Android "wins" in part because the phone is not what Google or Verizon, for that matter, is selling.
Their currency is eyeballs to advertisers. It's a lot like the 1940s-50s when the early television networks were largely the same company that sold television sets. Google is today's General Electric. Back then, GE made televisions that enabled their broadcasting company, NBC to sell eyeballs to advertisers. Google is doing something very similar with its Android phones.
They're trying to do this with Google TV as well. But that's been less successful because they tried to end run the content providers. I suspect that will clear up in the coming year given that it is within the content owners best interests to come to an agreement with Google.
In the end, I think they'll both survive. But I'd bet longer on Google. I just don't know how long Apple can continue to hold on to its very loyal customer base without "The Steve" at the helm.
I've had my Incredible since March and it's still very much a viable phone. I'm still getting updates for it and I can't see switching off of it for a long time to come.
I think your point is correct about pre-2.1 phones but I think most of the flagship 2.1 phones have been following along pretty well with the updates. My phone has received 2 in the past 3 months. I have no doubt that we'll be seeing Gingerbread on Incredible.
As for Apple's updates, I got my iPod Touch shortly before I got my Incredible and the ios 4 updates I got (1) gave me no visible benefit whatsoever and (2) for some inexplicable reason eat battery life like crazy. So, I think the updates are somewhat oversold. Apple, just like their counterparts, could care less about 3G and 2G products now.
"OMG! This video of Camilla Parker-Bowles is the funniest thing I've ever seen. Just click the 'Like' button, then the button after that and the one after that to see it."
Yes, consider that the RNC is considered a joke today by many of the hardest leaning right-wingers. A lot of Republicans hate current RNC chair Michael Steele and consider him to be a sellout. C-PAC probably should be considered in there somewhere.
Really successful businesses are able to make you pay for the service, PLUS sell your data (or eyeballs). See the publishing industry (up until about 1999) and television.
What's really fun about the Apple-Android fight is watching Steve Ballmer all the way out there in left field yelling, "Hey! Wait! We have cool stuff too! HEY! LOOK AT MEEEEEEEE!!!!!! REMEMBER US? HEY!"
If I ask a "Yes" or "No" questions, give me a "Yes" or "No" up front before launching into the diatribe with the massacre and the four party harmony. Sometimes, you don't need the rest.
Also, as a boss, I want you to really tell me "I don't know" if you really don't know. I hate, hate, hate people who aren't willing to man up when they don't know the answer to a question. Tell me, "I don't know but I'll find out." or "I don't know and I could use help to find the answer." Don't tell me you have it under control when you really don't. That just makes everybody look bad.
We're thinking along those same lines. When the kids are out of the house, we'll likely cut the cord. The one thing keeping us from doing it today is that we are rabid watchers of baseball and football (American). Hopefully by then, MLB will give up those silly blackout rules, I'll happily subscribe to MLB.tv. But right now, there's no point in paying for the online live MLB TV if they're blacking out my favorite team.
It's nice if it gives you comfort to believe that but the fact is that by the 1920's, IBM had 3 manufacturing sites in Europe. That's a lot more than just "field offices".
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/decade_1920.html
Fact is, they have been international in both manufacturing and sales for the better part of 100 years.
I agree with some of what you've written but the "as it went international..." clause is very misleading.
The "international" part has been a key part of IBM for almost 100 years. What do you think the "I" in "IBM" stands for?
Cablevision already has some of its own television networks, although the are small by comparison to ABC. They own MSG Sports and a fledgling hyperlocal news network News12.
MSG Sports carries Knicks (basketball), Rangers, Devils and Islanders (hockey) so Cablevision tends to tout "...carries all 9 New York major sports teams" in their ads. What they don't mention is that the two Cablevision owned franchises, basketball's New York Knicks and hockey's New York Rangers, are horrible. All of these are further examples how the Dolan family tends to run businesses into the ground.
They have a clear vision with Wave? If they do, they have done a terrible job communicating it. Wave looks promising to us propeller heads, but the general public is confused by Wave. It's slow and without knowing some secret incantations, it is brutal to navigate. Most people look at it for 2 minutes and give up.
Facebook is butt ugly but simple to jump in and use. If Google is going to have any prayer of making any social center work, it has to get back to fundamentals.
