I have been asking myself for a few years now how people can be so blind to the {add any high tech market} industry. With cell phones there is a yearly release of the new 'flagship' model, that is always just marginally better than the previous generation. Then literally within a month of the release we are seeing 'leaked' images of the next 'new and improved' model. Each years new model is more expensive than the last too.
This is not an apple problem alone, although they could fix their problem by dipping into their cash and truly coming up with a new phone that blind the people with its magic. Sadly for Apple that is not the case and they are trying to peddle a 1K phone to people that just bought a 1K phone from them within 2 years.
The vast majority is now seeing the shell game for what it is and speaking with their wallets.
And the thing they talk about most in the linked article is how the current name of the object might be offensive to some people. I wonder how much further along we would be as a society if we were more concerned about science and real progress instead of spending so much time on useless shit like 'who might be offended'?
You do know how taxes work right? Clearly from your post you don't. You say it is ok to tax {name any random big corporation}. Guess what they are going to do? Raise their rates to cover the increased cost of the tax. Guess who then pays the tax? Are you seeing how this works yet? Can you take a guess at the answer? Yep that's right, it is you & me.
About every 12 to 18 months, the owner of the company I work for will come to me about moving 'everything' to the cloud. I always say the same thing, "Maybe we could move {a few non-essential things} and see how that goes, but I wouldn't trust moving {anything we rely on}".
This article and many others like it are the reason I will keep saying this.
OnePlus's motto is 'Never Settle' yet all they have done with their feature set is require you to compromise on the things users want/need. I was so excited when I saw the announcement about the 6T. I am not the person that reads upcoming phone specs nor do I obsess about them. I know I get a new phone every 2 years or so, it is the latest model and it will be sufficiently fast enough. When it is time to buy, then I look at specs. It is now time to buy. Samsung is dead to me after how they completely botched the entire Note 7 (yes I got that one on the first week of release... not fun with the recall, loaner phone, get back a second Note7, final recall, offered a Galaxy, switch to LG). Ultimately I have been pleased with my LG V20, but it is showing its age, so I figure I would go to the ThinQ 7 or V40, then I heard about the 6T. Then I looked at the specs of the 6T:
No headphone jack - I can compromise on this one. I have a Sansa Clip for music and books. Bluetooth on the phone for external speakers is all I do anyway.
Notch - I don't even see this as a comprise. Consumers want an edge to edge screen and they want a front facing camera. If it were up to me, I would go without a front facing camera, but will accept the notch. It is really not that big on the 6T.
No replaceable battery - This one still burns my ass, but any modern phone has to be water resistant so whatever. My V20 has a replaceable battery and I have done so twice.
Fingerprint reader in screen - this is good, I guess. I think it is a step backward from where LG has it on the back. I just think that on the front, in the bottom it will be awkward to one hand it for an unlock. I am sure it is not as bad as I am imagining and some hands on time with the phone would change my mind.
No SD slot - FULL STOP, I WILL NOT BUY THIS PHONE. seriously this is the one that just blows my mind. I guess I am old school and don't trust the cloud.
In the end I followed OnePlus's motto to "Never Settle" (on their phone) Looks like I will be sticking with LG. I don't mean that in a negative way, the LG has been a great phone, I was just really excited to try a stripped down version of Android.
I think it comes down more to preference than your blanket statement of "brand X must really suck". I personally don't like the interface of an iPhone (or osX), but that doesn't mean it sucks. This lady has probably had an iPhone forever (which is probably a primary reason Samsung choose her) and didn't care for the Android experience (or in your words, "it sucks").
Although I don't like iPhones because they suck (your word, not mine) if someone was paying me a huge sum of money to use one for a year, you can bet your ass I am only using an iPhone. Hell, I would dry hump it on national TV if the money was right.
Just got done thinking about what you said and came to the conclusion you are stupid for completely ignoring relevant facts. Are you in training to become a Slashdot mod?
Let's assume that we as individuals could 'politics aside'. That still doesn't change the fact the most sane people will avoid government work because of:
Low comparative pay (most gov. workers are doing the long term pension game) Entrenched bureaucrats Incompetent project scoping (this is putting it mildly) RED TAPE/PAPERWORK
Not to mention the questions about the plans details. Would these 'temp tech' workers be implementing a project? Designing a project? Designing and implementing? Specing out a RFP for a bid? When the 'temp tech' is done with his stint in hell, who takes over the project? This plan just sounds like a disaster, democrat or republican.
(Insert any other laughter here) As soon as the US companies have to start paying the EU taxes you speak of, how do you think they will make up for that loss of revenue? If your answer is that they will pass it on the EU consumer, then you win the 'wise consumer' prize.
