Or apple is too big to kill with something like that, and you'll bring more bad publicity to yourself. But microsoft/BB they have a chance of crushing before they get any meaningful marketshare.
When the advertising companies have enough data on you they can geniunly get you to buy something that you wouldn't of otherwise (maybe your a hard target audience at the moment, but many other demographics arn't). The Rc plane was a happy coincidece (i'm currious what model you bought becuase i'm an avid piolt my self (many rc air vehicles and flying leasons), and google has tried to get me to buy plenty of rc stuff; ussally not as good as what i find myself). But google is just getting rolling here immiagine what they will be able to do in 10 years.
You have some valid points, however i still think if the iphone hadn't of included multi capacitive touch (a cutting edge feature at the time, maybe seen on one or two devices previously) it wouldn't of been anywhere near as successful as it was. If they had used the ipod scroll wheel, resistive touch screen (like my old pocketpc), or buttons; then the phone could have been the same quality, but would lack the premium feel.
Different countries have different ideas about premium though. If you look at American cars they concentrated on bigger engines and nicer seats, whereas Europe focused on suspension, weight placement and drive systems. If you asked either continent whether they made premium cars, both would say yes; personally i think the European cars are a bit more premium, mostly due to the extra tech (but that's just my opinion).
I think you confusing feature list being promently displayed, with inculding state of the art features. If your trying to tell me mercedies don't include lots of features only seen in other cars a decade latter, then i'm going to have to out right disagree with you.
You know when i was a kid phones all had 13 buttons on the front and you could only play snake. If it wasn't for including new features apple would of never of got a foot hold in the phone market. Considering features pointless is a very naive view of the manufactured world. I'm not saying putting in features for the hell of it make a good product, but leaving out good features the competition has is a recipe for loosing customers.
As i've said before i'm not a samsung fan, but even though their phones are placticy pieces of shit, stuff like widgets and sd card slots are making it pull way above it's weight.
I'm not really sure what your examples are trying to prove here. The Association with f1 just means they have cutting edge technology, along with all their testing systems. Golf is just about knowing the target audience. Then if you open a tab about a production car (not a concept car that isn't being sold) http://news.mercedes-benz.co.uk/products/the-a-45-amg-the-new-star-from-mercedes-amg.html you will see they dive straight into juicy details (full to the brim from the 2nd to 6th paragraph). I'm no samsung fan here, but be careful what you say, because I've seen a plenty of android/samsung things eventually make their way to ios, and i bet your about to see more. To me premium is about being at the top of your profession and that includes features which enhance your use (I've never said anything about features for features sake). Are you seriously saying that apple is being all apple can be at the moment? that your little phone is at the top of what current hardware and software can put together? Because if you are, i think you have to hand in your geek card.
Ok then MLB and starbucks, still hardly the kind of success people were expecting from apple. And no i wont accept an Appleinsider claim; that mob will say anything to try and keep people from selling their shares (not that it's all that impressive any way). Apple is a long way from going bust yet and i'm pretty sure they have a few tricks up their sleeves, it just seems a little stagnant at the moment.
That's funny i just read an article about passbook, and it was saying no one uses it except maybe starbucks. NFC is for more than just payments (which i think is a pretty poor use of the technology, that google is only pushing to get more consumer data and control another aspect of life). Nokia for example have built it into the software so that when you place it down on the wireless charging pad/stereo nfc tells it how to behave (turn on music, start charging, ect). You don't want to walk around all day with bluetooth or wifi on, but nfc uses very little power. I see some very gimmicky features out there and i understand including those don't make something premium, but i'm not the only one that thinks apple is falling a bit behind by not doing more.
it will always be a part of it. If Mercedes didn't have fast and reliable engines that continually get better, or 6 and 7 speed gear boxes, and fancy hard top convertibles roofs; then the premium crowd would go else where. Sure you would have some people buy it just for the name and the quality of leather stitching but you wouldn't even get half the customers your getting now.
For apple to stay premium they need to stay ahead of the curve with features, and that's what has people scared. Has apple got what it takes to stay relevant, or are they going to keep trying to push a page of program shortcuts.
How do you know humans aren't deterministic? The program we are running would obviously be very very complex but how do you know we aren't just replying to inputs with learnt reactions and approximations for outputs.
Google's version of a hud is dorky, but the tech can easily be made to look cool and be natural. Just make them look like normal glasses. I hate to say it (because i some what despise them), but apple will bring out a nicer looking version that will fit in.
And that would be fine if all police officers joined up to help and serve the public; But how many of them join because they think that's where the action is? I've seen plenty of cops (ex football jocks) that just want to get their smash on, and they don't particularly care if it's got anything to do with justice. If you add an always on and cloud connected camera to police your going to lower police brutality. Also you will be able to eliminate it (if that's what you actually want) because at the moment no cop will put in a complaint about another cop, because of the backlash from all the crazy cops.
