Because Apples target audience just so happens to be one of the few consumers of electronics that might care enough about this subject to make Apple do something about it. That's why.
Anyone got an idea how I can preorder one? I can't find them anywhere, but for $99 it would be great for my 3yr old to watch spongebob on and maybe play some games.
Standardize the batteries and an easy way to roboticaly remove them from the car. Then the driver pulls up, an arm slides out, pulls the battery and slides in a fully charged one. The station can make sure they are fully charged and in good working order. You'd get charged for "filling up the battery" and a general maintenance fee. You also never then have to worry about replacing the battery either.
I have a kindle, and it's a fantastic device. I'm certainly not an "Amazon hipster" (I didn't even know there was such a thing) I don't buy anything from the amazon store, my kindle is rooted and I do with it as I please. It's best features are not found anywhere else: The screen is amazing and I charge it once a MONTH at most. I read every day and the kindle lets me blaze through books. I have it filled with automotive service manuals, emergency guides, maps, all of which combine make it perfect for emergencies in which the power could go out rendering all other devices useless.
I'm sure there are people out there that buy them just so they can sit in starbucks and look cool, but that's not the magic of the device. If they can improve the screen by adding color and improved refresh rates, add more tablet features like improved web browsing, some more basic applications like a calendar, calculator, maybe even GPS, while keeping the battery life significantly longer than other devices, I think they'll destroy the tablet market. All this superfluous stuff people are doing with tablets right now, like games, videos, etc, are just driving the market in the wrong direction. High power use, low battery life... Phones already do all that, we don't need a big cellphone. We need a computerize book/map/encyclopedia/notebook. THAT is where tablets will win big in the long run and the only company doing that right now is Amazon.
Sorry, but if you're telling me the appeal of a tablet it makes the distance between your desk and sofa easier to browse the internet from, then you've pretty much proved this guys point. Why don't they pay netflix to develop a client? Why would they? Why the hell are you watching netflix movies on your tablet? If you're on wifi, you're likely at home.... with your TV. If you're else where you're going to hit your bandwidth cap on your cell service pretty quick. The fact that you have a desktop, a laptop, an iPad and a Touch pad pretty much proves you're Apples target audience. You have money you don't know what to do with and you're willing to throw it at tech gadgets that will be obsolete in less than a year.
You seriously want the government to be your ISP? It's bad enough that ATT just hands over your info when they ask for it... but in your case they don't even have to ask for it.
You're missing the point. A good example would be fast food restaurants. There used to be a Mexican based fast food chain called Taco Bell. It used to be the only place to get burritos, but then McDonalds introduced their breakfast burrito and drove Taco Bells nearly extinct like FTP. Please ignore the fact that you drove by 3 of them this morning or that it's impossible to update your website without using FTP.
B.S. Politicians are always toadies. They are here, and they are in China. Irrelevant of government regulations, bad business leaders WILL find a way to fail. It's what they are good at.
In most of these cases, wages aren't the driving force behind cost of manufacture. It's environmental regulation. In the US water is more expensive, electricity is more expensive, waste removal is more expensive, and most importantly, proving you meet all the environmental guidelines is expensive. Where-as, in Asia you build your plant next to a river for convenient removal of waste... free water... electricity is practically free from coal fired power plants. No government official ever shows up for an inspection.
Even if our politicians cared (and they don't) how would they ever regulate us into a position to compete with that? And yes, you're going to rattle of a bunch of stuff that all comes down to implementing tariffs... which would be horrible for our economy, China would see as nearly a deceleration of war, and our government would use the proceeds of to invade another middle eastern country.
It's not a problem the government can (or wants to) solve.
You spent how many millions on your anti-piracy tactics and we all know it'll be cracked within a month of release.
What happens when my computer doesn't have an internet connection? Are you going to drop the ENTIRE laptop market? No... You're going to have to account for that, and that will be exploited.
The ONLY way to fight piracy is to lower your prices. Sell windows for $30 a box (probably what you're selling it to Dell for anyway) and it wont be worth anyone's time to pirate.
Facebooks the most hated company on the internet... proven by several polls now. Their on their way out. If Google acted anything like Microsoft does, Facebook would have been dead years ago. It's only a matter of time.
before everyone gets all upset (ok, admittedly too late) we should all realize how important such a ship would be after a Zombie Apocalypse. If you were the captain of such a ship... filled with recently picked up goodies and food stuffs from China... upon coming to shore in California and realizing the demise of mankind you could sail from port to port picking up the few remaining, non-zombie, hot chicks that will be milling about (this is clear from every motion picture on the subject ever made) and go about remaking society in your own image.
You're proving my point... that's not a Dyson sphere, It's a Dyson Shell and the probability of a Dyson SPHERE existing is relatively high... a Shell on the other hand would require new physics.
The Author of the article looks at todays popular culture and wonders where all the big ideas are... they had big ideas 100 years ago he says! But he's comparing today's popular culture to yesterdays underground subculture. If he were to look at the pop-culture of 100 years ago he'd see a plethora of paperback westerns in which Indians were evil savages. There's plenty of big ideas going on right now, all the author is revealing is the not-so-new trend of the media being too lazy to go look for it.
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Because Apples target audience just so happens to be one of the few consumers of electronics that might care enough about this subject to make Apple do something about it. That's why.
aren't newspapers rarer than oil now?
Anyone got an idea how I can preorder one? I can't find them anywhere, but for $99 it would be great for my 3yr old to watch spongebob on and maybe play some games.
