I think a firesale of the playbook would be the best option. Sell it at a loss, think of it as an investment.
If enough people have enough of them in hand, the app ecosystem starts moving forward. Also relax the 'RIM is for serious people' attitude of the app ecosystem - if I want to upload a "fart app" let me. More apps means more interest.
Right I'm sure they bought apple laptops to uninstall the OS and install something else on them. For the sake of this (and above) discussion, 'apple laptops' mean laptops which are running iOS. I'm not talking about the physical laptop here.
When I say 'functional' I mean this - Macs are more expensive than windows/linux. When you pay that extra few hundred dollars - what are you getting in return? An operating system which can run less programs than windows, and which can run basically the same thing linux can (with some notable exceptions which I'm positive won't come up in a classroom). So basically you're paying that extra dollar for less (compared with windows), or that extra extra dollar for some very particular software.
Most commercial software is sadly designed for Windows, so if you want to run a particular educational piece of software, you won't be able to get that to run = less functional. If you just need the kiddies to use a word processor and browse the web to do research or whatever - then you can get along very well with going linux which will be much more cheaper.
If it was an Android tablet I probably wouldn't have drawn the link. Though I'd still think it was stupid to give it to kindergartners.
Well here's the thing. Apple make shiny and attractive products. However (especially their laptops) aren't as functional.
To explain - you can pay less money for a windows machine which will do much more - or you can pay even less money for a Linux machine and get free educational software and pretty much anything you need. Unless you're teaching the kids advanced Photoshop or sound-manipulation techiniques, there is no reason whatsoever to prefer Apple (except for how pretty they look). The fact that they're more expensive is another red flag. If they went for a 'all linux', they could still teach the kiddies with the same effectivness, but at a fraction of the price.
This same district handed out apple laptops to their older students in the past. So this isn't really a case of "What are they thinking" as it is a case of corporate branding being imprinted on fresh young minds. Sure at face value you'd say "Sure its an iPad, its the most popular tablet so that's fine. Instead of going with a tablet, they went with an iPad" - but the other event makes it clear who's really pulling the strings.
Which I can touch and has applications on it. I sure won't be distracted and end up playing with it instead of paying attention in class.
Also, they're Kindergardners... What a waste of money and effort. Kids in their age shouldn't be allowed near easy-to-drop devices. They should be outside playing instead.
Right and all of them were going to buy the song if they couldn't get it online of course. And all of them are going to download it from this gentleman.
Also they seem to still be doing well for themselves, even with all this 'rampant piracy', I don't see them dying of hunger anywhere. Buskers and volunteers right.
You have to pay for the sports car (of course) You also have to pay for the potential fuel that the driver was going to use - because you destroyed the sports car, the petrol companies lost 'potential income' which the driver would have used according to their calculations based on a random number generator with a bias towards greed.
I'm applying the same logic as this case has. Seems to work.
No, my argument is that 'causing confusion among buyers' is a bit silly if you're putting your name and brand and OS on it. We're not talking about selling an iiPad.
I realise that people try to cheat with apple clones or whatever, but this is not the case. The packaging clearly shows that you're not buying an Ipad.
Yeah, I mean when buying an expensive device you don't check whether the box has "Samsung" or "Apple" on it, you don't check what OS the device runs or anything of that sort, you just pick it up at random and then realise you made a mistake. Whoops.
They're both rounded rectangles. You see Apple invented the rounded rectangle. If you find any textbooks which say otherwise, please return them to the Ministry of Information for corrections.
Was more thinking of a program when asked to shutdown (not sure how windows works, but I assume there's a sigterm of some sort), writing the executable code into the file so it boots up on next load.
I'd say that'll be the next step. The EU already tried something like that in the past - and now there's no excuse that its "Too difficult to do" or "Users don't want it".
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I think a firesale of the playbook would be the best option. Sell it at a loss, think of it as an investment.
If enough people have enough of them in hand, the app ecosystem starts moving forward. Also relax the 'RIM is for serious people' attitude of the app ecosystem - if I want to upload a "fart app" let me. More apps means more interest.
Right I'm sure they bought apple laptops to uninstall the OS and install something else on them. For the sake of this (and above) discussion, 'apple laptops' mean laptops which are running iOS. I'm not talking about the physical laptop here.
When I say 'functional' I mean this - Macs are more expensive than windows/linux. When you pay that extra few hundred dollars - what are you getting in return? An operating system which can run less programs than windows, and which can run basically the same thing linux can (with some notable exceptions which I'm positive won't come up in a classroom). So basically you're paying that extra dollar for less (compared with windows), or that extra extra dollar for some very particular software.
