So if no app can compete with their garden, how do you explain the existence of third party apps that compete with iBooks, iTunes (movies, music, tv shows), and Apple Music?
I don't have one, but the idea of a small set top box that can serve as a Plex Server + Client with transcoding capabilities is an attractive option.
That being said for no muss no fuss media box, the Roku can't be beat. It supports every major and minor streaming app, and no one is going to release a streaming service without support for the Roku.
You'll never know? The internet goes into an outrage every time there is a rejection from the Apple App Store. I'm sure someone would have reported it.
Are there 1000 sites on the Internet that deliver legal streaming video to a wide audience? We can speak hypothetically all day but can you post one video hosting site that has applied to be on Binge-On that was not allowed to be on it?
How many sites that host live streaming video that are not on Binge On could even handle 100-500 video streams at once?
You can already get an unlimited high speed internet plan from T-mobile.
And how does the rest of the Internet benefit from taking away the option from T-mobile customers to not have to pay for unlimited data and still get unlimited video?
So you would rather T-mobile not offer their customers unlimited video and audio streaming to its customers just because a company has to meet certain technical requirements and apply and accept?
T-mobile is very open about their criteria and there hasn't been a single report of a video or audio service that wanted to be a part of Binge On and couldn't. They don't advertise it, but I believe there is a porn site that is part of Binge On - so there isn't discrimination bAded on content type either.
As I've always said, if you can't argue the opposing view on any contentious topic, you don't understand the topic and shouldn't hold a strong view.
There are plenty of issues on the right (most Obama conspiracies, 6000 year old earth, "creation science") that can't be logically argued. There are also loony left issues (anti-vaxxers, anti-GMO, almost anything they peddle at Whole Foods) that can't be logically argued.
On the other hand, I might not agree with everything that the likes of George Will, Paul Ryan, the National Review, or the WSJ say, but at least their views can be respected.
10% of your income on the first $9.225 15% of your income from $9,226 - $37,400 25% of your income from 37,451 - 90,750
So if you make $60,000 a year, you pay
$925 + 4083 + 5637 in Fed Taxes. You have to take the tax brackets into consideration. You can't just multiple the income by 25%. In the above scenerio, your effective tax rate would be 17.42%
Your marginal tax rate would be 25% on the next dollar earned up to $90,750.
SS taxes are 12.4%. As a W2 employee, you pay half and your company pays half. As a 1099 employee you have to pay the whole thing. Same with Medicare.
Then you don't pay SS at all on income of $118,500
It's not cherry picking. When most people talk about their income. They are talking about income before taxes. Everyone's tax situation is different. But no one pays 25% of every dollar in taxes.
Comparing apples to apples, I wouldn't take income taxes into account. Everyone has to pay those. I would take the 6.2% in SSA and 2.8% that the employer pays if you're not a contractor into account.
Apple has sold music in the AAC format unencrypted since 2008. There is nothing proprietary about AAC. Apple had nothing to do with the creation or licensing of it.
AAC has been supported by every platform for years and it's a required part of Android compatibility and BluRay. Every phone that I've used since 2005 has supported it. Including feature phones from Samsung, BlackBerrys, Windows Phones, etc.
Yes. I would hope that anyone posting on Slashdot would have heard of the iTunes Store that's been around since 2003. Worse case someone may be under a misconception that the music that you buy from iTunes has any type of DRM -- which it hasn't had since 2008.
The old canard that Apple stole the idea is not true. The idea of pressing a key and having small widgets show up was done as part of the Apple//GS GUI in 1986.
How did you happen to buy so many printers that aren't AirPrint compatible? I have four printers dating back to 2011 - an Epson, a Canon, an HP, and a brother printer that all support AirPrint. I would have to go out of my way to find a wireless printer that doesn't support AirPrint.
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Well Gingrich saw the way that the Republican party was becoming more ant-science and changed his tune.
http://www.factcheck.org/2011/...
Yes this. Because half of the population in the U.S. are hipster and stupid....
Try compiling Android from source and see how useless it is without all of the proprietary Binary only drivers and Google's proprietary apps.
If you subscribe to a service outside of the App Store, Apple doesn't get a cut.
