Apple is already in bed with Microsoft and ActiveSync for iphone and Snow Leopard email connection to MS Exchange. Why not license mapping software as well?
wife and I have 2 iphones, but it's funny to listen to the cult of steve thinking that Apple designs and makes every last piece of each of their products and how it has some magic pixie dust. if apple were to admit that the battery in the iphone/touch is a lithium polymer battery made by some other company it would rape their childhoods worse than the Star Wars Prequels.
it's a small screen so you don't need as much hardware as you would on a 19 inch LCD. and i've read that the 3G is about halfway between the DS and the PSP in hardware. the 3G S has a separate graphics GPU and i've heard some people claim it's more powerful than a PSP
probably a lot of keyboards, but Apple keyboards are probably the largest block of a single identifiable brand out there. everyone probably uses OEM'd logitechs but those are probably customized to each OEM
when is the last time a retailer sold an "illegal" paper copy of a book. the company that published it would have to invest a lot of money to print the copies and then go through the normal distribution channels where someone will probably ask a question as to why someone else is selling 1984. with the Kindle Amazon made it very easy to sell if you didn't have the rights to the book. just upload the book, sell and pay Amazon a commission. Very low cost of entry for people selling "illegal" copies
Congrats, there is a Mac version available as well. PC's and Mac's are all the same parts made by the same slaves chained together. there is a few companies in the world that make a basic computer and then Dell, HP, Apple and others add a few things and brand it for themselves.
10 years ago the big discussion here was how unfair it was thet NSI was the only domain name registrar, how it was so corrupt, and how it would be all better once the monopoly was broken
that's because you are a small niche and not worth the effort to create a new marketing and rate plan that may have to go through a lengthy approval process by multiple agencies at federal and state levels. The vast majority of people buy new phones every 2 years from the carrier.
Apple and AT&T tried this with the original iPhone and it failed. The original iPhone plan was cheaper than the current one but you had to pay $600 for a new phone. When they went to the normal model where AT&T sold it below cost and made up for it over 2 years sales went through the roof.
exactly, my mom has a cheapo phone that only makes phone calls
we're starting a market cycle where people want nice smart phones like the iphone, pre, or one of the others. Sprint and T-Mobile have mostly cheapo phones. if you want the iphone you go to AT&T. If you want a BB Tour you go to Verizon, but i think Sprint has a few as well. People are even willing to pay extra for these phones. Apple is selling iphones as fast as it can make them and it's well past the cult of steve core customers.
Sprint got the idea and helped pay for the Pre. T-Mobile had and exclusive on the BB 8900 which was a piece of junk and not even 3G.
If Sprint and T-Mobile want to succeed they need to pony up cash to help pay R&D costs for nice smartphones if they don't want to bottom feed the market anymore.
there is a $49 iPhone on sale now because Apple can think ahead further than the next quarter and Sprint and T-Mobile with their crappy phone selections are running to the goverenment
VZ is like a supermarket and other businesses that sell lossleaders and make it up on other products. in this case a lot of phones are lossleaders because they sell you a phone for less than retail price and make up the difference on the monthly charges. texting is just there for people that want it to help pay for all the phones. once 4G networks come along texting will be free and they will charge for something else.
the cash price of a monthly cell phone contract hasn't changed much in the last 10 years while the number of minutes and other features has increased. A LOT
few years ago all phones were about the same in features and people shopped based on price and coverage. Sprint decided to bottom feed the market with it's pay cash in the store machines to cater to illegals and people who don't have bank accounts or internet access.
VZ and AT&T helped to invest in new phones by giving money to Apple and RIM in exchange for exclusive agreements.We're now in a market cycle where people want a good phone that can do everything since coverage is about the same everywhere.Sprint and T-Mobile are screwed because they cater to bottom feeders and now they're complaining. they want the new phones without paying to develop them. AT&T paid Apple almost a billion $$$ to develop the iPhone.
Sprint's answer was to fund the Pre which is still in beta. no wonder no one was allowed to see it before launch. if Sprint and T-Mobile want customers they need to help pay for a nice phone on their network with a decent release and all features working. Unlike the Pre which was a disaster. Check all the stories on BoyGeniusReport. Sprint screwed up and is now running to the government.
