They are still a computer company. They're just smart enough to realize that most people don't care that they're using a computer.
While you're technically right (oh the pun), that's not the point when looking at it from a business perspective. MBAs don't care if there's a computer in your walkman, just like mainstream society.
Actually, it wasn't, since the iTunes Music Store opened in 2003, while the first iPod came out in 2001. The DRM was added in an update (along with support for AAC).
Unless you count the lack of support for copying back the music from the iPod as DRM. There were many programs out there that could do it, though (the files were in a hidden directory on the iPod's disk).
I'm in the iPod app, listening to a song. I hit the dots and lines button. Now I want to go back to where I just was.
I agree that this is overly complicated, it is probably a programmer solution to the problem that you can't have more than 5 tabs in the toolbar at the bottom.
However, the idea here is that you're at the top level, so there's no location you can go back to. As far as I understand the Android UI, it'd quit the application in this case.
Even "VGA" is unlikely to exist as far into the future because it was a *relatively* specialis standard (at least when compared to PAL/NTSC).
When doing presentations, it's nearly impossible to connect anything else than VGA. Even when the beamer supports DVI or HDMI, the cables are never set up for this. As a result, VGA is always supported on notebooks (exclusively on some), and even on iPads. I do presentations very frequently, and I haven't bought the DVI/HDMI adapters for any of my portable devices, only VGA. I think this will stay with us for a while.
Earlier today, I told Siri, "Remind me when I leave the house in the morning, or by noon, that I need to stop by Mom's house and fix her router." 5 seconds to say + 5 seconds for Siri to process and confirm, and my reminder was set up. I certainly could have done this manually, but Find Reminders app -> Open Reminders app -> Add new reminder -> Add "when I leave the house" geofence criterion -> Add "At noon tomorrow" criterion -> Type "Stop by Mom's house and fix her router" into description field -> Save is unquestionably going to take longer.
While I agree with you, this advantage is amplified by the reminders app being awfully designed. It takes a million touches to set up a reminder with geofencing or a timer, even though getting the number of touches down should have been the number one priority for an app like that. I'm suspicious that they did that on purpose to promote the simplicity of Siri.
If I want to go back to the previous screen, I have to hunt around for the appropriate button, figure out what the developer decided to call it, etc, etc.
Uh, it's always on the top left of the view, it's always shaped like an arrow pointing to the left, and its caption is the name of the view it moves to. What's inconsistent about that?
you sir are a dumbass. my google is trained and understands me perfectly.
Siri obviously doesn't need any training to get to that level. That's important, since training a computer to do what you want it to do is a chore. Just like nearly nobody wants to write his/her own OS kernel just to get the real work done.
also kindle users are not "stuck" in the amazon ecosystem anymore then ipod users are "stuck" in the itunes ecosystem.
Not quite. I can take the AACs I bought on iTunes and play them on any music player/operating system that supports the format. I can't do that with ebooks from Amazon.
But think about someone living under the roof in an apartment below a cell tower. This is something I'd like to see a study about.
Are you aware that cell towers don't emit directly towards the ground? You're probably much better off than any house in the vicinity. And for those, the inverse-square law kicks in.
Plus, it is not technically feasible, even with deep packet inspection. To connect the dots, to know who uploaded what where, is far from trivial, especially if the bad scary pedophile uses non-standard ways of transmitting this data. For example, what if he uses zip files? Also, there is encryption, which totally defeats this "logbox".
The same can be said about data retention, but that didn't deter them from making it a directive.
Like Members of Congress in the USA, EU MEPs come in all shapes, sizes, and states of sanity. This guy's just flying a kite, but any such law would apply the the MEPs too, and you can assume some of them have skeletons in their hard drives. Fuhgeddabouttit.
You can be sure that politicians would be exempt from a law like this. Just because they can.
I guess they're comparing it to consumer-grade GPS, not military-grade. The military-grade GPS always was that much more accurate. So the hardware probably isn't much different, only the access allowed to the public is.
The client device has to be more complex (and thus expensive) since it needs a PCIe controller on it. Also a device can hose your system, being PCIe it has DMA and can write or read any memory.
Although come to think of it, some folks think that waiting two weeks is impossible. In my country the iPhone will be available on October 28. However, we're right next to Germany, where it's available on October 14. I personally know three people who are really considering driving 5 hours to a German Apple Store, just to get the iPhone 4S two weeks earlier. I just don't get that.
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An encrypted file is not really distinguishable from an unencrypted but unknown file.
They can simply block all unknown files.
Occupy movement is camping out in front of Wall Street while this issue is with the government.
Yes, so they're right there where the laws are made nowadays.
Markets for the stuff they want to get rid of.
A market is always some kind of exchange. When you can't offer them anything in return, why should they give their stuff to you?
But it's on a phone, so it's something completely new and nonobvious! "On the Internet" patents are soo 2000.
Hey, that was one month ago! You can't expect that to be true forever, can you?
They are still a computer company. They're just smart enough to realize that most people don't care that they're using a computer.