So if no app can compete with their garden, how do you explain the existence of third party apps that compete with iBooks, iTunes (movies, music, tv shows), and Apple Music?
Yeah. No Amazon Prime sucks, but you can use AirPlay from an iOS device.
I don't have one, but the idea of a small set top box that can serve as a Plex Server + Client with transcoding capabilities is an attractive option.
That being said for no muss no fuss media box, the Roku can't be beat. It supports every major and minor streaming app, and no one is going to release a streaming service without support for the Roku.
Or buying a cheap phone for a teenager....
You'll never know? The internet goes into an outrage every time there is a rejection from the Apple App Store. I'm sure someone would have reported it.
Are there 1000 sites on the Internet that deliver legal streaming video to a wide audience? We can speak hypothetically all day but can you post one video hosting site that has applied to be on Binge-On that was not allowed to be on it?
How many sites that host live streaming video that are not on Binge On could even handle 100-500 video streams at once?
You can already get an unlimited high speed internet plan from T-mobile.
And how does the rest of the Internet benefit from taking away the option from T-mobile customers to not have to pay for unlimited data and still get unlimited video?
So you would rather T-mobile not offer their customers unlimited video and audio streaming to its customers just because a company has to meet certain technical requirements and apply and accept?
Who benefits if T-mobile discontinues Binge-On?
T-mobile is very open about their criteria and there hasn't been a single report of a video or audio service that wanted to be a part of Binge On and couldn't. They don't advertise it, but I believe there is a porn site that is part of Binge On - so there isn't discrimination bAded on content type either.
That would be a nice argument if it weren't for the pesky fact that T- mobile has the cheapest data rates and free international roaming.
There are plenty of issues on the right (most Obama conspiracies, 6000 year old earth, "creation science") that can't be logically argued. There are also loony left issues (anti-vaxxers, anti-GMO, almost anything they peddle at Whole Foods) that can't be logically argued.
On the other hand, I might not agree with everything that the likes of George Will, Paul Ryan, the National Review, or the WSJ say, but at least their views can be respected.
That's not how it works.
For a single filer you pay in federal taxes.
10% of your income on the first $9.225
15% of your income from $9,226 - $37,400
25% of your income from 37,451 - 90,750
So if you make $60,000 a year, you pay
$925 + 4083 + 5637 in Fed Taxes. You have to take the tax brackets into consideration. You can't just multiple the income by 25%. In the above scenerio, your effective tax rate would be 17.42%
Your marginal tax rate would be 25% on the next dollar earned up to $90,750.
SS taxes are 12.4%. As a W2 employee, you pay half and your company pays half. As a 1099 employee you have to pay the whole thing. Same with Medicare.
Then you don't pay SS at all on income of $118,500
It's not cherry picking. When most people talk about their income. They are talking about income before taxes. Everyone's tax situation is different. But no one pays 25% of every dollar in taxes.
Comparing apples to apples, I wouldn't take income taxes into account. Everyone has to pay those. I would take the 6.2% in SSA and 2.8% that the employer pays if you're not a contractor into account.
If only there were some type of cross platform standard for wireless headphones....
If by "stole" you mean Apple paid Xerox in stock to tour Parc, I guess you're right.
Apple has sold music in the AAC format unencrypted since 2008. There is nothing proprietary about AAC. Apple had nothing to do with the creation or licensing of it.
AAC has been supported by every platform for years and it's a required part of Android compatibility and BluRay. Every phone that I've used since 2005 has supported it. Including feature phones from Samsung, BlackBerrys, Windows Phones, etc.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding
Yes. I would hope that anyone posting on Slashdot would have heard of the iTunes Store that's been around since 2003. Worse case someone may be under a misconception that the music that you buy from iTunes has any type of DRM -- which it hasn't had since 2008.
Third parties could also add small desk accessory style apps with Apple //GS.
The old canard that Apple stole the idea is not true. The idea of pressing a key and having small widgets show up was done as part of the Apple //GS GUI in 1986.
How did you happen to buy so many printers that aren't AirPrint compatible? I have four printers dating back to 2011 - an Epson, a Canon, an HP, and a brother printer that all support AirPrint. I would have to go out of my way to find a wireless printer that doesn't support AirPrint.