best buy has iphones on sale all the time. price depends on carrier and it's not apple setting the prices all the time. meanwhile same iphone at a AT&T retail store is a lot more money.
You can get an AT&T phone cheaper at virtually every store other than a AT&T retail store. Best Buy, Target, Costco all have sales. AT&T wants you to have Direct TV for virtually any promotion at a AT&T retail store.
the carrier is not bundling a service. This is more like Netflix selling a service wholesale to reach millions of customers without paying money to apple or google for the billing or cc fees or spending money on advertising to retain customers
some of you people should think about these things from the business perspective of netflix
Lately almost everything sold on amazon is sold by third party and amazon just does warehouse, shipping and billing. a lot of stuff is shipped by the third party as well.
they try to play the game like a common carrier but it won't last for long
It's not 0% because someone else is lending you the money and no one stays in business lending at 0%. It's like the 0% car loans. In this case you pay back $649 or whatever the phone costs but the lender is paying Apple less than that per phone and keeping the difference
Hitachi sells enterprise SAN's with their drives in them. Huge financial inducement to charge huge support fees and make your product better so as not to pay out.
does it make you feel better to have been the first one to buy something and spend the most money on it just to wait panting like pavlov's dogs to fully utilize the features of your new toy?
In the 80's the Soviets shot down a Korean 747. It was flying off course and flew too close to one of their airbases in the pacific.
There was a conspiracy theory back then that the CIA did it. Specifically the moved the plane while it was on the ground to screw up the GPS calibration. This caused it to go off-course and they had a spy plane behind it listening to Soviet radio transmissions and looking at things like how long their response times were.
In this case it could be something as simple as knocking out some ships prior to an attack. Sort of like Pearl Harbor.
My favorite one was from around 1999 when companies were sued for some arcane bug that might result in lost data on floppies. Yeah, most of these only make money for the lawyers
You don't know what you're talking about. bitrate is different than resolution.
Netflix 1080HD averages out to 5mbps on average bitrate. a 1080p bluray is 40mbps. can't remember the bandwidth for the new UHD standard, but it's more than 40.
you can have 1080p at 1mbps bitrate and it will look like crap. idiots who rip blurays and compress them at full compression do this all the time.
the new 4K streaming standard is 20mbps bandwidth
Verizon limiting video to 10mbps is already twice that of what Netflix gives you
you can have all the super 1gb internet you want but it won't make much difference. it's the equivalent of the big penis SUV purchase
this has been the case since they released MMX 20 years ago. Anything coded to use their architecture and special instructions gets a huge boost. everything else no.
No they fit me in cause it was somewhat of an emergency and it was a referral from a pediatrician they know. and if they didn't i would have just went to one of the other of dozens of ENT doctors in my area within a few days.
The only time I really have to wait is when I want an appointment on a weekend so I don't have to take off from work. Those are a long wait.
I bet the business model is to make money on the people who will rarely use this and hope the devil customers don't sign up in droves. Figure by next year they will start implementing limits like a lot of these crazy unlimited services do
I've read the first 4 and plan to read the series only because I like to read crappy books once a year or so
the expanse books are full of flat and dull characters. plot driven and a lot of the books reuse the same plot, attack the enemy base. and of course the final battle is full of plot ammo, plot life and enough the winner almost dies to fill up a dozen pages of tripe.
so how are we supposed to travel say 1800 miles/ 2900 kilometers in the USA? Cars and trains are 3 days or so each way of the trip. That's a week lost if going on vacation.
these is mostly for cheapo people who don't want to buy stuff. no way you can sell it for the real price it costs to run it. Not like the upstream bandwidth is free
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best buy has iphones on sale all the time. price depends on carrier and it's not apple setting the prices all the time. meanwhile same iphone at a AT&T retail store is a lot more money.
