It's not like Motorola had a chance. Apple restricted them to storing only 100 songs (50 overseas) to prevent it from competing with iPods. It wouldn't surprise me if the whole purpose of ROKR from Apples point of view was simply to get access to telephony IP for eventual use in iPhone.
Even Mythbusters is censoring themselves. They were mixing up some kind of explosive the other day and Adam said "We're going to make *bleep* by mixing *bleep* with *bleep*". It's sad really.
There's also Wifi Analyzer on the Droid. http://a.farproc.com/wifi-analyzer Makes a pretty graph of the Wifi channels and what's using them. I had to load it by hand using adb however, as it doesn't appear on AT&T's version of the market.
Also, fun fact - did you know that without explicit Congressional approval, it is unconstitutional for the US to have a standing military in a time of peace? Kind of explains why ever since WWII the government has always had some bogus excuse for a perpetual war or "police action" of some sort.....
That's kind of out of context. It has nothing to do with the various police actions and such.
"Article I, Section 8: The Congress shall have the Power To... raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years."
That simply means they cannot appropriate money to the Army for more than two years at a time. It doesn't mean the Army must dissolve after that, it just means they have to have another vote on an appropriation for up to the next two years. I imagine that this is to prevent one Congress from funding the Army for 50 years in advance preventing future Congress from being able to draw them down.
If by "Worked on MS" you mean file a lawsuit, go to trial, present mounds of evidence, win a judgement, have the Judge threaten to break the company into two, yeah, ok, THEN they'll get scared.
By that time Apple will have destroyed the smartphone market and probably Google as well. It took ten years from inquiry to settlement in US v Microsoft, an eternity in computer time, and ten years later IE still owns the majority of the browser market.
You're only looking at it from a user perspective. Migration involves lots of IT people, the people who create the standard configuration, the people who do the installs and migration of your applications/settings/files (which can be very complicated if it involves a lot of custom applications), and the people who handle help desk... yes there will be a large spike in help desk calls after migration.
The company I used to work for thought they were being clever one time and had the end users migrate themselves when we did a hardware refresh (no OS change). Saved them a bundle in the IT budget, even after adding help desk people to manage the extra calls. Of course it never occured to them that having engineers and managers do this instead of Windows IT people might actually cost the company as a whole a lot more, especially since it took some people two to four days before they were up and running again. The next refresh was done by IT people... you dropped your machine off after work, and picked up a new one the next morning, all set up and ready to go.
Lines of code would be really difficult to measure, complexity even more so, not to mention a lot of companies wouldn't provide that information. In any case I'm pretty sure COBOL would still be #1 on that list and promoting that language is the last thing we need to be doing. It's better to just pretend that Tiobe's numbers are meaningful.
Most people already have a cell phone so the only real obligation is the full data plan. That is $30/month x 24 months, or $720. Certainly more than $100 but nowhere near "several thousand".
A call center should be bright enough to route a call if it does not know how to handle the issue. I'm sure that all of Apple's call centers are getting newly updated scripts that include what to do if a caller asks what to do with a lost Apple device right about now...
As far as the California law is concerned, does everyone in CA know the exact steps there? Really? I don't have a clue what it is in my state. Of course that's besides the point as I would have just turned it in to the bartender.
People don't care about Flash, and they don't care about an open app store. The iPhone does what they want it to do.
People do care but most just see that it doesn't work and write it off as a 'phone' thing and move on.
Flash doesn't work on my 3G RAZR either, perhaps 25%-ish of the web sites I try to visit don't work at all. It annoys me enough that I won't buy an a SmartPhone of any kind until Flash is working on it. I'm just not going buy something that doesn't work any better than what I already have. And that goes for "The best way to experience the web" as well.
It probably did... it certainly runs a *lot* cooler. I'll have to see if it is actually noticable on the next electric bill.
