It's not only the possibility of profit. Before any undertaking a business also has to account for the risk of the endeavor as a whole, and if it's worth allocating the capital on that project versus any other project they could be working on.
A lot of people think if they stand to make $1 on a $1 zillion project they should do it, but the real world doesn't work that way.
I live in Seattle, and the best I can get is a carrier pigeon delivering an illegible scrawl of slashdot postings on a crumpled up Halls lozenge wrapper.
I think most consumers do feel Apple has the best quality, or at least quality equal to any competitors in design and quality. (neckbeards may not, but the 99% do)
The phone market is going where the PC market did. The smartphone market is mature. The tech has exceeded for the moment our ability and the networks' ability to utilize it.
There are few reasons to upgrade your phone year to year, as there once were.
(One wonders if the thinner/lighter trend and the trend of putting slick curved edges on these dainty phones isn't intended to create more replacement buyers...)
(along with the "you can't replace your battery so you have to buy a new phone when the battery life deteriorates" trend)
In any case, compelling new features are few and far between. I used to replace every 2 years or so consistently, but I don't see any reason to replace mine soon as long as the battery holds up.
I am voting third party, even though I have always voted Republican in the presidential election.
I wish people would revolt. Everyone likes to pretend that we wouldn't vote for the worst person in the world just because they bear our favored party's lablel. Well, this time around both sides get to prove it. To prove that honest government is more important than my desire for my side to dominate.
I don't think even the lowliest serf is ignorant anymore that every media outlet and talking head is campaigning for Hillary.
I wonder, though, if this won't backfire. People don't like being lied to, deceived, having information kept from them, or being talked down to like the media is doing. The average voter might lean right or left, but they want the process to be fair, and the media to be fair, and for the ballots to fall where they may.
This growing perception that the media will never relay the truth about Hillary or honestly investigate her scandals, that all the corporate interests (including Google and Facebook now) are manipulating public opinion for her - people aren't going to like this nonsense. I wonder if it won't cost her more votes than it nets her.
I for one welcome our personal information cataloging, you-are-the-product, electronic payment processing overlords. I'd like to remind them that as an unremarkable Slashdot poster, I could be helpful in astroturfing others into toiling in their transaction fee caves!
Why isn't there a similar push to get men into kindergarten education or nursing?
Men in nursing has been increasing for a while, although the figures are still pretty small. The return on educational investment can't be matched in any other field that I'm aware of, and it also allows flexible scheduling, generous benefits, etc.
It's an attractive job. When you have an attractive job, you don't need to do anything to stimulate interest in it. The market will take care of it.
There's a huge problem on Amazon - most listings for Apple chargers, headphones, etc claim to be genuine and very few of them actually are. Amazon doesn't seem to be doing anything to police it.
There's a wonderful solution though - buy the AmazonBasics version. You get something that you know works and it's a lot cheaper to boot.
Well, why don't those users modify the code themselves and compile their own version of Linux in order to enable them to complete those simple tasks?/Slashdot
This way Samsung might be able to mitigate a large amount of liability if one of their phones sets an airplane on fire, by saying the consumer walked right past an upgrade station.
My question was primarily this - what are the 70% of Note users who are not switching to the iPhone 7 doing? People buy a Note because they want a phablet. They aren't going to downgrade to a smaller phone, most likely.
I know it will be pooh-poohed on Slashdot, but losing 30% of the users of your flagship product is NOT trivial.
Slashdot Mirror
"Don't be evil", amirite?
In the future, there will be huge Prime Day deals on O'Neill cylinders! Greatest thing ever!
(total of 3 available)
Or you could just replace your USB to Lightning cable with a Lightning to Lightning cable.
I was hopeful they'd have a good quarter, but then again, I've been burned by Samsung before.
According to TFA, apes in Africa conspired to spread it to humans around the beginning of the 20th century.
It's not only the possibility of profit. Before any undertaking a business also has to account for the risk of the endeavor as a whole, and if it's worth allocating the capital on that project versus any other project they could be working on.
A lot of people think if they stand to make $1 on a $1 zillion project they should do it, but the real world doesn't work that way.