You can get an AT&T phone cheaper at virtually every store other than a AT&T retail store. Best Buy, Target, Costco all have sales. AT&T wants you to have Direct TV for virtually any promotion at a AT&T retail store.
this year there is a lot of them so it's um, bad and we need to do something
They destroy old trees and nature for new life to grow
the carrier is not bundling a service. This is more like Netflix selling a service wholesale to reach millions of customers without paying money to apple or google for the billing or cc fees or spending money on advertising to retain customers
some of you people should think about these things from the business perspective of netflix
Lately almost everything sold on amazon is sold by third party and amazon just does warehouse, shipping and billing. a lot of stuff is shipped by the third party as well.
they try to play the game like a common carrier but it won't last for long
everyone seems to be complaining about them but no one can define what they are
It's not 0% because someone else is lending you the money and no one stays in business lending at 0%. It's like the 0% car loans. In this case you pay back $649 or whatever the phone costs but the lender is paying Apple less than that per phone and keeping the difference
my honda depreciates and i own it outright and drive a car without making a monthly payment
Hitachi sells enterprise SAN's with their drives in them. Huge financial inducement to charge huge support fees and make your product better so as not to pay out.
Facebook buys up lots of public records to feed their algorthms
It's not like the boot camp instructors are CompSci masters who went to MIT or Stanford. It's the same content.
Even if Boot Camps are a little better, they aren't $2900 better
does it make you feel better to have been the first one to buy something and spend the most money on it just to wait panting like pavlov's dogs to fully utilize the features of your new toy?
In the 80's the Soviets shot down a Korean 747. It was flying off course and flew too close to one of their airbases in the pacific.
There was a conspiracy theory back then that the CIA did it. Specifically the moved the plane while it was on the ground to screw up the GPS calibration. This caused it to go off-course and they had a spy plane behind it listening to Soviet radio transmissions and looking at things like how long their response times were.
In this case it could be something as simple as knocking out some ships prior to an attack. Sort of like Pearl Harbor.
My favorite one was from around 1999 when companies were sued for some arcane bug that might result in lost data on floppies. Yeah, most of these only make money for the lawyers
The difference seems to be that a class action you just sign up and don't do anything, but in arbitration you have to take time to collect evidence.
You don't know what you're talking about. bitrate is different than resolution.
Netflix 1080HD averages out to 5mbps on average bitrate. a 1080p bluray is 40mbps. can't remember the bandwidth for the new UHD standard, but it's more than 40.
you can have 1080p at 1mbps bitrate and it will look like crap. idiots who rip blurays and compress them at full compression do this all the time.
the new 4K streaming standard is 20mbps bandwidth
Verizon limiting video to 10mbps is already twice that of what Netflix gives you
you can have all the super 1gb internet you want but it won't make much difference. it's the equivalent of the big penis SUV purchase
this has been the case since they released MMX 20 years ago. Anything coded to use their architecture and special instructions gets a huge boost. everything else no.
welcome to how computers have always worked
if you're a front for organized crime, then it's an easy way to hijack people's phones
No they fit me in cause it was somewhat of an emergency and it was a referral from a pediatrician they know. and if they didn't i would have just went to one of the other of dozens of ENT doctors in my area within a few days.
The only time I really have to wait is when I want an appointment on a weekend so I don't have to take off from work. Those are a long wait.
WTF? And they say US care is bad?
One of my kids needed an ENT last year and was seen the same day
I bet the business model is to make money on the people who will rarely use this and hope the devil customers don't sign up in droves. Figure by next year they will start implementing limits like a lot of these crazy unlimited services do
I've read the first 4 and plan to read the series only because I like to read crappy books once a year or so
the expanse books are full of flat and dull characters. plot driven and a lot of the books reuse the same plot, attack the enemy base. and of course the final battle is full of plot ammo, plot life and enough the winner almost dies to fill up a dozen pages of tripe.
so how are we supposed to travel say 1800 miles/ 2900 kilometers in the USA? Cars and trains are 3 days or so each way of the trip. That's a week lost if going on vacation.
these is mostly for cheapo people who don't want to buy stuff. no way you can sell it for the real price it costs to run it. Not like the upstream bandwidth is free