Apple does sell a tablet like the ModBook Pro. It's the ModBook Pro. Every single ModBook is a sale for Apple. So the first thing they'd have to do with the sales projections for the MacBook Touch you're proposing is to subtract Axiotron's sales figures and the sales it would cannibalize from the standard MacBooks, because hardly anyone is going to buy both. Sure, putting the Apple logo (back) onto those ModBook units would increase sales of them, but not as much as an all-new, all-different product would.
(You might argue that the ModBook's sales aren't all that great, so it wouldn't be that big a loss. But that just demonstrates that the market for such devices isn't as big as you imagine. TabletPC sales have shown that for years now.)
Listen, my wants are similar to yours. I'd buy an Apple-branded MacBook Touch in a heartbeat. And as an illustrator, the iPad's finger input is useless to me, so I use an old HP TC1100 instead. But you're making the classic mistake of projecting "I'd buy it" into a huge market that simply isn't that big.
Consumers outnumber creators like you and me by huge margins. Catering to our wants instead of the the wants of the consumers who are actually buying iPads would have been a colossal failure of market research. Apple doesn't make that kind of mistake.
Doing a Modbook themselves wouldn't gain Apple anything. They already make money on every Modbook sold. Plus, the Modbook is effectively just a TabletPC that runs OS X, and that's way too "me too" for Jobs. And doing both that and the iPad would muddle up their product line. (Personally I'd take a Modbook over an iPad as well, but there aren't a million of me walking into malls and Buy Mores across America. Apple made the right choice for Apple.)
This is just a tactical move in Google's spat with Apple. They're banning the term "Cougar" before Apple can use it as the name of its next OS X release.
The prospect of a nuke igniting the oil deposit is one of the more persuasive counterarguments. It may be a low probability, but when one of the possible side effects of an experiment is the destruction of life as we know it, that tends to make people shy away from trying it.
"A leading edge sheen is getting close to it, but it has not entered the Loop Current. The larger volume of oil is several miles from the Loop Current."
Oh, so the inevitable hasn't happened yet. That's so reassuring.
So the severity of the crime should be determined by how easy it is to commit? That's a mind boggling line of reasoning. You know, it's easier to lure a puppy into your van than a 5-year-old child; by your reasoning we should punish puppy-rapists even more severely?
The only rational rationale for punishing Crime A more severely than Crime B is that Crime A is a more harmful crime. If you apply that kind of argument, you'll certainly end up with greater punishment for forcible rape of a child than for forcible rape of an adult, but not the kind of vast difference in punishment that this court ruling seems to endorse.
You're only being ripped off if you're brain-damaged enough to actually think that 1"TB"=2^40Bytes. Everyone who understands these units at all understands that in this context, 1TB=1000GB, 1GB=1000MB (and so on). The only people who find it confusing are some high-functioning autistics who can't let go of a standard that the industry has long since abandoned. They sound like an elderly Briton insisting that the pound sterling is worth 20 shillings, not 100 pence!
Why is this tagged "Wikipedia"? Wikileaks is a completely separate site and organization. Do you think that "protons" are "protozoa" are the same thing just because they start with he same four letters?
Yes, Microsoft has fanboys. I've worked with some. Often its about the Xbox and Halo, but some people seriously think that Windows, IE, and Office are It. It's the same mentality that leads some people to think that The Phantom Menace should've won the Oscar for Best Picture because it was the top-grossing film that year, or that Kelly Clarkson is one of the greatest singers in America because so many people voted for her on American Idol. They can sometimes be identified by a venomous hatred of Apple or Linux (usually based on the Mac Performa they used one semester in junior high, or seeing someone use vi on a GUI-less Linux box), rather than overt boosterism about the House of Clippy.
They didn't know what it would look like or do, but they knew it would be coming, and (roughly) when. Hell, even with the *first* upgrade (the 3G) in 2008, sales slacked off a couple months before it was announced, because Apple-watchers knew that the company usually operates on an annual refresh cycle. In 2009 the release of a new phone in June it was an open secret that only Apple employees pretended not to know, because they weren't allowed to comment. By 2010, the solstice upgrade pattern has become common knowledge.
You do realize that the Android sales figures are inflated by the same phenomenon? The Droid is new and hawt; that's a large part of how it and its OS buddies surpassed ye olde iPhone last quarter. What remains to be seen is whether it has legs, or will burn out and fade away. (I'm guessing it has legs.)
"Microsoft wouldn't had built the Windows brand if they just went for quick sales without thinking long term."
How old are you? Do you know anything about the history of Windows and Mac OS while their relative market shares were being established (i.e. the late 80s and early 90s)? Microsoft did a lot of things right in marketing Windows, and Apple made plenty of mistakes, but it had nothing at all to do with MS "thinking long term" vs Apple "going for quick sales".
