So find us one Android device or line of devices that has been updated and tell us what the upgrade takeup rate was. That would presumably be a valid comparison.
What part of running a commercial network has any bearing on end users updating consumer products?
Consumers want the current stuff because that is what consumers want. Deliver it and you make money. Fail to deliver it and you end up circling the bowl.
And did we mention that most people used the over the air direct from the cloud update method.
Which in fact is one of the reasons that people upgrade so fast. Its just so fscking easy. Settings / General / Software Update, click yes. Half hour later and your iDevice is running the new OS.
And what three year old Android anything gets the same update as the current models (bad comparison, the current android models don't always have the current software either...):-)
"a nocebo reaction or response refers to harmful, unpleasant, or undesirable effects a subject manifests after receiving an inert dummy drug or placebo. Nocebo responses are not chemically generated and are due only to the subject's pessimistic belief and expectation that the inert drug will produce negative consequences.
In these cases, there is no "real" drug involved, but the actual negative consequences of the administration of the inert drug, which may be physiological, behavioural, emotional, and/or cognitive, are nonetheless real."
So the effects may actually be real but are not actually caused by anything other than the belief that something is causing it.
Is society responsible for idiots that have convinced themselves that they should be sick so that they end up being sick?
Announcement will be in early to mid October with product orders within one week of that and deliveries starting immediately.
In other words, WHEN they announce it. Apple will be able to ship immediately, in large volumes. If that happens anytime before December 1st it will be a huge seller for Christmas 2012.
The only questions left about the iPad mini is whether it will be retina (pundits say no.) And if there will be an LTE version.
Actually no, insurance companies make money as a percentage of their sales. More accidents, higher costs, higher premiums, higher profits.
Less accidents, less costs, lower premiums, lower profits.
The insurance industry will not be very happy overall. Although some companies may take targeted approaches to make money as the market changes over. Hoping to take a larger percentage of the overall reduced pot once things sort themselves out.
There is no reason to believe that patents are somehow such a sacred and / or arcane subject that juries should not be allowed. The exact same arguement can and has been made for many parts of tort law and tax law.
These arguments are typically trotted out by the losers after the fact to justify why they lost. Or by people who think that the laws (patent, tort, tax, etc) should be simplified or reformed.
There IS some validity to their claims. But not to limiting it to patent law.
But to paraphrase Churchill - Trial by jury is the worst of all systems but better than all the others that have been tried from time to time.
From the BGR article: "Well, the Finns have to do something with all those Symbian devices, don’t they? Parity News reports that Finnish citizen Ere Karjalainen smashed the world record for phone-tossing last weekend when he chucked his handset 101.5 meters (333 feet) during his country’s annual mobile phone-throwing contest."
I'm going to enter the Trebuchet class... pretty sure I can get one of those Nexus phones out to at least 200+ meters.
On the other hand the potato canon gun is an attractive option.
Ahh... so the solution will be to have multiple monitors or options for your display driver to partition your 24" lcd screen into two or three virtual monitors...
I read (the badly translated) article and this all doesn't make sense.
If the MP LOST his iPad then HOW did the IT Admin recover his emails?
Presumably because the emails where on an email server somewhere. And since this is a government email account probably that was on a government server not something Apple had any control over.
So to summarize:
- he was given an iPad
- he setup email on iPad, probably imap
- he uses iPad for a while
- he looses iPad
- admin "recovers" email from server
- he complains that iPad is insecure
If this is the sequence of events I fail to see how it would be any different from any Windows or Linux or Mac or Android based smartphone, tablet, netbook, laptop or desktop. If you are using an email client to access a network mail service then the admins for that service have access to your mail.
I'm left to conclude that either this guy doesn't know what he is talking about.
OR he knows what he is talking about (e.g. he is worried because he cannot use open source software) and this story or the translation just really lost that aspect.
Lack of control could be an issue. Either you like the walled garden or you don't. If you don't, just don't buy an iPad. Nobody is forcing you to buy an iPad.
Almost as expensive as leaving them where they can be killed by a tsunami... remind me again how many people where killed and / or force-ably moved by the tsunami and how many from the reactors...
