But seriously folks, it's not that Apple releases updates several times a year that's the important bit. It's that those updates are available instantly, worldwide, to everyone, on every carrier, to every device younger than about four years old, and the update process is so easy and convenient that everyone (close enough) installs the updates.
The biggest install base for iOS is always "the latest version". The biggest install base for Android is what, Honeycomb? Shit.
you can bet it will come from Samsung. Samsung's the only phone manufacturer the world not named Apple that's making money, and the only reason it's able to do that is by relying on an operating system controlled by the company that owns Motorola. That's not a situation Samsung can be happy with.
Prediction: Samsung will fork Android, buy Android, or build its own OS from scratch.
Net income decreased 45% to $97 million in the fourth quarter
Amazon is barely breaking even. Whether or not this is an intentional strategy is another discussion, but it sure as hell ain't making 10.8 billion a quarter. It's not even making ONE HUNDREDTH of that.
Last year, a fake Apple store in Kunming, China featuring the white Apple logo and wooden tables drew widespread attention after a blogger wrote about visiting it. The store looked so authentic, even the upbeat salespeople thought they were working for Apple. Chinese authorities quickly ordered the store to close, as well as more than 20 others that were selling Apple products.
To misquote Steve Jobs: if you see the word "graph" in a customer-facing product, they blew it.
The only people who use or have even heard the term "social graph" are product managers at Facebook and Google. Searching a "graph" means absofuckinglutely nothing to an end user.
Hard to believe I know, but then again a 2012 Gallup poll found that 46% of American respondents believe that an invisible superhero who lives in the sky created humans in their current form.
Conclusion: half of Americans are fucking retarded.
No, that's not the way it works. It's "if you broke a law in your land or if you didn't but what you did was still against the law in the USA, even if that's not where you were".
Sounds like that internal milestone is a special bar. How many projects reach that milestone? Is it more than 1 out of 10?
Apple decides to not even start on projects, or cancels them EARLY, if they won't reach that milestone. Compare that with companies that devote time and thought and energy to products that get killed or suck at launch because they're not good enough.
Jobs in 1997:
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying "no" to 1,000 things.
Key features of Instagram are image enhancement filters with pseudo HDR reconstruction.
No, those are just the carrot on the stick. The key features of Instagram are that it's a mobile-only social network, its reason for existence is location-based photo sharing, and it's dominated by iPhone users. The fact that it's mobile-only has every incumbent desktop social network scared. The fact that it's based on photo sharing had Facebook scared, because photo sharing is what made Facebook what it is; and the fact that it's dominated by iPhone users has advertisers salivating, because iPhone users are, demographically, more wealthy and more likely to spend money on products and services.
Stocks go up on profit. And profit does not grow only with revenue. You can also deduct spendings. That's how big businesses work. They spend enormously for marketing, branding, hire unnecessary amount of people, to build a brand.
Profit share in the phone industry: Apple 75%, Samsung 24%, everyone else who cares.
Product design team: Apple 16 people, Samsung 1000+ people.
Marketing spend 2009-2012: Apple approx 2.6 billion dollars. Samsung Electronics division alone approx THIRTY THREE BILLION DOLLARS.
Here in Australia the other day I took my kid to the dentist. Kid spent half an hour in the chair while a dentist and a nurse hovered over him making sure everything was as it should be. Poking and prodding, a bit of plaque removal, fluoride gel, etc. When he got up they handed him a bag with toothbrushes and floss.
Cost to me: zero. Walked out without paying a cent. Because socialism works.
The USA can keep its cheap gas. I'll take a society that looks after its citizens every time.
Sweet jesus, that's less than a dollar per litre. I haven't seen prices like that since the twentieth century.
Seriously America, you're a guy complaining that his imported Perrier is less fizzy than it used to be to an audience of people who are getting used to drinking rainwater. STFU.
Samsung is not bringing the latest Galaxy either because of Apple. Sometimes losing is cheaper than fighting in court as Apple are frankly assholes who already sued and won $ 1,000,000,000 judgement already. The shareholders will not put up with that anymore.
If this is not proof that Apple is far more evil than MS I do not know what is.
The fundamental difference is that - as sports of strategy - rugby football is real-time while American football is turn-based.
Rugby is far more improvisational while American football is far more orchestrated. That's not to say that rugby can't have set plays and that American football can't be spontaneous, but I think the generalisation is accurate. That also means that rugby players are more jacks-of-all-trades and American football players are specialists.
