This is interesting and you make a good point there. From a pure number crunching perspective, they should sell their PC division. This is just because they lack vision, innovation and general guidance. This happens all the time when you put a shitty MBA at the top of a company that only understands profits.
Look at Apple. They had a visionary CEO, they are worth 10 times HP even though they move 10 times less PCs. They are gaining marketshare when HP is losing. They were successful at smartphones when HP failed miserably. Several times. They sold tablets like hotcakes where HP tried for 10 years, not even selling as many tablets as Apple on their opening day.
Go ahead, put another accountant up there, sell your PC division. Hopefully, as much as anyone hates Apple, they'll be the only american company left that knows how to build a PC.
Qualifying an inanimate object of being fascist is kind of crazy in my book though.
People should know really. It's not that complex. If you want a computer, buy a computer. If you want an iCrap, buy one. If you don't get why people want an iCrap, shut up and listen to them. That's if you want to know of course:-)
What I did is a tradeoff, as I said. I chose to delegate some of my work to Apple, nothing else. Because frankly, I already maintain 7 machines at home, a few servers in the cloud, so I don't have time to maintain a fleet of ipads, ipods and iphones.
Of course, by delegating, I let Apple decide which apps are good for me. But if you're not a complete Jackass, you'll admit that they pretty much let everything in (there was exceptions) unless it's really buggy, porn or offensive. If I want those things, I have 7 PCs at home. I'm not really restricted as you guys put it.
So yes, my free time is restricted because I have three kids and I'd rather play with them than reinstall all my Android fleet with the latest CyanogenMod. That's my choice and I sincerely fuck you for not respecting it. And looking at the words you chose to capitalize, it looks like we're both getting the same deal, so you can take your superior attitude and shove it up your tight ass up to your throat.
Even my 10 year old know that you can say "I don't like it" lightly, but "it is bad" must be really weighted before proclaimed. Fact is, many people like it. So, is it really that bad?
Didn't you watch the latest keynote? Apple has 5% of the overall cellphone market. What are you talking about????
All your rant is prefectly legitimate whenever a company is in a position of monopoly. UIS law has provisions for this. Your rant is just not applicable to Apple.
Double standard my ass. Check your facts. People like iOS. Others like Android. Some like WP7. So what? Some are stupider than others? Give people some credit.
Wow. I actually own an iPhone, and I know I love it BECAUSE it has a walled garden. It prevents me from the hurdle to check every app I install for malware. I don't have the temptation to tinker, so I am less prone to brick my phone.
Of course this also applies to my wife and family and friends. I'm grateful that Apple checks all apps getting into the App Store. I AM GRATEFUL. because it is less risks for my wife to do something stupid (because she doesn't know what she's doing when it comes to computers) like installing an untrusted app from an untrusted chinese website.
Sure, some apps aren't there for little good reason. It is a tradeoff I am allowed to make. I AM ALLOWED, I AM NOT RESTRICTED.
Other friends want to develop, rootkit, and more generaly they want a computing platform, not just a phone. They go with Android.
The difference is that I RESPECT people going with Android. I respect YOUR choice. YOU don't respect the choices of others, you are the jerk in this story. So please shut up.
Since you don't need a smartphone, nobody does? Is that your claim right here?
I can't even believe what I'm reading. How closed can a mind be. Open up for god's sake! Other people want something else than you, it makes them stupid, dumb or what?
Instead of idiocracy, I'd settle with "to each his own". Since computers as we know them are too complex for dumb* people, we should not cater anything for them? I'd rather have two sets of computers on the market: The dumbed down version and the full fledge computing platform for us.
And everyone's happy, except those that claim that the dumbed down version is a walled garden and is therefore evil. But very few care about them so all is well.
Ha! Then, you missed the biggest part of the iOS so-called "revolution". The key is that there is only one button, and this button always brings you to the same place.
You see, computers (and phones, VCRs, etc.) are stateful machines. The biggest gripe non computer literates have with computer is that they invariably get lost somewhere, and then they don't know how to get back to their previous state. I once caught my mother in law editing a word document with a 1600x magnification on. She was barely able to see 3 characters on the screen. Plus, the window was not full-screen and was a small rectangle at the top of the screen.
The thing is, I could explain how to zoom-out and maximize windows, but she doesn't give a damn about it, so she'll listen, nod, and forget it in a minute.
The iPhone first-gen was a perfect example of a clean and pragmatic solution to this problem (which really is no that uncommon. If you've worked with people that are computer illiterate you know that.). The home button invariably gets you to the starting point, no matter where you are, no matter what you've done. You can start over. And no multitasking made that even better, in that if you screwed up an app (bug or otherwise) you could hit the home button and restart from scratch.
