"According to an article on Gizmag, Tata, India's largest automotive manufacturer, has developed a car that runs on compressed air. It costs less than $3 USD to fill a tank on which it can run for 200 to 300km. The car will cost about USD $7,300 and has a top speed of 68mph. About once every 50,000 km you have to change the oil (1 liter of vegetable oil). Initial plans are to produce 3,000 cars per year."
You think he'll get modded down on slashdot for being critical of something Apple does?!
It'll take a few days to mobilize the Fanboi Trike Force, but yes, he will get downmods, and most likely will have comments he made from other articles downmodded as well.
Yeah, and you know because that's the way you moderate, isn't it, shithead?
That's pretty rediculous, $1.1 billion advertising two new products?! I always knew Apple was a marketing company but damn.
This could simply be because I haven't seen regular ad numbers before though. Does anyone know what competing products have spent on advertising? That kind of information would help make more sense of their numbers.
If any Americans haven't yet heard about the new Galaxy S III phone, chances are that will change this week.
That's because Samsung is unleashing the biggest-ever marketing campaign in Samsung Mobile USA's history for the phone's launch, beginning this week. Although Samsung declined to provide specifics on spending on the phone, it's believed that the marketing budget for the next few months will more than double what the company spent on all Galaxy-branded products in the U.S. in 2011.
Samsung spent $142 million in measured media on Galaxy products in 2011, according to Kantar Media, up from $79 million in 2010.
So that would be about $300 million just for the Galaxy S III in the US for half of 2012 alone. That probably adds up worldwide to more advertising for the S III alone than for all iPhones and iPads together in 5 years.
Apple's competitors already know what drives IPhone/IPad sales. Yes, Apple's numbers are more authoritative, but 3rd party survey firms provide decent results. Why would consumer opinion be a secret? Especially to firms with billions to gain or lose on their attitudes.
So why does Samsung want access to them if they already have their own?
They also designed the iPhone based on what a Sony engineer described during an interview. That 2006 design by Apple looks remakably close to the iPhone, and bears the Sony logo (the drawing was done by and Apple designed following what he interpreted from the Sony guy).
Steve had made similar comments in other forums. He seemed to be a big believer that people don't know what they want until you show it to them. If you did a market survey before the iPad came out, and asked people what they wanted in a tablet computer, very few would have articulated something that looked/operated similar to an iPad. Even after it was announced many people scoffed. But it's been a huge success.
While he sometimes said things that were not entirely clear, Steve's philosophy never seemed to be "don't ask the customer what they like or don't like about existing products". Especially knowing what they don't like is important. That's where the opportunities are. The trick is, in Steve's mind, that the customer is not the appropriate person to ask HOW to fix it. The great designers at Apple will come up with a fix. And if they do the job right, it will be something the customer would never have thought of, but will love.
Exactly. It's not like if they had asked people what computer they would buy, even 1% would have answered "a translucent blue, egg shaped all-in-one".
So what they learned only helps them attract that same customer again and again, which is precisely why most apple fanboys dump their perfectly good current model and rush out an replace it with the next model the instant it comes out, even if they have to pay an Early Termination Fee to do so.
Far from attracting the majority of new customers, Apple is mostly eating its young, singing to its own choir, reselling to the same crowd.
The research plan is fundamentally flawed, and has resulted in Apple's total domination of the smartphone market being cut in half over the years.
Yeah, and that's why every iPhone generation has sold only as much as all previous combined. An exponential growth is certainly not enough to raise market share.
What Watts has shown is that he can get a lower warming trend for the continental USA than others get. All you have to do is systematically eliminate the data you don’t like, while ignoring things like station moves, instrument changes, and recording data at different times of day. Don’t you dare correct for known biases (unless of course doing so would make the estimate of global warming smaller)! And if the satellite data should be in better agreement with others than with yourself, don’t breathe a word about that.
The irony is that Watts is doing exactly what he accuses others of: tilting every aspect of the data and analysis to suit his ideology. The joke is that he actually thinks this is “science.”
