my comment was rather to hopefully wake up some of the masses around slashdot who seem to think that google is somehow not just another corporation, and somehow far more friendly to them than any of the other computing behemoths out there.
The best you can say is that Google is worlds better than Microsoft, Apple or Oracle. But that seems to be changing, and perhaps the slide is accelerating, fueled by the hubris of success. Riding on the back of free contributions, I might add. It is up to us to provide alternatives to all the Google services we rely on, before those gifts become chains.
Defending against "Aluyin OS-style modification of Android" is idiotic. Definitely counts as throwing the baby out with the bathwater. What Larry Page should be defending against is Android starting to suck more than it already does because it doesn't have hundreds of thousands of independent programmers working on it, only the bespoke ones at Google, mostly interns because the full timers are too smart to work hard.
Larry Page better remember what happened to Sun. Sun used to rule the world. Now look at them. Err, you can't they're dead. It's getting hard to tell the difference between control freak Google over Android versus Control freak Sun over Java.
Billg stepped down as CEO days before MSFT started to tank. The writing was on the wall long before that, and Billg created the conditions for one of the greatest losses of shareholder equity in corporate history. Billg stayed on as "chief software architect" until 2006, by which time his complete incompetence in that role was more than apparent to all. I am very pleased with what Billg did to Microsoft, I just wish he had stayed longer and done it more. Ballmer hardly holds a candle to the level of wanton value destruction that Billg managed.
Whoa, it seems some Microsoft scientologist with mod points doesn't like facts.
Billg stepped down as CEO days before MSFT started to tank. The writing was on the wall long before that, and Billg created the conditions for one of the greatest losses of shareholder equity in corporate history. Billg stayed on as "chief software architect" until 2006, by which time his complete incompetence in that role was more than apparent to all. I am very pleased with what Billg did to Microsoft, I just wish he had stayed longer and done it more. Ballmer hardly holds a candle to the level of wanton value destruction that Billg managed.
Microsoft's decline started on Bill Gates' watch. Maybe Ballmer will preside over the "fall" phase. Maybe Ballmer's next trick will be learning to play the fiddle while playing with matches.
You think 10 million is a big number? Apple will sell more iPod Touches this quarter, let alone phones, and tablets.
You're on drugs. Last year we learned that Apple sold 60 million iPod touches over a 3 1/2 year period. That's 1.42 million a month. You're darn right, 10 million in a month is a big number, and it's a brand new high margin smarthphone, not some obsolete mp3 player.
I was going to say, I wipe my ass with your pimply Apple toady face, but hey, that would be an unfriendly way to start the new year, so I won't. And I'd worry about catching something.
Ooh, an Apple cultist. I feel icky already, just thinking about you. There's a difference with Apple undercutting itself this time: Apple is undercutting a higher priced current product with a lower priced obsolete product. Ouch. Well, carry on, and take care not to waste your money on frivolous things like food and shoes, Apple won't be employing you forever.
Apples problem is not an unsuccessful Ipad mini its a successful one.
Keep in mind that Apple holds the actual iPad Mini sales numbers close to its chest and can continue to do so until it is required to reveal them by law. Which too it can dodge for a while if it wants. So far, we have only seen media spin like "sold out in China". Yeah right. Pretty soon Apple execs will be required to sign their next quarterlies and come clean on the sales numbers or go to jail. Something tells me it isn't going to be pretty.
You're right, Apple only hurts themselves every time they sell a Mini. Which is as good an explanation of "shortages" as any. It's certainly not because the market fell in love with it. Future Shop is discounting iPad 4 and iPhone 5 for the holiday season. Whoops.
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When the tipping point comes, the speed of transition will come as a great surprise to many. Probably within weeks rather than months.
Smells like wishful thinking to me.
Maybe you need to clean your sphincter
He meant to say "Apple corporate sphincter is utterly filthy".
The best you can say is that Google is worlds better than Microsoft, Apple or Oracle.
That's the thing... You really can't. They're exactly as evil as Microsoft, Apple and Oracle...
Ha ha, that's funny. You obviously know nothing about Microsoft, Apple or Oracle, or you work for one of them.
my comment was rather to hopefully wake up some of the masses around slashdot who seem to think that google is somehow not just another corporation, and somehow far more friendly to them than any of the other computing behemoths out there.
