Keeping some cash to survive an actual slump sounds like a sound business idea - imagine if Apple made Amazon like "profits" with the cash reserves of Amazon. Only morons would stand for that.
iPhones are like 15% market share worldwide, iPads quickly heading into that direction.
They might have sweetest part of the pie, but it's still strange to hear about "controlling position".
If anyone is in such position in that market, it's google.
Yeah - if only Google had any control over the Android forks that make up most of the growth.
Their largest acquisition since Jobs came back was NeXT at $404M. Considering this was the basis of OS X, it doesn't seem like an extravagant purchase. Contrast that to Google who just paid $3.2B for Nest and MS who paid $6.3B for aQuantive.
Actually, their biggest purchase was $14 billion for a minority share in -beat- Apple.
Up until Apple started marketing the first iPhone product line, they were on a "kick" where all their devices used a variety of pastel color schemes and had "ergonomic" shapes which includes bulges and bubble-looking bits. It was their "signature look".
So the iPhone came out, what, 2004? That was the year the eMac, the last Apple product that wasn't a "rectangle with rounded corners" sold. And that was a hold-out of the CRT era for edu markets. And already was plain white.
And yet, Razer has created something more powerful than the MBP for less than the equivalently specced MBP. Also, Microsoft has released a piece of hardware specced like the Air, but with a high resolution display and a touchscreen, for less than the Air.
So, no.
This thing? http://www.newegg.com/Product/... at 6.58lbs, what are you smoking, to compare it to the MB Air? Hell, it's even heavier than my MacBook Retina.
Well, it weighs almost exactly what the last 17" MacBook Pro weighed, has has similar specs too, but is 1/10th of an inch thinner - and has no optical drive. Yeah for a lame copy of an Apple product Apple stopped selling almost two years ago.
If 'like with like' means a tablet, then no. There is no non-Apple tablet at the store I visited yesterday that was more than half the median price of the iPads also in that store. And there was a good selection of non-Apple tablets.
Yeah, there's a lot of Chinese made Android tablets at the ten cent store.
It would have been hard for measures taken after 9/11 to have prevented 9/11, wouldn't it?
Yeah, but the NSA has been spying on us Europeans far before that - ever heard of ECHELON? It's almost conspiracy theory inspiring that the EU tried to get ECHELON stopped in 2001 - and bamm, planes fly into buildings, so we need more surveillance.
Ignoring the (purely coincidental of course) disenfranchisement of far more than a couple of hundred people as felons in Florida 2000 later found to be incorrect. Not to mention the other oddities in the voting process (like the "Jews for Buchanan" thing). All in a state not only run by the Republicans, but by Dubya's brother.
From your link "Vaporware is also a term sometimes used to describe events that are announced or predicted, never officially cancelled, but never intended to happen." it is the sentence after the one you quote. Never has a Username been so apt.
So to you the never announced Apple smartwatch is an event?
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Keeping some cash to survive an actual slump sounds like a sound business idea - imagine if Apple made Amazon like "profits" with the cash reserves of Amazon. Only morons would stand for that.
Any issues with the car will probably be blamed on the driver.
Yeah, unlike with Google's driverless cars (TM) - there it's the owners fault.
iPhones are like 15% market share worldwide, iPads quickly heading into that direction. They might have sweetest part of the pie, but it's still strange to hear about "controlling position". If anyone is in such position in that market, it's google.
Yeah - if only Google had any control over the Android forks that make up most of the growth.
Their largest acquisition since Jobs came back was NeXT at $404M. Considering this was the basis of OS X, it doesn't seem like an extravagant purchase. Contrast that to Google who just paid $3.2B for Nest and MS who paid $6.3B for aQuantive.
Actually, their biggest purchase was $14 billion for a minority share in -beat- Apple.
The fact is that a bunch of Mac users who thought their systems were secure, rightly or wrongly, lost a bunch of money.
Those would be the handful of morons who bought into BitCoins in the first place.
Nobody has to use Samsung Kies.
And nobody has to use iTunes. But many people do use iTunes, because unlike Kies it isn't a piece of shit.
Google's in a similar boat. Self driving cars, robots, barges in the San Francisco bay...
