While I was stuck with Comcast for a few years, I decided to buy my own modem and avoid their rental fee, which I think was $6 a month.
It was a great plan until they changed which docsis standard they were using and my modem was rendered useless, and along with it any savings I might have realized over the next few years.
Yes, while having a headphone jack, home button, and a charging port are all convenient - you can use any headphones in the world. the headphones don't run out of batteries, you don't need to carry a dongle around, the home button gives you a tactile button to wake the phone or check the screen or determine orientation when you can't look at it, and the charging port allows much faster charging than wireless - who wants everything to work as well as it could?
Yes, we should eliminate all those things which are working great, so there are no ports, because... reasons
Increasingly, you can get Prime Now if you want it the same day. Or if you can wait two business days, you can get it through Prime. Or you can get it with free shipping if there's no rush. Most importantly, this allows you to avoid the unpleasantness of having to walk into BBY
I am no fan of Facebook and their communist leanings, but do people really think it's Zuckerberg sitting at his desk clicking a "nix" button on these things? It's some hipster making 15 bucks an hour reading through a word document that tells them how and what to do.
The new iPhone having a 12 MP camera is a significant upgrade over the prior 8 MP camera.
An entry level DSLR cameras would likely be a 12MP camera. Of course, they come up to 24 MP (last time I checked them, and perhaps beyond), but 12MP is realistically more than anyone needs unless you plan to make very large prints.
DSLR is not "meaningless marketing", as someone above has said. Apple is saying the resolution is similar to what is offered by DSLR cameras, which is true for what today is an entry level DSLR camera.
The private universities are amateurs. Look at the public ones. Palatial campuses, massively inflated salaries, infinite job security, price gouging, on and on
Yes, I did. While I realize the cows are out of the barn on some of my data, I can at least stop using the app, decrease their user base by one, and post about it online to voice my displeasure and dissuade others from using it.
I should say, defining an ecosystem where users don't feel like they will be left behind makes them comfortable in your ecosystem and more likely to stay in it when they make their next upgrade, and less likely to defect to a competitor.
If my Samsung handset is stuck back in 2013, I might move over to another manufacturer when I upgrade. If I know I'm always going to be safe with Samsung, I'll stay there.
There's a salient point here, but it's not the one the author is trying to make.
Apple's strategy includes the fact that they make phones which will take the same updates as later phones - at least, to a point. Why aren't android phone makers doing this?
It's a great tool to keep people in your ecosystem. Every time a person goes out and shops for a new phone, they look at all makes and models. If you have a system that defines an upgrade path for users, where they know they'll never be left behind on an antiquated OS, they're MORE likely to upgrade, not less likely.
If android were more portable, or if carriers made their implementations more portable, they could achieve this. So far, it seems the android phone makers' attitudes are to do only enough to sell the phones, and then move on to selling the next phone.
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How many of these Congrescritters are in bed with Google/Alphabet? Follow the money.
Sources say nothing of value was lost, as the breach only impacts people who still use Yahoo.
Yes, that's precisely what happened.
While I was stuck with Comcast for a few years, I decided to buy my own modem and avoid their rental fee, which I think was $6 a month.
It was a great plan until they changed which docsis standard they were using and my modem was rendered useless, and along with it any savings I might have realized over the next few years.
Apple owns Beats now. The dots are not especially hard to connect.
You just can't see the COURAGE!
Check out my earrings, I mean, earpods!
Yes, while having a headphone jack, home button, and a charging port are all convenient - you can use any headphones in the world. the headphones don't run out of batteries, you don't need to carry a dongle around, the home button gives you a tactile button to wake the phone or check the screen or determine orientation when you can't look at it, and the charging port allows much faster charging than wireless - who wants everything to work as well as it could?
Yes, we should eliminate all those things which are working great, so there are no ports, because... reasons
Nothing I love more than escalating an argument through three managers. Sounds awesome.
And all for the privilege of lugging home on my own what I could have gotten delivered to my door.
Increasingly, you can get Prime Now if you want it the same day. Or if you can wait two business days, you can get it through Prime. Or you can get it with free shipping if there's no rush. Most importantly, this allows you to avoid the unpleasantness of having to walk into BBY
I am no fan of Facebook and their communist leanings, but do people really think it's Zuckerberg sitting at his desk clicking a "nix" button on these things? It's some hipster making 15 bucks an hour reading through a word document that tells them how and what to do.
It is entirely possible that after a huge company takes over another huge company, there might be some duplicated job functions.
3,000 employees out of 140,000 worldwide, a 2% reduction, is not really a crazy number for a company that was just bought out.
The new iPhone having a 12 MP camera is a significant upgrade over the prior 8 MP camera.
An entry level DSLR cameras would likely be a 12MP camera. Of course, they come up to 24 MP (last time I checked them, and perhaps beyond), but 12MP is realistically more than anyone needs unless you plan to make very large prints.
DSLR is not "meaningless marketing", as someone above has said. Apple is saying the resolution is similar to what is offered by DSLR cameras, which is true for what today is an entry level DSLR camera.
As water-resistant as that Galaxy S7 was supposed to be?
The private universities are amateurs. Look at the public ones. Palatial campuses, massively inflated salaries, infinite job security, price gouging, on and on
The executive branch has announced that it has thoroughly investigated itself, and it's found that it did nothing wrong.
EEE is the sincerest form of flattery
I can't get a kindle book from a friend, read it, then pass it on to another friend.
I can't shop around a used kindle book store.
You can't display kindle books, which is an aesthetic that many people love in a home, a shelf full of interesting books.
Ebooks are a more convenient form of something, not a replacement for the thing. It's a portable version of real thing, not a new real thing.
Gee, I wonder why the old media might be working overtime to discredit Wikileaks, who they till recently were madly in love with?
It can't be the battery, they're using the same battery to power the Facebook satellite.
Is that analogy supposed to rest on the idea they don't already have satellite phones?
That's what the Illuminati, the Koch Brothers, and the GMOs want you to think!
A PILE OF BLACK SLAG
Yes, I did. While I realize the cows are out of the barn on some of my data, I can at least stop using the app, decrease their user base by one, and post about it online to voice my displeasure and dissuade others from using it.
I have my own justice system.
I read this story and then instantly uninstalled the app.
I should say, defining an ecosystem where users don't feel like they will be left behind makes them comfortable in your ecosystem and more likely to stay in it when they make their next upgrade, and less likely to defect to a competitor.
If my Samsung handset is stuck back in 2013, I might move over to another manufacturer when I upgrade. If I know I'm always going to be safe with Samsung, I'll stay there.
There's a salient point here, but it's not the one the author is trying to make.
Apple's strategy includes the fact that they make phones which will take the same updates as later phones - at least, to a point. Why aren't android phone makers doing this?
It's a great tool to keep people in your ecosystem. Every time a person goes out and shops for a new phone, they look at all makes and models. If you have a system that defines an upgrade path for users, where they know they'll never be left behind on an antiquated OS, they're MORE likely to upgrade, not less likely.
If android were more portable, or if carriers made their implementations more portable, they could achieve this. So far, it seems the android phone makers' attitudes are to do only enough to sell the phones, and then move on to selling the next phone.