A store doesn't have to sell you multiple copies of something...
And the proper response to this is to taser her.
Cue Apple employees lining up to agree that it is right for the Apple police to tazer anybody who does not do exactly as Apple wishes. Kicking in the front doors of journalists is another technique that Apple employees agree Apple should use liberally.
Repeating the lie about Apple patenting "rounded corners" to justify defending a patent troll? Hint: Apple has never claimed to have a patent on rounded corners. That's an invention of the internet. They have a design patent on the overall iPhone design and have only sued the one company that blatantly (and admitted doing so in their own internal correspondence) copied it.
It is you who should take a hint and stop spouting off randomly about things you apparently have very little knowledge of. Apple was in fact granted a design patent for the "trade dress" of certain products in the EU. A german court granted Apple a preliminary injunction against Samsung tablets based on that design patent. Note: this was not a ruling on the alleged infringement, which has not been decided by the German court, but has already been rejected by a UK court. That does not stop Apple camp followers from crowing about a supposed judgement, which does not in fact exist. A real ruling was made in the UK, that Samsung did not infringe the same design patent. The effect of the UK ruling is EU-wide. The judge also ruled that Apple must publicly apologize to Samsung. You might imagine that the prelimnary injunction granted in Germany now rests on shaky ground, and you would be right. But that will probably not stop you from continuing to make wildly wrong claims in public about what actually happened.
It makes very little difference whether a random slashdot poster thinks Apple's iOS monopoly is not a monopoly, it is more important whether regulatory agencies regard Apple's activities with respect to their iOS monopoly as abuse of market power.
At that time NVidia had fallen behind AMD in terms of throughput per die area and was forced to push up clock rates to compensate, causing heating and yield problems. Those were dark days for nVidia, now mostly fading painful memory, but AMD still gets more graphic throughput out of the same die area.
It is not necessary to own all or even the majority of a market in order to violate antitrust laws. Offenses such as abuse of market power and tying depend on whether the abuser is able to exercise market power or not, which depends in turn on being able to identify a specific market. So... does Apple exercise market power in the iOS market or not?
in the past 12 weeks, sales of Apple (AAPL) smartphones accounted for 48.1% of the market compared to Android’s 46.7% share.
Very funny. A 1.4% difference is well within the statistical noise. That is "temporarily caught up with", not "overtaken". And you failed to mention that the bgr report is US only. In the rest of the world, Android continues to enjoy a wide and widening lead of Apple. Typical iToady approach to telling the truth.
For the record, just having viable competition is not enough in itself to avoid antitrust action. The test being used in US courts nowadays is, does a company exercise "market power"? The ability to enforce an unusually high royalty rate of 30% for a service that costs nothing approaching that is a pretty good indication that market power is being exercised, or in other words abused. So the way is open to bring Apple into court under existing antitrust laws and interpretations. Whether Apple vendors and customers have the will to make that happen is an open question. It is possible that Android will marginalize Apple to an extent that people stop caring about this issue long before the justice system ever comes into the picture.
The correct way to enhance developer freedom is by not having anything to do with Apple. If you are hoping Apple might some day turn over a new leaf, you are doomed to disappointment.
As a publicly traded company, you risk being sued by your shareholders if you do NOT use such tax arrangements as soon as you learn about the possibility.
Are these the same shareholders who stood by while Nokia was gutted by Stephen Elop at Microsoft's behest? And who sat on their thumbs while Microsoft frittered away tens of billions of dollars on vanity projects? You're telling me that those same shareholders are actually going to go snooping around the respective accounting departments and demand to know what is going on with the tax evasion strategy? You think they're going to show up at the annual meeting and try to fire the board for paying their fair share of taxes?
The problem would be easily solved by regulation, including clear cut accounting rules governing attribution of sales revenue by jurisdiction, coupled with enforcement teeth such as revoking business licenses of evaders and assessing taxes on corporate parents. The will to address this widespread evasion, which has been well known since before the turn of the centry, is lacking for reasons that you might fairly regard with suspicion.
If it works, it's antigravity just as much as a table leg is. In that sense, we have already had antigravity for some time. What you really meant to say is: land speeder, finally.
The truth is Ubuntu will not continue to exist unless they can make money. This isn't the first strategy they've tried.
Two words: "bad idea". Recognize that, make it opt-in instead of opt-out ("Support Ubuntu and get better search by enabling this...") and move on to more viable ideas.
Busted by RMS for adding spyware to Linux, which is not in doubt. Cue the defiant spin. Bad strategy. Ubuntu guys should talk less about their Apple envy and more about doing the right thing.