Standardize the batteries and an easy way to roboticaly remove them from the car. Then the driver pulls up, an arm slides out, pulls the battery and slides in a fully charged one. The station can make sure they are fully charged and in good working order. You'd get charged for "filling up the battery" and a general maintenance fee. You also never then have to worry about replacing the battery either.
Emergency guides:
http://www.google.com/search?q=emergency+guide&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1
Service manuals:
http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=automotive+service+manual&btnG=
Maps you have to be more creative with. You can either get Gazeteers or go to google maps and save it as an image.
I have a kindle, and it's a fantastic device. I'm certainly not an "Amazon hipster" (I didn't even know there was such a thing) I don't buy anything from the amazon store, my kindle is rooted and I do with it as I please. It's best features are not found anywhere else: The screen is amazing and I charge it once a MONTH at most. I read every day and the kindle lets me blaze through books. I have it filled with automotive service manuals, emergency guides, maps, all of which combine make it perfect for emergencies in which the power could go out rendering all other devices useless.
I'm sure there are people out there that buy them just so they can sit in starbucks and look cool, but that's not the magic of the device. If they can improve the screen by adding color and improved refresh rates, add more tablet features like improved web browsing, some more basic applications like a calendar, calculator, maybe even GPS, while keeping the battery life significantly longer than other devices, I think they'll destroy the tablet market. All this superfluous stuff people are doing with tablets right now, like games, videos, etc, are just driving the market in the wrong direction. High power use, low battery life... Phones already do all that, we don't need a big cellphone. We need a computerize book/map/encyclopedia/notebook. THAT is where tablets will win big in the long run and the only company doing that right now is Amazon.
And when those same officials control all the local media outlets as well? I certainly hope you don't plan any protests using the internet.
Sorry, but if you're telling me the appeal of a tablet it makes the distance between your desk and sofa easier to browse the internet from, then you've pretty much proved this guys point. Why don't they pay netflix to develop a client? Why would they? Why the hell are you watching netflix movies on your tablet? If you're on wifi, you're likely at home.... with your TV. If you're else where you're going to hit your bandwidth cap on your cell service pretty quick. The fact that you have a desktop, a laptop, an iPad and a Touch pad pretty much proves you're Apples target audience. You have money you don't know what to do with and you're willing to throw it at tech gadgets that will be obsolete in less than a year.
You seriously want the government to be your ISP? It's bad enough that ATT just hands over your info when they ask for it... but in your case they don't even have to ask for it.
Agreed, it's worthless. You couldn't PAY me to use it.
You're missing the point. A good example would be fast food restaurants. There used to be a Mexican based fast food chain called Taco Bell. It used to be the only place to get burritos, but then McDonalds introduced their breakfast burrito and drove Taco Bells nearly extinct like FTP. Please ignore the fact that you drove by 3 of them this morning or that it's impossible to update your website without using FTP.
What's a CNET?
Lets fill a probe with biological stuff we think might work there and seed the thing ourselves!
And we'd prove what happened in a foreign country how? Oh that's right, we couldn't.
B.S.
Politicians are always toadies. They are here, and they are in China.
Irrelevant of government regulations, bad business leaders WILL find a way to fail. It's what they are good at.
In most of these cases, wages aren't the driving force behind cost of manufacture. It's environmental regulation. In the US water is more expensive, electricity is more expensive, waste removal is more expensive, and most importantly, proving you meet all the environmental guidelines is expensive. Where-as, in Asia you build your plant next to a river for convenient removal of waste... free water... electricity is practically free from coal fired power plants. No government official ever shows up for an inspection.
Even if our politicians cared (and they don't) how would they ever regulate us into a position to compete with that? And yes, you're going to rattle of a bunch of stuff that all comes down to implementing tariffs... which would be horrible for our economy, China would see as nearly a deceleration of war, and our government would use the proceeds of to invade another middle eastern country.
It's not a problem the government can (or wants to) solve.
Corrupted by the federal government for purposes the clearly defy the constitution in 3... 2... 1...
You spent how many millions on your anti-piracy tactics and we all know it'll be cracked within a month of release.
What happens when my computer doesn't have an internet connection? Are you going to drop the ENTIRE laptop market? No... You're going to have to account for that, and that will be exploited.
The ONLY way to fight piracy is to lower your prices. Sell windows for $30 a box (probably what you're selling it to Dell for anyway) and it wont be worth anyone's time to pirate.
No it wouldn't.
Facebooks the most hated company on the internet... proven by several polls now. Their on their way out. If Google acted anything like Microsoft does, Facebook would have been dead years ago. It's only a matter of time.
before everyone gets all upset (ok, admittedly too late) we should all realize how important such a ship would be after a Zombie Apocalypse. If you were the captain of such a ship... filled with recently picked up goodies and food stuffs from China... upon coming to shore in California and realizing the demise of mankind you could sail from port to port picking up the few remaining, non-zombie, hot chicks that will be milling about (this is clear from every motion picture on the subject ever made) and go about remaking society in your own image.
You're proving my point... that's not a Dyson sphere, It's a Dyson Shell and the probability of a Dyson SPHERE existing is relatively high... a Shell on the other hand would require new physics.
The Author of the article looks at todays popular culture and wonders where all the big ideas are... they had big ideas 100 years ago he says! But he's comparing today's popular culture to yesterdays underground subculture. If he were to look at the pop-culture of 100 years ago he'd see a plethora of paperback westerns in which Indians were evil savages. There's plenty of big ideas going on right now, all the author is revealing is the not-so-new trend of the media being too lazy to go look for it.
Dyson spheres do not, by definition "encapsulate" a star... read up on them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
or they could just introduce a gas tax... The only real purpose for this is to track their citizens movements.
Is this what set Obama's Vineyard on fire?