It is not a sterotype that iPad software is locked down and controlled by Apple. Hardly an arrangement to foster creative or the kind of values I would like my child to have.
People who do not use Apple products and hate them, are quick to say EVERYTHING is a flaw, regardless of how good it really is.
Apple has two big flaws. First, the company falls short on ethics. Witness the sweatshop manufacturing and unconscionable attacks on journalists. Have you heard about Apple's in-company "lockdown" events? Horrible.
Second, Apple means to control its users as much as it can. Sony, Apple, cut from the same cloth. We users do not need such abuse.
So, products from an abusive, controlling, unethical company, tell me why I should have anything to do with them? Never mind that Apple products leave me cold as products, that's just me. I prefer two buttons on my mouse, thankyou.
From the article: "The cash transformed Heritage into a magnet school emphasizing science, technology, engineering, the environment and mathematics."
So, why did they drop there cash on iPads, which are not oriented to any of those things, but rather to media consumption? I could understand if these devices were set up to be used as general purpose computers, but iPads are not, so I view this as somebody's vanity project at best.
It lacks the one feature that really matters: open source. Rockmelt will go nowhere in terms of market share, but will still serve the useful purpose of helping Chromium devs avoid complacency. Maybe offer some useful ideas worth integrating. I say, it's all good.
I'm having a little trouble understanding Rockmelt's business model though.
Actually, that was probably me misidentifying the phone based on online photos. I think he said it was a Droid 2. He was really happy about it.
The point is not whether it was a Droid or a Cliq, the point is... here's a taxi driver, not some gadget obsessed yuppie, and he's got an Android phone to do real work. See, you can deny all you want. But the difference between a toy and a tool is pretty obvious to me, and pretty obvious to the market in general judging from the uptake.
Of course it's nice that Android phones make pretty nice toys as well, but that's not how I use mine. The keyboard is a big deal by the way, not available on any Apple phone.
Google is short on adult supervision, that's a fact.
Though I can't speak for your old group, overall things have changed quite a bit since you left.
Well that's great to hear. A quick trip over to Glassdoor.com shows Google ranked in 166th place vs Facebook in 17th place in terms of overall company rating. What's up with that? Excellent new system not kicked in yet? The random review that popped up said “Elitist, Arrogant Managers with low self-awareness”, bingo. Did that change? I sure hope so, I still own stock.
No one over the age of 21 need apply from what I've heard.
Not really true, I was involved in bringing on a number of senior people myself. Not as many as fresh faced grads, but significant. Retention is another matter. Google is short on adult supervision, that's a fact.
The problem with the patent office is that when they started allowing companies to patent raw ideas in the form of software and business method patents suddenly you could get a patent for an idea with no implementation, make it as vague as possible and then sue everyone.
The obvious next step in the progression is for lawyers to start taking out patents on legal arguments then spend all their energy and money suing each other. Not sure whether that would help or hurt.
It wouldn't surprise me if TPTB squash Bedrock like a bug.
That WOULD surprise me. What would sound normal to me is if Microsoft already has a solution "conveniently" waiting in the wings to offer Wall Street and claimed it would help create jobs and heal the economy
Not much risk of anybody falling for that. Microsoft has been persona non grata in the trading industry ever since their infamous 7 hour outage on the LSE on one of the busiest trading days of the year.
Incidentally, LSE replaced the Microsoft system shortly after with a Linux based system, which had some teething problems but isn't going away any time soon because it is an order of magnitude faster than Microsoft's system.
All the people I know that have iPhones like them precisely because everything works together - iPhone, iTunes, the Apple "app" store.
Funny, all the people I know that have iPhones like them precisely because they like shiny toys.
Hey, last time I took a cab to the airport the cab driver was taking his dispatches on a Motorola Cliq (Android with keyboard). Got to tell you something.
Logic would indeed suggest a short, however don't assume that the market reads it the same way we geeks do. It is probable that earnings will continue to increase another quarter or two before the inevitable happens. Sure, an efficient market is not supposed to trade on last quarter's results, it is supposed to trade on discounted earnings for the next 20 years or so. But.
I am certainly with you that AAPL is a prime short for no other reason than Android. But when? Getting in early could be a little stressful.
Open source software loses support in the same manner as closed source software.
False. Because the source code is freely available, anyone who wants to can take the whole thing and support it themselves. Obviously, that is seldom necessary, but it is a key difference and an important safety factor for critical uses, such as enterprise infrastructure.
Sticking with old versions of Linux can be problematic as well...
