Every new version of Android has increased the system's speed on existing hardware. It's getting more efficient, not less.
That's really great that new OS's increase the speed on existing hardware since current Android users can always count on their devices to run the latest OS and being upgraded immediately after a new OS is released for at least two years.....
B&N doesn't lock users into using their ebooks on only B&N sanctioned products, which is ultimately what this is about. I happen to have a Nook and Amazon is the only major ebookstore that doesn't allow me to buy from them and use the books without conversion and possibly stripping the DRM. B&N uses the same protection scheme and format as most of the ebookstores and so if I get sick of using a Nook, my next ebook reader could be made by somebody else entirely.
How are you locked into using a Kindle device? There are kindle apps for iPhones, iPads, Android devices, BlackBerries, PC's, Macs, WinMo devices, etc.
Apple is the largest tech company followed by IBM and Microsoft, if measured by how much the stock market thinks each company is valued at. It is a completely meaningless metric that does not say anything about either company. The stock market is detached from the real world and how well a company's stock is doing is not proportional to how well that company is doing.
Okay, Apple also has higher revenue and profit and predicted to have higher growth rates.
I'm concerned for their ipad, mac, ipod and iphone sales. All of those are grossly overpriced compared to their competitors.
So who sales a device that the equivalent of the iPod Touch (802.11n, 960x480 display, etc) cheaper than the Touch? Who sales a 160GB equivalent of the Classic?
Who is selling a 10" tablet that is equivalent to the iPad 2 and cheaper?
All of the high-end Android devices are around $200 - $300 price of the iPhone.
But all that being said, in capitalist society, nothing is "too expensive" as long as enough people are buying it to create a supply demand equilibrium.
What products will they eventually mandate that we buy from corporations, purely by virtue of existing?
Car Insurance.
So, if you refuse to buy insurance and you show up to the hospital sick, should the hospital just be able to let you die?
Right now, the cost of the uninsured is already passed on to the insured through higher premiums as the result of hospital charging you more to cover the cost of indigent care.
But that hasn't equated with success in their respective app stores. The Apple app market made over 17X the revenue of the Android app store last year.
At least for the iPhone, and I am almost sure it works the same way for the BlackBerry, data is encrypted using a hardware key stored on the device. Wiping the device remotely involves erasing the key.
Of course, most of the corporate requirements are still silly. They want you to have a phone that somebody can steal, but they can't read the data off of it. Unless that phone requires a strong boot-up password that is used to encrypt the drive that you have to re-enter on every unlock that isn't really possible. I've yet to see a phone that actually implements security that isn't fairly trivially breakable (by pulling the battery and directly reading data off the flash chips).
So you haven't seen an iPhone, a BlackBerry, or a WM7 phone using the built in security?
You obviously have NEVER been to any DMV that I've ever been to. I pretty much resign myself to take about half a day off whenever I have to get new license plate renewals or drivers license.
Why would I go to the DMV to renew my license plate or drivers license? That's what they have the Internet for.
I shudder to think my healthcare would be metted out by such an organization.
Because the private sector has done such a bang up job.....
Are you kidding? Unless you are paid by Apple or a Zombie, can do you really believe and iPhone is any better and a T-Mobile G2 or any high end Android handset?
A "loss leader's" purpose is to lose money on one product to drive traffic for higher priced items. Amazon is selling songs below cost to drive traffic to the website.
For years they pushed AppleTalk over TCP/IP, even after OS X. Apple supported Windows networking and Samba
SMB support has been built in since 10.3
Firewire over USB.
I have firewire ports on both my Dell and Sony. Firewire is not "Apple's" standard, it is an IEEE standard and Apple is part of the licensing pool. Just as there is a licensing pool for USB.
They have a custom Dport connector (proprietary connector on open standard)
What is a DPort? Do you mean DisplayPort? The mini-DisplayPort that Apple uses was accepted by VESA.
iWhatever has a proprietary USB connector.
