You mean "selective" not "quantitative" there. Market share gain in the non-profit feature phone market is not a plus: The gain could be attributed to other manufacturers abandoning it to make smartphones. And the N9 sold much on the myths that grew during its delays, and outselling a WP 7 phone is as hard as winning a race against a one-legged pirate.
... and if Apple dropped their prices to reduce that margin, it would wipe out the rest of the market. This is what non-Apple users who complain about the margins don't realize: If they were cheaper they would be the only player in town.
... and Kodak invented the digital camera. Tough shit, it's not about being first it's about being best. Otherwise your spreadsheet would still be VisiCalc, your word processor would be WordStar, and you would run them on the latest iteration of CP/M.
It's not that Kodak rejected it - they bloody invented it after all - it was just that they saw it as a gimmick instead of the way ahead, plus they did not want to kill off their cash cow and kept on making film in a dwindling market. Kodak had a few digital cameras - including a collaboration with Apple - but every other manufacturer out there bypassed them in that race.
The point is: NO WP 7 device - despite their relatively young age - can be upgraded to WP 8 because of changing hardware requirements. Meanwhile, plenty of older devices like the 3GS can run iOS 6. And even for older devices, devs can make apps targeting the older platforms, but no older than iOS 4 with the latest XCode release.
(For Android you should have used 2.3.x instead of 3.x since the latter was just a frantic half-assed attempt to make a tablet-friendly Android after the iPad launched. And 2.3.x still lives on, and people write apps for it.)
Ah, the magic of "market share". "We are losing money on every unit but will make it back in volume"... I see how you conveniently wrote "sales" and not "profits" there.
It is far easier to add new functionality to a CLI interface than to add it to a GUI, since you do not need to add the fluff around it (like distinct icon, interactions etc.)
Try SharePoint sometime: You quickly run into the situation where "sorry, you cannot do that in any of the web interfaces, you need to run a PowerShell command". Like "Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath D:\temp\SomeFarmSolution.wsp -Force"
Economic loss to Mr. Prince Roger Nelson as consequence of the YouTube video: $0 Economic loss to Mr. Prince Roger Nelson as consequence of former fans like me boycotting him for the greedy, overstepping-the-boundaries foolishness of the takedown: More than $0.
What encrypted database? What does the "closed API program" - I assume you mean iTunes - matter? The files are on the file system, only the star ratings you give are unavailable to any other program. The "mass storage" just means you increase the skill required to know where things have to go in order to be found - I remember that from the PSP. Also, they made a design decision to isolate apps from each other making the platform more secure - a bit like having non-root users on a Linux system, which most people agree is a smart idea. Now this design decision is different from what Android Inc. decided, but apparently you are not allowed to make different design decisions...
Again: Leave the crack pipe alone before posting. Then try to start a business where you sell goods to the consumers just for the cost of materials... you will soon see there are plenty of other expenses you need to cover.
No, the issue is the "network" equipment used to relay the calls and data. Sure they also make handsets too, but here it's mostly about the routers. Other manufacturers include Ericsson of Sweden, Siemens of Germany - and, coincidentally, Cisco and Motorola of the U.S.
Your freedoms end where mine begin. If you cannot accept that, go fuck a duck. Claiming the right to have freedom of expression without there being consequences to that expression is just being an stuck-up academic equivalent to a selfish six year old.
No, a punch in the face is a human response to some kinds of "speech". Surely you are not so lacking of social skills that you think people are going to act rationally at all times? Academic theorists who have nothing but words need to get out more.
Are you smoking crack? Practically all hardware is proprietary. And every yearly update improves on the last, a strategy that has served the car industry for decades. Phones with ethernet? You really are smoking something (and plenty of smartphones are without memory card slots). Also: Marketshare is not money.
Well, if you are actually going to back those "prior art, obviousness or lack of originality" claims up (assuming they are anything more than just pissanting), you have your work cut out for you since they churning out more of them all the time.
No, they just get sued for "indecency" or something like that and then go broke because of the legal expenses. Better not to speak, then.
Also, the "freedom of speech" only applies to the Government, private enterprise are free to ignore it, as some peace-symbol-tee-shirt-wearing teens learned when they were expelled from a mall after 9/11/2001.
Well, he and his "tell a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth" is the reason for laws like this, shitface. Because of all the crap written about Jews in the 1930s that "justified" the Holocaust. So the law is supposed to stop that shit before it hits the fan. American "freedom of speech" just leads to ambivalence, where anti-semites like Henry Ford are supposed to be countered by the speech of opposing views - but you still end up with plenty of one-sided debates because the opponents are dismissed as "un-American" or the like.
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2000 called, it wanted to tell you about the Windows Tablet that noone bought.
Clearly it is doomed when all its defenders can counter with is pointing out a misspelling.
You mean "selective" not "quantitative" there. Market share gain in the non-profit feature phone market is not a plus: The gain could be attributed to other manufacturers abandoning it to make smartphones. And the N9 sold much on the myths that grew during its delays, and outselling a WP 7 phone is as hard as winning a race against a one-legged pirate.