But you're conflating two different use patterns: 1) keeping an older machine going with minimal maintenance 2) staying on the leading edge and running all the latest stuff. These days it is hardly an either or: you simply have two machines. Your old one is basically free and you were going to get that new one anyway, weren't you?
My aging Shuttle PC, quietized so it's one of the few machines I don't mind running 24/7 in my home, is running Lenny. The only backports on it are from the period I was using it as both a server and workstation at the same time, which is actually pretty stupid but it worked and saved me the cost of a new machine for a few years. Uptime is 120 days, and the only reason it isn't 2/3 years is, the UPS stopped holding a charge and had to be replaced.
My bleeding edge machine runs Ubuntu 10.10. Actually, I regret that a little, if I could replay it would be Sid. Bleeding edge is bleeding edge.
Two different machines, two different use patterns. Both work. Mashing these use patterns together works too, just expect to get handy with backports.org, it's not a big deal.
What I find interesting is that this whole XP thing is probably gonna repeat itself with Windows 8 IMO. Windows 7 users won't upgrade for the same reason: it's just good enough. In fact, Windows 8 better be really crappy so Windows 9 will have more chances of being a success.
You are almost certainly correct, but it's not news, it's just part of the same slow motion implosion Microsoft has been undergoing for the last ten years.
The market spoke loud and clear: the market likes XP and will not move willingly. Microsoft's winning strategy was clear: XP2, perfectly compatible with XP and better. Instead, Microsoft forces Vista (now renamed Windows 7 with additional lipstick) on its long suffering customers and leaves millions with hardware too old for Vista/W7 in the lurch.
I love it. It is just the next step in Microsoft's decade long, slow motion suicide. At this rate the entertainment will last another five years.
It's a common misconception that Americans use Imperial units. Actually, they measure short distances in car lengths and long distances in football fields.
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It is not a sterotype that iPad software is locked down and controlled by Apple. Hardly an arrangement to foster creative or the kind of values I would like my child to have.
Keep it up, your attitude nicely encapsulates everything I detest about Apple.
People who do not use Apple products and hate them, are quick to say EVERYTHING is a flaw, regardless of how good it really is.
Apple has two big flaws. First, the company falls short on ethics. Witness the sweatshop manufacturing and unconscionable attacks on journalists. Have you heard about Apple's in-company "lockdown" events? Horrible.
Second, Apple means to control its users as much as it can. Sony, Apple, cut from the same cloth. We users do not need such abuse.
So, products from an abusive, controlling, unethical company, tell me why I should have anything to do with them? Never mind that Apple products leave me cold as products, that's just me. I prefer two buttons on my mouse, thankyou.
From the article: "The cash transformed Heritage into a magnet school emphasizing science, technology, engineering, the environment and mathematics."
So, why did they drop there cash on iPads, which are not oriented to any of those things, but rather to media consumption? I could understand if these devices were set up to be used as general purpose computers, but iPads are not, so I view this as somebody's vanity project at best.
It lacks the one feature that really matters: open source. Rockmelt will go nowhere in terms of market share, but will still serve the useful purpose of helping Chromium devs avoid complacency. Maybe offer some useful ideas worth integrating. I say, it's all good.
I'm having a little trouble understanding Rockmelt's business model though.
Actually, that was probably me misidentifying the phone based on online photos. I think he said it was a Droid 2. He was really happy about it.
The point is not whether it was a Droid or a Cliq, the point is... here's a taxi driver, not some gadget obsessed yuppie, and he's got an Android phone to do real work. See, you can deny all you want. But the difference between a toy and a tool is pretty obvious to me, and pretty obvious to the market in general judging from the uptake.
Of course it's nice that Android phones make pretty nice toys as well, but that's not how I use mine. The keyboard is a big deal by the way, not available on any Apple phone.
Google is short on adult supervision, that's a fact.
Though I can't speak for your old group, overall things have changed quite a bit since you left.
Well that's great to hear. A quick trip over to Glassdoor.com shows Google ranked in 166th place vs Facebook in 17th place in terms of overall company rating. What's up with that? Excellent new system not kicked in yet? The random review that popped up said “Elitist, Arrogant Managers with low self-awareness”, bingo. Did that change? I sure hope so, I still own stock.
No one over the age of 21 need apply from what I've heard.
Not really true, I was involved in bringing on a number of senior people myself. Not as many as fresh faced grads, but significant. Retention is another matter. Google is short on adult supervision, that's a fact.
That he's on T-Mobile, and therefore wasn't offered the iPhone?
Smells like denial to me.
You are blatantly (and one would have to assume intentionally) ignoring the alternative that a jury of laymen just didn't understand it.
