you're supposed to sit for months or years waiting on their "announced" product to ship and not buy what ever is on the market NOW. because everyone knows the MS thing will be so awesome it will be worth the wait
and you know how the genius geeks love to wait while the dumb normal folk just buy whatever is in the store NOW
what would be the point?you can buy a brand X chineese android tablet and hack away all you want soon you will be able to buy brand x x86 tablets and hack away
why buy an apple, MS or other locked down device meant for people not like yourself just to complain?
talk to people from other countries and almost everyone has to take a series of exams in their senior year of high school where the score determines which college you go to, if you go to college at all. and unlike the US where a former illegal immigrant and fruit picker can go to harvard medical school and become one of the top neurosurgeons in the country, once you screw up your youth you screw up your life. no going to a good college later on
well we have a few thousand murders in the USA every year and last month there was one in florida where the perps googled how to kill someone right before they did it. add in all the drug dealers and organized crime and 20,000 per year is not a big deal
performance wise ARM is crap compared to Intel. Just like Intel was crap compared to SPARC and all the other architectures they killed off in the last 30 years
one of the most important rules of business is to protect the low end of your market. if you don't then a competitor will establish a lower margin business and move up to take your high end. Just like Intel did.
even apple knows this and has products just good enough to keep low end competitors at bay
Blizzard is on a money grab where they expect people to pay up for digital crap
its funny how slashdotters think that buying crap in farmville and similar games is a waste of money. but when blizzard does it people will spend ridiculous amounts of money for digital crap
i've had an iphone since 2009 i have thousands of apps for it, even though i don't use them all there are some really crazy apps for iOS that do things no one imagined a few years ago iOS is well past cool upgrades and is now on the improving usability every year cycle Windows Phone is way behind a lot less app support its not cheaper Why switch? what is it going to do better than iOS?
assembling a phone is the equivalent of playing with Lego's. its simple tedious work. why would i want my kids to aspire to this kind of work?
the value is in owning and developing the OS, battery tech, screen tech, the communications standards as well as all the other IP and semiconductors that go into the phone. assembly is monkey work
for most people they won't want to repair it. and the cost of paying someone plus the parts to repair it will be close enough to sell it for the parts and buy a new laptop
So? for most people this will be powerful enough that they won't feel the need to upgrade it. Like most Acura/Lexus drivers they will buy this as a treat for themselves and not for any real need for all the computing power it has.
its also a pretty good gaming machine and will probably steal a lot of alienware and other silly computer case company customers
unless you're a digital hoarder who feels the need to keep more music and TV/movies than any reasonable person can watch in a lifetime hard drives are large enough. worst case i can buy an external drive to archive photos/videos of my kids.
most people don't have mental/OCD issues where they will have to see some photo from years ago right away
Apple has an enterprise deployment kit to deploy home grown apps to iOS devices without itunes
and most of the crap that AD does like app security is being done by apple. if someone installs some app on the app store it won't screw up the device because each app has its own sandbox and can only access limited resources
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this is like the 90's
you're supposed to sit for months or years waiting on their "announced" product to ship and not buy what ever is on the market NOW. because everyone knows the MS thing will be so awesome it will be worth the wait
and you know how the genius geeks love to wait while the dumb normal folk just buy whatever is in the store NOW
what would be the point?you can buy a brand X chineese android tablet and hack away all you want
soon you will be able to buy brand x x86 tablets and hack away
why buy an apple, MS or other locked down device meant for people not like yourself just to complain?
the cops can't touch the embassy or their cars but once he steps out in the airport he is fair game
everywhere
talk to people from other countries and almost everyone has to take a series of exams in their senior year of high school where the score determines which college you go to, if you go to college at all. and unlike the US where a former illegal immigrant and fruit picker can go to harvard medical school and become one of the top neurosurgeons in the country, once you screw up your youth you screw up your life. no going to a good college later on
the streaming costs are low enough that if the service goes away you won't care. and there are lots to choose from which makes it a non-issue
the problem with owning is that there is too much music from the last 50 years worth owning and it takes up too much space in the house
worst case we have to buy something with a warning label. other countries its illegal to sell stuff with bad words in the dialogue
well we have a few thousand murders in the USA every year and last month there was one in florida where the perps googled how to kill someone right before they did it. add in all the drug dealers and organized crime and 20,000 per year is not a big deal
if its anything like the wireless carriers, they charge the government per request and the government pays up. At least the US Government
With iOS 4 and some wifi access points. At work I could never get my 3GS to work with ios 3 or 4
Android is open source. All you have to do is build your own rom
Ive had mine in the army. I'm not worried
In the 90's people were getting funded to build a website and a forum
Today it's the same thing except its called social media. Seems like every other idea I read about is a Facebook/pinterest/instagram clone
Unless you have a cool idea that solves some kind of problem like square or one of the other payment startups go back and think up of something new
Back in the 90's we still had metal detectors and screeners would use the wand if it went off
what killed SPARC and the others was the Pentium Pro which turned into the Xeon brand
AMD had their chance but they always managed to screw things up
performance wise ARM is crap compared to Intel. Just like Intel was crap compared to SPARC and all the other architectures they killed off in the last 30 years
one of the most important rules of business is to protect the low end of your market. if you don't then a competitor will establish a lower margin business and move up to take your high end. Just like Intel did.
even apple knows this and has products just good enough to keep low end competitors at bay
Blizzard is on a money grab where they expect people to pay up for digital crap
its funny how slashdotters think that buying crap in farmville and similar games is a waste of money. but when blizzard does it people will spend ridiculous amounts of money for digital crap
its like seeing bill o'reilly naked
i'm going to run out and buy a Mac for twice the price of a PC just so i don't have to look at this
i've had an iphone since 2009
i have thousands of apps for it, even though i don't use them all
there are some really crazy apps for iOS that do things no one imagined a few years ago
iOS is well past cool upgrades and is now on the improving usability every year cycle
Windows Phone is way behind
a lot less app support
its not cheaper
Why switch? what is it going to do better than iOS?
assembling a phone is the equivalent of playing with Lego's. its simple tedious work. why would i want my kids to aspire to this kind of work?
the value is in owning and developing the OS, battery tech, screen tech, the communications standards as well as all the other IP and semiconductors that go into the phone. assembly is monkey work
ditto for repairing
for most people they won't want to repair it. and the cost of paying someone plus the parts to repair it will be close enough to sell it for the parts and buy a new laptop
So? for most people this will be powerful enough that they won't feel the need to upgrade it. Like most Acura/Lexus drivers they will buy this as a treat for themselves and not for any real need for all the computing power it has.
its also a pretty good gaming machine and will probably steal a lot of alienware and other silly computer case company customers
unless you're a digital hoarder who feels the need to keep more music and TV/movies than any reasonable person can watch in a lifetime hard drives are large enough. worst case i can buy an external drive to archive photos/videos of my kids.
most people don't have mental/OCD issues where they will have to see some photo from years ago right away
21 and facing decades in a US jail where the other criminals are mean?
why can't he just say i'm sorry, i learned my lesson and be done with it?
this hero of the people taking from the evil banks and redistributing back to the little people will never lose
Apple has an enterprise deployment kit to deploy home grown apps to iOS devices without itunes
and most of the crap that AD does like app security is being done by apple. if someone installs some app on the app store it won't screw up the device because each app has its own sandbox and can only access limited resources