If it had been planned he'd have said it at the announcement. Then there'd have been nothing but cheers.
They saw the reaction and knew they had to make a P.R. move. The reality is that hardly any phones ever get resold as used - they either break, get lost, or just wear out. So what the price drop really meant for early adopters was simply that now the replacement cost was a lot less. But since that's not how people saw it Apple had to do something, and so keeping their eye on the long-term picture that's what they did.
Some outfits never learn that lesson. The RIAA, for example, has the stripper mentality of "what can we squeeze out of them today?"
eople afraid of a North American Union forget that the U.S. was designed this way: a union of States (governments) that agree to one thing: personal rights and responsibilities
Yup. For the first half of its life the country was even spoken of in the plural, as in The United States are, not is.
Only if you live on the planet Bizzaro. Though really you're right in that the grammar doesn't work, and that time of comparison ought to be stated as "as large" or "as fast" or whatever. When ads claim something is "300% faster!" it's really 3 times as fast, even though 300% faster should parse as 4 times as fast.
Obviously it's going to check, but is it totally passive? Can you turn off the service/check? Who knows, but I doubt it will create a negative user experiance.
Come on, it's going to be as many as tens of bytes of data! That could take forever.
But seriously. That guy thinking the check would be even slightly noticeable is ridiculous. It'd be about on par with a DNS lookup.
I'm sure most everyone who bought an iPhone also realized that at some point the price was going to come down, but I'm guessing they didn't think it would drop $200 in 6 weeks.
Phone don't generally get resold, they get lost or broken or just plain old. So now if yours gets lost or broken it's $200 less to replace.
the product that I purchased recently is now worth dramatically less in terms of money. Were I to want to sell my iPhone, I couldn't get nearly as much for it as I could've a couple of days ago.
If you didn't think there would be a better and/or cheaper phone out then you just weren't thinking. It's a first generation phone on which they were enjoying a 100% mark-up. How could it not happen?
If you're looking for resale value, what phone has ever held its value? It's like a laptop computer, in that there's always something better and cheaper coming, and then on top of that you've been lugging it around beating it up and wearing out the battery.
I always figured that the early adopters knew they were paying a premium to be one, but apparently that's not always the case.
If they want him to "save the record business", the first thing they better do is lose the RIAA
He's got no chance. He and apparently everybody else is now convinced that a subscription model is the way to go. So far, they've got the "They pay us money every month" part figured out.
People want to download music. People are going to download music. They can either try to make money from that or they can go out of business.
More people will buy the iPhone, but apple has a revenue sharing contract with AT&T.
Sure, but they'll sell five times as many phones. And since it's unofficial they don't have to worry about any features not working. It's the perfect situation for them. They get to sell phones at at least a 100% markup, but then not have to support them. It's hard to imagine a better scenario.
The DHCP client SHOULD not do this, but then again, the DHCP server MUST accept these requests anyway.
And there appear to be only two reasonable explanations for why VIsta behaves this way:
1. Incompetence.
2. To intentionally fail on non-MS DHCP servers.
With anybody else I'd apply the "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence" axiom, but with Microsoft I'm not so sure.
But my initial assertion still stands. If you don't have to (for whatever reason) pay the ultimate supplier, you can price anyone else out of business.
But the real point is that there is a viable market for unencumbered downloads at a reasonable price. And It almost certainly doesn't have to be the price these guys are charging, but the industry wants to cling to its old-world model of making money.
I.e., it's not the law that's bad, it's the RIAA law-breakers that are bad.
Well I think the law is bad, too, but I realize that an entirely different discussion. The way it is now, with its very long duration, seems designed more to protect products rather than promote the arts.
I've noticed that a number of these RIAA cases have some people who are choosing to defend themselves. More than I would have imagined. I don't know the specifics of each individual motivation, but I always felt that representing yourself was somehow risky.