The fastest guy on a rugby football team also has to be able to make and shrug off tackles and (pardon the arcane terminology) clean out at rucks; the biggest guy on a rugby team also has to be able to run and catch and pass and kick. Possession can change in an instant. In rugby you have to be able to go from playing offense to defense and back at the drop of a hat and for long uninterrupted passages of play without a whistle going. A rugby player has to be able to do a bit of every other player's job if circumstances require.
In American football every step, every pass, every hit is planned out and prepared for in advance and the positions and responsibilities are far more specialised. The offensive teams specialise in offense, the defensive teams in defense, and the special teams in kicking plays. Large numbers of complex pre-planned plays have to be memorised. A top-level punt returner would probably make a top-level rugby winger - each the fastest man on his team - look laughably slow. A defensive tackle would probably make a rugby prop - each the heaviest strongest man on his team - look frickin' anorexic.
The notion of taking a rest on the sideline while a specialist team takes its turn on the field is alien shit to a rugby player. Similarly the notion of the biggest guy on the field spontaneously making a run down the sideline (entirely on his own initiative, without ever having discussed it with his teammates or coaches) before getting smashed by the fastest guy on the other team is a scenario that seems just as alien to an American footballer.
TLDR? Basically rugby is Starcraft while American football is Civilization.
In Australia "pint" is just a word that means "glass of beer that's bigger than the smaller one" based on local practice. Cross a state line and the "pint" is an entirely different volume.
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The biggest install base for iOS is always "the latest version". The biggest install base for Android is what, Honeycomb? Shit.
Even worse, it's still Gingerbread.
http://bgr.com/2012/12/04/android-version-distribution-december-2012/
ba-dum-tish
But seriously folks, it's not that Apple releases updates several times a year that's the important bit. It's that those updates are available instantly, worldwide, to everyone, on every carrier, to every device younger than about four years old, and the update process is so easy and convenient that everyone (close enough) installs the updates.
The biggest install base for iOS is always "the latest version". The biggest install base for Android is what, Honeycomb? Shit.
Yes. Like when Toys R Us refuses to stock hardcore anal porn DVDs. That's censorship.
you can bet it will come from Samsung. Samsung's the only phone manufacturer the world not named Apple that's making money, and the only reason it's able to do that is by relying on an operating system controlled by the company that owns Motorola. That's not a situation Samsung can be happy with.
Prediction: Samsung will fork Android, buy Android, or build its own OS from scratch.
In what universe?
Here's Amazon's latest financial release:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1779049&highlight=
Here's the important bit:
Amazon is barely breaking even. Whether or not this is an intentional strategy is another discussion, but it sure as hell ain't making 10.8 billion a quarter. It's not even making ONE HUNDREDTH of that.
Here's why:
http://news.yahoo.com/apple-trademarks-design-retail-stores-220110338--finance.html
well, ok, a funny image macro on tumblr said:
In a CULT there's one guy at the top who knows it's a scam.
In a RELIGION that guy is dead.
Ergo, Scientology is indeed a religion.
To misquote Steve Jobs: if you see the word "graph" in a customer-facing product, they blew it.
The only people who use or have even heard the term "social graph" are product managers at Facebook and Google. Searching a "graph" means absofuckinglutely nothing to an end user.
NEXT year will totally be the year of Linux on the desktop.
Hard to believe I know, but then again a 2012 Gallup poll found that 46% of American respondents believe that an invisible superhero who lives in the sky created humans in their current form.
Conclusion: half of Americans are fucking retarded.
No, that's not the way it works. It's "if you broke a law in your land or if you didn't but what you did was still against the law in the USA, even if that's not where you were".
Sounds like that internal milestone is a special bar. How many projects reach that milestone? Is it more than 1 out of 10?
Apple decides to not even start on projects, or cancels them EARLY, if they won't reach that milestone. Compare that with companies that devote time and thought and energy to products that get killed or suck at launch because they're not good enough.
Jobs in 1997:
Tell me why I need Instagram when I can do photo manipulation including simulated HDR with Corel Paint Shop Photo.
Hint: I don't need their online service.
You seem to be replying to a post other than the one I made.
Key features of Instagram are image enhancement filters with pseudo HDR reconstruction.
