Responsible for look and feel of virtually all Apple products for the last ten years, is as much responsible for Apple's resurgence as the man Jobs himself.
Old news though is that he himself is already positioned as a possible successor to the big man.
"If more people thought this way, there would be less of this insanity in the marketplace, and manufactures would have to compete by price alone."
Actually, I can't. That is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. If manufacturers compete on price alone, all we are left with as consumers, is crappy generic products.
Competition based on design, functionality, features, quality, service etc is a Good Thing. Competition based purely on price is a race to the bottom. It hurts us, the consumers. It hurts the employees of the manufacturers as they fight to keep costs as low as possible.
I'm a long time Mac user who recently made the switch - to a Hackintosh. The OS really is central to the Apple proposition. But.. the hardware is also a big part of it - in terms of the reliability that only comes with total control of hardware and software.
Hardware is also important in terms of the user's perception of quality. I'm using the Apple Cinema Display I previously used on my Powermac and it is still far superior to the Samsung panel I bought recently for my kid.
But all that said, I like the fact that my Hackintosh cost me a lot less than the new top of the range iMac (granted, I already owned the Cinema Display), and it still outperforms the real deal.
However, 10.5.3 may be the end of the road for Hackintosh as I'm sure all the recent noise around this and Psystar will have Apple bringing down the hammer and breaking OS X for non-Apple hardware very soon.
I'd put money on http://www.doubletwist.com/ being next. Given the cross platform, Zune, iTunes etc applications it covers, Doubletwist would be a pretty high profile target to hit with a C & D.
It is interesting to note that the release of Safari for Windows has had zero (or negative) impact on its market share. At the time there were a number of naysayers suggesting that Safari would steal market share not from IE but from Firefox.
I'm guessing the quality issues surrounding the Safari for Windows beta have put pay to this concern.
Also, outside of Windows, I thought I'd switch from Firefox on my Mac to Safari following the introduction of tabbed browsing in version 3 but, several months later I'm still Firefox.
Dude, I know - that was just an experiment. You know, for nerds.
I own two other real Macs already - G4 eMac and a Powermac G4 dual 1GHz with 23" Cinema display. I'm just in the process of working out which to retire/sell and what to replace with - once Leopard is out, that is.
Hackintosh is a cool experiment but the scene seems to consist of a handful of very talented hackers, some very shady types, and a lot of what we in the 80's would have called Lamers.
Whoah there, this is now both off-topic and flamebait. LOL.
If there really is a wi-fi-touch-screen-OSX based iPod coming out that may or may not be based on the iPhone, they better make sure there is no mic. This could make a fantastic Skype handset. And damage the iPhone business model. Not that unlocking hasn't done that already though...
Google didn't have a decent business model until 2000 when they nicked the Adsense concept off of goto.com. If youtube can survive the infrastructure costs associated with their massive growth, they should hang in there until they find their own way.
This is slightly off-topic as it doesn't relate to Bit Torrent but did you know that the BBC is planning to allow downloads of TV shows from the Interweb after they have been broadcast?
BBC already offers the chance to replay radio shows via their website (using an ad-free version of RealPlayer). They are also in the process of building an online archive containing thousands of hours of content:
Obviously the BBC have a completely different business model i.e. no ads. But this shows that some people are beginning to "think different" (sorry Apple).
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The industry SHOULD and COULD adapt to this by offering their own high quality copies of TV episodes via BitTorrent.
The TV companies would be in control of their content again and would be free to include advertising. This is a whole new distribution medium for them with virtually no operating costs (due to the highly distributed nature of BitTorrent). Any revenue generated by advertising in this channel would be total profit!
I would be happy to download "official" torrents that included ads rather than take my chances with dodgy video and lipsync etc.
Unfortunately, the TV companies will probably try to wrap it up in some evil DRM to prevent other people cutting the ads out and seeding the high-quality ad-free versions.
Wouldn't you need 10x the buffer RAM to do this? IIRC, the iPod has 32MB RAM for the caching of tracks, hence your current buffering of around 5 songs.
You can't just look at Netcraft and determine what a company is using. This is just their web servers. For any large enterprise, this is usually the tip of the iceberg.
What about their back-office systems? File and print? Workstations?
I know you've qualified your statement by saying that you own a Slimp3 but for the benefit of other readers its worth pointing out that the Linksys ain't that good by comparison (apart from on price).
The Linksys has no inbuilt display - you have to plug it into your TV to see whats going on. I.E. when you want to search through hundreds of albums to find something.
The Linksys is currently certified to work in conjunction with XP.
The Linksys works with shares folders. Thats it. Slim lets you browse using the remote or you can combine it with additional server software (look up moodlogic) to create dynamic playlists based on your current listening tastes!
Linksys is proprietory (and tied in to M$) whereas Slim have opened their source code.
I would say yes. VAT (value added tax - 17.5% in UK) is implicitly included in all pricing for consumer goods that it applies to. Looking at the pricing in Euros, I would say the same goes for Europe.
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Responsible for look and feel of virtually all Apple products for the last ten years, is as much responsible for Apple's resurgence as the man Jobs himself.
Old news though is that he himself is already positioned as a possible successor to the big man.
Jonathan Ive groomed to take over from Jobs
If that happens, I'd feel pretty confident about Apple and their continued ability to innovate in create great products.
I'll try to respond easily to your comment of:
"If more people thought this way, there would be less of this insanity in the marketplace, and manufactures would have to compete by price alone."
Actually, I can't. That is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. If manufacturers compete on price alone, all we are left with as consumers, is crappy generic products.
