In a Windows context, pre-iPod MP3 players mounted as a drive letter and simply allowed you to drag over a file structure and related files, which were mirrored on the player.
Wow, now that sounds like a pain in the ass. Esp. when you remember actual realities like this.
I think the issue is not how long they support an OS for, but how public they make their road map. With Microsoft users have a fairy clear and well publicized timeframe of support and lots of warning for when a particular version of Windows will no longer receive updates.
What good is a public roadmap if companies don't follow through?
10 years ago the iPhone didn't even exist and iPods only charged from Firewire, not USB.
That's because USB couldn't charge shit back then. I wonder why you forgot to mention that. Today most companies abandon standard MicroUSB, because it takes more than a night to charge the battery.
top Android phones have nothing to do with it. The point is the barrier for entry is far, far lower. If Apple had low cost devices you would have a point. Unfortunately for you that is not the case, and you therefore have no valid point.
You actually believe the price of an iPhone will keep people from buying a car with an advanced control system? While people who buy those ultra-cheap Androids can even afford any car?
Combine the two, and no one I know with an iDevice bothers with Apple Maps for navigation, they stick with the Google Maps app. It's still better.
Most certainly not in Germany. Actually relying on Google Maps is dangerous here. Just in a few miles distance GMaps will tell me to do U-turns and go left where it isn't allowed, and tell me to drive through buses-only roads. Not to mention not routing me through a public road that is perfectly legal and visible in Google Maps.
Apple won best screen access program for its screen reader VoiceOver. VoiceOver is a gesture-based screen reader that is a standard feature in Mac OS X operating system (version 10.4 onwards) and iOS devices such as iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Apple also won best hardware product for the blind and vision impaired with iPhone 4 and best company serving the blind community.
The US Republican party is changing tactics on the environment, avoiding "frightening" phrases such as global warming, after a confidential party memo warned that it is the domestic issue on which George Bush is most vulnerable.
The phrase "global warming" should be abandoned in favour of "climate change", Mr Luntz says, and the party should describe its policies as "conservationist" instead of "environmentalist", because "most people" think environmentalists are "extremists" who indulge in "some pretty bizarre behaviour... that turns off many voters".
However, Steve Furber (hardware designer of the ARM) remarked that it was the Newton that started making people take the ARM seriously. The Newton may have been a flop, but it did make the right people notice ARM.
Well, the Newton wasn't a flop compared to the Archimedes, that's for sure. 100,000 sold in the first year. Did Acorn ship that many ARMs in Co-CPUs, Archimedes and Risc PCs combined even in a decade?
As a note, back in the day Apple stayed afloat by selling its stake in ARM.
Funny how they didn't sell ARM when they where losing money, but when they were back in the black. Coincidently after Jobs killed the Newton, which was the reason ARM was founded.
Or the fact that we are still coming off of an Ice Age that lasted for more than 100,000 years, and ended less than 10,000 years ago (Or the little Ice Age that ended in 1850). Several models predict that the average temperature at the END of the last Ice Age was 15-20C lower than today.
Let me get this straight: we are just now getting out of an Ice Age that was warmer than the END of the ICE AGE before? And there also was a little Ice Age that was colder or warmer but a lot nower than the big ones?
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Please describe how it is a pain in the ass
In a Windows context, pre-iPod MP3 players mounted as a drive letter and simply allowed you to drag over a file structure and related files, which were mirrored on the player.
Wow, now that sounds like a pain in the ass. Esp. when you remember actual realities like this.
Ironic, considering what a pain in the ass it is to get music onto an iPod.
Errm, that pain was caused by your own head.
http://www.myheimat.de/neustadt-am-ruebenberge/event-truck-d64042.html
That is not an improvement. How am I supposed to know when my product isn't supported?
When someone reports a vulnerability in your ancient OS and Apple doesn't respond. Has that happened? Ever?
System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys - knock yourself out
I think the issue is not how long they support an OS for, but how public they make their road map. With Microsoft users have a fairy clear and well publicized timeframe of support and lots of warning for when a particular version of Windows will no longer receive updates.
What good is a public roadmap if companies don't follow through?
