I generally have always thought Apple had a good vision on the future. But since the death of Steve Jobs Apple has taken some rather empty dead end roads. The creation of a Apple designed electric vehicle is another road less traveled in my opinion.
You do realize, of course, that the car was a "Jobs" idea, right?
Apple most likely will end up way late to the game in EV vehicles, and it appears to be a distraction rather than a serious attempt at entering a EV market that is already shrinking.
And when gas prices make their inevitable climb back upward, the EV market will increase again. And by that time, Apple will be ready and waiting...
Your friend's brand new MBA is interesting why? I wrote next refresh.
And your comparable light computer for the same price as a MBA is what exactly? Is it anywhere near close to the same build quality? Or is it some loss leader piece of crap? You're not bold enough to post the make and model because why, exactly?
Because he doesn't want anyone to expose his lies.
Ah an apple head. No actually apple doesn't understand retail. Nor do they understand tech and without Jobs they don't understand business and lack an ability to truly innovate. The one and only thing apple has been competent at with or without jobs is marketing.
And, as CEO of your Mom's basement, of course you know better than all...
If you honestly think that Linux users as a whole want the kind of unification and only-one-way-of-doing-things then you have missed the entire point of Linux/Unix design philosophy altogether.
Actually, I don't think that the Linux "community" wants that at all.
And that is both Linux' greatest strength, and its greatest weakness.
Is is a surprise to anyone reading these words that this was going to happen?
Macroshaft has been positioning itself on all of its products to be SaaS.
Time to jump to macOS, which is the only reasonable alternative.
Maybe someday, if the Linux crybabies will stop their backbiting and petty squabbling over systemd (and other things), and get themselves together on a unified distro with a unified desktop UI, they may still have a chance.
But I honestly, seriously, doubt that will happen.
This is what happens when you're a criminal. Don't want to be shot? Don't be a criminal.
Tell that to Philando Castille.
Mr. Castile had a record of 52 traffic stops, including operating after revocation of license and "not carrying a proper insurance card". Nonetheless I will consider your suggestion, very seriously, after you tell me: did Mr. Castile, after informing the police that he had a licensed firearm with him, and being told not to move - did he then move, or did he not? And did he "display" the gun or not? An investigation has been opened as to justification or lack of it, and possible culpability. Let's wait for the process to finish investigating. If at that time, you want to criticize the process, then that would be entirely appropriate.
I seriously doubt that anyone with a open mind could look at his "crime of the century" driving record and conclude anything other than he was repeatedly cited for DWB.
Microsoft hasn't had to "attack" anything to prevent linux from gaining wider adoption (they pretty much did themselves in). This is a case of them helping developers.
Part of earning my living is done using the gEDA tools to reverse engineer old CNC controls. Linux is no toy for me. I'm sure there's a few network admins and others who are also glad there's a legit alternative to the Microsoft universe for doing real work.
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I generally have always thought Apple had a good vision on the future. But since the death of Steve Jobs Apple has taken some rather empty dead end roads. The creation of a Apple designed electric vehicle is another road less traveled in my opinion.
You do realize, of course, that the car was a "Jobs" idea, right?
Apple most likely will end up way late to the game in EV vehicles, and it appears to be a distraction rather than a serious attempt at entering a EV market that is already shrinking.
And when gas prices make their inevitable climb back upward, the EV market will increase again. And by that time, Apple will be ready and waiting...
These days I'd say that Apple is clearly a Whatever Tim Cook Wants To Do Company. And obviously they're pretty good at it, and profitable too.
And don't you forget it!
Apple makes their big margins because Apple is a software company [youtube.com] at its core
You apparently haven't been paying attention for the past 40 years. Apple considers itself, first and foremost, to be a hardware company.
Always has; always will.
Your friend's brand new MBA is interesting why? I wrote next refresh.
And your comparable light computer for the same price as a MBA is what exactly? Is it anywhere near close to the same build quality? Or is it some loss leader piece of crap? You're not bold enough to post the make and model because why, exactly?
Because he doesn't want anyone to expose his lies.
Ah an apple head. No actually apple doesn't understand retail. Nor do they understand tech and without Jobs they don't understand business and lack an ability to truly innovate. The one and only thing apple has been competent at with or without jobs is marketing.
And, as CEO of your Mom's basement, of course you know better than all...
The only "experience" is the consumer's self-delusion that the added price amounts to anything. It doesn't.
And, like most 'muricans, you have no idea about the difference between "price" and "value".
And I guess none of this means anything either, right? http://www.reuters.com/article... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... But, you know, rounded corners was such an innovation. Literally took computer science forward 100 years.
It was a lot more than just rounded corners.
Kinda make you wonder why Apple didn't do this first really.
$32 Billion is a lot, even for a company the size of Apple.
Because they just had to figure some way to literally "one-up" Apple.
If you honestly think that Linux users as a whole want the kind of unification and only-one-way-of-doing-things then you have missed the entire point of Linux/Unix design philosophy altogether.
Actually, I don't think that the Linux "community" wants that at all.
And that is both Linux' greatest strength, and its greatest weakness.
Home and Pro have no sign of moving to a subscription plan at this point. That might change some day, but there's no sign of it yet.
That is only because they don't have the requisite datacenters built. Yet.
Is is a surprise to anyone reading these words that this was going to happen?
Macroshaft has been positioning itself on all of its products to be SaaS.
Time to jump to macOS, which is the only reasonable alternative.
Maybe someday, if the Linux crybabies will stop their backbiting and petty squabbling over systemd (and other things), and get themselves together on a unified distro with a unified desktop UI, they may still have a chance.
But I honestly, seriously, doubt that will happen.
Fuck off with the shilling already!
That isn't shilling. It's Reporting.
Mr. Castile had a record of 52 traffic stops, including operating after revocation of license and "not carrying a proper insurance card". Nonetheless I will consider your suggestion, very seriously, after you tell me: did Mr. Castile, after informing the police that he had a licensed firearm with him, and being told not to move - did he then move, or did he not? And did he "display" the gun or not? An investigation has been opened as to justification or lack of it, and possible culpability. Let's wait for the process to finish investigating. If at that time, you want to criticize the process, then that would be entirely appropriate.
I seriously doubt that anyone with a open mind could look at his "crime of the century" driving record and conclude anything other than he was repeatedly cited for DWB.
...or be driving with a bad tail light.
Yep, you just keep on excusing the jackbooted thugs who commit cold blooded murder under color of law, you racist fuck
This is what happens when you're a criminal. Don't want to be shot? Don't be a criminal.
Tell that to Philando Castille.
Microsoft hasn't had to "attack" anything to prevent linux from gaining wider adoption (they pretty much did themselves in). This is a case of them helping developers.
But Developers already think macOS is the best to use for Developers.
I thought we stole it from them? You mean give it back?
Nope it was "stolen" from Apple.
I use Win to play games and develop. Now I can get best from both worlds, in a single boot w/o virtual crap. For me bash in Win is win.
You mean like this?
Part of earning my living is done using the gEDA tools to reverse engineer old CNC controls. Linux is no toy for me. I'm sure there's a few network admins and others who are also glad there's a legit alternative to the Microsoft universe for doing real work.
I believe there is.
Oh no, when will this nightmare end ?
RIght now, if you want it to.