They have removed what they perceive to be the weakness in the plan the previous time around - no control over the components that hardware was made from.
They are now driving their processor design somewhat, and leveraging their new larger size to get comparable or better volume pricing on key components like flash and displays. They can therefore now deliver the same hardware at a comparable price point to any other mfr, and better than any small entrant to the market.
So the situation is not the same. Remains to be seen if the result will be.
Saying the only reason someone says they like their apple products is that they are suffering from hostage syndrome is much closer to calling them a moron than it is to questioning their decision.
My kid skinned his knees on the playground at school back when he was 6, but he had to work at it because thy are NOT ALLOWED TO RUN on the asphalt PLAYground at the elementary he used to attend.
I should have sued them for not tying him to a pole or something.
How many Mickey Mouse cartoons have you seen lately...?
You pretty plainly don't expose yourself to Disney's full gamut of products. He's not used in features, but in shorts, TV shows, games as mentioned below, and in attractions in the parks, he gets heavy use.
Taking the most well known of the bunch, you seriously believe Al Franken is bought and paid for by corporations? Have you looked at any other issues he's voted or spoken out on?
He's doing some positive things, but here is a quote from him today on Ars about COICA:
The other side of this, of course, is that this is about, essentially, stealing copyrighted material and selling counterfeit goods. This goes to tens of billions of dollars in theft. Some of the supporters of this were after the American Federation of TV and Radio Artists, the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild I happen to belong to all three of those unions. This doesn't just affect the jobs of writers and directors and producers; when they're free to steal all this intellectual material, it changes the business model of a movie. So it really costs the jobs of the technicians and the crew and the craft services people. It changes the entire business model for the industry. It's not just movies and TV, it's everything.
So yeah, there's some vested interest going on there.
Nice spin. From the report directly under the graph you reference:
ASUS and Toshiba come out on top. With 3 year malfunction rates forecast to be under 16%, laptops from these two manufacturers are nearly 40% more reliable than Hewlett-Packard, the worst performer in our study. Sony and Apple also performed better than the average.
The industry leader HP, which shipped nearly 16 million laptops in the past year according to IDCiii, ranked dead last in our reliability study with over one-fourth of laptops expected to malfunction in 3 years. Gateway and Acer, the #2 maker of laptops, were also nearly as unreliable as HP, with an expected malfunction rate of over 23%.
So Apple's rate is decently better than HP, Dell and Acer, the makers of most PC laptops.
Not a strict enough adherence to the definition of "usually" for you?
You don't need to buy Linn stuff to not have hiss and hum. I built a balanced power transformer/line conditioner for my HT, which has pretty nice stuff, but safely in the 4 figures range, and I have zero noise at any setting with no audio playing.
BTW Super Audio CD and DVD-audio failed because nobody cared about quality.
A little extreme. More like, not enough people cared enough about quality, combine with higher price, limited music available in the formats, and in non-hybrid SACD's and DVD-A's case, couldn't be played anywhere a CD could or ripped. Blu-ray had a similar hill to climb, but more people own equipment capable of displaying the difference.
I understand that in California school districts get so much money for each student that's in class each day. Kid doesn't come to school, school doesn't get paid.
You omitted the highly relevant point that MS has nothing in the tablet space (other than an enterprise bit from HP that is even more highly priced than everyone else's offering). And tablets are cannibalizing their OS sales for lowend (i.e. more numerous) machines.
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They have removed what they perceive to be the weakness in the plan the previous time around - no control over the components that hardware was made from.
They are now driving their processor design somewhat, and leveraging their new larger size to get comparable or better volume pricing on key components like flash and displays. They can therefore now deliver the same hardware at a comparable price point to any other mfr, and better than any small entrant to the market.
So the situation is not the same. Remains to be seen if the result will be.
I'm confused. iMac is not OK, but mac mini is?
Saying the only reason someone says they like their apple products is that they are suffering from hostage syndrome is much closer to calling them a moron than it is to questioning their decision.
if Apple went away, the smart phone market would not look all that different really, other than one less choice.
Disagree. I would bet you would seem some severe backsliding in the US on carrier lockdown of features and buying media/apps.
