Plus, if you go with RIM today, you'll get to do all this again in a year or two after they're done imploding! Maybe you can volunteer to run their NOC!
I think it's a nice update to the look. (Also, text glows didn't exist back then, he's using the wrong font for the labels, etc etc etc. But I love the dither pattern behind the dock.) Believe me, Steve Jobs didn't want any of that stuff (visible pixels and such) in the 80s, he only took them because he had to. Steve Jobs waited 27 long years for glorious 300dpi rounded corners. I think the artist did pretty well.
93M vs 95M is a 2% difference, and they're comparing what Apple SOLD to what Samsung SHIPPED. Combine that with Apple actually PROFITING almost 3x more than Samsung and I'll still mark that as "doing far better."
> Honestly, wouldn't that be a legit Apple killer than > enterprise shops would embrace en-masse?
No.
The thing is, to dethrone a king, you can't be "about as good as" or "as good as and slightly cheaper" or "10% better in some key ways" or even "15% better across the board." You have to be a LOT better--like a night-and-day different--to overcome all the inertia of a large installed base. The last time we saw that happen was in 2007.
Apple might not have the absolute world's best email client but pretty much every major company is happy with it (and all the other stuff it does) so someone else coming out with a whole new device that is slightly better in some ways is not going to gain any traction. Apple is so far ahead (in terms of overall quality, customer satisfaction, number and quality of apps, etc.) that I'm guessing it'll be literally 5-10 years (if ever) before they aren't in the lead.*
HP and BB both tried to displace Apple once and failed. They pulled out all the stops and each managed to create products that were roughly comparable to 1- or 2-year-old Apple products. No freaking way will those two be able to put their corporate heads together and produce, in 12-24 months, something substantially better than what Apple will be producing at the same time in the future.
Tying two anchors together does not result in something that floats.
* They may or may not be actually leading now in terms of raw units out there in the world, but a) they're doing far better than any single competitor in the smartphone arena, and b) they are taking the vast majority of the industry's profits -- about 3x their one and only really profitable competitor.
You beat me to it. What we need is a chart like this but for handhelds. Then, print it out, wrap it around a 2x4, and smack OEM presidents in the head with it until they quit making tiny screens better and start shipping a goddamn laptop screen at something better than 1366x768.
> My guess is that they are targeting the low-end of > the market that has a high-end feature phone now > but can't afford a traditional smartphone.
Both the iPhone 3GS and many Android phones are free, and the iPhone 4 and many, many more Androids are $99. I don't think it's the price of smartphones that's keeping people away, it's the mandatory $180/yr data plans.
One possible angle: If your ISP offers 512k, 1.5MB, and 3MB, and you signed up for 3MB, you can argue that it should be AT LEAST 1.5MB, because if not, what's the point in paying extra?
I can't find the reference at the moment and I'm too lazy to search further but once upon a time, Brian Kerningham and Dennis Ritchie were working on UNIX. There was a misunderstanding of who was supposed to write a little routine and they both wrote it--identically, down to the character.
> Its funny, but its objective. They've avoided > anti-trust by giving a genuine ranked answer.
Google plays with their results too. Search for 'tilt' on a mobile and the resulting page is, yes, tilted a few degrees. If you search for 'anagram' it asks "Did you mean: nag a ram"
> Making sure you are listed accurately on Google will cover 95% of your > needs currently. Update the Place page, and if you sell products make > sure you're uploading a data feed of your inventory. Both are free and > generate tons of traffic to your website plus lots of in-store visits... > plain old Google search still generates 95% of the traffic versus 2% > from adwords.
So you're saying that good, useful, accurate information is more valuable than crappy ads? Wow, who woulda thought...
(Note: sarcasm is not directed at you - it's directed at the rest of the world. Thanks for your info.)
If only there was an article somewhere that described how they made the image...
The image certainly looks different than what we're used to seeing, and that's because the camera aboard the weather satellite combines data from three visible and one infrared wavelengths of light, a method that turns vegetation into the rust color that dominates the shot.
> I have no children and don't particularly want to pay to school any...
That's pretty short-sighted of you. Who do you want to perform surgery on you in 30 years? Even if you're in perfect health, would you rather your neighbors be educated and employed, or uneducated, unemployed, and prone to break into houses?
PS: Lots of people with no kids paid for your schooling...
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Now that we're up to about a dozen varieties of CSI, that'll be a lot of curious viewers' doors that get knocked on.
Pfft. I went to ROT52 years ago. We've got the horsepower these days--performance isn't a problem.
If I've told you once, I've told you a million times, DON'T EXAGGERATE!
Also, all extremists should be shot.
... just like every single malware site on the Web. BEWARE!
Fuck. Seriously. What will it take to get that sorry excuse for a news organization removed from existence? This shit is just so fucking wrong.
Pick two.
Plus, if you go with RIM today, you'll get to do all this again in a year or two after they're done imploding! Maybe you can volunteer to run their NOC!
