It is too early to decide if the iPhone is a Nokia killer.
What those companies have been doing is providing features and making mobile networks work , those features are widely publicized as missing in the iPhone.
Apple is good at usability and industrial design (just, many of the phones available from other manufacturers are aesthetically as polished as Apple's) and they are betting on that. The other phone makers clearly are superior in Engineering terms, the list of features leaves the iPhone frankly looking rather underpowered.
Add to that the fact that Apple is forcing people into a determined phone carrier (gee, so many years fighting telecoms monopolies and Apple hands us this favour. Thanks guys, really appreciated) and frankly I don't see why any person on his right mind would shell so much money for this gadget.
If the iPhone is successful the other companies are not manufacturers of Chinese knock offs that can't afford R&D, but genuine technological giants, so they will implement the best idea of the iPhone (the user interface), keep letting the different carriers sort out the telecoms part without interference of the handset manufacturers (so we the public get flexible contracts which are unencumbered by the hand set we chose) and waiting that Apple actually does some innovation instead of offering eye candy only.
I do not care how good the iPhone is. I resent the most that from having 2 freedoms (handset/carrier combination) Apple wants to reduce that by bundling them both in one package.
Well thanks but no thanks, and my wallet will be speaking in consequence.
Oh yeah, and the fact that they make it almost impossible to work with Linux, but that is completely another matter.
Anybody telling you that usability can be measured objectively is lying to you.
Usability is completely subjective and is influenced by many subjective factors.
Also is a matter of definition: do you consider something usable because you achieve a given task or because you think you are using a tool effectively?
In any case, the point is that shelling too much money only because the usability is a foolish decision. It should be an important factor, but not the most important, because any person without learning disabilities should be able to use most tools, even if they are not perfect.
The phone is underfeatured. It is down to checking features and counting them, nothing difficult honestly. That is not an opinion, it is a matter of fact.
Now, I have a current contract with O2 here in the UK. Well, guess what, I would need to get a different contract to get an iPhone.
With any other phone I can pay a nominal fee and get a new handset (sometimes I have gotten a new phone for free).
If that is not overpriced, then pray tell me, what is it?
Nevertheless I respect people that have the balls to become soldiers, at least in a democracy it is possible to somehow punish the asses that on occasions lead such lions like you buddy. You deserve better that the people leading you today, but don't be mistaken, in occasions these people ask you to make sacrifices that have nothing to do with anybody's rights.
The Mexican government declared war on Germany and the axis powers as a consequence of the attack on Mexican oil tankers.
The most important Mexican contribution was the "Escuadron 201" a group of Mexican pilots that combated under the command of the US forces in the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan towards the end of the war
During their short participation (a couple of months):
- They flew 50 missions. - Dropped 181 tons of bombs. - Shoot 104000 rounds of ammunition caliber 0.50 - 5 pilots died in combat and 2 in training.
Mexico antagonized fascism long before other countries, President Lazaro Cardenas helped Ethiopia by sending some money and ammunition when they suffered Italian aggression and annexation as well as helped the Spanish Republicans against Franco's fascists and welcomed numerous Spanish immigrants after the war.
Given the modest contribution of Mexico to WWII and also given the fact that Mexico engagement was in the Pacific, yesterday is not noted at all in the Mexican calendar 11-11 is a date significant in the Western European Front).
Sorry, show me the numbers sunshine, I did not know the iPhone was the dominant phone in any market, but you may have details of this.
If anything the iPhone is trying to play the Nokia killer role, time shall tel but most likely they will remain a niche player in the telephony side at least (the lack of features is astounding and public in Europe and Asia are used to more sophisticated devices).
Since when creating a charter and following it make you a jerk? It may be unfortunate for Israel the many members of the organization are Muslim countries. But one vote is one vote, and sometimes the club memebers do not approve of a new one for many different reasons.
Recently a new symbol was introduced which is non religious or sectarian in nature, this with the only purpose to allow organizations like the Israeli one to cooperate under the same umbrella.
Any corporation worth its salt has ethical codes of conduct(in many cases voluntary ones, that is, nobody forces the company to behave in certain ethical ways).
