my son is almost 2 and loves playing with my iphone. there are a ton of kids educational apps in the app store and he loves swiping his finger and seeing the screen move. i try to give him my blackberry as well, but he hates it. i even call it the boring phone.
parents i talk to who have kids in first grade say that it's expected now that kids know how to read when they go to school. with computers and game consoles everywhere, kids can probably learn to read by 4
check out the Macrumors forums. people bought iMacs a few years ago and LCD's started to go after the warranty expired. The Genius's called the customers crazy. Only reason Apple payed out money with the nvidia chipsets is because they got the money from nvidia.
there was a hard drive clicking issue with current MBP's and 7200rpm drives, including freeze ups. people took them to Apple stores and were told it was a feature.
i use my phone as a phone maybe 45 minutes a month. i'm on a 700 minute family plan with 3 other phones. but last month i used around 2GB of data. my in-laws with their cheapo samsung flip phones use up most of the minutes
much better camera and 16GB removable SD cards are supported in addition to the internal memory
i have an iphone 3GS 32GB and if this thing is good in 2 years i'll trade my iphone for it. I like the iphone but it has enough problems for a competitor to come in and take market share.
My BB Curve has much better battery life than my iphone when comparing push email Apple screwed up contacts importation and allows double and triple contact creation. RIM is better at this. Apple seems to have taken a cue from Microsoft and if you read the forums, the magic fix is to restore as a new phone. Just like reinstalling Windows.
I like the iPhone mostly for it's flexibility. i have 150 apps on mine which take up over 1GB of space. with RIM's ancient OS it's impossible to do this. The Pre is still in beta but is looking very promising.
even though I'm an MCSE, Microsoft is dead in the mobile space. I don't even think they care. They licensed Active Sync to Apple, Palm and Google but you can't access MS Exchange from most WinMo phones or the Zune.
specs are better than the iphone and the interface looks nice. how much is it? I think the $299 price point is the most that most people are willing to pay
NYC they have wireless auto ticket printers. they'll just scan your registration and print a ticket in a few minutes and let you go to court to sort it out
otherwise the plot is a soldier goes to fight, gets some genetic modification and then figures out that the war is evil and being fought for ulterior reasons known only to a select few and he changes sides to fight for right
Apple even went as far as licensing the ability to restore the OS on the iPhone as the magic fix for problems. It works so well in Windows, Apple decided to do it on the iPhone. I had to do it yesterday and the Apple support forums are full of people giving this magic fix advice.
they offer a blackberry version as well as Garmin. for Android they are probably waiting for the user base to grow. and it depends on the phone. The iphone app clocks in at a whopping 1.2GB. you get all the maps locally to your phone. every iphone ever made has that much storage.
for every other device they have to figure out how many phones meet the requirements or what kind of workarounds they have to code to have it run on as many devices as possible. For the iphone it's a lot easier since every generation of iphone is the same except for the storage.
you can download any app you bought for free on the same account as many times as you want. all the apps are downloaded as.ipa files into your profile in windows and you can even easily back them up yourself so you don't have to download them again.
i have 2 iphones. one for myself and one for my wife. i just put the ipa file on her computer, add to itunes library and next time it syncs she gets the app
Doesn't anyone remember the AOL/Time Warner merger? it was approximately 10 years ago now that it was announced. it was a dismal failure as technology changed in 2 years to make the whole thing worthless. The only media deal that can make sense is to buy the NFL, MLB, NASCAR or NBA because people will pay up for sports even in a recession. If the Disney channel suddenly becomes a premium channel I won't be getting it. even though i have a child.
and with Verizon laying fiber along with AT&T were a few years away from another networking technology explosion that will make this deal obsolete.
and Apple seems to not want to compete in the desktop space. macbook pro's and imacs are made of the same internal parts and Apple seems content selling the same PC at ridiculous mark ups to it's niche market. the way everything is integrated on the motherboard today and the fact that it's very easy to build a consumer level hackintosh it shouldn't be a big deal for Apple to sell a desktop system that's cheaper than the imac's laptop internals.
my conspiracy theory says it's an unwritten agreement to keep DoJ off everyone's backs and to offer token competition to show in court
i find it extremely puzzling why Apple offers MS Exchange mailbox access on 40 million plus iphones and ipods and MS can't even offer it on the Zune and most WinMo cell phones. it's almost like MS wants the Zune to fail and yet they license ActiveSync to a competitor. maybe that's where the $10 annual ipod upgrade fee is going? not like anyone belives Apple's story about it being for SOX accounting reasons.
