With all of their assets in the bank, they could do more R&D or they can start absorbing other companies.
Well, any company with a decent business plan has a P/E too high for even Apple to afford. (Example: Facebook - P/E 125)
Fallback is to buy cheaper companies with lower margin, thus averaging down their own margin. Brilliant. See, unless the acquistion is diabolically stategic, shareholders would be better off just taking the cash out in dividends. And Apple hasn't been showing a whole lot of brilliance lately.
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
A Linux box of that vintage can do the job in less than two seconds. No exaggeration. I have a PPro Linux box of that vintage still running. It can transfer over IDE (the grotty old ribbon cable standard) at a steady 50 MB/Sec. I assume the files are on the same disk otherwise Linux can do the read and write in parallel, even on IDE (provided the disks are on separate IDE controllers, which they should be, those machines always have two IDE controllers). Allow a second for some fragmention. Result: file copy is finished well under two seconds.
Please bear in mind that living all your life in a Microsoft coccoon may be hazardous to your awareness of what your hardware is really capable of.
Do you mean to compare a subsidized HTC Evo 4G to an unsubsidized iPhone 4S without even talking about the rest of the cost? It looks to me as if the EVO 4G is $599.99 instead of your $300 which makes it a heck of a lot closer to the Apple 4 that is only only 519€ unlocked in France (couldn't find a price unlocked in the US).
As of right now your price for the Apple phone is UER 519 which is $639 USD versus $297 for the Samsung just as GP said. Moral of the story: never accept any claim by an Apple fan at face value. Second moral of the story: a Best Buy link is always a red flag.
I'm sure that most of us are. It seems that our only recourse, though, is to simply not buy Apple products to show them we disapprove of their actions. Good luck getting the masses to part with their iToys though.
Similarly, those of us who think Samsung are in the wrong will avoid buying "iToy" ripoffs.
So basically, iZombies will continue believing everything Apple tells them including that Apple products don't suck and the other 95% of us can get on with life.
Direct3D and OpenGL are basically identical these days. OpenGL is more flexible, but to be honest that flexibility just ends up shooting yourself in the foot.
Did Google kick in the door of a journalist yet? Did Google "suicide" a factory worker who lost a phone prototype? Did Google try to strongarm an environmental organization? Did Larry park in the disabled spot?
Macheads always have fallback positions, don't you know? When iPhone became less than half the market they said "it's still the largest selling smartphone" then when Samsung by itself passed Apple, they said "all iOS devices are more than all Android devices" then when that was no longer true they started saying "but Apple makes more on each one" and now that Apple's margins are shrinking, I can hardly wait to hear what they come up for the next fallback. The really amazing thing is how they all start saying the same, different stupid thing at the same time, almost like they have an iFallback app.
Apple itself reduced estimates for its next quarter (ie, they are not releasing iPhone 5 anytime soon)
(Whiny Fanboi Voice) Yeah, but, but, when Apple releases the iPhone 5, they'll bury Samsung! And if they don't, it'll only be because they just can't make them fast enough to keep up with demand! You'll see!
Well for me, the iPhone 5 roll out is the mostly breathlessly anticipated Apple offering ever, because I'm looking forward to the epic fail. And Apple spinmods, before you reach for that button, know that I do not hate Apple. Per se. I hate evil.
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I heard that Apple plans to introduce a one-button keyboard.
Apple can do both R&D and acquisition.
When is Apple going to start doing R&D?
With all of their assets in the bank, they could do more R&D or they can start absorbing other companies.
Well, any company with a decent business plan has a P/E too high for even Apple to afford. (Example: Facebook - P/E 125)
Fallback is to buy cheaper companies with lower margin, thus averaging down their own margin. Brilliant. See, unless the acquistion is diabolically stategic, shareholders would be better off just taking the cash out in dividends. And Apple hasn't been showing a whole lot of brilliance lately.
is gnome dying?
Netcraft confirms it.
TFA seems to be describing a mature software project that has entered maintenance mode. Why would this be a bad thing?
It would be a bad thing if that mature design is incomplete and unpolished in many ways.
While Gnome flounders, KDE went through its identity crisis years ago and is back to being stable, fast, complete and nicer than ever before.