While you're technically right (oh the pun), that's not the point when looking at it from a business perspective. MBAs don't care if there's a computer in your walkman, just like mainstream society.
Also, it was DRM-laden back then, too.
Actually, it wasn't, since the iTunes Music Store opened in 2003, while the first iPod came out in 2001. The DRM was added in an update (along with support for AAC).
Unless you count the lack of support for copying back the music from the iPod as DRM. There were many programs out there that could do it, though (the files were in a hidden directory on the iPod's disk).
I'm in the iPod app, listening to a song. I hit the dots and lines button. Now I want to go back to where I just was.
I agree that this is overly complicated, it is probably a programmer solution to the problem that you can't have more than 5 tabs in the toolbar at the bottom.
However, the idea here is that you're at the top level, so there's no location you can go back to. As far as I understand the Android UI, it'd quit the application in this case.
Even "VGA" is unlikely to exist as far into the future because it was a *relatively* specialis standard (at least when compared to PAL/NTSC).
When doing presentations, it's nearly impossible to connect anything else than VGA. Even when the beamer supports DVI or HDMI, the cables are never set up for this. As a result, VGA is always supported on notebooks (exclusively on some), and even on iPads. I do presentations very frequently, and I haven't bought the DVI/HDMI adapters for any of my portable devices, only VGA. I think this will stay with us for a while.
Dude, seriously, "she"?
Yes PNutts, don't anthropomorphize her, she doesn't like that.
Earlier today, I told Siri, "Remind me when I leave the house in the morning, or by noon, that I need to stop by Mom's house and fix her router." 5 seconds to say + 5 seconds for Siri to process and confirm, and my reminder was set up. I certainly could have done this manually, but Find Reminders app -> Open Reminders app -> Add new reminder -> Add "when I leave the house" geofence criterion -> Add "At noon tomorrow" criterion -> Type "Stop by Mom's house and fix her router" into description field -> Save is unquestionably going to take longer.
While I agree with you, this advantage is amplified by the reminders app being awfully designed. It takes a million touches to set up a reminder with geofencing or a timer, even though getting the number of touches down should have been the number one priority for an app like that. I'm suspicious that they did that on purpose to promote the simplicity of Siri.
If I want to go back to the previous screen, I have to hunt around for the appropriate button, figure out what the developer decided to call it, etc, etc.
Uh, it's always on the top left of the view, it's always shaped like an arrow pointing to the left, and its caption is the name of the view it moves to. What's inconsistent about that?
you sir are a dumbass. my google is trained and understands me perfectly.
Siri obviously doesn't need any training to get to that level. That's important, since training a computer to do what you want it to do is a chore. Just like nearly nobody wants to write his/her own OS kernel just to get the real work done.
also kindle users are not "stuck" in the amazon ecosystem anymore then ipod users are "stuck" in the itunes ecosystem.
Not quite. I can take the AACs I bought on iTunes and play them on any music player/operating system that supports the format. I can't do that with ebooks from Amazon.
But think about someone living under the roof in an apartment below a cell tower. This is something I'd like to see a study about.
Are you aware that cell towers don't emit directly towards the ground? You're probably much better off than any house in the vicinity. And for those, the inverse-square law kicks in.
Plus, it is not technically feasible, even with deep packet inspection. To connect the dots, to know who uploaded what where, is far from trivial, especially if the bad scary pedophile uses non-standard ways of transmitting this data. For example, what if he uses zip files? Also, there is encryption, which totally defeats this "logbox".
The same can be said about data retention, but that didn't deter them from making it a directive.
Like Members of Congress in the USA, EU MEPs come in all shapes, sizes, and states of sanity. This guy's just flying a kite, but any such law would apply the the MEPs too, and you can assume some of them have skeletons in their hard drives. Fuhgeddabouttit.
You can be sure that politicians would be exempt from a law like this. Just because they can.
I guess they're comparing it to consumer-grade GPS, not military-grade. The military-grade GPS always was that much more accurate. So the hardware probably isn't much different, only the access allowed to the public is.
I always hoped that one day they would be able to jump up/down cliffs with them :)
100,000 AT&T activations, out of well over 1M sales!?!?
I think the one million sales figure was for international sales, not US only.
Uh, the publisher of X Rebirth is Deep Silver. Not holding my breath.
Apple hasn't used a proprietary connector for peripherals since they retired ADB in favor of USB.
Except for the iPod dock connector, which replaced the FireWire plug from the first generation.
The client device has to be more complex (and thus expensive) since it needs a PCIe controller on it. Also a device can hose your system, being PCIe it has DMA and can write or read any memory.
Yes, just like FireWire.
Although come to think of it, some folks think that waiting two weeks is impossible. In my country the iPhone will be available on October 28. However, we're right next to Germany, where it's available on October 14. I personally know three people who are really considering driving 5 hours to a German Apple Store, just to get the iPhone 4S two weeks earlier. I just don't get that.
Sony doesn't make that big of a deal out of product releases, thus they probably have less preorders relative to the regular sales.