Who wants to watch a movie or play games on a clamshell? Who reads and writes email on a clamshell? Who spends $600 on a clamshell? Flip-phones are feature phones, what you get for "free" for signing a contract. Japanese tastes do not apply to America or Europe.
I imagine Apple went the EDGE route simply because it reduces their production costs and gives them the biggest potential market.
And there may only be 10,000 programmers who develop for mobile devices... but these people work for companies that make real applications for serious businesses. Apple may think they're making a slick easy to use status symbol, but no one is going to abandon their Blackberry for it. If you can't write custom software for it, it will always be a toy and never a tool.
I have a feeling that this is not going to be a geek's toy.
Probably not. Which is so self-destructively stupid of Apple. I signed up on their developer network within minutes of seeing this thing, and was ready to plop down a few grand for a top-of-the-line Macbook to learn development on OS X until I read that reps at the show were saying that it wasn't going to support third-party software. As much as this device is going to sell, it will have zero presence in enterprise markets, and serious people will never buy one because no one is going to carry two phones. They could have owned the mobile market.
I don't know why I was surprised. They only implement software as a means to end - to sell hardware. And as illustrated by their name change, the trend for their hardware is going to be overpriced toys.
You assume Apple will sell it unlocked? So far I haven't even found confirmation that it will run third-party software. I can't imagine a more jealously possesive control-freak combination than Apple joining forces with a cell carrier. I'm shocked they didn't pick Verizon for that reason.
Or the Apple iPhone that is just like the 50 or so Windows Mobile phones that have been on the market for the last what 3 years.
With one difference - the user interface, from both a hardware and software perspective, doesn't totally suck. This thing is going to eat Microsoft's lunch in the mobile market.
Yeah, you're right. Kind of like how writing a novel is easy. It's creating an engaging plot with realistic and interesting characters, that's where it gets hard.
This non-insight brought to you by the discredited waterfall model, the ideology driving the outsourcing fad, and incompetent god-architects with no real programming experience.
Who sells at a BIGGER loss during supposedly peak demand in order to gain marketplace dominance? Sounds like a monopoly to me.
Maybe they just felt like kicking Sony in the nuts during the PS3 launch?
I mean, sure, you'll hear people rationalize it with words like "increased production efficiency" and "sliding the demand curve", but I'm sure tweaking the Sony fanboy persecution complex was the most gratifying reason.
Geez, that's nice. I bet by their metric WalMart is the best place to shop, McDonald's is the best place to eat, and MySpace is the best way to have a presence on the Internet.
It is decidedly not in a child's interest to be harvested before it can draw breath
That's is most definitely not true. Killed as an embryo it dies in a state of grace, and certainly goes to heaven. But once born it is subject to original sin, could very well live a life of suffering, and could quite possibly go to hell.
I use the Microsoft ClearType power toy, which can flip the orientation, and they are both definitely RGB. The registry tweaks had no effect - Word and Outlook are still using the real Segoe UI and Calibri, even after a reboot.
No, I use a Samsung 173P and a Dell 2007WFP, both via DVI and no amount of a tweaking with their power toy has ever made ClearType look sharp. What they call sub-pixel rendering I call inconsistent contrast and fuzzy red shadows on every character.
Oh wise one, please tell me how to change the default font for menus and such. Office 2007 ignores system settings, at least under XP. I've dug around in the registry and the settings panels and found nothing. I found one reference in the google that indicates that it was once possible in the beta, but no more.
however they wouldn't be able to DO that if it wasn't for the people buyign off of them
The most lucrative strategy for gold farmers is now key loggers installed via Active X plugins. They aren't honest people, they do not respect other players. However much you'd like to transfer the blame to their market, they are still vermin to be exterminated.
Of course, the ultimate blame rests with Blizzard, as they can track every transaction in game, and can punish every person who buys gold once the source account is identified. But those players seem to avoid the ban hammer, because, after all, they're still paying customers, and boy are they willing to pay.
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Who wants to watch a movie or play games on a clamshell? Who reads and writes email on a clamshell? Who spends $600 on a clamshell? Flip-phones are feature phones, what you get for "free" for signing a contract. Japanese tastes do not apply to America or Europe.
I imagine Apple went the EDGE route simply because it reduces their production costs and gives them the biggest potential market.
And there may only be 10,000 programmers who develop for mobile devices... but these people work for companies that make real applications for serious businesses. Apple may think they're making a slick easy to use status symbol, but no one is going to abandon their Blackberry for it. If you can't write custom software for it, it will always be a toy and never a tool.
I have a feeling that this is not going to be a geek's toy.
Probably not. Which is so self-destructively stupid of Apple. I signed up on their developer network within minutes of seeing this thing, and was ready to plop down a few grand for a top-of-the-line Macbook to learn development on OS X until I read that reps at the show were saying that it wasn't going to support third-party software. As much as this device is going to sell, it will have zero presence in enterprise markets, and serious people will never buy one because no one is going to carry two phones. They could have owned the mobile market.
