That article has iOS (Apple Inc.'s iPhone) — 26.9 million units, 14.9 percent share (13.8 percent a year earlier). Which means they are gaining share and growing faster than the industry.
Your claim was that Apple was growing more slowly than the industry in the USA. Apple is gaining share, ergo it is growing faster. Not only is it growing faster it is growing much faster than Android. Those numbers don't agree with you.
I agree with summation. That's very different from GP's claim about OSX ripping off FreeBSD.
Looking at the Family Tree BDS 4.3 begot NeXTStep, Tahoe and System VR4 Tahoe begot Reno Reno befot BSD Net BSD Net begot 386BSD 386BSD begot FreeBSD 1.0
NeXTStep and FreeBSD 2.2 begot OSX Server OSX Server begot and FreeBSD 3.0 OSX Desktop.
I don't agree with "legal trickery", "flimsy excuse" or "extort"... But the definition of troll is someone who didn't invent the technology but just buys the rights to sue. So neither was really a troll.
Samsung is raising prices on Apple considerably. As for the iPhone 5 screens they are made by Sharp and Panasonic is bidding on that work, Samsung isn't in contention.
In fact even in the US Android phones are more common than iPhones.
According to Comscore: this quarter Android went from 52.5% to 53.4% While Apple went from 34.3% to 36.3% of the installed base. In terms of sales, Verizon reported over 60% Apple for Postpay and AT&T it went over 80%. That's been a steady trend of growth for a long time.
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In terms of worldwide share Apple has been steadily over 20% of smartphones. They never held that prior to 2012.
Their margins remain the highest in the industry. The smartphone industry has been growing 16% per year globally and Apple has been growing faster. In the United States Apple has crushed Android and now is approaching the point of establishing a monopoly.
The educated people here on slashdot know that smart phones were around for more than a decade before the first iPhone, but if you ask the average man-on-the-street you'll find they think the first smart phone was an iPhone.
The 2007 rollout for the iPhone includes a rather lengthy comparison to other smartphones. So if this is true, it certainly isn't the result of Steve Jobs. Job's claimed that Apple invented the first multitouch smartphone using an animated interface. He never claimed to have invented the smartphone.
there can be no greater irony than having the words "OS" in "OSX" when it's just a modified version of FreeBSD and unrelated to the previous versions of their OS line. If Apple had any intellectual honesty they would have called is MacBSD or something similar.
FreeBSD started in 1993. The first version of NeXTStep shipped in 1988. I think both projects developed independently from Berkley. But if you want to assert copying at the core NeXTStep came first. As for the regents of California, boot an OSX machine in verbose mode.
Really. Show me a web browser prior to Safari that bounced on overscroll. That was one of the patents that Samsung lost on. So show me the 2006 browser.
Lets just take this list of NeXT's GUI innovations: 3D "chiseled" widgets, large full-color icons, system-wide drag and drop of a wide range of objects beyond file icons, system-wide piped services, real-time scrolling and window dragging, properties dialog boxes ("inspectors"), window modification notices (such as the saved status of a file), etc. The system was among the first general-purpose user interfaces to handle publishing color standards, transparency, sophisticated sound and music processing, advanced graphics primitives, internationalization, and modern typography, in a consistent manner across all applications. I can do a similar thing for many of his innovation. No he is not just rounded corners. Jobs was often an asshole no question. Jobs was also a genius who helped to make people think they were part of changing the world, and many of the people who were abused by Jobs are the ones who say how important he was in moving them from doing pretty good work to doing outstanding work.
How were they in the same position SCO was in? SCO was suing IBM for copyright infringement, and then later breach of contract for stuff that IBM had nothing to do with and where there was possible infringement they themselves (i.e. Caldera) was mostly responsible. SCO got rid of their entire technology team and made themselves a copyright troll.
Apple was suing Samsung for Samsung products that Apple played no part in. Apple continues to be a major technology provider and innovator.
One can agree or disagree with Apple's infringement claims, but the analogy with SCO is unfounded.
I use a retina. Office works fine since the last updates. They cleaned up the font problem.
In terms of how Keynote is better, I'd say:
1) Easier to use if you use one of them occasionally. 2) Better support for iOS integration 3) Nicer templates (a PowerPoint template consists of 2 images, a Keynote template can have up to 40 and generally has around 20) 4) Way cool transitions between slides 5) Better typography 6) Export to Quicktime
That being said some of this runs in reverse. Because a PowerPoint template is so simple you can make your own while you really have to be a graphic artist to make a nice looking Keynote theme.
