For example, do you like tofu? No? Well tough shit, it's free, and I'm going to force feed you three pounds of it.
The correct analogy would be: do you like tofu? No? Well, here's a coupon for free tofu anyway. If you like it, pick it up at the store. If not, don't. Either way. Free tofu.
Stop. Apple just adds the album to the list of music you have access to. Everything else you describe flows from your incorrect understanding of this key point.
this is you strapping them to a chair to listen to it à la "Clockwork Orange".
They absolutely do not in any way make you listen to it.
If everyone got an email saying "Click for a free download of the album!" there would be no complaints.
That's basically what they did. They gave everyone access to it, so you now have a link to download the music by clicking one of the songs and tapping "play.
It's not about the album. It's about control. It's about changing the station in the car radio when someone else is driving.
No, it's about someone starting a U2 radio station that you don't have to tune into unless you want to, but now it's there if you want to hear it.
I swear to God, if my kids whined as much as the Internet has about me giving them a copy of an album I like, I'd ground their ungrateful asses until their iPods decayed into lead.
I guess there's a niche for this since they made it, but I kinda fail to see the target market, unless it's the "give me the biggest and best you got" crowd.
I can imagine plenty of uses for this in automated systems such as video system or other data gatherer. And even if it's to be used to record manually-triggered output, there's much to be said for the concept of "so much freaking storage that I can pay for this once and never have to think about it again over the lifetime of the equipment I'm using it with".
Were you dropped on your head as a child? Quoth the wiki:
In 1848 Lord Kelvin (William Thomson), wrote in his paper, On an Absolute Thermometric Scale, of the need for a scale whereby "infinite cold" (absolute zero) was the scale's null point, and which used the degree Celsius for its unit increment.
That would be true if you could come up with good ideas (not bad or average ones) easily and cheaply, but you can't. You can work as hard as you want, but there's no guarantee you will come up with a good idea.
Pfft - I came up with seven mind-blowingly awesome ideas before breakfast. The problem is that each would take several programmer-years to implement, so there's an enormously high risk:reward ratio for each.
People don't copy other ideas because it's too hard to come up with their own good ones. They copy ideas because those ideas have already been vetted and proven viable in the marketplace (whether of ideas or of cash revenue).
Microsoft decides that it's in their best interest for all customers to use identical UIs, so they make Metro the standard interface on phones, video game systems, tablets, desktops, and servers. Apple decides that it's in their customers' best interest for products to have similar but individualized UIs, so they create tailored interfaces for tiny, small, and large displays.
That, in a nutshell, is the difference between the two companies (and why Apple is eating Microsoft's lunch in every category where they directly compete).
The New England Patriots make about $428M a year across 16 games, each of which takes an average of 192 minutes. That works out to about $139K per minute. If Bill Belichick thinks he can work more efficiently with papyrus and a scribe, there'd be a tiny replica of the Nile in the basement of Gillette Stadium by the end of the day.
Apple is a marketing company, not a technology company. They have brazenly stolen others ideas and (quite successfully) marketed them.
That's a ludicrous conclusion. If they're to be reduced to something other than a technology company, then let them be an industrial design firm. While everyone else is concentrating on specs and feature bullet lists, Apple seems to this day to be the only company focusing on UI and usability. Their goal is to make things that people enjoy using - ignoring the specs and feature bullet lists - and sell bazillions of them.
There are already smartwatches on the market. Check out Samsung's product page: Powered by Google Android Wear! 1.63" Super AMOLED® display!. Now check out Apple's product page, which focuses on its design. Even the technology page describes how each feature should make you want to have one.
Non-geek people I know couldn't care less about a 1.63" Super AMOLED® display. They understand why they'd like to "glimpse the weather forecast, check out what’s next on your calendar, or find your current location on a map". You can probably do the same things with a Samsung, but know knows? They'd rather tell you about which OS is installed on the thing.
Sign up for what? Xcode is a free download from the app store, and you can use it to install Homebrew and be a single command away from having gcc4[345789] installed. There's almost literally nothing they could do to make that easier other than shipping Xcode with OS X, but that would be a waste of storage for the 99.9% of users who wouldn't ever use it.
According to the rumors (so you know it must be true!), Apple's watch is likely to have a built in step counter and pulse meter. That would instantly let it replace all the Fitbits, UP bands, Nike FuelBands, etc. that people are wearing with something attractive that has more functionality. I'd wear a watch if it did sufficiently interesting things that normal watches don't.
Python didn't originally have True and False probably for the same reason C didn't: they already had well-defined truthy and falsey values. Besides, you don't often need them. Instead of writing if expr is True:, you'd just write if expr:. To this day, the most common use I see for them is as default values for keyword arguments.
By making True and False variables with preset values, they could be added to the language without breaking code that already used those names for other things. By the time Python 3 rolled around, such code would probably have to be re-written for other reasons anyway and there was no longer a compelling backward compatibility story for not making them actual keywords.
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Metro apps running in resizable windows on the desktop.
So, desktop apps. What's the difference now?
For example, do you like tofu? No? Well tough shit, it's free, and I'm going to force feed you three pounds of it.
The correct analogy would be: do you like tofu? No? Well, here's a coupon for free tofu anyway. If you like it, pick it up at the store. If not, don't. Either way. Free tofu.
Sorry, forcing a download of an entire album
Stop. Apple just adds the album to the list of music you have access to. Everything else you describe flows from your incorrect understanding of this key point.
this is you strapping them to a chair to listen to it à la "Clockwork Orange".
