Who's talking violence? I'm just saying that after a few thousand dollars of Google Glass have been removed from your head and stomped underfoot because you don't understand social cues, you'll learn to modify your behaviour.
Religious or not, the Bible in an incredible historical document that should be treated with respect and educated thoughtfulness, not snarky cherry picking and misrepresentation.
Years ago ago those of us who used any *nix desktop ('every morning when you wake up, the house is a little different') were seen as willing to embrace change and spend hours tinkering and configuring until we got new desktop versions to work the way we wanted, while there was an opposite perception of desktop users over in the Mac world ('it just works')
If you want a UNIX desktop that just works, then you get a Mac.
Let's extend your example a bit. Let's say that Dropbox develops an unnatural power over hard drive manufacturers and demands lower and lower prices to the point where no one could afford to make hard drives for their service anymore.
Then Dropbox would have no new hard drives, and it would go out of business, and I'd stop using it.
I don't care what Dropbox pays for its hard drives and I don't care what Spotify pays to the music labels. If that level is sustainable the service will remain operative and I will keep using it if I find it good value. If it's not sustainable the service will stop and I'll use something else.
Either way - I don't care. I hate these articles because the implication is that this is in fact an ARTISTS' RIGHTS discussion or an INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE discussion. But it's not. A company is paying money to its own suppliers in order to provide me with a service I can use or not use. And this is a big deal? THAT'S EVERY FUCKING COMPANY IN THE WORLD.
Oh, Apple is far and a way the most profitable manufacturer in the PC market. It makes more money from Mac sales than Dell, HP. Lenovo, Asus, and Acer make from all their WinPC sales combined.
tell me why I should give a shit? This is like a news item telling me how much Dropbox pays for hard disks or how much Google pays for electricity.
Streaming music services like Spotify provide a service, and I pay for it if I find it good value for money. I don't care what their overheads are or what deals they have in place with their suppliers.
Not in comparison to other PC manufacturers, no they don't - about 25%, IIRC which is a margin Dell, HP, et al would kill for.
But the margin on iPad is in the mid thirties. The margin on iPhone is in the mid FIFTIES. And those are devices that are replaced every 12-18 months, as opposed to Macs getting replaced every 4-6 years.
As a wise man already posted, iOS is a fork of OS X. Those two operating systems are far more closely related than, say, Windows 95 and Windows 8 - both of which are included as just "Windows" on the graph.
iOS is a fork of OS X. Those two operating systems are far more closely related than, say, Windows 95 and Windows 8 - both of which are included as just "Windows" on the graph.
My gut feeling is that Apple really doesn't give a shit about Mac any more. It's a device with small margins in a shrinking market and sales cycles of 4, 5, even 6 years (Macs just keep going and going and going).
iPhone and iPad however have big margins and a new product revision is released every year. That's where the money is and that's where the future is.
Why the fuck would Apple spend any more time thinking about Mac than it needs to?
You can't directly compare PC vs phone sales if PCs are on a 6+ year purchase cycle and phones are on a 2 year purchase cycle.
But you CAN compare the business sense of two companies, one of which has stubbornly clung to the market that has a 6+ year purchase cycle, and the other which has pivoted to become the world's premium provider in the market that has the 2 year purchase cycle.
One of these strategies was clever. The other was stupid.
When I buy an app and discover it is a steaming turd, I should be able to click to remove it and get a refund within 15 minutes.
You can - I've done it more than once with apps that turned out to be, as you put it, steaming turds.
This case however is about IN-APP purchases. E.g. playing a shitty freemium game like Plants vs Zombies 2 and unlocking new plants by clicking the "buy this plant" button, which costs real-world money.
I own a warehouse and have to pay a security firm to receive emergency signals for freezing (pipes!) and smoke or overheating. I'd like to be able to monitor it myself.
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Who's talking violence? I'm just saying that after a few thousand dollars of Google Glass have been removed from your head and stomped underfoot because you don't understand social cues, you'll learn to modify your behaviour.
It's a self-correcting problem. After the Glasses have been knocked off your face and stomped underfoot a few times, you'll modify your behaviour.
Religious or not, the Bible in an incredible historical document that should be treated with respect and educated thoughtfulness, not snarky cherry picking and misrepresentation.
Just like Mein Kampf!
jQuery *is* a hack. A necessary one that has grown into some kind of terrifying chimera, but still fundamentally a hack.
So it's like emacs then?
Prediction: "smart" masks that not only obscure your face but also photorealistically display the face of some other random person.
If you want a UNIX desktop that just works, then you get a Mac.