Since his original chest-beating, it seems that even some of his co-authors (one can’t help but wonder, did they all even know they were listed as co-authors?) take exception to his methods. Alas, it looks like important details are missing which are required for those who want to check his results. I certainly didn’t find any links to the data or computer programs used. Doesn’t Anthony want to be audited?
Prior art doesn't have to be previously filed patents.
So *you* might want to look up what filing date means.
Wooooosh. Way over your head. Figures: a Hateboy and denier and has no clues about patents and has a hard time grasping simple sentences. You are perfect here.
Just like they implemented the "mouse with rotary control", the "color changing case" and "liquid cooled laptops". Those are just some of the Apple patents people on Slashdot took for granted would be implemented.
But if price is such an important metric, why is the iPad — with its premium price tag — so popular? Simple, it was the first tablet to go mass market, and cumulative sales of around 85 million gives the iPad credibility in the eye on potential buyers.
This is just stating the obvious - the iPad has had more sales, because it has been available for longer. If the Nexus 7 had been released in April two years ago (like the iPad), and the iPad were released last month, then the Nexus 7 would have sold more units.
And as soon as it doesn't suit your argument, the battle cry "Apple didn't invent the tablet!" goes out the window.
I don't want a tablet or a phone made of alumin(i)um, thank you. It is too rigid, which is bad for shock resistance. A magnesium alloy chassis with overmoulded nylon, glass filled nylon, or polycarbonate are much more suitable structural materials for small electronic products as they have considerable shock resistance.
I bet you can prove that. But it clearly is worse for recycling.
No, I (or rather TFA) are complaining that the only way to access files saved "to the cloud" is by using the Open File dialog in the same app that saved it - there's no iCloud folder in Finder, for example. Ironically it still does show iCloud files when you select the "All My Files" view, but it's very inconvenient for obvious reasons.
That's Verizon, you know, the company with the highest rated customer service in the mobile industry (in the US, at least). I'm actually amazed there aren't more iPhone uses on Verizon, the way they manage to herd their users like sheep.
Because the Android manufacturers allow them to brand their phones, and pay the sales staff to push them. Yes Verizon treats their Android users like sheep. Are you one?
maybe they didn't think they'd need it until apple used f700 as an example of how they copy.. despite it being an example of the designs obviousness in fitting to pocket.
Wait, what now? They didn't think they needed the "evidence [that] would have established beyond doubt that Samsung did not copy the iPhone design" - until Apple claimed that it did exactly that? Which would mean that Apple had entered it as evidence, so there would be no need for Samsung to enter it again? Sorry, but the Chewbacca defense makes more sense than that.
“They released the iPhone 4S because Steve Jobs died so they just threw in a couple more features and pushed it out.”
“Apple’s servers are really small and when you use Siri it normally redirects to Google anyway.”
“Every icon looks alike on your homescreen and it’s really hard to find applications.”
All things I heard salespeople say in the 40 minutes I was there [at the Verizon Wireless store]. I’m certainly not an Apple fanboy. I was in your store to buy an Android phone. But you’re really trying too hard to steer people away from the iPhone and I’m not the only person that’s noticed it.
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"According to an article on Gizmag, Tata, India's largest automotive manufacturer, has developed a car that runs on compressed air. It costs less than $3 USD to fill a tank on which it can run for 200 to 300km. The car will cost about USD $7,300 and has a top speed of 68mph. About once every 50,000 km you have to change the oil (1 liter of vegetable oil). Initial plans are to produce 3,000 cars per year."
No.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. So thanks for the confirmation, Fandrone.
It'll take a few days to mobilize the Fanboi Trike Force, but yes, he will get downmods, and most likely will have comments he made from other articles downmodded as well.
Yeah, and you know because that's the way you moderate, isn't it, shithead?
That's pretty rediculous, $1.1 billion advertising two new products?! I always knew Apple was a marketing company but damn.
