They've never named their computers Macbook Pro 15" 5, Mac Mini 6, etc. There's no point in doing so with the iPad. "The new iPad" is perfectly descriptive and will be forevermore.
Everything else you've said is either flat out wrong or due to your incompetence.
The latest iPad sold more than any previous iPad, it has the highest resolution of any tablet on the market, more connectivity than most and maintains the same battery life as the previous gen (which by the way is still the best on the market).
Basically, you're a fucking moron. Get a brain and grow up.
Lion was anything but lack lustre, it added many fantastic updates and fixes.
Mountain Lion is not a geek's update, it makes everything iCloud smoother and more transparent. In that regard it is well worth the $30 they'll be charging for it.
Better integration is quite possibly the *most* important thing apple does, it's why they are so successful. So calling the integration updates useless (or at least without benefit) is rather foolish.
In the extremely rare cases that this actually happens, they don't have to pay patent licensing.
In the far, far, far, far, far, far, far more frequent event that someone rips off a patent and claims that they invented it independently they get roasted in court.
No I was factoring that in. Around here it's $40 for the weekend (so $13 and change a day).
But the thing is it's $40 for the weekend plus your fuel, which is at least $30-40 (again, minimum).
The real trick is that during the week I burn almost no fuel... $50 can last me the entire month with ease just doing work runs. Add in a month of heavy errands (still in town) and you're up closer to $90.
So what you end up with is that I'd be paying (even at serious discount rates) my entire "base" monthly fuel cost in rentals. I'd be paying those weekend fuel costs regardless.
That means that the electric that costs $15,000 more saves me exactly $0 month to month.
I'm all for making an effort to be green; that's why I bought a very fuel efficient car. I'm not in for that much though.
I could have reasonably afforded an electric car when I bought mine recently. However, even though I have a reserved underground parking spot in a secure facility I can't get power there and I certainly can't get solar charging going down there.
In the next few years there are a handful of *good* plug in hybrids coming on the market, and my next car will be one (unless by some miracle they sort out ultra caps and I can charge in 2 minutes at a "gas" station).
But as you've done an excellent job pointing out all electric (full or part) suck unbelievable amounts shit right now.
Renting also isn't an option, since the idea of an electric/hybrid is that I'm going to make the money back via reduced/no fuel costs. I'd have to rent every other week at a cost of ~$70 minimum with fuel which puts just the cost of the rentals at approximately my current monthly fuel costs.
Not that it applies in all cases, because some people do not have the skill set required to choose their place of work.
If my employer was a douche about jury duty (they aren't, fyi) I'd be getting a new job. Any employer who *expects* their workers to skip out on duty, especially such an important one, does not deserve intelligent or skilled workers.
Okay so any sort of price fixing is bad and it sucks for consumers that it's more profitable not to expand infrastructure as fast as possible.
BUT
I get more minutes/data/messaging than I ever use for $90 a month. I don't have any problem with that, because I'm a heavy user.
Things getting cheaper is always nice but a little perspective is good too... I've got a phone that I tether anytime I like without worrying about data usage for what I can only describe as a very reasonable monthly cost.
No no, you're missing my point... I don't expect them to know that.
What I do expect of them is to ask someone before they sign up to something asking for their personal details. That's not a technological issue... that's a sensibility issue.
I am in technology, and before I bought a car I informed myself about the internal combustion engine , how safety ratings are calculated, the rules of the road (you'd think this was a legal requirement, but not really).
Before I started buying fish for homemade sushi I researched what makes fish "sashimi grade" so that I would know what questions to ask if I ever doubted a supplier.
I'm going to be buying a house sometime soon, so I've familiarized myself with a large amount of the building code as well as best practices (since code is rarely really good enough).
Before signing up for a local grocery point system (spend x, get x points) I looked into the privacy policy regarding it and what I was giving up to partake.
When I got a nasty traffic ticket, despite knowing that I was innocent and the cop was a dumbass I still hired a traffic lawyer to take the case because I don't know the system well enough. I know my limits and I stay within them.
I'm not a moron, inside or outside of the realm of technology. When I come across something I don't understand I avoid it or speak to someone who does. Anyone who doesn't follow such simple principles deserves what they get.
Every person has a duty to inform themselves of the consequences of their actions. There are laws protecting minors as this doesn't apply to them and these services do as much as they reasonable can to protect minors.
Hurting yourself because you failed to read the instructions is not somehow societies fault.
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Wow.
First of all: punctuation, use it.
They've never named their computers Macbook Pro 15" 5, Mac Mini 6, etc. There's no point in doing so with the iPad. "The new iPad" is perfectly descriptive and will be forevermore.
Everything else you've said is either flat out wrong or due to your incompetence.
You post was modded troll because it was a troll.
The latest iPad sold more than any previous iPad, it has the highest resolution of any tablet on the market, more connectivity than most and maintains the same battery life as the previous gen (which by the way is still the best on the market).
Basically, you're a fucking moron. Get a brain and grow up.
Wow, you really should check your facts... any of them
Apple knows that, specifically they know that due to the limited abilities of windows they'll never make iTunes great on windows.
That's why they've gone PC-free, you no longer need iTunes for your iDevices, and as a result iTunes for windows can sit and rot in indifference.
Hell even Microsoft manages to make far better software for mac than they do windows, so it's no great shock that iTunes on windows sucks.
Lion was anything but lack lustre, it added many fantastic updates and fixes.
