The timing of Apple's move against Microsoft's market position couldn't be better for several reasons:
(1) Most important, Microsoft CAN NOT abandon the Apple market - the courts wouldn't allow it. Nothing would say monopoly more than the standard office application suite only runs on our OS.
(2) Microsoft's "Three Kings" - MSN Messenger, IE, and Office v.X - are all being supplanted by Apple - iChat w/ AOL integration, hiring David Hyatt (Mozilla/Chimera), and now Open/Star Office - ensuring no dependency on Microsoft
(3) Sun is no friend of Microsoft and teaming up with other folks who would like to have a piece of Microsoft's pie makes sense (cents).
When I purchased my CD-RW, I printed out the compatability page and brought it shopping. If it wasn't on the list, I didn't even consider it.
My shopping experience was a bit different. While I too carried the shopping list with me, I found that the fastest drives were not on the list. I then contacted an Apple Store where they were helpful in letting me know what would be on the upcomming CDR update for OS X.
By using this method, I was able to buy a fast drive that was unsupported in OS X, usable in OS 9, but knew it would be soon available to OS X as well.
to clarify, I do mean to state 10 times less expensive - a 15" CRT (at BestBuy, OfficeMax, etc) can be had for $49. Meanwhile, 15" LCD's routinely command more than $500....atleast in my experience
Apple would reverse course on the death of the CRT for a few reasons:
(1) Foremost, to compete in the low end market where the CRT iMac lead Apple's sales in numbers (not dollars), CRTs are nearly and order of magnitude less expensive which can help apple attract 'value' customers
(2) In the education market (eMac) flat screens may still be viewed by value minded school boards and parents as frivolous expenses that could be used to put more computers in classrooms
(3) Until those who purchase a CRT today will have one more reason to anxiously await an upgrade tomorrow. Until Dell, Gateway, etc make LCD standard, the consumers who purchase CRTs will have hardware envy for LCDs.... Or not
... or as an alternative to editing the plist, you can do it the way Apple intended: - Go to System Perferences - Select Internet - Click the Web tab - In the Default Web Browser drop down, choose Select - Browse to Mozilla or Chimera Navigator and enjoy!
Just a reminder to all OS X users: 10.1.5 is rumored to be the last no-cost upgrade to OS X. 10.2 (Jaguar) will be a pay-to-play upgrade per Steve Jobs.
Perhaps I am the odd man out, but I find that the iPod's ability to sync an entire music library, as well as play lists, between portable device and desktop/laptop is just as much a 'breakthrough' as 10 hours of battery life on a device so small and light.
I would like to know if this new device offers some synchronization scheme or is the poor user doomed to dealing with 10 GB of long file names to figure out if their entire music library was coming with them on a trip. (God be with them if they decided to wipe the 10GB drive and copy their entire collection over from scratch just to be sure - how long would that take over USB?)
When I go wilderness hiking, may I bring a revolver with me to protect myself from wild animals or yet-to-be-captured terrorist suspects?
What did your parents do to you as a child?
You are so angry dude/dudette. I believe you are entitled to your opinions but the way you are delivering your message completely invalidates its contents.
And if you are going to post as if it came from the King James Bible, at least have some respect and capitalize the name of the Lord.
When looking at economic incentives, one must always be careful just what they are incenting.
(1) Would this reduce the frequency search engines and crawlers are updated? How would search engines operating on ever-thinning margins recover their $0.01 charge for indexing the Web's contents? Would it be passed on to users in the form of subscription? (Now I would pay a penny-a-search for the use of Google).
(2) Would we see a proliferation of websites that are just trying to get that first hit and have no substance related to the information one is looking for? How lucrative would a site be that could make $0.01 a hit for having just the right Meta tags as to come up tops on a search for "Scholarships", "Data Recovery", "Projector", "Home Business", or "Credit" (the top five non-sexual keywords used according to MetaEureka)?
(3) Lastly, one has to understand the lesson of setting consumer expectations. Any governing body that would impose a $0.01 "usage tax" (which is what it is in my mind anyway) per page viewed should be aware that when you give something away for free for years, and then try to charge for it without adding value, perceived or otherwise, for the consumer, you are going to generate significant backlash unless your product or service is monopolistic, in that there is no competition and no substitutes exist. What would the open source community say to a $0.01 per 1000 lines of code tax on the GPL?
Looks like the folks at CBS MarketWatch are so quick to get the news out that they issued a press released based almost entirely on spymac.com's faked photos and 'sources'.
This
article really makes me want to follow CBS's investment advice.
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The timing of Apple's move against Microsoft's market position couldn't be better for several reasons:
(1) Most important, Microsoft CAN NOT abandon the Apple market - the courts wouldn't allow it. Nothing would say monopoly more than the standard office application suite only runs on our OS.