I think it's a nice update to the look. (Also, text glows didn't exist back then, he's using the wrong font for the labels, etc etc etc. But I love the dither pattern behind the dock.) Believe me, Steve Jobs didn't want any of that stuff (visible pixels and such) in the 80s, he only took them because he had to. Steve Jobs waited 27 long years for glorious 300dpi rounded corners. I think the artist did pretty well.
-----sootman
also 30-something (late 30-something, sadly.)
I once had a copy of Win95 OEM SR2 that I installed so many times (at a 3-man used laptop place) that I memorized its key. Big timesaver, that. :-)
Once, I typed it in wrong (transposed several numbers, like '67019' instead of '61097') and it also worked.
One of the few times I've ever wished stock iOS were skinnable.
93M vs 95M is a 2% difference, and they're comparing what Apple SOLD to what Samsung SHIPPED. Combine that with Apple actually PROFITING almost 3x more than Samsung and I'll still mark that as "doing far better."
I first heard it about IBM.
> What's a "cloud-based world"?
Bespin?
> Honestly, wouldn't that be a legit Apple killer than
> enterprise shops would embrace en-masse?
No.
The thing is, to dethrone a king, you can't be "about as good as" or "as good as and slightly cheaper" or "10% better in some key ways" or even "15% better across the board." You have to be a LOT better--like a night-and-day different--to overcome all the inertia of a large installed base. The last time we saw that happen was in 2007.
Apple might not have the absolute world's best email client but pretty much every major company is happy with it (and all the other stuff it does) so someone else coming out with a whole new device that is slightly better in some ways is not going to gain any traction. Apple is so far ahead (in terms of overall quality, customer satisfaction, number and quality of apps, etc.) that I'm guessing it'll be literally 5-10 years (if ever) before they aren't in the lead.*
HP and BB both tried to displace Apple once and failed. They pulled out all the stops and each managed to create products that were roughly comparable to 1- or 2-year-old Apple products. No freaking way will those two be able to put their corporate heads together and produce, in 12-24 months, something substantially better than what Apple will be producing at the same time in the future.
Tying two anchors together does not result in something that floats.
* They may or may not be actually leading now in terms of raw units out there in the world, but a) they're doing far better than any single competitor in the smartphone arena, and b) they are taking the vast majority of the industry's profits -- about 3x their one and only really profitable competitor.
You beat me to it. What we need is a chart like this but for handhelds. Then, print it out, wrap it around a 2x4, and smack OEM presidents in the head with it until they quit making tiny screens better and start shipping a goddamn laptop screen at something better than 1366x768.
> My guess is that they are targeting the low-end of
> the market that has a high-end feature phone now
> but can't afford a traditional smartphone.
Both the iPhone 3GS and many Android phones are free, and the iPhone 4 and many, many more Androids are $99. I don't think it's the price of smartphones that's keeping people away, it's the mandatory $180/yr data plans.
... also known as "the love muscle."
One possible angle: If your ISP offers 512k, 1.5MB, and 3MB, and you signed up for 3MB, you can argue that it should be AT LEAST 1.5MB, because if not, what's the point in paying extra?
OTOH...
Pricing Terms and Conditions -> Service Description -> "... No minimum level of speed is guaranteed..."
Google for "<your ISP here> dsl minimum".
So lonely, people don't even bother to study it.
I can't find the reference at the moment and I'm too lazy to search further but once upon a time, Brian Kerningham and Dennis Ritchie were working on UNIX. There was a misunderstanding of who was supposed to write a little routine and they both wrote it--identically, down to the character.
> Its funny, but its objective. They've avoided
> anti-trust by giving a genuine ranked answer.
Google plays with their results too. Search for 'tilt' on a mobile and the resulting page is, yes, tilted a few degrees. If you search for 'anagram' it asks "Did you mean: nag a ram"
> Making sure you are listed accurately on Google will cover 95% of your
> needs currently. Update the Place page, and if you sell products make
> sure you're uploading a data feed of your inventory. Both are free and
> generate tons of traffic to your website plus lots of in-store visits...
> plain old Google search still generates 95% of the traffic versus 2%
> from adwords.
So you're saying that good, useful, accurate information is more valuable than crappy ads? Wow, who woulda thought...
(Note: sarcasm is not directed at you - it's directed at the rest of the world. Thanks for your info.)
Full disclosure: I like repeating things that I think sound cool, even if I'm not 100% clear on what they mean.
If only there was an article somewhere that described how they made the image...
The image certainly looks different than what we're used to seeing, and that's because the camera aboard the weather satellite combines data from three visible and one infrared wavelengths of light, a method that turns vegetation into the rust color that dominates the shot.
10. Quit whoring for pageviews with needlessly split up articles
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> I have no children and don't particularly want to pay to school any...
That's pretty short-sighted of you. Who do you want to perform surgery on you in 30 years? Even if you're in perfect health, would you rather your neighbors be educated and employed, or uneducated, unemployed, and prone to break into houses?
PS: Lots of people with no kids paid for your schooling...