The best you can say is that Google is worlds better than Microsoft, Apple or Oracle. But that seems to be changing, and perhaps the slide is accelerating, fueled by the hubris of success. Riding on the back of free contributions, I might add. It is up to us to provide alternatives to all the Google services we rely on, before those gifts become chains.
Defending against "Aluyin OS-style modification of Android" is idiotic. Definitely counts as throwing the baby out with the bathwater. What Larry Page should be defending against is Android starting to suck more than it already does because it doesn't have hundreds of thousands of independent programmers working on it, only the bespoke ones at Google, mostly interns because the full timers are too smart to work hard.
Larry Page better remember what happened to Sun. Sun used to rule the world. Now look at them. Err, you can't they're dead. It's getting hard to tell the difference between control freak Google over Android versus Control freak Sun over Java.
He meant to say "Apple is the apothesis of utter corporate filth"
Yes. Buy Amazon. It's called "going long".
But wince is just as dead, so who cares?
Billg stepped down as CEO days before MSFT started to tank. The writing was on the wall long before that, and Billg created the conditions for one of the greatest losses of shareholder equity in corporate history. Billg stayed on as "chief software architect" until 2006, by which time his complete incompetence in that role was more than apparent to all. I am very pleased with what Billg did to Microsoft, I just wish he had stayed longer and done it more. Ballmer hardly holds a candle to the level of wanton value destruction that Billg managed.
Whoa, it seems some Microsoft scientologist with mod points doesn't like facts.
Didn't Ballmer say something about squirting on the teenagers?
Billg stepped down as CEO days before MSFT started to tank. The writing was on the wall long before that, and Billg created the conditions for one of the greatest losses of shareholder equity in corporate history. Billg stayed on as "chief software architect" until 2006, by which time his complete incompetence in that role was more than apparent to all. I am very pleased with what Billg did to Microsoft, I just wish he had stayed longer and done it more. Ballmer hardly holds a candle to the level of wanton value destruction that Billg managed.
Wince was an awesome project?
Bill doesn't have balls, that's why he married a subordinate.
New Coke. Need I say more.
Microsoft's decline started on Bill Gates' watch. Maybe Ballmer will preside over the "fall" phase. Maybe Ballmer's next trick will be learning to play the fiddle while playing with matches.
You think 10 million is a big number? Apple will sell more iPod Touches this quarter, let alone phones, and tablets.
You're on drugs. Last year we learned that Apple sold 60 million iPod touches over a 3 1/2 year period. That's 1.42 million a month. You're darn right, 10 million in a month is a big number, and it's a brand new high margin smarthphone, not some obsolete mp3 player.
I was going to say, I wipe my ass with your pimply Apple toady face, but hey, that would be an unfriendly way to start the new year, so I won't. And I'd worry about catching something.
In fact, how wildly improbable is it, that exactly that kind of behaviour helped make him sick?
Photos of Steve Jobs in the handicapped spot are available from long before he was ever diagnosed with cancer.
Samsung Galaxy Note II sales exceed one million in Korea, may hit 10M globally in Q1
Read and weep. Seems, somebody didn't forget what innovation means.
we should all be thanking Steve Jobs for creating the entire modern tablet industry
We should all be thanking Steve Jobs for dying, so handicapped people can use their parking space again.
I think you nailed it with your "either that".
Ooh, an Apple cultist. I feel icky already, just thinking about you. There's a difference with Apple undercutting itself this time: Apple is undercutting a higher priced current product with a lower priced obsolete product. Ouch. Well, carry on, and take care not to waste your money on frivolous things like food and shoes, Apple won't be employing you forever.
Apples problem is not an unsuccessful Ipad mini its a successful one.
Keep in mind that Apple holds the actual iPad Mini sales numbers close to its chest and can continue to do so until it is required to reveal them by law. Which too it can dodge for a while if it wants. So far, we have only seen media spin like "sold out in China". Yeah right. Pretty soon Apple execs will be required to sign their next quarterlies and come clean on the sales numbers or go to jail. Something tells me it isn't going to be pretty.
You're right, Apple only hurts themselves every time they sell a Mini. Which is as good an explanation of "shortages" as any. It's certainly not because the market fell in love with it. Future Shop is discounting iPad 4 and iPhone 5 for the holiday season. Whoops.