary and email with lots of references, I got moderated Troll. So I'll just post it anonymously without references.
I have as well and not only on this forum. But why not post refs even if you're anon?
Yeah, pretty much. Couldn't she have escalated to Obama, though?
"Hi Barak, can you tell me how you got your BB? Cause the NSA is making me WinCE"
Or put a Linux distro on your device (maybe even move that Windows stuff to a VM and disable network if the apps don't need it).
There's no reason for MS to do this. It makes no sense.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
http://wikidumper.blogspot.com...
Microsoft's overeagerness to screw over their customer just smacks of sufficiently advanced incompetence.
Just like when, oh, say, polling places "run out" of ballots. Whocouldanode?
Plausible deniability will only get you so far.
The data is encrypted with a key only Apple knows. Maybe in the future it will be encrypted with a key only YOU know- but the point is that Amazon or Google can't get the data.
In the case of iMessage and PhotoStream, the key is actually one even Apple doesn't know - it's derived from hardware-specific key from your phone, generated with your password/touchID.
So Apple can't see your dick pics and neither can Google (or whoever else they use).
I'd rather work with humans on the other end of a chat interface like this:
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/...
I wonder if FB "AI" is going to be like the Netflix "AI" that did the recommendations engine - based on human intelligence.
Your list mostly contains red states. The very few blue states on that list are not half as bad. Case in point:
California: Public entities are generally allowed to provide communications services, but "Community Service Districts" may not if any private entity is willing to do so.
Texas: The state "prohibits municipalities and municipal electric utilities from offering telecommunications services to the public either directly or indirectly through a private telecommunications provider."
See the difference?
Long time ago, I received two job offers at about the same time. One from Texas and one from Oregon. Not knowing enough about Texas, I seriously considered moving there. I think I dodged a bullet there.
I hear ya. However, ALEC and other corporate vehicles of domination don't rest and will slowly destroy all states ability to govern unless it benefits their corporate masters. Until we solve the problem of money controlling elections, you're going to see more and more of what Comcast and AT&T pulled off in Tennessee - even in blue states. It's like an infection - you cant just play Prince Prospero and try to hole up in your blue fortress away from the disease - it is coming unless we remove the conditions that promote the problem.
In this case, "targetted" is the past tense of the verb "target". For historical reasons, the accepted spelling is "targeted" with just 2 t's in total, whereas the intuitive spelling, with 3 t's in total, is conventially regarded as a misspelling.
Sounds just like cancelled vs canceled. Both are acceptable, though double-L is the more common usage (although that's changing).
"...the iOS malware exploits a flaw in Apple's DRM software"
O The Irony.
Trying to protect their profits creates a situation that will almost certainly cost them money.
You do realize that Apple only added DRM because the media industry demanded it?
Well, maybe now Tim will use this as a reason to ditch DRM altogether....
Why is that every time you hear these oppressive state laws being made, it is usually safe to assume that it is happening in a Red State? How is it that the Republicans, the champions of liberty and freedom that they are, allowing this to go on?
I live in Oregon. You can buy as many Teslas here as you can afford. And we have a few community broadband networks too. Sandynet is one example that offers 1Gbps service to local residents. And there is no law preventing more from being setup.
According to this Ars article:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
You need to blame the ALEC. ie, the corporatist takeover group that's metastasized since Citizens United.
Red, Blue, all fair game for the corporatists.
I voted for him once, solely due to his "Constitutional scholar" shtick. I figured out that was a blatant lie during his first term, and learned my lesson.
Because Mitt would have been that much better. Seriously doubt it, and this year Trump is singing the same tune as Obama (all your keys are belong to us). In our rigged voting system you pretty much have to vote for the lesser evil (which this year would be Bernie Sanders).
Does this include Apple's signing key which is required to create a firmware image that the phone will run?
Signing keys should be considered speech. It's like saying the government should be able to take over my twitter (or hell, my bank) account and pose as me if they wanted.
WTF, that's not reasonable at all.
I get "normal" battery usage out of my iPhone 4S, which is to say maybe a day if I happen to browse the web a bit, Facebook a bit, make a few calls. 2-3 days on very light usage. But on a recent trip to the US, where I had no cell service, my battery life utterly tanked. I could feel it getting hot in my pocket. My guess was that it was constantly searching for a cell signal it could use, and had ramped up the TX power to max to try and get one. When I twigged and turned off the cellphone feature, battery life returned to normal.
This suggests that if you are in a marginal signal area, your battery could be getting hammered because the phone tries harder to maintain a connection.
Oh, that and the usual suspects - the Facebook app is terrible.
Did you know you can simply shut off the cell/data portion of your phone? If you don't plan on getting signal where youre going, this is a wise choice. In my experience with T-Mobile, I get signal almost everywhere in Europe or Asia where I roamed (and I pay nothing for the data). But if you're not going to get signal just shut off the radio.
Are you signed up for the revolt? That is the only way you are going to get someone in charge who is not an authoritarian, wanting the FBI to get their way. Not a single candidate in either the Democratic or Republican party has mentioned the Constitutional protection which should exist. They have all said that the FBI should be able to do what they want, when they want, to whom they want.
In fact they have all said Safety is more important than Freedom and Government intrusion. (a couple have intentionally used double speak to try and hide it, but..)
Tyranny is frighteningly close.
You need to google it more... Here's the list of who's against and who's on the fence:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
You'll note there isn't a single Democrat who's all-in for the FBI. I'm not happy that no Presidential candidate has completely supported Apple's position (because it's the constitutional position), but if either Trump or Cruz is the candidate for Republicans (90% likelihood), then I'll venture that either Sanders or Clinton will lean to the liberty side of this argument.
One other thing to note is Sanders' opinion on spying programs: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/...
....for taking it out to flip a stupid switch.
Smart would have been to be on a call himself, and meanwhile in his pocket flip the switch, then act all annoyed and pissed like everyone else.
BTW where could I buy one?
Alternatively to just have it intermittently (1/m) jam the signal for a few seconds. It would let the quiet people playing games to get their fix (as connections heal quickly), but the annoying talkers would get their calls cut. After a few drops, they would just postpone their conversations. Emergency calls would likely be unaffected.
This could have gone on for months or years and people would have just blamed their already shitty mobile providers.
Its only pocket friendly because your pockets are too small. I'm not a big fan of the whole skinny jean hip-huggers so tight they cut the circulation off to your balls and raise your voice an octave.
In all seriousness, I understand how pockets shrink the smaller you are and you can't expect a 110b 5'1'' woman to wear baggy enough clothes to store a phablet in their pocket. However, while phones have gotten bigger, they've also gotten much thinner and many have tapered edges. My 5.7'' screen phone fits fine in my front pocket because of this, while my droid 1 from like 5 years ago was a bulky mess at half the size because of its thickness and sharp edges.
I'm a huge fan of skinny hip-huggers on hot looking gals everywhere, so consequently I'm supporting the appropriate sizing for the new iPhone.
Women, feel free to put on you hip huggers!
Apple Butt Plug.
I'll take that over an Android "Share Plan".
Consumers get to save $50 for a slightly smaller phone. It'll go over as well as the iPhone 5c
You do realize that for some folks, even the 4.7" iPhone6 and 6s are too big?
Not everyone wants a large phone or phablet.