They absolutely do not in any way make you listen to it.
If everyone got an email saying "Click for a free download of the album!" there would be no complaints.
That's basically what they did. They gave everyone access to it, so you now have a link to download the music by clicking one of the songs and tapping "play.
It's not about the album. It's about control. It's about changing the station in the car radio when someone else is driving.
No, it's about someone starting a U2 radio station that you don't have to tune into unless you want to, but now it's there if you want to hear it.
I swear to God, if my kids whined as much as the Internet has about me giving them a copy of an album I like, I'd ground their ungrateful asses until their iPods decayed into lead.
The best part is hearing the lamentations of software patent attorneys and rejoicing in the sounds of their despair.
I guess there's a niche for this since they made it, but I kinda fail to see the target market, unless it's the "give me the biggest and best you got" crowd.
I can imagine plenty of uses for this in automated systems such as video system or other data gatherer. And even if it's to be used to record manually-triggered output, there's much to be said for the concept of "so much freaking storage that I can pay for this once and never have to think about it again over the lifetime of the equipment I'm using it with".
Were you dropped on your head as a child? Quoth the wiki:
Celsius degrees came before Kelvin units.
No, that would be MibiBytes and GibiBytes.
Those are not real worlds and I'll be damned if I'll ever utter them with anyone over the age of 3 in the room.
That would be true if you could come up with good ideas (not bad or average ones) easily and cheaply, but you can't. You can work as hard as you want, but there's no guarantee you will come up with a good idea.
Pfft - I came up with seven mind-blowingly awesome ideas before breakfast. The problem is that each would take several programmer-years to implement, so there's an enormously high risk:reward ratio for each.
People don't copy other ideas because it's too hard to come up with their own good ones. They copy ideas because those ideas have already been vetted and proven viable in the marketplace (whether of ideas or of cash revenue).
Microsoft's hardware is nice (although you'd be crazy to compare Surface to MacBook Pro), but their user experience is terrible in comparison.
Microsoft decides that it's in their best interest for all customers to use identical UIs, so they make Metro the standard interface on phones, video game systems, tablets, desktops, and servers. Apple decides that it's in their customers' best interest for products to have similar but individualized UIs, so they create tailored interfaces for tiny, small, and large displays.
That, in a nutshell, is the difference between the two companies (and why Apple is eating Microsoft's lunch in every category where they directly compete).
The New England Patriots make about $428M a year across 16 games, each of which takes an average of 192 minutes. That works out to about $139K per minute. If Bill Belichick thinks he can work more efficiently with papyrus and a scribe, there'd be a tiny replica of the Nile in the basement of Gillette Stadium by the end of the day.
They already have one.
So you wouldn't use a device that helps you avoid unhealthy behavior, just out of spite against the insurance companies?
discreetly checking notifications during meetings
I nominate: 3a) discreetly getting notifications during meetings. Did no one else catch the part about its buzzer being inaudible?
For a worldthinker, you seem to be ignorant of the existence of Australia and its residents' lingo.
Apple is a marketing company, not a technology company. They have brazenly stolen others ideas and (quite successfully) marketed them.
That's a ludicrous conclusion. If they're to be reduced to something other than a technology company, then let them be an industrial design firm. While everyone else is concentrating on specs and feature bullet lists, Apple seems to this day to be the only company focusing on UI and usability. Their goal is to make things that people enjoy using - ignoring the specs and feature bullet lists - and sell bazillions of them.
There are already smartwatches on the market. Check out Samsung's product page: Powered by Google Android Wear! 1.63" Super AMOLED® display!. Now check out Apple's product page, which focuses on its design. Even the technology page describes how each feature should make you want to have one.
Non-geek people I know couldn't care less about a 1.63" Super AMOLED® display. They understand why they'd like to "glimpse the weather forecast, check out what’s next on your calendar, or find your current location on a map". You can probably do the same things with a Samsung, but know knows? They'd rather tell you about which OS is installed on the thing.
Their partner ship, the Event Horizon, came back. Changed.
Well played, Grey Father.
And to prevent even that, Touch ID doesn't work with a cut off finger.
Sign up for what? Xcode is a free download from the app store, and you can use it to install Homebrew and be a single command away from having gcc4[345789] installed. There's almost literally nothing they could do to make that easier other than shipping Xcode with OS X, but that would be a waste of storage for the 99.9% of users who wouldn't ever use it.
The new models can have up to 128GB of flash. That's about a day and a half of DVD-quality video. Throw in a cheap USB battery pack and you'll be set.
N00b.
According to the rumors (so you know it must be true!), Apple's watch is likely to have a built in step counter and pulse meter. That would instantly let it replace all the Fitbits, UP bands, Nike FuelBands, etc. that people are wearing with something attractive that has more functionality. I'd wear a watch if it did sufficiently interesting things that normal watches don't.
Python didn't originally have True and False probably for the same reason C didn't: they already had well-defined truthy and falsey values. Besides, you don't often need them. Instead of writing if expr is True:, you'd just write if expr:. To this day, the most common use I see for them is as default values for keyword arguments.
By making True and False variables with preset values, they could be added to the language without breaking code that already used those names for other things. By the time Python 3 rolled around, such code would probably have to be re-written for other reasons anyway and there was no longer a compelling backward compatibility story for not making them actual keywords.