It's pretty obvious that Apple's "fastest computer" claims aren't true
You know, that is *obviously* not true.
Else the ads wouldn't be an issue. Else no one would blink an eye.
Like the Microsoft ads where the kid starts flying. OBVIOUSLY not true.
These ads, if OBVIOUSLY untrue, as you claim, then shouldn't be a problem.
The real problem here, and why Dell is complaining, is that when they were released, they were VERY true.
It was the most powerful 64bit computer per dollar; that is why Virginia Tech chose the G5 over all other competitors (including Dell) for their supercomputer. No one was cheaper. No one was more powerful.
Today? No, not THE most powerful, nor the cheapest, offered by an OEM.
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There are some people born with it. I can, for example, switch between left and right mouse without blinking!
I can even eat using chopsticks, with my left hand, and I'm right handed.
Maybe if you tied your right hand behind your back for a week, you'd become a *lot* more dextrous with your sinister hand!
Commodity CPUs (AMD, Intel, Via, Transmeta), commodity hard disks (Hitachi, Toshiba, Western Digital, Seagate), commodity video cards (ATI, Nvidia, Matrox, Via, Intel), etc?
Once production goes up, it will be trivial for Apple to undercut them too. There's nothing stopping the Korean and Taiwainese companies now; it isn't price, it's design, that is contributing to Apple's success. Why do you think cheaper hard drives will give them the edge in design?
Falling prices means the iPod will remain competitive!
What the desktop usage model mean? There is extremely strong competition for PowerPoint as a tool, and it's called Keynote.
If you're talking about the desktop market, then you really mean there isn't strong competition for *Microsoft*, but as soon as you give Keynote a try, I think you will agree: It's the *best* presentation software out there. If presentations are your business career, then getting a PowerBook just for Keynote pays itself back after one successful sales meeting!
CLUE: Every PC sold (not components, but PCs) *are* Microsoft branded machines because you are forced to buy Microsoft OSes with every single one of them.
There are minor exceptions of course. Apple is one of them. So are machines that come installed with Linux. But most Dell, HP, Compaq, Gateway, and IBM PCs already exhibit the behavior you describe, because you can't buy a PC without paying for Windows.
You can rephrase your statements to reflect that possibility?
When you cut the margin in half and if you triple your sales because of it, where are you with money in hand?
That leaves an unspoken question, "What if you cut the margin in half and you *don't* triple your sales because of it, where are you with money in hand?
I do, every time I push or pull when it should be the other. There are a lot of poorly designed things out there; doors, faucets, handles, closures, etc.
Not that I have a number, but I'm willing to believe that there are more men than women in those fields (and in politics, that's pretty evident) and that my implication of 'most' was correct.
Look at Apple People (fairly or not) complain it is overpriced; yet what alternative do they have?
You price according to value, and not strictly according to market, unless you want to go under according to market pressures.
You have to offer *something* of value, in offering GNU/Linux PCs, and that value has to be worth money, else no one will purchase and you won't be able to stay in business.
If your Linux based PC offers $800 value, and you charge $600, you are giving the buyer a $200 value to feel good about. In the same way, then, that is how the Mac market survives; Apple offers value greater than it's $1,400 computers, but only charges $1,400, value that cannot be found on a Windows or Linux PC.
If you're going to vend Linux PCs, then you need to give it something that makes it worth more than a comparable Windows PC, and charge enough to make money, but not so much that the user feels cheated.
I have to apologize, never being a pregnant woman, but does that mean your wife, when pregnant, found all doors equally useful?
I know even as a man that half the doors I see are stupid.
Push plates, handles, levers, and knobs.
Like having handles on both sides of a door, while aesthetic, is stupid when it only swings one way. A plate or leverto push, a handle to pull, is much smarter, for example.
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You know, that is *obviously* not true.
Else the ads wouldn't be an issue.
Else no one would blink an eye.
Like the Microsoft ads where the kid starts flying. OBVIOUSLY not true.
These ads, if OBVIOUSLY untrue, as you claim, then shouldn't be a problem.
The real problem here, and why Dell is complaining, is that when they were released, they were VERY true.
It was the most powerful 64bit computer per dollar; that is why Virginia Tech chose the G5 over all other competitors (including Dell) for their supercomputer. No one was cheaper. No one was more powerful.
Today? No, not THE most powerful, nor the cheapest, offered by an OEM.
There are some people born with it. I can, for example, switch between left and right mouse without blinking!
I can even eat using chopsticks, with my left hand, and I'm right handed.
Maybe if you tied your right hand behind your back for a week, you'd become a *lot* more dextrous with your sinister hand!
Would it be fair to say, then, "AAC is at least as good as the others, and therefore good enough?"
