Well, you make a very good point. Although, there is a difference from the VHS/Betamax 'war' which is all the smart phone makers are following Apple's design as well as their business strategy. The VHS strategy was 180-degrees from Betamax.
Nor is there a significant difference in the content available to smart phones. Cost and availability of content is what defined the VHS/Betamax war - as well as the Blu-ray/HD war. Hardware and carrier costs are not radically different with smart phones when they have comparable features.
Seriously. One phone on one carrier has 21% of the market while, while a dozen other phones on several different carriers have 28% of the market... Many, they had to give away for free!
I think Apple still wins. And definitely AT&T wins since it sells Apple, Android, and BlackBerry.
"children put a cell phone to their heads, themselves"
Regardless if a child does something, how does that justify what a doctor does?
If we were to apply the logic of what you just said, you are saying its OK for a doctor to put a child's hand in a light-socket because a child is likely to do it themselves. That's nonsense.
I agree with you. Billions of dollars go into R&D in the USA. Would corporations keep spending that money if their product was so successful it became a standard and they lost control of the supply?
Business is about controlling supply while demand is high. Additionally, this would probably hurt efforts of standardization because business would calculate just how much success their products would need to maximize return BEFORE standardization - as well as develop competing technologies to their own product.
Its a puerile concept that everything of value should be socialized by society.
Actually, a pacifist will use physical force when necessary... such as defense, defense of others, and destruction of property. Even Ghandi, on occasion, supported the use of force.
You might want to look up "open platform" as well.
"No-one asks Apple to develop in Flash, or even to explicitly support Flash."
Your comment contradicts itself. And you might be confusing the Flash player with the Flash development tools - which are using a proprietary development language.
Flash is proprietary ***language***. I swear, you people are either incapable of reading comprehensively or choose not to. And you get an F in syntax. Job's use of "open" is clearly in regards to ***developer language***. Why on Earth should a hardware developer like Apple design their products around another company's proprietary language!?...That's a D in business-sense. (Adobe should design their products around Apple's OS and hardware.)
As for the app store, it is open but with restrictions. Apple allows 3rd party apps, but it retains the right to screen out that apps that conflict with it's business plan and key user demographics (family, education). If the app store were truly closed, there would be no 3rd party apps. As a share holder of Apple, I agree with their policy.
Obama makes more promises than there are stars in the sky! As with every proceeding president, planning for events beyond one's term is irrelevant bull-pucky. If a president wants to actually make something happen, it has to happen within in his two terms.
Instead of pursuing an unproven trajectory for our space industry, we who should go back to the moon first. We have the technology to do that and it can be assembled quickly.
The benefit of reaching the moon again is two-fold. 1) We prevent other nations from dominating and dictating the space industry (There are about 16 nations with declared moon-ambitions) 2) We study and prepare the moon for other solar system exploration.
Experts say using the moon as a launching station will save tons of money on fuel and materials. Vessels launched from the moon do not need to survive the stress of the Earth's atmosphere. The moon has the potential to provide some of the necessary resources. Additionally, vessels launched from the moon can use nuclear propulsion systems since they won't be a threat to the Earth and the Earth's atmosphere.
As a general rule from experience, any promise from a president beyond his terms is an empty promise because the next president will simply cancel it as Obama, himself, has done.
Really? Seems like the people throwing the fit are all the Android fans with their egotism and inflated idea of their own importance. All you guys do is bitch about Apple day in and day out. Ironically, creating more brand awareness of Apple and Apple mind-share in the blogs. All the while burying Android stories. Rather than complaining about Apple you should be chatting about Android if Android were actually better. But the Android interface blows compared to the Apple OS as several reviews have demonstrated.
Apple buying a chip manufacturer simply to stop supplying competitors is an idiotic concept. A) Apple would lose money immediately via decreased revenue B) Competitors would simply start using a different chip
The only reason why Apple might buy a chip manufacturer is to lower retail prices. And that's not going to happen because that is not the industry Apple is in. Apple makes consumer electronics and B2B parts supply doesn't fit into that business model.
The ridiculousness of the internet quarter backing has reach a new peak of WTF?
Actually, I think your argument is the one that is, er, unsound. Jobs said Apple wants to keep porn of the iPhone - meaning Apple does not want to endorse porn. He said nothing about the iPhone not having access to porn via channels beyond Apple. You didn't read the statement comprehensively.
Apple simply wants to keep porn out of its media-content store. Apple's target demographic is families and education. As an Apple shareholder, I completely agree. There is no need in Apple's business model for Apple to endorse nor allow porn-centric apps.
Which comes to another point: sites who create iPhone-friendly content are in no way a relection on Apple's content policy. Thats a fallacy of logic. Apple has nothing to do with those sites.
As well as, those who are ridiculing Jobs' position because the web browser can access porn have no ground to criticize Apple for blocking content - because according to the critics, the content isn't blocked. To do so, contradicts their own line of reasoning - and is *unsound*.
