"Especially when MTV and VH1 already pump out the same drek day in, day out."
The only way the video iPod could compete with MTV in its field would be if it was capable of storing and playing a 48-hour "Road Rules" marathon.
" They had some that you could wear and walk around, but there was a 60" tv projected in front of you"
This might cause fights in a crowded bus. Additionally, the sight of some guy walking down the street with a 5-foot-wide pornscape projected at all times in front of him will become common. You think there are a lot of complaints now over 5 INCH porn displays inside cars?
Just look at the tools in the trunk of their cars. The Linux and Windoze guys will have a few screwdrivers rolling around there. The mainframe guys have blowtorches.
I just tried it out. "Out of the box", the interface was kind of tedious as GIMP was broken into a lot of little pieces. No nice containing MDI screen that made it easy to move GIMP around without having to drag all the separate parts. Is this a setting I am missing?
"Apple calls their products 'personal computers' all the time, for which PC is an abbreviation"
PC means a specific standard, and it is confusingly different from just an abbreviation for "personal computer". Apple still knows the difference. The page apple.com refers to iTunes for Mac and PC. They also have comparisons between Mac and PC.
"Apple really seem to be using the long form of 'personal computer' and avoiding the abbreviation 'PC' pretty consistently"
This way, they avoid being incorrect or inconsistent, anyway.
"and the best you can do is insisting they aren't actually making PCs"
The fact that they have never made any is kind of important:)
"Why didn't they think of that for iTunes?oing out to buy your music? That's just so obvious!"
How about this improvement? No more waiting to download the songs, or standing in line at the kiosk waiting for Trent Rap-fan to figure out what he wants to download: just imagine if the stores sold the songs in separate units, stored on some media (like a round disc or a tape cartridge). Imagine the convenience! They could even have stores to sell this recorded media with MP3's already on it. Hey, they could even sell media with several of one artist's MP3's grouped by theme. Think it would ever work?
"They never were in the personal computer business"
Actually, they never built a "PC", even if they made lower-case "personal computers". "PC" referring specifically to one type of microcomputer: "the term PC came to mean IBM or IBM-compatible personal computers, to the exclusion of other types of personal computers, such as Macintoshes." (from Webopedia).
Apple's own ad copy compares the Macintosh to PC's, not to "other" PC's. Even they know the difference.
"Apple doesn't sell technology, they sell sell products that everyday people use in everyday situations."
They sell technology. Period. They'be been at it for a long time. Also, even with the success of the iPod, most "every day people" have no use for Apple's tech products in their "everyday situations".
With Intel in Apple's future, this might change. For right now, Apple is not in the PC business and has never been.
"Are you saying Apple never built a personal computer?"
The PC abbreviation, especially capitalized, refers only to the type that started with the IBM-PC and clones. Due to confusion, it is best to say that Apple makes microcomputers, not "personal computers".
"It used to be that if production cost > market price, the product would not be made"
Two major alternatives to this model have been around for a while:
Old Atari Production costs way higher than market price for Atari 2600, and the 400/800 computers. Still, they kept doing it for years until POOF the company is gone and there are mounds of "ET" game cartidges in the southwestern desert.
Enron. Market price and production price are subject only to imagination.
"Their PC's are notorously hard (if not impossible) to upgrade, as are their other products."
P.
Sorry to break it to you, but Apple has never built a PC. No wonder you are having trouble: you are trying to upgrade your eMachine to run OS-X. Rather futile if you ask me.
"Right, but other channels have spawned to fill the void: MTV2, The Box, etc"
Yeah, but they are new. Only a matter of time before MTV2 evolves to show "edgier" heavy metal "Real World" and "Road Rules". MTV itself will evolve to become the "We show now the reality shows MTV2 showed last year" channel.
To the MTV suits, there is nothing viewers like more than 72-hour 'Road Rules' marathons.
Looking forward to new three-color iPod ads on TV showing someone wearing an iPod, dancing down the street watching the screen, and smashing into a nearby lamppost.
How will the movie be THAT much different from seeing someone play the actual game on X play or other G4 shows? Other than the lack of Sassler/Webb doing their "MST3K" sarcastic remarks through it? And it will be much, much LONGER?
Actually, "Revenge of the Sith" was originally written with Padme taking part in the final battle on Mustafar, a planet covered in flowing red-hot grits. Things ende up re-written later, however.
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"Especially when MTV and VH1 already pump out the same drek day in, day out." The only way the video iPod could compete with MTV in its field would be if it was capable of storing and playing a 48-hour "Road Rules" marathon.