Assuming that there is not an unlimited pot of money to spend it would seem that spending it on saving people from the direct effects of a tsunami would be a higher priority.
Yes but it's not like this was not an unforeseeable problem... or that no one else has solved this problem... or if those other people had been hired to do the job the coverage wouldn't have been first rate.
Unfortunately an inexperienced broadcaster was hired to do a job they had no experience in broadcasting. The results where terrible.
There have been rumors about the iPad mini for most of a year. And it was always assumed that it would be introduced in the fall for Christmas sales.
The rush has been for everyone else to get their stuff out first so that they would get some toe hold in the market niches before Apple released the iPad mini.
Gruber thinks that it will be 1024x786 because Apple has never introduced a new product line with retina. That is saved for a refresh or version 2.
This may be a fallacy as there simply have been no new products introduced since retina was introduced. Only newer versions of existing products.
While the picture will be sharp with 1024x786 remember a smaller tablet is meant to be used at a closer distance. So if anything it is more important to get a retina display there.
I suspect that it will boil down to whether Apple wants a low cost device to blow the competition right out of the water. Or a slightly more advanced device that is well differentiated.
This decision may also be decided on related factors such as whether they can get enough of the retina displays to build both the new iPhone, the iPad and a smaller iPad. They may introduce the new smaller iPad with the lower resolution non retina display simply because it allows them to manufacture it in the quantity they want.
The other question is whether they iPad Mini or iPod Max. That would allow them to position it as the successor to the iPod Touch (and would mean that they would not then be selling a 7" iPad, something Jobs said they wouldn't do.)
I keep meaning to buy some keyboards from there, but the six Model M's I have on my desk and in my lab refuse to die.... I'm stuck on old keyboards that look old, are dirty and don't have any of the modern keys... and have old PS2 style cables. Something like 15 years old and the refuse to DIE!
Really PCKeyboard (aka Unicomp) I really will be buying some keyboards from you... real soon now.... if these Model M's would just DIE.
If I where an Apple shareholder the ONLY thing I could complain about is Apple not getting that last 33% (or is it 25% now) profit left in the mobile industry...WHY are they just leaving that money on the table for someone else to capture! Surely they could conceive of a strategy to get 100%!
I cut the cord. Installed HD antenna's for the local news and use Netflix for the rest. I was paying > $200 for high speed (50Mbit) cable internet and HD tv. Now (with a new higher speed lower cost product available) I'm paying about $85 for 100Mbit access with a 1 TB cap.
Yes, I'm missing a few shows we would like to watch. But, the reality is that we have only so many hours a week to consume TV (or any media.) AND there is more than enough available through Netflix (or Hulu etc.) that it simply makes sense to use them and save a bundle.
The more we reward the low cost providers the more content they will be able to get access to.
Did the same for our landlines two years ago. Went from two old style @ $45/month each to four VOIP @ $3... (with more or less free North American LD.)
Overall I've reduced my "media" bill from over $400 to just over $100.
Doesn't make sense. Apple manages to manage two operating systems... Mac OSX and iOS for the two separate types of devices. They even seem to be making money doing so.
I fail to see why blowing away all of your customers to try and control everything everywhere with the one Ring er OS to control them all is needed...
So you may end up with some (hopefully still legal in Canada eh!) Buckyballs and get tossed in the slammer if you try and bring them with you into the US!
Now where is that URL, time to buy some one while you still can.
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So find us one Android device or line of devices that has been updated and tell us what the upgrade takeup rate was. That would presumably be a valid comparison.
Numbers please...
What part of running a commercial network has any bearing on end users updating consumer products?
Consumers want the current stuff because that is what consumers want. Deliver it and you make money. Fail to deliver it and you end up circling the bowl.
And did we mention that most people used the over the air direct from the cloud update method.
Which in fact is one of the reasons that people upgrade so fast. Its just so fscking easy. Settings / General / Software Update, click yes. Half hour later and your iDevice is running the new OS.