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
A Linux box of that vintage can do the job in less than two seconds. No exaggeration. I have a PPro Linux box of that vintage still running. It can transfer over IDE (the grotty old ribbon cable standard) at a steady 50 MB/Sec. I assume the files are on the same disk otherwise Linux can do the read and write in parallel, even on IDE (provided the disks are on separate IDE controllers, which they should be, those machines always have two IDE controllers). Allow a second for some fragmention. Result: file copy is finished well under two seconds.
Please bear in mind that living all your life in a Microsoft coccoon may be hazardous to your awareness of what your hardware is really capable of.
Do you mean to compare a subsidized HTC Evo 4G to an unsubsidized iPhone 4S without even talking about the rest of the cost? It looks to me as if the EVO 4G is $599.99 instead of your $300 which makes it a heck of a lot closer to the Apple 4 that is only only 519€ unlocked in France (couldn't find a price unlocked in the US).
Unlocked HTC Evo 4G... Our Price: $297.
As of right now your price for the Apple phone is UER 519 which is $639 USD versus $297 for the Samsung just as GP said. Moral of the story: never accept any claim by an Apple fan at face value. Second moral of the story: a Best Buy link is always a red flag.
I'm sure that most of us are. It seems that our only recourse, though, is to simply not buy Apple products to show them we disapprove of their actions. Good luck getting the masses to part with their iToys though.
Similarly, those of us who think Samsung are in the wrong will avoid buying "iToy" ripoffs.
So basically, iZombies will continue believing everything Apple tells them including that Apple products don't suck and the other 95% of us can get on with life.
Microsoft want to turn the PC into an Xbox, where everything is bought through their channels.
I'd like that, because there are only 67 million Xboxes.
This is just people going. Oh No Change! We don't like change. We will fall back.
It's really Microsoft shareholders who should be going "oh no!" because as you correctly point out, people don't like change.
Direct3D and OpenGL are basically identical these days. OpenGL is more flexible, but to be honest that flexibility just ends up shooting yourself in the foot.
Ah.... where is that honesty of which you spoke?
So... according to you, it matter's not if Samsung's phone profits go crazy while Apple's wilt, as long as the lawsuits just keep chugging along?
Did Google kick in the door of a journalist yet? Did Google "suicide" a factory worker who lost a phone prototype? Did Google try to strongarm an environmental organization? Did Larry park in the disabled spot?
how about an article on every windows- or android-based trojan.
Because it's just a whole lot more fun to see the holy annointed iHeads squirm.
Macheads always have fallback positions, don't you know? When iPhone became less than half the market they said "it's still the largest selling smartphone" then when Samsung by itself passed Apple, they said "all iOS devices are more than all Android devices" then when that was no longer true they started saying "but Apple makes more on each one" and now that Apple's margins are shrinking, I can hardly wait to hear what they come up for the next fallback. The really amazing thing is how they all start saying the same, different stupid thing at the same time, almost like they have an iFallback app.
Apple insists they don't need Google, so why would Google wait for them to be dropped.
If Google pulls their iPhone apps it could result in an antitrust action against Google. This way, any antitrust action would be against Apple.
Apple itself reduced estimates for its next quarter (ie, they are not releasing iPhone 5 anytime soon)
(Whiny Fanboi Voice) Yeah, but, but, when Apple releases the iPhone 5, they'll bury Samsung! And if they don't, it'll only be because they just can't make them fast enough to keep up with demand! You'll see!
Well for me, the iPhone 5 roll out is the mostly breathlessly anticipated Apple offering ever, because I'm looking forward to the epic fail. And Apple spinmods, before you reach for that button, know that I do not hate Apple. Per se. I hate evil.
As soon as Apple puts its own Maps app up, I wouldn't be surprised to see "duplicate functionality" apps get axed from the store.
You know, the usual Apple MO.
Wasn't that basically the Microsoft MO, except instead of banning competitors they would cut of their air supply and bankrupt them?
A fact i am very happy with...
just their way of trying to save face right before Apple kicks them off from the iPhone main screen
I can see it now: instead of "Android is better because it has Flash" it will be "Android is better because it has Google".
I hate to admit it, but where I live, Bing Maps actually has the newest satellite/overhead views.
Because Microsoft was last to build its database?
How's that thermonuclear thing working out for you now, Steve?
Thanks, but no thanks. I'm holding out for my suborbital scramjet.
Given sufficient bandwidth, QoS is as unnecessary as traffic shaping...
Dream on. In a perfect world everybody has an exclusive 10Gige up and down. In the real world, any link you can afford will saturate some time.