I'm guessing that is why sales are not increasing. They need to have the hybrid version in the base level trims...otherwise they are catering to a smaller market. If they cater to a smaller market, then I would not expect sales to ever increase.
Nice try. I recently (as in a few months ago) went shopping for a Highlander. I already a Hybrid, and expected to go with a Highlander Hybrid. However, I don't need a Limited trim as I could care less about the bells and whistles on a vehicle that only needs to get me from point A to point B. What did Toyota do this year? Removed the Hybrid from everything except the top 2 trims (Limited and Platinum). I could buy a base Highlander for 29...or a Hybrid for 48. Now calculate how much you would need to pay for that in gas. Even factoring in inflation in gas prices, I was reaching around 15 years or so. I love my hybrid, it's an Escape that I get around 30 mpg for. However, Hybrid sales have peaked because they made them too expensive and no longer can be paid off in gas mileage.
Many companies have short data retention policies to help with litigation. If your policy is to only retain email for a year (both in mailboxes and backups), then no court can subpeona anything older. It is a protection mechanism. However, this article shows how inept the IRS infrastructure staff are. No pst files should exist if you have a data retention policy. And if your policy is space saving, pst files should never be stored locally. Does the IRS use low paid GS11 IT people or is it outsourced to HP/IBM/etc?
Except that instead of several thousand developers see him throw chairs, it will be replayed on ESPN every 15 minutes for the next 3 days afterwords. This should be amusing...
Sprint has stopped doing contracts as well. They do have their Framily plan, but you can go with no contract and buy a phone outright, or subsidize the cost across 24 months. Same as TMobile. Sprint has always been CDMA, not GSM. However, they do offer "international phones" with SIM cards and gsm radios. My Sprint phone is a Motorola that can use either. I, too, hope Sprint doesn't repeat the Nextel disaster...
So when you are too old to travel, and on the downhill side of life, who are you going to share things with? I travel with my kids, and fly without issues. I trained them and entertain them so no one has to deal with them kicking the seat in front of them, constantly crying and throwing tantrums, and all the other stereotypical behavior of kids on flights. They quietly sit, eat snacks, read, play games on the tablets, or watch movies until landing. Kids doesn't mean no travel if you make it a priority. If anything, it is fun to do the same things with your kids (granted, can't drink with them until they are 21). It is your choice to not have kids, but I wouldn't blame travel. Many of us travel with kids without any issue.
Same here...I am/was a happy Nook owner. Shame the line has ended...the Nook could read about any format you threw at it, had fantastic hardware specs (including a microsd card reader), and could be rooted if you needed all the fancy apps the submitter is mentioning. No idea how the Kindle destoryed the Nook market when you can take both devices side by side and find the Nook to be quite better (in specs and functionality).
I have only girls. I let them watch Disney movies, play with Barbies, and got them princess and fairy dressup stuff. What was the result? An 8 year old who is perfectly comfortable using a computer and now helping me assemble one. A 4 year old who loves to be active, and tries to take my smartphone apart to see how it works. Further, the older one excels at math, and the younger has already started reading. It is not "girly stereotypes" holding them back...
No DLNA? This is simply a less functional Roku device. At least you can do a custom channel to play local files. I wish WD TV would get an Amazon app...but it appears that door is closed with the release of this device. Amazon hasn't realized there are a lot of people with local files as well...not just online app accounts.
Not everyone wants a game console or PC tower sitting next to their TV. Also, having a streamlined deivce with a great UI makes sure the support calls are removed from the rest of the family. Who wants to tell their 10 year old for the 50th time to turn on the PC first and log in before using the TV? Also, I prefer to have a TV mounted on the wall with no entertainment center. These type of devices fit very well without sitting on the floor or running cables to nearby furniture. There is definitely a market...I have 3 WDTV SMPs..
That's funny. I could have sworn one of the hottest technologies around was a thing called a "cellphone".
Which, oddly enough, are mostly used to play social games, store apps, browse the internet, and check emails/texts. Notice phone plans went to unlimited voice when the shift from voice calls to data usage happened? I still use the phone...but I admit it is mostly work related now...and I am too old to be part of "generation Y". Voice calls are going to voip or being replaced with social media and text messaging. It concerns me as well that the government can pay lip service to us and claim they won't collect the voice calls...while still collecting the internet and voip traffic.
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I'm guessing that is why sales are not increasing. They need to have the hybrid version in the base level trims...otherwise they are catering to a smaller market. If they cater to a smaller market, then I would not expect sales to ever increase.