5 billion light years away means that we're seeing them how they were 5 billion years ago. Do they even exist in their current form or did they merge into larger galaxies to take advantage of synergies?
if you check the specs of iMac's, you'll see that the internals are laptop parts. they use so-dimm RAM and have laptop graphics adapters. Dell sells the Studio Hybrid desktop which is about the same price but a lot less included software. If you compare the performance of iMacs compared to the same price PC then the PC will leave the iMac in the dust. Anandtech even had a nice article on Mac Pro graphics in the last few months and it seems Apple engineered the iMacs just powerful enough to handle the expected load.
if you want performance you get a PC. if you want a pretty computer to save desk space and electricity you get a Mac. But Mac's are far from premium.
What did Apple invent? i like my iphone but it's nothing that didn't exist in cell phones before it came out. some features have been around for a decade. the only thing the iphone did is take the features and put them in one unit rather than have them split across 10 different cell phones. Blackberries had app stores for years before the iphone came out, only difference you had to hunt around different stores for your app.
OS X is just FreeBSD with a better GUI. I remember a few years ago Steve Jobs hyping the new spaces feature like it was the greatest thing ever when ^nix and Winders both had it for years under different names.
and the Apple/Google fanboys seem to forget that Apple and Google both license ActiveSync from Microsoft for their online/cloud products. Steve dumped homegrown.Mac in favor of MS based MobileMe
Only reason Garmin and TomTom sold hardware was because there was no other way. with the iphone and other cell phones becoming more powerful there is no reason to sell hardware anymore since all the value is in the software. TomTom is going to sell a whole kit for the iphone that includes the software, and a way to mount it on your windshield and plug it in so the battery doesn't wear out
i don't have a WinMo phone but I think the big problem with them is the same as with Android phones. MS sells the the OS to HTC and a few other brand X makers who customize it and resell it. Each phone seems a bit different and most people don't know it's a WinMo phone. Some phones are good, others are cheapo phones and there is a separate "Enterprise" version. if you get a cheapo phone you might think the OS is bad. Same with Android, there is very little control of what the consumer sees.
RiM has followed a strategy of trying to fill every niche with it's Blackberry phones. They all look and feel almost exactly the same from the cheapo Curves to the new Tour.
Apple is doing something similar with the iPhone but they decided to attack the low end by selling last year's model as well as the new one.
as a test i went to EA's mobile games site. out of 50 games every single one runs on the iphone. For the rest you have to know your exact phone model and it will tell you if the game runs on your phone. beyond ridiculous and reminds me of the system requirements for PC games. For iPhone games they tell you which generation of iphone or itouch you need and which OS version. that's it.
Latest rumor is that MS is making their own phone because the Apple/BB/Palm model of designing phones seems to be winning
It may have been announced October 2008, but it was available in alpha back in June 2008 and earlier. I used it in July while on vacation.
Set it up on my desktop and laptop. I would take pictures, put the SD card into my laptop and copy them to the shared folder on my laptop and they would automatically copy to my desktop which was 2000 miles away. This way i always had room on my SD card for my digital cameral and there was always a second copy in case my laptop crashed.
and the web TS is very nice. i would RDP into my PC from where ever I was to do whatever i wanted. like set up bit torrent to download stuff that was meant only for me. only problem was that it was very slow, but being an alpha version i didn't complain.
MTA workers are in a union and you have to have all these rules since the union wants there to be a good reason to fire anyone. where i work there is a 30 page book where half of each page is empty
i've worked in a MS environment for a long time and have seen a few virus infections. not once have we called in any consultants to clean up. in the worst case we have an old NT server that is infected but has to remain operational. solution was to put a free Firewall on it, block all traffic except for a few people that need access to it. still infected, but the virus can't get out. everyone else gets pulled off the network and cleaned up using the normal suite of AV and free tools availalble
it's called a nexus or something like that. states can levy a sales tax on anyone operating within their borders or with a "nexus" like an office or a warehouse. Dell charges sales tax in NY because they have a support office and kiosks here. NY and Amazon have fought over this for years until the AG had the brilliant idea the affiliates were sales people and that meant a "nexus". a court agreed with him and Amazon is appealing. it looks like Amazon will probably lose because there is case law that says if you have sales people in a state and they aren't employees then the state can still collect sales tax.
