I wish these android folks would come up with a BETTER design than Apple. This looks like a smaller version of the iPad. Maybe the next few generations will get better as we're seeing in the Android phone space. Some of the new handsets are actually nicer (but not by much) than the iPhone 4.
I dunno - I've been using Powerbooks since the mid-90's - starting with the Duos and all the way up to my MacBook Pro. Never once had a problem with my adapters and I usually had two or three which each machine.
I have a feeling this has more to due with supply of chips. If you check out the Apple Store, the ship times for a 1.83GHz is 2-3 weeks, the ship times for a 2.0 GHZ machine is 1-3 days! I have a feeling they got a boatload of these 2.0 GHZ processors from Intel to meet all the back-logged demand.
I think what's interesting is that with the move to Intel, it really opens the door for a whole new market for Apple computers. Previously, if you bought a Mac - you bought a Mac. You're locked into Mac software, games, etc.
With these new machines - you've still bought a Mac - but I guarantee by 2007 you'll be able to dual boot with Windows. Apple says they won't stop people from doing that - so what's stopping people in 2007 from buying a Mac and just running windows. They're basically making their market the ENTIRE computer audience where before you were limited to Mac OS, Linux, Unix (Windows on VPC is barely usable).
Like the iPod - people LOVE Apple hardware - both Mac and Windows users. If I were an analyst looking at Apple I would see a HUGE upside on their hardware sales.
Q: What is the future of Apple Computer? A: Silicon Graphics.
Q: That bad? A: Maybe it's a little bit different. But if you look at proprietary computer companies, whether it's Digital or Silicon Graphics (SGI ) or Apple (AAPL ), I think the fates are all relatively similar. We know how the movie ends. It's just a question of what happens in the middle. Apple has a very little customer base. If you look at the economics, it has been extremely hard for Apple to get a return on its R&D with a shrinking volume base. It's not to say that Apple's products aren't innovative or cool, but the economic factors here are so overwhelming, it's very hard for them to swim against that tide.
Q: If you were running Apple, is there anything you could do to change that? A: I would never take that job.
-- I would love to hear his response to those questions today...
How is this different from someone on Saturday Night Live singing a Eminem song? Do they pay him every time they make fun of him?
What about the other artist covers they do? I don't understand how this is any different. Both are for commercial use - Apple is using the cover to sell iPods, SNL is using it to sell TV ads.
There's a lot of ways to cut up a business model. Sure, Apple doesn't make money on each song sold in the iTMS, but that's not the only revenue generator - i.e. the iPod, branding, etc.
The same is true for the other folks like Napster. There are other revenue streams that can be calculated in the business model. And as we all know - there's more than one way to solve a problem. Maybe they have side deals with other companies, maybe they have different contracts with payment companies, with record companies, etc.
Just because Apple can't make money on iTMS - doesn't mean it won't work for others. It's just a matter of how smart and saavy your business folks are...
Well, one reason could be because traditionally, companies like MS, etc. just need to "bribe" a few individuals to get their products rolled out across a corporation.
If you know anything about Asian politics - money rules.
This guy obviously has never used any Bluetooth devices. I've got bluetooth on my laptop (Al Powerbook 15"), bluetooth on my phone, and a bluetooth wireless headset.
Just how Apple made WiFi popular their implementation of bluetooth is excellent - I can sync my contacts in my address book, I can transfer calendar appointments, and the greatest feature...
I can use my cellphone as a wireless modem to the internet without any cables. I dial from the laptop using the "bluetooth modem" my cellphone connects and I'm on the internet regardless of where I am. I'm only limited by my cell coverage.
No more expensive hotel phone calls or data fees, if I'm doing work somewhere with no hotspots, I can still check e-mail, etc. If you're a business traveler, this is such a boon - no cables, no confusing configs, it just works and it works well.
Bluetooth is not dead - companies are just beginning to use it to its potential. With Apple (not surprisingly) leading the way.
