TV prices have fallen off a cliff in the last 10 years and in the last 3 as well. that $1000 TV from 2 years ago is a few hundred $$ now. and HDMI ports are limited. you can get a switch but no normal person wants to switch 5 settings just to watch TV.
as some services like netflix, hulu and amazon get commoditized it only makes sense to have them bundled with a TV and not sucking up a HDMI port
the winner will be the one that allows us to cancel cable and pay for content a la netflix. set up a few tiers for content where you pay more depending on the show. kind of like spotify but with price tiers depending on the show.
i'm paying $150 a month for cable/internet/phone and i want to cut it by half and still have a good choice of content to watch. i don't care about sports so leave that to the people who are willing to pay for it
and how many regular home users buy Photoshop? how about spending $300 to upgrade their trial of MS office they got.
95% to 99% of computer users do internet email light document work for which google apps, pages or the other apps out there are more than good enough photo editing - there are photo editing apps in both markets and as long as they are as good enough as the current version of iphoto it will be good enough for most people
Asus has a good idea with the Transformer tablet but they are marketing it wrong. they are trying to sell on specs to the power user who will still always buy an intel based laptop. and selling it with the dock for $500 is a money loser. that's why i said give it a few years. 3-5 max would be my guess. of course apple will probably get there first with a major release
at this point the iOS and android software catalogs are large enough that it's not an issue. developers will build on that.
ARM laptops won't run current PC games or do dev work but 99% of people don't care. Angry Birds has as many customers as Call of Duty games if not more. the hardcore gamer market is tapped out and the next gaming frontier is casual gaming with less emphasis on blood and gore
between iOS and Android there are hundreds of millions of ARM devices sold every year. The Samsung Galaxy S2 is more powerful than phones with medfield will be and that's also a year old. Medfield is crap unless it's a free on contract phone
if you look at a $500 PC a good guess is $200 or so goes to Intel/Microsoft. CPU/OS/motherboard/chipset etc. if you can build a laptop that does say 95% of what most people do on a laptop or desktop, sell it for $500 but have it cost less to build due to it not being powered by Intel then it's going to get built and sold. and that day will come soon. won't be good for most gaming/dev work but 99% of the people won't care.
there are rumors of ARM powered Apple laptops. Apple is developing based on this strategy. they need a cheaper computer but not at the expense of margins. at some point the numbers for a ARM powered laptop will line up to where they can sell it and make a lot of money and they will do it at the expense of Intel.
the evidence is there. custom CPU design. Mac app store which is filled with expensive iOS versions of a lot of software.
the Apple A6 and other new ARM CPU's that will hit this year will wipe the floor with medfield.
powervr 540? CRAPPOLA. Apple is already at 543 and is going next generation PowerVR in 2012
intel should be making these on 22nm and new products being released now, not months from now. but they have some financial software telling them that Core CPU's have more profit than SoC's and will lose market share little by little just like Sun and all the other CPU makers from the 1990's that were only in the high end.
Mark my words in the next 5 years ARM is going to have a CPU good enough for a laptop. the cost structure of Wintel will make this a huge financial/profit opportunity for laptop makers who will dump intel for most of their products except the high end where you need the power for dev/gaming or whatever.
the camera screens have smaller resolutions than the photo so you will need an algorithm to downgrade the image, that part is patentable. icloud does something similar where the photo stream images are lesser resolutions than the original. so i guess apple could have ripped them off if they used the same algorithm
1995 - Intel/MS and a few other US companies sold dell some parts, dell made a computer in texas and exported it 2011 - intel/ms and others ship the parts to china and the computer comes back to the US
the numbers only look at the cost of products coming in. it's been well established that apple and every other US company keeps most of the value of tech products and the manufacturing cost the chinese get is tiny. that's why acer and asus have net margins like food companies
since it will cost like eleventy billion $$$ or euros where can i donate? i'll gladly donate $50,000 for this just to be able to download free movies and music
$3000 for the enterprise dev license to load apps directly on your organization's idevices without the app store. apple even has a tool for IT drones to do it automatically
look at android, once the latest OS code has been released there are 20 phones coming out with it in a few months and they are all pretty much the same. you either price low or cut your margins and play the specs game. After a while, the big kid on the block aka Samsung beats out all the competition.
if you want the premium android market you pay Google a pile of cash to get into their circle of trust program
forgot the details but having email on the go allowed me to get some deals before others. like buying a condo/coop in NYC and getting a lot of the bidding done over email on the go
overall i don't use it that much but i'm part of a family plan, it's only $30 a month and the device is free after i sell my old iphone/smartphone after 18-24 months
most games use the same few engines which are used for years at a time. only time the upgrade cycle starts again is when a developer releases a game with a new dev kit and new engine. otherwise some CoD games are based on a 5 year old engine and play just fine on old hardware even if it's this year's CoD game
the only reason ARM is more power efficient is that it's SoC. everything is on one chip so less electricity gets used traveling around the motherboard and PCI bus.
for years intel treated Atom like a bastard with the oldest manufacturing lines when they should have put it on their newest processes. they would have killed ARM a long time ago
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TV prices have fallen off a cliff in the last 10 years and in the last 3 as well. that $1000 TV from 2 years ago is a few hundred $$ now. and HDMI ports are limited. you can get a switch but no normal person wants to switch 5 settings just to watch TV.
as some services like netflix, hulu and amazon get commoditized it only makes sense to have them bundled with a TV and not sucking up a HDMI port
the winner will be the one that allows us to cancel cable and pay for content a la netflix. set up a few tiers for content where you pay more depending on the show. kind of like spotify but with price tiers depending on the show.
i'm paying $150 a month for cable/internet/phone and i want to cut it by half and still have a good choice of content to watch. i don't care about sports so leave that to the people who are willing to pay for it
and how many regular home users buy Photoshop? how about spending $300 to upgrade their trial of MS office they got.
