Supercapacitors/batteries in your home charging station (or in a station around the corner). Charge those up slowly from the grid and then quickly dump the charge into your car battery.
> Rubbish, what i do with my device has no impact on how it's perceived in the marketplace.
You are making a marketing claim here--It is absurd to suggest that you know something about marketing that Apple doesn't.
When it comes down to it, all this whining is basically "I wish Apple would decide to make less money in order to make me happy" or put another way, "I wish Apple would give me free money".
That's the bottom line. No matter how skilled and well meaning you are, what you do with your iProduct affects how that product is perceived in the marketplace. Right now iProducts are known as being a comfortable padded room that locks from the outside; that appeals to a large consumer base.
Opening up the capability for people to run arbitrarily buggy/crashy/malicious code on them turns them into "things you have to be careful with" in a very real sense. Even if most users will never stray from the padded room, the ones that do will be quite vocal about it and that drains value from Apple's brand and in the long term costs Apple money.
Many people on this board feel understandably threatened because Apple is taking the industry in a less hackable direction. But I wonder how much of this is that the hacker community feels threatened by someone making computers and devices intuitive because that attacks the value of their expertise.
Car analogy: Years ago my mother was considering buying a Japanese car, my dad argued against it because "I don't know how to repair those Japanese things". My mother bought the car and it never needed repairs.
the same way you can opt out of Disneyworld, don't go there. Don't buy a ticket and whine like a little bitch about how there's no good X rated theater inside it.
who is stopping you? You can write and run whatever you want on Apple computers (Apple even provides you with Xcode for free), you can write and run whatever you want to run on your own iPhone/iPad for $50 extra. Hell you can even setup your own organization of iPhone's which are able to run your own apps without any editorial control from Apple.
The only thing you can't do is write shitty apps and release them unfiltered into the wild for unsuspecting users--and that is exactly because allowing you to do so would lower the value of their product to their customers, for the same reason that United doesn't want you fiddling with the plane that other passengers ride on.
Do you think Boeing will continue to support your plane after you fiddle with it? Do you think the FAA is going to allow you to fly it in controlled airspace?
...but those guys don't sit around all day and whine that they're not allowed to tinker with the engine on their United Airlines flight.
Your example about software is absurd--you don't have to buy a "coding" license to write hello world on a Mac box. Absolutely absurd. I've compiled open source apps on my MacBook and I never gave Steve Jobs an extra dime for the privilege.
Wanting a phone or a computer that "just works" for nontechnical family members or even myself doesn't make me less of a nerd than you.
"They also parrot GM's new line of 25-50 miles of all-electric — a far cry from the 230 MPG they originally marketed — that the "Volt provides 25-50 miles of real-world electric operation no matter how hard you flog it."
But while even providing only 10% of the fuel economy initially touted, these more real-world figures are merely an exaggeration."
230mpg is the claim about 'gas mileage' under average operating conditions (i.e., 40 miles a day or whatever for the typical driver). 25-50 miles refers to the all-electric range, those two numbers are not comparable. This is obvious to anyone who isn't (a) stupid or (b) intentionally lying.
and you are the one guy who took the red pill and can see what is really going on.
But how do you know that you're not in yet another matrix? Maybe you should take a hundred more red pills to be sure--just whatever ones you can find will do.
The same people that complain when a newspaper's editorial board is not sufficiently distanced from its straight news department will complain when the two departments are at odds with one another. Some people just like to complain.
pretending to be stupid. I guess at some point it doesn't matter.
It is entirely reasonable for a group of people to make a single up-front decision (like going to Disneyworld or buying an iPhone) which restricts their ability to make subsequent decisions (like going to a strip club or using a battery-draining flakey Flash implementation) because they don't want those options around where they have to look at them or worry about accidentally stumbling into one. It happens everyday in every industry. Walled gardens are nice.
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...is the most absurdly impractical solution that I've seen seriously discussed.
Can horses only overcome air resistance if they travel in herds?
Supercapacitors/batteries in your home charging station (or in a station around the corner). Charge those up slowly from the grid and then quickly dump the charge into your car battery.
> Rubbish, what i do with my device has no impact on how it's perceived in the marketplace.
You are making a marketing claim here--It is absurd to suggest that you know something about marketing that Apple doesn't.
When it comes down to it, all this whining is basically "I wish Apple would decide to make less money in order to make me happy" or put another way, "I wish Apple would give me free money".
than Apple does...I assume you are sitting on $100 billion because of that, right?