I'm in Manhattan on the east side and we got power back around 3:30 p.m. almost down for 24 hours. Apparently, the outer boroughs got power back earlier - this morning. Then the upper west side got power back, but it was spotty - some guy on the radio was saying, "there's power on 57th St and 10th Ave, but no power on 57th St and 9th Ave, and power on 57th and Broadway, etc." Anyway, it's apparently spotty on the upper east side, but if I've got power back it's over (for me).:-)
Some low points: - Walking down 25 flights in the office building was a bitch - Walking up 16 flights to get home using candles for light was worse. - Eating everything in my fridge was gross. - It was hot last night, so I didn't sleep much - Still no cable TV - Phone is spotty at best.
Some high points: - With no electricity, I actually read a frickin book, until the sun set. - Fortunately had a number of candles so hanging out by candle light was nice - I actually saw the stars in the NY sky - a first. - it was quite a nice evening last night, very quiet and peaceful.
I think New Yorkers took it in stride. I could see a lot of people just hanging out and taking it as a day off. No panic, nothing crazy. Some guy in the building across from me was having a barbeque and handing out food to his neighbors.
Watching traffic was funny. With no traffic lights, it's was a battle between cars and pedestrians. Mostly people won out. Everyone was very civilized.
I work at a publishing company with a slew of websites. Sure, we can do what AOL did and block access to everyone but paid subscribers... but then the web visitors will just go to the competition.
For every site, there are a dozen good/decent quality sites that offer the same content. I mean if CNN became a paid site would you pay or go to another news site?
No one has cracked the paid-for-content nut and this effort surely won't do it either. I mean maybe if they sent you a PDF of the magazine for offline reading - but just reading on the web? Forget it.
Anyone taking a close look at Buymusic.com would realize that this was a fiasco in the making. My main concern is that enough newbies have tried it out to permantently sour their view on legally downloading music.
If you are a burned buymusic.com customer, and Apple releases iTunes for Windows - what's the likelihood that you will give that a shot as well?
Apple needs to get iTunes for Windows out ASAP before all these jokers - buymusic, napster 2, etc. ruin the legal music buying experience for everyone.
In the end, people will pay for music - if it's done right.
1. limited number of burns, ie. 3 burns - that means you can only burn the song on to 3 CD's max? That's ridiculous. I burn my playlists all the time with different songs, different order, etc. after a song is burned 3 times it's essentially useless.
2. limited downloads - from the site The number of allowable download and transfers to other computers owned by you and registered with the Site. - again ridiculous, so if I upgrade my computer 3 times, again I've lost my music.
I notice that the limits change from song to song, but after a certain point in time through the natural progression of technology user's are going to lose the use of any musci purchased on buymusic.com.
I have a feeling a lot of newbies will buy music here only to experience significant problems further down the road. Nice job buymusic.com... way to think about your customers and their satisfaction.
I'm left handed, and I wear my watch on my left wrist... so am I supposed to change which wrist I wear my watch on after 20 years? Should I try graffiti with my right hand? I have a hard enough time with my left.
I think the point being missed here is that Apple is a company made up of many groups. There's Apple hardware and Apple software.
Just like any business Apple software probably treats the video editing market as a business opportunity... that is - look at the environment, evaluate competitors and decide to enter the market if you can sustain a competitive and profitable advantage.
When they bought FCP from Macromedia, I'm sure they knew what they were doing. Premiere was already out on the Mac so they knew they were entering into competition with Adobe. Think of the FCP at Apple as Macromedia. Two software developers competing in a market.
That's all there is to it. No conspiracy theories, etc. Apple is just about to make money like everyone else.
"We are of course willing to discuss options to resolve this with Amazon," Mitchell said. "Our goal is to put a stop to this activity. There's a component of this that requires our photographers to be compensated and to put steps in place to prevent this from happening again."
If they get $150,000 for each infrginement - how much of that do you think will go back to the original photographer? Right $0.00. Companies like this have a right to protect their IP, but it's insulting to make it seem like they're doing it for some altruistic reason.