Competition based on design, functionality, features, quality, service etc is a Good Thing. Competition based purely on price is a race to the bottom. It hurts us, the consumers. It hurts the employees of the manufacturers as they fight to keep costs as low as possible.
Fuck off! We're the Judean People's Front.
And there was me thinking for a moment that the Apple TV was the smallest. D'oh!
I'm a long time Mac user who recently made the switch - to a Hackintosh. The OS really is central to the Apple proposition. But.. the hardware is also a big part of it - in terms of the reliability that only comes with total control of hardware and software.
Hardware is also important in terms of the user's perception of quality. I'm using the Apple Cinema Display I previously used on my Powermac and it is still far superior to the Samsung panel I bought recently for my kid.
But all that said, I like the fact that my Hackintosh cost me a lot less than the new top of the range iMac (granted, I already owned the Cinema Display), and it still outperforms the real deal.
However, 10.5.3 may be the end of the road for Hackintosh as I'm sure all the recent noise around this and Psystar will have Apple bringing down the hammer and breaking OS X for non-Apple hardware very soon.
I'd put money on http://www.doubletwist.com/ being next. Given the cross platform, Zune, iTunes etc applications it covers, Doubletwist would be a pretty high profile target to hit with a C & D.
Have a look at this site - it is possible to flash an 8800 GTX to Quadro FX 5600:
http://aquamac.proboards106.com/index.cgi?board=hack2&action=display&thread=1178562617
Hackintosh would have been the way to go with this rather than the turd polishing recommended in TFA.
It is interesting to note that the release of Safari for Windows has had zero (or negative) impact on its market share. At the time there were a number of naysayers suggesting that Safari would steal market share not from IE but from Firefox.
I'm guessing the quality issues surrounding the Safari for Windows beta have put pay to this concern.
Also, outside of Windows, I thought I'd switch from Firefox on my Mac to Safari following the introduction of tabbed browsing in version 3 but, several months later I'm still Firefox.
..whoah
Dude, I know - that was just an experiment. You know, for nerds.
I own two other real Macs already - G4 eMac and a Powermac G4 dual 1GHz with 23" Cinema display. I'm just in the process of working out which to retire/sell and what to replace with - once Leopard is out, that is.
Hackintosh is a cool experiment but the scene seems to consist of a handful of very talented hackers, some very shady types, and a lot of what we in the 80's would have called Lamers.
Whoah there, this is now both off-topic and flamebait. LOL.
If there really is a wi-fi-touch-screen-OSX based iPod coming out that may or may not be based on the iPhone, they better make sure there is no mic. This could make a fantastic Skype handset. And damage the iPhone business model. Not that unlocking hasn't done that already though...
Buy a Mac or Build Your Own Mac?
Google didn't have a decent business model until 2000 when they nicked the Adsense concept off of goto.com. If youtube can survive the infrastructure costs associated with their massive growth, they should hang in there until they find their own way.
I've had a mac for two years and I didn't know Windows Media Player for mac even existed!
This is slightly off-topic as it doesn't relate to Bit Torrent but did you know that the BBC is planning to allow downloads of TV shows from the Interweb after they have been broadcast?
BBC already offers the chance to replay radio shows via their website (using an ad-free version of RealPlayer). They are also in the process of building an online archive containing thousands of hours of content:
Some news website article
Obviously the BBC have a completely different business model i.e. no ads. But this shows that some people are beginning to "think different" (sorry Apple).
The industry SHOULD and COULD adapt to this by offering their own high quality copies of TV episodes via BitTorrent.
The TV companies would be in control of their content again and would be free to include advertising. This is a whole new distribution medium for them with virtually no operating costs (due to the highly distributed nature of BitTorrent). Any revenue generated by advertising in this channel would be total profit!
I would be happy to download "official" torrents that included ads rather than take my chances with dodgy video and lipsync etc.
Unfortunately, the TV companies will probably try to wrap it up in some evil DRM to prevent other people cutting the ads out and seeding the high-quality ad-free versions.
From the UK newspaper The Observer back in the summer..
Stay Calm Everyone!
Prozac, albeit tiny amounts, now exists in our rivers and groundwater.
..and you would have been modded "informative" if you'd only gone and pasted the definition into your comment!
Wouldn't you need 10x the buffer RAM to do this? IIRC, the iPod has 32MB RAM for the caching of tracks, hence your current buffering of around 5 songs.
What I heard was that they're going to replace all the swords with walkie talkies!
You can't just look at Netcraft and determine what a company is using. This is just their web servers. For any large enterprise, this is usually the tip of the iceberg.
What about their back-office systems? File and print? Workstations?
Jackasses or not, at least we don't hide behind AC posts buddy!
I for one welcome our new mutant rat overlords.
I know you've qualified your statement by saying that you own a Slimp3 but for the benefit of other readers its worth pointing out that the Linksys ain't that good by comparison (apart from on price).
The Linksys has no inbuilt display - you have to plug it into your TV to see whats going on. I.E. when you want to search through hundreds of albums to find something.
The Linksys is currently certified to work in conjunction with XP.
The Linksys works with shares folders. Thats it. Slim lets you browse using the remote or you can combine it with additional server software (look up moodlogic) to create dynamic playlists based on your current listening tastes!
Linksys is proprietory (and tied in to M$) whereas Slim have opened their source code.
I would say yes. VAT (value added tax - 17.5% in UK) is implicitly included in all pricing for consumer goods that it applies to. Looking at the pricing in Euros, I would say the same goes for Europe.