...that still leaves the less frequently used stuff to sort out.
One of the key strengths of a GUI is supposed to be tasks that you do so infrequently that you are prone to forget how to do them. A good GUI helps smooth over that sort of problem. A bad one just makes it so hard that you just want to reach for a bash prompt.
Motorola and Samsung sell chips and they will sell them to anyone.
Neither is dependent on the success of products that would be viewed as iPad clones.
It's really Apple that's the single most vulnerable player in this space. Their tablets represents a far larger part of their business than such does for any of their rivals.
The only problem with this is that Germans like to keep meticulous records.
They even liked to make movies about their exploits. Why not? They had no shame.
You could probably sit down in the German archives and verify every so-called "exaggeration". The American media industries probably aren't so studious.
> You're just trolling now, but thanks for playing.
That's Apple Newspeak for possessing an opinion contrary to Apple dogma.
Macs are configurable to a limited degree. Whereas I can choose from hundreds of vendors. Some of them will even build a box for me based on a wide array of choices they offer me. I can use any GPU, any CPU, and as much of whatever I want. It can be as small as I want or as large as I want.
All of that derives from the fact that I am not stuck with a single hardware vendor.
> "Severe technical compromises" is just baseless trolling
No. That's just a clued in perspective on the new Mini or the MBA.
> understand that you can buy and watch movies, music, and TV on it.
No not really. It's a device with anemic storage and poor or expensive network options.
So trying to use it as an oversized iPod classic might not work out so well in the end.
I have an Android tablet that is older than the iPad that use to consume DVDs, CDs, and PVR recordings.
It's kind of stupid to pay for something that you can only ever use with another Apple product. At least Amazon and Netflix stuff is relatively vendor neutral.
Apple has been the single worst PC name brand that I've ever dealt with. Of 3 machines only one managed to last anywhere near as long as any of my other PCs. One of them had a minor component failure while another failed completely. So much for that much over-hyped "quality". They were also prone to becoming obsolete much quicker than their PC cousins. They were less well equipped sometimes not even being able to run the OS they came with or use the apps they came with.
Despite fanboy claims to the contrary, even a PC laptop of a similar age is going to be more useful than an Apple whatever.
Apple products are perhaps great if you don't do much of anything at all. If you push technology in the slightest or are the least bit imaginative, you will run into problems.
Apple has no great advantage beyond timing and good marketing.
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I have no interest in extending Microsoft's monopoly into the Living room any more than I want to hand Apple the same monopoly on a silver platter.
Single vendor solutions ultimately do more harm than good.
If you don't want this turned into a Apple versus everyone else nonsense then don't post bogus nonsense.
Don't swim in the kool-aid. Certainly don't expect the rest of us to go along.
Yeah... the actual technology developed by Pixar while it was still a subsidiary of Lucasfilm had nothing to do with it. [/sarc]
Don't press your luck.
This goes way back...
They were one of the colonies that resisted the vote for independence.
...that still leaves the less frequently used stuff to sort out.
One of the key strengths of a GUI is supposed to be tasks that you do so infrequently that you are prone to forget how to do them. A good GUI helps smooth over that sort of problem. A bad one just makes it so hard that you just want to reach for a bash prompt.
...except it's not the same at all. That's kind of the point.
An alternative that uses different inputs are just that, an alternative. They aren't a replacement for the original.
There's a wide range between the rent-to-own crowd and those that spend other people's money like there's no tomorrow.
I think the conspicuous consumer types tend to not be aware of this.
Ok, I got the right general part of the world. Clearly I was thinking of something else.
There's already a Starbucks kiosk next to my local iStore. Not sure they really need to do the Reese's thing with the two.
Motorola and Samsung sell chips and they will sell them to anyone.
Neither is dependent on the success of products that would be viewed as iPad clones.
It's really Apple that's the single most vulnerable player in this space. Their tablets represents a far larger part of their business than such does for any of their rivals.
So you are cheering for the corporation that is bending you over? Great...
They call that Helsinki Syndrome oddly enough.
The Apple product doesn't have a huge amount of onboard storage either.
That walled garden escalates the total cost of ownership for the thing. It increases what you would otherwise pay for the same content.
The initial $200 may not "break the bank", but the content acquisition model will make things more expensive forever after.
That said: $200 is certainly a better teaser price point than $600.
They also tend to download more than they are capable of paying for. They may or may not actually pay for some of what they consume.
When you drop the price down to zero, the situation becomes quite unlike any situation where people are even paying 1 cent for the works in question.
I don't give a sh*t about the Berne Convention.
The ethics of the situation has really nothing to do with what a bunch of corporate minions manage to come up with behind closed doors somewhere.
The only problem with this is that Germans like to keep meticulous records.
They even liked to make movies about their exploits. Why not? They had no shame.
You could probably sit down in the German archives and verify every so-called "exaggeration". The American media industries probably aren't so studious.
Time is not money. It's time.
Very few of us have the equivalent of some magic money making machine where time goes in one side and money comes out the other.
Nearly certainly, anyone whining about "time is money" here on Slashdot is a big fat poser.
Their time when they are actually working isn't worth dick and they've got plenty of free time on their hands.
You fanboy's really can't handle the idea that Steve doesn't sh*t rainbows and unicorns.
> You are so full of shit that
I have similar media center tales to spin. Apple has nothing special going on here.
Besides, children in general area actually much smarter than adults and much more adaptable.
> You're just trolling now, but thanks for playing.
That's Apple Newspeak for possessing an opinion contrary to Apple dogma.
Macs are configurable to a limited degree. Whereas I can choose from hundreds of vendors. Some of them will even build a box for me based on a wide array of choices they offer me. I can use any GPU, any CPU, and as much of whatever I want. It can be as small as I want or as large as I want.
All of that derives from the fact that I am not stuck with a single hardware vendor.
> "Severe technical compromises" is just baseless trolling
No. That's just a clued in perspective on the new Mini or the MBA.
When you can't lock people into your proprietary OS, you have no way to force them to buy your products.
I can buy an Asrock one day, a Giada the next, and then go buy a Zotac.
Apple customers are much more trapped than that.
Plus a good part of the market would rather have a better keyboard, or more RAM, or a bigger disk, or a GPU that's not a joke.
The superficial elements just aren't that appealing, especially when severe technical compromises are a part of the whole package.
> understand that you can buy and watch movies, music, and TV on it.
No not really. It's a device with anemic storage and poor or expensive network options.
So trying to use it as an oversized iPod classic might not work out so well in the end.
I have an Android tablet that is older than the iPad that use to consume DVDs, CDs, and PVR recordings.
It's kind of stupid to pay for something that you can only ever use with another Apple product. At least Amazon and Netflix stuff is relatively vendor neutral.
Apple has been the single worst PC name brand that I've ever dealt with. Of 3 machines only one managed to last anywhere near as long as any of my other PCs. One of them had a minor component failure while another failed completely. So much for that much over-hyped "quality". They were also prone to becoming obsolete much quicker than their PC cousins. They were less well equipped sometimes not even being able to run the OS they came with or use the apps they came with.
Despite fanboy claims to the contrary, even a PC laptop of a similar age is going to be more useful than an Apple whatever.
Apple products are perhaps great if you don't do much of anything at all. If you push technology in the slightest or are the least bit imaginative, you will run into problems.
Apple has no great advantage beyond timing and good marketing.
Yeah because it's so bad when people object to 80s style DOS Lemming world domination rhetoric.
Your post is an obvious contradiction.
"Polish" is nice but is the most superficial aspect of the product.