I don't think they can win this because ____ store has a special place in the English language (and likely trademark law) as a generic entity.
And yet there are hundreds of active trademarks containing the word "store" (and all of them also the disclaimer 'NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "STORE" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN').
People like those "Occupy Wall Street" hipsters preaching about the market are like the pope preaching about sex. You must try to learn about things before you can have an opinion on them.
Uhh. Considering the boneheaded mistakes "Wall Street" has made in the last decade, maybe its them who should finally learn their trade.
Remember it wasn't the "Occupy Wall Street" hipsters that caused the global economy to collapse.
But then, maybe everything went as planned, and at least some of the Wall Street people successfully played "the market" with this.
You want to know what irony is? Irony is the NRA demanding to register and tag people with mental illnesses while refusing to allow guns to be registered or owners to be licensed. Gun owners are incredibly poor at introspection.
Not to mention that they want to retain the right of "private" gun sellers not to actually check if you are legible to own a gun - which makes any such registration - criminal or mental or other - useless.
In context, had Apple been denied a license at any price, or had Apple been charged ten times what anyone else was paying for the same license, then that would have been discriminatory.
Sorry to burst your bubble but the warming has stalled about 15 years ago while CO2 levels in the atmosphere keep rising, every year the chances that this could be a statistical fluctuations in a long term trend diminishes, all you have to do is look at IPCC AR5 draft figure 1-4 to see how badly the models have failed to predict reality; as Richard Feyman said "When you've got morons talking about something they don't understand, you get something hilarious"
That Slashdot article was wrong. Apple sales increase because they released the phone in China which occurred at almost the same time. Google maps release did nothing to increase sales for 5 days after it's release.
Obviously, a release in China would have a big effect on sales.
As for people's annoyances, I personally can't say but I do agree in the opinion that Apple is run by MBA who take less risk.
And you are really good at dodging my point. This entire time you have refused to respond to the actual point of my comment. EVEN if the price was 1000 dollars, the fact of the matter is it has a larger battery then the other devices of similar type. To some that would justify the price.
Now unless you have something to say DIRECTLY to that point. I bid you good day.
So fucking what. Slap together two of the devices given for the same price gets you larger capacity, as well as a smaller bundle. Fucking idiot. Your point seems to be that you only defend this product because you hate Apple beyond all reason.
There are a lot of sensible things we can do to stop burning fossil fuels (such as the telecommuting idea you propose)
Electricity generation produces more CO2 than telecommuting.
Non sequitur. Reducing commuting would still drastically reduce CO2 output. "But your honor, that guy burned down more houses than I did!" doesn't get you off free.
You call me an Apple shill because I point out what the designated retail price for the POP is? Wow. Not to mention you do it after I did it in my first post, you attacked me because you didn't find it, and I called you on it. You sure are good at rationalizing away your boneheaded mistakes by blaming them on the one who is right.
Not true; every Android phone out there has a USB charger which provides at least 1A, maybe 2A. Yes, the original spec was 500mA, but there's nothing preventing you from making a charger that supplies more.
Yeah, the only ones who should be forced to stick to standards is Apple.
Actually I think you are still wrong, the device they were promising to build had a 25,000 mAh battery. It could charge your phone ten times on one charge. You CANNOT find one that large for that price on Amazon.
But by no means should you read the article or actually look anything up before you insist that your two cents is right in multiple posts.
But they already are - the Lightning connector was not official when the project began, so how could they offer it?
Presumably they felt their actual offering was "whatever the contemporary connector Apple uses is", given that a device which can only be connected to obsolete devices is.... obsolete.
How nice that you call the iPhone 4S as well as the iPad 3 "obsolete". Not to mention that you should have said "whatever the future (then contemporary) connector Apple one day will use will be".
Last but not least - if the device is suposed to be future-proof, why doesn't it support the new USB Power Delivery Specification? Isn't this supposed to be a super charger?
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I don't think they can win this because ____ store has a special place in the English language (and likely trademark law) as a generic entity.
And yet there are hundreds of active trademarks containing the word "store" (and all of them also the disclaimer 'NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "STORE" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN').
Right.. because "inside" is the same as the letter i (as the op said).
Those extra letters don't count?
So you can't read - is there something else you want us to know?
"Intel tried and failed some years ago to trademark the letter "i" and the numbers "486" and "586"
People like those "Occupy Wall Street" hipsters preaching about the market are like the pope preaching about sex. You must try to learn about things before you can have an opinion on them.
Uhh. Considering the boneheaded mistakes "Wall Street" has made in the last decade, maybe its them who should finally learn their trade.
Remember it wasn't the "Occupy Wall Street" hipsters that caused the global economy to collapse.
But then, maybe everything went as planned, and at least some of the Wall Street people successfully played "the market" with this.
You're thinking of Apple:
No, he *sn't
Few?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Licensees
I count 42 companies.
Then you either can't count, or missed the fact that we were talking about an architecture license from ARM. Wikipedia lists 6 companies with those.
You want to know what irony is? Irony is the NRA demanding to register and tag people with mental illnesses while refusing to allow guns to be registered or owners to be licensed. Gun owners are incredibly poor at introspection.
Not to mention that they want to retain the right of "private" gun sellers not to actually check if you are legible to own a gun - which makes any such registration - criminal or mental or other - useless.