I don't know why I was surprised. They only implement software as a means to end - to sell hardware. And as illustrated by their name change, the trend for their hardware is going to be overpriced toys.
You assume Apple will sell it unlocked? So far I haven't even found confirmation that it will run third-party software. I can't imagine a more jealously possesive control-freak combination than Apple joining forces with a cell carrier. I'm shocked they didn't pick Verizon for that reason.
Or the Apple iPhone that is just like the 50 or so Windows Mobile phones that have been on the market for the last what 3 years.
With one difference - the user interface, from both a hardware and software perspective, doesn't totally suck. This thing is going to eat Microsoft's lunch in the mobile market.
I'm also not quite how nice it is to ask in an interview, "So, does your sales staff sell things you don't actually have?"
It depends. Do you think they'd be offended if you asked "Is the Pope Catholic" or "Does a bear shit in the woods?"
Barbie says it's all the math involved.
Yeah, you're right. Kind of like how writing a novel is easy. It's creating an engaging plot with realistic and interesting characters, that's where it gets hard.
This non-insight brought to you by the discredited waterfall model, the ideology driving the outsourcing fad, and incompetent god-architects with no real programming experience.
Who sells at a BIGGER loss during supposedly peak demand in order to gain marketplace dominance? Sounds like a monopoly to me.
Maybe they just felt like kicking Sony in the nuts during the PS3 launch?
I mean, sure, you'll hear people rationalize it with words like "increased production efficiency" and "sliding the demand curve", but I'm sure tweaking the Sony fanboy persecution complex was the most gratifying reason.
Geez, that's nice. I bet by their metric WalMart is the best place to shop, McDonald's is the best place to eat, and MySpace is the best way to have a presence on the Internet.
It is decidedly not in a child's interest to be harvested before it can draw breath
That's is most definitely not true. Killed as an embryo it dies in a state of grace, and certainly goes to heaven. But once born it is subject to original sin, could very well live a life of suffering, and could quite possibly go to hell.
Really, this is a great step towards "Cyberspace" à la Snow Crash.
Bingo. Add a Wii controller and some cheap VR goggles, and you too can be Hiro Protagonist!
They also want to make us eat tofu and and drive wimpy little cars. Curse those dastardly environmentalists. Curse them!
The Game? I'm sure Google is more interested in determining if their applicants are replicants.
Oops, I lied. A second reboot did it. Yes! Suck it, Microsoft! I see pixels, glorious black hard-edged pixels!
I use the Microsoft ClearType power toy, which can flip the orientation, and they are both definitely RGB. The registry tweaks had no effect - Word and Outlook are still using the real Segoe UI and Calibri, even after a reboot.
No, I use a Samsung 173P and a Dell 2007WFP, both via DVI and no amount of a tweaking with their power toy has ever made ClearType look sharp. What they call sub-pixel rendering I call inconsistent contrast and fuzzy red shadows on every character.
Oh wise one, please tell me how to change the default font for menus and such. Office 2007 ignores system settings, at least under XP. I've dug around in the registry and the settings panels and found nothing. I found one reference in the google that indicates that it was once possible in the beta, but no more.
Mail is given to the post office to be delivered according to the rules, and it is those rules that he is changing.
A "signing statement" does not change any laws. And what you call a "safeguard" is what the rest of us call a warrant.
And does anyone actually believe Bush already knew what the word "exigent" means? There's no way he authored this "signing statement" himself.
and the stupid hand-holding and blue, blue, everywhere blue is that the new Vista fonts look like ass.
Turn on ClearType - they're fuzzy. Turn off ClearType - even fuzzier. Turn off "font smoothing" - sweet mother of god, what is this abomination?
What's the freakin' deal with making up new words for small, medium, and large?
Being an asshole in a self-policing community sure is a bitch, ain't it?
When people start modding you down because they're sick of your whining, are you going accuse them of censorship too?
Don't like it? Don't buy it. You don't have a right to tell people what they can buy/sell.
Actually, I do, as does everyone else. It is a right the owners and participants of Craigslist exercised when they removed the scalpers' posts.
Is it because you can't afford to buy gold yourself? That's what I think. I think you're jealous.
You've got it backwards. MMOPRGs are contests to see whose time is the least valuable. Hiring a gold farmer is cheating.
however they wouldn't be able to DO that if it wasn't for the people buyign off of them
The most lucrative strategy for gold farmers is now key loggers installed via Active X plugins. They aren't honest people, they do not respect other players. However much you'd like to transfer the blame to their market, they are still vermin to be exterminated.
Of course, the ultimate blame rests with Blizzard, as they can track every transaction in game, and can punish every person who buys gold once the source account is identified. But those players seem to avoid the ban hammer, because, after all, they're still paying customers, and boy are they willing to pay.
I do and I would. But after being forced to use Office 2007, I feel... No, I seek... retribution.