Google has gone from the 'Do No Evil' company to a Shit Company. How long until they are just plain evil? So with this story they have 'corporate values'. Really? What does that mean, when today we find out they had a massive data breach but decided not to notify the public because it would draw 'immediate regulatory scrutiny'. What it means is they carry around the flag of 'Do No Evil' and use it to hide all the evil things they actually are doing.
I don't think your premise is valid as your assumption is that the reviewer will place way to much emphasis on cost vs. value. I have objectively reviewed quite a few games on Steam and yes a very small part of the review is based on cost vs. perceived value and that usually only occurs at the high and low ends of cost. ie.. a 4.99 game that has great graphics/game play will be called out as great value for the money and the opposite for when a 40$ dollar title has graphics that look like from the early 2000's. I have never reviewed a game that I received for free (nor have I received any games for free), but if I did (and I wrote the review before the dev. set pricing) I would have a section of the review that stated something to the affect of "I received this game for free and before a price was set, I wouldn't pay more than xx dollars for this game"
From you comment it is so clear that you don't read a lot using a table.
The battery life is many times greater than a full color tablet and you can comfortably read when sitting in the sun. I have a kindle fire for indoor reading and there have been many times I will read to the point I need to recharge the battery in a single sessions (starting at 75% or greater charge). I have never come close to that in a single session with my paperwhite.
One man's trash is another's treasure. That is what made the first few years of Ebay successful. What it has become is more the trading platform you are eluding to. Now trying to find the treasure is almost impossible since 95% of the shit on Ebay is from corporate interests just selling junk.
Before they bought PayPal, Ebay was such an awesome place to conduct business. I used to sell a lot of stuff (as a private seller) through Ebay. I had a great reputation and made some nice side money. Then they tried their hardest to ram PayPal down everyone's throat. That is when I was left, it was such a hassle. I moved my stuff to CL and continued to sell, prices went down, but for the most part I was selling local and didn't have to deal with shipping or fees, so in the end CL was a much better choice.
Now Ebay is a joke. Every corporate interest has a store front their. As a buyer that knew the original Ebay I see their current site and have to say it is very confusing. They really should have stuck to what made them great, which was letting private sellers move their junk. If I don't go to Amazon to find something and just use a general search, any shopping hit that comes up the is from Ebay is a guarantee that I won't look at it.
I feel for the people getting laid off, they aren't the ones that caused this. All the senior management will keep their jobs and Ebay will continue to be a confusing market front.
Verizon rolled out GB fiber in my area and their offer to me was that they would buy me out of my Comcast contract. Bottom line is that I will save about 30 bucks a month and be getting 1GB/880 service. I called Comcast while the guy from Verizon was in my house to see what they would do to keep me as a customer. They offered me 3 months free of HBO and told me if I left I would no longer be able to use the free Xfinity wifi. For those that don't know what that is, it is where Comcast uses a portion of all their customers wifi routers to carve out a free public guest network (yes you read that right, most Xfinity customers are broadcasting free public Wifi). When I asked her what my speed was she told me it was 200mb, so I pressed her on the up speed a couple times until she said it was 10.
Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner. This is the exact same thing I was thinking when I read the article. To add to your comment, the one that usually are calling for the regulations will also help create the regulations, which will heavily be skewed to help their particular offering.
Thank you for this. I have been following Ship of Heroes and had no idea that City of Titans existing. This is awesome news and it looks like this could be the year it comes out. I played the hell out of COH and still miss it.
Your statement is not helping your cause at all. It is comforting to know that you are ok selling the shit drives to the consumer. So I stick with my original premise, this is why I only use HGST drives. No sense of confusion or having Seagate blame me because I chose their wrong product line.
I have used nothing but HGST drives for all the machines I have built, including NAS's, for as long as I can remember. This is an awesome study and I am sure it probably has some peeps at seagate steaming right about now.
Yet another taking you to task about your completely irrelevant comment. I to don't care about spending 15 bucks on entertainment, but for me it is about the time. I don't care to spend 2+ hours of wasted time watching a steaming turd on the big screen.
Why the original point is relevant is that more people will be apt to watch it, or at least give it a try is because the subscription is already paid and if if they start it and think it is shit, just go on to something else.
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You also do NOT need:
An internet connection
A computer
A cell phone
and a ton of other things
However; you do want them and you want them to your standards and not some blowhard like you or some PHB at Apple saying you don't.