I doubt the difference would matter enough to most Excel users though.
I don't know. I actually think it would for the power Excel users. Lotus Improv was much better in many ways than 1-2-3 and Quantrix is a cool modern version of Improv while Excel is a modernish version of 1-2-3. User defined functions and pivot tables on pivot tables are major features.
In features it tends to lag about 12 mo behind OO/LO. But it has lots of Mac specific features that aren't in OO/LO. For example it makes use of Mac versioning, so things like resume or revert work they way they should. This also includes full Cocoa media so you can do things like drag images from a Quicktime movie directly into the word processor. In terms of your issue of interface the UI is in Cocoa. Text highlighting uses the Cocoa object so cut and paste works the way you would want it to. It uses the Mac system dictionary and grammar checker, etc...
In other words you were complaining about the emulator feel, Neo is going to far and away feel the least like that. It isn't Pages in terms of smooth operation on a Mac, the underlying code is quite often OO but it will feel much smoother than LO/OO.
In terms of best of breed, a lot of the differences between them more and more are forks that are incompatible but people of good will can genuinely disagree. Symphony (IBM/Lotus fork of OO) is merging back in now. And I suspect that OO and LO will merge together sometime in the next decade.
NeoOffice though IMHO makes sense to always be a fork. There should be a version that uses OO/LO technology in a way that feels as Maclike as possible. Back around 2003 OO was fundamentally an X application with its own widget set. It worked on Darwin/X11 and had no intention of supporting Aqua much less deeper Mac integration it made sense. In 2012+ when Apple started pushing all their apps towards deep iCloud integration so that services work well on OSX/iOS it makes sense.
Just a suggestion but have you tried NeoOffice ( http://www.neooffice.org/ ) ? It tends to feel a lot smoother than OO/LO on a mac since Mac is its home platform.
For generate slides I'd say Keynote beats PowerPoint. For use a spreadsheet http://www.quantrix.com/ beats Excel rather handily. For Word Processing I use about over a dozen word processors probably during the course of a decade depending on the type of use. But you are missing a lot of advantages of products like Framemaker for structure, Google Docs for simultaneous editing, Pages for easy layout,....
Mailmerge, spellcheck, grammar check? Those are the core features of an office suite. I don't agree with GP's assessment of OO but I certainly think those are reasonable demands.
I'm finding a lot of people who are light or casual office suite users are quite happy with Open / Neo / Libre office. Microsoft is getting more competitive with Office 365 and bringing SharePoiint / Exchange / Lync advantages to small business and individuals, so they are falling behind the current offering but most casual users aren't using those features and even less so the tie ins with Dynamics.
I think you underestimate how good those suites have become.
DD-WRT QoS if it works at all requires you throttle your router for everything. I suspect this is going to be harmless if it implemented right, i.e. when you make a phone call it throttles you hard and stops as soon as the call stops. But I haven't seen it.
But yeah... this is kinda reinventing QoS/ SIP. This is what real QoS used to look like before carriers passed QoS information all the way through the system.
Home wifi does not have QoS. Jitter is going to be terrible. If you are going to do this you want much more sophisticated software helping the whole thing end to end. Which is essentially what commercial SIP solutions do. Why reinvented SIP?
It is not banks that are driving this. What banks what is generic HTML with security. Brokerages pretty much the same. Banks want your session to be secure, they are very well setup for securing their network against you.
Universities in terms of functions like email are relatively standard and easy. It is easy to provide 35k students with email in house or out of house. Consider though the complexity of courseware, experimental labs, custom data sets and manipulation for research studies, the medical school and HIPAA / billing... What you are really saying is outsource these least complex 10%.
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That article has iOS (Apple Inc.'s iPhone) — 26.9 million units, 14.9 percent share (13.8 percent a year earlier). Which means they are gaining share and growing faster than the industry.
Your claim was that Apple was growing more slowly than the industry in the USA. Apple is gaining share, ergo it is growing faster. Not only is it growing faster it is growing much faster than Android. Those numbers don't agree with you.
I agree with summation. That's very different from GP's claim about OSX ripping off FreeBSD.
