"App" is a generic self-descriptive term meaning application going back to the 70s. "Store" is a generic term going back centuries. The two together are also generic and self-descriptive.
Quite obviously so - that's why thousands have used the combination before Apple. It's just that nobody can find an example.
Sellers CAN set their prices, but not when ALL the sellers get together and artificially raise prices. Which is what was ruled as being orchestrated by Apple.
They actually lowered their prices. Hurray for Apple.
Can it form complex machines? guns and explosives that have chemicals and moving parts -- or is it limited to forming solid metal shapes like knives and stabbing weapons?
No, it's limited to liquid metal shapes that fall apart if you look at them funny.
Bet they didnt. What Apple got was that hopefully the DOJ will not consider this lawsuit a pattern of behavior when considering their culpability in the eBook price fixing investigation.
Wow, you make it sound like the DOJ and Amazon are colluding. You may be on to something.
I am sure that is the reason they dropped it and not because they were throwing dollars at lawyers for a case they couldn't possibly win. They found a way to back out gracefully.
Or could it be that over the intervening time, Apple figured out that their customers are not as stupid as Apple thought they were, and none of them were found trying to download Amazon apps to their walled-garden phones?
Or maybe Apple saw that even Android users aren't stupid enough to shop at the fake App Store. Not to mention that most developers too realized Amazon was ripping them off.
We can't really let this thread go on without mentioning São Paulo. Looks like the experiment is going well too.
Five years later, São Paulo continues to exist without advertisements. But instead of causing economic ruin and deteriorating aesthetics, 70 percent of city residents find the ban beneficial, according to a 2011 survey. Unexpectedly, the removal of logos and slogans exposed previously overlooked architecture, revealing a rich urban beauty that had been long hidden.
Brazilian city Sao Paulo banned all outdoor ads six years ago. But what is interesting for now is that the city is allowing graffiti art – and the US conglomerate and Olympic sponsor GE has taken advantage of this.
It has commissioned three huge graffiti murals which appear on the sides of tall buildings, artworks that try to get across what it is that GE does – whether that be in energy, technology or infrastructure. GE’s logo appears on them, but it is really the murals themselves that are eye catching and they don’t look like advertising.
Apple is known for pushing down to the limit what they pay to their suppliers, leaving nearly no profit to them. They would never pay to Intel what Intel is used to make.
Yeah, that's why Apple is Intel's biggest exclusive partner for PC CPUs. Because their margin policy is incompatible.
Oh look. Yet another benchmark showing how superior a new handset is...yet every new handset is still laggy and jerky, including the S3
Actually the CPU allows you to run better(give it a name) programs at higher resolutions. Its why Flash was not the problem for Android that it is for Apple. Google put an awful lot of effort into improving things like responsiveness. Goolge finally managed to put this lie to sleep with Project Butter http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3118769/android-4-1-jelly-bean.
Google trying desperately to make Androids UI smooth is proof it always was. Yeah right.
No; Apple are planning to not need Samsung in the future. They are doing that precisely because they do need Samsung now. They're getting rid of a single point of failure.
By that reasoning, Samsung does needs Apple - else they would just stop doing business with them.
Samsung's stock took a 6% hit, or $10B in market cap lost, when it was RUMORED they were losing Apple chip contract last year:
Are you seriously trying to imply that the stock market in the short term is an objective measure of, well, anything other than the emotions of the participants?
You already have a limited amount of explosive power and you're trying to take out/damage a structure. If you're not a really skilled bomb maker capable of making a shaped charge, every inch you're away from that building is going to reduce the amount of energy actually dircted against the structure by a substantial amount.
'Around the time of impact' is something that works for soft targets and/or really big bombs.
Well, it's enough to terrorize a crowd. But if that's not enough for you: supposedly the Israelis are terribly worried about the self build Hamas missiles - building one of their impact triggers shouldn't be hard
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If the DOD can't find COBOL programmers to fix their accounting system, who'll still be able to install a key-logger in a electric typewriter?
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This Powerful New Software Allows You To Practically Steal Traffic Search Rankings From Your Competitors!
"App" is a generic self-descriptive term meaning application going back to the 70s. "Store" is a generic term going back centuries. The two together are also generic and self-descriptive.
Quite obviously so - that's why thousands have used the combination before Apple. It's just that nobody can find an example.
Sellers CAN set their prices, but not when ALL the sellers get together and artificially raise prices. Which is what was ruled as being orchestrated by Apple.
They actually lowered their prices. Hurray for Apple.
Can it form complex machines? guns and explosives that have chemicals and moving parts -- or is it limited to forming solid metal shapes like knives and stabbing weapons?
No, it's limited to liquid metal shapes that fall apart if you look at them funny.