"open"
I'm not sure which I detest more
You are double counting. The faster replacement cycle is what drives the discrepancy in user / sales.
What? Who's talking about sales? I'm talking about MARGINS.
Thank you for that insightful comment from the magical land of Aspergers Syndrome.
whatever you believe, politically speaking, the artists *should* be able to sell their music to make a living
I disagree. A musician's desire to make music in no way places an obligation upon me to pay for it.
But that's beside the point. I don't pay the artist, Spotify doesn't pay the artist, the record label pays the artist.
Artist and feeling butthurt? Not my problem. Take it up with the label.
Let's extend your example a bit. Let's say that Dropbox develops an unnatural power over hard drive manufacturers and demands lower and lower prices to the point where no one could afford to make hard drives for their service anymore.
Then Dropbox would have no new hard drives, and it would go out of business, and I'd stop using it.
I don't care what Dropbox pays for its hard drives and I don't care what Spotify pays to the music labels. If that level is sustainable the service will remain operative and I will keep using it if I find it good value. If it's not sustainable the service will stop and I'll use something else.
Either way - I don't care. I hate these articles because the implication is that this is in fact an ARTISTS' RIGHTS discussion or an INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE discussion. But it's not. A company is paying money to its own suppliers in order to provide me with a service I can use or not use. And this is a big deal? THAT'S EVERY FUCKING COMPANY IN THE WORLD.
Oh, Apple is far and a way the most profitable manufacturer in the PC market. It makes more money from Mac sales than Dell, HP. Lenovo, Asus, and Acer make from all their WinPC sales combined.
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http://www.asymco.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-Shot-2013-04-16-at-4-16-4.16.46-PM-620x587.png
(all stats from Asymco)
But the dominating the PC market is dominating a market that doesn't have a future. Or rather, not a big one.
tell me why I should give a shit? This is like a news item telling me how much Dropbox pays for hard disks or how much Google pays for electricity.
Streaming music services like Spotify provide a service, and I pay for it if I find it good value for money. I don't care what their overheads are or what deals they have in place with their suppliers.
Macs don't have small margins.
Not in comparison to other PC manufacturers, no they don't - about 25%, IIRC which is a margin Dell, HP, et al would kill for.
But the margin on iPad is in the mid thirties. The margin on iPhone is in the mid FIFTIES. And those are devices that are replaced every 12-18 months, as opposed to Macs getting replaced every 4-6 years.
The fuck? Out of five Space Shuttles put in service, two were destroyed in accidents killing all on board. 40% vehicle failure rate.
1.5% of Shuttle missions resulted in fatal accidents. ONE POINT FIVE PER CENT.
As a wise man already posted, iOS is a fork of OS X. Those two operating systems are far more closely related than, say, Windows 95 and Windows 8 - both of which are included as just "Windows" on the graph.
iOS is a fork of OS X. Those two operating systems are far more closely related than, say, Windows 95 and Windows 8 - both of which are included as just "Windows" on the graph.
My gut feeling is that Apple really doesn't give a shit about Mac any more. It's a device with small margins in a shrinking market and sales cycles of 4, 5, even 6 years (Macs just keep going and going and going).
iPhone and iPad however have big margins and a new product revision is released every year. That's where the money is and that's where the future is.
Why the fuck would Apple spend any more time thinking about Mac than it needs to?
There are more Hyundais in the world than Mercedeses. Mercedes doesn't seem to be too bothered.
You can't directly compare PC vs phone sales if PCs are on a 6+ year purchase cycle and phones are on a 2 year purchase cycle.
But you CAN compare the business sense of two companies, one of which has stubbornly clung to the market that has a 6+ year purchase cycle, and the other which has pivoted to become the world's premium provider in the market that has the 2 year purchase cycle.
One of these strategies was clever. The other was stupid.
When I buy an app and discover it is a steaming turd, I should be able to click to remove it and get a refund within 15 minutes.
You can - I've done it more than once with apps that turned out to be, as you put it, steaming turds.
This case however is about IN-APP purchases. E.g. playing a shitty freemium game like Plants vs Zombies 2 and unlocking new plants by clicking the "buy this plant" button, which costs real-world money.
Stephen Harper's Tory government is claiming that the documents have been digitized
320x200 jpegs stored on 5 1/4" floppies is good enough for anyone!
http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Anti-Vaccine_Body_Count/Home.html
I own a warehouse and have to pay a security firm to receive emergency signals for freezing (pipes!) and smoke or overheating. I'd like to be able to monitor it myself.
That will require a Google+ account.