Isn't the Mini price competitive with the MuVo?
What, as if PCs aren't any different?
Commodity CPUs (AMD, Intel, Via, Transmeta), commodity hard disks (Hitachi, Toshiba, Western Digital, Seagate), commodity video cards (ATI, Nvidia, Matrox, Via, Intel), etc?
Once production goes up, it will be trivial for Apple to undercut them too. There's nothing stopping the Korean and Taiwainese companies now; it isn't price, it's design, that is contributing to Apple's success. Why do you think cheaper hard drives will give them the edge in design?
Falling prices means the iPod will remain competitive!
You forgot option 4: License the iPod
Like they did with HP, their digital music player in HP blue.
I dunno, if I saw someone with a Dell Jukebox, I would question their sexuality too.
:P
Insecure about your manhood?
How much of the success of the original 5gb (and later) iPods was the resale of the PCMCIA hard drive for $500?
I theorize that the same kinds of people who tore out the hard drive from the *first* iPods would be doing the same with the current ones.
In the end history has shown us that the success of the iPod was legitimate, and I would posit that the Mini is enjoying a similar success.
What the desktop usage model mean? There is extremely strong competition for PowerPoint as a tool, and it's called Keynote.
If you're talking about the desktop market, then you really mean there isn't strong competition for *Microsoft*, but as soon as you give Keynote a try, I think you will agree: It's the *best* presentation software out there. If presentations are your business career, then getting a PowerBook just for Keynote pays itself back after one successful sales meeting!
A single 'Macrovision' protected VHS?
A single 'region locked' and 'css' protected DVD?
Congratulations on saving so much money!
CLUE: Every PC sold (not components, but PCs) *are* Microsoft branded machines because you are forced to buy Microsoft OSes with every single one of them.
There are minor exceptions of course. Apple is one of them. So are machines that come installed with Linux. But most Dell, HP, Compaq, Gateway, and IBM PCs already exhibit the behavior you describe, because you can't buy a PC without paying for Windows.
I think you're supposed to drag and drop into iTunes, now :)
It does apply to Apple. The iPod and iTunes play the defacto standards, mp3 and aac, as well as CDs.
Hey, you're the one losing the games, not me, I own a Mac, a GBA, and a PS2, one doesn't have games, and the others get 99% of the games out there!
So you're saying you can see the entire ecosystem dying because of your actions, and you don't seem to care?
As long as someone else pays for the development, of course.
As soon as a company goes out of business (have you been keeping track? Thief, for example? Origin? others?), then you lose too.
Yes, but an average OS X install is 10x easier than an average Windows install :)
:)
Of course Windows is getting easier, as is Linux, but the Mac is still easier
OS X configuration can also be done on the command line. Look in /etc :)
Because maybe the volume isn't there.
You can rephrase your statements to reflect that possibility?
When you cut the margin in half and if you triple your sales because of it, where are you with money in hand?
That leaves an unspoken question, "What if you cut the margin in half and you *don't* triple your sales because of it, where are you with money in hand?
I do, every time I push or pull when it should be the other. There are a lot of poorly designed things out there; doors, faucets, handles, closures, etc.
So I'm wrong in implying that most are males?
But I'm right in assuming there's no parity?
So is 60% most?
Is 70% most?
Is 80% most?
Not that I have a number, but I'm willing to believe that there are more men than women in those fields (and in politics, that's pretty evident) and that my implication of 'most' was correct.
Look at Apple
People (fairly or not) complain it is overpriced; yet what alternative do they have?
You price according to value, and not strictly according to market, unless you want to go under according to market pressures.
You have to offer *something* of value, in offering GNU/Linux PCs, and that value has to be worth money, else no one will purchase and you won't be able to stay in business.
If your Linux based PC offers $800 value, and you charge $600, you are giving the buyer a $200 value to feel good about. In the same way, then, that is how the Mac market survives; Apple offers value greater than it's $1,400 computers, but only charges $1,400, value that cannot be found on a Windows or Linux PC.
If you're going to vend Linux PCs, then you need to give it something that makes it worth more than a comparable Windows PC, and charge enough to make money, but not so much that the user feels cheated.
Good luck with that ^^;
You hit it on the head. That's why we need more women doing things alongside men.
I never said a pregnant woman wouldn't fit ^^
I have to apologize, never being a pregnant woman, but does that mean your wife, when pregnant, found all doors equally useful?
I know even as a man that half the doors I see are stupid.
Push plates, handles, levers, and knobs.
Like having handles on both sides of a door, while aesthetic, is stupid when it only swings one way. A plate or leverto push, a handle to pull, is much smarter, for example.
Good for you!
Does your anecdote mean 50% of Senators, architects, doctors, and dentists are female?