Google's original product was great because it had one text box and one button (two if you count 'I Feel Lucky'. Any idiot could use it and feel instantly smarter. They need to get back to that kind of simplicity if they want to go anywhere in the social arena.
"Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the newspaper’s print edition will receive full access to the site without extra charge"
So, with a little work, I should be able to....
1. Reverse engineer the algorithm used 2. Set up a proxy website to defeat the algorithm 3. Charge 1/2 the price the Times is charging to visit my proxy. 4. Profit!
The thing that buoyed the mainframe and other business within IBM during the 1990s was not software or PC sales (IBM never made money on PCs) but its marketing of services to businesses. IBM Software did not became a behemoth until the late 1990s and the PC unit was eventually written off as a complete loss and sold. The services division during 1990s displaced the mainframe division (then Enterprise Systems) as IBM's cash cow. Nowadays, it's a horserace between IBM Software Group and IBM Global Services as to who brings in the biggest bucks.
Seriously, if this school district is anything like ours, he'll have nothing to worry about. I doubt that they have anyone who can coherently warehouse any of this data to be used for anything besides making sure they're not overtaxing the overweight kids. They probably don't even keep the data very long if they download it at all. Our school supposedly has "state of the art technology", yet they still insist that I fill out about 5 "emergency contact" cards and keep them in a paper file. Schools are notoriously backward when it comes to technology.
I agree with the "whatever you makes you happy dude" bunch, but you should be awares of pitfalls on both sides.
Techies in the US are now competing against Chinese, Russian, Brazilian and Indian programmers who get paid half of what you would. So, as you grow older and into the six figure pay scale, your employment as a programmer is harder to justify in some companies.
On the other hand, management isn't for everyone but the same companies that outsource programming also are the ones that want their higher paid, older employees in management in some cases, whether or not the person has any aptitude for dealing with people instead of machines. So there is a lot more potential for your to rise to your level of incompetence.
I think a good medium road is something like the Project Management or IT Architect professions. They allow you to maintain a foot in the techie world but to get into the
higher paid realm as well.
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Android "wins" in part because the phone is not what Google or Verizon, for that matter, is selling. Their currency is eyeballs to advertisers. It's a lot like the 1940s-50s when the early television networks were largely the same company that sold television sets. Google is today's General Electric. Back then, GE made televisions that enabled their broadcasting company, NBC to sell eyeballs to advertisers. Google is doing something very similar with its Android phones. They're trying to do this with Google TV as well. But that's been less successful because they tried to end run the content providers. I suspect that will clear up in the coming year given that it is within the content owners best interests to come to an agreement with Google. In the end, I think they'll both survive. But I'd bet longer on Google. I just don't know how long Apple can continue to hold on to its very loyal customer base without "The Steve" at the helm.
I've had my Incredible since March and it's still very much a viable phone. I'm still getting updates for it and I can't see switching off of it for a long time to come. I think your point is correct about pre-2.1 phones but I think most of the flagship 2.1 phones have been following along pretty well with the updates. My phone has received 2 in the past 3 months. I have no doubt that we'll be seeing Gingerbread on Incredible. As for Apple's updates, I got my iPod Touch shortly before I got my Incredible and the ios 4 updates I got (1) gave me no visible benefit whatsoever and (2) for some inexplicable reason eat battery life like crazy. So, I think the updates are somewhat oversold. Apple, just like their counterparts, could care less about 3G and 2G products now.
"OMG! This video of Camilla Parker-Bowles is the funniest thing I've ever seen. Just click the 'Like' button, then the button after that and the one after that to see it."
Killing Java also does considerable damage to IBM.
Yes, consider that the RNC is considered a joke today by many of the hardest leaning right-wingers. A lot of Republicans hate current RNC chair Michael Steele and consider him to be a sellout. C-PAC probably should be considered in there somewhere.
Really successful businesses are able to make you pay for the service, PLUS sell your data (or eyeballs). See the publishing industry (up until about 1999) and television.
What's really fun about the Apple-Android fight is watching Steve Ballmer all the way out there in left field yelling, "Hey! Wait! We have cool stuff too! HEY! LOOK AT MEEEEEEEE!!!!!! REMEMBER US? HEY!"
You say tomato, I say fragmentation.
Detroit?