Or intentionally refuse to because they know that patent troll lawsuits are a meal ticket for east Texas.
The problem with the patent office is that when they started allowing companies to patent raw ideas in the form of software and business method patents suddenly you could get a patent for an idea with no implementation, make it as vague as possible and then sue everyone.
The obvious next step in the progression is for lawyers to start taking out patents on legal arguments then spend all their energy and money suing each other. Not sure whether that would help or hurt.
It wouldn't surprise me if TPTB squash Bedrock like a bug.
That WOULD surprise me. What would sound normal to me is if Microsoft already has a solution "conveniently" waiting in the wings to offer Wall Street and claimed it would help create jobs and heal the economy
Not much risk of anybody falling for that. Microsoft has been persona non grata in the trading industry ever since their infamous 7 hour outage on the LSE on one of the busiest trading days of the year.
Incidentally, LSE replaced the Microsoft system shortly after with a Linux based system, which had some teething problems but isn't going away any time soon because it is an order of magnitude faster than Microsoft's system.
All the people I know that have iPhones like them precisely because everything works together - iPhone, iTunes, the Apple "app" store.
Funny, all the people I know that have iPhones like them precisely because they like shiny toys.
Hey, last time I took a cab to the airport the cab driver was taking his dispatches on a Motorola Cliq (Android with keyboard). Got to tell you something.
It's not a matter of how locked in people are to their itunes account and apps, it is whether the majority of the people *care*.
Well we already know the answer to that. A majority of the market is now Android.
Logic would indeed suggest a short, however don't assume that the market reads it the same way we geeks do. It is probable that earnings will continue to increase another quarter or two before the inevitable happens. Sure, an efficient market is not supposed to trade on last quarter's results, it is supposed to trade on discounted earnings for the next 20 years or so. But.
I am certainly with you that AAPL is a prime short for no other reason than Android. But when? Getting in early could be a little stressful.
Open source software loses support in the same manner as closed source software.
False. Because the source code is freely available, anyone who wants to can take the whole thing and support it themselves. Obviously, that is seldom necessary, but it is a key difference and an important safety factor for critical uses, such as enterprise infrastructure.
Sticking with old versions of Linux can be problematic as well...
But you're conflating two different use patterns: 1) keeping an older machine going with minimal maintenance 2) staying on the leading edge and running all the latest stuff. These days it is hardly an either or: you simply have two machines. Your old one is basically free and you were going to get that new one anyway, weren't you?
My aging Shuttle PC, quietized so it's one of the few machines I don't mind running 24/7 in my home, is running Lenny. The only backports on it are from the period I was using it as both a server and workstation at the same time, which is actually pretty stupid but it worked and saved me the cost of a new machine for a few years. Uptime is 120 days, and the only reason it isn't 2/3 years is, the UPS stopped holding a charge and had to be replaced.
My bleeding edge machine runs Ubuntu 10.10. Actually, I regret that a little, if I could replay it would be Sid. Bleeding edge is bleeding edge.
Two different machines, two different use patterns. Both work. Mashing these use patterns together works too, just expect to get handy with backports.org, it's not a big deal.
In a VM... So XP is here to stay forever.
Bingo. In other words VMware will happily provide the support that Microsoft now withdraws.
What I find interesting is that this whole XP thing is probably gonna repeat itself with Windows 8 IMO. Windows 7 users won't upgrade for the same reason: it's just good enough. In fact, Windows 8 better be really crappy so Windows 9 will have more chances of being a success.
You are almost certainly correct, but it's not news, it's just part of the same slow motion implosion Microsoft has been undergoing for the last ten years.
Obviously, use Linux which never does that.
The market spoke loud and clear: the market likes XP and will not move willingly. Microsoft's winning strategy was clear: XP2, perfectly compatible with XP and better. Instead, Microsoft forces Vista (now renamed Windows 7 with additional lipstick) on its long suffering customers and leaves millions with hardware too old for Vista/W7 in the lurch.
I love it. It is just the next step in Microsoft's decade long, slow motion suicide. At this rate the entertainment will last another five years.
Actually, I have to retract. I just dropped a package off at FedEx, the guy had a tape measure there. I asked to see it and it was inches/feet only.
tell a carpenter to use a metric tape measure... not gonna happen.
It's been a long time since I've seen an Imperial unit tape measure that doesn't have metric on the other side.
You rock... just like Imperial units!
It's a common misconception that Americans use Imperial units. Actually, they measure short distances in car lengths and long distances in football fields.
So... how many yards in a mile? Quick now.