Apple just reported the the best non-holiday quarter ever in the middle of the worst recession, surpassing similar companies... Only a fool would criticize Apple's strategies.
I'm a graphic designer and the only aspect I think might influence the viewer is color. What they need are additional studies - sit-down restaurants, non-restaurants, logos that aren't generally reds and yellows, logos the viewer is not familiar with....
Maybe its simply having crap flash in your face...
Considering that the subliminal-message studies of the 60s or whenever were a hoax, I think this a bunch of hooey.
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Have all the audio dynamically transcribed to text. You'll save tons of space. Or, store all the data as binary on the atomic level in a multilayer format.
Citing the number of cases the RIAA have lost etc I would hardly describe it as "US government's willingness to bend over for Big Media"... Not to mention that under current law what most people are doing with media online is illegal... regardless of the culprit's opinion.
One of the main problems around here is exaggeration.
1) I am not dismissing morals and ethics, I am saying despite the *subjective* discussion of them.
2) LOL slavery does not equal perfectly legal industry and rights-abiding jobs. Plus, young one, slavery was not a "job."..Even though a tomato is a fruit, you don't put it in fruit salad.
3) I realize a lot of you don't know this, but the Iraq war started before 2003. It started in 1991 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. The UN asked the US to get Iraq out of Kuwait. Terms of the cease fire were Iraq cannot develop WMDs. 13 times before the Iraq war, the UN voted unanimously that Iraq was violating terms of cease fire. So, no, Iraq did not and does not have any rights to develop nukes - by their own pen and promise.
There is no reason to have the countries that already have nukes to give them up as long as we have ours to serve as a deterrence. There are a multitude of reasons to prevent countries that don't have nukes from having them, the #1 reason being that there is a lack of security in those nations the nukes are more likely to fall into some wackjobs hands.
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Seriously? Endless budget deficits, ineffectual programs, various wars for dubious reasons, pork spending in every law, closed room negotiations when they promised transparency, monetary payoffs to get votes to pass, the Patriot Act, the FCC, the FDA, concerns for re-election over servering the people, etc etc etc
LOL - why don't you consider my point of view!? You were totally in error by chastising that guy and you just won't admit it because you are an elitist poop....meanwhile, I tried to be polite and wish you well!
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Well, you make a very good point. Although, there is a difference from the VHS/Betamax 'war' which is all the smart phone makers are following Apple's design as well as their business strategy. The VHS strategy was 180-degrees from Betamax.
Nor is there a significant difference in the content available to smart phones. Cost and availability of content is what defined the VHS/Betamax war - as well as the Blu-ray/HD war. Hardware and carrier costs are not radically different with smart phones when they have comparable features.
Seriously. One phone on one carrier has 21% of the market while, while a dozen other phones on several different carriers have 28% of the market... Many, they had to give away for free!
I think Apple still wins. And definitely AT&T wins since it sells Apple, Android, and BlackBerry.
"children put a cell phone to their heads, themselves"
Regardless if a child does something, how does that justify what a doctor does?
If we were to apply the logic of what you just said, you are saying its OK for a doctor to put a child's hand in a light-socket because a child is likely to do it themselves. That's nonsense.
I agree with you. Billions of dollars go into R&D in the USA. Would corporations keep spending that money if their product was so successful it became a standard and they lost control of the supply?
Business is about controlling supply while demand is high. Additionally, this would probably hurt efforts of standardization because business would calculate just how much success their products would need to maximize return BEFORE standardization - as well as develop competing technologies to their own product.
Its a puerile concept that everything of value should be socialized by society.
How does one find a grain of sand in the snow of a polar ice cap AND figure out that it is from outer space!?
Doctors are putting a cell phone that causes nearly all my other gadgets to buzz next to the developing brain of a child?
Actually, a pacifist will use physical force when necessary... such as defense, defense of others, and destruction of property. Even Ghandi, on occasion, supported the use of force.
You might want to look up "open platform" as well.
"No-one asks Apple to develop in Flash, or even to explicitly support Flash."
Your comment contradicts itself. And you might be confusing the Flash player with the Flash development tools - which are using a proprietary development language.
Flash is proprietary ***language***. I swear, you people are either incapable of reading comprehensively or choose not to. And you get an F in syntax. Job's use of "open" is clearly in regards to ***developer language***. Why on Earth should a hardware developer like Apple design their products around another company's proprietary language!? ...That's a D in business-sense. (Adobe should design their products around Apple's OS and hardware.)
As for the app store, it is open but with restrictions. Apple allows 3rd party apps, but it retains the right to screen out that apps that conflict with it's business plan and key user demographics (family, education). If the app store were truly closed, there would be no 3rd party apps. As a share holder of Apple, I agree with their policy.
Obama makes more promises than there are stars in the sky! As with every proceeding president, planning for events beyond one's term is irrelevant bull-pucky. If a president wants to actually make something happen, it has to happen within in his two terms.
Instead of pursuing an unproven trajectory for our space industry, we who should go back to the moon first. We have the technology to do that and it can be assembled quickly.