And what three year old Android anything gets the same update as the current models (bad comparison, the current android models don't always have the current software either...) :-)
Classic example of a nocebo effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
"a nocebo reaction or response refers to harmful, unpleasant, or undesirable effects a subject manifests after receiving an inert dummy drug or placebo. Nocebo responses are not chemically generated and are due only to the subject's pessimistic belief and expectation that the inert drug will produce negative consequences.
In these cases, there is no "real" drug involved, but the actual negative consequences of the administration of the inert drug, which may be physiological, behavioural, emotional, and/or cognitive, are nonetheless real."
So the effects may actually be real but are not actually caused by anything other than the belief that something is causing it.
Is society responsible for idiots that have convinced themselves that they should be sick so that they end up being sick?
Announcement will be in early to mid October with product orders within one week of that and deliveries starting immediately.
In other words, WHEN they announce it. Apple will be able to ship immediately, in large volumes. If that happens anytime before December 1st it will be a huge seller for Christmas 2012.
The only questions left about the iPad mini is whether it will be retina (pundits say no.) And if there will be an LTE version.
Personally I want Retina and LTE in with 32GB.
So if I have VisualStudio installed on my Windows system it is a general purpose computer, otherwise it is an appliance?
Or for (any of) my Linux systems, without GCC they are just appliances (well in fact some of them probably are, but lets talk desktop systems here!)
No you will be probably about a half dozen failed sensors away from that scenario.
Multiple, redundant, and different technologies. That will be the mantra.
Can you point at anything that substantiates that statement?
Or is this just another un-substantiated opinion?
Compare to Windows - one driver binary and it can run on everything from Win2k to Win8.
Actually no, insurance companies make money as a percentage of their sales. More accidents, higher costs, higher premiums, higher profits.
Less accidents, less costs, lower premiums, lower profits.
The insurance industry will not be very happy overall. Although some companies may take targeted approaches to make money as the market changes over. Hoping to take a larger percentage of the overall reduced pot once things sort themselves out.
Within 10 years.
And it will take very little time after that for self driven cars to be made illegal in most metropolitan areas.
Your kids won't need to get a drivers license.
It won't be possible for your grand kids to get a drivers license.
There is no reason to believe that patents are somehow such a sacred and / or arcane subject that juries should not be allowed. The exact same arguement can and has been made for many parts of tort law and tax law.
These arguments are typically trotted out by the losers after the fact to justify why they lost. Or by people who think that the laws (patent, tort, tax, etc) should be simplified or reformed.
There IS some validity to their claims. But not to limiting it to patent law.
But to paraphrase Churchill - Trial by jury is the worst of all systems but better than all the others that have been tried from time to time.
Seriously the best and only use for old smartphones is to try and break the world record for throwing smartphones:
http://www.bgr.com/2012/08/20/phone-throwing-contest-2012-finland/
From the BGR article: "Well, the Finns have to do something with all those Symbian devices, don’t they? Parity News reports that Finnish citizen Ere Karjalainen smashed the world record for phone-tossing last weekend when he chucked his handset 101.5 meters (333 feet) during his country’s annual mobile phone-throwing contest."
I'm going to enter the Trebuchet class... pretty sure I can get one of those Nexus phones out to at least 200+ meters.
On the other hand the potato canon gun is an attractive option.
Ahh... so the solution will be to have multiple monitors or options for your display driver to partition your 24" lcd screen into two or three virtual monitors...
I read (the badly translated) article and this all doesn't make sense.
If the MP LOST his iPad then HOW did the IT Admin recover his emails?
Presumably because the emails where on an email server somewhere. And since this is a government email account probably that was on a government server not something Apple had any control over.
So to summarize:
- he was given an iPad
- he setup email on iPad, probably imap
- he uses iPad for a while
- he looses iPad
- admin "recovers" email from server
- he complains that iPad is insecure
If this is the sequence of events I fail to see how it would be any different from any Windows or Linux or Mac or Android based smartphone, tablet, netbook, laptop or desktop. If you are using an email client to access a network mail service then the admins for that service have access to your mail.
I'm left to conclude that either this guy doesn't know what he is talking about.
OR he knows what he is talking about (e.g. he is worried because he cannot use open source software) and this story or the translation just really lost that aspect.