So, what would happen if you put genetically-engineered glowing fish out in the wild? They would get eaten, that's what.
And how do you know that exactly? Lets say this glowing fish some how gets out in the wild. Maybe because it glows it can see a certain food source better, or attract small shrimp - making it easier to feed on some other animals main food source. Sure it may get eaten by another creature, but it will disrupt the balance of an eco-system. The consequences are unknown because there are too many variables. What if this zebrafish is the main diet of some larger fish. Now that it has some glowing gene, what are the side-effects to the fish that eats it? Maybe there's some chemical that causes some problem with the larger fish. Again another disruption to the eco-system. This goes on and on...
In the end... GM animals will get in the wild, you'll never be able to control it once it's in the hands of a consumer.
Has anyone proven that a well-managed web site actually generates business?
Yes, the company I used to work for proved it. We ran the website for a magazine. In a corporation where all other web-properties lost money, we were completely profitable.
The book is right, it's about the architecture from the ground up. If you design it right with flexibility for growth, tech resources (a cost center to the business) are very low. If you build the right tools for your users to manage the site, people spend more time doing their job than wrestling with the technology.
On top of that we didn't even sell products. Pure ad-based business. We designed a flexible ad management system to serve any ad anywhere in any position. Gave sales more to sell and made clients happy.
Long term - what if Windows OS actually RAN on a Mac!!! All the code is there in VPC to get it to do so, all they need to do is do it. Buy a mac, install Windows and you're off and running.
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I wish these android folks would come up with a BETTER design than Apple. This looks like a smaller version of the iPad. Maybe the next few generations will get better as we're seeing in the Android phone space. Some of the new handsets are actually nicer (but not by much) than the iPhone 4.
I dunno - I've been using Powerbooks since the mid-90's - starting with the Duos and all the way up to my MacBook Pro. Never once had a problem with my adapters and I usually had two or three which each machine.
I have a feeling this has more to due with supply of chips. If you check out the Apple Store, the ship times for a 1.83GHz is 2-3 weeks, the ship times for a 2.0 GHZ machine is 1-3 days! I have a feeling they got a boatload of these 2.0 GHZ processors from Intel to meet all the back-logged demand.
I think what's interesting is that with the move to Intel, it really opens the door for a whole new market for Apple computers. Previously, if you bought a Mac - you bought a Mac. You're locked into Mac software, games, etc.
With these new machines - you've still bought a Mac - but I guarantee by 2007 you'll be able to dual boot with Windows. Apple says they won't stop people from doing that - so what's stopping people in 2007 from buying a Mac and just running windows. They're basically making their market the ENTIRE computer audience where before you were limited to Mac OS, Linux, Unix (Windows on VPC is barely usable).
Like the iPod - people LOVE Apple hardware - both Mac and Windows users. If I were an analyst looking at Apple I would see a HUGE upside on their hardware sales.
This is the problem with CEO's and their big mouths:
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From: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_1
Q: What is the future of Apple Computer?
A: Silicon Graphics.
Q: That bad?
A: Maybe it's a little bit different. But if you look at proprietary computer companies, whether it's Digital or Silicon Graphics (SGI ) or Apple (AAPL ), I think the fates are all relatively similar. We know how the movie ends. It's just a question of what happens in the middle. Apple has a very little customer base. If you look at the economics, it has been extremely hard for Apple to get a return on its R&D with a shrinking volume base. It's not to say that Apple's products aren't innovative or cool, but the economic factors here are so overwhelming, it's very hard for them to swim against that tide.
Q: If you were running Apple, is there anything you could do to change that?
A: I would never take that job.
--
I would love to hear his response to those questions today...
How is this different from someone on Saturday Night Live singing a Eminem song? Do they pay him every time they make fun of him?
What about the other artist covers they do? I don't understand how this is any different. Both are for commercial use - Apple is using the cover to sell iPods, SNL is using it to sell TV ads.
