selling goods at affordable prices in developing countries does not imply that the company would not make profit for it's shareholders doing so. look at mobile phones, in few short years the subscription base has risen to over 3b. That's half of the planets population and includes a lot of ppl in the developing countries. the trend is there is continuing, mobile phone prices are decreasing and are thus all the time more affordable.
this has been possible because the mobile phone companies, most notably nokia, decided to serve these developing markets and design and produce cheap mobile phones. now you can go to nokia's financials and assess whether they're for-profit or not... intel, on the other hand, has chosen another approach: they're ignoring the poor of the world. they could've addressed the needs of this market for over a decade. and they could have done it profitably. instead they've simply chosen not to.
The final decissions have definitely been made long ago. They won't be made the night before selling of a product begins. Apple merely has chosen not to release the facts. Hard to see why the heck. Maybe they try to get more publicity this way. Anyway, since no information is released two weeks before they start to sell the product, it serves them right to spread speculation. Let them correct and state the facts, if the speculation is incorrect.
I think what he said is that Apple could get 2-3% market share of all mobile handsets sold worldwide (and estimated the number to be 1.3B this year, slightly optimistic compared to most estimations). The market shares you quoted are those of smartphones. Smartphone market is less than 1/5 of total mobile handset market, so Windows Mobile has less than 1% market share of mobile phones. And he predicts that Apple is going to get 2-3x the market share MS has achieved after several years (and billions). I'd say that'd be mighty good achievement!
response to Iran's recent nuclear development program
and why would iran want to develop nuclear arsenal? probly has nothing to do with the fact that its surrounded on two sides by unstable third world countries with nuclear weapons and on the third side they have a country which is occupied by nation with the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet and that said nation has been threatening to attack (and has in fact supported attacks to) iran since the 70s.
I think people expect Apple to have better ethics than most other companies - their CEO is kind of hippie and the company frequently utilizes save-the-earth public figures such as Bono in its propaganda. No-one expects Dells and Walmarts to behave, but for Apple this kind of publicity just puts it among other greedy multinationals, an image it has so far for some odd reason avoided.
Why do we always outsource to places that are stuck in eternal struggles. Seriously, when was the last time Iceland or New Zeland had some terrorist plot or civil war ensue.
Hmmm, not so long ago Auckland was out of electricity for weeks. Iceland sits in between of two tectonic plates so they dont need terrorists to blow them up... Nice places for outsourcing:)
Across central Iraq, there is an exodus of people fleeing for their lives as sectarian assassins and death squads hunt them down. At ground level, Iraq is disintegrating as ethnic cleansing takes hold on a massive scale.
As a sidenote I think the argument that lack of refugees is a sign of things getting better in Iraq is pretty stupid...
yeah, they're only selling about 800m cell phones this year, compared to what, about 20m ipods. if you chech quarter on quarter growth, the cell phone market has a much nicer growth than ipods. in fact it seems that ipod market is fast becoming saturated.
he actually knows that he can't claim microsoft being innovative unless he redefines the meaning of the word "innovative" in some bizzard way he can't even express proberly.
It's far more popular as smart mobile phone platform. Product development time and probability of ever reaching the markets seem to favor Symbian as well.
so google won't peak for another 20 years?
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cringely seems to be pretty proud of himself for predicting apples shift to intel, so if this prediction is just as accurate, it seems that (1.) cringely is going to speculate googles peaking yearly from now on until (2.) google finally peaks in 2025 in which point cringely can publish "i told you so"-article.
> Or perhaps it's 50% more people and > a 400% higher population density.
Ok, and how would that explain Finland, Sweden and Norway? Eg, there's 5m people & about 16ppl/km^2 in Finland, yet it has been among the most mobile phone penetrated countries for ages...
You can install a program on your computer that does bad things. Also on your Symbian mobile phone if you really really want to and decide to discard multiple warning messages.
While nice conspiracy theory, it's most likely not true at all because every directive have to be implemented as a law in each member country according to the rules of that country.
With 15 countries each having different policies in implementing laws it's just impossible to achieve a simultaneous implementation.
Case in point: in Finland this law was almost ready for final voting in the parliament, but didn't quite make it through the committee responsable of drafting it before the elections and thus had to be post poned until after the elections. Meantime the opposition of the law has grown and therefore it's still pending.
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selling goods at affordable prices in developing countries does not imply that the company would not make profit for it's shareholders doing so. look at mobile phones, in few short years the subscription base has risen to over 3b. That's half of the planets population and includes a lot of ppl in the developing countries. the trend is there is continuing, mobile phone prices are decreasing and are thus all the time more affordable.
this has been possible because the mobile phone companies, most notably nokia, decided to serve these developing markets and design and produce cheap mobile phones. now you can go to nokia's financials and assess whether they're for-profit or not... intel, on the other hand, has chosen another approach: they're ignoring the poor of the world. they could've addressed the needs of this market for over a decade. and they could have done it profitably. instead they've simply chosen not to.