Now it's a little more complex, in that it can take a few hits on the home button to get to the home screen. But the navigation btw the icons prove to be a simple enough metaphor for most to grasp.
All in all, computer-literate dudes don't find the iOS UI attractive, because they like their stateful machine. They grok it.
Computer illiterate users are frightened by the stateful nature of a computer, because they do get someplace where they don't know how they got there and worse, they don't know how to get out of these situations. So they completely love iOS, because of thet simplicity that you don't like.
Again, we've said it time and again but it doesn't look like it's sinking in, the/. crowd is not the target of iOS, hence it cannot "get it" without trying to put themselves into the shoes of the target. It's not that big of an exercise, but it needs to be done.
Do you have anything other than one stupid example of some stupid dude buying some stupid speakers and getting screwed? There is more to iOS than a set of crappy speakers you know. And as far as accessories are concerned, this is an area where iOS devices are superior to other devices, so I am a little surprised to see you go down that route.
Sure, they get to push the button they're granted and get to install the apps they're granted, but as democratic hardware goes, the iStuff is far off on the fascism side of that scale.
democratic hardware? ruling one's phone? iStuff being fascist???? Looks like the extremist just posted as AC. You know, "democratic", "free" and such adjectives best apply to sentient beings, not to inanimate objects.
Should toaster vendors provide the schematics of their toasters to make them not fascist? Or should they print Mussolini's picture on the side if they don't provide said schematics?
You're insane. Just plain insane. Real life is just out there, please get out of your mom's basement and take a peek.
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Hu hu hu hu, cretin.
This is interesting and you make a good point there. From a pure number crunching perspective, they should sell their PC division. This is just because they lack vision, innovation and general guidance. This happens all the time when you put a shitty MBA at the top of a company that only understands profits.
Look at Apple. They had a visionary CEO, they are worth 10 times HP even though they move 10 times less PCs. They are gaining marketshare when HP is losing. They were successful at smartphones when HP failed miserably. Several times. They sold tablets like hotcakes where HP tried for 10 years, not even selling as many tablets as Apple on their opening day.
Go ahead, put another accountant up there, sell your PC division. Hopefully, as much as anyone hates Apple, they'll be the only american company left that knows how to build a PC.
Qualifying an inanimate object of being fascist is kind of crazy in my book though.
People should know really. It's not that complex. If you want a computer, buy a computer. If you want an iCrap, buy one. If you don't get why people want an iCrap, shut up and listen to them. That's if you want to know of course :-)
you're responding to me, monkey... you're an ignorant hypocrite.
Come on now, I told you I got it. Drop the fight, you've lost already.
And yes, I know, my mum's face has already lost.
You are aware that these corporations feed up the population right? Who in the US could go without income for 90 days?
Other than that, your plan sounds good. Zero chance of ever being realized though.
What I did is a tradeoff, as I said. I chose to delegate some of my work to Apple, nothing else. Because frankly, I already maintain 7 machines at home, a few servers in the cloud, so I don't have time to maintain a fleet of ipads, ipods and iphones.
Of course, by delegating, I let Apple decide which apps are good for me. But if you're not a complete Jackass, you'll admit that they pretty much let everything in (there was exceptions) unless it's really buggy, porn or offensive. If I want those things, I have 7 PCs at home. I'm not really restricted as you guys put it.
So yes, my free time is restricted because I have three kids and I'd rather play with them than reinstall all my Android fleet with the latest CyanogenMod. That's my choice and I sincerely fuck you for not respecting it. And looking at the words you chose to capitalize, it looks like we're both getting the same deal, so you can take your superior attitude and shove it up your tight ass up to your throat.
I'm telling you dude... Don't fight it, just let it go.
Because there's no hype towards Android smartphones? What does this have to do with Apple, really?
Again! I've done it again! I completely own you dude!
walled-gardens are bad ideas anyway.
Even my 10 year old know that you can say "I don't like it" lightly, but "it is bad" must be really weighted before proclaimed. Fact is, many people like it. So, is it really that bad?
Didn't you watch the latest keynote? Apple has 5% of the overall cellphone market. What are you talking about????
All your rant is prefectly legitimate whenever a company is in a position of monopoly. UIS law has provisions for this. Your rant is just not applicable to Apple.
Double standard my ass. Check your facts. People like iOS. Others like Android. Some like WP7. So what? Some are stupider than others? Give people some credit.