It's important to note that the iPhone is in one of the low-sales points of its product cycle for these figures. Everybody who's paying attention *KNOWS* that Apple is going to introduce a new model of the iPhone next month, with greater capabilities and probably at the same price as the current model. Anyone who can wait until summer solstice to buy their first iPhone is waiting, and the oodles of people who bought an iPhone 3G in the second half of 2008 are waiting to become eligible for a subsidized upgrade 2 years later. Kind of like unemployment figures, iPhone sales figures need to be "seasonally adjusted" to be meaningful.
As long as it focuses on applying actual existing Wikipedia policy - removing stuff that's just plain porn, but leaving material that's sexually explicit but informative or educational - this sounds like a good thing. There's plenty of other places on the web for gratuitous beaver shots. But if it turns into an attempt to censor Wikipedia into a PG13 (or even R) "family-friendly" encyclopedia, or serves as the justification for a witch-hunt against "adult" subjects in general in the guise of a "protect the children" campaign, that'll be bad for Wikipedia and a really bad precedent.
My dad never locks the door to his car. He figures that he'd rather that a thief open the door and take his [item of modest value] rather than break the window and take his [item of modest value].
If your relationship ends so badly that you have to change the locks when you break up (rather than simply asking for the key back and getting it), then it was a mistake giving him/her the key in the first place.
When I leave the house I select one of three keyrings, each with a mini Swiss Army knife (color coded for quick identification): * the front door, and the lock for my bike (the bike stays parked just inside the front door) * the front door, the scooter, and the lock for the scooter (the scooter stays chained on the front porch) * the back door, and the car (the car stays parked in back)
In addition I have a cardkey in my wallet* to get in to my office, where I keep a handful of other keys that I sometimes need while at work. So if you count the cardkey, I never have more than 4 keys with me, and they fit easily and comfortably even in my sexiest skinny jeans.:)~
*The wallet, since you ask, has the cardkey, the ATM/debit card, the driver's license, the movie club card, and maybe $20 cash.
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I'm an American; I need that expressed in football fields.
Apple does sell a tablet like the ModBook Pro. It's the ModBook Pro. Every single ModBook is a sale for Apple. So the first thing they'd have to do with the sales projections for the MacBook Touch you're proposing is to subtract Axiotron's sales figures and the sales it would cannibalize from the standard MacBooks, because hardly anyone is going to buy both. Sure, putting the Apple logo (back) onto those ModBook units would increase sales of them, but not as much as an all-new, all-different product would.
(You might argue that the ModBook's sales aren't all that great, so it wouldn't be that big a loss. But that just demonstrates that the market for such devices isn't as big as you imagine. TabletPC sales have shown that for years now.)
Listen, my wants are similar to yours. I'd buy an Apple-branded MacBook Touch in a heartbeat. And as an illustrator, the iPad's finger input is useless to me, so I use an old HP TC1100 instead. But you're making the classic mistake of projecting "I'd buy it" into a huge market that simply isn't that big.
Consumers outnumber creators like you and me by huge margins. Catering to our wants instead of the the wants of the consumers who are actually buying iPads would have been a colossal failure of market research. Apple doesn't make that kind of mistake.
I graduated from high school in 19-god-damn-83, and if all of youse kids don't get off my lawn, I'm calling all of your parents!
P.S. I don't even know what that "Gossip Girls" show is about.
Doing a Modbook themselves wouldn't gain Apple anything. They already make money on every Modbook sold. Plus, the Modbook is effectively just a TabletPC that runs OS X, and that's way too "me too" for Jobs. And doing both that and the iPad would muddle up their product line. (Personally I'd take a Modbook over an iPad as well, but there aren't a million of me walking into malls and Buy Mores across America. Apple made the right choice for Apple.)
This is just a tactical move in Google's spat with Apple. They're banning the term "Cougar" before Apple can use it as the name of its next OS X release.
The prospect of a nuke igniting the oil deposit is one of the more persuasive counterarguments. It may be a low probability, but when one of the possible side effects of an experiment is the destruction of life as we know it, that tends to make people shy away from trying it.
"A leading edge sheen is getting close to it, but it has not entered the Loop Current. The larger volume of oil is several miles from the Loop Current."
Oh, so the inevitable hasn't happened yet. That's so reassuring.
So the severity of the crime should be determined by how easy it is to commit? That's a mind boggling line of reasoning. You know, it's easier to lure a puppy into your van than a 5-year-old child; by your reasoning we should punish puppy-rapists even more severely?
The only rational rationale for punishing Crime A more severely than Crime B is that Crime A is a more harmful crime. If you apply that kind of argument, you'll certainly end up with greater punishment for forcible rape of a child than for forcible rape of an adult, but not the kind of vast difference in punishment that this court ruling seems to endorse.