... is that what irony looks like?
Yeah, protecting yourself against gun nuts with assault rifles by hiring "armed security guards" with revolvers sure sounds ironic.
Samsung is the most successful Android phone maker, that's why they're being picked on.
The problem with that argument: when Apple sued Samsung, they were an also-ran.
The variable being ignored is brand recognition.
If thieves can tell them apart how come Apple's lawyers think there is brand confusion?
They can't, but due to their price it's only a misdemeanor. Grand Theft iPhone vs. Petty Theft Samsung.
Not to mention that there simply aren't that many Samsung phones in NYC to accidently steal.
Part of the Protestant Reformation was making the Bible available to the laity, which the Roman Catholic Church opposed.
The Roman Catholic Church opposed making the Bible available in languages other than Latin, not mass printing it.
The original IBM PC was designed to support multiple monitors and did so from day one.
That both worked at the same time was never intended, merely an side product of the cheap design.
Long after PCs had multiple monitors.
Funny, though, how this is always brought up as Apple innovation.
And by that you mean hacks with one monochrome and one color card that only ever worked with programs specifically written to do so.
I'm glad you have taken a stand, but I'm sorry to hear you have eschewed all consumer electronics. How did you post the above comment?
There are plenty of Made-In-The-USA computers that are available on the second-hand market.
And a few of them may even have been made without Foxconn connectors (guess what the "conn" in Foxconn stands for).
I don't understand this - how are ventilation stripes a design language?
Can someone explain what the hell is snow white design language created by this guy.
Yeah, who would ever recognize, say, a car buy its kidney shaped grilles.
In context, had Apple been denied a license at any price, or had Apple been charged ten times what anyone else was paying for the same license, then that would have been discriminatory.
Which coincidently is exactly what happened.
Sorry to burst your bubble but the warming has stalled about 15 years ago while CO2 levels in the atmosphere keep rising, every year the chances that this could be a statistical fluctuations in a long term trend diminishes, all you have to do is look at IPCC AR5 draft figure 1-4 to see how badly the models have failed to predict reality; as Richard Feyman said "When you've got morons talking about something they don't understand, you get something hilarious"
FTFY. Anyway this explains it.
That Slashdot article was wrong. Apple sales increase because they released the phone in China which occurred at almost the same time. Google maps release did nothing to increase sales for 5 days after it's release.
Obviously, a release in China would have a big effect on sales.
As for people's annoyances, I personally can't say but I do agree in the opinion that Apple is run by MBA who take less risk.
And one of the reasons why the Chinese are buying iPhones is because Apple Maps is better than Google Maps....in China at least
And you are really good at dodging my point. This entire time you have refused to respond to the actual point of my comment.
EVEN if the price was 1000 dollars, the fact of the matter is it has a larger battery then the other devices of similar type. To some that would justify the price.
Now unless you have something to say DIRECTLY to that point. I bid you good day.
So fucking what. Slap together two of the devices given for the same price gets you larger capacity, as well as a smaller bundle. Fucking idiot. Your point seems to be that you only defend this product because you hate Apple beyond all reason.
There are a lot of sensible things we can do to stop burning fossil fuels (such as the telecommuting idea you propose)
Electricity generation produces more CO2 than telecommuting.
Non sequitur. Reducing commuting would still drastically reduce CO2 output. "But your honor, that guy burned down more houses than I did!" doesn't get you off free.
But do most denialists deny that climate change is actually happening?
Yes. Saying "there has been no 'statistically significant' warming in the last n years" is still denying climate change in the purest sense.
You call me an Apple shill because I point out what the designated retail price for the POP is? Wow. Not to mention you do it after I did it in my first post, you attacked me because you didn't find it, and I called you on it. You sure are good at rationalizing away your boneheaded mistakes by blaming them on the one who is right.
I thought the POP was $149. According to the graphics on their kickstarter page, it does look like it is $149.
That's the reduced price for investors. Try to look at more than the pictures next time.
Not true; every Android phone out there has a USB charger which provides at least 1A, maybe 2A. Yes, the original spec was 500mA, but there's nothing preventing you from making a charger that supplies more.
Yeah, the only ones who should be forced to stick to standards is Apple.
Actually I think you are still wrong, the device they were promising to build had a 25,000 mAh battery. It could charge your phone ten times on one charge. You CANNOT find one that large for that price on Amazon.
But by no means should you read the article or actually look anything up before you insist that your two cents is right in multiple posts.
I went and checked, the closest thing I could find only had a 16,000 mAh battery, and it was $100.
http://www.amazon.com/dreamGEAR-iSound-ISOUND-4591-Back-Up-Flashlight/dp/B0063GM6O8
So for half the announced retail price of a POP, you can a device with two thirds the capacity.
Presumably they felt their actual offering was "whatever the contemporary connector Apple uses is", given that a device which can only be connected to obsolete devices is .... obsolete.
How nice that you call the iPhone 4S as well as the iPad 3 "obsolete". Not to mention that you should have said "whatever the future (then contemporary) connector Apple one day will use will be".
Last but not least - if the device is suposed to be future-proof, why doesn't it support the new USB Power Delivery Specification? Isn't this supposed to be a super charger?