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Apple is already in bed with Microsoft and ActiveSync for iphone and Snow Leopard email connection to MS Exchange. Why not license mapping software as well?
wife and I have 2 iphones, but it's funny to listen to the cult of steve thinking that Apple designs and makes every last piece of each of their products and how it has some magic pixie dust. if apple were to admit that the battery in the iphone/touch is a lithium polymer battery made by some other company it would rape their childhoods worse than the Star Wars Prequels.
it's a small screen so you don't need as much hardware as you would on a 19 inch LCD. and i've read that the 3G is about halfway between the DS and the PSP in hardware. the 3G S has a separate graphics GPU and i've heard some people claim it's more powerful than a PSP
probably a lot of keyboards, but Apple keyboards are probably the largest block of a single identifiable brand out there. everyone probably uses OEM'd logitechs but those are probably customized to each OEM
when is the last time a retailer sold an "illegal" paper copy of a book. the company that published it would have to invest a lot of money to print the copies and then go through the normal distribution channels where someone will probably ask a question as to why someone else is selling 1984. with the Kindle Amazon made it very easy to sell if you didn't have the rights to the book. just upload the book, sell and pay Amazon a commission. Very low cost of entry for people selling "illegal" copies
http://store.lojackforlaptops.com/store/absolute/DisplayProductDetailsPage/productID.104509100
Congrats, there is a Mac version available as well. PC's and Mac's are all the same parts made by the same slaves chained together. there is a few companies in the world that make a basic computer and then Dell, HP, Apple and others add a few things and brand it for themselves.
you must be new here
10 years ago the big discussion here was how unfair it was thet NSI was the only domain name registrar, how it was so corrupt, and how it would be all better once the monopoly was broken
especially on the Belt Parkway where people seem to slow down to 30mph to go over a bridge
that's because you are a small niche and not worth the effort to create a new marketing and rate plan that may have to go through a lengthy approval process by multiple agencies at federal and state levels. The vast majority of people buy new phones every 2 years from the carrier.
Apple and AT&T tried this with the original iPhone and it failed. The original iPhone plan was cheaper than the current one but you had to pay $600 for a new phone. When they went to the normal model where AT&T sold it below cost and made up for it over 2 years sales went through the roof.
exactly, my mom has a cheapo phone that only makes phone calls
we're starting a market cycle where people want nice smart phones like the iphone, pre, or one of the others. Sprint and T-Mobile have mostly cheapo phones. if you want the iphone you go to AT&T. If you want a BB Tour you go to Verizon, but i think Sprint has a few as well. People are even willing to pay extra for these phones. Apple is selling iphones as fast as it can make them and it's well past the cult of steve core customers.
Sprint got the idea and helped pay for the Pre. T-Mobile had and exclusive on the BB 8900 which was a piece of junk and not even 3G.
If Sprint and T-Mobile want to succeed they need to pony up cash to help pay R&D costs for nice smartphones if they don't want to bottom feed the market anymore.
there is a $49 iPhone on sale now because Apple can think ahead further than the next quarter and Sprint and T-Mobile with their crappy phone selections are running to the goverenment
VZ is like a supermarket and other businesses that sell lossleaders and make it up on other products. in this case a lot of phones are lossleaders because they sell you a phone for less than retail price and make up the difference on the monthly charges. texting is just there for people that want it to help pay for all the phones. once 4G networks come along texting will be free and they will charge for something else.
the cash price of a monthly cell phone contract hasn't changed much in the last 10 years while the number of minutes and other features has increased. A LOT
few years ago all phones were about the same in features and people shopped based on price and coverage. Sprint decided to bottom feed the market with it's pay cash in the store machines to cater to illegals and people who don't have bank accounts or internet access.
VZ and AT&T helped to invest in new phones by giving money to Apple and RIM in exchange for exclusive agreements.We're now in a market cycle where people want a good phone that can do everything since coverage is about the same everywhere.Sprint and T-Mobile are screwed because they cater to bottom feeders and now they're complaining. they want the new phones without paying to develop them. AT&T paid Apple almost a billion $$$ to develop the iPhone.
Sprint's answer was to fund the Pre which is still in beta. no wonder no one was allowed to see it before launch. if Sprint and T-Mobile want customers they need to help pay for a nice phone on their network with a decent release and all features working. Unlike the Pre which was a disaster. Check all the stories on BoyGeniusReport. Sprint screwed up and is now running to the government.
