I have given up buying slaughtered tree books for quite a while now, no matter how elegant they may look on a coffee table. So if this is worth buying, it would have to be on my Kindle. Which brings me to the question - how much does the E-book version cost?
Not that I'd necessarily buy it - just curious! Apple has enough of my cash to date
Surely that covers all 550k of our computers.... right?
Well, they bought it for the 38 people in the US Navy smart enough to use the program, and may want to use it on any of several.. errm... hundred... thousand computers - what if you need to quickly draw something on the missile guidance computer onboard a submarine?
Too bad they didn't ask the one guy in the Navy who is smart enough to understands EULAs-
Currently that's the ceramic Watch Edition, one watch band, the non-screen part of the front of each non-black iPhone and iPad, one of each case or cover they make, the ear pods and most cables, adapters, chargers and power supplies. Yeah, and the cardboard cases, the paper they use, and most backgrounds on their web page and programs.
So apart from almost all their actual products, pretty much everything they make is white. More or less. Even more if you count aluminum or "silver" as white.
Literally everything else we accept as being a GUI widget of some kind was invented at Apple - drop down menus, contextual menus, desktop metaphor of files in folders, heirarchic folders, drag-and-drop, the clipboard, etc.
Overlapping windows is the other big one. Though it's worth noting that most of these were invented for the Lisa, not the Mac.
The fun thing here is that Bill Atkinson thought that the Alto had windows that "self-repaired" content when you moved overlapping windows, and invented "regions" to make that more efficient. Point is, the Alto didn't have that, you had to activate a screen redraw after you moved a window to see what was under the old position of that window, redrawing each window from bottom to top.
Errm, no. Apple violated their patent on "automatic hierarchical categorization of music by metadata." - but the UIs as implemented on top of that were actually quite different. Not the least because Creative used a much smaller screen and - instead of the iPods click-wheel with 5 buttons - 11 buttons, 3 of which were "soft buttons" that contextually change what they did (which took 1 line of the display away to show what they did).
BTW the fact that Apple lost that patent suit against Creative was the reason why Apple now patents every little shit. And Creative sued every Android phone maker for violating that very patent some months ago. So do go on cheering for Creative.
Yeah. At least from Dell, that was about right. And then the iMac with 5k Display cost less than then the announced price from Dell just for the monitor with the same display.
If you knew anything you'd know that she is responsible for the huge influx of foreigners that are responsible for the massive increase in crime in Germany.
Which crimes exactly? Oh yeah, mostly "Illegally entering the country".
Which is a black box to you, but very transparent to apple.
You mean the encryption is bad because it isn't "by obscurity"? Apple is very open about how it works, and people who know more about the matter than you say its fine.
Extremely overpriced. You can get a computer with much more storage, more processing power, more memory, better graphics etc. for 1/2 the price of the Apple device.
You still need a goddamned adapter. Buy a USB-A drive, it works on every machine. Buy a USB-C drive, it works on.. like this one Apple thing?
Yes, eventually that will change. But at the end of the day, we are entering a world of dongles, because the U in USB is gone. It's just "dumb stupid computer plug that doesn't work".
Or you can buy one of those fancy dual port drives that have been fucking available long before Apple even shipped a computer with an USB-C port.
Especially when these drives are actually advertised to share your data from your computer with those smartphones with USB-C ports instead of USB-A - IOW Android phones.
Which makes the complaints that Apple doesn't ship it's phones with USB-C all the more hypocritical.
True, but they don't have a USB Type A slot either - just a Type C, and there ain't USB sticks w/ Type C plugs yet! So one would have to get a hub that's connected to one of their 2 Type C slots
You know, when looking on Google for a device to fix those woes, the first hit actually landed me on a Dell page. Because obviously Dell too sells computers where you fucking need one of those. So fucking don't pretend this is an Apple exclusive "problem". Because it's neither a problem nor exclusive to Apple.
Absolutely. At this point, we have CARS with USB-A plugs, and televisions. USB-C is just a mobile port, and will remain so for at least decades. What's the big deal? Just put a damned normal port on there.
Yeah, and when Apple did an all USB-A computer without aa floppy drive, there where still RS-232 ports, Centronics printer ports, PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports, ADB ports, SCSI ports, floppy drives, and a ton of other ports nobody still remembers fucking everywhere.
And yet, both Apple and the people who bought that USB-A only computer (the first iMac) did just fine, while the others fiddled around with their 20 different ports. And to this day, some still want them all in their computer because USB-A will never catch on.
And that's why Apple is getting patents on folding phones, because they're so creative and they're going to have patented rounded corners, wow, how creative is THAT, huh, Samsung could never compare to Apple which has phones that fold in half and rounded corners!/sarc - I think
Apple is in for a surprise when they arrive at the patent office. Samsung has already patented folding phones.