The trail has been blazed now, and mounting a defense is getting easier and easier thanks to NYCountryLawyer and others. I'd still want to hire a lawyer, but I think in this case not doing so is less risky than usual.
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"You have sent $10.00 USD to wraymond@hotmail.com"
I haven't written a check in years, but I'd gladly send some paypal dough.
Which would be lucky for him, since then he has a chance to realize that the variable he wants to use in that line is bestCandidate, not a.
So is everyone slowly going broke in your game? That 1% commission is a lot to fade.
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Where in my post did I say I think he's a good person? I said it was strictly a P.R. move.
If it had been planned he'd have said it at the announcement. Then there'd have been nothing but cheers.
They saw the reaction and knew they had to make a P.R. move. The reality is that hardly any phones ever get resold as used - they either break, get lost, or just wear out. So what the price drop really meant for early adopters was simply that now the replacement cost was a lot less. But since that's not how people saw it Apple had to do something, and so keeping their eye on the long-term picture that's what they did.
Some outfits never learn that lesson. The RIAA, for example, has the stripper mentality of "what can we squeeze out of them today?"
Yup. For the first half of its life the country was even spoken of in the plural, as in The United States are, not is.
Only if you live on the planet Bizzaro. Though really you're right in that the grammar doesn't work, and that time of comparison ought to be stated as "as large" or "as fast" or whatever. When ads claim something is "300% faster!" it's really 3 times as fast, even though 300% faster should parse as 4 times as fast.
That's actually pretty good. Presumably the wiping her butt with it somehow leads to Nikita saving the universe, or something like that.
Come on, it's going to be as many as tens of bytes of data! That could take forever.
But seriously. That guy thinking the check would be even slightly noticeable is ridiculous. It'd be about on par with a DNS lookup.
That's not 80% smaller. It's 80% as large. 80% smaller would be like 37x25.
Phone don't generally get resold, they get lost or broken or just plain old. So now if yours gets lost or broken it's $200 less to replace.
If you didn't think there would be a better and/or cheaper phone out then you just weren't thinking. It's a first generation phone on which they were enjoying a 100% mark-up. How could it not happen?
If you're looking for resale value, what phone has ever held its value? It's like a laptop computer, in that there's always something better and cheaper coming, and then on top of that you've been lugging it around beating it up and wearing out the battery.
I always figured that the early adopters knew they were paying a premium to be one, but apparently that's not always the case.
He's got no chance. He and apparently everybody else is now convinced that a subscription model is the way to go. So far, they've got the "They pay us money every month" part figured out.
People want to download music. People are going to download music. They can either try to make money from that or they can go out of business.
Sure, but they'll sell five times as many phones. And since it's unofficial they don't have to worry about any features not working. It's the perfect situation for them. They get to sell phones at at least a 100% markup, but then not have to support them. It's hard to imagine a better scenario.
While I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, what would #4 have to do with the way Vista behaves? I didn't write it.
And there appear to be only two reasonable explanations for why VIsta behaves this way:
1. Incompetence.
2. To intentionally fail on non-MS DHCP servers.
With anybody else I'd apply the "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence" axiom, but with Microsoft I'm not so sure.
Well sure. They have to have widespread acceptance first. The proprietary stuff comes later.
My reasons for not running Windows has nothing to do with zealotry and everything to do with the fact that running Windows is an exercise in misery.
You can scroll on a MacBook by dragging two fingers on the touchpad.
But the real point is that there is a viable market for unencumbered downloads at a reasonable price. And It almost certainly doesn't have to be the price these guys are charging, but the industry wants to cling to its old-world model of making money.
Well I think the law is bad, too, but I realize that an entirely different discussion. The way it is now, with its very long duration, seems designed more to protect products rather than promote the arts.
The trail has been blazed now, and mounting a defense is getting easier and easier thanks to NYCountryLawyer and others. I'd still want to hire a lawyer, but I think in this case not doing so is less risky than usual.
He said "generally."