who apparently doesn't understand computers or arithmetic.
You desperately want to believe that all of Apple's money comes from extortion so that you don't have to acknowledge that they actually build really good products that people really want.
Lookup up how many songs and apps have been sold through their store. Look up the fraction of those that were non-free. Look up (or guess) the average price per. Multiply that by 30% to get Apple's cut. You will arrive at a number across many years far far smaller than the amount Apple makes in profit every year.
Just one. Anything will do. Any one capability that Apple has removed to show that they are moving closer to phasing out their open platform? Any statements about their future intention to remove the ability to write or run arbitrary code on Mac's? Any active steps towards restricting a developers capability at all?
Any economic justification for why that would make sense for them? (keeping in mind that Macs are a $5B/quarter business right now). Do you have anything at all to justify your prognostication except that you really really wish it was true?
when you are claiming that the Xoom is better than an iPad 1, much less an iPad 2.
For 90% of the people out there the Xoom is not in the same league (crappy/buggy software, poor app selection, less smooth UI, worse battery life) and it is more expensive. Game over.
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who apparently doesn't understand computers or arithmetic.
You desperately want to believe that all of Apple's money comes from extortion so that you don't have to acknowledge that they actually build really good products that people really want.
Lookup up how many songs and apps have been sold through their store. Look up the fraction of those that were non-free. Look up (or guess) the average price per. Multiply that by 30% to get Apple's cut. You will arrive at a number across many years far far smaller than the amount Apple makes in profit every year.
has removed from the Mac line?
Just one. Anything will do. Any one capability that Apple has removed to show that they are moving closer to phasing out their open platform? Any statements about their future intention to remove the ability to write or run arbitrary code on Mac's? Any active steps towards restricting a developers capability at all?
Any economic justification for why that would make sense for them? (keeping in mind that Macs are a $5B/quarter business right now). Do you have anything at all to justify your prognostication except that you really really wish it was true?
Weird.
You honestly think that you have to take your Mac back to the Apple Store to reinstall the OS?
I shouldn't pick on you, it's not your fault that you don't understand how computers work--I just wonder why you hang out at a nerd blog?
Just to be clear--you don't know how things work with Mac's right?
But you assume that you have to take your Mac to Apple to reinstall the OS. Do you have any idea how dumb that sounds?
An odd n + 1 will always be even, but it isn't obvious that this will eventually lead to a power of 2.
Nope? Hmmmm. Guess that makes you an idiot.
Or ask your Mom for it the next time she comes down to the basement to do laundry.
...than the one in your commodore 64, why aren't you complaining about not being able to run arbitrary software on it?
http://www.opensource.apple.com/tarballs/WebCore/WebCore-955.66.tar.gz
Go find something else to whine like a little bitch about.
http://www.opensource.apple.com/tarballs/WebCore/WebCore-955.66.tar.gz
then I won't reply to your posts anymore. I'm keeping an eye on you.
Do you have any idea? Moron.
This is fun; accusing people of future crimes, that is.
top that.
perhaps you would like to bounce it?
you will start to learn that there is more to life than games. Have you noticed girls yet? you might want to look into that.
is convincing their supporters that learning is bad.
The greatest trick was to convince them that if Jesus was alive today he would have anything at all to do with the Republican party.
...before you decide to turn into a pedofile. Don't deny it, the soon to be guilty ones always deny it.
3x on something that does 1/2 as much? really? got a cite?
moron.
What's to prevent Google from uploading the contents of that file to its master Big Brother server right before the file is wiped from your device?
Similarly, if Apple never uploads the contents of the file off of your device and it is inaccessible to apps, then how is that a security leak?
therefore it must be crime-ridden.
when you are claiming that the Xoom is better than an iPad 1, much less an iPad 2.
For 90% of the people out there the Xoom is not in the same league (crappy/buggy software, poor app selection, less smooth UI, worse battery life) and it is more expensive. Game over.
Sometimes perception actually matches reality.
Apple's marketshare keeps growing and growing--and yet we still haven't seen this supposed avalanche of viruses waiting to plunder the Mac world.
I've been to a Microsoft store, and a Samsung store. They are filled with crap products plus a few techno demo future products that one can't buy.
Start making better products, then we can start talking about a retail store.