This link and this one
If I ask a "Yes" or "No" questions, give me a "Yes" or "No" up front before launching into the diatribe with the massacre and the four party harmony. Sometimes, you don't need the rest.
Also, as a boss, I want you to really tell me "I don't know" if you really don't know. I hate, hate, hate people who aren't willing to man up when they don't know the answer to a question. Tell me, "I don't know but I'll find out." or "I don't know and I could use help to find the answer." Don't tell me you have it under control when you really don't. That just makes everybody look bad.
We're thinking along those same lines. When the kids are out of the house, we'll likely cut the cord. The one thing keeping us from doing it today is that we are rabid watchers of baseball and football (American). Hopefully by then, MLB will give up those silly blackout rules, I'll happily subscribe to MLB.tv. But right now, there's no point in paying for the online live MLB TV if they're blacking out my favorite team.
Then don't be ordinary.
It's nice if it gives you comfort to believe that but the fact is that by the 1920's, IBM had 3 manufacturing sites in Europe. That's a lot more than just "field offices". http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/decade_1920.html Fact is, they have been international in both manufacturing and sales for the better part of 100 years.
I agree with some of what you've written but the "as it went international..." clause is very misleading. The "international" part has been a key part of IBM for almost 100 years. What do you think the "I" in "IBM" stands for?
Cablevision already has some of its own television networks, although the are small by comparison to ABC. They own MSG Sports and a fledgling hyperlocal news network News12. MSG Sports carries Knicks (basketball), Rangers, Devils and Islanders (hockey) so Cablevision tends to tout "...carries all 9 New York major sports teams" in their ads. What they don't mention is that the two Cablevision owned franchises, basketball's New York Knicks and hockey's New York Rangers, are horrible. All of these are further examples how the Dolan family tends to run businesses into the ground.
After all, she called for nothing less than a revolution.
They have a clear vision with Wave? If they do, they have done a terrible job communicating it. Wave looks promising to us propeller heads, but the general public is confused by Wave. It's slow and without knowing some secret incantations, it is brutal to navigate. Most people look at it for 2 minutes and give up.
Facebook is butt ugly but simple to jump in and use. If Google is going to have any prayer of making any social center work, it has to get back to fundamentals.
Google's original product was great because it had one text box and one button (two if you count 'I Feel Lucky'. Any idiot could use it and feel instantly smarter. They need to get back to that kind of simplicity if they want to go anywhere in the social arena.
From the article-
"Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the newspaper’s print edition will receive full access to the site without extra charge"
So, with a little work, I should be able to....
1. Reverse engineer the algorithm used
2. Set up a proxy website to defeat the algorithm
3. Charge 1/2 the price the Times is charging to visit my proxy.
4. Profit!
Thank you NY Times!
"I kan has kar rek"?
The thing that buoyed the mainframe and other business within IBM during the 1990s was not software or PC sales (IBM never made money on PCs) but its marketing of services to businesses. IBM Software did not became a behemoth until the late 1990s and the PC unit was eventually written off as a complete loss and sold. The services division during 1990s displaced the mainframe division (then Enterprise Systems) as IBM's cash cow. Nowadays, it's a horserace between IBM Software Group and IBM Global Services as to who brings in the biggest bucks.
Seriously, if this school district is anything like ours, he'll have nothing to worry about. I doubt that they have anyone who can coherently warehouse any of this data to be used for anything besides making sure they're not overtaxing the overweight kids. They probably don't even keep the data very long if they download it at all. Our school supposedly has "state of the art technology", yet they still insist that I fill out about 5 "emergency contact" cards and keep them in a paper file. Schools are notoriously backward when it comes to technology.
If this isn't a facepalm of a story, I don't know what is.
I agree with the "whatever you makes you happy dude" bunch, but you should be awares of pitfalls on both sides. Techies in the US are now competing against Chinese, Russian, Brazilian and Indian programmers who get paid half of what you would. So, as you grow older and into the six figure pay scale, your employment as a programmer is harder to justify in some companies. On the other hand, management isn't for everyone but the same companies that outsource programming also are the ones that want their higher paid, older employees in management in some cases, whether or not the person has any aptitude for dealing with people instead of machines. So there is a lot more potential for your to rise to your level of incompetence. I think a good medium road is something like the Project Management or IT Architect professions. They allow you to maintain a foot in the techie world but to get into the higher paid realm as well.
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