I don't see these things as lightning strikes. Apple had a period of 10+ years where they were making some pretty innovative stuff.
The company seems to have lost its way with Jobs gone now, as evidenced by junk like the Apple Watch, the missing headphone jack on the iPhones, etc etc. They have lost the focus on user experience.
But the iPod and iPad weren't just lightning striking someplace randomly. Apple completely changed the way consumers bought PCs in the 2000s, changed the music industry, and many other areas of the marketplace.
What does it matter if people are outraged about this? No one will stop voting for favored_party because unfavored_party is supposedly so much worse. When in reality neither, will do anything about this and both will probably encourage it.
If you're electing the people who are doing this, you're complicit.
If only someone could come up with a single sign-on solution in the mobile space that a thief couldn't use, like if it scanned your thumbprint or something.
Remember everyone, the DNC can be hacked and the Clinton campaign can be hacked, but there's NO WAY IN THE WORLD that Hillary's homebrew email server was hacked. Nope. Not possible. Pure as the driven snow.
The same reason a journalist who's an avowed liberal would break a story exposing a scandal for a liberal politician. It's good for his career and profile, and it also happens to be true.
I am Never-Trump, but even to me, this seems obvious that he was making a joke.
The media has pivoted to "Russians did it!" to distract from the content of the emails themselves. Trump is just trying to call attention back to Clinton's crimes with respect to federal record keeping laws.
If we patch our OS, people can remain on it and be happy with their existing phones. If we leave them behind with a millstone around their neck, they'll upgrade. Profit.
Someone will acquire Netflix purely for their production house and for their exclusive deals. Almost like as acquisition that is essentially a patent purchase.
Delivering content online is a commodity. Their IP is all they have that is valuable.
I don't see this as EEE per se, but it's another example of MS being a poor imitation of Apple.
MS is jealous of Apple's business model, which controls the entire platform end to end and monetizes it. As a result they have been aggressively pushing people to Windows 10 and will continue to sever links between users and (anyone but MS).
MS wants the walled garden and wants the App Store. They want to control music and software and movies and everything, as Apple does for most users.
The difference is that Apple users opted in to that ecosystem by buying Apple products. MS just wants to throw a bag over your head and have you wake up in their walled garden.
They're trying to Retcon the past decade that Apple's been eating their lunch.
On the contrary, Kaine votes far-left almost all the time, and is consistently rated a zero or near-zero by conservative organizations like Eagle Forum or ACU. The media will portray him as some kind of a centrist bridge-builder, as they always do for liberals, but that he is not.
He made noises against the Iran deal back on the homefront, but in the end was cowed into voting for it, if you believe his reservations were genuine.
In the end, he's a generic face meant to appease WWC voters who is free of scandal so far as is known, which is probably all they wanted. The Clinton campaign is half about it being 'her turn', and half 'you have to vote for her because you won't dare vote for the other guy', so they didn't need anyone with baggage to distract from that.
The problem is that they designed the Apple Watch as a crippled device. They didn't want it to cannibalize iPhone sales, so it's basically a remote control for the phone in your pocket.
If they make a watch that can make calls, people will buy them. It could be the iPod Shuffle for the iPhone line. But they don't seem to understand this.
People don't want to carry an additional device to do things their existing device will already do. They want functions combined into a unity device, not more things to be strapped onto their bodies all day.
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I don't see these things as lightning strikes. Apple had a period of 10+ years where they were making some pretty innovative stuff.
The company seems to have lost its way with Jobs gone now, as evidenced by junk like the Apple Watch, the missing headphone jack on the iPhones, etc etc. They have lost the focus on user experience.
But the iPod and iPad weren't just lightning striking someplace randomly. Apple completely changed the way consumers bought PCs in the 2000s, changed the music industry, and many other areas of the marketplace.
It's not difficult to imagine California deciding they need the ability to throttle your AC to combat brownouts/global warming/whatever
Probably capable of calling a person to install a $25 thermostat and paying them one hour of labor to do so.
