I bought 2 iTunes Plus tracks just 2 months ago and now they drop the price almost 25%? I want my refund damnit! Or at least an iTunes credit for $0.30.
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I guess some of us are just curious why it's such a huge attraction to some people. I know if someone came up with a good scenario where Wifi sync made my life easier or more convenient, I'd be sold. But really, the only time I'd have changes to sync to my media player would be when I'm actually at the computer making changes (buying/downloading songs, videos, etc), i.e. when it's also convenient to plug it in and get some extra charge at the same time.
Thanks for pointing that out. I have to agree too. When I told people that the car actually drove better, they seemed indredulous, like the only reason people buy BMWs is to impress people.
But you have to remember that we're probably the exceptions to the rule. I'd venture to guess that the overwhelming majority of people get BMWs not because it's a great drive but because of what it says to others. Considering how many people can't even drive a stick, I'd have to say most people just don't care about performance.
You guys WATCH TOO MUCH TV!:-) Do you really spend that much time in front of a TV that the better usability of the TiVo makes that much difference in your life?!
Me, my TimeWarner DVR is cheaper (both no upfront cost and lower monthly fee to boot) and records the 5 or 6 TV shows I wanna watch. I set it up with "season passes" sometime last year and totally forgot about it. No usability issues since the only interaction I have with the unit is pushing the LIST button to see what shows were recorded and hitting play. No muss no fuss. I can pause live TV for an hour, I can record two shows at the same time and I can do it all in HD with no hassle from the cable company.
And if something goes wrong with the unit I can either walk it into the cable center or they'll send someone out to replace it. Not that anything's actually gone wrong with it, it's never crashed or required a reboot. Come to think about it, that's exactly like the TiVo I replaced a long time ago.
Yeah the way he wrote it would make you think that's what he was talking about. But I think he was going more for the obsolesence argument. In otherwords, because electronics go obsolete so quickly, it makes sense to rent instead of buy. How useful will those Series 2 TiVos be when everything goes HD?
If I rent my DVR from the cable company, I know I can just swap out for a new unit when new tech comes out. (Though admittedly, it's far less often when dealing with cable company tech. Not that Tivo is on the cutting edge either mind you.)
Personally I switched from TiVo to nothing and finally to my Time Warner DVR. TiVo is nice and all but recommended shows was the first feature I turned off. And my current DVR does exactly what I need it to, record the 5 or 6 TV shows I like and that's it. And it does it in HD, a long time before TiVo started saying, "Give me $800 and $17/month and I can do the same thing but easier."
I have to wholeheartedly agree. Japanese manufacturers just can't get a grip on what usability even is. Japanese and Korean gadgets (and their Chinese knockoffs) are the epitome of featuritis, check box mentality that Apple is 180 degrees from.
I'm right there with you man. I was an original Tivo user many many years back. Tivo's autorecord feature was the first thing I turned off. Then word got out that viewing habits were being sold while the monthly fee was going up. That just killed me. It's really just the principle of it all. Why am I paying for a service that's got ads on it?
After I moved and switched to HD, I decided to cancel Tivo altogether. I'm now using Time Warner's DVR and while it's not the Mac interface of DVRs, it gets the job done. I have it set to record the 5 or 6 shows I want it to and it does it. Why do you need a Tivo interface for that? And why pay an extra $12/month for it?
The only reason I'm looking at Tivo HD now is because of TivoToGo. And that's only the potential of TivoToGo since it doesn't work with Tivo HD yet. And we all know that "coming soon" in Tivo parlance can mean months to a year from now.
When I first moved to my apartment building, I plugged in my Sony LCD TV and got to watch other people's on-demand shows until I got my own cable service. I was able to watch about 3 movies this way. It was kinda funny, they ended up pausing the movie at the exact same time I needed to get up for a health break. Also watched some porn and it's fun/creepy watching other people's porn habits and how much porn they "need". Haha.
