Newsflash: Apple don't create entirely new products. They create entirely new markets however by taking an existing product and making it actually desirable/easy to use/etc. Mp3 players existed back in 1995 (I was at a university where the grad students manufactured a prototype at the time). They didn't truly take off until apple tweaked them. Ditto for smartphones and ditto for tablets. Virtually creating a new market 3 times in a decade is not due to dumb luck and lack of innovation. As much as geeks might not want to admit it, aesthetics, UI design and ease of use are very much valued by the average consumer.
Basing a company analysis on frosted glass? Just..... wow. Haven't had much to do with gizmodo in the past, but it looks hilariously ignorant based on this article.
Here here. I pine for the days of reflective monochrome LCD laptop availability. Back when i could use a laptop outside in the field for programming network equipment without getting somebody to stand in front of the sun.
Whilst I run FreeNAS several things are keeping it from being useful in a Windows enterprise environment: SMB2 support and the web GUI breaks inexplicably in IE9. Reasons unknown and pretty much irrelevant: this is the job I need it to do at work, and i can't deploy it because of this.
I run it at home just fine with my Macs, but yeah - for enterprise use it needs to be fixed.
Apple don't pay for product placement. In fact, if you watch the big bang theory, the apple logos are always covered by stickers because Apple didn't pay for the product placement and the producers didn't want their logo visible without it being paid for.
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I was wondering how the peanut gallery were going to try and spin this as anti-apple bullshit, congrats.
You're joking, right?
Newsflash: Apple don't create entirely new products. They create entirely new markets however by taking an existing product and making it actually desirable/easy to use/etc. Mp3 players existed back in 1995 (I was at a university where the grad students manufactured a prototype at the time). They didn't truly take off until apple tweaked them. Ditto for smartphones and ditto for tablets. Virtually creating a new market 3 times in a decade is not due to dumb luck and lack of innovation. As much as geeks might not want to admit it, aesthetics, UI design and ease of use are very much valued by the average consumer.
Pretty much that.
Basing a company analysis on frosted glass? Just..... wow. Haven't had much to do with gizmodo in the past, but it looks hilariously ignorant based on this article.
Here here. I pine for the days of reflective monochrome LCD laptop availability. Back when i could use a laptop outside in the field for programming network equipment without getting somebody to stand in front of the sun.
I have.
There's this new invention called streaming (be it from your NAS, internet source, etc).
It's like the circa 2005 10 megapixel point and shoot camera race all over again.
In reality, you're probably better off building high end gear for people covered within 2-3 standard deviations of the mean.
Even if they mean "arithmetic mean", mean is more often than not NOT the 50%-50% dividing point of the sample.
Macbook air 13" is 1440x900 16x10. Macbook Pro Hires (non retina) is 1680x1050 16x10. 16x10 laptops are out there, you jut need to pay for them.
If anything, with its lack of secure boot, it's less of a walled garden than a new PC actually.
If the last decade is anything to go by, the average consumer laptop in 2023 will be 512x384 resolution with a 17" screen.
I recommend they buy a crappy 4:3 CRT off ebay.
That's a developer problem, not a screen resolution problem.
font size != screen resolution. muppet developers will be muppets no matter what technology does.
Pretty much every hardware release I've seen at WWDC has been "Shipping today!".
Doesn't work properly with SMB2 clients, unfortunately. Hopefully they've fixed it in 9.1. That said, as a cheap NFS/iSCSI/afp box it's pretty neat.
Whilst I run FreeNAS several things are keeping it from being useful in a Windows enterprise environment: SMB2 support and the web GUI breaks inexplicably in IE9. Reasons unknown and pretty much irrelevant: this is the job I need it to do at work, and i can't deploy it because of this.
I run it at home just fine with my Macs, but yeah - for enterprise use it needs to be fixed.
You mean the astroturfing, or getting discovered doing it?
As opposed to a heap of posts about samsung being traced back to samsung's IP block in samsung HQ?
Yup. See the big bang theory, where the logos are COVERED because they weren't paid for it.
Apple don't pay for product placement. In fact, if you watch the big bang theory, the apple logos are always covered by stickers because Apple didn't pay for the product placement and the producers didn't want their logo visible without it being paid for.
We generally don't get previews of apple hardware.