Jobs may have helped bring about some significant technologies. But Apple, and Jobs, come no where near what the fanboys think. And in many respects, Jobs was just another scam artist.
1) It wouldn't work. People pay huge money for the name brand. It is similar to the world of high-fashion.
2) I'm not sure that Apple is making big money on it's PCs anymore. These days, I think Apple is making the big money on music and iDevices like iPhones, IPads, and iPods.
Kind of. The funny thing is, Apples claims are pretty accurate. Samsung is using their advance and intimate knowledge of apple products to replicate them. I don't really care, but it is delusional to believe they are not doing it.
News flash: tablets were around long before Apple. What would expect a "tablet" to look like? A tire iron?
Apple did not invent: tablets, smart phones, color icons, rounded corners, or much of anything else.
Unlike Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Oracle; Oracle has never filed a frivolous IP lawsuit against it's competitors.
In fact, Google has not even filed lawsuits in retaliation to the obviously coordinated, and bogus, legal attacks against Android, and companies that use Android.
Android tablet makers don't seen to understand that, with the iPad being used by law enforcement, and hospitals, and all. Nobody needs an Android table that costs just as an iPad.
I rarely feel confident about using any google service, because google axes their new services so frequently.
I wish google would put more thought into what is worth their while to create. And, once google decides to create something, I wish they would put their full effort into it. and really try to that project a success. Instead, google seem to just throw projects out onto the web, willy-nilly.
Just a few days ago, there was an HP desktop on woot.com for $299. 3Ghz AMD II 64-bit, 4gb ram, 1tb HDD, Windows 7, and Optical drive. There is really no reason to make big sacrifices to save a few dollars.
Is like comparing a jay-walker to a serial killer.
MS is every bit as bad, if not worse, than google when it comes to privacy issues. But what about massive patent trolling? I don't see google doing that. What about outright lying to the US DoJ in video taped testimony? What about the letters from dead people campaign? What about financing the scox-scam? What about bribing officials, not to mention many other irregularities, in the OOXML ISO scandle? What about faking the results of supposedly independent product comparison's? What about owning "think tanks" that create favorable reports about your company's point of view?
The statistical sample is not significant. When it comes to BSCS majors: they only use three universities, and only one year. Whereas the previous figures included national figures over decades.
Also, software engineering today, is not what programming was decades ago. A lot of the programming, from decades past, was very routine labor; and did not require a college degree.
Maybe because most H1B workers are male?
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IT is being offshored, and inshored, to death. It is not especially unusual to find a US IT department that is about 80% from India. For whatever reason, most H1Bs are males. So it would only stand to reason that IT would become male dominated.
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Jobs may have helped bring about some significant technologies. But Apple, and Jobs, come no where near what the fanboys think. And in many respects, Jobs was just another scam artist.
http://techrights.org/2011/10/07/steve-jobs/
If Steve Jobs was selling his used toilet paper, Apple fans would have been buying it.
Oracle cannot be trusted. Oracle is clearly no friend to F/OSS.
If Java is "free" then why can't Google implemented their own not-quite-Java version of the JVM?
Free is free, right?
Besides, does Oracle actually know this? Or is this more like scox suing IBM for putting UNIX code in Linux? You know, a typical scam harassment suit.
If the iPhone was that good, Apple would be able to compete on quality; instead of having to rely on bogus IP lawsuits.
1) It wouldn't work. People pay huge money for the name brand. It is similar to the world of high-fashion.
2) I'm not sure that Apple is making big money on it's PCs anymore. These days, I think Apple is making the big money on music and iDevices like iPhones, IPads, and iPods.
Oh I dunno. As I understand it, switching to MariaDB is dirt simple.
Did Oracle not get the memo that Java is free?
> Even patent trolls start out with one victim
Oh please. Apple is no "victim."
Apple is a scummy patent troll, and I hope they sued out of business.
It doesn't matter who started it
Like hell it doesn't matter. I think we all know that if it were not for Apple's shameful patent trolling, Samsung would not be taking legal action.
and that places the value of Apple's products in the billions. It doesn't matter if you disagree.
Same with McDonalds, but McDonalds does not own the idea of a hamburger.
And Apple does not own the idea of a tablet.
Kind of. The funny thing is, Apples claims are pretty accurate. Samsung is using their advance and intimate knowledge of apple products to replicate them. I don't really care, but it is delusional to believe they are not doing it.
News flash: tablets were around long before Apple. What would expect a "tablet" to look like? A tire iron?
Apple did not invent: tablets, smart phones, color icons, rounded corners, or much of anything else.
Remember the Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn movie "Desk Set?"
What about that Twilight Zone episode "The Brain Center at Whipple's?"
Instead of competing in a free market, Apple files frivolous IP lawsuit all the time.
Apple is scared to death of Android, and Apple is Tonya Harding tactics to compete.
And Apple has been pulling this sort of crap for decades.
How is Apple late to the IP game? Remember Apple suing GEM and all that?
Unlike Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Oracle; Oracle has never filed a frivolous IP lawsuit against it's competitors.
In fact, Google has not even filed lawsuits in retaliation to the obviously coordinated, and bogus, legal attacks against Android, and companies that use Android.
Android tablet makers don't seen to understand that, with the iPad being used by law enforcement, and hospitals, and all. Nobody needs an Android table that costs just as an iPad.
I rarely feel confident about using any google service, because google axes their new services so frequently.
I wish google would put more thought into what is worth their while to create. And, once google decides to create something, I wish they would put their full effort into it. and really try to that project a success. Instead, google seem to just throw projects out onto the web, willy-nilly.
Just a few days ago, there was an HP desktop on woot.com for $299. 3Ghz AMD II 64-bit, 4gb ram, 1tb HDD, Windows 7, and Optical drive. There is really no reason to make big sacrifices to save a few dollars.
Is like comparing a jay-walker to a serial killer.
MS is every bit as bad, if not worse, than google when it comes to privacy issues. But what about massive patent trolling? I don't see google doing that. What about outright lying to the US DoJ in video taped testimony? What about the letters from dead people campaign? What about financing the scox-scam? What about bribing officials, not to mention many other irregularities, in the OOXML ISO scandle? What about faking the results of supposedly independent product comparison's? What about owning "think tanks" that create favorable reports about your company's point of view?
Considering that scox's case was obviously meritless from day one, you can't expect the courts to move too fast.
I never get any support from MS anyway. I used win2k for years after MS dropped support.
Who needs high fidelity for that crap? It's all about being loud.
The statistical sample is not significant. When it comes to BSCS majors: they only use three universities, and only one year. Whereas the previous figures included national figures over decades.
Also, software engineering today, is not what programming was decades ago. A lot of the programming, from decades past, was very routine labor; and did not require a college degree.
IT is being offshored, and inshored, to death. It is not especially unusual to find a US IT department that is about 80% from India. For whatever reason, most H1Bs are males. So it would only stand to reason that IT would become male dominated.