So what "standard" is there that is able to duplicate this functionality cheaply?
Or do you expect a $20 boom box to implement a USB host controller?
Apple's been actively rejecting the standards other people use, open or otherwise. There is no HDMI on Mac products,
The Mac Mini has an HDMI port. All other Macs have DisplayPort. DisplayPort is not an Apple proprietary connector. Dell and other manufacturrers have been selling monitors with DisplayPorts for years.
No VGA ports (every projector has a VGA port, mac users just couldn't connect to them without headaches),
You mean "headaches" such as using a DVI to VGA connector? In fact it has just been recently that at least Mac Minis didn't come bundled with DVI to DisplayPort adapters.
tried forcing ZipDisks when everyone was using floppy disks,
Only a few Macs had optional Zip Disk support. All Macs came with 3.5" disk drives up until the iMacs.
2007 Macs still did not have +/- DVD writers (they choked on -R blank DVD's)
Every Mac introduced in 2007 had built in DVD +/- drives
Firewire and Thunderbolt are not open standards, they are proprietary and Apple charge a fee for their use.
Apple is part of the licensing pool for Firewire. The licensing pool and operates under FRAND. Just like most other standards (mpeg, mp3, H.264, etc,).
Thunderbolt was created by Intel.
That's why everyone uses USB and the laptop I just bought does not have a IEEE 1394 connector.
Well both my Dell and Sony have firewire. There is also a fee to use USB.
If you want to legally sell something with an Ipod connector (I.E. a car stereo or Ipod dock), you need to pay Apple a licensing fee. So not open, in fact, that's almost as far from open as you can get.
If you want to legally use a DVD Player there is a licensing fee....
I think you need to start taking your medication again, you're clearly seeing things that aren't there.
The dock connector allows a dumb,cheap device to control the iPod (volume, next song, previous song) just by sending the correct electrical signal to the correct pins and has pins for line level sound in/sound out and video. How do you propose you cheaply make accessories that work with the iPod by using USB? It would be a lot more expensive for an accessory maker to implement the functionality through USB.
And I also don't think the author of the article knows any of that either, he's just presenting his opinion as an "indisputable fact".
If the purpose of a publicly traded corporation is to "increase shareholder value", that can be easily measured objectively by looking at stock prices and market cap (the total value of all outstanding shares). So, the CEO who has generated the most shareholder value would be the most successful.
Now whether that is SJ in the last 30 years (a generation), I don't know. But I can't think of any other CEO who has taken a company from almost bankrupt to being the most valuable.
Agreed. For one, there are 42 people in the United States alone worth more than he is. The statement about Jobs is obviously from a fanboy, due to the fact it was claimed as an "indisputable fact". I didn't see a comparison with Carlos Slim, or Sam Walton, or Larry Ellison, or even Bill Gates for that matter. Just a claimed "indisputable fact".
A business leader should be judged by how well he led his business (shocking I know). What other CEO brought a company from the brink of bankruptcy to being the most valuable company in the world (based on market cap)?
keep seeing this quoted as gospel. I remember it far differently, in fact Apple publicly complained about DRM for a long time but did very little to leverage their massive buying power (they were basically the only player in town at the time) to rid us of it. It was only when several other big names in the industry started moving towards DRM-free that Apple seemed to realise there had been a sea-change in what customers wanted and, very late in the day, announced that they would follow suit. Of course they did it with the usual marketing elan that made it sound like it was their idea all along, but that's simply not the case if you look at the timelines.
You remember incorrectly.