Sounds like we just did.
This is brilliant!
What could possibly go wrong?
You're only being ripped off if you're brain-damaged enough to actually think that 1"TB"=2^40Bytes. Everyone who understands these units at all understands that in this context, 1TB=1000GB, 1GB=1000MB (and so on). The only people who find it confusing are some high-functioning autistics who can't let go of a standard that the industry has long since abandoned. They sound like an elderly Briton insisting that the pound sterling is worth 20 shillings, not 100 pence!
Am I the only one who misread this as "Senate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive"? I didn't even know that machines could be nominated to the Supreme Court!
Why is this tagged "Wikipedia"? Wikileaks is a completely separate site and organization. Do you think that "protons" are "protozoa" are the same thing just because they start with he same four letters?
Have you tried streaming porn, from the internet, instead?
Yes, Microsoft has fanboys. I've worked with some. Often its about the Xbox and Halo, but some people seriously think that Windows, IE, and Office are It. It's the same mentality that leads some people to think that The Phantom Menace should've won the Oscar for Best Picture because it was the top-grossing film that year, or that Kelly Clarkson is one of the greatest singers in America because so many people voted for her on American Idol. They can sometimes be identified by a venomous hatred of Apple or Linux (usually based on the Mac Performa they used one semester in junior high, or seeing someone use vi on a GUI-less Linux box), rather than overt boosterism about the House of Clippy.
I'm pretty sure Apple sells more than just iPhones.
*Everyone* knew about the gen4 iPhone in January.
They didn't know what it would look like or do, but they knew it would be coming, and (roughly) when. Hell, even with the *first* upgrade (the 3G) in 2008, sales slacked off a couple months before it was announced, because Apple-watchers knew that the company usually operates on an annual refresh cycle. In 2009 the release of a new phone in June it was an open secret that only Apple employees pretended not to know, because they weren't allowed to comment. By 2010, the solstice upgrade pattern has become common knowledge.
"It will sell good at first"
You do realize that the Android sales figures are inflated by the same phenomenon? The Droid is new and hawt; that's a large part of how it and its OS buddies surpassed ye olde iPhone last quarter. What remains to be seen is whether it has legs, or will burn out and fade away. (I'm guessing it has legs.)
"Microsoft wouldn't had built the Windows brand if they just went for quick sales without thinking long term."
How old are you? Do you know anything about the history of Windows and Mac OS while their relative market shares were being established (i.e. the late 80s and early 90s)? Microsoft did a lot of things right in marketing Windows, and Apple made plenty of mistakes, but it had nothing at all to do with MS "thinking long term" vs Apple "going for quick sales".
It's important to note that the iPhone is in one of the low-sales points of its product cycle for these figures. Everybody who's paying attention *KNOWS* that Apple is going to introduce a new model of the iPhone next month, with greater capabilities and probably at the same price as the current model. Anyone who can wait until summer solstice to buy their first iPhone is waiting, and the oodles of people who bought an iPhone 3G in the second half of 2008 are waiting to become eligible for a subsidized upgrade 2 years later. Kind of like unemployment figures, iPhone sales figures need to be "seasonally adjusted" to be meaningful.
As long as it focuses on applying actual existing Wikipedia policy - removing stuff that's just plain porn, but leaving material that's sexually explicit but informative or educational - this sounds like a good thing. There's plenty of other places on the web for gratuitous beaver shots. But if it turns into an attempt to censor Wikipedia into a PG13 (or even R) "family-friendly" encyclopedia, or serves as the justification for a witch-hunt against "adult" subjects in general in the guise of a "protect the children" campaign, that'll be bad for Wikipedia and a really bad precedent.
Yeah, and that put a serious dent in my income, dude.
My dad never locks the door to his car. He figures that he'd rather that a thief open the door and take his [item of modest value] rather than break the window and take his [item of modest value].
If your relationship ends so badly that you have to change the locks when you break up (rather than simply asking for the key back and getting it), then it was a mistake giving him/her the key in the first place.
Simplify, simplify, simplify.
Don't carry anything you don't need.
When I leave the house I select one of three keyrings, each with a mini Swiss Army knife (color coded for quick identification):
* the front door, and the lock for my bike (the bike stays parked just inside the front door)
* the front door, the scooter, and the lock for the scooter (the scooter stays chained on the front porch)
* the back door, and the car (the car stays parked in back)
In addition I have a cardkey in my wallet* to get in to my office, where I keep a handful of other keys that I sometimes need while at work. So if you count the cardkey, I never have more than 4 keys with me, and they fit easily and comfortably even in my sexiest skinny jeans. :)~
*The wallet, since you ask, has the cardkey, the ATM/debit card, the driver's license, the movie club card, and maybe $20 cash.
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