Most commercial software is sadly designed for Windows, so if you want to run a particular educational piece of software, you won't be able to get that to run = less functional. If you just need the kiddies to use a word processor and browse the web to do research or whatever - then you can get along very well with going linux which will be much more cheaper.
If it was an Android tablet I probably wouldn't have drawn the link. Though I'd still think it was stupid to give it to kindergartners.
Well here's the thing. Apple make shiny and attractive products. However (especially their laptops) aren't as functional.
To explain - you can pay less money for a windows machine which will do much more - or you can pay even less money for a Linux machine and get free educational software and pretty much anything you need. Unless you're teaching the kids advanced Photoshop or sound-manipulation techiniques, there is no reason whatsoever to prefer Apple (except for how pretty they look). The fact that they're more expensive is another red flag. If they went for a 'all linux', they could still teach the kiddies with the same effectivness, but at a fraction of the price.
Just realised something.
This same district handed out apple laptops to their older students in the past. So this isn't really a case of "What are they thinking" as it is a case of corporate branding being imprinted on fresh young minds. Sure at face value you'd say "Sure its an iPad, its the most popular tablet so that's fine. Instead of going with a tablet, they went with an iPad" - but the other event makes it clear who's really pulling the strings.
Come kids, join the iChurch of Apple.
Which I can touch and has applications on it. I sure won't be distracted and end up playing with it instead of paying attention in class.
Also, they're Kindergardners... What a waste of money and effort. Kids in their age shouldn't be allowed near easy-to-drop devices. They should be outside playing instead.
Right and all of them were going to buy the song if they couldn't get it online of course. And all of them are going to download it from this gentleman.
Also they seem to still be doing well for themselves, even with all this 'rampant piracy', I don't see them dying of hunger anywhere. Buskers and volunteers right.
Well lets see.
You have to pay for the sports car (of course)
You also have to pay for the potential fuel that the driver was going to use - because you destroyed the sports car, the petrol companies lost 'potential income' which the driver would have used according to their calculations based on a random number generator with a bias towards greed.
I'm applying the same logic as this case has. Seems to work.
What goes into these people's heads.
"Hmm yeah he put some songs up for download, that's 22,500 dollars each."
Maybe he hit a pair of extra zeros when he was typing out the verdict.
Surely he didn't prevent 22,500 people from paying a dollar for the song.
I'm going to be too dead to care probably
Could my family sue NASA for damages caused by negligance?
No, my argument is that 'causing confusion among buyers' is a bit silly if you're putting your name and brand and OS on it. We're not talking about selling an iiPad.
I realise that people try to cheat with apple clones or whatever, but this is not the case. The packaging clearly shows that you're not buying an Ipad.
Yeah, I mean when buying an expensive device you don't check whether the box has "Samsung" or "Apple" on it, you don't check what OS the device runs or anything of that sort, you just pick it up at random and then realise you made a mistake. Whoops.
Care to toss me a link to an article listing these very specific features?
I am still trying to work out what happened in the actual court.
"I think these two pictures look the same"
"Yeah, I think so too"
"Agreed?"
"Court is adjourned"
Surely you hardly need more than a few minutes.
Its a ROUNDED rectangle.
I wrote the innovation in allcaps so you wouldn't miss it.
They're both rounded rectangles. You see Apple invented the rounded rectangle. If you find any textbooks which say otherwise, please return them to the Ministry of Information for corrections.
My monitor could be prior art. Its a rectangle with rounded edges so I don't cut my hand against the edge when closing the laptop lid.
", it has banned Samsung Germany from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 anywhere in Europe"
I think its just Samsung Germany, other importers/whatever from Europe can still sell it.
Driving innovation in the field of shapes forward.
Which part of "unlimited messaging plan" did you fail to comprehend?
The same part of unlimited internet having a cap.
Was more thinking of a program when asked to shutdown (not sure how windows works, but I assume there's a sigterm of some sort), writing the executable code into the file so it boots up on next load.
Didn't think about that. The hibernate file doesn't have any special permissions or encryptions or something does it?
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I'd say that'll be the next step. The EU already tried something like that in the past - and now there's no excuse that its "Too difficult to do" or "Users don't want it".
The EU already tried something like that. This could work in tandem.
https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215843/Europe_moves_to_give_consumers_control_of_online_ads