Looking at the Family Tree
BDS 4.3 begot NeXTStep, Tahoe and System VR4
Tahoe begot Reno
Reno befot BSD Net
BSD Net begot 386BSD
386BSD begot FreeBSD 1.0
NeXTStep and FreeBSD 2.2 begot OSX Server
OSX Server begot and FreeBSD 3.0 OSX Desktop.
I don't agree with "legal trickery", "flimsy excuse" or "extort"... But the definition of troll is someone who didn't invent the technology but just buys the rights to sue. So neither was really a troll.
Samsung is raising prices on Apple considerably. As for the iPhone 5 screens they are made by Sharp and Panasonic is bidding on that work, Samsung isn't in contention.
In fact even in the US Android phones are more common than iPhones.
According to Comscore: this quarter
Android went from 52.5% to 53.4%
While Apple went from 34.3% to 36.3% of the installed base.
In terms of sales, Verizon reported over 60% Apple for Postpay and AT&T it went over 80%. That's been a steady trend of growth for a long time.
____
In terms of worldwide share Apple has been steadily over 20% of smartphones. They never held that prior to 2012.
Their margins remain the highest in the industry.
The smartphone industry has been growing 16% per year globally and Apple has been growing faster.
In the United States Apple has crushed Android and now is approaching the point of establishing a monopoly.
How exactly is their brand being diminished?
The educated people here on slashdot know that smart phones were around for more than a decade before the first iPhone, but if you ask the average man-on-the-street you'll find they think the first smart phone was an iPhone.
The 2007 rollout for the iPhone includes a rather lengthy comparison to other smartphones. So if this is true, it certainly isn't the result of Steve Jobs. Job's claimed that Apple invented the first multitouch smartphone using an animated interface. He never claimed to have invented the smartphone.
there can be no greater irony than having the words "OS" in "OSX" when it's just a modified version of FreeBSD and unrelated to the previous versions of their OS line. If Apple had any intellectual honesty they would have called is MacBSD or something similar.
FreeBSD started in 1993. The first version of NeXTStep shipped in 1988. I think both projects developed independently from Berkley. But if you want to assert copying at the core NeXTStep came first. As for the regents of California, boot an OSX machine in verbose mode.
Really. Show me a web browser prior to Safari that bounced on overscroll. That was one of the patents that Samsung lost on. So show me the 2006 browser.
That's a rather biased view.
Lets just take this list of NeXT's GUI innovations: 3D "chiseled" widgets, large full-color icons, system-wide drag and drop of a wide range of objects beyond file icons, system-wide piped services, real-time scrolling and window dragging, properties dialog boxes ("inspectors"), window modification notices (such as the saved status of a file), etc. The system was among the first general-purpose user interfaces to handle publishing color standards, transparency, sophisticated sound and music processing, advanced graphics primitives, internationalization, and modern typography, in a consistent manner across all applications. I can do a similar thing for many of his innovation. No he is not just rounded corners. Jobs was often an asshole no question. Jobs was also a genius who helped to make people think they were part of changing the world, and many of the people who were abused by Jobs are the ones who say how important he was in moving them from doing pretty good work to doing outstanding work.
How were they in the same position SCO was in? SCO was suing IBM for copyright infringement, and then later breach of contract for stuff that IBM had nothing to do with and where there was possible infringement they themselves (i.e. Caldera) was mostly responsible. SCO got rid of their entire technology team and made themselves a copyright troll.
Apple was suing Samsung for Samsung products that Apple played no part in. Apple continues to be a major technology provider and innovator.
One can agree or disagree with Apple's infringement claims, but the analogy with SCO is unfounded.
sumwise.com might be an alternative that's free. But I'm not sure what happens if Quantrix cuts their price. Would people switch even if it were free?
If you want a great spreadsheet: http://www.quantrix.com/
If you want to beef up the programming language but are fine with Excel: http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/excel_link/
If you are talking non commercial: Siag (suggested above) is cool: http://siag.nu/index.shtml
This hasn't seen much activity in a decade but Haxcel: http://www.johanmalmstrom.se/haxcel/ is Haskell in a spreadsheet.
Microsoft still has the multi PC license for home that includes cloud services: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/home-premium/
They also offer a 1PC version: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/home-and-student/
I also doubt they are going to give you much trouble about moving the 1PC version a sane number of times.
I use a retina. Office works fine since the last updates. They cleaned up the font problem.
