Mojave showed that if people were to use the OS for a short period they would like it.
I bet that is how they came up with Vista anyway.
An OS designed by short focus groups finds a short focus group likes it. This isn't shocking to me at all.
Note: this post is all speculation, hav't watched the videos.
I find Vista (have it on one computer at work) similar to Linux (which is my OS of choice) in speed, but none of the ease of software acquisition and updates.
When I say similar to Linux in speed, I mean my right clicks take about a half second to pop-up a menu. The start button can take a second to load up (even more, this is similar to KDE4, gnome loads quickly, then loads the icons and all the links move, PITA).
Of course it is on a far newer computer too (core 2 duo, vs 3500+)
Linux has a lot of other benefits, but interface speed is not one of them (until now).
Maybe he/she was referring to the merchant fees (the part that actually goes to VISA). These are (for me) $0.50 transaction and 2% of gross.
Don't worry though, it's the customers, credit cards or no, that pay these fees in the end. SInce profits are low enough and it is a competitive business, without the fees, prices would be lower.
Easy clear licensing that lets you do as you please was a major innovation for software.
I feel bad for people (myself included, so maybe more of a self pitty) that need to waste time and effort on managing licenses. And then when something breaks, the re-install is a huge pain in the ass.
What really hurt computer is you couldn't buy them, even as they advertised them to you.
I thought the better one was a pretty good deal, and it's picture based note taking appealed to me (more than handwriting recognition). As a goofy American doing there job (or whatever it said on their website) I wanted one. I contacted them, and there was no response. Not even a "We only sell in bulk". Not shocking that not many were sold.
Every app I install is a wizard, with few exceptions.
perhaps smaller apps don't have wizards (guitar, or cyberduck come to mind), but even unstuff, a fairly small and purely OS X app has one.
All of Creative suite has installers (those would be ports TO windows if I am not mistaken). Quark Xpress, Font Agent Pro.
All the unixy port stuff (well it's package files). I can't think of any commercial apps that don't have an install wizard, or a first run wizard that is the same, only more annoying because it catches you later.
So price ratios were probably set at a different time than then, but it certainly shows that the entire difference could be falling USD.
People are used to paying xEUR and it's not like their pay is dropping.
It is the power of artificial monopoly (copyright) and real monopoly (MS at least in the past) at play. Prices will never fall.
If MS can compete with a free pretty good clone (OO.o) than price is pretty much irrelevant.
Adobe has essentially no competition at all for their creative suite. Due to artificial monopoly (patents and copyright) and arguably at this point a monopoly in some aspects of what they do.
I wonder if they leveraged too much? I personally think it has a lot to do with strait up out-competing though.
Probably a little bit of that, a little bit of benificial up-rounding, and a lot of not adjusting prices down as the dollar falls (I bet the EUR prices were set when the USD was worth more than EUR, and not adjusted since.
If this report makes it any harder to login to my account I am going to have to find the publishers, and beat them.
My current bank forced me to select 6 questions, many of which there were no choices I knew the answer to, but that someone stealing my identity could find.
When one of these comes up that I can't answer I call the customer service, and am verified by my mothers maiden name. Defeating the purpose of all the questions anyway.
Also, my user-name is not a password, don't make me change it to one.
They should have told people with LTS it is best to wait prior to using it. Your old LTS has years of support left, take a breather and wait 3 months.
They also should have allowed for major updates to the LTS with a procedure. That way Beta Firefox didn't need to be included, just to make sure Firefox 2 wasn't the browser 3 years out.
This strict no-upgrade policy made doing a stable LTS hard, because they wanted it to last (current bleeding edge), which was contrary to stability.
There was similar trouble with KDE3/KDE4, but that one makes sense not to upgrade mid-LTS.
What hopefully the take-away is (without too much damage to reputation): LTS is going to have a lot of bleeding edge early on. If you picked LTS for stability previously, wait 3 months to upgrade.
It would have been nice to not have had to follow (use) the alpha, and beta to know this though.
Well, he successfully managed to turn tax dollars into $.50 or so when he ran the Rangers.
But successfully suckling government teat is a skill that bolstered the franchise. Unfortunately for him there was no world government teat to suck, or perhaps invading Iraq for oil could have paid off.
I think most thought it was more likely than not that he did it. Just that there were reasonable alternative theories (ran away to frame him, insane best friend that claims to have murdered people still alive are 2 that I can think of).
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Thank him for the money savings, in purchase price, fuel, and repair cost?
Mojave showed that if people were to use the OS for a short period they would like it.
I bet that is how they came up with Vista anyway.
An OS designed by short focus groups finds a short focus group likes it. This isn't shocking to me at all.
Note: this post is all speculation, hav't watched the videos.
I find Vista (have it on one computer at work) similar to Linux (which is my OS of choice) in speed, but none of the ease of software acquisition and updates.
When I say similar to Linux in speed, I mean my right clicks take about a half second to pop-up a menu. The start button can take a second to load up (even more, this is similar to KDE4, gnome loads quickly, then loads the icons and all the links move, PITA).
Of course it is on a far newer computer too (core 2 duo, vs 3500+)
Linux has a lot of other benefits, but interface speed is not one of them (until now).
yeah, but if you are not cool, people will be able to tell you are simply a dweeb. Even if you have cool stuff.
I am not a snob, and am aware that price != quality.
But I have found that going for a $20.00 payless shoe is not the best way to keep feet that don't smell like dead rodents.
Generally shoes that are 40-60 at marshalls (use cash) can hit the price/quality sweet spot far better than really really cheap junky shoes.
but it probably can't buy you cool.
