No. All the evidences points to the successful Apple products being appliances. They are PCs pretending to be appliances but they are still appliances.
You don't fully control them. You are intended not to.
The moment one of us brings this up as a criticism, you will come up with some lame excuses for it that also completely ignore Apple's PC products and all of the marketing associated with them.
A PC is something where you don't need advance permission from the platform vendor to create the next killer app.
Nope. That's just self-serving wishful thinking. It's the kind of thinking that gets you decapitated by your subjects after you tell them to "eat cake".
Apple found success by not directly competing with Microsoft. Some brand partisans just can't get over that. You lost. Your generals gave up. It's time to move on already.
They already decided to support MacOS. So they're already at least half way there. It's not like this is exactly a new direction for them. They have been diversifying for awhile now.
Tablets and phones outnumber Apple's computer sales by something like 10:1.
If Apple is making "billions of dollars of profit" every quarter, then it is not because of the PC business. If Apple were still just a PC company they would be either dead or terribly obscure by this point.
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No it won't.
Eventually 3rd parties will begin to ignore it.
XP is interesting here only because it's successor (Vista) was so bad that Microsoft was forced to continue supporting it against it's will.
It's funny how market share metrics suddenly become something that only weirdos would be interested in once it is some form of Linux that is making a good showing.
It's just nice to know that the future isn't owned by Apple.
You may think that the mainframe model applied to PCs constitutes a dinosaur but that's simply how anything beyond a one man shop operates. If you think otherwise, you need to stop going to "occupy" rallies, move out of mom's basement, and get an actual job.
No. It's a sign that the person is trying to claim that the sky isn't blue. They are making a claim that is so absurd that you've got to wonder if they're just being a contrarian and are trolling.
There is no "sense of entitlement", just 30 years of computing history to contradict idiots like you. You don't have to abuse the end user to have a gaming platform that allows developers to make money.
Linux as an example of "where this is going"? Linux was never a well marketed gaming platform. Yet it is gaining ground lately. It's doing so because the actual numbers contradict your nonsense.
I dunno. I think this boils down more to the fact that Apple users in general are more willing to pay for things that Windows users expect to get for free. I don't think that "open" versus "closed" really has anything to do with it.
Game developers didn't seem to have any trouble making money for similarly "open" platforms before. Android isn't any more "open" than what game developers have been dealing with for 30 years. There seems to be some confusion about just what kind of "open" we're talking about here.
Perhaps people that aren't as prone to spend money to impress others are just less likely to blow it in general.
People haven't forgotten because they are cheap bastards and the price tag is the most important thing here. NO ONE has any clue how good or how bad Windows tablets because NO ONE was willing to spend $2000.
So trying to make claims about what they did or did not do is just moronic.
Apple is like IKEA. First they designed the price. Every thing else falls into place after that.
These are a bunch of bogus patents that amount to going down to city hall and declaring it your personal mansion. At least with copyright, I can write my own kernel or my own web browser.
A patent is not "Apple's property". It's their license to steal mine. I can't write a kernel or a web browser any more because they "own" that.
> Is it evil to defend your intellectual property?
If you're the British East India Company? Probably so.
Any company that can't be ignored or is too big to fail is a problem. It's a strategic national interest problem as well as being a menace to consumers.
It doesn't matter if you want to pretend that it represents some sort of twisted meritocracy or not.
This is especially puzzling since the "conservative faction" here was founded with "Big Government" in mind. The GOP is the original part of "lets have the government build some roads" so we can make more money.
The Internet is exactly the kind of "big infastructure" the original Republicans wanted to encourage.
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No. All the evidences points to the successful Apple products being appliances. They are PCs pretending to be appliances but they are still appliances.
You don't fully control them. You are intended not to.
The moment one of us brings this up as a criticism, you will come up with some lame excuses for it that also completely ignore Apple's PC products and all of the marketing associated with them.
A PC is something where you don't need advance permission from the platform vendor to create the next killer app.
Nope. That's just self-serving wishful thinking. It's the kind of thinking that gets you decapitated by your subjects after you tell them to "eat cake".
Apple found success by not directly competing with Microsoft. Some brand partisans just can't get over that. You lost. Your generals gave up. It's time to move on already.
They already decided to support MacOS. So they're already at least half way there. It's not like this is exactly a new direction for them. They have been diversifying for awhile now.
So the fixation on Direct3D may be unwarranted.
Stuck in a PhoneOS mindset on the desktop?
