Amazon could and should easily show what the model normally sells for
There is no "what the model normally sells for" on Amazon. Amazon prices are all over the place, all the time. If you don't like it you're always free to use a retailer that is or operates more like a brick and mortar store, or you can wait a week and get it for $10 less at Amazon.
FFS, you had $34 million dollars in your pocket and couldn't ship one fucking product?
They could either arrive late with a crappy product or give people (some?) money back so they could just buy a Mavic like everyone else. Which would you choose?
1,000 episodes? Is 2/3 of the content One Piece? There are some really long running anime series, so if the selection is 1,000 movies and episodes, your options are 1) Only newer or shorter run series 2) Only select episodes of a large variety of series 3) The whole run of just a few series
You damn New England liberals follow us everywhere. You ruined the north east. You ruined California. You ruined Colorado.
It really doesn't matter where the people came from that moved into your state. People don't just move in and take over like that, no matter what it looks like.
It's the cities. The higher your population density, the more liberal the policies.
Despite all the whining on Slashdot, this will advance Bluetooth audio, driving lower cost for headphones and encouraging innovation to improve sound quality. Apple got this right, and the increase in sales proves it.
The increase in sales only proves that significant portion of the market that was previously content with corded headphones no longer has that option.
You wouldn't buy a laptop that heavy and bulky to use it unplugged. You buy it because you can't cart your desktop to the library/meeting/LAN party/other room where your kids aren't causing a ruckus.
at 2.5billion that's 100$ per copy of minecraft sold
There's a massive install base on consoles and mobile devices, they rent servers to people at a very lucrative price point, there's a crap ton of merchandising and don't forget the planned 2019 feature film.
It's not about Zuckerberg being appointed to or running for political office. The justification for this news story is the jab at the end about "fake news," lest we forget for a moment that we are all smart people and nobody we know voted for Donald Trump, therefore there must be foul play.
but better looking -- Battlefield, COD, Medal Of Honor, CounterStrike war games got all the critical praise
There was a period shortly after the release of Counter-Strike: Source when you could consider it "better looking" than the competition. That period lasted about a year. Every other version of CS has been behind the times in graphics because they were released so long after the original engine was written.
And besides, the series features gameplay on a much smaller, tighter, more tactical scale than the other four games he is comparing it to.
How does this fanboy tripe make it to the front page? You could just as easily spin an alternate headline "iOS users are so committed that removing standard features in order to sell overpriced earbuds did little to help Samsung."
How could you find computing anything but more fun than ever? If there is something you liked a lot more "back in the day" there is nothing stopping you from running things the way they did back in the day.
Games? Emulation, VPNs, old hardware for dirt cheap, etc. It's all there. How is Steam worse than the stupid copy protection of old? You really miss having to thumb through manuals for access codes? Use GoG. Buy the physical media. There are plenty of options.
BBSes or the thrill of war dialing? People still run BBSes if that's your gig. You can do war-walking or war-driving if you want to discover things.
Hardware hacking? Not even close. There are are so many more cheap open source tools and platforms it's ridiculous. and electronics to break and repurpose are produced by the truck load.
It's like complaining that reading is so much worse because your iPad has games on it. Just do things the old way or find the modern hardware and software that meets your needs.
Audio is only uploaded once the wake word is used. As it exclusively uses your home wifi, it is easy to test for and monitor this, unlike the phone you likely carry in your pocket.
Because when you say this
People intentionally bugging their own homes and paying a corporation for the privilege to do so.
I read this
I am irrationally scared of an Echo but not by the phone in my pocket.
On the contrary, large families are a more efficient way to raise humans than small families. Large families reuse clothes, carpool, waste less food, and often produce people who are skilled at doing the same, even when they themselves don't choose to have large families.
And that's just the families angle. There's also the problem of different reproductive rates of different countries. How does it affect the cheetah population if a couple in Finland or in Costa Rica decides to have five kids instead of none or two?
The fact that Apple built a version 2 says something. But hey they probably didn't do any research about potential and consumer demand or anything. Apple is known for just throwing garbage products over the fence.
Look around you. Smart watches, and especially Apple Watches, are a niche product. They weren't the Next Big Thing.
The point of a Smart Watch is so you don't have to pull out your phone every time it rings, vibrates, buzzes, dings or whatever. You look down, and see what it is, and then decided. The fact that it is customizable screen is just a fashion plus. Who here hasn't purchased some vanity piece of jewelry, clothing, shoes, or sunglasses that were 20 times more expensive than functional equivalents?
Again, I get it, without needing or wanting one.
I think people get a smart watch because they believe it will make them efficient about alerts and messages, when what they really want is to turn their phone off.
TFA is incredibly vague. It suggests he's suing because Google asks people to keep secrets a secret. All corporations do this. It doesn't say anything about condoning or hiding illegal activities.
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Amazon could and should easily show what the model normally sells for
There is no "what the model normally sells for" on Amazon. Amazon prices are all over the place, all the time. If you don't like it you're always free to use a retailer that is or operates more like a brick and mortar store, or you can wait a week and get it for $10 less at Amazon.
FFS, you had $34 million dollars in your pocket and couldn't ship one fucking product?
They could either arrive late with a crappy product or give people (some?) money back so they could just buy a Mavic like everyone else. Which would you choose?
