imo there is a certain amount of truth to that but generally only at a products release or update. Apple don't tend to change prices unlike many others (take Dell for example)
Of course the times Apple has lowered prices, people were in a rage that they did (because they "just" bought one 2 months ago).
Not as amusing as the image of somebody recording the whole Superbowl with a hand camera - probably in the hope to capture something that gets censored later on. Hello?
Also don't be surprised by Nokia and Sony-Ericsson bringing out new phones, where the marketing campaign is completely focused on the fact that the new phone is simply made for Xtreme video conferencing and that quite unlike others before (and no mentions of plain voice phoning are made). Nor that none of the people poo-pooing Apple's commercial will say a single word about it.
Yeah, your little scenario would make sense in a mythical world where 95% of screens weren't glossy. Why don't you tell me how to bring down the price of IDE drives?
Face it, the best way for Apple to bring down costs is to drop the matte option - and that even works in combination with your plan of "simplifying the assembly" (that's business degree talk for shoddy work, right?)
Here is an option. Just make the Matte and scrap the Glossy. Now you only have one option to the cost of assembly goes down, supply problems go away, and you have a better product to market! Magical how that works.
At a far higher price for the display - but hey, one more thing to complain about, right? Gee, the very existence of Apple must be the worst thing that happened to you guys.
You lost me. The curreebt price difference probably isn't much different and the added cost of changing the production run seems to already be factored in because they already cost more to buy in the first place..
Yeah, that's obvious. You ignore that not only the price can change (because the production has almost completely shifted from matte to glossy - I bet you think IDE drives are still cheaper than SATA too), but also that changing production from having one (or rather no) option to two options increases price by more than the difference in price for the materials. It's quite clearly my fault I didn't just turn off my brain like you did. Sorry.
People I think tend to forget that the expense of doing original stuff at the quality people today expect is a large part of the problem.
I don't see the cost savings in remaking "War of the Worlds" or "The Day the Earth Stood Still" compared to adapting any of the many excellent SciFi books that have never been filmed.
Well, at least for "War of the Worlds" the copyright has run out - saves a couple of millions. Gee, and you though the end of copyrights didn't have its downsides.
Hey, Roddenberry was a big Shakespeare fan, and he picked Shatner and Stewart for being classical Shakespearean actors. The many quotes and even excerpt plays are no coincidence either.
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Am I missing something? Without the ability to keep the application open in the background (not supported by Apple), how can you receive calls?
You either keep the app open (duh), or you use iCall - iPhone App Enables GSM To WiFi/VoIP Switching
It's all a conspiracy to make you look stupid.
Truphone? Gee, I wonder why they have a nice, red "now on iPod Touch" button on their homepage?
No, if Apple had made the add, people would say there was no way that Kylie could have done all that in the 29 seconds the add takes.
imo there is a certain amount of truth to that but generally only at a products release or update. Apple don't tend to change prices unlike many others (take Dell for example)
Of course the times Apple has lowered prices, people were in a rage that they did (because they "just" bought one 2 months ago).
Not as amusing as the image of somebody recording the whole Superbowl with a hand camera - probably in the hope to capture something that gets censored later on. Hello?
Wait a sec, I thought the stork delivered the babies, not the mailman.
I fail to see how South Koreans are "paranoid mentally unbalanced, and unlikely to change." If anything the south has embraced a lot of US ideals
Too easy.
This is an IT site, things can change pretty fast in IT - well, reasons for and against naming convention may not be among them....
Wrong. But sure, that's Wikipedia saying that, so the AC must be saying the truth.
Try out Amazon MP3.
It's cheap, DRM-less, and easy. Plus
... it can't be used outside the USA either. Great alternative there.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/27/024242 Yup, nobody noticed then they were actually patenting video conferencing.
I don't give a fucking shit about the glossy - it's you who can't keep yapping about it as if our life depended on it - or rather its abolishment.
Also don't be surprised by Nokia and Sony-Ericsson bringing out new phones, where the marketing campaign is completely focused on the fact that the new phone is simply made for Xtreme video conferencing and that quite unlike others before (and no mentions of plain voice phoning are made). Nor that none of the people poo-pooing Apple's commercial will say a single word about it.
Face it, the best way for Apple to bring down costs is to drop the matte option - and that even works in combination with your plan of "simplifying the assembly" (that's business degree talk for shoddy work, right?)
I can't give you your precious bullshitpedia citation because I'm under NDA.
That's troll-talk for "I made it up".
A. CURRENT price difference, having just checked, is once again on average 5 cents difference between glossy and matte panels.
{{citation needed}}
That is assuming that matte cost less. Yeah, some kind of logic that is.
So you didn't ignore it, you just didn't care about those facts? What an intelligent, well thought out reasoned post.
Here is an option. Just make the Matte and scrap the Glossy. Now you only have one option to the cost of assembly goes down, supply problems go away, and you have a better product to market! Magical how that works.
At a far higher price for the display - but hey, one more thing to complain about, right? Gee, the very existence of Apple must be the worst thing that happened to you guys.
You lost me. The curreebt price difference probably isn't much different and the added cost of changing the production run seems to already be factored in because they already cost more to buy in the first place..
Yeah, that's obvious. You ignore that not only the price can change (because the production has almost completely shifted from matte to glossy - I bet you think IDE drives are still cheaper than SATA too), but also that changing production from having one (or rather no) option to two options increases price by more than the difference in price for the materials. It's quite clearly my fault I didn't just turn off my brain like you did. Sorry.
You are comparing notebook LCDs to desktop LCDs?
I'm an industry insider as a former laptop repair instructor.
The actual price WE, the repair depot, paid for matte panels was about 5 cents more expensive than the glossy panels.
Which ignores two things
A) the current price difference
B) the added cost to change them in a mass production run
I don't see the cost savings in remaking "War of the Worlds" or "The Day the Earth Stood Still" compared to adapting any of the many excellent SciFi books that have never been filmed.
Well, at least for "War of the Worlds" the copyright has run out - saves a couple of millions. Gee, and you though the end of copyrights didn't have its downsides.
Hey, Roddenberry was a big Shakespeare fan, and he picked Shatner and Stewart for being classical Shakespearean actors. The many quotes and even excerpt plays are no coincidence either.