and how many companies have this kind of cash? if you're a small start up and sue a big huge megacorp for abusing some cool tech you made up you can win in court and still lose the war
see the japanese takeover of the consumer electronics in the 1980's
when my linksys dies i won't buy one of your products. i'll probably just buy one of the Apple routers. the cost is about the same as your overpriced crap but they will work better with the icrap i already have at home.
fine, if you're not a wage slave and don't want to buy your own insurance, then don't. but if you get really sick or injured don't expect much care because i don't want to pay for it. and don't expect the best hospitals to take care of you. send you to the county/city run hospital where you will be lucky if they change you after lying in your own filth
no, it was proved the software has bugs. all software has bugs. all software has always had bugs. airplane software has bugs. my honda CR-V was just patched for a transmission software bug. i was still able to drive it safely and airplanes don't fall out of the sky daily because of software bugs.
it was up to the defense to prove that the bugs in question return invalid results or increase the margin of error so much as to make the results useless
too bad, all the idiots who choose to drive after drinking more than they should deserve to go to jail. i'll drive a few hours after i have one drink. maybe one and a half. these idiots got drunk and drove a car
if google can sell the nexus 7 at $199, amazon will have a new similar fire in a month at the same price and all the features of Amazon Prime as well. i'll take the Kindle
i'm looking at straight talk myself. $35 a month unlimited everything for an iphone if you pre pay $495 for a year of service. even with the cost of the phone its like $1000 a year saved. i'll eat my ETF too and not worry about it. my wife will probably keep her iphone 4 and not care. i have a 4S and it does what i need it to do.
might go virgin mobile. they are $30 a month but you have to buy their special iphone. out in the midwest cricket is going to start selling the iphone for $500 and $55 a month
ok, by the end of the year 1% of the android installed base will have 4.1. i'm sure developers will be madly rushing to develop apps for the new features. meanwhile in iOS land something like 50% of users will be on iOS 6 by the end of this year if you go by the past upgrade curves.
and there will be apps in the app store to take advantage of the new API's. lots of them. even before iOS 6 is released to the public the big developers will already have compiled their apps for the new OS and released them in time for the OS release
the impression i get is that both are mature with slightly different feature sets and themes. apple lets their developers finish up on the feature set while google likes to tie most features into their backend and let the hardware partners sell the devices.
very little true cool new features in both updates
at this point i'm looking to dump AT&T and go pre-paid. I don't even care if i keep a phone for three years instead of 2. even the hardware innovation seems to have flattened out as well. slightly faster CPU, better GPU, better camera. yawn
and at the same time almost 90% of ALL IOS DEVICES are on the latest major version
all the features are cool but won't be seen until there are 4.1 devices in the hands of users. lots of users. don't count on seeing most of these features for a few years until 4.1 devices are the majority of the installed base
and i might buy a device when they ship sometime in 2015
the features are nice but until there are real smart phones shipping with it, its vaporware. last year ICS was the android savior and last i read less than 10% of android devices are running it
my father in law is a millionaire and he never uses facebook. in fact he rarely uses the cheapo laptop i bought him. i know other successful people who don't use facebook. some have accounts but never use it, others don't even have an account.
a customer supplier relationship means that you buy enough crap and send large commissions to the sales guy for simply filling out some paperwork. it only exists until someone starts selling similar products for a lot less and then your PHB starts asking why are we paying $30,000 for a server or whatever when someone else is selling the same for half the price.
i've seen the same thing except i've noticed a lot of things get commoditized and some are still higher end where a sales person is needed.
tape libraries for one. IBM, Sun and a few others will sell you a tape library and lock down most of the tape slots to be unlocked by buying special keys. by the time you add up the price of these licenses the total price is beyond ridiculous.
HP will sell you a decent enough tape library with all slots usable. A LOT cheaper. they all use the same connections and LTO-4/5 tapes except with HP you don't need to pay some ridiculous commission. same with servers and a lot of other gear. its simple enough for the buyer to figure out what to buy or for few CDW sales guys to serve a lot of customers remotely instead of your local reseller coming out with 5 people to sell a tape library
nobody is forcing you to use facebook, google, twitter or any free internet service. i use them because i get value out of them.
oh noes, facebook knows i liked the page of some women's perfume my wife likes. its so evil the perfume maker may even send me a custom coupon before my wife's birthday because they will have her info as well.
PC's caught on was because IBM and other "enterprise" suppliers charged ridiculous amounts for their hardware and locked in customers with support contracts and being the only source for spare parts and upgrades
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and how many companies have this kind of cash? if you're a small start up and sue a big huge megacorp for abusing some cool tech you made up you can win in court and still lose the war
see the japanese takeover of the consumer electronics in the 1980's
Apple's anti piracy is In app purchasing. Almost every app now is free or very cheap with the good features costing more money
when my linksys dies i won't buy one of your products. i'll probably just buy one of the Apple routers. the cost is about the same as your overpriced crap but they will work better with the icrap i already have at home.
i've tried the cheapo routers and they seem flaky
WTF? Apple TV has no screen which is a big part of the cost. Apple TV does not have 16GB of flash.