1,000 episodes? Is 2/3 of the content One Piece? There are some really long running anime series, so if the selection is 1,000 movies and episodes, your options are
1) Only newer or shorter run series
2) Only select episodes of a large variety of series
3) The whole run of just a few series
You damn New England liberals follow us everywhere. You ruined the north east. You ruined California. You ruined Colorado.
It really doesn't matter where the people came from that moved into your state. People don't just move in and take over like that, no matter what it looks like.
It's the cities. The higher your population density, the more liberal the policies.
Every reasonable, educated person in the country was against Trump
If everyone you know agrees with you, you need to get out more.
America. Land of the Censored, Home of the Unaware.
How about if you just draw conclusions about Facebook and not the nation?
Despite all the whining on Slashdot, this will advance Bluetooth audio, driving lower cost for headphones and encouraging innovation to improve sound quality. Apple got this right, and the increase in sales proves it.
The increase in sales only proves that significant portion of the market that was previously content with corded headphones no longer has that option.
If mentioning Trump is now 'godwinning' a thread, comments worldwide may as well be shut down now.
How did you manage to defend the comment without even reading it? I quoted it for you. It is not hard.
Wait for der Drumpfenfuhrer to take credit for this.
The sixth comment in and you managed to Godwin the thread. Keep up the good work.
Why not?
3 minute battery life.
You wouldn't buy a laptop that heavy and bulky to use it unplugged. You buy it because you can't cart your desktop to the library/meeting/LAN party/other room where your kids aren't causing a ruckus.
Minecraft is digital Lego, which Lego had to license to make physical copies of? My head hurts...
Everybody wins. Minecraft sells Lego sells Minecraft ad infinitum.
at 2.5billion that's 100$ per copy of minecraft sold
There's a massive install base on consoles and mobile devices, they rent servers to people at a very lucrative price point, there's a crap ton of merchandising and don't forget the planned 2019 feature film.
It's not about Zuckerberg being appointed to or running for political office. The justification for this news story is the jab at the end about "fake news," lest we forget for a moment that we are all smart people and nobody we know voted for Donald Trump, therefore there must be foul play.
but better looking -- Battlefield, COD, Medal Of Honor, CounterStrike war games got all the critical praise
There was a period shortly after the release of Counter-Strike: Source when you could consider it "better looking" than the competition. That period lasted about a year. Every other version of CS has been behind the times in graphics because they were released so long after the original engine was written.
And besides, the series features gameplay on a much smaller, tighter, more tactical scale than the other four games he is comparing it to.
You can do war-walking or war-driving if you want to discover things.
But that requires getting off the couch!
Well, you can also use a parabolic reflector and move as little as possible :)
How does this fanboy tripe make it to the front page? You could just as easily spin an alternate headline "iOS users are so committed that removing standard features in order to sell overpriced earbuds did little to help Samsung."
How could you find computing anything but more fun than ever? If there is something you liked a lot more "back in the day" there is nothing stopping you from running things the way they did back in the day.
Games? Emulation, VPNs, old hardware for dirt cheap, etc. It's all there. How is Steam worse than the stupid copy protection of old? You really miss having to thumb through manuals for access codes? Use GoG. Buy the physical media. There are plenty of options.
BBSes or the thrill of war dialing? People still run BBSes if that's your gig. You can do war-walking or war-driving if you want to discover things.
Hardware hacking? Not even close. There are are so many more cheap open source tools and platforms it's ridiculous. and electronics to break and repurpose are produced by the truck load.
It's like complaining that reading is so much worse because your iPad has games on it. Just do things the old way or find the modern hardware and software that meets your needs.
Are they selling well because they're great, or are they selling well because people don't have much of a choice, with no headphone jack?
Well, there are/were two choices: buy a more practical phone or use the adapter.
Do police regularly request cellular phone companies to provide recordings of ambient audio recorded by cellphones?
I expect once the police realize there is nothing there, they will not regularly make this type of request, either.
Because when you say this
People intentionally bugging their own homes and paying a corporation for the privilege to do so.
I read this
I am irrationally scared of an Echo but not by the phone in my pocket.
Just encourage people to have less kids.
On the contrary, large families are a more efficient way to raise humans than small families. Large families reuse clothes, carpool, waste less food, and often produce people who are skilled at doing the same, even when they themselves don't choose to have large families.
And that's just the families angle. There's also the problem of different reproductive rates of different countries. How does it affect the cheetah population if a couple in Finland or in Costa Rica decides to have five kids instead of none or two?
The fact that Apple built a version 2 says something. But hey they probably didn't do any research about potential and consumer demand or anything. Apple is known for just throwing garbage products over the fence.
Look around you. Smart watches, and especially Apple Watches, are a niche product. They weren't the Next Big Thing.
The point of a Smart Watch is so you don't have to pull out your phone every time it rings, vibrates, buzzes, dings or whatever. You look down, and see what it is, and then decided. The fact that it is customizable screen is just a fashion plus. Who here hasn't purchased some vanity piece of jewelry, clothing, shoes, or sunglasses that were 20 times more expensive than functional equivalents?
Again, I get it, without needing or wanting one.
I think people get a smart watch because they believe it will make them efficient about alerts and messages, when what they really want is to turn their phone off.
That is dark grey hat behavior at best.
TFA is incredibly vague. It suggests he's suing because Google asks people to keep secrets a secret. All corporations do this. It doesn't say anything about condoning or hiding illegal activities.