I live in Seattle, and the best I can get is a carrier pigeon delivering an illegible scrawl of slashdot postings on a crumpled up Halls lozenge wrapper.
I think most consumers do feel Apple has the best quality, or at least quality equal to any competitors in design and quality. (neckbeards may not, but the 99% do)
The phone market is going where the PC market did. The smartphone market is mature. The tech has exceeded for the moment our ability and the networks' ability to utilize it.
There are few reasons to upgrade your phone year to year, as there once were.
(One wonders if the thinner/lighter trend and the trend of putting slick curved edges on these dainty phones isn't intended to create more replacement buyers...)
(along with the "you can't replace your battery so you have to buy a new phone when the battery life deteriorates" trend)
In any case, compelling new features are few and far between. I used to replace every 2 years or so consistently, but I don't see any reason to replace mine soon as long as the battery holds up.
WHERE ARE YOU, YOU SOMBITCH?
I am voting third party, even though I have always voted Republican in the presidential election.
I wish people would revolt. Everyone likes to pretend that we wouldn't vote for the worst person in the world just because they bear our favored party's lablel. Well, this time around both sides get to prove it. To prove that honest government is more important than my desire for my side to dominate.
If not now, when?
I don't think even the lowliest serf is ignorant anymore that every media outlet and talking head is campaigning for Hillary.
I wonder, though, if this won't backfire. People don't like being lied to, deceived, having information kept from them, or being talked down to like the media is doing. The average voter might lean right or left, but they want the process to be fair, and the media to be fair, and for the ballots to fall where they may.
This growing perception that the media will never relay the truth about Hillary or honestly investigate her scandals, that all the corporate interests (including Google and Facebook now) are manipulating public opinion for her - people aren't going to like this nonsense. I wonder if it won't cost her more votes than it nets her.
Apparently the Slashvertisement organs are still functioning within normal limits.
I'm not sure there are 3 people like that.
I for one welcome our personal information cataloging, you-are-the-product, electronic payment processing overlords. I'd like to remind them that as an unremarkable Slashdot poster, I could be helpful in astroturfing others into toiling in their transaction fee caves!
Why isn't there a similar push to get men into kindergarten education or nursing?
Men in nursing has been increasing for a while, although the figures are still pretty small. The return on educational investment can't be matched in any other field that I'm aware of, and it also allows flexible scheduling, generous benefits, etc.
It's an attractive job. When you have an attractive job, you don't need to do anything to stimulate interest in it. The market will take care of it.
I suppose by letting everyone choose whatever career they desire.
I'm in favor of AirBNB being in my city.
As long as they aren't in my building.
There's a huge problem on Amazon - most listings for Apple chargers, headphones, etc claim to be genuine and very few of them actually are. Amazon doesn't seem to be doing anything to police it.
There's a wonderful solution though - buy the AmazonBasics version. You get something that you know works and it's a lot cheaper to boot.
(Funny how that all works out...)
Well, why don't those users modify the code themselves and compile their own version of Linux in order to enable them to complete those simple tasks? /Slashdot
I'm thinking they could reduce this if they stopped pushing people toward things nobody wants.
(Windows after 7, IE, Skype, etc)
Samsung, former darling of Slashdot, now book-burners and coverup artists.
This way Samsung might be able to mitigate a large amount of liability if one of their phones sets an airplane on fire, by saying the consumer walked right past an upgrade station.
Between the Note and the "waterproof" fiasco, I'm guessing there is some chair-throwing going on at Samsung HQ
My question was primarily this - what are the 70% of Note users who are not switching to the iPhone 7 doing? People buy a Note because they want a phablet. They aren't going to downgrade to a smaller phone, most likely.
I know it will be pooh-poohed on Slashdot, but losing 30% of the users of your flagship product is NOT trivial.
I think the average consumer feels it's Coke vs Pepsi. A few people violently care, but most people don't really care at all.
Hopefully they have this figured out better than they did previously, so that people can actually see one in a store.
The average consumer still feels they have to go into a store and touch and feel a phone and won't just buy one online based on specs.