Nice try. I recently (as in a few months ago) went shopping for a Highlander. I already a Hybrid, and expected to go with a Highlander Hybrid. However, I don't need a Limited trim as I could care less about the bells and whistles on a vehicle that only needs to get me from point A to point B. What did Toyota do this year? Removed the Hybrid from everything except the top 2 trims (Limited and Platinum). I could buy a base Highlander for 29...or a Hybrid for 48. Now calculate how much you would need to pay for that in gas. Even factoring in inflation in gas prices, I was reaching around 15 years or so. I love my hybrid, it's an Escape that I get around 30 mpg for. However, Hybrid sales have peaked because they made them too expensive and no longer can be paid off in gas mileage.
Many companies have short data retention policies to help with litigation. If your policy is to only retain email for a year (both in mailboxes and backups), then no court can subpeona anything older. It is a protection mechanism. However, this article shows how inept the IRS infrastructure staff are. No pst files should exist if you have a data retention policy. And if your policy is space saving, pst files should never be stored locally. Does the IRS use low paid GS11 IT people or is it outsourced to HP/IBM/etc?
I thought Greed was getting kickbacks from the lobbying groups to buy your support for questionable bills.
No, that's called Politics.
They're holding it wrong.
Quite incorrect. I believe the late Steve Jobs would tell them they are charging it wrong.
Except that instead of several thousand developers see him throw chairs, it will be replayed on ESPN every 15 minutes for the next 3 days afterwords. This should be amusing...
Sprint has stopped doing contracts as well. They do have their Framily plan, but you can go with no contract and buy a phone outright, or subsidize the cost across 24 months. Same as TMobile. Sprint has always been CDMA, not GSM. However, they do offer "international phones" with SIM cards and gsm radios. My Sprint phone is a Motorola that can use either.
I, too, hope Sprint doesn't repeat the Nextel disaster...
So when you are too old to travel, and on the downhill side of life, who are you going to share things with? I travel with my kids, and fly without issues. I trained them and entertain them so no one has to deal with them kicking the seat in front of them, constantly crying and throwing tantrums, and all the other stereotypical behavior of kids on flights. They quietly sit, eat snacks, read, play games on the tablets, or watch movies until landing. Kids doesn't mean no travel if you make it a priority. If anything, it is fun to do the same things with your kids (granted, can't drink with them until they are 21). It is your choice to not have kids, but I wouldn't blame travel. Many of us travel with kids without any issue.
Same here...I am/was a happy Nook owner. Shame the line has ended...the Nook could read about any format you threw at it, had fantastic hardware specs (including a microsd card reader), and could be rooted if you needed all the fancy apps the submitter is mentioning. No idea how the Kindle destoryed the Nook market when you can take both devices side by side and find the Nook to be quite better (in specs and functionality).
I read the title and immediately envisioned Data hacking PHP code on the Enterprise...
Please don't tell me they are running Windows NT 4.0 in the cockpit...
I thought that was the explanation for all the crazy animals, half of which can kill you.
Now now, be nice to the Australians...
I wasn't aware that Mexico is a South American country.
The US is going so downhill that even Mexico wants to distance itself from us...
That's what happens when the starting bid on their customer database is $0.99...
Maybe it just got out of the pool...
I have only girls. I let them watch Disney movies, play with Barbies, and got them princess and fairy dressup stuff. What was the result? An 8 year old who is perfectly comfortable using a computer and now helping me assemble one. A 4 year old who loves to be active, and tries to take my smartphone apart to see how it works. Further, the older one excels at math, and the younger has already started reading. It is not "girly stereotypes" holding them back...
This is how the internet ends...
This is how the internet ends...
This is how the internet ends...
Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
Close...2% of 100 members is only 2. I am sure both have been notified...
Perhaps the 11 were battle casualties? In which case...where did the victors go?
Doubtful...Wil hasn't posted on Slashdot in 3 years...
No DLNA? This is simply a less functional Roku device. At least you can do a custom channel to play local files. I wish WD TV would get an Amazon app...but it appears that door is closed with the release of this device. Amazon hasn't realized there are a lot of people with local files as well...not just online app accounts.
Not everyone wants a game console or PC tower sitting next to their TV. Also, having a streamlined deivce with a great UI makes sure the support calls are removed from the rest of the family. Who wants to tell their 10 year old for the 50th time to turn on the PC first and log in before using the TV? Also, I prefer to have a TV mounted on the wall with no entertainment center. These type of devices fit very well without sitting on the floor or running cables to nearby furniture. There is definitely a market...I have 3 WDTV SMPs..
That's funny. I could have sworn one of the hottest technologies around was a thing called a "cellphone".
Which, oddly enough, are mostly used to play social games, store apps, browse the internet, and check emails/texts. Notice phone plans went to unlimited voice when the shift from voice calls to data usage happened? I still use the phone...but I admit it is mostly work related now...and I am too old to be part of "generation Y". Voice calls are going to voip or being replaced with social media and text messaging. It concerns me as well that the government can pay lip service to us and claim they won't collect the voice calls...while still collecting the internet and voip traffic.
Could we deep fat fry them?
Sounds like a men's college dorm to me....