As a former PC user who's now a complete unpaid Apple shill, I will admit I'm SO SO SO glad that our collective group has ditched the phrase, "PeeCee".
You're assuming that the problems at Nokia are the lack of talented engineers. Looking at the Pureview 808, this is clearly not the case. Not by a long shot. The problem Nokia faces is really incompetent management.
What does it cost them to build per unit, what's the R&D costs and what profit margin do they want?
The problem with the PC industry is that a lot of OEMs went super cheap, with razor thin margins. Making it up in software bundles and volume. This is not sustainable. Hopefully Microsoft got the message and pricing within their costs.
I bet the next round of contract negotiations will be full of political wrangling, some corruption but is it possible Uber's going to be part of the next round of contracts? Maybe, if they don't whither and die on the vine between now and then.
Life's way more complicated than just saying that the status quo is the way it's always going to be. A lot of people, even people in power, aren't happy with the status quo. Yellow Cab's fucked up here and there and if the city of NY thinks it can get a better deal, sure, Uber's on the table.
Hi. The opposite side of the coin is that you get crooked cabbies, people who blow smoke in your face or well, I can't really defend the soda ban in a way that isnt fat shaming but...
Still. You make it seem like there are no group net negatives to any of these activities.
But as an Actual Asian Person, there's more to this story than that. Hang around Canal St. in New York sometime. Not all Asians have that hard grit academic drive.
What happened was, a lot of Asian American families are first or second generation immigrants who were already successful and higher status. So they had the strict Asian upbringing AND the tools to enable the hard work ethic.
It's a complicated matter, and I think you're grossly simplifying the scenario here.
the culture at Nokia was really toxic. no one could execute. Even if they went Android the OS would've had a crap load of apps but outclassed by the likes of HTC, Moto and now, Samsung.
But when the port is meant for more than just USB, then the matter of fleecing becomes less obvious.
Also, 19 bucks for a cable isn't expensive. It isn't cheap but not what I'd call expensive. It's not meant to be just for charge and sync it's also meant for all sorts of peripherals.
The entire jist of this rant is that a lot of people had prototypes and pre-Apple products that were on the market but the market never took off until someone with taste showed up and made the thing not suck.
Seriously, I used pre-iPod MP3 players, I used pre-iPhone smart phones and i used pre-iOS tablets.
They REALLY sucked. The OSes were difficult to use, the interfaces were unfriendly and for the price you paid, it was a goddamned joke.
We can all give Nokia or Archos or whoever came before all the credit in the world for having stuff that looked promising but in the end it's Apple who's able to actually execute. Given how many years these devices were on the market before Apple strolled in, except say, the MP3 player market, the notion of what if apple wasn't there is actually inconceivable.
Hell, USB was around for years and several of my motherboards from around 95-97 had USB headers but no one used them. It wasn't until the iMac came around that all changed.
Am I not happy that Apple's being a litigious bully? Sure. Am I even more unhappy that there's a culture in the tech sector that good ideas are just merely a commodity? Damn right I am. A good lawyer and a judge can smack down Apple but no one's willing to fight against tastelessness in the tech industry. Except Apple. And now maybe Vizio? But the reviews of Vizio's gear isn't exactly promising, but it's progress.
Strangely enough though, modern cars are way more reliable. The thing about those old VW bugs is that time shook out all the really bad ones and those were easy as hell to repair.
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Eye Fi wireless ad card, a phone in tethering mode, and done.
As a former PC user who's now a complete unpaid Apple shill, I will admit I'm SO SO SO glad that our collective group has ditched the phrase, "PeeCee".
You're assuming that the problems at Nokia are the lack of talented engineers. Looking at the Pureview 808, this is clearly not the case. Not by a long shot. The problem Nokia faces is really incompetent management.
do you know if they said it was going to be glossy or non glossy? I gotta know man. I gotta know!
Also, build quality took a giant shit too.
What does it cost them to build per unit, what's the R&D costs and what profit margin do they want?
The problem with the PC industry is that a lot of OEMs went super cheap, with razor thin margins. Making it up in software bundles and volume. This is not sustainable. Hopefully Microsoft got the message and pricing within their costs.