True about laptop prices, but then I don't wanna have to lug around a 7 pound laptop while traveling through Europe for a few weeks when most of what I need to do can be accomplished on a phone (iPhone or whatever) or similar device (basic email, international sms and phone calls, access my contacts, pictures, internet, music, videos, etc.). (Although if the iPhone can't be unlocked, that'll be a major bill. Just got back from 2 weeks across the Mediterranean and my phone bill came out to $200 for data and phone calls!)
Plus most people who are gonna buy this don't even know what putty, ssh or even linux is. It does what normal people need it to do, and it makes it easy to access those functions. This is not a device for the linux loving slashdot community. None of my "normal" friends care that they can install Java (or Brew) apps on their phones, they can barely get most of the functions working properly like syncing a contact list to a computer. Why do you think phone stores offer to copy your contacts to your new phone when you upgrade it?
Wait you've been able to watch Pirates of the Caribbean, got the feeling to eat calamari, look up seafood in Google maps and then make a call to the restaurant? All on your Blackberry, 3 years ago?
I'm not saying it's a new innovation but leaving out select details kinda kills your argument.
As my relatively new 2 year old HDTV only has DVI and component and no HDMI I suppose I'll be in the "screwed early-adopter" category so I'll be buying a few HD-DVD units and returning them when, "Ooops, I just found out it doesn't actually do HD unless you have HDMI, oh well, can I return it? K Thx, bye!"
I suggest others do the same so we can send a message and make sure the MPAA et al know there's a segment of the market who won't stand for degraded standards for committing the crime of purchasing an HDTV before THEY got THEIR act together.
Hater alert! Ghost Recon on the 360 is an awesome game. Not caring about the quality of games? This game is truly the first next gen game out there. Around a year before the PS3 will even be out in the US.
And complaining about the wonders of sweat on basketball players: isn't that what the Emotion chip is supposed to be all about? To enable the PS3 to show all the detail of the characters expressions, like sweat for example? And yeah, it does make a difference, take a look at Fight Night 3 on the 360. No more power meters, you have to look at your opponent to tell how they're doing.
Oh and I don't have a Windows box in the house at all...
Yeah, except they're not locking out just AMD users. They're also locking out anybody who has an Intel chip that doesn't meet their arbitrary requirements. So to me it sounds more like a forced obsolescence plan to get people to upgrade to higher end PCs.
Maybe it's just me but in the end, who really cares about previous-generation titles? Backward compatibility is an issue for the first year when titles are limited, but after that, is it really an issue? I don't know anybody still playing Playstation 1 games on their PS2s.
And the PC market will always be limited compared to the consoles, especially now that consoles are more than a match for the average PC.
This is an entirely naive question as I have no knowledge of viruses or how they spread, etc. But is it possible that at 3%, there simply aren't enough Macs to support network propagation of a virus? Or rather, that the density of Macs simply won't support it? Just thinking aloud and wanted to put the thought out there.
So does this mean if a content provider doesn't pay up, BellSouth will throttle down data coming from that provider? Will they arbitrarily lose packets to slow down transmission? Or do they block all access altogether?
Also as to what Mark Cuban said: Don't we already have different levels of service quality? If I pay for dialup access at say $9/month I get a certain amount of bandwidth. If I pony up $25/month for DSL I get even more. If I decide cable is the way to go and pay $50/month, even more than DSL (in my case at least). And finally, if I really want guaranteed access, I pay for business-level service. So what the hell are these poeple talking about? If I'm already paying for my bandwidth, why am I being asked to pay again. Because we all know that it's the consumers who will end up paying these extra fees.
All these old-school legacy companies need to get a swift ass kicking.
huh? you need to clarify your iPod sales numbers because even this press release (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/feb/23ipodmi ni.html) says 10 million iPods sold and that was when the second gen iPod mini was released close to a year ago. in fact, google the sales results for this quarter and analysts are expecting 11 million ipods the holiday quarter alone.
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Agreed. I'm not really sure of Obama but this pretty much seals the deal. No way is McCain and the police state getting my vote.
I bought 2 iTunes Plus tracks just 2 months ago and now they drop the price almost 25%? I want my refund damnit! Or at least an iTunes credit for $0.30.