Mostly I was amazed at how much higher the framerate is on the 8800GT. The same video card went from ~15 FPS with medium settings on Northwood to ~60 FPS on high settings on Core2.
It will probably be junk like usual. If they released on board graphics on par with something like a 9800 GT it would crush NVidia and AMD/ATI as there probably isn't enough of a market above that to keep them operating.
Then there will be Federal investigations and anti-trust lawsuits... they just don't need that kind of trouble.
DDO had great content, what there was of it. In the past you had to repeat the same content over and over in order to level, and forget about alts... they did all the exact same stuff over again.
Having large financial pockets like WB might be good for it. Unless WB kills it.
The question will be what happens this year with Android ramping up. The last thing Apple wants are development tools which allow both iPhone and Android executables to be generated from the same source code, and Apple's recent development policy changes play right into that, despite Apple's claims to the contrary.
If Apple succeeds in preventing dilution of their "monopoly" application market they are leaving themselves wide open to an antitrust action. The problem is that they may kill off any viable competition long before the DOJ does anything... we know well from Microsoft just how fast the DOJ works.
And they are currently "abusing" their monopoly to prevent dilution of their market to Android and other handhelds (e.g. restrictions on coding languages and frameworks).
Yes, they may not be "technically" considered a monopoly, at least not yet, but if it quacks like a duck.
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It's not like Motorola had a chance. Apple restricted them to storing only 100 songs (50 overseas) to prevent it from competing with iPods. It wouldn't surprise me if the whole purpose of ROKR from Apples point of view was simply to get access to telephony IP for eventual use in iPhone.
Even Mythbusters is censoring themselves. They were mixing up some kind of explosive the other day and Adam said "We're going to make *bleep* by mixing *bleep* with *bleep*". It's sad really.
There's also Wifi Analyzer on the Droid. http://a.farproc.com/wifi-analyzer Makes a pretty graph of the Wifi channels and what's using them. I had to load it by hand using adb however, as it doesn't appear on AT&T's version of the market.
Also, fun fact - did you know that without explicit Congressional approval, it is unconstitutional for the US to have a standing military in a time of peace? Kind of explains why ever since WWII the government has always had some bogus excuse for a perpetual war or "police action" of some sort.....
That's kind of out of context. It has nothing to do with the various police actions and such.
"Article I, Section 8: The Congress shall have the Power To ... raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years."
That simply means they cannot appropriate money to the Army for more than two years at a time. It doesn't mean the Army must dissolve after that, it just means they have to have another vote on an appropriation for up to the next two years. I imagine that this is to prevent one Congress from funding the Army for 50 years in advance preventing future Congress from being able to draw them down.
Yeah I'd like to see the other 11 pages. Ought to be quite entertaining.
If by "Worked on MS" you mean file a lawsuit, go to trial, present mounds of evidence, win a judgement, have the Judge threaten to break the company into two, yeah, ok, THEN they'll get scared.
By that time Apple will have destroyed the smartphone market and probably Google as well. It took ten years from inquiry to settlement in US v Microsoft, an eternity in computer time, and ten years later IE still owns the majority of the browser market.
So if a store has an "OPEN" sign out front but nobody in watching everything it's ok to walk in and take what you want?
No, but it is ok to walk in and *look* at anything you want. Even all 100,000 items.
You're only looking at it from a user perspective. Migration involves lots of IT people, the people who create the standard configuration, the people who do the installs and migration of your applications/settings/files (which can be very complicated if it involves a lot of custom applications), and the people who handle help desk... yes there will be a large spike in help desk calls after migration.
The company I used to work for thought they were being clever one time and had the end users migrate themselves when we did a hardware refresh (no OS change). Saved them a bundle in the IT budget, even after adding help desk people to manage the extra calls. Of course it never occured to them that having engineers and managers do this instead of Windows IT people might actually cost the company as a whole a lot more, especially since it took some people two to four days before they were up and running again. The next refresh was done by IT people... you dropped your machine off after work, and picked up a new one the next morning, all set up and ready to go.
