Well, that really depends on how you define success. If you think that they succeeded because they made it through mostly unscathed and that it ended and everyone went home, then you're probably right. Their share price even managed to recover to nearly the same value by closing.
However, most people expect more from Apple than a few minor tweaks and "refreshes", especially regarding the iPhone. Their presentation basically restated, bullet by bullet, everything that had been leaked to date. Nothing new or inspiring, and some things that weren't so inspiring (thanks, AT&T, for nothing). There wasn't even a "One More Thing".
No visions for the future. Nothing innovative, inspiring, or even interesting. In all, it was an ordinary, if not downright boring, conference that promised nothing but More of the Same.
Meet Vinny and Guido, my business associates in the waste management business.
You see, it's like this. I gotta eat. My kids gotta eat. Vinny and Guido's families have to eat.
We know where you live. It's a nice place, big houses, fancy cars. You can afford to eat, very well.
You wouldn't your neighboorhood to fall victim to all sorts of garbage dumpers, would you? How about a recycling plant, right next to where you work?
No? Well, I'm sure you'll understand when I say that it is in your best interest to respect our business model. Or else, Vinny and Guido might have to go hungry for a bit. And I assure you, they get very unfriendly when they get hungry.
The same publishers who currently pay for their own delivery systems, be it magazines or free leaflets left in mailboxes or bundled with the Sunday edition.
We're talking about changing the publishing landscape. If "Parade" wants to embed their own advertisers into the stream they buy into, that's how they make their money.
It's only DRM'd in the fact that it's a different platform, in much the same way downloadable ringtones in WAV format are "DRM'D" because they can only be sent to a cellphone.
I really don't see how not being able to make copies from a portable news reader is relevant to the discussion. If it's in their business model to release a "Deluxe" version with a USB port for printing out the articles at a bit of a premium, then the entire issue becomes moot.
Change the medium. The problem newspapers face now is that they don't have enough paper subscribers, and the web readers get a free ride. So give the stories away for free, and charge for the platform. The cable company doesn't care about what channel you watch, just that your check clears every month.
1. Stop printing news on paper. 2. Give out electronic devices that update automatically and wirelessly 3. Bill the users of those electronic devices a small but non-trivial monthly rate (say, $14.99 with a 2-year subscription) 4. Offer other publishers access to your platform for much larger sums. So a subscription to your paper also includes a subscription to the local sports magazine, dining guide, etc. 5. Work out a deal with Craigslist to deliver local classified ads for free.
Now Hulu just has to dump Flash and pick an HD format that can get some hardware accelerating love, and this will make every owner of a Netbook extremely happy.
With specs like that, I'm curious as to what their target demographic is? Apple already tied up the young, hip and ignorant. iRiver owns the cheap and techy. All that's left is the old and confused.
The Zune is like the Go-Bots of digital media players. It's what your grandmother will buy you for your birthday, knowing you like that "music thing"
I'm sure someone can run numbers to compare the trends of flu vaccinations and the number of ADHD diagnoses made every year. I bet someone could even win some prestigious awards for doing so.
It would be total fabrication, of course. But when has that ever stopped activists before?
I'm going to come out and point my finger at the true culprits behind the current situation, and not for the reasons you expect, either.
Media Companies, especially movie producers, you are the ones to blame.
Why? Because this is the Future that they've always promised us!
THEY were the ones who told us of a time when life will be "Good". A time when everyone would have instant access to all the world's entertainment at the touch of a button. When barriers like locality were meaningless. When limitations like plastic disks that harm the environment and wires that clutter the scenery would be dissolved.
THIS IS THE FUTURE YOU PROMISED US.
A future that means instant communication with infinite capacity. A future of unbridled creativity and unlimited opportunity. A future that allows humanity to transcend the limits of the old economic views -- infinite supply, unlimited demand -- and find a new way of doing things.
In your movies. In your stories and programs and books and even your marketing and literature.
Slashdot Mirror
Yep, he's still dead.
Welcome to the new Media Democracy.
looks like another successful WWDC.
Well, that really depends on how you define success. If you think that they succeeded because they made it through mostly unscathed and that it ended and everyone went home, then you're probably right. Their share price even managed to recover to nearly the same value by closing.
However, most people expect more from Apple than a few minor tweaks and "refreshes", especially regarding the iPhone. Their presentation basically restated, bullet by bullet, everything that had been leaked to date. Nothing new or inspiring, and some things that weren't so inspiring (thanks, AT&T, for nothing). There wasn't even a "One More Thing".