Bet they didnt. What Apple got was that hopefully the DOJ will not consider this lawsuit a pattern of behavior when considering their culpability in the eBook price fixing investigation.
Wow, you make it sound like the DOJ and Amazon are colluding. You may be on to something.
I am sure that is the reason they dropped it and not because they were throwing dollars at lawyers for a case they couldn't possibly win. They found a way to back out gracefully.
Or could it be that over the intervening time, Apple figured out that their customers are not as stupid as Apple thought they were, and none of them were found trying to download Amazon apps to their walled-garden phones?
Or maybe Apple saw that even Android users aren't stupid enough to shop at the fake App Store. Not to mention that most developers too realized Amazon was ripping them off.
At $200, a Google Nexus is disposable technology.
http://androidandme.com/2013/06/opinions/one-year-later-the-nexus-7-has-gone-from-the-best-to-worst-tablet-ive-ever-owned/
1st gen kindle fire was android derived, not technically android. never sold as an android tablet, didn't have any of googles stuff..
Just like the latest Kindle - yet you have no problem counting it for Android marketshare.
Gotta love people speaking out against advertising - and putting the URL of their company website in the sig.
We can't really let this thread go on without mentioning São Paulo. Looks like the experiment is going well too.
http://www.newdream.org/resources/sao-paolo-ad-ban
http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/opinion/blogs/lucy-handley/sao-paulo-ad-ban-makes-marketers-more-creative/4003461.article
Brazilian city Sao Paulo banned all outdoor ads six years ago. But what is interesting for now is that the city is allowing graffiti art – and the US conglomerate and Olympic sponsor GE has taken advantage of this.
It has commissioned three huge graffiti murals which appear on the sides of tall buildings, artworks that try to get across what it is that GE does – whether that be in energy, technology or infrastructure. GE’s logo appears on them, but it is really the murals themselves that are eye catching and they don’t look like advertising.
Here are 2 cent, now shut the fuck up.
But the competition advertises as well, and thus in the vast majority of cases the only true effect is that you have increased cost on all products.
But in this case there is no competition - Sky Germany (formerly Premiere) is the only Pay TV provider in Germany. And it's not really making money.
Martin,
I think you missed the point that we are talkinig about radio.
When people fill a page with noise on Slashdot, they aren't really using up a scarce resource.
That says a lot about you - my time is much too scarce for me to dig through pages of noise to come to something meaningful.
Now Apple will make fashion - just like when YSL hired a former Apple manager as CEO, they started making computers.
Apple is known for pushing down to the limit what they pay to their suppliers, leaving nearly no profit to them. They would never pay to Intel what Intel is used to make.
Yeah, that's why Apple is Intel's biggest exclusive partner for PC CPUs. Because their margin policy is incompatible.
Microsoft Microsoft. Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft?
Mushroom!
No; by that reasoning, if Samsung needed Apple, you'd be seeing Samsung frantically wooing customers so they're not dependant on one company.
And by the same reasoning Apple wouldn't change to a different supplier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy
1946 called, on their technology.
Of using a watch with a two-way radio and some big buttons?
Samsung and LG own all the patents on the LCDs used in the retina screens.
Bullshit. http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2012/06/apples-retina-display-patent-comes-to-light.html
What's up with you bringing up Google's efforts to fix things as proof that they aren't broken?
Oh look. Yet another benchmark showing how superior a new handset is...yet every new handset is still laggy and jerky, including the S3
Actually the CPU allows you to run better(give it a name) programs at higher resolutions. Its why Flash was not the problem for Android that it is for Apple. Google put an awful lot of effort into improving things like responsiveness. Goolge finally managed to put this lie to sleep with Project Butter http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3118769/android-4-1-jelly-bean.
Google trying desperately to make Androids UI smooth is proof it always was. Yeah right.
No; Apple are planning to not need Samsung in the future. They are doing that precisely because they do need Samsung now. They're getting rid of a single point of failure.
By that reasoning, Samsung does needs Apple - else they would just stop doing business with them.
Samsung's stock took a 6% hit, or $10B in market cap lost, when it was RUMORED they were losing Apple chip contract last year:
Are you seriously trying to imply that the stock market in the short term is an objective measure of, well, anything other than the emotions of the participants?
Everybody knows it's only valid for AAPL.
You already have a limited amount of explosive power and you're trying to take out/damage a structure. If you're not a really skilled bomb maker capable of making a shaped charge, every inch you're away from that building is going to reduce the amount of energy actually dircted against the structure by a substantial amount.
'Around the time of impact' is something that works for soft targets and/or really big bombs.
Well, it's enough to terrorize a crowd. But if that's not enough for you: supposedly the Israelis are terribly worried about the self build Hamas missiles - building one of their impact triggers shouldn't be hard