Wow. I actually own an iPhone, and I know I love it BECAUSE it has a walled garden. It prevents me from the hurdle to check every app I install for malware. I don't have the temptation to tinker, so I am less prone to brick my phone.
Of course this also applies to my wife and family and friends. I'm grateful that Apple checks all apps getting into the App Store. I AM GRATEFUL. because it is less risks for my wife to do something stupid (because she doesn't know what she's doing when it comes to computers) like installing an untrusted app from an untrusted chinese website.
Sure, some apps aren't there for little good reason. It is a tradeoff I am allowed to make. I AM ALLOWED, I AM NOT RESTRICTED.
Other friends want to develop, rootkit, and more generaly they want a computing platform, not just a phone. They go with Android.
The difference is that I RESPECT people going with Android. I respect YOUR choice. YOU don't respect the choices of others, you are the jerk in this story. So please shut up.
Obviously I have since I predicted exactly your post when I posted mine. There! Eat that! :)
Since you don't need a smartphone, nobody does? Is that your claim right here?
I can't even believe what I'm reading. How closed can a mind be. Open up for god's sake! Other people want something else than you, it makes them stupid, dumb or what?
Instead of idiocracy, I'd settle with "to each his own". Since computers as we know them are too complex for dumb* people, we should not cater anything for them? I'd rather have two sets of computers on the market: The dumbed down version and the full fledge computing platform for us.
And everyone's happy, except those that claim that the dumbed down version is a walled garden and is therefore evil. But very few care about them so all is well.
* dumb means computer-illiterate in this context.
Ha! Then, you missed the biggest part of the iOS so-called "revolution". The key is that there is only one button, and this button always brings you to the same place.
You see, computers (and phones, VCRs, etc.) are stateful machines. The biggest gripe non computer literates have with computer is that they invariably get lost somewhere, and then they don't know how to get back to their previous state. I once caught my mother in law editing a word document with a 1600x magnification on. She was barely able to see 3 characters on the screen. Plus, the window was not full-screen and was a small rectangle at the top of the screen.
The thing is, I could explain how to zoom-out and maximize windows, but she doesn't give a damn about it, so she'll listen, nod, and forget it in a minute.
The iPhone first-gen was a perfect example of a clean and pragmatic solution to this problem (which really is no that uncommon. If you've worked with people that are computer illiterate you know that.). The home button invariably gets you to the starting point, no matter where you are, no matter what you've done. You can start over. And no multitasking made that even better, in that if you screwed up an app (bug or otherwise) you could hit the home button and restart from scratch.
Now it's a little more complex, in that it can take a few hits on the home button to get to the home screen. But the navigation btw the icons prove to be a simple enough metaphor for most to grasp.
All in all, computer-literate dudes don't find the iOS UI attractive, because they like their stateful machine. They grok it.
Computer illiterate users are frightened by the stateful nature of a computer, because they do get someplace where they don't know how they got there and worse, they don't know how to get out of these situations. So they completely love iOS, because of thet simplicity that you don't like.
Again, we've said it time and again but it doesn't look like it's sinking in, the /. crowd is not the target of iOS, hence it cannot "get it" without trying to put themselves into the shoes of the target. It's not that big of an exercise, but it needs to be done.
Nono, I assure you, I did!
Do you have anything other than one stupid example of some stupid dude buying some stupid speakers and getting screwed? There is more to iOS than a set of crappy speakers you know. And as far as accessories are concerned, this is an area where iOS devices are superior to other devices, so I am a little surprised to see you go down that route.
People rule their iphones and ipods and ipads?
Right.
Sure, they get to push the button they're granted and get to install the apps they're granted, but as democratic hardware goes, the iStuff is far off on the fascism side of that scale.
democratic hardware? ruling one's phone? iStuff being fascist???? Looks like the extremist just posted as AC. You know, "democratic", "free" and such adjectives best apply to sentient beings, not to inanimate objects.
Should toaster vendors provide the schematics of their toasters to make them not fascist? Or should they print Mussolini's picture on the side if they don't provide said schematics?
You're insane. Just plain insane. Real life is just out there, please get out of your mom's basement and take a peek.
I hope this was meant to be funny. I'll consider it as such.
It's been renamed "cat" in recent years.
This is all well and good, but do you know any other way to make a computer useable by grandma?
But what is this negative impact you speak of? Having democratized graphical interfaces and the mouse? The smartphones? mp3 players?
Let me know.
Money won't buy you happiness.
It'll just buy everything else, which is already something, don't you think?