For any IT discussion on slashdot, as time T increases, the probability of a neckbeard blaming "MBAs" approaches 1
"Johnson, get in here"
"Yes sir?"
"You said you apped this in the cloud. How does the cloud go down?"
"Well, er... "
"Where are the damn synergies? I was told there would be synergies!"
What does it matter if people are outraged about this? No one will stop voting for favored_party because unfavored_party is supposedly so much worse. When in reality neither, will do anything about this and both will probably encourage it.
If you're electing the people who are doing this, you're complicit.
Ban it!
Come on now, everyone knows that seeing a cartoonish depiction of a gun in a text message will turn a person into a violent psycho :)
They're a dead tech company hoping to create some value in their patent portfolio so another company will buy them purely for said portfolio.
SCORIM's transition into patent troll is the last phase of their downward spiral.
If only someone could come up with a single sign-on solution in the mobile space that a thief couldn't use, like if it scanned your thumbprint or something.
Because then they don't get to control what you're reading.
Cut down a little bit of journalism each day with one weird old tip
Slashdot posters read this story, but couldn't believe what they saw in the entire right column of Slashdot.org...
Virtually everything you read about Brexit in the media before and after the referendum has been FUD.
Britain was one of the world's most prosperous, safe, and culturally advanced nations for over a thousand years.
I'm sure they will do just fine as they watch the EU collapse under the weight of their open borders policies
Remember everyone, the DNC can be hacked and the Clinton campaign can be hacked, but there's NO WAY IN THE WORLD that Hillary's homebrew email server was hacked. Nope. Not possible. Pure as the driven snow.
Our "Consitituional scholar" is rebuked by the judiciary seemingly every week. It seems these scholars are either poorly informed, or overrated.
The same reason a journalist who's an avowed liberal would break a story exposing a scandal for a liberal politician. It's good for his career and profile, and it also happens to be true.
I am Never-Trump, but even to me, this seems obvious that he was making a joke.
The media has pivoted to "Russians did it!" to distract from the content of the emails themselves. Trump is just trying to call attention back to Clinton's crimes with respect to federal record keeping laws.
If we patch our OS, people can remain on it and be happy with their existing phones. If we leave them behind with a millstone around their neck, they'll upgrade. Profit.
Someone will acquire Netflix purely for their production house and for their exclusive deals. Almost like as acquisition that is essentially a patent purchase.
Delivering content online is a commodity. Their IP is all they have that is valuable.
I don't see this as EEE per se, but it's another example of MS being a poor imitation of Apple.
MS is jealous of Apple's business model, which controls the entire platform end to end and monetizes it. As a result they have been aggressively pushing people to Windows 10 and will continue to sever links between users and (anyone but MS).
MS wants the walled garden and wants the App Store. They want to control music and software and movies and everything, as Apple does for most users.
The difference is that Apple users opted in to that ecosystem by buying Apple products. MS just wants to throw a bag over your head and have you wake up in their walled garden.
They're trying to Retcon the past decade that Apple's been eating their lunch.
There will always be monopoly or fragmentation... pick your poison
On the contrary, Kaine votes far-left almost all the time, and is consistently rated a zero or near-zero by conservative organizations like Eagle Forum or ACU. The media will portray him as some kind of a centrist bridge-builder, as they always do for liberals, but that he is not.
He made noises against the Iran deal back on the homefront, but in the end was cowed into voting for it, if you believe his reservations were genuine.
In the end, he's a generic face meant to appease WWC voters who is free of scandal so far as is known, which is probably all they wanted. The Clinton campaign is half about it being 'her turn', and half 'you have to vote for her because you won't dare vote for the other guy', so they didn't need anyone with baggage to distract from that.
The problem is that they designed the Apple Watch as a crippled device. They didn't want it to cannibalize iPhone sales, so it's basically a remote control for the phone in your pocket.
If they make a watch that can make calls, people will buy them. It could be the iPod Shuffle for the iPhone line. But they don't seem to understand this.
People don't want to carry an additional device to do things their existing device will already do. They want functions combined into a unity device, not more things to be strapped onto their bodies all day.