And whose girlfriend has a race-to-the-bottom HP laptop, both of which are paperweights, I'm willing to pay a little more for my next laptop, one made by a company whose business model isn't razor-thin margins and cheap-as-possible components, and slipshod engineering. Go do a search of the laptop forums for "Dell Inspiron," a horrendously flawed design, and see the hate. Then go look at the customer satisfaction ratings for Macs.
My next lappy will be a Mac, and I can use Boot Camp when I need Windows.
The reason leaks don't occur in Oracle or Computer Associates is, no one gives a damn. And leaks do occur at Microsoft and Adobe too, but again, no one gives a damn.
I agree with most of what you wrote about Apple, i.e., the idea of Steve "One More Thing, Leak And I'll Sue You" Jobs leaking is preposterous. I mean Jesus, he was just excoriated here for not giving more info on his health, and shareholders voted today on making their succession plans public (dumb idea, but it does tend to make my point). And there is so much speculation by the Apple blogosphere, somebody has to be right. And vendors and partners violate NDA's early.
But I can speak to Oracle. My GF works for them, and they scare the crap out of employees not to share stuff outside. Her e-mails are emblazoned with, "DO NOT SHARE OUTSIDE OF COMPANY - PRIVATE FINANCIAL/PROPRIERTY TRADE SECRET INFO, blah blah blah" warnings (I don't know the exact warning because she won't show me, ha ha). I've sat next to her on the bed, and she won't show me or tell me about the contents of these secret e-mails, for fear she will be fired. True, nobody is waiting with bated breath for the next RDBMS release, but Saddam's staff had a more relaxed atmosphere. Jobs isn't the only whip-cracker in tech, lemee tell ya.
Jobs is notoriously secretive. He likes surprise, "on more thing" announcements. But now he's leaking? He's more likely to be cast on The Biggest Loser. It's more probable that vendors or partners are breaching NDA's a little early.
As for the iPad 2, it's coming out in a couple of days. It's not like Apple endlessly teases vaporware. And after the stock got hammered by that stock manipulator in Taiwan, claiming iPad 2 delays, God forbid Apple counters with the truth! Marketing ploy! (insert eye-roll emoticon here).
"The policy as written is completely inconsistent with nearly all existing subscription business models "
Who cares? The iTunes credit card database is inconsistent with any other database where publishers can have one-click access to 130M credit cards. If the publishers don't like it, let them get their own database of 130M credit cards.
Since when does Apple do anything consistent with existing business models? It's why Apple makes in a quarter what Google makes in a year. It's called, "think different(ly)." Another reason I'm glad I'm an AAPL stockholder.
You just play one on Slashdot. What's a "predatory business practice"? You can charge whatever you want for something.
If you want to allege antitrust violations, fine, explain your legal case. But don't make up legal terms, K?
Apple is not Last.fm's employer. They are a company with 130 million credit cards one click away. If you want access to that amazing, unparalleled database, you gotta pay for it, or lump it. Gas, grass, or ass, nobody rides for free.
This is how you make your brilliant points? By flaming? Here's a clue: Write to people as if you were in a room with them, and you will be more persuasive. If what you are writing would get your ass kicked in person, perhaps you aren't maximizing your rhetorical skills.
I quoted the stock performance because the guy was calling the iPad a fad, and he made a crack about a fool being parted from his money. Quite the contrary, Apple has made me quite a bit. I heard this fad nonsense about iPods and iPhones, and I'm glad I didn't listen. Listening is a good rhetorical device as well. I never said stock performance makes the iPad a good product. It's just that the iPad is a good product, so it sells, so the stock does well.
What part of, "And no, I don't own an IPad" can't you comprehend? You've just undermined your claim that you aren't an Apple hater, being so quick to disparage me as an Apple-owning hipster, when I clearly said I don't own an iPad. I'm typing this on a shitty Dell, which would be a paperweight if I hadn't replaced the motherboard, and if I didn't force my CPU fan to run at max RPM so it wouldn't overheat again due to poor engineering, wishing I had bought a highly-rated Macbook.
I realize reading comp is not your strong suit, but I'd suggest you go read the original post. He was suggesting the iPad was some sort of niche or fad. I told him why he was wrong based on sales and Apple's iabbility to meet demand. You're the one - who apparently didn't do to well on the "the main point of this article was" SAT questions - who somehow extrapolated that I said good sales means good product. In this case, it's just a correlation.
the scientific method, Mr. Neurobio? You ditched school and turned out oh-so-smart, so truancy is good. I drank beer in high school and now have a law degree. Therefore, it is good that children drink beer. I guess you skipped the day in high school when they discussed inductive reasoning?
And will you reimburse your childless neighbors for their property taxes, squandered so your little cherub can ditch the classes they are paying for? Are you a real libertarian who believes childless people shouldn't have to pay for your kids, or a fake Slashdot "libertarian," who only believes in freedom for himself? I wonder how far this rebel act of yours actually goes. Must have got you a lot of chicks the days you did show up to school, with your red James Dean windbreaker with the collar turned up.
