My iPhone and Galaxy bug me every so often to turn bluetooth on for better location. This is probably BS unless they will read the nearby bluetooth devices you come in contact with at known locations like at retail stores.
I wonder if it's reading the bluetooth ID's of phones you come close to and depending on the time spent in the vicinity and location suggest friends
with people spending hours on the internet to literally save one whole dollar on a flight, the airlines cut costs to give people what they wanted
Yes we had half empty planes in the 80's and 90's. But we also paid 2 to 3 times today's prices for tickets and had to deal with planes crashing and killing most of their passengers on a regular basis
How do you offer that without cutting costs and headcount?
For a lot of people like myself the quality of the network is secondary to my device. I'm willing to pay less $$$ for a crappier network and spend the difference on a better phone with more local storage to carry my content around with me and not have to rely on the network
Not anymore. Itunes and all the apps and content is something like 20% of profits and growing faster than the hardware business.
Apple like a lot of companies builds hardware to get you to buy high margin accessories like $150 headphones and the digital content. That's where the real money is made
For a lot of companies their phones aren't supposed to be profitable, but to feed their other businesses. For Sony and LG it's to use up the glass left over from their TV and display factories and other parts they make. Why trash it when you can sell it. Samsung makes a lot of stuff and their phones send money to their CPU fabs and display factories.
Apple is the only one who knows how to make money on phones as a stand alone business. But with Apple it seems like their business is just making you buy yet another device that runs some version of OS X
I've had trump loving friends reshare all kinds of weird Facebook pages that seemed to have popped up out of nowhere with stupid names like American Patriot Mom.
NYC it's a bunch of boutiques who rented in overpriced neighborhoods and lost money on their flagship stores to make it up elsewhere. Toys'R'Us is in chapter 11 but I think its happened before.
Otherwise I'm going to B&M more than ever. Best Buy is the same price as Amazon most of the time. Same with Target. No need to pay $100 for shipping. I just bought new sneakers and was able to try them on before buying. I'm never buying another phone before playing with it in the store. Bought my kindle B&M. I like Zenni, but I still buy a lot of glasses in local stores.
some of us were around when the USA had a dozen or so cellular carriers. Back then you didn't have to go far to lose your carrier's signal and roam on someone else's network and run up huge bills. The reason they all merged was to give customers a national network with virtually no roaming
I've owned every iphone since the 3G and never had batteries go bad on me after 2 years like I had with virtually every android phone i've used over the same time
I'm now on an iphone 6S and a galaxy S6, and the S6 is the first android phone i've used where after two years the battery is still about the same as when i first got it
what it probably means is that the time of cranking up the GHz or moar cores for paper specs is over. if you want performance then you need to design your own custom silicon and software to take advantage of like Apple has done
from a nobody? Most of these seem to be from anonymous people hiding behind web email and aliases and you are literally giving them admin access to your computer.
I have maybe 2-3 extensions and they are from known entities
Yeah, 20 years ago we didn't have ISP's peering with the content networks and had to rely on dozens of middle tier networks and lots of latency making streaming video virtually impossible.
There is a special government office dedicated to approving buyouts of US companies that have national security concerns. I don't remember if they fall under the DoD or some other agency but all they do is research potential implications and approve a merger outright or with conditions. Or recommend it not go through.
I doubt the President actually has any say or cares about these things.
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OMG, someone might find out that my wife makes me watch chick flix
My iPhone and Galaxy bug me every so often to turn bluetooth on for better location. This is probably BS unless they will read the nearby bluetooth devices you come in contact with at known locations like at retail stores.
I wonder if it's reading the bluetooth ID's of phones you come close to and depending on the time spent in the vicinity and location suggest friends
does this magical antenna thing work on your phone or tablet?
with people spending hours on the internet to literally save one whole dollar on a flight, the airlines cut costs to give people what they wanted
Yes we had half empty planes in the 80's and 90's. But we also paid 2 to 3 times today's prices for tickets and had to deal with planes crashing and killing most of their passengers on a regular basis
How do you offer that without cutting costs and headcount?
For a lot of people like myself the quality of the network is secondary to my device. I'm willing to pay less $$$ for a crappier network and spend the difference on a better phone with more local storage to carry my content around with me and not have to rely on the network
Not anymore. Itunes and all the apps and content is something like 20% of profits and growing faster than the hardware business.
Apple like a lot of companies builds hardware to get you to buy high margin accessories like $150 headphones and the digital content. That's where the real money is made
For a lot of companies their phones aren't supposed to be profitable, but to feed their other businesses. For Sony and LG it's to use up the glass left over from their TV and display factories and other parts they make. Why trash it when you can sell it. Samsung makes a lot of stuff and their phones send money to their CPU fabs and display factories.
Apple is the only one who knows how to make money on phones as a stand alone business. But with Apple it seems like their business is just making you buy yet another device that runs some version of OS X
it's just a $50,000 toyota?
why buy expensive sneakers?
why buy $800 graphics cards since you can play games with much cheaper cards?
Because when people like something they are suckers for upselling
No it's illegal to influence elections
I've had trump loving friends reshare all kinds of weird Facebook pages that seemed to have popped up out of nowhere with stupid names like American Patriot Mom.
NYC it's a bunch of boutiques who rented in overpriced neighborhoods and lost money on their flagship stores to make it up elsewhere. Toys'R'Us is in chapter 11 but I think its happened before.
Otherwise I'm going to B&M more than ever. Best Buy is the same price as Amazon most of the time. Same with Target. No need to pay $100 for shipping. I just bought new sneakers and was able to try them on before buying. I'm never buying another phone before playing with it in the store. Bought my kindle B&M. I like Zenni, but I still buy a lot of glasses in local stores.
some of us were around when the USA had a dozen or so cellular carriers. Back then you didn't have to go far to lose your carrier's signal and roam on someone else's network and run up huge bills. The reason they all merged was to give customers a national network with virtually no roaming
I've owned every iphone since the 3G and never had batteries go bad on me after 2 years like I had with virtually every android phone i've used over the same time
I'm now on an iphone 6S and a galaxy S6, and the S6 is the first android phone i've used where after two years the battery is still about the same as when i first got it
what it probably means is that the time of cranking up the GHz or moar cores for paper specs is over. if you want performance then you need to design your own custom silicon and software to take advantage of like Apple has done
from a nobody? Most of these seem to be from anonymous people hiding behind web email and aliases and you are literally giving them admin access to your computer.
I have maybe 2-3 extensions and they are from known entities
Yeah, 20 years ago we didn't have ISP's peering with the content networks and had to rely on dozens of middle tier networks and lots of latency making streaming video virtually impossible.
Those were the days
There is a special government office dedicated to approving buyouts of US companies that have national security concerns. I don't remember if they fall under the DoD or some other agency but all they do is research potential implications and approve a merger outright or with conditions. Or recommend it not go through.
I doubt the President actually has any say or cares about these things.
Crazy how all the WW1 era monarchs were cousins and went to war with each other to prove their nation's honor
or don't abuse it and it will last longer
maybe you're the one that is stupid?
It scans your facial features and essentially computes a checksum from the data. not your haircut
WTF?
Why is it so cheap? Hoping it was at least $3000 so the peons couldn't afford one
don't even have a savings account
real estate and other investments FTW
what kind of ghetto ass carrier do you have that won't add devices to an existing account?
You could have surprised me. Every release they "leak" the details the morning of the presentation. This just happened a day early
WTF do you eat that you spend less than $100 on food for 3 every month
at this point it's the same price for a smartphone as a landline phone and service