Apple TV is just an excuse for apple to use left over A5 CPU's that fail bining for the ipad and iphone
well apple is a private API nazi. your app won't get into the app store if it uses private API's. and yet apple is evil.
yes, he used to work for Mozilla. explains everything
he thought he was da sh1t and the app was always buggy
incognito mode for "those" tabs
Facebook is google's enemy
they are frenemies with Apple
why support HTML5 which also supports your enemy when you could make your frenemie's platform "better" with a native app and hurt your enemy
what is proprietary about iOS? it's freebsd for ARM with a GUI and support for proprietary API's. Safari is webkit just like chrome
fine, if you're not a wage slave and don't want to buy your own insurance, then don't. but if you get really sick or injured don't expect much care because i don't want to pay for it. and don't expect the best hospitals to take care of you. send you to the county/city run hospital where you will be lucky if they change you after lying in your own filth
choose wisely.
meteors falling from the sky?
since you're going to be on police cruiser candid camera i'm sure you won't have any trouble passing the field tests
and please link to the case?
no, it was proved the software has bugs. all software has bugs. all software has always had bugs. airplane software has bugs. my honda CR-V was just patched for a transmission software bug. i was still able to drive it safely and airplanes don't fall out of the sky daily because of software bugs.
it was up to the defense to prove that the bugs in question return invalid results or increase the margin of error so much as to make the results useless
too bad, all the idiots who choose to drive after drinking more than they should deserve to go to jail. i'll drive a few hours after i have one drink. maybe one and a half. these idiots got drunk and drove a car
its not that hard.
drink at home.
get a designated driver
take a cab home or the bus or he train
if you're drunk and in your car and get caught i have no sympathy for you.
if google can sell the nexus 7 at $199, amazon will have a new similar fire in a month at the same price and all the features of Amazon Prime as well. i'll take the Kindle
i'm looking at straight talk myself. $35 a month unlimited everything for an iphone if you pre pay $495 for a year of service. even with the cost of the phone its like $1000 a year saved. i'll eat my ETF too and not worry about it. my wife will probably keep her iphone 4 and not care. i have a 4S and it does what i need it to do.
might go virgin mobile. they are $30 a month but you have to buy their special iphone. out in the midwest cricket is going to start selling the iphone for $500 and $55 a month
ok, by the end of the year 1% of the android installed base will have 4.1. i'm sure developers will be madly rushing to develop apps for the new features. meanwhile in iOS land something like 50% of users will be on iOS 6 by the end of this year if you go by the past upgrade curves.
and there will be apps in the app store to take advantage of the new API's. lots of them. even before iOS 6 is released to the public the big developers will already have compiled their apps for the new OS and released them in time for the OS release
the impression i get is that both are mature with slightly different feature sets and themes. apple lets their developers finish up on the feature set while google likes to tie most features into their backend and let the hardware partners sell the devices.
very little true cool new features in both updates
at this point i'm looking to dump AT&T and go pre-paid. I don't even care if i keep a phone for three years instead of 2. even the hardware innovation seems to have flattened out as well. slightly faster CPU, better GPU, better camera. yawn
and at the same time almost 90% of ALL IOS DEVICES are on the latest major version
all the features are cool but won't be seen until there are 4.1 devices in the hands of users. lots of users. don't count on seeing most of these features for a few years until 4.1 devices are the majority of the installed base
and i might buy a device when they ship sometime in 2015
the features are nice but until there are real smart phones shipping with it, its vaporware. last year ICS was the android savior and last i read less than 10% of android devices are running it
my father in law is a millionaire and he never uses facebook. in fact he rarely uses the cheapo laptop i bought him. i know other successful people who don't use facebook. some have accounts but never use it, others don't even have an account.
a customer supplier relationship means that you buy enough crap and send large commissions to the sales guy for simply filling out some paperwork. it only exists until someone starts selling similar products for a lot less and then your PHB starts asking why are we paying $30,000 for a server or whatever when someone else is selling the same for half the price.
i've seen the same thing except i've noticed a lot of things get commoditized and some are still higher end where a sales person is needed.
tape libraries for one. IBM, Sun and a few others will sell you a tape library and lock down most of the tape slots to be unlocked by buying special keys. by the time you add up the price of these licenses the total price is beyond ridiculous.
HP will sell you a decent enough tape library with all slots usable. A LOT cheaper. they all use the same connections and LTO-4/5 tapes except with HP you don't need to pay some ridiculous commission. same with servers and a lot of other gear. its simple enough for the buyer to figure out what to buy or for few CDW sales guys to serve a lot of customers remotely instead of your local reseller coming out with 5 people to sell a tape library
nobody is forcing you to use facebook, google, twitter or any free internet service. i use them because i get value out of them.
oh noes, facebook knows i liked the page of some women's perfume my wife likes. its so evil the perfume maker may even send me a custom coupon before my wife's birthday because they will have her info as well.
PC's caught on was because IBM and other "enterprise" suppliers charged ridiculous amounts for their hardware and locked in customers with support contracts and being the only source for spare parts and upgrades