You mean a timeline where Apple adopts BeOS instead of the kludge they (were) bought (by) instead?
Yes because bringing Gasse back - the person who almost killed Apple by insisting that they don't make lower cost Macs - would have been the definite ticket to success. Do you really think that the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, or the iPad would have happened without Jobs?
That's not true. It was true in 2012 but not in 2013 or 2014. The carriers have been trying to prevent the formation of an Apple monopoly in the USA and pushed Android subsidies up to Apple levels. Apple is currently negotiating for yet another increase for the iPhone 6 so this may happen 4Q2014 but for about 18 mo it wasn't the case.
Why would carriers push other manufacturers subsidies up that would cause then to spend more money.? If anything, carriers are trying two things to spend less on subsidies:
1. Encourage contract customers to buy cheaper Android phones so they could spend less on subsidies.
Now moving away from subsidies could hurt Apple, but would a consumer really balk at paying $25/month for an iPhone over paying $18/month for a high-end Android?
You can see it most frequently in iPhone vs Android discussions after Android very clearly passed iPhone in market share. Then the argument became "but Apple has much higher profit". Yes, they do, and it is coming out of your wallet, why are you happy about that?
The typical user in the US pays the same amount for a high end iPhone as they do for a high-end Android - $200. The carrier pays Apple a larger subsidy for the iPhone. Why should the end-user care how much of a subsidy that the carrier has to pay?
Maybe you're thinking of Apple's "goto fail" SSL exploit where we really don't know who or what or when and probably never will because it's not likely Apple is going to release their RCS logs.
The fact that Apple fanatics are clinging to past glories is not news. Show me a value phone...or even a watch. Otherwise just watch your market share continue to shrink.
I have not found this answer yet (have not tried too hard, though): can it mount nfs and smb shares and play back from NAS; or is this 'streaming (from wan) only'?
if its streaming only, then I have 0 interest in this. streaming is nice but the must-have is to be able to properly mount and play smb and nfs content and also not care about how the content was encoded (some hardware playback devices only play certain settings-enabled content; if the encoder was using 'odd' parameters, quite a lot of hardware players will have problems).
if this can fully replace my win7 box or linux box using vlc, that's great. to play amazon prime HD, an atom cpu is not going to cut it (I get lots of pauses) and a core 2 duo is the very minimum to play HD over amazon; and even then, the laptop fan spins very loud during playback.
a nice fanless hardware player would be welcome but only if it can fully replace my software based player.
No, but it does support Plex. Install the Plex Server on your computer and it will automatically transcode your library on the fly to a format that any supported device supports. It also automatically finds meta-data.
If not it would look like monopoly abuse, using their dominant position to cut margins to levels others couldn't sustain and paying for exclusive access to customers.
Response 1: What monopoly? Response 2: You mean how Google uses it's monopoly on search to fund Android and give it away for free - reducing the margin to 0?
It should certainly be possible to put that in a MacBook Air to allow it to run iOS 7 and onward, so we can have both low power tablet and high power OSX in one small package.
There is no need to have an A7 in the Macbook Air to run iOS apps.
There is already a fully functional version of iOS 7 that runs on x86 based Macs and there has been since the app store was introduced. In fact I doubt that there is a single app in existence for iOS that hasn't at one point been run natively on an x86 based Mac.
When a developer runs an iOS app on the iPhone simulator for the Mac, they are not running on an emulator, the app is compiled as an x86 binary and linked against an x86 build of the iOS libraries.
The one that wrote the article either has no clue what he was writing about or he's getting paid to be dumb. Basically, you want to use Google's services? You gotta do it the way *they* want you to do it. It's their services and their terms.
" if Google did not act, we faced a Draconian future, a future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice. So if you believe in openness, if you believe in choice, if you believe in innovation from everyone, then welcome to Android. Now letâ(TM)s get started.â
Now frankly, as a stockholder, I'd prefer that he'd work on getting Apple's diminishing marketshare issues resolved first before the Jobs Reality Distortion Effect finally wears off before spending time on green issues otherwise the green issues are kinda moot... but that's just me.
Right because chasing market share by lowering prices has worked so well for PC makers and Android manufacturers.
And then they turned their phone off. Do you expect Firefox to still be refreshing your tabs while your computer is powered off and dismantled?
They may have turned their phone off, but that doesn't mean that they turned off their iPod Touch, iPad, or Mac that are all capable of receiving iMessages.
This is exactly what is going on. There isn't a shortage of STEM workers at all. There is a shortage of STEM workers willing to work for minimum wage. What companies want is H1-B factories. Cheap foreign labor. I don't know who will buy their products when nobody has a high enough paying job to afford them though.
I see hundreds of listings in the area where I live for qualified developers with a salary between $80 - $105,000, I've personally never had to look for more than two weeks to find another job. No it's not in California and the cost of living is not that high here.
"Career opportunities" don't come with pay cuts. They come with pay raises. Run
Not true, for example if you're making good money as a "Senior COBOL developer" and all you do is maintenance work, it may make sense to take a slight pay cut to move into a newer technology and get architecture experience.