10 years ago the iPhone didn't even exist and iPods only charged from Firewire, not USB.
That's because USB couldn't charge shit back then. I wonder why you forgot to mention that. Today most companies abandon standard MicroUSB, because it takes more than a night to charge the battery.
top Android phones have nothing to do with it. The point is the barrier for entry is far, far lower. If Apple had low cost devices you would have a point. Unfortunately for you that is not the case, and you therefore have no valid point.
You actually believe the price of an iPhone will keep people from buying a car with an advanced control system? While people who buy those ultra-cheap Androids can even afford any car?
RCA connectors have been used for 70 years
When was the last time you saw a phone with a RCA connector?
Apple is pretty much the only company out there where the client isn't the product these days.
Oh really?
If they weren't, there would be no need for Apple Maps, instead they'd just give Google all they want.
Yeah Google Navigation as an in-car GPS would be awesome.
Yeah, it would reduce the number of cars on the road drastically.
Google wanted them to hand over user data. Only Fandroids would want that. That's why AmiMuMu cheers for the crappy Google Maps.
Combine the two, and no one I know with an iDevice bothers with Apple Maps for navigation, they stick with the Google Maps app. It's still better.
Most certainly not in Germany. Actually relying on Google Maps is dangerous here. Just in a few miles distance GMaps will tell me to do U-turns and go left where it isn't allowed, and tell me to drive through buses-only roads. Not to mention not routing me through a public road that is perfectly legal and visible in Google Maps.
Apple won best screen access program for its screen reader VoiceOver. VoiceOver is a gesture-based screen reader that is a standard feature in Mac OS X operating system (version 10.4 onwards) and iOS devices such as iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Apple also won best hardware product for the blind and vision impaired with iPhone 4 and best company serving the blind community.
FU
Gee, didn't they tell us only Apple Maps had problems?
Actually, if you were paying attention, you'd have noticed that google documented and discussed their mapping problems quite openly.
Yeah, they just refused to fix them. Which TFA is all about.
Yawn. 7 words. No free speech in the US.
Gee, didn't they tell us only Apple Maps had problems?
The US Republican party is changing tactics on the environment, avoiding "frightening" phrases such as global warming, after a confidential party memo warned that it is the domestic issue on which George Bush is most vulnerable.
The phrase "global warming" should be abandoned in favour of "climate change", Mr Luntz says, and the party should describe its policies as "conservationist" instead of "environmentalist", because "most people" think environmentalists are "extremists" who indulge in "some pretty bizarre behaviour... that turns off many voters".
However, Steve Furber (hardware designer of the ARM) remarked that it was the Newton that started making people take the ARM seriously. The Newton may have been a flop, but it did make the right people notice ARM.
Well, the Newton wasn't a flop compared to the Archimedes, that's for sure. 100,000 sold in the first year. Did Acorn ship that many ARMs in Co-CPUs, Archimedes and Risc PCs combined even in a decade?
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which was the reason ARM was founded.
Hardly - the ARM had gone through several generations and been used in a number of other products before the Newton came along.
ARM. The company. Do I really have to spell it out for those who confuse "founding" with "foundry"?
As a note, back in the day Apple stayed afloat by selling its stake in ARM.
Funny how they didn't sell ARM when they where losing money, but when they were back in the black. Coincidently after Jobs killed the Newton, which was the reason ARM was founded.
Yup, right around the warmest year on record. Lesson for "sceptics": heavy snowfall is a bad indicator for (really) low temperatures.
Or the fact that we are still coming off of an Ice Age that lasted for more than 100,000 years, and ended less than 10,000 years ago (Or the little Ice Age that ended in 1850). Several models predict that the average temperature at the END of the last Ice Age was 15-20C lower than today.
Let me get this straight: we are just now getting out of an Ice Age that was warmer than the END of the ICE AGE before? And there also was a little Ice Age that was colder or warmer but a lot nower than the big ones?
You're confusing 'the public' with a cult-like following of people who love waiting in line at the Apple store for each new version.
You are confusing several dozen million people who buy Apple products each quarter with a few thousand people. Because you are the cult member.