I guess some of us are just curious why it's such a huge attraction to some people. I know if someone came up with a good scenario where Wifi sync made my life easier or more convenient, I'd be sold. But really, the only time I'd have changes to sync to my media player would be when I'm actually at the computer making changes (buying/downloading songs, videos, etc), i.e. when it's also convenient to plug it in and get some extra charge at the same time.
Thanks for pointing that out. I have to agree too. When I told people that the car actually drove better, they seemed indredulous, like the only reason people buy BMWs is to impress people.
But you have to remember that we're probably the exceptions to the rule. I'd venture to guess that the overwhelming majority of people get BMWs not because it's a great drive but because of what it says to others. Considering how many people can't even drive a stick, I'd have to say most people just don't care about performance.
You guys WATCH TOO MUCH TV! :-) Do you really spend that much time in front of a TV that the better usability of the TiVo makes that much difference in your life?!
Me, my TimeWarner DVR is cheaper (both no upfront cost and lower monthly fee to boot) and records the 5 or 6 TV shows I wanna watch. I set it up with "season passes" sometime last year and totally forgot about it. No usability issues since the only interaction I have with the unit is pushing the LIST button to see what shows were recorded and hitting play. No muss no fuss. I can pause live TV for an hour, I can record two shows at the same time and I can do it all in HD with no hassle from the cable company.
And if something goes wrong with the unit I can either walk it into the cable center or they'll send someone out to replace it. Not that anything's actually gone wrong with it, it's never crashed or required a reboot. Come to think about it, that's exactly like the TiVo I replaced a long time ago.
Yeah the way he wrote it would make you think that's what he was talking about. But I think he was going more for the obsolesence argument. In otherwords, because electronics go obsolete so quickly, it makes sense to rent instead of buy. How useful will those Series 2 TiVos be when everything goes HD?
If I rent my DVR from the cable company, I know I can just swap out for a new unit when new tech comes out. (Though admittedly, it's far less often when dealing with cable company tech. Not that Tivo is on the cutting edge either mind you.)
Personally I switched from TiVo to nothing and finally to my Time Warner DVR. TiVo is nice and all but recommended shows was the first feature I turned off. And my current DVR does exactly what I need it to, record the 5 or 6 TV shows I like and that's it. And it does it in HD, a long time before TiVo started saying, "Give me $800 and $17/month and I can do the same thing but easier."
I have to wholeheartedly agree. Japanese manufacturers just can't get a grip on what usability even is. Japanese and Korean gadgets (and their Chinese knockoffs) are the epitome of featuritis, check box mentality that Apple is 180 degrees from.
I'm right there with you man. I was an original Tivo user many many years back. Tivo's autorecord feature was the first thing I turned off. Then word got out that viewing habits were being sold while the monthly fee was going up. That just killed me. It's really just the principle of it all. Why am I paying for a service that's got ads on it?
After I moved and switched to HD, I decided to cancel Tivo altogether. I'm now using Time Warner's DVR and while it's not the Mac interface of DVRs, it gets the job done. I have it set to record the 5 or 6 shows I want it to and it does it. Why do you need a Tivo interface for that? And why pay an extra $12/month for it?
The only reason I'm looking at Tivo HD now is because of TivoToGo. And that's only the potential of TivoToGo since it doesn't work with Tivo HD yet. And we all know that "coming soon" in Tivo parlance can mean months to a year from now.
So does that mean my parents are wrong when they call me a failure at life?! Cause I've never made it big either so there's no way I can be a failure!
Try that again for Windows,Linux,Mac. Kind of interesting to see how Linux and Mac searches correlate.
When I first moved to my apartment building, I plugged in my Sony LCD TV and got to watch other people's on-demand shows until I got my own cable service. I was able to watch about 3 movies this way. It was kinda funny, they ended up pausing the movie at the exact same time I needed to get up for a health break. Also watched some porn and it's fun/creepy watching other people's porn habits and how much porn they "need". Haha.
True about laptop prices, but then I don't wanna have to lug around a 7 pound laptop while traveling through Europe for a few weeks when most of what I need to do can be accomplished on a phone (iPhone or whatever) or similar device (basic email, international sms and phone calls, access my contacts, pictures, internet, music, videos, etc.). (Although if the iPhone can't be unlocked, that'll be a major bill. Just got back from 2 weeks across the Mediterranean and my phone bill came out to $200 for data and phone calls!)