This could simply be because I haven't seen regular ad numbers before though. Does anyone know what competing products have spent on advertising? That kind of information would help make more sense of their numbers.
Samsung Launches Biggest U.S. Campaign to Date for Galaxy S III - remember this is US only.
If any Americans haven't yet heard about the new Galaxy S III phone, chances are that will change this week.
That's because Samsung is unleashing the biggest-ever marketing campaign in Samsung Mobile USA's history for the phone's launch, beginning this week. Although Samsung declined to provide specifics on spending on the phone, it's believed that the marketing budget for the next few months will more than double what the company spent on all Galaxy-branded products in the U.S. in 2011.
Samsung spent $142 million in measured media on Galaxy products in 2011, according to Kantar Media, up from $79 million in 2010.
So that would be about $300 million just for the Galaxy S III in the US for half of 2012 alone. That probably adds up worldwide to more advertising for the S III alone than for all iPhones and iPads together in 5 years.
How many of those Apple users lining up to buy the new Iphones are Apple employees or associates paid to stand in line?
And how many are Samsung designers?
Dupe.
Apple's competitors already know what drives IPhone/IPad sales. Yes, Apple's numbers are more authoritative, but 3rd party survey firms provide decent results. Why would consumer opinion be a secret? Especially to firms with billions to gain or lose on their attitudes.
So why does Samsung want access to them if they already have their own?
the fuck cares.
let's see them try to justify using slave labour.
Samsung? Nobody asks them.
They also designed the iPhone based on what a Sony engineer described during an interview. That 2006 design by Apple looks remakably close to the iPhone, and bears the Sony logo (the drawing was done by and Apple designed following what he interpreted from the Sony guy).
Nope. Because what the Sony engineer described was a media player inspired by the design of the iPad. Which you can see there: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/01/the-sony-device-samsung-claims-inspired-apples-iphone/ And what the Apple designer made was a "how would the iPhone (we have already designed) look like if Sony designed it".
Somebody claiming that should have "Silly" as their middle name. Or "Samsung". What? Eric S. Raymond? Figures.
I have never heard someone complain about them.
And you're on Slashdot?
I'm sure he meant "someone who bought one, or at least used one for some time instead of being driven by pure hate."
Steve had made similar comments in other forums. He seemed to be a big believer that people don't know what they want until you show it to them. If you did a market survey before the iPad came out, and asked people what they wanted in a tablet computer, very few would have articulated something that looked/operated similar to an iPad. Even after it was announced many people scoffed. But it's been a huge success.
While he sometimes said things that were not entirely clear, Steve's philosophy never seemed to be "don't ask the customer what they like or don't like about existing products". Especially knowing what they don't like is important. That's where the opportunities are. The trick is, in Steve's mind, that the customer is not the appropriate person to ask HOW to fix it. The great designers at Apple will come up with a fix. And if they do the job right, it will be something the customer would never have thought of, but will love.
Exactly. It's not like if they had asked people what computer they would buy, even 1% would have answered "a translucent blue, egg shaped all-in-one".
So what they learned only helps them attract that same customer again and again, which is precisely why most apple fanboys dump their perfectly good current model and rush out an replace it with the next model the instant it comes out, even if they have to pay an Early Termination Fee to do so.
Far from attracting the majority of new customers, Apple is mostly eating its young, singing to its own choir, reselling to the same crowd.
The research plan is fundamentally flawed, and has resulted in Apple's total domination of the smartphone market being cut in half over the years.
Yeah, and that's why every iPhone generation has sold only as much as all previous combined. An exponential growth is certainly not enough to raise market share.
funny thing is apple users = "1%ers" yet OWS people are apples biggest fanbois
Because they are obviously smarter than you. In fact you missed it you just claimed that the "OWS people" belong to the "1%ers".
So ho much did Samsung spend on advertising?
What Watts has shown is that he can get a lower warming trend for the continental USA than others get. All you have to do is systematically eliminate the data you don’t like, while ignoring things like station moves, instrument changes, and recording data at different times of day. Don’t you dare correct for known biases (unless of course doing so would make the estimate of global warming smaller)! And if the satellite data should be in better agreement with others than with yourself, don’t breathe a word about that.