No visions for the future. Nothing innovative, inspiring, or even interesting. In all, it was an ordinary, if not downright boring, conference that promised nothing but More of the Same.
Giant resistance? Colossal effect?
We're about two adjectives away from Ginormous.
Strings ARE flexible! You can even tie them in knots.
Hi, I'm Chris Hansen. I'm here to collect your taxes.
Meet Quintippio: The new 15-Blade Mega Shave!
Show your beard who's boss!
The man who's name is synonymous with Security: Peter Norton
If you watch Fox News, I doubt you're reading the New York Times anyway.
Meet Vinny and Guido, my business associates in the waste management business.
You see, it's like this. I gotta eat. My kids gotta eat. Vinny and Guido's families have to eat.
We know where you live. It's a nice place, big houses, fancy cars. You can afford to eat, very well.
You wouldn't your neighboorhood to fall victim to all sorts of garbage dumpers, would you? How about a recycling plant, right next to where you work?
No? Well, I'm sure you'll understand when I say that it is in your best interest to respect our business model. Or else, Vinny and Guido might have to go hungry for a bit. And I assure you, they get very unfriendly when they get hungry.
Capiche?
The same publishers who currently pay for their own delivery systems, be it magazines or free leaflets left in mailboxes or bundled with the Sunday edition.
We're talking about changing the publishing landscape. If "Parade" wants to embed their own advertisers into the stream they buy into, that's how they make their money.
Yes, the kind they use at Jurassic Park.
So what happens when you SLI two of these badboys together?
It's only DRM'd in the fact that it's a different platform, in much the same way downloadable ringtones in WAV format are "DRM'D" because they can only be sent to a cellphone.
I really don't see how not being able to make copies from a portable news reader is relevant to the discussion. If it's in their business model to release a "Deluxe" version with a USB port for printing out the articles at a bit of a premium, then the entire issue becomes moot.
Change the medium. The problem newspapers face now is that they don't have enough paper subscribers, and the web readers get a free ride. So give the stories away for free, and charge for the platform. The cable company doesn't care about what channel you watch, just that your check clears every month.
I call it "The Kindle does Cable:"
1. Stop printing news on paper.
2. Give out electronic devices that update automatically and wirelessly
3. Bill the users of those electronic devices a small but non-trivial monthly rate (say, $14.99 with a 2-year subscription)
4. Offer other publishers access to your platform for much larger sums. So a subscription to your paper also includes a subscription to the local sports magazine, dining guide, etc.
5. Work out a deal with Craigslist to deliver local classified ads for free.
Or, what the rest of us call a "Cable Box"
Now Hulu just has to dump Flash and pick an HD format that can get some hardware accelerating love, and this will make every owner of a Netbook extremely happy.
Seriously, a 400px wide table?
Monitors have done better than that since the advent of VGA.
He should have said that the drugs were for his Goat!
Really? That came from someone who attends UC Berkeley?
He's obviously not taking his daily recommended dose of LSD. Or, maybe taking too much.
Ground control to Major Tom...
With specs like that, I'm curious as to what their target demographic is? Apple already tied up the young, hip and ignorant. iRiver owns the cheap and techy. All that's left is the old and confused.
The Zune is like the Go-Bots of digital media players. It's what your grandmother will buy you for your birthday, knowing you like that "music thing"
I blame the Flu Vaccination.
I'm sure someone can run numbers to compare the trends of flu vaccinations and the number of ADHD diagnoses made every year. I bet someone could even win some prestigious awards for doing so.
It would be total fabrication, of course. But when has that ever stopped activists before?
To paraphrase the great Walter Biship, "It only doesn't matter, until it does."
I'm going to come out and point my finger at the true culprits behind the current situation, and not for the reasons you expect, either.
Media Companies, especially movie producers, you are the ones to blame.
Why? Because this is the Future that they've always promised us!
THEY were the ones who told us of a time when life will be "Good". A time when everyone would have instant access to all the world's entertainment at the touch of a button. When barriers like locality were meaningless. When limitations like plastic disks that harm the environment and wires that clutter the scenery would be dissolved.
THIS IS THE FUTURE YOU PROMISED US.
A future that means instant communication with infinite capacity. A future of unbridled creativity and unlimited opportunity. A future that allows humanity to transcend the limits of the old economic views -- infinite supply, unlimited demand -- and find a new way of doing things.
In your movies. In your stories and programs and books and even your marketing and literature.
This is where you told us you would take us.
This, the here and now, is the future.
And it scares the living shit out of you.