Yeah, and I applaud them for demoing that by putting a sheet of paper into a plastic case and then folding that.
But back to to the real point: this isn't about patenting "a foldable display" as in "all possible foldable displays", it's about a technology to make a foldable display. And Samsung uses "a metal thin film", Apple uses "a carbon nanotube flexible printed circuit". Notice the difference?
Not just that, if they were in the market for an iPhone, they'd have bought that in the first place. And I daresay the iPhone would be more expensive than the note.
However, according to one analyst, that number could be even higher.
Nowhere in the cited passage that followed did it say anything about 1/2 of Note 7 users switching to the iPhone.
So what exactly makes you think that the numbers in the headline refer to the section you quoted instead of the section the other guy quoted, you know, the section that actually contains the numbers in the headline?
It may be people spend less money on Android apps because they want to spend less money on the total package.
If that were true, it would follow that they would never buy an expensive iPhone in the first place, regardless of the ecosystem or apps.
Yeah, exactly. Unless of course it's not that people don't want to spend money on apps, but that Android apps are mostly "free", so they don't spend much on Android apps. Or that people are only willing to pay for high quality apps, and that is why most Android apps are free.
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I have given up buying slaughtered tree books for quite a while now, no matter how elegant they may look on a coffee table. So if this is worth buying, it would have to be on my Kindle. Which brings me to the question - how much does the E-book version cost?
Not that I'd necessarily buy it - just curious! Apple has enough of my cash to date
You want to "read" a book with lots of detailed high-quality photos on an ebook reader? As for the price of ebooks for Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Free-Electron-Lasers-1997-International-ebook/dp/B01DRWT1BG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479330071&sr=1-1&keywords=ebooks+for+kindle+for+free&refinements=p_n_feature_browse-bin%3A618073011 - only $325.26.
That's funny because at one time the same thing was said about flying. The engineering was too tough and there is no way humans would ever fly.
That's a bogus comparison; there were already things flying, we just needed to figure out how to emulate them.
No, what you just claimed was a bogus comparison, because flapping your wings didn't work.
Surely that covers all 550k of our computers.... right?
Well, they bought it for the 38 people in the US Navy smart enough to use the program, and may want to use it on any of several .. errm ... hundred ... thousand computers - what if you need to quickly draw something on the missile guidance computer onboard a submarine?
Too bad they didn't ask the one guy in the Navy who is smart enough to understands EULAs-
Apple makes everything white.
Currently that's the ceramic Watch Edition, one watch band, the non-screen part of the front of each non-black iPhone and iPad, one of each case or cover they make, the ear pods and most cables, adapters, chargers and power supplies. Yeah, and the cardboard cases, the paper they use, and most backgrounds on their web page and programs.
So apart from almost all their actual products, pretty much everything they make is white. More or less. Even more if you count aluminum or "silver" as white.
Literally everything else we accept as being a GUI widget of some kind was invented at Apple - drop down menus, contextual menus, desktop metaphor of files in folders, heirarchic folders, drag-and-drop, the clipboard, etc.
Overlapping windows is the other big one. Though it's worth noting that most of these were invented for the Lisa, not the Mac.
The fun thing here is that Bill Atkinson thought that the Alto had windows that "self-repaired" content when you moved overlapping windows, and invented "regions" to make that more efficient. Point is, the Alto didn't have that, you had to activate a screen redraw after you moved a window to see what was under the old position of that window, redrawing each window from bottom to top.
What made the iPod successful was how Jobs copied how the Creative Nomad worked.
FTFY. Source.
Errm, no. Apple violated their patent on "automatic hierarchical categorization of music by metadata." - but the UIs as implemented on top of that were actually quite different. Not the least because Creative used a much smaller screen and - instead of the iPods click-wheel with 5 buttons - 11 buttons, 3 of which were "soft buttons" that contextually change what they did (which took 1 line of the display away to show what they did).
BTW the fact that Apple lost that patent suit against Creative was the reason why Apple now patents every little shit. And Creative sued every Android phone maker for violating that very patent some months ago. So do go on cheering for Creative.
New dedicated graphics chips are faster than integrated ones and dedicated chips that are 4 and 3 generations older. What amazing news!
Well, it sure as hell should surprise all the experts here who claimed they were slower than the previous MacBook Pros.
But no, for them "significantly faster" is still the new slower.
Maybe if they shouldn't make it so thin then?
Apple hasn't made a luggable with laughable battery time since the original Macintosh Portable. Live with it.
"5k display" refers to how much they cost.
Yeah. At least from Dell, that was about right. And then the iMac with 5k Display cost less than then the announced price from Dell just for the monitor with the same display.
First, what the heck has Merkel to do with it?
If you knew anything you'd know that she is responsible for the huge influx of foreigners that are responsible for the massive increase in crime in Germany.
Which crimes exactly? Oh yeah, mostly "Illegally entering the country".