Anyway, seems like th same thing to me...
There's a lot of ways to cut up a business model. Sure, Apple doesn't make money on each song sold in the iTMS, but that's not the only revenue generator - i.e. the iPod, branding, etc.
The same is true for the other folks like Napster. There are other revenue streams that can be calculated in the business model. And as we all know - there's more than one way to solve a problem.
Maybe they have side deals with other companies, maybe they have different contracts with payment companies, with record companies, etc.
Just because Apple can't make money on iTMS - doesn't mean it won't work for others.
It's just a matter of how smart and saavy your business folks are...
I personally get about 8 hours from my iPod. And when I need more juice I use this:
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http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.proces
If you need to listen to music for more than 10 hours having an optional battery pack is a must, and it uses AA's so I just swap those for more power.
I don't see one offered for the Dell or Samsung player.
Well, one reason could be because traditionally, companies like MS, etc. just need to "bribe" a few individuals to get their products rolled out across a corporation.
If you know anything about Asian politics - money rules.
This guy obviously has never used any Bluetooth devices. I've got bluetooth on my laptop (Al Powerbook 15"), bluetooth on my phone, and a bluetooth wireless headset.
Just how Apple made WiFi popular their implementation of bluetooth is excellent - I can sync my contacts in my address book, I can transfer calendar appointments, and the greatest feature...
I can use my cellphone as a wireless modem to the internet without any cables. I dial from the laptop using the "bluetooth modem" my cellphone connects and I'm on the internet regardless of where I am. I'm only limited by my cell coverage.
No more expensive hotel phone calls or data fees, if I'm doing work somewhere with no hotspots, I can still check e-mail, etc. If you're a business traveler, this is such a boon - no cables, no confusing configs, it just works and it works well.
Bluetooth is not dead - companies are just beginning to use it to its potential. With Apple (not surprisingly) leading the way.
I'm in Manhattan on the east side and we got power back around 3:30 p.m. almost down for 24 hours. Apparently, the outer boroughs got power back earlier - this morning. Then the upper west side got power back, but it was spotty - some guy on the radio was saying, "there's power on 57th St and 10th Ave, but no power on 57th St and 9th Ave, and power on 57th and Broadway, etc." Anyway, it's apparently spotty on the upper east side, but if I've got power back it's over (for me). :-)
Some low points:
- Walking down 25 flights in the office building was a bitch
- Walking up 16 flights to get home using candles for light was worse.
- Eating everything in my fridge was gross.
- It was hot last night, so I didn't sleep much
- Still no cable TV
- Phone is spotty at best.
Some high points:
- With no electricity, I actually read a frickin book, until the sun set.
- Fortunately had a number of candles so hanging out by candle light was nice
- I actually saw the stars in the NY sky - a first.
- it was quite a nice evening last night, very quiet and peaceful.
I think New Yorkers took it in stride. I could see a lot of people just hanging out and taking it as a day off. No panic, nothing crazy. Some guy in the building across from me was having a barbeque and handing out food to his neighbors.
Watching traffic was funny. With no traffic lights, it's was a battle between cars and pedestrians. Mostly people won out. Everyone was very civilized.
Anyway, back to checking e-mail.
I work at a publishing company with a slew of websites. Sure, we can do what AOL did and block access to everyone but paid subscribers... but then the web visitors will just go to the competition.
For every site, there are a dozen good/decent quality sites that offer the same content. I mean if CNN became a paid site would you pay or go to another news site?
No one has cracked the paid-for-content nut and this effort surely won't do it either. I mean maybe if they sent you a PDF of the magazine for offline reading - but just reading on the web? Forget it.
Anyone taking a close look at Buymusic.com would realize that this was a fiasco in the making. My main concern is that enough newbies have tried it out to permantently sour their view on legally downloading music.
If you are a burned buymusic.com customer, and Apple releases iTunes for Windows - what's the likelihood that you will give that a shot as well?