If Apple bought Tesla, they should just buy a controlling stake to keep Google away from purchasing Tesla, and then let Tesla keep doing it's thing.
Why should Apple keep Google from spending billions upon billions to buy company after company that doesn't make them any money?
Up until Apple started marketing the first iPhone product line, they were on a "kick" where all their devices used a variety of pastel color schemes and had "ergonomic" shapes which includes bulges and bubble-looking bits. It was their "signature look".
So the iPhone came out, what, 2004? That was the year the eMac, the last Apple product that wasn't a "rectangle with rounded corners" sold. And that was a hold-out of the CRT era for edu markets. And already was plain white.
Apple Haters? You sound like a cultist on the level of Scientology.
Funny, so do you. Just that you are talking from the "My cult is bigger than your cult, so I must be right" soapbox.
And 2001: A Space Odyssey was made decades before digital photo frames.
And the TV device shown in it looks exactly unlike an iPad in almost every possible way.
LOLOLOL. Since when has ANY Apple product been cheaper and more accessible?
Since 1976.
And yet, Razer has created something more powerful than the MBP for less than the equivalently specced MBP. Also, Microsoft has released a piece of hardware specced like the Air, but with a high resolution display and a touchscreen, for less than the Air.
So, no.
This thing? http://www.newegg.com/Product/... at 6.58lbs, what are you smoking, to compare it to the MB Air? Hell, it's even heavier than my MacBook Retina.
Well, it weighs almost exactly what the last 17" MacBook Pro weighed, has has similar specs too, but is 1/10th of an inch thinner - and has no optical drive. Yeah for a lame copy of an Apple product Apple stopped selling almost two years ago.
And yet, the CEO of BlackBerry didn't exactly understand the cost of things, as the iphone was not the first touch-screen handheld.
If you want to bring up the LG Prada (that was actually presented after the iPhone): that one cost 50% more than the iPhone.
If 'like with like' means a tablet, then no. There is no non-Apple tablet at the store I visited yesterday that was more than half the median price of the iPads also in that store. And there was a good selection of non-Apple tablets.
Yeah, there's a lot of Chinese made Android tablets at the ten cent store.
It would have been hard for measures taken after 9/11 to have prevented 9/11, wouldn't it?
Yeah, but the NSA has been spying on us Europeans far before that - ever heard of ECHELON? It's almost conspiracy theory inspiring that the EU tried to get ECHELON stopped in 2001 - and bamm, planes fly into buildings, so we need more surveillance.
Seriously dude, the claim was climate scientists were making dire predictions of imminent catastrophes.
"No white christmas" is an imminent catastrophe? Talk about alarmist.
I still see lots of people claiming that it's mostly due to the urban heat island.
Even though that has already been proven wrong by the BESGT study.
After all, the people of the state supported Jeb Bush, why not George?
Because Dubya is a moron?
When I first saw this headline in my Facebook feed, I assumed the source was The Onion. Wow.
The Register has become the next best thing.
Aye, very much, but the point was the LOOK of the device, that as said, was the basis for their own later products.
Funny that Samsung had already abandoned that look for their picture frames even before the iPhone came out.
Same thing happened to Samsung. Here's a digital picture frame they made in 2005 and sold in 2006.
FTFY
Ignoring the (purely coincidental of course) disenfranchisement of far more than a couple of hundred people as felons in Florida 2000 later found to be incorrect. Not to mention the other oddities in the voting process (like the "Jews for Buchanan" thing). All in a state not only run by the Republicans, but by Dubya's brother.
"You Mac haters are saying you don't want the Mac to turn into iOS."
That statement doesn't make sense. It implies that the "haters" think that Mac OS X is a good thing.
Who ever said Mac haters make any sense? It is their claim after all.
In fact famously the iPhone looks eerily similar to a Sony Prototype.
That lie again? There's one thing to be an Apple Hater, and another to blindly believe the bullshit coming from Samsung.
Please look up what vaporware is.
From your link "Vaporware is also a term sometimes used to describe events that are announced or predicted, never officially cancelled, but never intended to happen." it is the sentence after the one you quote. Never has a Username been so apt.
So to you the never announced Apple smartwatch is an event?