95% to 99% of computer users do
internet
email
light document work for which google apps, pages or the other apps out there are more than good enough
photo editing - there are photo editing apps in both markets and as long as they are as good enough as the current version of iphoto it will be good enough for most people
Asus has a good idea with the Transformer tablet but they are marketing it wrong. they are trying to sell on specs to the power user who will still always buy an intel based laptop. and selling it with the dock for $500 is a money loser. that's why i said give it a few years. 3-5 max would be my guess. of course apple will probably get there first with a major release
at this point the iOS and android software catalogs are large enough that it's not an issue. developers will build on that.
ARM laptops won't run current PC games or do dev work but 99% of people don't care. Angry Birds has as many customers as Call of Duty games if not more. the hardcore gamer market is tapped out and the next gaming frontier is casual gaming with less emphasis on blood and gore
and how many Windows 8 tablets have been sold?
between iOS and Android there are hundreds of millions of ARM devices sold every year. The Samsung Galaxy S2 is more powerful than phones with medfield will be and that's also a year old. Medfield is crap unless it's a free on contract phone
if you look at a $500 PC a good guess is $200 or so goes to Intel/Microsoft. CPU/OS/motherboard/chipset etc. if you can build a laptop that does say 95% of what most people do on a laptop or desktop, sell it for $500 but have it cost less to build due to it not being powered by Intel then it's going to get built and sold. and that day will come soon. won't be good for most gaming/dev work but 99% of the people won't care.
there are rumors of ARM powered Apple laptops. Apple is developing based on this strategy. they need a cheaper computer but not at the expense of margins. at some point the numbers for a ARM powered laptop will line up to where they can sell it and make a lot of money and they will do it at the expense of Intel.
the evidence is there. custom CPU design. Mac app store which is filled with expensive iOS versions of a lot of software.
the Apple A6 and other new ARM CPU's that will hit this year will wipe the floor with medfield.
powervr 540? CRAPPOLA. Apple is already at 543 and is going next generation PowerVR in 2012
intel should be making these on 22nm and new products being released now, not months from now. but they have some financial software telling them that Core CPU's have more profit than SoC's and will lose market share little by little just like Sun and all the other CPU makers from the 1990's that were only in the high end.
Mark my words in the next 5 years ARM is going to have a CPU good enough for a laptop. the cost structure of Wintel will make this a huge financial/profit opportunity for laptop makers who will dump intel for most of their products except the high end where you need the power for dev/gaming or whatever.
the camera screens have smaller resolutions than the photo so you will need an algorithm to downgrade the image, that part is patentable. icloud does something similar where the photo stream images are lesser resolutions than the original. so i guess apple could have ripped them off if they used the same algorithm
and has destroyed vital military property
time to lock him up with no trial and throw away the key
1995 - Intel/MS and a few other US companies sold dell some parts, dell made a computer in texas and exported it
2011 - intel/ms and others ship the parts to china and the computer comes back to the US
the numbers only look at the cost of products coming in. it's been well established that apple and every other US company keeps most of the value of tech products and the manufacturing cost the chinese get is tiny. that's why acer and asus have net margins like food companies
apple patents something as soon as the work is done. they don't wait for it to become usable in a device.
since it will cost like eleventy billion $$$ or euros where can i donate? i'll gladly donate $50,000 for this just to be able to download free movies and music
$3000 for the enterprise dev license to load apps directly on your organization's idevices without the app store. apple even has a tool for IT drones to do it automatically
look at android, once the latest OS code has been released there are 20 phones coming out with it in a few months and they are all pretty much the same. you either price low or cut your margins and play the specs game. After a while, the big kid on the block aka Samsung beats out all the competition.
if you want the premium android market you pay Google a pile of cash to get into their circle of trust program
in NYC the public toilets are called Starbucks
the semitic language family originates in africa
17 year is crazy
you will get a lot more bang for your money insulating your home to use less energy, buying more energy efficient appliances and electronics, and
GASP, buy your movies and music and don't rip them to hard disk and have a SAN or server running 24x7 in the closet sucking up juice
they did a huge reset with WP7 which didn't come out until iOS 3 or so. at this point they are way behind apple and android
yep
cable boxes/DVR's are $10 - $15 per month for each one. apple TV with built in youtube and netflix will be a big money saver for a lot of people
I was there almost 10 years ago. nice and very expensive homes. a very nice spanish restaraunt. seemed like a lot of educated people lived there.
this explains it. educated people usually try to educate their kids
they were building satellites to spy on a country that has 20000 nuclear bombs pointed at your country
not the idiocy that the US government destroyed 2 buildings in NYC and killed a lot of people
Yes, we're going tO enslave aliens
no $1000 handbag for my wife now.
forgot the details but having email on the go allowed me to get some deals before others. like buying a condo/coop in NYC and getting a lot of the bidding done over email on the go
overall i don't use it that much but i'm part of a family plan, it's only $30 a month and the device is free after i sell my old iphone/smartphone after 18-24 months
most games use the same few engines which are used for years at a time. only time the upgrade cycle starts again is when a developer releases a game with a new dev kit and new engine. otherwise some CoD games are based on a 5 year old engine and play just fine on old hardware even if it's this year's CoD game
the only reason ARM is more power efficient is that it's SoC. everything is on one chip so less electricity gets used traveling around the motherboard and PCI bus.
for years intel treated Atom like a bastard with the oldest manufacturing lines when they should have put it on their newest processes. they would have killed ARM a long time ago