Just because you know the answer instantly, doesn't mean you change who you fundamentally are. We have come a long way from hunter gatherer tribes, but you can still see it in us; when we make kills in video games it triggers the small adrenalin and dopamine release that we got when we made hunting in cave men times, and so on. Another thing that i think comes naturally in us and why we are here today is exploration (both knowledge and physical), and that wont change any time soon. I don't know why the aliens that are visiting us evolved, they might have no values.
it's 1000 miles till the aluminium anode has disolved in the water. That mixutre can then be turned back into anodes with the right equipment, or you can put some new plates of aluminium in. It's better than petrol (higher power density and it's not like you can get petrol back at the end of a trip) and it can concivably be made it renewable.
- Be able to decide where applications open (whether they are opened in metro or desktop)
- Embrace Linux, be the OS the manages the other OSs.
- Better voice recognition, kinect, and AI elements (processing must be done locally).
- Incorporate more virtualization into the delux (whatever it's called) package for quick sandboxed activity.
- Personal cloud (maybe in the xbox, no one actually likes the idea of giving their data away).
- Also get nokia to make a windows pro phone (full OS, it's not for everyone but it'll shut up the geeks) and an Xbox phone and tablet (possibly done similar to the nexus line with multiple manufactures).
you also can't be sure you will get 16 ounces of meat. The bitcoin is volitile, but is any more than the german mark after the war, or the zimbabwe dollar now (i have a trillion dollar note from them)?
I'm calling bullshit mate, citation needed. I believe a lot of comments on/. are funded by advocacy but 50% seems ridiculous and claiming 2/3 of that being Microsoft is even more laughable. If you can find a microsoft story with over 1/3 of the comments praising Microsoft i'll eat my foot (and that's assuming only people who get paid by mircosoft would comment positively for them, which is at least wrong for me). Besides you still haven't explained why all these employees have never submitted any of the good stuff MS has done, all we hear about is how windows 8 is going to cause the rapture.
I don't think microsoft has that much of a presence on/. (at least not since i started reading). Heaps of stories where microsoft does something cool (voice to voice translation, at new accuracy records, and in real time) never even see the firehose. Occasionally i see something quite shill like from them (often at the top of a page and quite extensive and well worded), but i see that from other companies as well. Not all of/. hate them, personally they have let me do some pretty cool shit with computers ever since i was a kid, and i don't think I've ever given them any money (and they defiantly haven't paid me any).
Fuck still being tied to a smartphone. I know the battery is an issue, but any smart watch/narrow flexible screen that can be wrapped around a wrist i ever buy will be a phone as well.
I'm not really an apple guy, but didn't the ipad 3 bring a lot of other advantages to the table (better screen, battery, processor or something) that could be clouding the response, also you have a lot of people that would buy what ever apple offers them. Look up a few reviews about the 920 and you'll see that thickness is on all of their negative lists. With a case on the iphone it's not only the chassis, with a case on it would go the back of the case, then the back of the phone, then the chassis, then the front glass, then the front of the case; compared to just the back of the phone, then the chassis, then the front glass. I'm not concerned at all about a few mm of thickness, hell i'm still using my old nexus s which is thicker than all the phones and tablets mentioned, I'm just saying the case option is going to end up thicker. Hopefully the big guys will hurry up with the flexible phones, then we can have the best of both worlds.
Are you just trolling me now? Firstly the ipad3 is almost as far away from a tough phone as you can get (I'm talking nokia, sony, motorola. The nokia 920 was run over by a car and you could hardly tell). Secondly if you start with something weak (even if it is thin) and try and wrap it in stuff to make it strong, it almost always has to be thicker than something that was strong to begin with (unless you got some kind of super material or tardis technology), because the strong one is missing all the extra weak things. It's like saying i have this plastic i want to strengthen so i'm going to wrap it in steel, then wondering why it's thicker than steel on it's own. For the iPhone example it would essentially have two cases on it (it's normal glass one and what ever else you are wrapping it in to give it strength); where as something like the nokia would just have one case (it's own skin), that is a bit thicker than the iphone on it's own, but unless the iphone case is very very thin (which makes it hard to be strong) the iphone case combo will be thicker.
Them is the public voice, it's obviously not all the public because a few people love their tough phones, but if you have a look at the comments about these phones from the broader community you will see what i mean.
If you put a case over it, it's either going to be weaker than the tough phones or a lot thicker and heavier; it's much easier to strengthen the phone by having a strong chassis and not easily breakable materials from the start, rather than trying to add that function in later via a shell. But every man to their own.
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Or apple is too big to kill with something like that, and you'll bring more bad publicity to yourself. But microsoft/BB they have a chance of crushing before they get any meaningful marketshare.