You can get songs and movies from anywhere and play them on any Apple product--don't make this sound like some sort of vast conspiracy.
30% is far cheaper than pretty much any other method of selling and distributing software. Developers love the App Store.
The App Store is full of free apps, Apple hosts those for free.
You can make advertising-supported free apps and there's no obligation to use Apple as the advertising gateway.
Anyone is free to make HTML5 apps.
Obviously Apple is in this to make money, but they know that doing so at the expense of the user experience is poor long-term thinking.
That's the bottom line. No matter how skilled and well meaning you are, what you do with your iProduct affects how that product is perceived in the marketplace. Right now iProducts are known as being a comfortable padded room that locks from the outside; that appeals to a large consumer base.
Opening up the capability for people to run arbitrarily buggy/crashy/malicious code on them turns them into "things you have to be careful with" in a very real sense. Even if most users will never stray from the padded room, the ones that do will be quite vocal about it and that drains value from Apple's brand and in the long term costs Apple money.
Many people on this board feel understandably threatened because Apple is taking the industry in a less hackable direction. But I wonder how much of this is that the hacker community feels threatened by someone making computers and devices intuitive because that attacks the value of their expertise.
Car analogy: Years ago my mother was considering buying a Japanese car, my dad argued against it because "I don't know how to repair those Japanese things". My mother bought the car and it never needed repairs.
with a 100 billion dollar bill at the loss of your business.
Prove me wrong.
Do you not understand how computers work? Because making that transfer over isn't hard.
the same way you can opt out of Disneyworld, don't go there. Don't buy a ticket and whine like a little bitch about how there's no good X rated theater inside it.
Prove me wrong without using facts.
...planes, too.
And how come beds don't get 20% bigger each year?
It must be some sort of conspiracy.
First ever $20 billion quarter for Apple. Are you nuts?
who is stopping you? You can write and run whatever you want on Apple computers (Apple even provides you with Xcode for free), you can write and run whatever you want to run on your own iPhone/iPad for $50 extra. Hell you can even setup your own organization of iPhone's which are able to run your own apps without any editorial control from Apple.
The only thing you can't do is write shitty apps and release them unfiltered into the wild for unsuspecting users--and that is exactly because allowing you to do so would lower the value of their product to their customers, for the same reason that United doesn't want you fiddling with the plane that other passengers ride on.
Do you think Boeing will continue to support your plane after you fiddle with it? Do you think the FAA is going to allow you to fly it in controlled airspace?
as if there was any doubt.
...but those guys don't sit around all day and whine that they're not allowed to tinker with the engine on their United Airlines flight.
Your example about software is absurd--you don't have to buy a "coding" license to write hello world on a Mac box. Absolutely absurd. I've compiled open source apps on my MacBook and I never gave Steve Jobs an extra dime for the privilege.
Wanting a phone or a computer that "just works" for nontechnical family members or even myself doesn't make me less of a nerd than you.
Go live in Somalia--it's completely deregulated. Libertarian paradise. Have fun.
"They also parrot GM's new line of 25-50 miles of all-electric — a far cry from the 230 MPG they originally marketed — that the "Volt provides 25-50 miles of real-world electric operation no matter how hard you flog it."
But while even providing only 10% of the fuel economy initially touted, these more real-world figures are merely an exaggeration."
230mpg is the claim about 'gas mileage' under average operating conditions (i.e., 40 miles a day or whatever for the typical driver). 25-50 miles refers to the all-electric range, those two numbers are not comparable. This is obvious to anyone who isn't (a) stupid or (b) intentionally lying.
and you are the one guy who took the red pill and can see what is really going on.
But how do you know that you're not in yet another matrix? Maybe you should take a hundred more red pills to be sure--just whatever ones you can find will do.
nothing to see here.
The same people that complain when a newspaper's editorial board is not sufficiently distanced from its straight news department will complain when the two departments are at odds with one another. Some people just like to complain.
pretending to be stupid. I guess at some point it doesn't matter.
It is entirely reasonable for a group of people to make a single up-front decision (like going to Disneyworld or buying an iPhone) which restricts their ability to make subsequent decisions (like going to a strip club or using a battery-draining flakey Flash implementation) because they don't want those options around where they have to look at them or worry about accidentally stumbling into one. It happens everyday in every industry. Walled gardens are nice.
...and not H.264, or else the internet wouldn't work right now.
The people who don't like them can just avoid them, right?
I mean, how can adding a degree of freedom ever be a bad thing?
the arguments haven't changes, it is just that there are many.
Take your time.