This might cause fights in a crowded bus. Additionally, the sight of some guy walking down the street with a 5-foot-wide pornscape projected at all times in front of him will become common. You think there are a lot of complaints now over 5 INCH porn displays inside cars?
Someone needs to invent eyeplugs
That is not the best assumption, as the Windows app is likely to be running alongside Bonzi Buddie and at least 7,000 pieces of malware and virii.
Just look at the tools in the trunk of their cars. The Linux and Windoze guys will have a few screwdrivers rolling around there. The mainframe guys have blowtorches.
As long as he builds cool carriers and solar sailers, and enslaves programs for the such enlightened purposes as videogames, bring it on.
I just tried it out. "Out of the box", the interface was kind of tedious as GIMP was broken into a lot of little pieces. No nice containing MDI screen that made it easy to move GIMP around without having to drag all the separate parts. Is this a setting I am missing?
Since you brought parsecs into a discussion of computers, perhaps ambiguity is all the rage!
PC means a specific standard, and it is confusingly different from just an abbreviation for "personal computer". Apple still knows the difference. The page apple.com refers to iTunes for Mac and PC. They also have comparisons between Mac and PC.
"Apple really seem to be using the long form of 'personal computer' and avoiding the abbreviation 'PC' pretty consistently"
This way, they avoid being incorrect or inconsistent, anyway.
"and the best you can do is insisting they aren't actually making PCs"
The fact that they have never made any is kind of important :)
How about this improvement? No more waiting to download the songs, or standing in line at the kiosk waiting for Trent Rap-fan to figure out what he wants to download: just imagine if the stores sold the songs in separate units, stored on some media (like a round disc or a tape cartridge). Imagine the convenience! They could even have stores to sell this recorded media with MP3's already on it. Hey, they could even sell media with several of one artist's MP3's grouped by theme. Think it would ever work?
Because it still stands. When someone asks "Do you have a PC, or do you have a Mac?", we both know that there is no confusion.
You'd think that they could generally-engineered super pig that could fire the stuff into orbit while standing on the ground.
Actually, they never built a "PC", even if they made lower-case "personal computers". "PC" referring specifically to one type of microcomputer: "the term PC came to mean IBM or IBM-compatible personal computers, to the exclusion of other types of personal computers, such as Macintoshes." (from Webopedia).
Apple's own ad copy compares the Macintosh to PC's, not to "other" PC's. Even they know the difference.
"Apple doesn't sell technology, they sell sell products that everyday people use in everyday situations." They sell technology. Period. They'be been at it for a long time. Also, even with the success of the iPod, most "every day people" have no use for Apple's tech products in their "everyday situations".
Here is a good definition if you still do not get it: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PC.html
With Intel in Apple's future, this might change. For right now, Apple is not in the PC business and has never been.
"Are you saying Apple never built a personal computer?"
The PC abbreviation, especially capitalized, refers only to the type that started with the IBM-PC and clones. Due to confusion, it is best to say that Apple makes microcomputers, not "personal computers".
Make sure you clean the input port often.
Two major alternatives to this model have been around for a while:
Old Atari Production costs way higher than market price for Atari 2600, and the 400/800 computers. Still, they kept doing it for years until POOF the company is gone and there are mounds of "ET" game cartidges in the southwestern desert.
Enron. Market price and production price are subject only to imagination.
Find an AC outlet that accepts fingers in those tiny slots. Can you?
Why not let the customers decide on this one? No one will be forcing you to buy one, regardless.
"Their PC's are notorously hard (if not impossible) to upgrade, as are their other products." P. Sorry to break it to you, but Apple has never built a PC. No wonder you are having trouble: you are trying to upgrade your eMachine to run OS-X. Rather futile if you ask me.
Yeah, but they are new. Only a matter of time before MTV2 evolves to show "edgier" heavy metal "Real World" and "Road Rules". MTV itself will evolve to become the "We show now the reality shows MTV2 showed last year" channel.
To the MTV suits, there is nothing viewers like more than 72-hour 'Road Rules' marathons.
Looking forward to new three-color iPod ads on TV showing someone wearing an iPod, dancing down the street watching the screen, and smashing into a nearby lamppost.
How will the movie be THAT much different from seeing someone play the actual game on X play or other G4 shows? Other than the lack of Sassler/Webb doing their "MST3K" sarcastic remarks through it? And it will be much, much LONGER?
Actually, "Revenge of the Sith" was originally written with Padme taking part in the final battle on Mustafar, a planet covered in flowing red-hot grits. Things ende up re-written later, however.
It has been years now, and Microsoft's solution to plugging this has never worked. How about an entirely new approach?
The works of Karl Marx in all liklihood hold the record for this.