5 billion light years away means that we're seeing them how they were 5 billion years ago. Do they even exist in their current form or did they merge into larger galaxies to take advantage of synergies?
if you check the specs of iMac's, you'll see that the internals are laptop parts. they use so-dimm RAM and have laptop graphics adapters. Dell sells the Studio Hybrid desktop which is about the same price but a lot less included software. If you compare the performance of iMacs compared to the same price PC then the PC will leave the iMac in the dust. Anandtech even had a nice article on Mac Pro graphics in the last few months and it seems Apple engineered the iMacs just powerful enough to handle the expected load.
if you want performance you get a PC. if you want a pretty computer to save desk space and electricity you get a Mac. But Mac's are far from premium.
minis are $599
if it reaced something like the iPhone then it's ok. As an extra device $599 is too much when netbooks are $199
What did Apple invent? i like my iphone but it's nothing that didn't exist in cell phones before it came out. some features have been around for a decade. the only thing the iphone did is take the features and put them in one unit rather than have them split across 10 different cell phones. Blackberries had app stores for years before the iphone came out, only difference you had to hunt around different stores for your app.
OS X is just FreeBSD with a better GUI. I remember a few years ago Steve Jobs hyping the new spaces feature like it was the greatest thing ever when ^nix and Winders both had it for years under different names.
and the Apple/Google fanboys seem to forget that Apple and Google both license ActiveSync from Microsoft for their online/cloud products. Steve dumped homegrown .Mac in favor of MS based MobileMe
Only reason Garmin and TomTom sold hardware was because there was no other way. with the iphone and other cell phones becoming more powerful there is no reason to sell hardware anymore since all the value is in the software. TomTom is going to sell a whole kit for the iphone that includes the software, and a way to mount it on your windshield and plug it in so the battery doesn't wear out
i don't have a WinMo phone but I think the big problem with them is the same as with Android phones. MS sells the the OS to HTC and a few other brand X makers who customize it and resell it. Each phone seems a bit different and most people don't know it's a WinMo phone. Some phones are good, others are cheapo phones and there is a separate "Enterprise" version. if you get a cheapo phone you might think the OS is bad. Same with Android, there is very little control of what the consumer sees.
RiM has followed a strategy of trying to fill every niche with it's Blackberry phones. They all look and feel almost exactly the same from the cheapo Curves to the new Tour.
Apple is doing something similar with the iPhone but they decided to attack the low end by selling last year's model as well as the new one.
as a test i went to EA's mobile games site. out of 50 games every single one runs on the iphone. For the rest you have to know your exact phone model and it will tell you if the game runs on your phone. beyond ridiculous and reminds me of the system requirements for PC games. For iPhone games they tell you which generation of iphone or itouch you need and which OS version. that's it.
Latest rumor is that MS is making their own phone because the Apple/BB/Palm model of designing phones seems to be winning
It may have been announced October 2008, but it was available in alpha back in June 2008 and earlier. I used it in July while on vacation.
Set it up on my desktop and laptop. I would take pictures, put the SD card into my laptop and copy them to the shared folder on my laptop and they would automatically copy to my desktop which was 2000 miles away. This way i always had room on my SD card for my digital cameral and there was always a second copy in case my laptop crashed.
and the web TS is very nice. i would RDP into my PC from where ever I was to do whatever i wanted. like set up bit torrent to download stuff that was meant only for me. only problem was that it was very slow, but being an alpha version i didn't complain.
MTA workers are in a union and you have to have all these rules since the union wants there to be a good reason to fire anyone. where i work there is a 30 page book where half of each page is empty
use the niche browsers for your private surfing and IE/Firefox for important things
nice thing about old crappy 10 year old servers is that you can't plug anything in there
i've worked in a MS environment for a long time and have seen a few virus infections. not once have we called in any consultants to clean up. in the worst case we have an old NT server that is infected but has to remain operational. solution was to put a free Firewall on it, block all traffic except for a few people that need access to it. still infected, but the virus can't get out. everyone else gets pulled off the network and cleaned up using the normal suite of AV and free tools availalble
it's called a nexus or something like that. states can levy a sales tax on anyone operating within their borders or with a "nexus" like an office or a warehouse. Dell charges sales tax in NY because they have a support office and kiosks here. NY and Amazon have fought over this for years until the AG had the brilliant idea the affiliates were sales people and that meant a "nexus". a court agreed with him and Amazon is appealing. it looks like Amazon will probably lose because there is case law that says if you have sales people in a state and they aren't employees then the state can still collect sales tax.