More delicately, a photo studio might be the only kind of business that will overwhelmingly be an Apple shop, which explains the iPhone prevalence in that case.
Talk to me when it's an accounting firm or whatever.
One reason is that there are many more Android devices out there than anything else.
Blackberry has what, 4 current lines. iPhone only has one, most of the time. There are numerous Android phones on every carrier, pretty much.
And even people who want the iPhone can't get the latest one without spending a month on a waiting list, or I think their numbers would be higher. (Though this applies to Android in some devices like the Droid X or the HTC EVO).
It's most telling that Palm is flatlining and Windows Mobile has lost half of its already meager market share in the past year.
My el cheapo Acer laptop was set up this way. The pre-installed software had a utility that creates a recovery disk, which I did almost immediately after buying the machine, then I threw the (2) disks into a safe. Problem was, it never really asked me to do it. I just stumbled on the utility.
I don't really see anything wrong with the practice personally, but the manufacturers should be much more forceful about telling people to burn recovery disks. There should be some kind of a nag screen when you first start up the machine warning you to burn them and keep them in a safe place.
Bottom line, most people are not interested in "green" or "renewable", etc.
Most people are interested in saving money. Even if the car is electric, they still will not save money in terms of the total cost of ownership, over buying a regular old car that's fuel efficient.
Look at things like the Chevy Volt versus a Toyota Corolla. Even assuming no gas, ever, the Corolla is still more affordable.
Once these move beyond luxury and conversation pieces into a real solution that helps the consumer... then they'll be of interest to more than just conspicuous consumers.
The bare facts certainly are disturbing. But the naked truth is that Dell's customer service is just obscene. I think that support analyst should be stripped of his position.
Apple's success is not wholly due to the functions and performance their devices offer. Many of their devices are behind the curve in any number of ways, and yet Apple can't keep them in stock.
I'm not saying MSFT will make a good device, certainly they will make some garbage knockoff like they always do when they attempt to enter a market segment a day late and a dollar short.
But it won't be because the concept of trying to position themselves as "more of a PC than an iPod" is wrong. It will be because of institutional suckitude.
On the contrary, using a derivation of Windows 7 would presumably give MSFT's iPad advantages that the giant iPod touch does not have. Namely, being able to be more like a PC than an iPod Touch.
I'm thinking of multitasking, a full featured browser, being able to use true software (FLOABT) rather than "apps", the ability to load other operating systems on it, etc.
The thing that makes an iPad a bit spurious and in the luxury category for most everyone is that it doesn't improve or replace anything. It's sort of a mediocre version of several things, but it won't make anyone get rid of any of the others. IMO
Shocking news: Microsoft working on a project very similar to one developed by Apple a few years ago and which will already be several generations ahead of MSFT's poor facsimile by the time it hits the market.
I really wasn't trying to post flamebait. It was an observation from the perspective of someone who used to dabble but hadn't paid much attention to [k]ubuntu, etc., in about 3 years.
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According to Slashdot, this phone already outsold the iPhone in the last quarter :)
More delicately, a photo studio might be the only kind of business that will overwhelmingly be an Apple shop, which explains the iPhone prevalence in that case.
Talk to me when it's an accounting firm or whatever.
One reason is that there are many more Android devices out there than anything else.
Blackberry has what, 4 current lines. iPhone only has one, most of the time. There are numerous Android phones on every carrier, pretty much.
And even people who want the iPhone can't get the latest one without spending a month on a waiting list, or I think their numbers would be higher. (Though this applies to Android in some devices like the Droid X or the HTC EVO).
It's most telling that Palm is flatlining and Windows Mobile has lost half of its already meager market share in the past year.
You will get modded flamebait for saying that for the average idiot, ubuntu might not be the best use of their time. ;)
fail!
/. nomenclature is "your and idiot")
(and I believe the preferred
It doesn't help consumers who are already the victims of vendor lock-in, such as those with a large purchased iTunes music collection.
Or those who simply aren't savvy enough (most) or have better things to do (some) than wrangle with an OS or replace disks.
Most people have more money than sense, and they don't have much money either.
Because all Microsoft's attempts to secure anything end in epic fail.
The best security measure they have (which is not saying a lot) is the simple fact that not everyone in the world has a physical disk.
I think it's just to save a nickel on each unit.
My el cheapo Acer laptop was set up this way. The pre-installed software had a utility that creates a recovery disk, which I did almost immediately after buying the machine, then I threw the (2) disks into a safe. Problem was, it never really asked me to do it. I just stumbled on the utility.
I don't really see anything wrong with the practice personally, but the manufacturers should be much more forceful about telling people to burn recovery disks. There should be some kind of a nag screen when you first start up the machine warning you to burn them and keep them in a safe place.
MSFT has designed yet another piece of software you'd have to be a complete idiot to use.
Bottom line, most people are not interested in "green" or "renewable", etc.
Most people are interested in saving money. Even if the car is electric, they still will not save money in terms of the total cost of ownership, over buying a regular old car that's fuel efficient.
Look at things like the Chevy Volt versus a Toyota Corolla. Even assuming no gas, ever, the Corolla is still more affordable.
Once these move beyond luxury and conversation pieces into a real solution that helps the consumer... then they'll be of interest to more than just conspicuous consumers.
The government has finally gone over the top at the HTC EVO likely being out of stock for the next 99 weeks
What are they afraid of, some guy might exchange Blackberry PINs with an unmarried woman?
The bare facts certainly are disturbing. But the naked truth is that Dell's customer service is just obscene. I think that support analyst should be stripped of his position.
Just what the tech world needed - return of the SparcStation!
Apple's success is not wholly due to the functions and performance their devices offer. Many of their devices are behind the curve in any number of ways, and yet Apple can't keep them in stock.
I'm not saying MSFT will make a good device, certainly they will make some garbage knockoff like they always do when they attempt to enter a market segment a day late and a dollar short.
But it won't be because the concept of trying to position themselves as "more of a PC than an iPod" is wrong. It will be because of institutional suckitude.
On the contrary, using a derivation of Windows 7 would presumably give MSFT's iPad advantages that the giant iPod touch does not have. Namely, being able to be more like a PC than an iPod Touch.
I'm thinking of multitasking, a full featured browser, being able to use true software (FLOABT) rather than "apps", the ability to load other operating systems on it, etc.
The thing that makes an iPad a bit spurious and in the luxury category for most everyone is that it doesn't improve or replace anything. It's sort of a mediocre version of several things, but it won't make anyone get rid of any of the others. IMO
Shocking news: Microsoft working on a project very similar to one developed by Apple a few years ago and which will already be several generations ahead of MSFT's poor facsimile by the time it hits the market.
No - something had to have entered the public consciousness before it could possibly be remembered.
I really wasn't trying to post flamebait. It was an observation from the perspective of someone who used to dabble but hadn't paid much attention to [k]ubuntu, etc., in about 3 years.
I recently took a long break from Linux et al., and this is exactly what people were writing about GNOME when last I checked.
KDE was it, and GNOME was designed for idiots, so only idiots used it.
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I am anxiously awaiting the safety and security of Windows Phone 7
And people complained about diebold...
My copy machine, too: the mere fact it can be used for a non-infringing purpose is not a defense.
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