The benefit of reaching the moon again is two-fold.
1) We prevent other nations from dominating and dictating the space industry (There are about 16 nations with declared moon-ambitions)
2) We study and prepare the moon for other solar system exploration.
Experts say using the moon as a launching station will save tons of money on fuel and materials. Vessels launched from the moon do not need to survive the stress of the Earth's atmosphere. The moon has the potential to provide some of the necessary resources. Additionally, vessels launched from the moon can use nuclear propulsion systems since they won't be a threat to the Earth and the Earth's atmosphere.
As a general rule from experience, any promise from a president beyond his terms is an empty promise because the next president will simply cancel it as Obama, himself, has done.
Was this comment necessary? Grow up.
The vulnerable user demographic are *Windows users* of the iPad, not iPad users in general.
Really? Seems like the people throwing the fit are all the Android fans with their egotism and inflated idea of their own importance. All you guys do is bitch about Apple day in and day out. Ironically, creating more brand awareness of Apple and Apple mind-share in the blogs. All the while burying Android stories. Rather than complaining about Apple you should be chatting about Android if Android were actually better. But the Android interface blows compared to the Apple OS as several reviews have demonstrated.
Apple buying a chip manufacturer simply to stop supplying competitors is an idiotic concept. A) Apple would lose money immediately via decreased revenue B) Competitors would simply start using a different chip
The only reason why Apple might buy a chip manufacturer is to lower retail prices. And that's not going to happen because that is not the industry Apple is in. Apple makes consumer electronics and B2B parts supply doesn't fit into that business model.
The ridiculousness of the internet quarter backing has reach a new peak of WTF?
Actually, I think your argument is the one that is, er, unsound. Jobs said Apple wants to keep porn of the iPhone - meaning Apple does not want to endorse porn. He said nothing about the iPhone not having access to porn via channels beyond Apple. You didn't read the statement comprehensively.
Apple simply wants to keep porn out of its media-content store. Apple's target demographic is families and education. As an Apple shareholder, I completely agree. There is no need in Apple's business model for Apple to endorse nor allow porn-centric apps.
Which comes to another point: sites who create iPhone-friendly content are in no way a relection on Apple's content policy. Thats a fallacy of logic. Apple has nothing to do with those sites.
As well as, those who are ridiculing Jobs' position because the web browser can access porn have no ground to criticize Apple for blocking content - because according to the critics, the content isn't blocked. To do so, contradicts their own line of reasoning - and is *unsound*.
Apple just reported the the best non-holiday quarter ever in the middle of the worst recession, surpassing similar companies... Only a fool would criticize Apple's strategies.
Wow - how does it feel to be racist?
I'm a graphic designer and the only aspect I think might influence the viewer is color. What they need are additional studies - sit-down restaurants, non-restaurants, logos that aren't generally reds and yellows, logos the viewer is not familiar with....
Maybe its simply having crap flash in your face...
Considering that the subliminal-message studies of the 60s or whenever were a hoax, I think this a bunch of hooey.
Have all the audio dynamically transcribed to text. You'll save tons of space. Or, store all the data as binary on the atomic level in a multilayer format.
Citing the number of cases the RIAA have lost etc I would hardly describe it as "US government's willingness to bend over for Big Media"... Not to mention that under current law what most people are doing with media online is illegal ... regardless of the culprit's opinion.
One of the main problems around here is exaggeration.
No? Start here:: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/
While I generally agree with you, your argument is riddled with fallacies, half truths, falsehoods, and immaturity.
WOW ... hmmm
1) I am not dismissing morals and ethics, I am saying despite the *subjective* discussion of them.
2) LOL slavery does not equal perfectly legal industry and rights-abiding jobs. Plus, young one, slavery was not a "job." ..Even though a tomato is a fruit, you don't put it in fruit salad.
3) I realize a lot of you don't know this, but the Iraq war started before 2003. It started in 1991 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. The UN asked the US to get Iraq out of Kuwait. Terms of the cease fire were Iraq cannot develop WMDs. 13 times before the Iraq war, the UN voted unanimously that Iraq was violating terms of cease fire. So, no, Iraq did not and does not have any rights to develop nukes - by their own pen and promise.
There is no reason to have the countries that already have nukes to give them up as long as we have ours to serve as a deterrence. There are a multitude of reasons to prevent countries that don't have nukes from having them, the #1 reason being that there is a lack of security in those nations the nukes are more likely to fall into some wackjobs hands.
To say I can. Kinda like mountain climbing.
Seriously? Endless budget deficits, ineffectual programs, various wars for dubious reasons, pork spending in every law, closed room negotiations when they promised transparency, monetary payoffs to get votes to pass, the Patriot Act, the FCC, the FDA, concerns for re-election over servering the people, etc etc etc
LOL - why don't you consider my point of view!? You were totally in error by chastising that guy and you just won't admit it because you are an elitist poop. ...meanwhile, I tried to be polite and wish you well!