Intrusive ads are the least of my worries. The creepy snooping is just not something I can accept in the long run. Google might be more trustworthy than Microsoft or Apple, but I still don't feel that is very trustworthy.
"Adequate" is the best I can say about the new Kmail. There are still many bugs, but severity is decreasing. On some recent upgrade my spam filter finally started working again, without which email life is nearly unbearable, compounded by the glacially slow rate the Akonadi horror deletes mails. To pour salt on the wound, after ever so many deletes it will get itself confused and claim to have duplicates, pop up a dialog for the you resolve the bogus issue, and thus, stall the already seriously painful process of cleaning out spam one mail at a time.
One thing I did is put in the Postgres backend instead of MySQL. I just don't trust MySQL, at all, not only because Oracle owns it and can't be trusted, but because it's always been just not a very carefully engineered code base. Maybe it's just my imagination, but the switch to Postgres seemed to help. And it was actually kind of fun learning how to set it up and administrate it. Talk about overkill for a mailer.
I hear the open source driver is making leaps and bounds but it's still not as polished as Intel's.
Not quite, but it meets my needs to the extent I don't bother with the Catalyst driver. It's been that way for about 3 years now. The open source Radeon driver with a decent Radeon card turns in many times the 3D throughput of the best Intel embedded, and even low end fanless Radeon cards beat Intel easily.
Yes, performance-wise, Intel cards are still low, but I wonder if they do not even beat ATI cards when using only open source drivers.
Intel embedded against Radeon PCI card? Not even close I can assure you, not even for the cheapest Radeon. The same probably holds for Fusion chips, though I haven't verified it persionally.
How about just saying, "You get what you pay for"?
It's worse than that. You get hooked on the loss leader then when you realize there is no way out of a trap, it's too late. Note that I'm not saying I know the way out, just that I know it's a trap. A shiny, free, useful trap, but a trap all the same.
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A store doesn't have to sell you multiple copies of something...
And the proper response to this is to taser her.
Cue Apple employees lining up to agree that it is right for the Apple police to tazer anybody who does not do exactly as Apple wishes. Kicking in the front doors of journalists is another technique that Apple employees agree Apple should use liberally.
Repeating the lie about Apple patenting "rounded corners" to justify defending a patent troll? Hint: Apple has never claimed to have a patent on rounded corners. That's an invention of the internet. They have a design patent on the overall iPhone design and have only sued the one company that blatantly (and admitted doing so in their own internal correspondence) copied it.
It is you who should take a hint and stop spouting off randomly about things you apparently have very little knowledge of. Apple was in fact granted a design patent for the "trade dress" of certain products in the EU. A german court granted Apple a preliminary injunction against Samsung tablets based on that design patent. Note: this was not a ruling on the alleged infringement, which has not been decided by the German court, but has already been rejected by a UK court. That does not stop Apple camp followers from crowing about a supposed judgement, which does not in fact exist. A real ruling was made in the UK, that Samsung did not infringe the same design patent. The effect of the UK ruling is EU-wide. The judge also ruled that Apple must publicly apologize to Samsung. You might imagine that the prelimnary injunction granted in Germany now rests on shaky ground, and you would be right. But that will probably not stop you from continuing to make wildly wrong claims in public about what actually happened.
Apple's stock price down 1.7% as of now. Sellers of Apple stock are also winners.
It makes very little difference whether a random slashdot poster thinks Apple's iOS monopoly is not a monopoly, it is more important whether regulatory agencies regard Apple's activities with respect to their iOS monopoly as abuse of market power.
iOS application distribution, wise guy.
Microsoft simply made an offer nobody could refuse.
Blames chips set designers for solder issues.
At that time NVidia had fallen behind AMD in terms of throughput per die area and was forced to push up clock rates to compensate, causing heating and yield problems. Those were dark days for nVidia, now mostly fading painful memory, but AMD still gets more graphic throughput out of the same die area.
Well, according to all of the Android fanbois, Android has a far, far larger share of the market than iOS now. So I would say no.
The relevant market is the iOS application market, a clearly defined market in which Apple has established a complete monopoly by technological means.
It is not necessary to own all or even the majority of a market in order to violate antitrust laws. Offenses such as abuse of market power and tying depend on whether the abuser is able to exercise market power or not, which depends in turn on being able to identify a specific market. So... does Apple exercise market power in the iOS market or not?
in the past 12 weeks, sales of Apple (AAPL) smartphones accounted for 48.1% of the market compared to Android’s 46.7% share.