I bet the next round of contract negotiations will be full of political wrangling, some corruption but is it possible Uber's going to be part of the next round of contracts? Maybe, if they don't whither and die on the vine between now and then.
Life's way more complicated than just saying that the status quo is the way it's always going to be. A lot of people, even people in power, aren't happy with the status quo. Yellow Cab's fucked up here and there and if the city of NY thinks it can get a better deal, sure, Uber's on the table.
Hi. The opposite side of the coin is that you get crooked cabbies, people who blow smoke in your face or well, I can't really defend the soda ban in a way that isnt fat shaming but...
Still. You make it seem like there are no group net negatives to any of these activities.
So where's the drop in profits?
Market share is one factor to profit, but not the only. Chase market share and you're doomed like Nokia or GM were.
But as an Actual Asian Person, there's more to this story than that. Hang around Canal St. in New York sometime. Not all Asians have that hard grit academic drive.
What happened was, a lot of Asian American families are first or second generation immigrants who were already successful and higher status. So they had the strict Asian upbringing AND the tools to enable the hard work ethic.
It's a complicated matter, and I think you're grossly simplifying the scenario here.
Given how hand in hand the aims of libertarianism and corporatism are I'm shocked he doesn't take the money and run with it.
No, no they couldn't have.
the culture at Nokia was really toxic. no one could execute. Even if they went Android the OS would've had a crap load of apps but outclassed by the likes of HTC, Moto and now, Samsung.
Because keeping up with friends or family is just going to get old at sme point.
Facebook has been around since what, 06? I doubt it is going away any time soon.
But when the port is meant for more than just USB, then the matter of fleecing becomes less obvious.
Also, 19 bucks for a cable isn't expensive. It isn't cheap but not what I'd call expensive. It's not meant to be just for charge and sync it's also meant for all sorts of peripherals.
they're not authenticator chips. They're demuxing chips.
Not that it matters to the /. crowd. Unless you can be super cheap and buy a 5 pack of cables for 10 bucks IT'S EVIL AND MUST BE ELIMINATED.
The entire jist of this rant is that a lot of people had prototypes and pre-Apple products that were on the market but the market never took off until someone with taste showed up and made the thing not suck.
Seriously, I used pre-iPod MP3 players, I used pre-iPhone smart phones and i used pre-iOS tablets.
They REALLY sucked. The OSes were difficult to use, the interfaces were unfriendly and for the price you paid, it was a goddamned joke.
We can all give Nokia or Archos or whoever came before all the credit in the world for having stuff that looked promising but in the end it's Apple who's able to actually execute. Given how many years these devices were on the market before Apple strolled in, except say, the MP3 player market, the notion of what if apple wasn't there is actually inconceivable.
Hell, USB was around for years and several of my motherboards from around 95-97 had USB headers but no one used them. It wasn't until the iMac came around that all changed.
Am I not happy that Apple's being a litigious bully? Sure. Am I even more unhappy that there's a culture in the tech sector that good ideas are just merely a commodity? Damn right I am. A good lawyer and a judge can smack down Apple but no one's willing to fight against tastelessness in the tech industry. Except Apple. And now maybe Vizio? But the reviews of Vizio's gear isn't exactly promising, but it's progress.
Too much choice is actually bad. But hey. You're on a roll. Not going to stop you.
Sigh. Only on Wall Street could you ship 5 million units in a few days and still be disappointing.
I block all of the trolls in my HOSTS file...
I want to see a site from a former soviet republic post a link to slashdot that overwhelms the servers so that way in Soviet Russia...
So why do many licensed emulators exist in the store? Even MAME was in the App Store for a hot minute.
You mean like Instacast, or Amazon Kindle Reader or Sparrow or ... should I go on?
The only thing that you can't duplicate is an HTML/JS engine, and I imagine that might change in the future too.
Strangely enough though, modern cars are way more reliable. The thing about those old VW bugs is that time shook out all the really bad ones and those were easy as hell to repair.
As a long time, as many here would say, iSheep, yes. Steve Jobs green lit a lot of really bad design choices.
Por ejemplo.
The iPhone 4 was shatter prone too.
Jesus.
fucking.
CHRIST.
Prove it.
You made this naked assertion. Prove it.