The only conclusion I can draw from so many/.ers ejaculating this nonsense about companies not having ethics, having as only legal responsibility to make profits and increase shareholder value, etc. is that the stereotype of the geek in the parent's basement is not far form the true (or is close enough for comfort).
Anybody that has worked as little as a month in any serious corporation will be aware of internal ethical codes of conduct.
If you are a normal modern human being, you should be working 8 hours/day, sleeping more less the same, add lets say 4 hours more for commuting, eating, house chores, etc. and you are left with around 4 hours of free time every day. Add perhaps 12 more for weekends and you have a great total of around 40 hours/week of leisure time.
You listed above around 20 names (some movies, some TV series, for the sake of argument lets say they are all 2 hour long movies), that would be roughly 40 hours of entertainment.
I am hard pressed to believe that you would spend pretty much all your free time watching DVDs again and again. You get the impression you do, but most likely you haven't watched each DVD more than a couple of times, and perhaps some of them 3 or 4 times (if you are complete nutter).
As a project manager I would fire you for ignoring 5% (or 1%) of our paying costumers. That is a consideration to be done *before* not after a license fee is levied.
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It is too early to decide if the iPhone is a Nokia killer.
What those companies have been doing is providing features and making mobile networks work , those features are widely publicized as missing in the iPhone.
Apple is good at usability and industrial design (just, many of the phones available from other manufacturers are aesthetically as polished as Apple's) and they are betting on that. The other phone makers clearly are superior in Engineering terms, the list of features leaves the iPhone frankly looking rather underpowered.
Add to that the fact that Apple is forcing people into a determined phone carrier (gee, so many years fighting telecoms monopolies and Apple hands us this favour. Thanks guys, really appreciated) and frankly I don't see why any person on his right mind would shell so much money for this gadget.
If the iPhone is successful the other companies are not manufacturers of Chinese knock offs that can't afford R&D, but genuine technological giants, so they will implement the best idea of the iPhone (the user interface), keep letting the different carriers sort out the telecoms part without interference of the handset manufacturers (so we the public get flexible contracts which are unencumbered by the hand set we chose) and waiting that Apple actually does some innovation instead of offering eye candy only.
I do not care how good the iPhone is. I resent the most that from having 2 freedoms (handset/carrier combination) Apple wants to reduce that by bundling them both in one package.
Well thanks but no thanks, and my wallet will be speaking in consequence.
Oh yeah, and the fact that they make it almost impossible to work with Linux, but that is completely another matter.
Apple is convincing you to buy this phone for all the wrong reasons...
Anybody telling you that usability can be measured objectively is lying to you.
Usability is completely subjective and is influenced by many subjective factors.
Also is a matter of definition: do you consider something usable because you achieve a given task or because you think you are using a tool effectively?
In any case, the point is that shelling too much money only because the usability is a foolish decision. It should be an important factor, but not the most important, because any person without learning disabilities should be able to use most tools, even if they are not perfect.
Yours
A usability expert.
The phone is underfeatured. It is down to checking features and counting them, nothing difficult honestly. That is not an opinion, it is a matter of fact.
Now, I have a current contract with O2 here in the UK. Well, guess what, I would need to get a different contract to get an iPhone.
With any other phone I can pay a nominal fee and get a new handset (sometimes I have gotten a new phone for free).
If that is not overpriced, then pray tell me, what is it?
I posit it doesn't.
If they put in their EULA that you have to sacrify a goat in mount Fuji, does that make it reasonable?
How do you defend freedom by forcing people to fight against their will?
Even you should see some contradiction there....
You fight for your government.
Both things are not always on the same side, I am sorry to say.
WWII yeah, sure.
Bosnia, Yugoslavia, yeah, sure.
First Gulf War, yes.
Afghanistan: most likely yes.
WWI: mmmmhhh, maybe, not entirely sure.
Korea: no.
Vietnam: no.
Iraq: no.
Nevertheless I respect people that have the balls to become soldiers, at least in a democracy it is possible to somehow punish the asses that on occasions lead such lions like you buddy. You deserve better that the people leading you today, but don't be mistaken, in occasions these people ask you to make sacrifices that have nothing to do with anybody's rights.