My AAPL stock is up like 40 fold in the last 20 years. So yeah, I'll go with Steve Jobs' vision instead of yours, if it's all the same to you, Nostradamus.
Who appointed you King of Purchase Prudence? You get to decide what devices people should use when sitting on their couch surfing the Web (and don't want to fry their groins with a laptop), or when selling a car and want to show customers a video while sitting in it? Because you know best?
You anti-Apple types used to call Mac users a small little cult of fanboyism. Now that Apple products are dominant, now their users are sheeple. Apple uses can't win, at least with the haters.
And yes, I have been long AAPL 20 years, and loving it. And no, I don't own an IPad, almighty arbiter of what people should do with their money.
In a surprise turn of events, Apple is able to undercut most other tablets in price due to the enormous volumes in which they buy components. We are talking billions at a time (almost $8B from Samsung alone), giving Apple volume pricing, and allowing them to come close to cornering the market on 9" LCDs, and get a good chuck of flash at great prices as well. Apple's vlume-pricing power makes Wal-Mart look like a mom-n-pop.
All that cash (over $50B) that Apple has sitting around, losing money on T-Bills, which some shareholders have bitched about, has actually come in handy. Don't question the Jobs.
Fox News reported something the mainstream media didn't.
You anti-Foxers have this infinite loop problem:
1) Fox News reports something no other source does;
2) Libs yell "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU FOX IS BIASED!" and remain ignorant of the story;
3) Rinse and repeat.
I can name numerous stories the MSM ignores, and only Fox reports, but you wouldn't want to hear about it because Fox reported it!
And your whole anti-science thing by Fox viewers is just BS generalization. Sure, there are some creationists out there who would naturally gravitate there. But I am intellectually curious enough to read/. and lots of other technews sites. Statistics is also science, so don't generalize.
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a Mac fanboy? You make no sense at all.
That's the best you can do? A user-replaceable part three years ago? Weak. My Dell E1705 mobo and vid card melted into the center of the earth.
I knew these astronauts were badass pilots, but this is just ridiculous.
And whose girlfriend has a race-to-the-bottom HP laptop, both of which are paperweights, I'm willing to pay a little more for my next laptop, one made by a company whose business model isn't razor-thin margins and cheap-as-possible components, and slipshod engineering. Go do a search of the laptop forums for "Dell Inspiron," a horrendously flawed design, and see the hate. Then go look at the customer satisfaction ratings for Macs.
My next lappy will be a Mac, and I can use Boot Camp when I need Windows.
There's a difference between cheap and value.
The reason leaks don't occur in Oracle or Computer Associates is, no one gives a damn. And leaks do occur at Microsoft and Adobe too, but again, no one gives a damn.
I agree with most of what you wrote about Apple, i.e., the idea of Steve "One More Thing, Leak And I'll Sue You" Jobs leaking is preposterous. I mean Jesus, he was just excoriated here for not giving more info on his health, and shareholders voted today on making their succession plans public (dumb idea, but it does tend to make my point). And there is so much speculation by the Apple blogosphere, somebody has to be right. And vendors and partners violate NDA's early.
But I can speak to Oracle. My GF works for them, and they scare the crap out of employees not to share stuff outside. Her e-mails are emblazoned with, "DO NOT SHARE OUTSIDE OF COMPANY - PRIVATE FINANCIAL/PROPRIERTY TRADE SECRET INFO, blah blah blah" warnings (I don't know the exact warning because she won't show me, ha ha). I've sat next to her on the bed, and she won't show me or tell me about the contents of these secret e-mails, for fear she will be fired. True, nobody is waiting with bated breath for the next RDBMS release, but Saddam's staff had a more relaxed atmosphere. Jobs isn't the only whip-cracker in tech, lemee tell ya.
Jobs is notoriously secretive. He likes surprise, "on more thing" announcements. But now he's leaking? He's more likely to be cast on The Biggest Loser. It's more probable that vendors or partners are breaching NDA's a little early.
As for the iPad 2, it's coming out in a couple of days. It's not like Apple endlessly teases vaporware. And after the stock got hammered by that stock manipulator in Taiwan, claiming iPad 2 delays, God forbid Apple counters with the truth! Marketing ploy! (insert eye-roll emoticon here).
vindicate my stereotyping of Slashdotters in my submission. I am now quite convinced that we are dealing with living, breathing virgins.
"The policy as written is completely inconsistent with nearly all existing subscription business models "
Who cares? The iTunes credit card database is inconsistent with any other database where publishers can have one-click access to 130M credit cards. If the publishers don't like it, let them get their own database of 130M credit cards.
Since when does Apple do anything consistent with existing business models? It's why Apple makes in a quarter what Google makes in a year. It's called, "think different(ly)." Another reason I'm glad I'm an AAPL stockholder.
You just play one on Slashdot. What's a "predatory business practice"? You can charge whatever you want for something. If you want to allege antitrust violations, fine, explain your legal case. But don't make up legal terms, K?