No. There will always be people who use Microsoft (for reasonable values of always), just as there will always be people who can't properly use the BLOCKQUOTE tag on Slashdot:-) Your inference falsely assumes that all the people in the world will eventually get a clue:-)
The ability to use a phone other than an iPhone. Currently, Apple has a monopoly on phones compatible with Amazon video.
That's a weird business decision on the part of Amazon. Amazon Instant works on the Android based Fire. Why they decide not to support other Android devices is anyone's guess.
Just in case you're not a troll, Both Chrome OS and Firefox OS are open source, meaning that, (by definition), parts can be swapped in and out at will. More importantly, both Chrome OS, and Firefox OS are based on Linux which means that they are Posix compliant. They also use the basic structure that Linux uses, which offers the compartmentalization and standardized APIs I mentioned.
Really? Where can I get a version of either Chrome OS using the Gecko engine or Firefox OS using the WebKit engine?
And iOS is based on OS-X which is based on BSD. Unlike Linux, OS X has been certified as Unix compliant by the Open Group.
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Yes because bringing Gasse back - the person who almost killed Apple by insisting that they don't make lower cost Macs - would have been the definite ticket to success. Do you really think that the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, or the iPad would have happened without Jobs?
It's called "Commoditize your complements."
Apple wants media to be cheap so they can sell hardware.
Microsoft wants hardware to be cheap so they can sell software.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/...
Why would carriers push other manufacturers subsidies up that would cause then to spend more money.? If anything, carriers are trying two things to spend less on subsidies:
1. Encourage contract customers to buy cheaper Android phones so they could spend less on subsidies.
http://www.phonearena.com/news...
2. Move away from a subsidy model and offer 0% financing on the phone so that the customer pays for the phone and plan separately.
http://online.wsj.com/news/art...
Now moving away from subsidies could hurt Apple, but would a consumer really balk at paying $25/month for an iPhone over paying $18/month for a high-end Android?
The typical user in the US pays the same amount for a high end iPhone as they do for a high-end Android - $200. The carrier pays Apple a larger subsidy for the iPhone. Why should the end-user care how much of a subsidy that the carrier has to pay?
Well we know the when and we know the what .
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...
No, but it does support Plex. Install the Plex Server on your computer and it will automatically transcode your library on the fly to a format that any supported device supports. It also automatically finds meta-data.
Response 1: What monopoly?
Response 2: You mean how Google uses it's monopoly on search to fund Android and give it away for free - reducing the margin to 0?
Why do you think that you have the right to a movie that another company spent millions of dollars to produce?
And what does patent law have to do with movies?
Okay. If you want reasonable just wait for three to four months for the movie to come out on video on demand and pay $5.
There is no need to have an A7 in the Macbook Air to run iOS apps.
There is already a fully functional version of iOS 7 that runs on x86 based Macs and there has been since the app store was introduced. In fact I doubt that there is a single app in existence for iOS that hasn't at one point been run natively on an x86 based Mac.
When a developer runs an iOS app on the iPhone simulator for the Mac, they are not running on an emulator, the app is compiled as an x86 binary and linked against an x86 build of the iOS libraries.
" if Google did not act, we faced a Draconian future, a future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice. So if you believe in openness, if you believe in choice, if you believe in innovation from everyone, then welcome to Android. Now letâ(TM)s get started.â
Andy Rubin......
Don't know about Denver, but Atlanta is definitely a great place for tech workers. There is no shortage of jobs there.
The ZTE Open is $69 - $79 unsubsidized.
Huawei has three unsubsidized phones for $79 before rebates.
http://www.metropcs.com/metro/...
What's the advantage of the FFOS phone over the cheap Android phones?
Not if the Android app uses the NDK and targets arm.....
For instance Firefox doesn't (or at least when it first was released) support Android on x86.
Android's success != Google's success when many of the tablets being sold (i.e. the very cheap ones) use no Google services.
Right because chasing market share by lowering prices has worked so well for PC makers and Android manufacturers.
They may have turned their phone off, but that doesn't mean that they turned off their iPod Touch, iPad, or Mac that are all capable of receiving iMessages.
I see hundreds of listings in the area where I live for qualified developers with a salary between $80 - $105,000, I've personally never had to look for more than two weeks to find another job. No it's not in California and the cost of living is not that high here.
Not true, for example if you're making good money as a "Senior COBOL developer" and all you do is maintenance work, it may make sense to take a slight pay cut to move into a newer technology and get architecture experience.
Just because Java proponents have been saying that for 20 years doesn't make it true.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
That's a weird business decision on the part of Amazon. Amazon Instant works on the Android based Fire. Why they decide not to support other Android devices is anyone's guess.
Really? Where can I get a version of either Chrome OS using the Gecko engine or Firefox OS using the WebKit engine?
And iOS is based on OS-X which is based on BSD. Unlike Linux, OS X has been certified as Unix compliant by the Open Group.