I don't like being stuck in a PhoneOS mindset on a tablet.
The old school file hierarchy is not a bad thing. It allows you to organize things in ways that Apple products simply don't account for.
Having a great big pile of stuff to look through is not "usability".
Tablets and phones outnumber Apple's computer sales by something like 10:1.
If Apple is making "billions of dollars of profit" every quarter, then it is not because of the PC business. If Apple were still just a PC company they would be either dead or terribly obscure by this point.
No it won't.
Eventually 3rd parties will begin to ignore it.
XP is interesting here only because it's successor (Vista) was so bad that Microsoft was forced to continue supporting it against it's will.
It's funny how market share metrics suddenly become something that only weirdos would be interested in once it is some form of Linux that is making a good showing.
It's just nice to know that the future isn't owned by Apple.
In other words, a corporation.
You may think that the mainframe model applied to PCs constitutes a dinosaur but that's simply how anything beyond a one man shop operates. If you think otherwise, you need to stop going to "occupy" rallies, move out of mom's basement, and get an actual job.
> Publishers shifted towards consoles because of control.
So what games do you have credits on?
Or are you just speaking from your nether regions?
What consoles do offer is a consistent set of hardware to program against.
No. It's a sign that the person is trying to claim that the sky isn't blue. They are making a claim that is so absurd that you've got to wonder if they're just being a contrarian and are trolling.
"Can't decide if really stupid or just a troll."
> He's not arguing you don't have the right, he's arguing that making such devices doesn't benefit developers.
Then he's a moron or a liar.
Clearly he's never heard of Electronic Arts or Activision.
No. It's moronic.
You are also grossly oversimplifying the situation bordering on blatant lying.
> Does anyone code for fun after they leave moms basement ?
Yes actually: Successful game developers that aren't whiney little bitches.
There is no "sense of entitlement", just 30 years of computing history to contradict idiots like you. You don't have to abuse the end user to have a gaming platform that allows developers to make money.
Linux as an example of "where this is going"? Linux was never a well marketed gaming platform. Yet it is gaining ground lately. It's doing so because the actual numbers contradict your nonsense.
I dunno. I think this boils down more to the fact that Apple users in general are more willing to pay for things that Windows users expect to get for free. I don't think that "open" versus "closed" really has anything to do with it.
Game developers didn't seem to have any trouble making money for similarly "open" platforms before. Android isn't any more "open" than what game developers have been dealing with for 30 years. There seems to be some confusion about just what kind of "open" we're talking about here.
Perhaps people that aren't as prone to spend money to impress others are just less likely to blow it in general.
People haven't forgotten because they are cheap bastards and the price tag is the most important thing here. NO ONE has any clue how good or how bad Windows tablets because NO ONE was willing to spend $2000.
So trying to make claims about what they did or did not do is just moronic.
Apple is like IKEA. First they designed the price. Every thing else falls into place after that.
> Isn't that why we have patents?
No. It isn't.
You're just spouting corporate propaganda.
> And.. here's where your argument falls apart. There are no PADD designs that are confusable for an iPad.
Sure there is. There was such a tablet being used on board the Discovery in the movie 2001:A Space Odessey from 1969.
What property?
These are a bunch of bogus patents that amount to going down to city hall and declaring it your personal mansion. At least with copyright, I can write my own kernel or my own web browser.
A patent is not "Apple's property". It's their license to steal mine. I can't write a kernel or a web browser any more because they "own" that.
> Is it evil to defend your intellectual property?
If you're the British East India Company? Probably so.
So you think that the rest of us should wait 20 years while Apple OWNS the tablet market then?
That's basically what you're saying.
Besides. The obvious culprit here is Israel. They have the talent and motivation.
The US is just a spectator by comparison.
...all of which happened on non-government networks long before the Internet went commercial.
Viruses and warez just use whatever transport mechanism is available.
Any company that can't be ignored or is too big to fail is a problem. It's a strategic national interest problem as well as being a menace to consumers.
It doesn't matter if you want to pretend that it represents some sort of twisted meritocracy or not.
This is especially puzzling since the "conservative faction" here was founded with "Big Government" in mind. The GOP is the original part of "lets have the government build some roads" so we can make more money.
The Internet is exactly the kind of "big infastructure" the original Republicans wanted to encourage.
Except this was started by some mindless Libertarian. He probably wants to push his agenda of gutting the SEC and the EPA.
Enjoy your Ponzi Schemes and drinking water that smells like Jet Fuel.