MS has said they want Windows to be a smaller part of the revenue pie and in the last year they found 40 million new devices to license Exchange on. and that's not including the Pre.
if anyone hasn't noticed, Apple and Microsoft have been playing very nice together since last year.
Apple has licensed ActiveSync for the iphone and MobileMe there is Exchange 2007 integration into Snow Leopard New MS Office for the Mac will have an Outlook client for the first time with full Exchange integration
I think MS is playing nice with Apple to get back at Dell and HP for the netbook linux thing. If HP and Dell want to ship linux PC's, then MS is going to help Apple poach Dell's most profitable customers
I read about this two weeks ago. This idea was originally made up by the record companies and pitched to apple. The record companies didn't like apple's walled garden approach and didn't want to lose control like they did with iTunes so they have their own open format to compete with apple.
i gave my inlaws a 5 year old Dell Inspiron i bought for $1500. 2GB ram upgrade and it runs Vista very nicely. My mom has an identical model except the cheapo one with Intel graphics, smaller battery etc. also runs Vista Home Premium and works very well including video skype calls. will run for another few years.
more like close to $3000 for a 15" MBP once you get the 9600M which is still obsolete compared to current PC laptop graphics cards, Applecare, tax and a few other accessories. You can configure a Dell laptop with better specs for $1500. only difference is MBP's have DDR 3 RAM which is expensive and you'll probably never notice the difference. but the MBP is 8 ounces lighter for all you wimps out there
and Google's products are routinely left unpolished in the usability arena unlike Apple and MS. i gave up trying to scan my photos into Picasa and went back to one of Microsoft's free apps or one of the ones in MS Office. the google desktop has been banned in a lot of companies for its ability to kill MS Exchange and Blackberry Enterprise Server. Android is seen only on brand x cell phones where no one cares what the model is. iphone and pre seem to get the cool branding.
If Chrome OS is like any other Google product then Apple and MS have nothing to worry about.
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my son is almost 2 and loves playing with my iphone. there are a ton of kids educational apps in the app store and he loves swiping his finger and seeing the screen move. i try to give him my blackberry as well, but he hates it. i even call it the boring phone.
parents i talk to who have kids in first grade say that it's expected now that kids know how to read when they go to school. with computers and game consoles everywhere, kids can probably learn to read by 4
a lot of these deals have time expiration clauses. and studios collaborate on a lot of projects all the time
check out the Macrumors forums. people bought iMacs a few years ago and LCD's started to go after the warranty expired. The Genius's called the customers crazy. Only reason Apple payed out money with the nvidia chipsets is because they got the money from nvidia.
there was a hard drive clicking issue with current MBP's and 7200rpm drives, including freeze ups. people took them to Apple stores and were told it was a feature.
i use my phone as a phone maybe 45 minutes a month. i'm on a 700 minute family plan with 3 other phones. but last month i used around 2GB of data. my in-laws with their cheapo samsung flip phones use up most of the minutes
my 3GS tends to heat up a lot more than my blackberry. when i use the cell phone app i can feel the back getting warm
much better camera and 16GB removable SD cards are supported in addition to the internal memory
i have an iphone 3GS 32GB and if this thing is good in 2 years i'll trade my iphone for it. I like the iphone but it has enough problems for a competitor to come in and take market share.
My BB Curve has much better battery life than my iphone when comparing push email
Apple screwed up contacts importation and allows double and triple contact creation. RIM is better at this.
Apple seems to have taken a cue from Microsoft and if you read the forums, the magic fix is to restore as a new phone. Just like reinstalling Windows.
I like the iPhone mostly for it's flexibility. i have 150 apps on mine which take up over 1GB of space. with RIM's ancient OS it's impossible to do this. The Pre is still in beta but is looking very promising.
even though I'm an MCSE, Microsoft is dead in the mobile space. I don't even think they care. They licensed Active Sync to Apple, Palm and Google but you can't access MS Exchange from most WinMo phones or the Zune.
specs are better than the iphone and the interface looks nice. how much is it? I think the $299 price point is the most that most people are willing to pay
old style meters if you park at one with time left over then the city "lost" money
new meters when you park unless someone gives you a ticket with time on it you have to pay even if the person before you didn't use all their time
NYC they have wireless auto ticket printers. they'll just scan your registration and print a ticket in a few minutes and let you go to court to sort it out
the book version of starship troopers
otherwise the plot is a soldier goes to fight, gets some genetic modification and then figures out that the war is evil and being fought for ulterior reasons known only to a select few and he changes sides to fight for right
and i thought IBM and Red Hat just took the code and didn't give their changes back to everyone else
CDW usually takes 1-3 days to deliver a server. they ship the same day if you email the PO by 3pm.
