a cheap Android phone does everything that Siri does on an expensive, subsidized iPhone; but people somehow think it's impressive that Siri does it, but they're not impressed when a cheap Android does THE SAME THING.
OK, I do not understand bullshit (I understand maths, physics and algorithms, because these are understandable) and I'm not prepared to talk bullshit. That's an advantage in my book, that's why I'm a "nerd". Now you can call this position elitist, but I'm not prepared to compromise on this (...) if "user experience" means crippling stuff down: no thanks a lot.
So another question to ask is, what demographic is the Apple commercial appealing to? And is it actually more successful overall than the Android commercials? The iPhone is certainly selling well above any individual Android model, but it's selling well below the total Android ecosystem.
The commercial is appealing to people with disposable income who don't care about the tech specs or ROM versions of the devices that improve their lives. That's why Apple is leading the phone market in revenue by an amount so great it's almost like no-one else is in the race. If you add up all the profit made by Nokia, Samsung, LG, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola, HTC, and RIM, that combined amount comes to approximately one-half the profit being made by Apple.
And that's just phones, i.e. not counting profit from Apple's share of the iPad market. (That was a little joke. See someone's going to jump in and say "HA! YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID 'TABLET MARKET', as if they're two different things.)
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."
--- Thomas Jefferson
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense,
founded on the Christian religion."
--- George Washington
"From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His protection, should quit the care of all the rest, and come to die in our world, because, they say, one man and one woman had eaten an apple?"
--- Thomas Paine
"The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. It has been the most dishonorable belief against the character of the Divinity, the most destructive to morality and the peace and happiness of man that ever was propagated since man began to exist."
--- Thomas Paine
"Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity."
--- Thomas Paine
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
--- Thomas Paine
Well the blades are lighter than legs, consume no bodily resources, require no "plumbing" or "wiring", produce no waste products, feel no pain, and are more efficient than flesh and bone in that more energy is converted into forward motion by them than by organic legs.
I'm waiting for the first athlete to have organic legs amputated and replaced with carbon fibre blades because they're now allowed. That will be awesome.
When "the boys get home from the war" they're going to be unemployed and looking for work.
So you're going to have a large group of people with military training and proficiency with weapons, who in all likelihood are now mentally unstable to a certain degree, and who have only managed to stay alive for the past ten years because they've collectively adopted a policy of spontaneously killing people who challenged them.
Yeah everything's all going to be sweet when the boys get home from the war, that will FIX EVERYTHING.
That's like saying that the US involvement in Vietnam exceeded all expectations because the last helicopter to leave the roof of the embassy didn't spontaneously explode.
Xbox is quite possibly the greatest disaster in the history of business. It's just that MS makes enough money from Windows and Office to cope with it.
It would cost 10 times because Lucas has this weird idea that cramming in 10 times the amount of useless background detail into every scene is what makes a good movie
And into the foreground would be crammed the childhood versions of every character who ever appeared in Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi.
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There isn't a single Android phone that outsells iPhone.
(see how this works?)
a cheap Android phone does everything that Siri does on an expensive, subsidized iPhone; but people somehow think it's impressive that Siri does it, but they're not impressed when a cheap Android does THE SAME THING.
Ask your Android phone "will it rain today?"
OK, I do not understand bullshit (I understand maths, physics and algorithms, because these are understandable) and I'm not prepared to talk bullshit. That's an advantage in my book, that's why I'm a "nerd". Now you can call this position elitist, but I'm not prepared to compromise on this (...) if "user experience" means crippling stuff down: no thanks a lot.
Q. E. D.
So another question to ask is, what demographic is the Apple commercial appealing to? And is it actually more successful overall than the Android commercials? The iPhone is certainly selling well above any individual Android model, but it's selling well below the total Android ecosystem.
The commercial is appealing to people with disposable income who don't care about the tech specs or ROM versions of the devices that improve their lives. That's why Apple is leading the phone market in revenue by an amount so great it's almost like no-one else is in the race. If you add up all the profit made by Nokia, Samsung, LG, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola, HTC, and RIM, that combined amount comes to approximately one-half the profit being made by Apple.