(2) Microsoft's "Three Kings" - MSN Messenger, IE, and Office v.X - are all being supplanted by Apple - iChat w/ AOL integration, hiring David Hyatt (Mozilla/Chimera), and now Open/Star Office - ensuring no dependency on Microsoft
(3) Sun is no friend of Microsoft and teaming up with other folks who would like to have a piece of Microsoft's pie makes sense (cents).
When I purchased my CD-RW, I printed out the compatability page and brought it shopping. If it wasn't on the list, I didn't even consider it.
My shopping experience was a bit different. While I too carried the shopping list with me, I found that the fastest drives were not on the list. I then contacted an Apple Store where they were helpful in letting me know what would be on the upcomming CDR update for OS X.
By using this method, I was able to buy a fast drive that was unsupported in OS X, usable in OS 9, but knew it would be soon available to OS X as well.
to clarify, I do mean to state 10 times less expensive - a 15" CRT (at BestBuy, OfficeMax, etc) can be had for $49. Meanwhile, 15" LCD's routinely command more than $500. ...atleast in my experience
Apple would reverse course on the death of the CRT for a few reasons:
... Or not
(1) Foremost, to compete in the low end market where the CRT iMac lead Apple's sales in numbers (not dollars), CRTs are nearly and order of magnitude less expensive which can help apple attract 'value' customers
(2) In the education market (eMac) flat screens may still be viewed by value minded school boards and parents as frivolous expenses that could be used to put more computers in classrooms
(3) Until those who purchase a CRT today will have one more reason to anxiously await an upgrade tomorrow. Until Dell, Gateway, etc make LCD standard, the consumers who purchase CRTs will have hardware envy for LCDs.
A quick peek at the website (www.mac.com) reveals a scaled down 60-day trial version for zero-bucks.
Looks like the Apple iPod team was working on this - from the familiar looking jog dial wheel.
... or as an alternative to editing the plist, you can do it the way Apple intended:
- Go to System Perferences
- Select Internet
- Click the Web tab
- In the Default Web Browser drop down, choose Select
- Browse to Mozilla or Chimera Navigator and enjoy!
Just a reminder to all OS X users: 10.1.5 is rumored to be the last no-cost upgrade to OS X. 10.2 (Jaguar) will be a pay-to-play upgrade per Steve Jobs.
Not available via Software Update because you don't get Apps from that utility, only System updates. Try www.apple.com/iphoto for 1.1.1
Perhaps I am the odd man out, but I find that the iPod's ability to sync an entire music library, as well as play lists, between portable device and desktop/laptop is just as much a 'breakthrough' as 10 hours of battery life on a device so small and light.
I would like to know if this new device offers some synchronization scheme or is the poor user doomed to dealing with 10 GB of long file names to figure out if their entire music library was coming with them on a trip. (God be with them if they decided to wipe the 10GB drive and copy their entire collection over from scratch just to be sure - how long would that take over USB?)
When I go wilderness hiking, may I bring a revolver with me to protect myself from wild animals or yet-to-be-captured terrorist suspects?
What did your parents do to you as a child?
You are so angry dude/dudette. I believe you are entitled to your opinions but the way you are delivering your message completely invalidates its contents.
And if you are going to post as if it came from the King James Bible, at least have some respect and capitalize the name of the Lord.
When looking at economic incentives, one must always be careful just what they are incenting.
(1) Would this reduce the frequency search engines and crawlers are updated? How would search engines operating on ever-thinning margins recover their $0.01 charge for indexing the Web's contents? Would it be passed on to users in the form of subscription? (Now I would pay a penny-a-search for the use of Google).
(2) Would we see a proliferation of websites that are just trying to get that first hit and have no substance related to the information one is looking for? How lucrative would a site be that could make $0.01 a hit for having just the right Meta tags as to come up tops on a search for "Scholarships", "Data Recovery", "Projector", "Home Business", or "Credit" (the top five non-sexual keywords used according to MetaEureka)?
(3) Lastly, one has to understand the lesson of setting consumer expectations. Any governing body that would impose a $0.01 "usage tax" (which is what it is in my mind anyway) per page viewed should be aware that when you give something away for free for years, and then try to charge for it without adding value, perceived or otherwise, for the consumer, you are going to generate significant backlash unless your product or service is monopolistic, in that there is no competition and no substitutes exist. What would the open source community say to a $0.01 per 1000 lines of code tax on the GPL?
The "we'll be back' sign has returned. Premature store opening I suppose since the rest of the site is without info on the iPod at this time.
Looks like the folks at CBS MarketWatch are so quick to get the news out that they issued a press released based almost entirely on spymac.com's faked photos and 'sources'.
This
article really makes me want to follow CBS's investment advice.