almost every feature is in there
Apple even went as far as licensing the ability to restore the OS on the iPhone as the magic fix for problems. It works so well in Windows, Apple decided to do it on the iPhone. I had to do it yesterday and the Apple support forums are full of people giving this magic fix advice.
they offer a blackberry version as well as Garmin. for Android they are probably waiting for the user base to grow. and it depends on the phone. The iphone app clocks in at a whopping 1.2GB. you get all the maps locally to your phone. every iphone ever made has that much storage.
for every other device they have to figure out how many phones meet the requirements or what kind of workarounds they have to code to have it run on as many devices as possible. For the iphone it's a lot easier since every generation of iphone is the same except for the storage.
you can download any app you bought for free on the same account as many times as you want. all the apps are downloaded as .ipa files into your profile in windows and you can even easily back them up yourself so you don't have to download them again.
i have 2 iphones. one for myself and one for my wife. i just put the ipa file on her computer, add to itunes library and next time it syncs she gets the app
Doesn't anyone remember the AOL/Time Warner merger? it was approximately 10 years ago now that it was announced. it was a dismal failure as technology changed in 2 years to make the whole thing worthless. The only media deal that can make sense is to buy the NFL, MLB, NASCAR or NBA because people will pay up for sports even in a recession. If the Disney channel suddenly becomes a premium channel I won't be getting it. even though i have a child.
and with Verizon laying fiber along with AT&T were a few years away from another networking technology explosion that will make this deal obsolete.
and Apple seems to not want to compete in the desktop space. macbook pro's and imacs are made of the same internal parts and Apple seems content selling the same PC at ridiculous mark ups to it's niche market. the way everything is integrated on the motherboard today and the fact that it's very easy to build a consumer level hackintosh it shouldn't be a big deal for Apple to sell a desktop system that's cheaper than the imac's laptop internals.
my conspiracy theory says it's an unwritten agreement to keep DoJ off everyone's backs and to offer token competition to show in court
i find it extremely puzzling why Apple offers MS Exchange mailbox access on 40 million plus iphones and ipods and MS can't even offer it on the Zune and most WinMo cell phones. it's almost like MS wants the Zune to fail and yet they license ActiveSync to a competitor. maybe that's where the $10 annual ipod upgrade fee is going? not like anyone belives Apple's story about it being for SOX accounting reasons.
MS has said they want Windows to be a smaller part of the revenue pie and in the last year they found 40 million new devices to license Exchange on. and that's not including the Pre.
if anyone hasn't noticed, Apple and Microsoft have been playing very nice together since last year.
Apple has licensed ActiveSync for the iphone and MobileMe
there is Exchange 2007 integration into Snow Leopard
New MS Office for the Mac will have an Outlook client for the first time with full Exchange integration
I think MS is playing nice with Apple to get back at Dell and HP for the netbook linux thing. If HP and Dell want to ship linux PC's, then MS is going to help Apple poach Dell's most profitable customers
I read about this two weeks ago. This idea was originally made up by the record companies and pitched to apple. The record companies didn't like apple's walled garden approach and didn't want to lose control like they did with iTunes so they have their own open format to compete with apple.
i gave my inlaws a 5 year old Dell Inspiron i bought for $1500. 2GB ram upgrade and it runs Vista very nicely. My mom has an identical model except the cheapo one with Intel graphics, smaller battery etc. also runs Vista Home Premium and works very well including video skype calls. will run for another few years.
more like close to $3000 for a 15" MBP once you get the 9600M which is still obsolete compared to current PC laptop graphics cards, Applecare, tax and a few other accessories. You can configure a Dell laptop with better specs for $1500. only difference is MBP's have DDR 3 RAM which is expensive and you'll probably never notice the difference. but the MBP is 8 ounces lighter for all you wimps out there
try www.fatwallet.com in the hot deals forum. i'm always getting emails about $400 laptops with decent specs.
for their cloud and cell phone products
and Google's products are routinely left unpolished in the usability arena unlike Apple and MS. i gave up trying to scan my photos into Picasa and went back to one of Microsoft's free apps or one of the ones in MS Office. the google desktop has been banned in a lot of companies for its ability to kill MS Exchange and Blackberry Enterprise Server. Android is seen only on brand x cell phones where no one cares what the model is. iphone and pre seem to get the cool branding.
If Chrome OS is like any other Google product then Apple and MS have nothing to worry about.
apple doesn't have it's own mapping software for one. google needs a reason to keep it's eleventy billion servers running and doing something