When the advertising companies have enough data on you they can geniunly get you to buy something that you wouldn't of otherwise (maybe your a hard target audience at the moment, but many other demographics arn't). The Rc plane was a happy coincidece (i'm currious what model you bought becuase i'm an avid piolt my self (many rc air vehicles and flying leasons), and google has tried to get me to buy plenty of rc stuff; ussally not as good as what i find myself). But google is just getting rolling here immiagine what they will be able to do in 10 years.
You have some valid points, however i still think if the iphone hadn't of included multi capacitive touch (a cutting edge feature at the time, maybe seen on one or two devices previously) it wouldn't of been anywhere near as successful as it was. If they had used the ipod scroll wheel, resistive touch screen (like my old pocketpc), or buttons; then the phone could have been the same quality, but would lack the premium feel.
Different countries have different ideas about premium though. If you look at American cars they concentrated on bigger engines and nicer seats, whereas Europe focused on suspension, weight placement and drive systems. If you asked either continent whether they made premium cars, both would say yes; personally i think the European cars are a bit more premium, mostly due to the extra tech (but that's just my opinion).
I think you confusing feature list being promently displayed, with inculding state of the art features. If your trying to tell me mercedies don't include lots of features only seen in other cars a decade latter, then i'm going to have to out right disagree with you. You know when i was a kid phones all had 13 buttons on the front and you could only play snake. If it wasn't for including new features apple would of never of got a foot hold in the phone market. Considering features pointless is a very naive view of the manufactured world. I'm not saying putting in features for the hell of it make a good product, but leaving out good features the competition has is a recipe for loosing customers. As i've said before i'm not a samsung fan, but even though their phones are placticy pieces of shit, stuff like widgets and sd card slots are making it pull way above it's weight.
I'm not really sure what your examples are trying to prove here. The Association with f1 just means they have cutting edge technology, along with all their testing systems. Golf is just about knowing the target audience. Then if you open a tab about a production car (not a concept car that isn't being sold) http://news.mercedes-benz.co.uk/products/the-a-45-amg-the-new-star-from-mercedes-amg.html you will see they dive straight into juicy details (full to the brim from the 2nd to 6th paragraph). I'm no samsung fan here, but be careful what you say, because I've seen a plenty of android/samsung things eventually make their way to ios, and i bet your about to see more. To me premium is about being at the top of your profession and that includes features which enhance your use (I've never said anything about features for features sake). Are you seriously saying that apple is being all apple can be at the moment? that your little phone is at the top of what current hardware and software can put together? Because if you are, i think you have to hand in your geek card.
Ok then MLB and starbucks, still hardly the kind of success people were expecting from apple. And no i wont accept an Appleinsider claim; that mob will say anything to try and keep people from selling their shares (not that it's all that impressive any way). Apple is a long way from going bust yet and i'm pretty sure they have a few tricks up their sleeves, it just seems a little stagnant at the moment.
That's funny i just read an article about passbook, and it was saying no one uses it except maybe starbucks. NFC is for more than just payments (which i think is a pretty poor use of the technology, that google is only pushing to get more consumer data and control another aspect of life). Nokia for example have built it into the software so that when you place it down on the wireless charging pad/stereo nfc tells it how to behave (turn on music, start charging, ect). You don't want to walk around all day with bluetooth or wifi on, but nfc uses very little power. I see some very gimmicky features out there and i understand including those don't make something premium, but i'm not the only one that thinks apple is falling a bit behind by not doing more.
it will always be a part of it. If Mercedes didn't have fast and reliable engines that continually get better, or 6 and 7 speed gear boxes, and fancy hard top convertibles roofs; then the premium crowd would go else where. Sure you would have some people buy it just for the name and the quality of leather stitching but you wouldn't even get half the customers your getting now.
For apple to stay premium they need to stay ahead of the curve with features, and that's what has people scared. Has apple got what it takes to stay relevant, or are they going to keep trying to push a page of program shortcuts.
How do you know humans aren't deterministic? The program we are running would obviously be very very complex but how do you know we aren't just replying to inputs with learnt reactions and approximations for outputs.
Google's version of a hud is dorky, but the tech can easily be made to look cool and be natural. Just make them look like normal glasses. I hate to say it (because i some what despise them), but apple will bring out a nicer looking version that will fit in.
They can take it off, or turn it off all they want as long as no arrests are made in the toilet.
And that would be fine if all police officers joined up to help and serve the public; But how many of them join because they think that's where the action is? I've seen plenty of cops (ex football jocks) that just want to get their smash on, and they don't particularly care if it's got anything to do with justice. If you add an always on and cloud connected camera to police your going to lower police brutality. Also you will be able to eliminate it (if that's what you actually want) because at the moment no cop will put in a complaint about another cop, because of the backlash from all the crazy cops.