Apple needs to get iTunes for Windows out ASAP before all these jokers - buymusic, napster 2, etc. ruin the legal music buying experience for everyone.
In the end, people will pay for music - if it's done right.
1. limited number of burns, ie. 3 burns - that means you can only burn the song on to 3 CD's max? That's ridiculous. I burn my playlists all the time with different songs, different order, etc. after a song is burned 3 times it's essentially useless.
2. limited downloads - from the site The number of allowable download and transfers to other computers owned by you and registered with the Site. - again ridiculous, so if I upgrade my computer 3 times, again I've lost my music.
I notice that the limits change from song to song, but after a certain point in time through the natural progression of technology user's are going to lose the use of any musci purchased on buymusic.com.
I have a feeling a lot of newbies will buy music here only to experience significant problems further down the road. Nice job buymusic.com... way to think about your customers and their satisfaction.
I'm left handed, and I wear my watch on my left wrist... so am I supposed to change which wrist I wear my watch on after 20 years?
Should I try graffiti with my right hand? I have a hard enough time with my left.
I think the point being missed here is that Apple is a company made up of many groups. There's Apple hardware and Apple software.
Just like any business Apple software probably treats the video editing market as a business opportunity... that is - look at the environment, evaluate competitors and decide to enter the market if you can sustain a competitive and profitable advantage.
When they bought FCP from Macromedia, I'm sure they knew what they were doing. Premiere was already out on the Mac so they knew they were entering into competition with Adobe. Think of the FCP at Apple as Macromedia. Two software developers competing in a market.
That's all there is to it. No conspiracy theories, etc. Apple is just about to make money like everyone else.
"We are of course willing to discuss options to resolve this with Amazon," Mitchell said. "Our goal is to put a stop to this activity. There's a component of this that requires our photographers to be compensated and to put steps in place to prevent this from happening again."
If they get $150,000 for each infrginement - how much of that do you think will go back to the original photographer? Right $0.00.
Companies like this have a right to protect their IP, but it's insulting to make it seem like they're doing it for some altruistic reason.
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1.8GHZ, 160GB HD, 512GB RAM - $2399
Dual 2GHz, 160GB HD, 512MB RAM - $2999.
So, what would happen if you put genetically-engineered glowing fish out in the wild? They would get eaten, that's what.
And how do you know that exactly? Lets say this glowing fish some how gets out in the wild. Maybe because it glows it can see a certain food source better, or attract small shrimp - making it easier to feed on some other animals main food source. Sure it may get eaten by another creature, but it will disrupt the balance of an eco-system.
The consequences are unknown because there are too many variables. What if this zebrafish is the main diet of some larger fish. Now that it has some glowing gene, what are the side-effects to the fish that eats it? Maybe there's some chemical that causes some problem with the larger fish. Again another disruption to the eco-system.
This goes on and on...
In the end... GM animals will get in the wild, you'll never be able to control it once it's in the hands of a consumer.
Also, check the encoding quality. 128kbps MP3? Is that CD quality???
128kbps to me is radio quality which is far from CD quality. Apple's 128kbps AAC is much better.
Has anyone proven that a well-managed web site actually generates business?
Yes, the company I used to work for proved it. We ran the website for a magazine. In a corporation where all other web-properties lost money, we were completely profitable.
The book is right, it's about the architecture from the ground up. If you design it right with flexibility for growth, tech resources (a cost center to the business) are very low.
If you build the right tools for your users to manage the site, people spend more time doing their job than wrestling with the technology.
On top of that we didn't even sell products. Pure ad-based business. We designed a flexible ad management system to serve any ad anywhere in any position. Gave sales more to sell and made clients happy.
It can be done.
I'm suprised no one has mentioned this already...
What does VPC do? Allow Windows to run on a Mac.
Long term - what if Windows OS actually RAN on a Mac!!!
All the code is there in VPC to get it to do so, all they need to do is do it. Buy a mac, install Windows and you're off and running.
just a thought....