Very funny. A 1.4% difference is well within the statistical noise. That is "temporarily caught up with", not "overtaken". And you failed to mention that the bgr report is US only. In the rest of the world, Android continues to enjoy a wide and widening lead of Apple. Typical iToady approach to telling the truth.
For the record, just having viable competition is not enough in itself to avoid antitrust action. The test being used in US courts nowadays is, does a company exercise "market power"? The ability to enforce an unusually high royalty rate of 30% for a service that costs nothing approaching that is a pretty good indication that market power is being exercised, or in other words abused. So the way is open to bring Apple into court under existing antitrust laws and interpretations. Whether Apple vendors and customers have the will to make that happen is an open question. It is possible that Android will marginalize Apple to an extent that people stop caring about this issue long before the justice system ever comes into the picture.
The correct way to enhance developer freedom is by not having anything to do with Apple. If you are hoping Apple might some day turn over a new leaf, you are doomed to disappointment.
It's somehow entertaining to watch these two disgusting organizations mudwrestle in shit.
As a publicly traded company, you risk being sued by your shareholders if you do NOT use such tax arrangements as soon as you learn about the possibility.
Are these the same shareholders who stood by while Nokia was gutted by Stephen Elop at Microsoft's behest? And who sat on their thumbs while Microsoft frittered away tens of billions of dollars on vanity projects? You're telling me that those same shareholders are actually going to go snooping around the respective accounting departments and demand to know what is going on with the tax evasion strategy? You think they're going to show up at the annual meeting and try to fire the board for paying their fair share of taxes?
The problem would be easily solved by regulation, including clear cut accounting rules governing attribution of sales revenue by jurisdiction, coupled with enforcement teeth such as revoking business licenses of evaders and assessing taxes on corporate parents. The will to address this widespread evasion, which has been well known since before the turn of the centry, is lacking for reasons that you might fairly regard with suspicion.
Why didn't I think of that? A matter beam. Brilliant.
If it works, it's antigravity just as much as a table leg is. In that sense, we have already had antigravity for some time. What you really meant to say is: land speeder, finally.
The truth is Ubuntu will not continue to exist unless they can make money. This isn't the first strategy they've tried.
Two words: "bad idea". Recognize that, make it opt-in instead of opt-out ("Support Ubuntu and get better search by enabling this...") and move on to more viable ideas.
A post such as above reinfrorces every opinion I hold of Microsoft, its tactics, and its camp followers.
Busted by RMS for adding spyware to Linux, which is not in doubt. Cue the defiant spin. Bad strategy. Ubuntu guys should talk less about their Apple envy and more about doing the right thing.
Intrusive ads are the least of my worries. The creepy snooping is just not something I can accept in the long run. Google might be more trustworthy than Microsoft or Apple, but I still don't feel that is very trustworthy.
"Adequate" is the best I can say about the new Kmail. There are still many bugs, but severity is decreasing. On some recent upgrade my spam filter finally started working again, without which email life is nearly unbearable, compounded by the glacially slow rate the Akonadi horror deletes mails. To pour salt on the wound, after ever so many deletes it will get itself confused and claim to have duplicates, pop up a dialog for the you resolve the bogus issue, and thus, stall the already seriously painful process of cleaning out spam one mail at a time.
One thing I did is put in the Postgres backend instead of MySQL. I just don't trust MySQL, at all, not only because Oracle owns it and can't be trusted, but because it's always been just not a very carefully engineered code base. Maybe it's just my imagination, but the switch to Postgres seemed to help. And it was actually kind of fun learning how to set it up and administrate it. Talk about overkill for a mailer.
I hear the open source driver is making leaps and bounds but it's still not as polished as Intel's.
Not quite, but it meets my needs to the extent I don't bother with the Catalyst driver. It's been that way for about 3 years now. The open source Radeon driver with a decent Radeon card turns in many times the 3D throughput of the best Intel embedded, and even low end fanless Radeon cards beat Intel easily.
Yes, performance-wise, Intel cards are still low, but I wonder if they do not even beat ATI cards when using only open source drivers.
Intel embedded against Radeon PCI card? Not even close I can assure you, not even for the cheapest Radeon. The same probably holds for Fusion chips, though I haven't verified it persionally.
How about just saying, "You get what you pay for"?
It's worse than that. You get hooked on the loss leader then when you realize there is no way out of a trap, it's too late. Note that I'm not saying I know the way out, just that I know it's a trap. A shiny, free, useful trap, but a trap all the same.