1. The beginning of 2007, the music industry wanted Apple to license it's FairPlay DRM. 2. Apple said no and alternatively, the music industry could let them and everyone else sell DRM free music. Steve Jobs posted his famous "Thoughts on Music" letter on 2/7/2007 (six months before the Amazon music store opened). This was discussed widely on the Internet and here on Slashdot. 3. In return, the music industry wanted a large up front payment to protect against piracy losses and wanted variable (higher prices). 4. Slashdot Wisdom (tm) was that Apple was "bluffing" and they never intended to sell DRM free music and that Apple knew the music industry would never go along with it. 5. The labels slowly dropped the large up front payment requirement but still insisted on variable prices. 6. EMI was the first to allow DRM free music and Apple introduced iTunes Plus. 7. Apple introduced the iPhone but its contracts didn't allow music sells over cellular only WiFi 8. All of the other stores gave in to the music labels, started selling DRM free music and variable prices but still could not dent iTunes lead. 9. Apple wanted to sell music over the cell network so it gave in to variable pricing and started going DRM free.
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Hardware manufacturers don't make any money off of Google ads or the Google marketplace.
As far as how much money the Google market place makes....
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/21/861-5-percent-growth-android-puny/
The Apple app store made 17.5x more money on apps than the Google marketplace. That doesn't include music, videos, books, tv shows, etc.
That's really great that new OS's increase the speed on existing hardware since current Android users can always count on their devices to run the latest OS and being upgraded immediately after a new OS is released for at least two years.....
Oh wait....
Apple seems to be doing pretty well at competing....
http://www.asymco.com/2011/07/29/apple-captured-two-thirds-of-available-mobile-phone-profits-in-q2/
Apple makes 66% of all mobile phone profit.
RIM makes 11%
Android doesn't seem to be "winning" in the only thing that counts for a business -- profits.
So a 10" IPS based iPad is not an e-Reader but a 7" IPS based Kindle Fire or Nook Color is?
How are you locked into using a Kindle device? There are kindle apps for iPhones, iPads, Android devices, BlackBerries, PC's, Macs, WinMo devices, etc.
There is even an HTML5 based Kindle app.
http://www.asymco.com/2011/09/29/comparing-revenues-apple-and-microsoft/
Now look at the sliver of Apple's revenue that comes from iTunes.
Okay, Apple also has higher revenue and profit and predicted to have higher growth rates.
So who sales a device that the equivalent of the iPod Touch (802.11n, 960x480 display, etc) cheaper than the Touch? Who sales a 160GB equivalent of the Classic?
Who is selling a 10" tablet that is equivalent to the iPad 2 and cheaper?
All of the high-end Android devices are around $200 - $300 price of the iPhone.
But all that being said, in capitalist society, nothing is "too expensive" as long as enough people are buying it to create a supply demand equilibrium.
Car Insurance.
So, if you refuse to buy insurance and you show up to the hospital sick, should the hospital just be able to let you die?
Right now, the cost of the uninsured is already passed on to the insured through higher premiums as the result of hospital charging you more to cover the cost of indigent care.
But that hasn't equated with success in their respective app stores. The Apple app market made over 17X the revenue of the Android app store last year.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/21/861-5-percent-growth-android-puny/
So now 70% of the tablet buying public are "sheeple" and Random Slashot User:135745 is the "enlightened one"?
Yes, Google does. If you go to Youtube from an iOS device you get HTML5 video within your browser (no need to use the YouTube app).
Who still uses Yahoo?
Why do people, especially on Slashdot, post the same "Who uses x", when a simple search.....
http://www.alexa.com/topsites
will show you that Yahoo is still the 4th most visited site on the Internet. Just because you don't use it, doesn't mean that no one does.
No, you cant't just read the data off the device with physical access - If you use the built in encryption.
http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB16088
Apple encryption
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4175
At least for the iPhone, and I am almost sure it works the same way for the BlackBerry, data is encrypted using a hardware key stored on the device. Wiping the device remotely involves erasing the key.
So you haven't seen an iPhone, a BlackBerry, or a WM7 phone using the built in security?
Why would I go to the DMV to renew my license plate or drivers license? That's what they have the Internet for.