My kid skinned his knees on the playground at school back when he was 6, but he had to work at it because thy are NOT ALLOWED TO RUN on the asphalt PLAYground at the elementary he used to attend.
I should have sued them for not tying him to a pole or something.
It's both.
I had completely missed that. I'd mod you informative, if I had any points, since I can't mod myself with a duh.
They always get closer until you turn them off.
How many Mickey Mouse cartoons have you seen lately ...?
You pretty plainly don't expose yourself to Disney's full gamut of products. He's not used in features, but in shorts, TV shows, games as mentioned below, and in attractions in the parks, he gets heavy use.
Taking the most well known of the bunch, you seriously believe Al Franken is bought and paid for by corporations? Have you looked at any other issues he's voted or spoken out on?
He's doing some positive things, but here is a quote from him today on Ars about COICA:
The other side of this, of course, is that this is about, essentially, stealing copyrighted material and selling counterfeit goods. This goes to tens of billions of dollars in theft. Some of the supporters of this were after the American Federation of TV and Radio Artists, the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild I happen to belong to all three of those unions. This doesn't just affect the jobs of writers and directors and producers; when they're free to steal all this intellectual material, it changes the business model of a movie. So it really costs the jobs of the technicians and the crew and the craft services people. It changes the entire business model for the industry. It's not just movies and TV, it's everything.
So yeah, there's some vested interest going on there.
I've bought 3 TVs in the last 10 years, 2HD, 2 projectors, a PS3, appleTV, Wii, PS2, multiple computer, audio equipment out the wazoo.
And my wife, kid and I all agreed 3D in the home is lame and we don't need or want it. Only my wife gets headaches.
I also hang out on A/V forums. It's not even getting much traction with that crowd.
Consumer 3D is at best going to be 5 years + in taking hold, and more likely IMO, just a fail. It's only salvation will be sports programming.
Sure, quality sucks
but they . . . look fine.
??
Nice spin. From the report directly under the graph you reference:
ASUS and Toshiba come out on top. With 3 year malfunction rates forecast to be under 16%, laptops from these two manufacturers are nearly 40% more reliable than Hewlett-Packard, the worst performer in our study. Sony and Apple also performed better than the average.
The industry leader HP, which shipped nearly 16 million laptops in the past year according to IDCiii, ranked dead last in our reliability study with over one-fourth of laptops expected to malfunction in 3 years. Gateway and Acer, the #2 maker of laptops, were also nearly as unreliable as HP, with an expected malfunction rate of over 23%.
So Apple's rate is decently better than HP, Dell and Acer, the makers of most PC laptops.
Not a strict enough adherence to the definition of "usually" for you?
Great, I foresee the birth of a new acronym, IANAAL - I am not an astronomical lawyer.
I doubt it. They'd have to change their sales and support structure, and their secretive product roadmap culture as well.
unless, of course, you have specific reasons and data to suggest why 15% would be the specific number we need to consider.
Of course he does. We haven't reached it yet.
They work when the power goes out
Not at night.
You don't need to buy Linn stuff to not have hiss and hum. I built a balanced power transformer/line conditioner for my HT, which has pretty nice stuff, but safely in the 4 figures range, and I have zero noise at any setting with no audio playing.
BTW Super Audio CD and DVD-audio failed because nobody cared about quality.
A little extreme. More like, not enough people cared enough about quality, combine with higher price, limited music available in the formats, and in non-hybrid SACD's and DVD-A's case, couldn't be played anywhere a CD could or ripped. Blu-ray had a similar hill to climb, but more people own equipment capable of displaying the difference.
I understand that in California school districts get so much money for each student that's in class each day. Kid doesn't come to school, school doesn't get paid.
Bingo.
Sorry, have to slice you with Occam's razor.
Public schools lose money for every day a child does not attend.
Now we might extend your reasoning to the motivation BEHIND that policy.
Have you even been paying attention to any of the pricing announcements on everyone else's tablets?
You omitted the highly relevant point that MS has nothing in the tablet space (other than an enterprise bit from HP that is even more highly priced than everyone else's offering). And tablets are cannibalizing their OS sales for lowend (i.e. more numerous) machines.
I am not sure if that is a car analogy or not.
Anonymous is trying to suppress information using death threats.
And you know this because HBGary said so, no?