Which is a black box to you, but very transparent to apple.
You mean the encryption is bad because it isn't "by obscurity"? Apple is very open about how it works, and people who know more about the matter than you say its fine.
Extremely overpriced. You can get a computer with much more storage, more processing power, more memory, better graphics etc. for 1/2 the price of the Apple device.
Yes. And the MacBook Pro will beat it in real world tests.
And it is less secure, because if I can put these on a glove, so can somebody else.
Well, I'm sure no Kickstarter campaign ever made unrealistic claims about their product.
You still need a goddamned adapter. Buy a USB-A drive, it works on every machine. Buy a USB-C drive, it works on.. like this one Apple thing?
Yes, eventually that will change. But at the end of the day, we are entering a world of dongles, because the U in USB is gone. It's just "dumb stupid computer plug that doesn't work".
Or you can buy one of those fancy dual port drives that have been fucking available long before Apple even shipped a computer with an USB-C port.
Especially when these drives are actually advertised to share your data from your computer with those smartphones with USB-C ports instead of USB-A - IOW Android phones.
Which makes the complaints that Apple doesn't ship it's phones with USB-C all the more hypocritical.
If you can't find a USB-C drive at your gas station, you should move to the civilized world.
True, but they don't have a USB Type A slot either - just a Type C, and there ain't USB sticks w/ Type C plugs yet! So one would have to get a hub that's connected to one of their 2 Type C slots
You know, when looking on Google for a device to fix those woes, the first hit actually landed me on a Dell page. Because obviously Dell too sells computers where you fucking need one of those. So fucking don't pretend this is an Apple exclusive "problem". Because it's neither a problem nor exclusive to Apple.
http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/accessories/apd/a8957618?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=A8957618
Absolutely. At this point, we have CARS with USB-A plugs, and televisions. USB-C is just a mobile port, and will remain so for at least decades. What's the big deal? Just put a damned normal port on there.
Yeah, and when Apple did an all USB-A computer without aa floppy drive, there where still RS-232 ports, Centronics printer ports, PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports, ADB ports, SCSI ports, floppy drives, and a ton of other ports nobody still remembers fucking everywhere.
And yet, both Apple and the people who bought that USB-A only computer (the first iMac) did just fine, while the others fiddled around with their 20 different ports. And to this day, some still want them all in their computer because USB-A will never catch on.
And that's why Apple is getting patents on folding phones, because they're so creative and they're going to have patented rounded corners, wow, how creative is THAT, huh, Samsung could never compare to Apple which has phones that fold in half and rounded corners! /sarc - I think
Apple is in for a surprise when they arrive at the patent office. Samsung has already patented folding phones.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...
Yeah, and I applaud them for demoing that by putting a sheet of paper into a plastic case and then folding that.
But back to to the real point: this isn't about patenting "a foldable display" as in "all possible foldable displays", it's about a technology to make a foldable display. And Samsung uses "a metal thin film", Apple uses "a carbon nanotube flexible printed circuit". Notice the difference?
The Trump "Organization" doesn't own Trump.org. They could have, but missed it. Here's yet another tiny reason why you should ask yourself: Is he fit to be president?
...except the Tivo is no Nomad.
Compared to he position of Apple today vs Apple back then - yeah, they sure don't come close to Nomad.
Samsung believing that doesn't make it true. iPhones are not competitors to Galaxies any more than Macs are competitors to PCs
You are of course right - Samsung is just a bunch of know-nothings. And you have to work for them.
Not just that, if they were in the market for an iPhone, they'd have bought that in the first place. And I daresay the iPhone would be more expensive than the note.
Well, Bloomberg says that even Samsung believed they were direct competitors, because they supposedly rushed the Note 7 to market to catch buyers disappointed with the "boring" iPhone 7. So why shouldn't that work in the opposite direction? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-18/samsung-crisis-began-in-rush-to-capitalize-on-uninspiring-iphone
Oh, and the Note 7 only cost $20 less than an unlocked iPhone 7 Plus - but has half the on-board storage.
I did. It read
However, according to one analyst, that number could be even higher.
Nowhere in the cited passage that followed did it say anything about 1/2 of Note 7 users switching to the iPhone.
So what exactly makes you think that the numbers in the headline refer to the section you quoted instead of the section the other guy quoted, you know, the section that actually contains the numbers in the headline?
We criticize them when they bash android as a whole for a problem that was samsungs.
And switching to an iPhone is "bashing Android"?
Causality breakdown detected.
It may be people spend less money on Android apps because they want to spend less money on the total package. If that were true, it would follow that they would never buy an expensive iPhone in the first place, regardless of the ecosystem or apps.
Yeah, exactly. Unless of course it's not that people don't want to spend money on apps, but that Android apps are mostly "free", so they don't spend much on Android apps. Or that people are only willing to pay for high quality apps, and that is why most Android apps are free.