Mountain Lion is not a geek's update, it makes everything iCloud smoother and more transparent. In that regard it is well worth the $30 they'll be charging for it.
Better integration is quite possibly the *most* important thing apple does, it's why they are so successful. So calling the integration updates useless (or at least without benefit) is rather foolish.
They don't.
In the extremely rare cases that this actually happens, they don't have to pay patent licensing.
In the far, far, far, far, far, far, far more frequent event that someone rips off a patent and claims that they invented it independently they get roasted in court.
That's how it should work.
No I was factoring that in. Around here it's $40 for the weekend (so $13 and change a day).
But the thing is it's $40 for the weekend plus your fuel, which is at least $30-40 (again, minimum).
The real trick is that during the week I burn almost no fuel... $50 can last me the entire month with ease just doing work runs. Add in a month of heavy errands (still in town) and you're up closer to $90.
So what you end up with is that I'd be paying (even at serious discount rates) my entire "base" monthly fuel cost in rentals. I'd be paying those weekend fuel costs regardless.
That means that the electric that costs $15,000 more saves me exactly $0 month to month.
I'm all for making an effort to be green; that's why I bought a very fuel efficient car. I'm not in for that much though.
This. A million times this.
I could have reasonably afforded an electric car when I bought mine recently. However, even though I have a reserved underground parking spot in a secure facility I can't get power there and I certainly can't get solar charging going down there.
In the next few years there are a handful of *good* plug in hybrids coming on the market, and my next car will be one (unless by some miracle they sort out ultra caps and I can charge in 2 minutes at a "gas" station).
But as you've done an excellent job pointing out all electric (full or part) suck unbelievable amounts shit right now.
Renting also isn't an option, since the idea of an electric/hybrid is that I'm going to make the money back via reduced/no fuel costs. I'd have to rent every other week at a cost of ~$70 minimum with fuel which puts just the cost of the rentals at approximately my current monthly fuel costs.
A thousand times agreed. If your employees are out to get you, there's a goddamn reason.
Wow, you really are fucking dumb
You just posted the exact text that confirms what I said (which, oddly enough I found by reading the report, dumbass).
I can't have any further conversation with someone this stupid.
I don't play well with morons.
If you were the slightest bit intelligent you'd find me quite pleasant.
Yeah, so you were being a dumbass, Just more of one than I'd thought.
Your situation is in no way comparable to mine, and even if it WAS you're still not saving anywhere near your 1100 a year (again, dumbass).
That's fine, but it isn't in any way a comparison to having your main line with you at all times.
That's like saying a 3/4G tablet isn't worth it because the WiFi is cheaper. They're just different things.
Not that it applies in all cases, because some people do not have the skill set required to choose their place of work.
If my employer was a douche about jury duty (they aren't, fyi) I'd be getting a new job. Any employer who *expects* their workers to skip out on duty, especially such an important one, does not deserve intelligent or skilled workers.
That's funny, because Orange seems to want 10 pounds for 1GB of data, which means JUST my data usage would cost ~$140 a month.
I'd like you to point me to this plan
I assumed it was a typo since no one can possibly have both friends and a main-line cellphone for $60 a year.
If he's comparing some 7/11 throwaway with no voicemail/call display/etc with my primary phone line he's a dumbass and a jackass
Okay, but you're being daft.
90-60 = 30 * 12 = 360
So you aren't saving 1100, not even close.
Okay so any sort of price fixing is bad and it sucks for consumers that it's more profitable not to expand infrastructure as fast as possible.
BUT
I get more minutes/data/messaging than I ever use for $90 a month. I don't have any problem with that, because I'm a heavy user.
Things getting cheaper is always nice but a little perspective is good too... I've got a phone that I tether anytime I like without worrying about data usage for what I can only describe as a very reasonable monthly cost.
No no, you're missing my point... I don't expect them to know that.
What I do expect of them is to ask someone before they sign up to something asking for their personal details. That's not a technological issue... that's a sensibility issue.
I am in technology, and before I bought a car I informed myself about the internal combustion engine , how safety ratings are calculated, the rules of the road (you'd think this was a legal requirement, but not really).
Before I started buying fish for homemade sushi I researched what makes fish "sashimi grade" so that I would know what questions to ask if I ever doubted a supplier.
I'm going to be buying a house sometime soon, so I've familiarized myself with a large amount of the building code as well as best practices (since code is rarely really good enough).
Before signing up for a local grocery point system (spend x, get x points) I looked into the privacy policy regarding it and what I was giving up to partake.
When I got a nasty traffic ticket, despite knowing that I was innocent and the cop was a dumbass I still hired a traffic lawyer to take the case because I don't know the system well enough. I know my limits and I stay within them.
I'm not a moron, inside or outside of the realm of technology. When I come across something I don't understand I avoid it or speak to someone who does. Anyone who doesn't follow such simple principles deserves what they get.
Not that you made a claim one way or the other, but ignorance is no excuse (especially when you have to agree to TOS in order to use the site).
This is incorrect.
Every person has a duty to inform themselves of the consequences of their actions. There are laws protecting minors as this doesn't apply to them and these services do as much as they reasonable can to protect minors.
Hurting yourself because you failed to read the instructions is not somehow societies fault.
You mean the site where the first article is explaining that a 30% deviation from the prediction is a "good fit"
The sad part is that they've gotten worse, not better.
Perhaps you should take your own advice, but thanks for proving you don't have any examples.
No, they haven't.
In fact, if you're so sure they have, I want you to find a single model that has actually been correct.