I have been asking myself for a few years now how people can be so blind to the {add any high tech market} industry. With cell phones there is a yearly release of the new 'flagship' model, that is always just marginally better than the previous generation. Then literally within a month of the release we are seeing 'leaked' images of the next 'new and improved' model. Each years new model is more expensive than the last too.
This is not an apple problem alone, although they could fix their problem by dipping into their cash and truly coming up with a new phone that blind the people with its magic. Sadly for Apple that is not the case and they are trying to peddle a 1K phone to people that just bought a 1K phone from them within 2 years.
The vast majority is now seeing the shell game for what it is and speaking with their wallets.
don't feed the trolls please. This image is clearly part of the elaborate hoax by 'scientists' to debunk the truth that the world is flat.
And the thing they talk about most in the linked article is how the current name of the object might be offensive to some people. I wonder how much further along we would be as a society if we were more concerned about science and real progress instead of spending so much time on useless shit like 'who might be offended'?
You do know how taxes work right? Clearly from your post you don't. You say it is ok to tax {name any random big corporation}. Guess what they are going to do? Raise their rates to cover the increased cost of the tax. Guess who then pays the tax? Are you seeing how this works yet? Can you take a guess at the answer? Yep that's right, it is you & me.
About every 12 to 18 months, the owner of the company I work for will come to me about moving 'everything' to the cloud. I always say the same thing, "Maybe we could move {a few non-essential things} and see how that goes, but I wouldn't trust moving {anything we rely on}".
This article and many others like it are the reason I will keep saying this.
OnePlus's motto is 'Never Settle' yet all they have done with their feature set is require you to compromise on the things users want/need. I was so excited when I saw the announcement about the 6T. I am not the person that reads upcoming phone specs nor do I obsess about them. I know I get a new phone every 2 years or so, it is the latest model and it will be sufficiently fast enough. When it is time to buy, then I look at specs. It is now time to buy. Samsung is dead to me after how they completely botched the entire Note 7 (yes I got that one on the first week of release... not fun with the recall, loaner phone, get back a second Note7, final recall, offered a Galaxy, switch to LG). Ultimately I have been pleased with my LG V20, but it is showing its age, so I figure I would go to the ThinQ 7 or V40, then I heard about the 6T. Then I looked at the specs of the 6T:
No headphone jack - I can compromise on this one. I have a Sansa Clip for music and books. Bluetooth on the phone for external speakers is all I do anyway.
Notch - I don't even see this as a comprise. Consumers want an edge to edge screen and they want a front facing camera. If it were up to me, I would go without a front facing camera, but will accept the notch. It is really not that big on the 6T.
No replaceable battery - This one still burns my ass, but any modern phone has to be water resistant so whatever. My V20 has a replaceable battery and I have done so twice.
Fingerprint reader in screen - this is good, I guess. I think it is a step backward from where LG has it on the back. I just think that on the front, in the bottom it will be awkward to one hand it for an unlock. I am sure it is not as bad as I am imagining and some hands on time with the phone would change my mind.
No SD slot - FULL STOP, I WILL NOT BUY THIS PHONE. seriously this is the one that just blows my mind. I guess I am old school and don't trust the cloud.
In the end I followed OnePlus's motto to "Never Settle" (on their phone) Looks like I will be sticking with LG. I don't mean that in a negative way, the LG has been a great phone, I was just really excited to try a stripped down version of Android.
I think it comes down more to preference than your blanket statement of "brand X must really suck". I personally don't like the interface of an iPhone (or osX), but that doesn't mean it sucks. This lady has probably had an iPhone forever (which is probably a primary reason Samsung choose her) and didn't care for the Android experience (or in your words, "it sucks").
Although I don't like iPhones because they suck (your word, not mine) if someone was paying me a huge sum of money to use one for a year, you can bet your ass I am only using an iPhone. Hell, I would dry hump it on national TV if the money was right.
Just got done thinking about what you said and came to the conclusion you are stupid for completely ignoring relevant facts. Are you in training to become a Slashdot mod?
Let's assume that we as individuals could 'politics aside'. That still doesn't change the fact the most sane people will avoid government work because of:
Low comparative pay (most gov. workers are doing the long term pension game)
Entrenched bureaucrats
Incompetent project scoping (this is putting it mildly)
RED TAPE/PAPERWORK
Not to mention the questions about the plans details. Would these 'temp tech' workers be implementing a project? Designing a project? Designing and implementing? Specing out a RFP for a bid? When the 'temp tech' is done with his stint in hell, who takes over the project? This plan just sounds like a disaster, democrat or republican.
(Insert any other laughter here) As soon as the US companies have to start paying the EU taxes you speak of, how do you think they will make up for that loss of revenue? If your answer is that they will pass it on the EU consumer, then you win the 'wise consumer' prize.