Plus most people who are gonna buy this don't even know what putty, ssh or even linux is. It does what normal people need it to do, and it makes it easy to access those functions. This is not a device for the linux loving slashdot community. None of my "normal" friends care that they can install Java (or Brew) apps on their phones, they can barely get most of the functions working properly like syncing a contact list to a computer. Why do you think phone stores offer to copy your contacts to your new phone when you upgrade it?
Wait you've been able to watch Pirates of the Caribbean, got the feeling to eat calamari, look up seafood in Google maps and then make a call to the restaurant? All on your Blackberry, 3 years ago?
I'm not saying it's a new innovation but leaving out select details kinda kills your argument.
> Since Apple makes the best mp3 player that's what the employees are going to spend the money on.
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That's arguable to some people!
And the OO comment was a joke of course!
So first it's iPods being the preferred mp3 player and now Google is the preferred search engine. Do they want PS3s and OpenOffice also?!
As my relatively new 2 year old HDTV only has DVI and component and no HDMI I suppose I'll be in the "screwed early-adopter" category so I'll be buying a few HD-DVD units and returning them when, "Ooops, I just found out it doesn't actually do HD unless you have HDMI, oh well, can I return it? K Thx, bye!"
I suggest others do the same so we can send a message and make sure the MPAA et al know there's a segment of the market who won't stand for degraded standards for committing the crime of purchasing an HDTV before THEY got THEIR act together.
That's probably close to a decade ago now! Wow, how things change in 10 years!
Hater alert! Ghost Recon on the 360 is an awesome game. Not caring about the quality of games? This game is truly the first next gen game out there. Around a year before the PS3 will even be out in the US.
And complaining about the wonders of sweat on basketball players: isn't that what the Emotion chip is supposed to be all about? To enable the PS3 to show all the detail of the characters expressions, like sweat for example? And yeah, it does make a difference, take a look at Fight Night 3 on the 360. No more power meters, you have to look at your opponent to tell how they're doing.
Oh and I don't have a Windows box in the house at all...
Yeah, except they're not locking out just AMD users. They're also locking out anybody who has an Intel chip that doesn't meet their arbitrary requirements. So to me it sounds more like a forced obsolescence plan to get people to upgrade to higher end PCs.
Maybe it's just me but in the end, who really cares about previous-generation titles? Backward compatibility is an issue for the first year when titles are limited, but after that, is it really an issue? I don't know anybody still playing Playstation 1 games on their PS2s.
And the PC market will always be limited compared to the consoles, especially now that consoles are more than a match for the average PC.
This is an entirely naive question as I have no knowledge of viruses or how they spread, etc. But is it possible that at 3%, there simply aren't enough Macs to support network propagation of a virus? Or rather, that the density of Macs simply won't support it? Just thinking aloud and wanted to put the thought out there.
So does this mean if a content provider doesn't pay up, BellSouth will throttle down data coming from that provider? Will they arbitrarily lose packets to slow down transmission? Or do they block all access altogether?
Also as to what Mark Cuban said: Don't we already have different levels of service quality? If I pay for dialup access at say $9/month I get a certain amount of bandwidth. If I pony up $25/month for DSL I get even more. If I decide cable is the way to go and pay $50/month, even more than DSL (in my case at least). And finally, if I really want guaranteed access, I pay for business-level service. So what the hell are these poeple talking about? If I'm already paying for my bandwidth, why am I being asked to pay again. Because we all know that it's the consumers who will end up paying these extra fees.
All these old-school legacy companies need to get a swift ass kicking.
huh? you need to clarify your iPod sales numbers because even this press release (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/feb/23ipodmi ni.html) says 10 million iPods sold and that was when the second gen iPod mini was released close to a year ago. in fact, google the sales results for this quarter and analysts are expecting 11 million ipods the holiday quarter alone.
whoever modded the parent offtopic is an idiot.
Isn't this a WiFi enabled camera from Kodak?
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