In terms of how Keynote is better, I'd say:
1) Easier to use if you use one of them occasionally.
2) Better support for iOS integration
3) Nicer templates (a PowerPoint template consists of 2 images, a Keynote template can have up to 40 and generally has around 20)
4) Way cool transitions between slides
5) Better typography
6) Export to Quicktime
That being said some of this runs in reverse. Because a PowerPoint template is so simple you can make your own while you really have to be a graphic artist to make a nice looking Keynote theme.
I doubt the difference would matter enough to most Excel users though.
I don't know. I actually think it would for the power Excel users. Lotus Improv was much better in many ways than 1-2-3 and Quantrix is a cool modern version of Improv while Excel is a modernish version of 1-2-3. User defined functions and pivot tables on pivot tables are major features.
In features it tends to lag about 12 mo behind OO/LO. But it has lots of Mac specific features that aren't in OO/LO. For example it makes use of Mac versioning, so things like resume or revert work they way they should. This also includes full Cocoa media so you can do things like drag images from a Quicktime movie directly into the word processor. In terms of your issue of interface the UI is in Cocoa. Text highlighting uses the Cocoa object so cut and paste works the way you would want it to. It uses the Mac system dictionary and grammar checker, etc...
In other words you were complaining about the emulator feel, Neo is going to far and away feel the least like that. It isn't Pages in terms of smooth operation on a Mac, the underlying code is quite often OO but it will feel much smoother than LO/OO.
In terms of best of breed, a lot of the differences between them more and more are forks that are incompatible but people of good will can genuinely disagree. Symphony (IBM/Lotus fork of OO) is merging back in now. And I suspect that OO and LO will merge together sometime in the next decade.
NeoOffice though IMHO makes sense to always be a fork. There should be a version that uses OO/LO technology in a way that feels as Maclike as possible. Back around 2003 OO was fundamentally an X application with its own widget set. It worked on Darwin/X11 and had no intention of supporting Aqua much less deeper Mac integration it made sense. In 2012+ when Apple started pushing all their apps towards deep iCloud integration so that services work well on OSX/iOS it makes sense.
Just a suggestion but have you tried NeoOffice ( http://www.neooffice.org/ ) ? It tends to feel a lot smoother than OO/LO on a mac since Mac is its home platform.
For generate slides I'd say Keynote beats PowerPoint. For use a spreadsheet http://www.quantrix.com/ beats Excel rather handily. For Word Processing I use about over a dozen word processors probably during the course of a decade depending on the type of use. But you are missing a lot of advantages of products like Framemaker for structure, Google Docs for simultaneous editing, Pages for easy layout, ....
Mailmerge, spellcheck, grammar check? Those are the core features of an office suite. I don't agree with GP's assessment of OO but I certainly think those are reasonable demands.
I'm finding a lot of people who are light or casual office suite users are quite happy with Open / Neo / Libre office. Microsoft is getting more competitive with Office 365 and bringing SharePoiint / Exchange / Lync advantages to small business and individuals, so they are falling behind the current offering but most casual users aren't using those features and even less so the tie ins with Dynamics.
I think you underestimate how good those suites have become.
Really? Wow. Either your GSM network was terrible or the radio on your phone was terrible or... That's interesting though.
DD-WRT QoS if it works at all requires you throttle your router for everything. I suspect this is going to be harmless if it implemented right, i.e. when you make a phone call it throttles you hard and stops as soon as the call stops. But I haven't seen it.
But yeah... this is kinda reinventing QoS/ SIP. This is what real QoS used to look like before carriers passed QoS information all the way through the system.
Home wifi does not have QoS. Jitter is going to be terrible. If you are going to do this you want much more sophisticated software helping the whole thing end to end. Which is essentially what commercial SIP solutions do. Why reinvented SIP?
Any number can be represented by a series of letters. We've been copywriting series of letters for centuries.
It is not banks that are driving this. What banks what is generic HTML with security. Brokerages pretty much the same. Banks want your session to be secure, they are very well setup for securing their network against you.
Consumer entertainment is what is driving DRM.
Universities in terms of functions like email are relatively standard and easy. It is easy to provide 35k students with email in house or out of house. Consider though the complexity of courseware, experimental labs, custom data sets and manipulation for research studies, the medical school and HIPAA / billing... What you are really saying is outsource these least complex 10%.