Because the private sector has done such a bang up job.....
http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/t-mobile-ceo-10-percent-of-customers-leave-for-iphone-20110125/
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/11/05/t-mobile-says-lack-of-iphone-is-hurting-performance/
I guess the CEO of T-Mobile is a "fanboi"
Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann says, âoeâConsumers like T-Mobile but they also want to have the iPhone.â
A "loss leader's" purpose is to lose money on one product to drive traffic for higher priced items. Amazon is selling songs below cost to drive traffic to the website.
SMB support has been built in since 10.3
I have firewire ports on both my Dell and Sony. Firewire is not "Apple's" standard, it is an IEEE standard and Apple is part of the licensing pool. Just as there is a licensing pool for USB.
What is a DPort? Do you mean DisplayPort? The mini-DisplayPort that Apple uses was accepted by VESA.
So what "standard" is there that is able to duplicate this functionality cheaply?
http://pinouts.ru/PortableDevices/ipod_pinout.shtml
Or do you expect a $20 boom box to implement a USB host controller?
The Mac Mini has an HDMI port. All other Macs have DisplayPort. DisplayPort is not an Apple proprietary connector. Dell and other manufacturrers have been selling monitors with DisplayPorts for years.
You mean "headaches" such as using a DVI to VGA connector? In fact it has just been recently that at least Mac Minis didn't come bundled with DVI to DisplayPort adapters.
Only a few Macs had optional Zip Disk support. All Macs came with 3.5" disk drives up until the iMacs.
2007 Macs still did not have +/- DVD writers (they choked on -R blank DVD's)
According to this site:
http://apple-history.com/
Every Mac introduced in 2007 had built in DVD +/- drives
Apple is part of the licensing pool for Firewire. The licensing pool and operates under FRAND. Just like most other standards (mpeg, mp3, H.264, etc,).
Thunderbolt was created by Intel.
Well both my Dell and Sony have firewire. There is also a fee to use USB.
If you want to legally use a DVD Player there is a licensing fee....
You're not exactly batting a hundred....
http://pinouts.ru/PortableDevices/ipod_pinout.shtml
The dock connector allows a dumb,cheap device to control the iPod (volume, next song, previous song) just by sending the correct electrical signal to the correct pins and has pins for line level sound in/sound out and video. How do you propose you cheaply make accessories that work with the iPod by using USB? It would be a lot more expensive for an accessory maker to implement the functionality through USB.
If the purpose of a publicly traded corporation is to "increase shareholder value", that can be easily measured objectively by looking at stock prices and market cap (the total value of all outstanding shares). So, the CEO who has generated the most shareholder value would be the most successful.
Now whether that is SJ in the last 30 years (a generation), I don't know. But I can't think of any other CEO who has taken a company from almost bankrupt to being the most valuable.
A business leader should be judged by how well he led his business (shocking I know). What other CEO brought a company from the brink of bankruptcy to being the most valuable company in the world (based on market cap)?
"This is a really strange way of saying that Amazon had their whole catalogue DRM free long before Apple, at lower prices."
It's called a "loss leader" or do you really think that the record labels are willing to decrease prices?
You remember incorrectly.
1. The beginning of 2007, the music industry wanted Apple to license it's FairPlay DRM.
2. Apple said no and alternatively, the music industry could let them and everyone else sell DRM free music. Steve Jobs posted his famous "Thoughts on Music" letter on 2/7/2007 (six months before the Amazon music store opened). This was discussed widely on the Internet and here on Slashdot.
3. In return, the music industry wanted a large up front payment to protect against piracy losses and wanted variable (higher prices).
4. Slashdot Wisdom (tm) was that Apple was "bluffing" and they never intended to sell DRM free music and that Apple knew the music industry would never go along with it.
5. The labels slowly dropped the large up front payment requirement but still insisted on variable prices.
6. EMI was the first to allow DRM free music and Apple introduced iTunes Plus.
7. Apple introduced the iPhone but its contracts didn't allow music sells over cellular only WiFi
8. All of the other stores gave in to the music labels, started selling DRM free music and variable prices but still could not dent iTunes lead.
9. Apple wanted to sell music over the cell network so it gave in to variable pricing and started going DRM free.