Lack of control could be an issue. Either you like the walled garden or you don't. If you don't, just don't buy an iPad. Nobody is forcing you to buy an iPad.
Almost as expensive as leaving them where they can be killed by a tsunami ... remind me again how many people where killed and / or force-ably moved by the tsunami and how many from the reactors...
Assuming that there is not an unlimited pot of money to spend it would seem that spending it on saving people from the direct effects of a tsunami would be a higher priority.
Yes but it's not like this was not an unforeseeable problem... or that no one else has solved this problem ... or if those other people had been hired to do the job the coverage wouldn't have been first rate.
Unfortunately an inexperienced broadcaster was hired to do a job they had no experience in broadcasting. The results where terrible.
There have been rumors about the iPad mini for most of a year. And it was always assumed that it would be introduced in the fall for Christmas sales.
The rush has been for everyone else to get their stuff out first so that they would get some toe hold in the market niches before Apple released the iPad mini.
Gruber thinks that it will be 1024x786 because Apple has never introduced a new product line with retina. That is saved for a refresh or version 2.
This may be a fallacy as there simply have been no new products introduced since retina was introduced. Only newer versions of existing products.
While the picture will be sharp with 1024x786 remember a smaller tablet is meant to be used at a closer distance. So if anything it is more important to get a retina display there.
I suspect that it will boil down to whether Apple wants a low cost device to blow the competition right out of the water. Or a slightly more advanced device that is well differentiated.
This decision may also be decided on related factors such as whether they can get enough of the retina displays to build both the new iPhone, the iPad and a smaller iPad. They may introduce the new smaller iPad with the lower resolution non retina display simply because it allows them to manufacture it in the quantity they want.
The other question is whether they iPad Mini or iPod Max. That would allow them to position it as the successor to the iPod Touch (and would mean that they would not then be selling a 7" iPad, something Jobs said they wouldn't do.)
I keep meaning to buy some keyboards from there, but the six Model M's I have on my desk and in my lab refuse to die.... I'm stuck on old keyboards that look old, are dirty and don't have any of the modern keys... and have old PS2 style cables. Something like 15 years old and the refuse to DIE!
Really PCKeyboard (aka Unicomp) I really will be buying some keyboards from you ... real soon now.... if these Model M's would just DIE.
If I where an Apple shareholder the ONLY thing I could complain about is Apple not getting that last 33% (or is it 25% now) profit left in the mobile industry...WHY are they just leaving that money on the table for someone else to capture! Surely they could conceive of a strategy to get 100%!
For the most part Apple sells all the iPhones and iPads they can produce.
Why would they drop the price to sell more when they cannot produce more at this time?
I cut the cord. Installed HD antenna's for the local news and use Netflix for the rest. I was paying > $200 for high speed (50Mbit) cable internet and HD tv. Now (with a new higher speed lower cost product available) I'm paying about $85 for 100Mbit access with a 1 TB cap.
Yes, I'm missing a few shows we would like to watch. But, the reality is that we have only so many hours a week to consume TV (or any media.) AND there is more than enough available through Netflix (or Hulu etc.) that it simply makes sense to use them and save a bundle.
The more we reward the low cost providers the more content they will be able to get access to.
Did the same for our landlines two years ago. Went from two old style @ $45 /month each to four VOIP @ $3... (with more or less free North American LD.)
Overall I've reduced my "media" bill from over $400 to just over $100.
Doesn't make sense. Apple manages to manage two operating systems ... Mac OSX and iOS for the two separate types of devices. They even seem to be making money doing so.
I fail to see why blowing away all of your customers to try and control everything everywhere with the one Ring er OS to control them all is needed...
To be fair they are banning all sorts of stuff that kids might swallow.
And the US Border patrol is quite vigorously keeping the stuff out: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07/18/tourists-detained-on-way-home-from-vancouver-after-discovering-kinder-surprise-eggs-are-illegal-in-u-s/
So you may end up with some (hopefully still legal in Canada eh!) Buckyballs and get tossed in the slammer if you try and bring them with you into the US!
Now where is that URL, time to buy some one while you still can.