They made the apps run as root due to lack of time to figure out the security properly. This is the same reason they didn't release a SDK.
Yeah, rush things out and implement security as an afterthought, scheme that never fails...
It's going to be based on the current iPhone, but it'll just be a cheaper, physically smaller, and more feature limited device;
how can it be more feature limited?? they drop the phone feature?
The final decissions have definitely been made long ago. They won't be made the night before selling of a product begins. Apple merely has chosen not to release the facts. Hard to see why the heck. Maybe they try to get more publicity this way. Anyway, since no information is released two weeks before they start to sell the product, it serves them right to spread speculation. Let them correct and state the facts, if the speculation is incorrect.
I think what he said is that Apple could get 2-3% market share of all mobile handsets sold worldwide (and estimated the number to be 1.3B this year, slightly optimistic compared to most estimations). The market shares you quoted are those of smartphones. Smartphone market is less than 1/5 of total mobile handset market, so Windows Mobile has less than 1% market share of mobile phones. And he predicts that Apple is going to get 2-3x the market share MS has achieved after several years (and billions). I'd say that'd be mighty good achievement!
report the music business cartel to the commision and submit documents to help the investigation. there are plenty of examples.
response to Iran's recent nuclear development program
and why would iran want to develop nuclear arsenal? probly has nothing to do with the fact that its surrounded on two sides by unstable third world countries with nuclear weapons and on the third side they have a country which is occupied by nation with the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet and that said nation has been threatening to attack (and has in fact supported attacks to) iran since the 70s.
I think people expect Apple to have better ethics than most other companies - their CEO is kind of hippie and the company frequently utilizes save-the-earth public figures such as Bono in its propaganda. No-one expects Dells and Walmarts to behave, but for Apple this kind of publicity just puts it among other greedy multinationals, an image it has so far for some odd reason avoided.
Hmmm, not so long ago Auckland was out of electricity for weeks. Iceland sits in between of two tectonic plates so they dont need terrorists to blow them up... Nice places for outsourcing
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Across central Iraq, there is an exodus of people fleeing for their lives as sectarian assassins and death squads hunt them down. At ground level, Iraq is disintegrating as ethnic cleansing takes hold on a massive scale.
As a sidenote I think the argument that lack of refugees is a sign of things getting better in Iraq is pretty stupid...
yeah, they're only selling about 800m cell phones this year, compared to what, about 20m ipods. if you chech quarter on quarter growth, the cell phone market has a much nicer growth than ipods. in fact it seems that ipod market is fast becoming saturated.
he actually knows that he can't claim microsoft being innovative unless he redefines the meaning of the word "innovative" in some bizzard way he can't even express proberly.
It's far more popular as smart mobile phone platform. Product development time and probability of ever reaching the markets seem to favor Symbian as well.
cringely seems to be pretty proud of himself for predicting apples shift to intel, so if this prediction is just as accurate, it seems that (1.) cringely is going to speculate googles peaking yearly from now on until (2.) google finally peaks in 2025 in which point cringely can publish "i told you so"-article.
cube owners did get their cubes in the first place just to save money :)
The problem with this particular saturated market is that the existing players are already more efficient than Dell...
> Or perhaps it's 50% more people and
> a 400% higher population density.
Ok, and how would that explain Finland, Sweden and Norway? Eg, there's 5m people & about 16ppl/km^2 in Finland, yet it has been among the most mobile phone penetrated countries for ages...
No digital out for audio, which is found even on the cheapest dvd/divx players and digital tv boxes. SCART missing as well.
Hardly anyone in the market for a $500 device for video is going to buy MiniMac.
Nokia 9500 has WiFi and you should be able to do voip, although I have no idea why anyone would want to use power hungry WiFi on mobile device.
You can install a program on your computer that does bad things. Also on your Symbian mobile phone if you really really want to and decide to discard multiple warning messages.
Market share in smart phones world wide by OS: Symbian 50%, MS 20%, Palm 17%.
Except that including devices such as Treo600 wouldn't be favorable for Palm either. In that category Symbian is by far the most popular OS.
QD stand for quick and dirty (as you said, no ngage2, but a stripped down ngage1.
Not to mention that there was a time when it fitted on 3 floppys. It must be growing exponentially!
While nice conspiracy theory, it's most likely not true at all because every directive have to be implemented as a law in each member country according to the rules of that country.
With 15 countries each having different policies in implementing laws it's just impossible to achieve a simultaneous implementation.
Case in point: in Finland this law was almost ready for final voting in the parliament, but didn't quite make it through the committee responsable of drafting it before the elections and thus had to be post poned until after the elections. Meantime the opposition of the law has grown and therefore it's still pending.