Apple is not Last.fm's employer. They are a company with 130 million credit cards one click away. If you want access to that amazing, unparalleled database, you gotta pay for it, or lump it. Gas, grass, or ass, nobody rides for free.
You are very intimidating from behind the safety of your keyboard.
This is how you make your brilliant points? By flaming? Here's a clue: Write to people as if you were in a room with them, and you will be more persuasive. If what you are writing would get your ass kicked in person, perhaps you aren't maximizing your rhetorical skills.
I quoted the stock performance because the guy was calling the iPad a fad, and he made a crack about a fool being parted from his money. Quite the contrary, Apple has made me quite a bit. I heard this fad nonsense about iPods and iPhones, and I'm glad I didn't listen. Listening is a good rhetorical device as well. I never said stock performance makes the iPad a good product. It's just that the iPad is a good product, so it sells, so the stock does well.
Now go take a chill pill, Internet tough guy.
and look up the word "officious."
Then you can tell me why a device running a different operating system is somehow "better quality," LOL.
Your preferences != better.
What part of, "And no, I don't own an IPad" can't you comprehend? You've just undermined your claim that you aren't an Apple hater, being so quick to disparage me as an Apple-owning hipster, when I clearly said I don't own an iPad. I'm typing this on a shitty Dell, which would be a paperweight if I hadn't replaced the motherboard, and if I didn't force my CPU fan to run at max RPM so it wouldn't overheat again due to poor engineering, wishing I had bought a highly-rated Macbook.
I realize reading comp is not your strong suit, but I'd suggest you go read the original post. He was suggesting the iPad was some sort of niche or fad. I told him why he was wrong based on sales and Apple's iabbility to meet demand. You're the one - who apparently didn't do to well on the "the main point of this article was" SAT questions - who somehow extrapolated that I said good sales means good product. In this case, it's just a correlation.
the scientific method, Mr. Neurobio? You ditched school and turned out oh-so-smart, so truancy is good. I drank beer in high school and now have a law degree. Therefore, it is good that children drink beer. I guess you skipped the day in high school when they discussed inductive reasoning?
And will you reimburse your childless neighbors for their property taxes, squandered so your little cherub can ditch the classes they are paying for? Are you a real libertarian who believes childless people shouldn't have to pay for your kids, or a fake Slashdot "libertarian," who only believes in freedom for himself? I wonder how far this rebel act of yours actually goes. Must have got you a lot of chicks the days you did show up to school, with your red James Dean windbreaker with the collar turned up.
If his effete, non-threatening musical style excites pre-teen girls, good for them. Would you be happier if they were listening to Skynyrd?
I bought Apple at $16 and $21 in 1991. Today it is around $1400, split-adjusted.
My AAPL stock is up like 40 fold in the last 20 years. So yeah, I'll go with Steve Jobs' vision instead of yours, if it's all the same to you, Nostradamus.
Who appointed you King of Purchase Prudence? You get to decide what devices people should use when sitting on their couch surfing the Web (and don't want to fry their groins with a laptop), or when selling a car and want to show customers a video while sitting in it? Because you know best?
You anti-Apple types used to call Mac users a small little cult of fanboyism. Now that Apple products are dominant, now their users are sheeple. Apple uses can't win, at least with the haters.
And yes, I have been long AAPL 20 years, and loving it. And no, I don't own an IPad, almighty arbiter of what people should do with their money.
Right, like the iPhone and iPod. As a shareholder, I can live with these 10-year "fads."
I'm sure you are putting your money where your mouth is and shorting Apple r buying puts, right Nostradamus?
In a surprise turn of events, Apple is able to undercut most other tablets in price due to the enormous volumes in which they buy components. We are talking billions at a time (almost $8B from Samsung alone), giving Apple volume pricing, and allowing them to come close to cornering the market on 9" LCDs, and get a good chuck of flash at great prices as well. Apple's vlume-pricing power makes Wal-Mart look like a mom-n-pop.
All that cash (over $50B) that Apple has sitting around, losing money on T-Bills, which some shareholders have bitched about, has actually come in handy. Don't question the Jobs.
Great call, the things are selling like hotcakes. Gartner says sales will quadruple in 2011.
It was a joke, and I like outsourcing if it is cheaper. In-sourcing, notsomuch, since it often is more expensive, at least with unskilled labor.
And when you graduate from an American law school, then, maybe I will be concerned about you stealing my job.
More immigrants coming in on H1's stealing IT jobs!
Why are we getting ours news from Fox?
Fox News reported something the mainstream media didn't.
/. and lots of other technews sites. Statistics is also science, so don't generalize.
You anti-Foxers have this infinite loop problem:
1) Fox News reports something no other source does;
2) Libs yell "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU FOX IS BIASED!" and remain ignorant of the story;
3) Rinse and repeat.
I can name numerous stories the MSM ignores, and only Fox reports, but you wouldn't want to hear about it because Fox reported it!
And your whole anti-science thing by Fox viewers is just BS generalization. Sure, there are some creationists out there who would naturally gravitate there. But I am intellectually curious enough to read