Hardware is cheap. Migration and Training is not so cheap.
Lines of code would be really difficult to measure, complexity even more so, not to mention a lot of companies wouldn't provide that information. In any case I'm pretty sure COBOL would still be #1 on that list and promoting that language is the last thing we need to be doing. It's better to just pretend that Tiobe's numbers are meaningful.
Most people already have a cell phone so the only real obligation is the full data plan. That is $30/month x 24 months, or $720. Certainly more than $100 but nowhere near "several thousand".
Plus another order of magnitude by way of decreasing prices.
A call center should be bright enough to route a call if it does not know how to handle the issue. I'm sure that all of Apple's call centers are getting newly updated scripts that include what to do if a caller asks what to do with a lost Apple device right about now...
As far as the California law is concerned, does everyone in CA know the exact steps there? Really? I don't have a clue what it is in my state. Of course that's besides the point as I would have just turned it in to the bartender.
People don't care about Flash, and they don't care about an open app store. The iPhone does what they want it to do.
People do care but most just see that it doesn't work and write it off as a 'phone' thing and move on.
Flash doesn't work on my 3G RAZR either, perhaps 25%-ish of the web sites I try to visit don't work at all. It annoys me enough that I won't buy an a SmartPhone of any kind until Flash is working on it. I'm just not going buy something that doesn't work any better than what I already have. And that goes for "The best way to experience the web" as well.
Power bill dropped that much?
It probably did... it certainly runs a *lot* cooler. I'll have to see if it is actually noticable on the next electric bill.
Mostly I was amazed at how much higher the framerate is on the 8800GT. The same video card went from ~15 FPS with medium settings on Northwood to ~60 FPS on high settings on Core2.
I just upgraded a Northwood 2.8 to a Core 2 Duo 3.0. I used the same graphics card (8800 GT) in the new machine.
Night and day difference.
It will probably be junk like usual. If they released on board graphics on par with something like a 9800 GT it would crush NVidia and AMD/ATI as there probably isn't enough of a market above that to keep them operating.
Then there will be Federal investigations and anti-trust lawsuits... they just don't need that kind of trouble.
DDO had great content, what there was of it. In the past you had to repeat the same content over and over in order to level, and forget about alts... they did all the exact same stuff over again.
Having large financial pockets like WB might be good for it. Unless WB kills it.
Want to run Flash on an iPad? Buy Microsoft iWindows 7!!
Not going to find that one at the app store.
I still don't want Flash on my iPhone, however.
I don't particularly see a need for Flash on the iTouch/iPhone but leaving it off of the iPad was a stupid move, IMO.
Of course if pigs fly and Flash does becomes available you can always just not install it.
Apple isn't a monopoly, in mobile products or any other market.
Apple currently holds a monopoly position in the mobile application market. http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/apple-responsible-for-994-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009.ars
The question will be what happens this year with Android ramping up. The last thing Apple wants are development tools which allow both iPhone and Android executables to be generated from the same source code, and Apple's recent development policy changes play right into that, despite Apple's claims to the contrary.
If Apple succeeds in preventing dilution of their "monopoly" application market they are leaving themselves wide open to an antitrust action. The problem is that they may kill off any viable competition long before the DOJ does anything... we know well from Microsoft just how fast the DOJ works.
Apple was estimated to have owned 99.4% of the mobile application market last year. http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/apple-responsible-for-994-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009.ars. That sounds like a defacto monopoly in the making to me.
And they are currently "abusing" their monopoly to prevent dilution of their market to Android and other handhelds (e.g. restrictions on coding languages and frameworks).
Yes, they may not be "technically" considered a monopoly, at least not yet, but if it quacks like a duck.
Maybe they just jumped the gun on the 4.0 rules.
Mr. Jobs disagrees with you, not that 450K is anything to sneeze at. http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/08/news/companies/apple_ipad_sales/