... and if Apple dropped their prices to reduce that margin, it would wipe out the rest of the market. This is what non-Apple users who complain about the margins don't realize: If they were cheaper they would be the only player in town.
... and Kodak invented the digital camera. Tough shit, it's not about being first it's about being best. Otherwise your spreadsheet would still be VisiCalc, your word processor would be WordStar, and you would run them on the latest iteration of CP/M.
It's not that Kodak rejected it - they bloody invented it after all - it was just that they saw it as a gimmick instead of the way ahead, plus they did not want to kill off their cash cow and kept on making film in a dwindling market. Kodak had a few digital cameras - including a collaboration with Apple - but every other manufacturer out there bypassed them in that race.
The point is: NO WP 7 device - despite their relatively young age - can be upgraded to WP 8 because of changing hardware requirements. Meanwhile, plenty of older devices like the 3GS can run iOS 6. And even for older devices, devs can make apps targeting the older platforms, but no older than iOS 4 with the latest XCode release.
(For Android you should have used 2.3.x instead of 3.x since the latter was just a frantic half-assed attempt to make a tablet-friendly Android after the iPad launched. And 2.3.x still lives on, and people write apps for it.)
Ah, the magic of "market share". "We are losing money on every unit but will make it back in volume"... I see how you conveniently wrote "sales" and not "profits" there.
I think you vastly underestimate their sales figures.
It is far easier to add new functionality to a CLI interface than to add it to a GUI, since you do not need to add the fluff around it (like distinct icon, interactions etc.)
Try SharePoint sometime: You quickly run into the situation where "sorry, you cannot do that in any of the web interfaces, you need to run a PowerShell command". Like "Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath D:\temp\SomeFarmSolution.wsp -Force"
Economic loss to Mr. Prince Roger Nelson as consequence of the YouTube video: $0
Economic loss to Mr. Prince Roger Nelson as consequence of former fans like me boycotting him for the greedy, overstepping-the-boundaries foolishness of the takedown: More than $0.
What encrypted database? What does the "closed API program" - I assume you mean iTunes - matter? The files are on the file system, only the star ratings you give are unavailable to any other program. The "mass storage" just means you increase the skill required to know where things have to go in order to be found - I remember that from the PSP. Also, they made a design decision to isolate apps from each other making the platform more secure - a bit like having non-root users on a Linux system, which most people agree is a smart idea. Now this design decision is different from what Android Inc. decided, but apparently you are not allowed to make different design decisions...
Again: Leave the crack pipe alone before posting. Then try to start a business where you sell goods to the consumers just for the cost of materials... you will soon see there are plenty of other expenses you need to cover.
No, the issue is the "network" equipment used to relay the calls and data. Sure they also make handsets too, but here it's mostly about the routers. Other manufacturers include Ericsson of Sweden, Siemens of Germany - and, coincidentally, Cisco and Motorola of the U.S.
Of course, it all gets built in China regardless.
Your freedoms end where mine begin. If you cannot accept that, go fuck a duck. Claiming the right to have freedom of expression without there being consequences to that expression is just being an stuck-up academic equivalent to a selfish six year old.
No, a punch in the face is a human response to some kinds of "speech". Surely you are not so lacking of social skills that you think people are going to act rationally at all times? Academic theorists who have nothing but words need to get out more.
You mean like when Google bought Android Inc.? :)
Yeah, Apple's maps are accurate here in Oslo, Norway, too. For instance, in my neighborhood they have a new roundabout that Google hasn't put in yet.
all prices are driven towards marginal cost
Yes, that is the promise of the theoretical construct called the "free market".
Why do you think all Mac owners have MS Office? I sure don't. Plus, LibreOffice looks more like "good old" MS Office anyway.
Are you smoking crack? Practically all hardware is proprietary. And every yearly update improves on the last, a strategy that has served the car industry for decades. Phones with ethernet? You really are smoking something (and plenty of smartphones are without memory card slots). Also: Marketshare is not money.
Well, if you are actually going to back those "prior art, obviousness or lack of originality" claims up (assuming they are anything more than just pissanting), you have your work cut out for you since they churning out more of them all the time.
You mean like the Kin 1 and Kin 2, phones released and then almost immediately killed? Microsoft already bought a phone company, remember.
No, they just get sued for "indecency" or something like that and then go broke because of the legal expenses. Better not to speak, then.
Also, the "freedom of speech" only applies to the Government, private enterprise are free to ignore it, as some peace-symbol-tee-shirt-wearing teens learned when they were expelled from a mall after 9/11/2001.
Well, he and his "tell a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth" is the reason for laws like this, shitface. Because of all the crap written about Jews in the 1930s that "justified" the Holocaust. So the law is supposed to stop that shit before it hits the fan. American "freedom of speech" just leads to ambivalence, where anti-semites like Henry Ford are supposed to be countered by the speech of opposing views - but you still end up with plenty of one-sided debates because the opponents are dismissed as "un-American" or the like.
It's Facebook, there really is no "personal" to it.
What I want to know is what kinds of ads Facebook served him after the post... :)