And that's just phones, i.e. not counting profit from Apple's share of the iPad market. (That was a little joke. See someone's going to jump in and say "HA! YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID 'TABLET MARKET', as if they're two different things.)
ANALYSTS predicted 22 million iPhone sales. Not Apple. Because Apple doesn't play that game.
All Apple predicted was "revenue of about USD 25 billion" and it came in at just over USD 28 billion.
You just have to specify "Software Engineering" to distinguish it from real actual engineering.
Ooh, the Appeal to Authority Game!
My turn:
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."
--- Thomas Jefferson
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense,
founded on the Christian religion."
--- George Washington
"From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that
the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His
protection, should quit the care of all the rest, and come to die in
our world, because, they say, one man and one woman had eaten an
apple?"
--- Thomas Paine
"The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the
greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their
origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. It has
been the most dishonorable belief against the character of the
Divinity, the most destructive to morality and the peace and
happiness of man that ever was propagated since man began to exist."
--- Thomas Paine
"Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the
worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live
in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to
pursue us into eternity."
--- Thomas Paine
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian,
or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up
to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
--- Thomas Paine
Well the blades are lighter than legs, consume no bodily resources, require no "plumbing" or "wiring", produce no waste products, feel no pain, and are more efficient than flesh and bone in that more energy is converted into forward motion by them than by organic legs.
I'm waiting for the first athlete to have organic legs amputated and replaced with carbon fibre blades because they're now allowed. That will be awesome.
The feeling of being creeped-out by a NON-moving humanoid.
The three people who have bought Playbooks - and the two who will buy Playbooks before the end of the year - will be relieved.
When "the boys get home from the war" they're going to be unemployed and looking for work.
So you're going to have a large group of people with military training and proficiency with weapons, who in all likelihood are now mentally unstable to a certain degree, and who have only managed to stay alive for the past ten years because they've collectively adopted a policy of spontaneously killing people who challenged them.
Yeah everything's all going to be sweet when the boys get home from the war, that will FIX EVERYTHING.
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The US is the largest manufacturer in the world.
Failure in translation. What was actually said was "American manufacturers are the fattest in the world".
They are learning English at a much faster rate than any Americans can learn Chinese.
Hell, they're learning English faster than any American can learn English.
This is one of those "everyone in the rest of the world points and laughs at the Murkins" stories, right?
Some of the best most thought-provoking and introspective experiences of my life were on LSD. Nothing bad to say about the stuff.
It's ok, they backed up everything to S3 using Dropbox, and Dropbox has a new feature where you can log in to any account with any or no password.
They always tell me before the rise of civilization that human teeth were perfectly fine.
I think the missing words are "were perfectly fine for a human's natural lifespan."
It's just that a human lifespan was probably about 30 or 40 years, and then you died of old age.
Beaten to the pedantic punch.
"The Xbox 360 has exceeded all expectations"
That's like saying that the US involvement in Vietnam exceeded all expectations because the last helicopter to leave the roof of the embassy didn't spontaneously explode.
Xbox is quite possibly the greatest disaster in the history of business. It's just that MS makes enough money from Windows and Office to cope with it.
And yet people who could currently leave if they put their minds to it continue to live in the USA.
An image of a frog in warming water comes to mind.
It would cost 10 times because Lucas has this weird idea that cramming in 10 times the amount of useless background detail into every scene is what makes a good movie
And into the foreground would be crammed the childhood versions of every character who ever appeared in Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi.
You can't prevent someone from giving your product away. If they bought one, you can't keep them from giving that product to someone else.
Apple's not preventing people from giving its products away. It's simply saying that it will only supply its products to those retailers who don't.
Don't know where the Gizmodo staffers were in the 90s but for me it was IRC, then ICQ, then MSN. I didn't know *anyone* with an AIM handle.
He was arrested.