Just because you know the answer instantly, doesn't mean you change who you fundamentally are. We have come a long way from hunter gatherer tribes, but you can still see it in us; when we make kills in video games it triggers the small adrenalin and dopamine release that we got when we made hunting in cave men times, and so on. Another thing that i think comes naturally in us and why we are here today is exploration (both knowledge and physical), and that wont change any time soon. I don't know why the aliens that are visiting us evolved, they might have no values.
No, google glass is like some motorised unicycle or something. I love the idea of a glasses hud system, i just think goggles answer is awful.
it's 1000 miles till the aluminium anode has disolved in the water. That mixutre can then be turned back into anodes with the right equipment, or you can put some new plates of aluminium in. It's better than petrol (higher power density and it's not like you can get petrol back at the end of a trip) and it can concivably be made it renewable.
and it's hardly the same as Steven Sinofsky leaving, because he was basically kicked out after windows 8.
i'd like to add to that
- Be able to decide where applications open (whether they are opened in metro or desktop)
- Embrace Linux, be the OS the manages the other OSs.
- Better voice recognition, kinect, and AI elements (processing must be done locally).
- Incorporate more virtualization into the delux (whatever it's called) package for quick sandboxed activity.
- Personal cloud (maybe in the xbox, no one actually likes the idea of giving their data away).
- Also get nokia to make a windows pro phone (full OS, it's not for everyone but it'll shut up the geeks) and an Xbox phone and tablet (possibly done similar to the nexus line with multiple manufactures).
- And make those 3d hud glasses for the xbox.
you also can't be sure you will get 16 ounces of meat. The bitcoin is volitile, but is any more than the german mark after the war, or the zimbabwe dollar now (i have a trillion dollar note from them)?
I'm calling bullshit mate, citation needed. I believe a lot of comments on /. are funded by advocacy but 50% seems ridiculous and claiming 2/3 of that being Microsoft is even more laughable. If you can find a microsoft story with over 1/3 of the comments praising Microsoft i'll eat my foot (and that's assuming only people who get paid by mircosoft would comment positively for them, which is at least wrong for me). Besides you still haven't explained why all these employees have never submitted any of the good stuff MS has done, all we hear about is how windows 8 is going to cause the rapture.
I don't think microsoft has that much of a presence on /. (at least not since i started reading). Heaps of stories where microsoft does something cool (voice to voice translation, at new accuracy records, and in real time) never even see the firehose. Occasionally i see something quite shill like from them (often at the top of a page and quite extensive and well worded), but i see that from other companies as well. Not all of /. hate them, personally they have let me do some pretty cool shit with computers ever since i was a kid, and i don't think I've ever given them any money (and they defiantly haven't paid me any).
Fuck still being tied to a smartphone. I know the battery is an issue, but any smart watch/narrow flexible screen that can be wrapped around a wrist i ever buy will be a phone as well.
I'm not really an apple guy, but didn't the ipad 3 bring a lot of other advantages to the table (better screen, battery, processor or something) that could be clouding the response, also you have a lot of people that would buy what ever apple offers them. Look up a few reviews about the 920 and you'll see that thickness is on all of their negative lists. With a case on the iphone it's not only the chassis, with a case on it would go the back of the case, then the back of the phone, then the chassis, then the front glass, then the front of the case; compared to just the back of the phone, then the chassis, then the front glass. I'm not concerned at all about a few mm of thickness, hell i'm still using my old nexus s which is thicker than all the phones and tablets mentioned, I'm just saying the case option is going to end up thicker. Hopefully the big guys will hurry up with the flexible phones, then we can have the best of both worlds.
Are you just trolling me now? Firstly the ipad3 is almost as far away from a tough phone as you can get (I'm talking nokia, sony, motorola. The nokia 920 was run over by a car and you could hardly tell). Secondly if you start with something weak (even if it is thin) and try and wrap it in stuff to make it strong, it almost always has to be thicker than something that was strong to begin with (unless you got some kind of super material or tardis technology), because the strong one is missing all the extra weak things. It's like saying i have this plastic i want to strengthen so i'm going to wrap it in steel, then wondering why it's thicker than steel on it's own. For the iPhone example it would essentially have two cases on it (it's normal glass one and what ever else you are wrapping it in to give it strength); where as something like the nokia would just have one case (it's own skin), that is a bit thicker than the iphone on it's own, but unless the iphone case is very very thin (which makes it hard to be strong) the iphone case combo will be thicker.
Them is the public voice, it's obviously not all the public because a few people love their tough phones, but if you have a look at the comments about these phones from the broader community you will see what i mean.
If you put a case over it, it's either going to be weaker than the tough phones or a lot thicker and heavier; it's much easier to strengthen the phone by having a strong chassis and not easily breakable materials from the start, rather than trying to add that function in later via a shell. But every man to their own.