The irony is that Watts is doing exactly what he accuses others of: tilting every aspect of the data and analysis to suit his ideology. The joke is that he actually thinks this is “science.”
Since his original chest-beating, it seems that even some of his co-authors (one can’t help but wonder, did they all even know they were listed as co-authors?) take exception to his methods. Alas, it looks like important details are missing which are required for those who want to check his results. I certainly didn’t find any links to the data or computer programs used. Doesn’t Anthony want to be audited?
Prior art doesn't have to be previously filed patents.
So *you* might want to look up what filing date means.
Wooooosh. Way over your head. Figures: a Hateboy and denier and has no clues about patents and has a hard time grasping simple sentences. You are perfect here.
You might want to look up what "prior art" means.
You might want to look up what "filing date" means.
Just like they implemented the "mouse with rotary control", the "color changing case" and "liquid cooled laptops". Those are just some of the Apple patents people on Slashdot took for granted would be implemented.
From the article:
But if price is such an important metric, why is the iPad — with its premium price tag — so popular? Simple, it was the first tablet to go mass market, and cumulative sales of around 85 million gives the iPad credibility in the eye on potential buyers.
This is just stating the obvious - the iPad has had more sales, because it has been available for longer. If the Nexus 7 had been released in April two years ago (like the iPad), and the iPad were released last month, then the Nexus 7 would have sold more units.
And as soon as it doesn't suit your argument, the battle cry "Apple didn't invent the tablet!" goes out the window.
I don't want a tablet or a phone made of alumin(i)um, thank you. It is too rigid, which is bad for shock resistance. A magnesium alloy chassis with overmoulded nylon, glass filled nylon, or polycarbonate are much more suitable structural materials for small electronic products as they have considerable shock resistance.
I bet you can prove that. But it clearly is worse for recycling.
And that is grounds for appeal. No sense watching this trial, no matter who wins it's getting appealed.
Of course it will be appealed. You don't need a reason to appeal.
No, I (or rather TFA) are complaining that the only way to access files saved "to the cloud" is by using the Open File dialog in the same app that saved it - there's no iCloud folder in Finder, for example. Ironically it still does show iCloud files when you select the "All My Files" view, but it's very inconvenient for obvious reasons.
Open "Mobile Documents" in the user Library.
That's Verizon, you know, the company with the highest rated customer service in the mobile industry (in the US, at least). I'm actually amazed there aren't more iPhone uses on Verizon, the way they manage to herd their users like sheep.
Because the Android manufacturers allow them to brand their phones, and pay the sales staff to push them. Yes Verizon treats their Android users like sheep. Are you one?
maybe they didn't think they'd need it until apple used f700 as an example of how they copy.. despite it being an example of the designs obviousness in fitting to pocket.
Wait, what now? They didn't think they needed the "evidence [that] would have established beyond doubt that Samsung did not copy the iPhone design" - until Apple claimed that it did exactly that? Which would mean that Apple had entered it as evidence, so there would be no need for Samsung to enter it again? Sorry, but the Chewbacca defense makes more sense than that.
Apple knows what Apple fans want; by and far, in the iOS vs. Android war you seem to think is being fought, people want Android, by sales numbers
All we see is they are being pushed to Android http://jeffstern.co/2012/07/17/advice-verizon-wireless-store/
“They released the iPhone 4S because Steve Jobs died so they just threw in a couple more features and pushed it out.”
“Apple’s servers are really small and when you use Siri it normally redirects to Google anyway.”
“Every icon looks alike on your homescreen and it’s really hard to find applications.”
All things I heard salespeople say in the 40 minutes I was there [at the Verizon Wireless store]. I’m certainly not an Apple fanboy. I was in your store to buy an Android phone. But you’re really trying too hard to steer people away from the iPhone and I’m not the only person that’s noticed it.