Sorry, forgot that 11-11 is about WWI, not WWII.
:-)
That should give you an idea about how relevant 11-11 is for Mexicans
... and forgetting history.
So don't be so suprised when people get all hot under the collar when remembrance is the only thing exercising some nutters.
The Mexican government declared war on Germany and the axis powers as a consequence of the attack on Mexican oil tankers.
The most important Mexican contribution was the "Escuadron 201" a group of Mexican pilots that combated under the command of the US forces in the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan towards the end of the war
During their short participation (a couple of months):
- They flew 50 missions.
- Dropped 181 tons of bombs.
- Shoot 104000 rounds of ammunition caliber 0.50
- 5 pilots died in combat and 2 in training.
Mexico antagonized fascism long before other countries, President Lazaro Cardenas helped Ethiopia by sending some money and ammunition when they suffered Italian aggression and annexation as well as helped the Spanish Republicans against Franco's fascists and welcomed numerous Spanish immigrants after the war.
Given the modest contribution of Mexico to WWII and also given the fact that Mexico engagement was in the Pacific, yesterday is not noted at all in the Mexican calendar 11-11 is a date significant in the Western European Front).
... US, UK and it former colonies, yes it is.
There are plenty of countries in which is a normal day like any other.
... you can't send a cockroach into space, even if you would use all of it.
Honestly, check the numbers: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/233/1
Those bastards in the BBC, what the heck are they thinking?
Sorry, show me the numbers sunshine, I did not know the iPhone was the dominant phone in any market, but you may have details of this.
If anything the iPhone is trying to play the Nokia killer role, time shall tel but most likely they will remain a niche player in the telephony side at least (the lack of features is astounding and public in Europe and Asia are used to more sophisticated devices).
.... I fail to see why all this is necessary....
Lets demand that tigers become vegetarian while we are at the demanding game.
Only in places with pervasive fundamentalist religions such an statment would make sense.
To compare murder with suicide is perverse to say the least.
Since when creating a charter and following it make you a jerk? It may be unfortunate for Israel the many members of the organization are Muslim countries. But one vote is one vote, and sometimes the club memebers do not approve of a new one for many different reasons.
Recently a new symbol was introduced which is non religious or sectarian in nature, this with the only purpose to allow organizations like the Israeli one to cooperate under the same umbrella.
Any corporation worth its salt has ethical codes of conduct(in many cases voluntary ones, that is, nobody forces the company to behave in certain ethical ways).
/.ers ejaculating this nonsense about companies not having ethics, having as only legal responsibility to make profits and increase shareholder value, etc. is that the stereotype of the geek in the parent's basement is not far form the true (or is close enough for comfort).
The only conclusion I can draw from so many
Anybody that has worked as little as a month in any serious corporation will be aware of internal ethical codes of conduct.
Those $400 DVD players are too expensive, the suckers....
And those $400 casette players, I am telling you, a second format was needed to bring the price of those down as well...
... it lives in every PS3 that is sold "
Yeah, same as UMD disks an PSPs....
Honestly, check it, it will do you good.
If you are a normal modern human being, you should be working 8 hours/day, sleeping more less the same, add lets say 4 hours more for commuting, eating, house chores, etc. and you are left with around 4 hours of free time every day. Add perhaps 12 more for weekends and you have a great total of around 40 hours/week of leisure time.
You listed above around 20 names (some movies, some TV series, for the sake of argument lets say they are all 2 hour long movies), that would be roughly 40 hours of entertainment.
I am hard pressed to believe that you would spend pretty much all your free time watching DVDs again and again. You get the impression you do, but most likely you haven't watched each DVD more than a couple of times, and perhaps some of them 3 or 4 times (if you are complete nutter).
Keep stats and you will be surprised.
The BBC spend 100 million pounds on this nonsense (mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, I have seen it mentioned elsewhere).
....
You are jesting surely by suggesting that such amount of money would have not been enough to develop an open solution
That we have already paid for the service.
As a project manager I would fire you for ignoring 5% (or 1%) of our paying costumers. That is a consideration to be done *before* not after a license fee is levied.