No, those are just the carrot on the stick. The key features of Instagram are that it's a mobile-only social network, its reason for existence is location-based photo sharing, and it's dominated by iPhone users. The fact that it's mobile-only has every incumbent desktop social network scared. The fact that it's based on photo sharing had Facebook scared, because photo sharing is what made Facebook what it is; and the fact that it's dominated by iPhone users has advertisers salivating, because iPhone users are, demographically, more wealthy and more likely to spend money on products and services.
Where have you seen this before? I am interested in reading more.
See "Bain Capital"
Stocks go up on profit. And profit does not grow only with revenue. You can also deduct spendings. That's how big businesses work. They spend enormously for marketing, branding, hire unnecessary amount of people, to build a brand.
Profit share in the phone industry: Apple 75%, Samsung 24%, everyone else who cares.
Product design team: Apple 16 people, Samsung 1000+ people.
Marketing spend 2009-2012: Apple approx 2.6 billion dollars. Samsung Electronics division alone approx THIRTY THREE BILLION DOLLARS.
Yep. Pump and dump. I'd be very interested to see the stock trading histories of the WSJ staff behind this article.
This is going to revolutionize nutrition and eating, just like the Ginger/Segway has revolutionized transportation in our cities.
The Segway revolutionized LAZINESS, not transportation.
Similarly this new invention will revolutionize OVEREATING, not nutrition.
Basically Dean Kamen has identified a target market (America) and he's nailing the hotbuttons one by one.
Here in Australia the other day I took my kid to the dentist. Kid spent half an hour in the chair while a dentist and a nurse hovered over him making sure everything was as it should be. Poking and prodding, a bit of plaque removal, fluoride gel, etc. When he got up they handed him a bag with toothbrushes and floss.
Cost to me: zero. Walked out without paying a cent. Because socialism works.
The USA can keep its cheap gas. I'll take a society that looks after its citizens every time.
Sweet jesus, that's less than a dollar per litre. I haven't seen prices like that since the twentieth century.
Seriously America, you're a guy complaining that his imported Perrier is less fizzy than it used to be to an audience of people who are getting used to drinking rainwater. STFU.
What retard modded this shit up?
Or put another way
Windows 8 Usage Sinks Below Vista Levels
Windows 7 had more than 10 times the usage at this point in its lifecycle
http://www.dailytech.com/Windows+8+Usage+Sinks+Below+Vista+Levels/article29546.htm
Its UI performance and subjective responsiveness are still not on the level of iOS as iOS was 3 years ago.
My old iPhone 3G is more touch-responsive than my Galaxy Note.
The fundamental difference is that - as sports of strategy - rugby football is real-time while American football is turn-based.
Rugby is far more improvisational while American football is far more orchestrated. That's not to say that rugby can't have set plays and that American football can't be spontaneous, but I think the generalisation is accurate. That also means that rugby players are more jacks-of-all-trades and American football players are specialists.
The fastest guy on a rugby football team also has to be able to make and shrug off tackles and (pardon the arcane terminology) clean out at rucks; the biggest guy on a rugby team also has to be able to run and catch and pass and kick. Possession can change in an instant. In rugby you have to be able to go from playing offense to defense and back at the drop of a hat and for long uninterrupted passages of play without a whistle going. A rugby player has to be able to do a bit of every other player's job if circumstances require.
In American football every step, every pass, every hit is planned out and prepared for in advance and the positions and responsibilities are far more specialised. The offensive teams specialise in offense, the defensive teams in defense, and the special teams in kicking plays. Large numbers of complex pre-planned plays have to be memorised. A top-level punt returner would probably make a top-level rugby winger - each the fastest man on his team - look laughably slow. A defensive tackle would probably make a rugby prop - each the heaviest strongest man on his team - look frickin' anorexic.
The notion of taking a rest on the sideline while a specialist team takes its turn on the field is alien shit to a rugby player. Similarly the notion of the biggest guy on the field spontaneously making a run down the sideline (entirely on his own initiative, without ever having discussed it with his teammates or coaches) before getting smashed by the fastest guy on the other team is a scenario that seems just as alien to an American footballer.
TLDR? Basically rugby is Starcraft while American football is Civilization.
In Australia "pint" is just a word that means "glass of beer that's bigger than the smaller one" based on local practice. Cross a state line and the "pint" is an entirely different volume.