Google has gone from the 'Do No Evil' company to a Shit Company. How long until they are just plain evil? So with this story they have 'corporate values'. Really? What does that mean, when today we find out they had a massive data breach but decided not to notify the public because it would draw 'immediate regulatory scrutiny'. What it means is they carry around the flag of 'Do No Evil' and use it to hide all the evil things they actually are doing.
I don't think your premise is valid as your assumption is that the reviewer will place way to much emphasis on cost vs. value. I have objectively reviewed quite a few games on Steam and yes a very small part of the review is based on cost vs. perceived value and that usually only occurs at the high and low ends of cost. ie.. a 4.99 game that has great graphics/game play will be called out as great value for the money and the opposite for when a 40$ dollar title has graphics that look like from the early 2000's. I have never reviewed a game that I received for free (nor have I received any games for free), but if I did (and I wrote the review before the dev. set pricing) I would have a section of the review that stated something to the affect of "I received this game for free and before a price was set, I wouldn't pay more than xx dollars for this game"
Lol, your last sentence is awesome! I went back and read all the Trolls comments in a cranky old ladies voice.
From you comment it is so clear that you don't read a lot using a table.
The battery life is many times greater than a full color tablet and you can comfortably read when sitting in the sun. I have a kindle fire for indoor reading and there have been many times I will read to the point I need to recharge the battery in a single sessions (starting at 75% or greater charge). I have never come close to that in a single session with my paperwhite.
One man's trash is another's treasure. That is what made the first few years of Ebay successful. What it has become is more the trading platform you are eluding to. Now trying to find the treasure is almost impossible since 95% of the shit on Ebay is from corporate interests just selling junk.
Before they bought PayPal, Ebay was such an awesome place to conduct business. I used to sell a lot of stuff (as a private seller) through Ebay. I had a great reputation and made some nice side money. Then they tried their hardest to ram PayPal down everyone's throat. That is when I was left, it was such a hassle. I moved my stuff to CL and continued to sell, prices went down, but for the most part I was selling local and didn't have to deal with shipping or fees, so in the end CL was a much better choice.
Now Ebay is a joke. Every corporate interest has a store front their. As a buyer that knew the original Ebay I see their current site and have to say it is very confusing. They really should have stuck to what made them great, which was letting private sellers move their junk. If I don't go to Amazon to find something and just use a general search, any shopping hit that comes up the is from Ebay is a guarantee that I won't look at it.
I feel for the people getting laid off, they aren't the ones that caused this. All the senior management will keep their jobs and Ebay will continue to be a confusing market front.
Verizon rolled out GB fiber in my area and their offer to me was that they would buy me out of my Comcast contract. Bottom line is that I will save about 30 bucks a month and be getting 1GB/880 service. I called Comcast while the guy from Verizon was in my house to see what they would do to keep me as a customer. They offered me 3 months free of HBO and told me if I left I would no longer be able to use the free Xfinity wifi. For those that don't know what that is, it is where Comcast uses a portion of all their customers wifi routers to carve out a free public guest network (yes you read that right, most Xfinity customers are broadcasting free public Wifi). When I asked her what my speed was she told me it was 200mb, so I pressed her on the up speed a couple times until she said it was 10.
Cya Comcast....
I am lucky that I have a choice of providers.
Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner. This is the exact same thing I was thinking when I read the article. To add to your comment, the one that usually are calling for the regulations will also help create the regulations, which will heavily be skewed to help their particular offering.
Read about some of the things Paypal does. I don't think I would put them in the harmless category.
Thank you for this. I have been following Ship of Heroes and had no idea that City of Titans existing. This is awesome news and it looks like this could be the year it comes out. I played the hell out of COH and still miss it.
Cheers
Your statement is not helping your cause at all. It is comforting to know that you are ok selling the shit drives to the consumer. So I stick with my original premise, this is why I only use HGST drives. No sense of confusion or having Seagate blame me because I chose their wrong product line.
I have used nothing but HGST drives for all the machines I have built, including NAS's, for as long as I can remember. This is an awesome study and I am sure it probably has some peeps at seagate steaming right about now.
Yet another taking you to task about your completely irrelevant comment. I to don't care about spending 15 bucks on entertainment, but for me it is about the time. I don't care to spend 2+ hours of wasted time watching a steaming turd on the big screen.
Why the original point is relevant is that more people will be apt to watch it, or at least give it a try is because the subscription is already paid and if if they start it and think it is shit, just go on to something else.
Yes finally... oh wait you could just disable the Windows Update service and you could have done so forever ago.