I can see why AT&T and the other carriers were caught off guard there.
You're being sarcastic, but you're right. For most customers, the web on phones pre iPhone/Android was a hot mess. A small data allotment was plenty, as the only thing most users could do is maybe force themselves to check an email or two. Webkit on phones changed that.
Scarcity is real. If you don't believe me, think to yourself when you ABSOLUTELY need a pen or a pencil how much you'd be willing to pay for a Bic ball point that comes in a 10 pack for 4 bucks.
Reminds me of the econ professor I had who would provide you with a blue book on exam day if you forgot yours.
Yep, you got it right in one. Because a product does not appeal to you, the market is saturated. I'm glad that, for the very first time EVER, someone has shared this startlingly insightful realization on slashdot.
Do you make your wife wear a helmet when she goes outdoors? She doesn't seem like the sharpest knife in the drawer if she can't open the facebook app and click on the photo button.
Or it's because the technology is there to make it feasible. There are some opinions and analyses floating about out there comparing a hypothetical 7.85 inch, retina resolution iPad to the 10 inch iPad 1&2 that may be instructive.
Or, hell, fear of Android tablets. What's wrong with a little competition? Despite so many railing against the monoculture that Microsoft was creating in the 90's, plenty of people on this site seem to want/expect the same thing of Android in mobile. Tiny men with tiny thoughts.
You are definitely a fanboy. I prefer the Nexus to the iPad...but then I prefer Android, and I really like having lots more money in my pocket; Since the HTX One X and Galaxy III generation of phones, the iPhone 4S is looking last generation literally [giggle],
Wait, I thought it was us fanbois who got all worked up over what looks shiny and flashy and new. Turns out it was you meddling fandroids all along! (And your dog!)
And having read it, would I design a device that's got one fucking button with sixteen different functions, depending on whether you're pressing, pressing it twice, holding it or farting as you lick it?
Ya know, at least one of those items is a case study in 'holding it wrong'. Now I'm starting to understand why Steve had to explain it to you people.
That's funny. You complain about Adobe bitching and moaning when it comes to Linux, but you give them a free pass when it comes to updating their software to Cocoa on Macs.
Dumbledore dies is a reference to a bit of trolling when one of the Harry Potter books came out. They killed off a fairly major character. People posted it all over. If you were a fan, it was impossible to go online and not discover the ending of that one book. So, just a reference for all of the Game of Thrones fans who somehow don't know that Eddard Stark buys it.
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I can see why AT&T and the other carriers were caught off guard there.
You're being sarcastic, but you're right. For most customers, the web on phones pre iPhone/Android was a hot mess. A small data allotment was plenty, as the only thing most users could do is maybe force themselves to check an email or two. Webkit on phones changed that.
"fabricated facts" sounds too bulky a phrase. Let's try to think of something else. Fize, thighs, ties, no, no, no... Wait, I got it:
Lies.
/golfclap
Scarcity is real. If you don't believe me, think to yourself when you ABSOLUTELY need a pen or a pencil how much you'd be willing to pay for a Bic ball point that comes in a 10 pack for 4 bucks.
Reminds me of the econ professor I had who would provide you with a blue book on exam day if you forgot yours.
For a mere $2.
It is true.
President Assad was killed.
But he got better.
No, he got better from when he was turned into a newt.
The tweet is fake because Bashar isn't dead. He's just resting. Remarkable dictators the Assad family. Lovely oil fields.
He's pining for the fjords.
No they couldn't have, becuase you post as AC. Besides, nobody wants to partner with someone who can't even speak properly.
Are you the type of person who would cut off your nose despite your face?
Do you consider things for all intensive purposes?
Do you think I am making a mute point?
Maybe you could care less?
Now you are just acting totally retarted. This is just too rediculous to continue. :p
To be honest, you see this alot online.
Never heard of this. Have a citation?
(And if it proves true, I may have to join the bitching about it.)
Yep, you got it right in one. Because a product does not appeal to you, the market is saturated. I'm glad that, for the very first time EVER, someone has shared this startlingly insightful realization on slashdot.
Do you make your wife wear a helmet when she goes outdoors? She doesn't seem like the sharpest knife in the drawer if she can't open the facebook app and click on the photo button.
Or it's because the technology is there to make it feasible. There are some opinions and analyses floating about out there comparing a hypothetical 7.85 inch, retina resolution iPad to the 10 inch iPad 1&2 that may be instructive.
Or, hell, fear of Android tablets. What's wrong with a little competition? Despite so many railing against the monoculture that Microsoft was creating in the 90's, plenty of people on this site seem to want/expect the same thing of Android in mobile. Tiny men with tiny thoughts.
Next year is the year of Linux on the desktop.
You are definitely a fanboy. I prefer the Nexus to the iPad...but then I prefer Android, and I really like having lots more money in my pocket; Since the HTX One X and Galaxy III generation of phones, the iPhone 4S is looking last generation literally [giggle],
Wait, I thought it was us fanbois who got all worked up over what looks shiny and flashy and new. Turns out it was you meddling fandroids all along! (And your dog!)
Similar thing where I live. It's amongst the bluest of areas in the country, but the gun range is always busy when I visit.
It's just like when the bastard politicians exempted themselves from the Do Not Call registry.
But all it takes is one monkey boy to drag it back to the stone age.
Ballmer is busy at Microsoft right now.
I'm quite sure the Federation can spring for a copy of the MDM of their choice and push out all the private apps that they want.
Troll harder next time.
Speaking as someone from group one, Daniel Eran Dilger of Roughly Drafted and AppleInsider counts as column two.
No, I'm not going to give that to you in linky form. Use your copy and paste and Google-fu.
Six of one, half-dozen of the other. iOS is like a gated community, Android is more like Bartertown.
Bland sex with Stepford wives, or sweaty wrestling to the death with Master Blaster?
I think I'll go back to landlines.
And having read it, would I design a device that's got one fucking button with sixteen different functions, depending on whether you're pressing, pressing it twice, holding it or farting as you lick it?
Ya know, at least one of those items is a case study in 'holding it wrong'. Now I'm starting to understand why Steve had to explain it to you people.
Considering you haven't actually used a Surface, those are some pretty amazing numbers. Anybody remember the Zune? Me neither....
I'll bet this guy does.
That's funny. You complain about Adobe bitching and moaning when it comes to Linux, but you give them a free pass when it comes to updating their software to Cocoa on Macs.
J&J?
And yeah, the woman sawn in half bit was kinda fun.
Dumbledore dies is a reference to a bit of trolling when one of the Harry Potter books came out. They killed off a fairly major character. People posted it all over. If you were a fan, it was impossible to go online and not discover the ending of that one book. So, just a reference for all of the Game of Thrones fans who somehow don't know that Eddard Stark buys it.
I'll take my cyberpunk without the magic, please. Really, Shadowrun is little more than D&D with guns.
If this is accurate, I may have to increase my donation.