Maybe he/she was referring to the merchant fees (the part that actually goes to VISA). These are (for me) $0.50 transaction and 2% of gross.
Don't worry though, it's the customers, credit cards or no, that pay these fees in the end. SInce profits are low enough and it is a competitive business, without the fees, prices would be lower.
Do you mean ballroom dancing?
Because that is included.
Or is professional dancing something like stripping?
Easy clear licensing that lets you do as you please was a major innovation for software.
I feel bad for people (myself included, so maybe more of a self pitty) that need to waste time and effort on managing licenses. And then when something breaks, the re-install is a huge pain in the ass.
FOSS took all of that away.
What really hurt computer is you couldn't buy them, even as they advertised them to you.
I thought the better one was a pretty good deal, and it's picture based note taking appealed to me (more than handwriting recognition). As a goofy American doing there job (or whatever it said on their website) I wanted one. I contacted them, and there was no response. Not even a "We only sell in bulk". Not shocking that not many were sold.
Where have you been on the OSX install?
Every app I install is a wizard, with few exceptions.
perhaps smaller apps don't have wizards (guitar, or cyberduck come to mind), but even unstuff, a fairly small and purely OS X app has one.
All of Creative suite has installers (those would be ports TO windows if I am not mistaken). Quark Xpress, Font Agent Pro.
All the unixy port stuff (well it's package files). I can't think of any commercial apps that don't have an install wizard, or a first run wizard that is the same, only more annoying because it catches you later.
If theat was the number used:
(299 * 1.25) EUR in USD = 586.60
So price ratios were probably set at a different time than then, but it certainly shows that the entire difference could be falling USD.
People are used to paying xEUR and it's not like their pay is dropping.
It is the power of artificial monopoly (copyright) and real monopoly (MS at least in the past) at play. Prices will never fall.
If MS can compete with a free pretty good clone (OO.o) than price is pretty much irrelevant.
Adobe has essentially no competition at all for their creative suite. Due to artificial monopoly (patents and copyright) and arguably at this point a monopoly in some aspects of what they do.
I wonder if they leveraged too much? I personally think it has a lot to do with strait up out-competing though.
Probably a little bit of that, a little bit of benificial up-rounding, and a lot of not adjusting prices down as the dollar falls (I bet the EUR prices were set when the USD was worth more than EUR, and not adjusted since.
I will say this much.
When I discovered hulu.com my common interests with other boneless fans (shared at alt.binaries.boneless) went way done.
I don't know about the practicality, but I read a tutorial of running all of your sound (In Linux) through Jackd.
You could then run your applications through the jack rack and tweak it however you wanted.
Except the most recent one required me to use a different answer to each question.
So I have 6 questions, plus a username that is a strongish password, and 6 other strong passwords, and another strong password.
And the username is different at every bank.
Of course, now that I can't login I call the bank, use mothers maiden/current name and social and they get me in.
It is total BS.
If this report makes it any harder to login to my account I am going to have to find the publishers, and beat them.
My current bank forced me to select 6 questions, many of which there were no choices I knew the answer to, but that someone stealing my identity could find.
When one of these comes up that I can't answer I call the customer service, and am verified by my mothers maiden name. Defeating the purpose of all the questions anyway.
Also, my user-name is not a password, don't make me change it to one.
I think they made a mistake in 2 things.
their communication, and their rules.
They should have told people with LTS it is best to wait prior to using it. Your old LTS has years of support left, take a breather and wait 3 months.
They also should have allowed for major updates to the LTS with a procedure. That way Beta Firefox didn't need to be included, just to make sure Firefox 2 wasn't the browser 3 years out.
This strict no-upgrade policy made doing a stable LTS hard, because they wanted it to last (current bleeding edge), which was contrary to stability.
There was similar trouble with KDE3/KDE4, but that one makes sense not to upgrade mid-LTS.
What hopefully the take-away is (without too much damage to reputation):
LTS is going to have a lot of bleeding edge early on. If you picked LTS for stability previously, wait 3 months to upgrade.
It would have been nice to not have had to follow (use) the alpha, and beta to know this though.
Havn't past attempts to go to gold standard done some bad stuff to the economy too?
Well, he successfully managed to turn tax dollars into $.50 or so when he ran the Rangers.
But successfully suckling government teat is a skill that bolstered the franchise. Unfortunately for him there was no world government teat to suck, or perhaps invading Iraq for oil could have paid off.
The CEO personally getting involved is more suspicious to me.
I mean Deibold is a fairly large company, why is the CEO applying patches to products in person?
And how often does he do this?
Because companies want good CEOs.
Imagine you are an excellent CEO, and are offered 2 contracts.
In one you are guaranteed 10 Million a year, in another you may make 20, but have it all taken away due to the economy.
Not only to shareholders not care, stocks go up when these huge deals are cut, because shareholders want a good CEO.
When they find out later it was a bad fit they do the same again.
We are also funding many of those we fear by using traditional power methods instead.
All the "scary" middle eastern nations become "scarier" when oil is expensive.
No longer do we hold power over there economy with sanctions, because oil being important, and somewhat scarce will always have buyers.
Yes, if something like the HIV was fast tracked and massively deployed things would of been much better.
Have you sued the folder view?
I find it lacking.
I can't remember where, I'll follow up if someone cares, but I bet it either had to do with right click, or drag select.
I wish it acted more like a file management window, allowing for a toolbar (to change view type), and scroll bars if it over fills.
Wasn't it more a matter of reasonable doubt?
I think most thought it was more likely than not that he did it. Just that there were reasonable alternative theories (ran away to frame him, insane best friend that claims to have murdered people still alive are 2 that I can think of).