I am not just talking about the CPU. Other chips (RAM, flash) are not smaller on the iPhone. The iPhone SE is cheaper, but that's because, as I said, the cellular version of the iPad is overpriced. The cellular radio can't be worth $130 since you can get cheap smartphones at this price. The ability to make phone calls doesn't add any hardware cost since their is already a microphone and speaker.
Agreed, except if that means getting a SIM-locked phone for the same price as an unlocked one, as it is often the case with the iPhone. The interest you save on two years isn't worth the hassle/unlock cost.
Even the cellular iPad is less expensive than the iPhone. And we all know they make much more profit on the cellular iPad. The radio is not worth $130. You can get stand-alone WiFi/Cellular hotspot for that price. As well as cheap smartphones.
It amazes me that they can offer the iPad for so cheap compared to the iPhone. Most components are the same, but the display and battery (probably the two most expensive components) must be much more expensive on the tablet, because of the size.
We can thank carrier subsidies. A lot of people buy phones they can't afford because of that. I doubt they would be going to the bank to get a loan if it wasn't offered by the carrier.
So the nonsense that happiness is expected to trend downwards is...exaggeration at least.
Is it? Hint: Are Trump's policies going to bring the USA closer to countries making the top of this report? It seems pretty obvious he is going in the opposite direction.
I doubt it changed that much. Torrents are still there and young people even started "streaming" (they often don't even understand they are pirating) TV shows and movies, this was clearly not possible 20 years ago (it was technically possible, but bandwidth was worth more so not a lot of people wanted to saturate their connection only for some random pirates to be able to watch a show).
We expect young people with less money to pirate more. Some slashdotters said young people no longer read books, that may be an explanation.
And having a penny would make me the richest person on Mars. A subsistence farmer with little or no income could have a better quality of life than someone making $60,000 per year in San Francisco. Having more money means squat if the cost of living is higher; location matters.
Put it the way you want, I don't think a lot of people earning $60k in San Francisco are looking to move to Congo to do subsistence farming. I'm sure a lot of subsistence farmers from Congo would be glad to be allowed to move to San Francisco, a $60k job would only be a bonus. You may not know Congo very well but I'll give you a hint: the subsistence farmer doesn't complain about his cell phone data cap or the taste of his starbuck.
Except I am not talking about Haiti and such but the world average. And I even said you could compare to the average of developed countries.
With $60k+, we are part of the rich, like it or not. The 1% is not people with private jets and huge mansions. That's the 0.0001%, and I am probably forgetting some 0's. The 1% is us, people with good jobs in developed countries.
The key word is "relatively". 30 to 44 is indeed older than we could have expected.
Also $60K puts you in the global 0.19% according to http://www.globalrichlist.com/ It's definitely rich on a world-wide scale, and no, you don't need to compare only the third world. Even in developed countries that must easily be in the top 20%. But hey, it's easier to complain when you think you are poor.
This is price fixing. Apple is free to raise the price of its products, but shouldn't be allowed to dictate the price for resellers. If they don't want any profit margin it's their problem.
In the US, free speech is protected by the Constitution. Courts consistently rule to protect it here. There's no such constitutional protection in Europe on speech.
This is a common US-American misconception. There is freedom of speech protection in Europe. It's in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (which is legally binding in the whole EU) as well as in the constitution of many/most European countries, including Germany and France.
The difference is the interpretation and the limitations of such right. As you said yourself, even in the USA that right isn't absolute.
So what? Gazprom is a state owned company. When it sells natural gas to European countries, does it forbid the resale at a different price? I don't think so.
I think the main feature these legacy IM protocols lacked is message synchronization across devices. I don't want to read the same message 3 times and I want to be able to continue a conversation I started on my phone on my PC.
Well it's called RCS and it's being deployed, by everyone but Apple. But it's still a bad idea because the carrier is in control (can still bill you for every message sent/received) and it still rely on phone numbers, which is probably the worst identifier I could think of.
Not everyone's use case can possibly be covered with one application.
Of course. But we don't need to cover everyone's use case. We only need to cover the use cases for 99% of the people and that can easily be done in a single application. Only 1% have special needs such as the options provided by WeChat. And as much as I'd like added security and privacy, most people don't care about that either.
So if there is a single open standard solution which works on all devices, which is used by 99% of the people, the other 1% will have to follow despite the lacking features.
iMessage is a huge step backward as it's not only proprietary, it's single vendor. Let say every phone vendor cloned iMessage. We would still be stuck with hundred of incompatible messaging protocols. Sure, they would all fall back to SMS, but that would also mean that you couldn't change phone number (especially internationally), and that we would all be stuck on our tiny phones even if we have a real keyboard on our much faster PCs.
The sole purpose of iMessage is to form a closed community of Apple device owners.
We are not going to solve this problem at once. The first step is to stop using the crappiest instant messaging solutions and move on until we get only open standards, and hopefully there will only be one.
1. Stop using proprietary, single-vendor solutions (iMessage) 2. Stop using proprietary solutions not working on common internet-connected devices (Whatsapp doesn't work on PCs) 3. Stop using open solutions unable to work on all internet-connected devices by design (SMS) 4. Stop using proprietary solutions not accepting third party clients (can't work inside pidgin) 5. Stop using proprietary solutions not using an open standard as a back-end (many protocols use XMPP but are still locked-down) 6. Use only open standards
There are workarounds but still not good enough. Phone numbers are still location based, you can't get a Google Voice number in almost all countries, and it's often more expensive to send international SMS.
The problem is that you don't own the phone number, the carrier (or Google in your case) does.
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I am not just talking about the CPU. Other chips (RAM, flash) are not smaller on the iPhone.
The iPhone SE is cheaper, but that's because, as I said, the cellular version of the iPad is overpriced. The cellular radio can't be worth $130 since you can get cheap smartphones at this price. The ability to make phone calls doesn't add any hardware cost since their is already a microphone and speaker.
Agreed, except if that means getting a SIM-locked phone for the same price as an unlocked one, as it is often the case with the iPhone.
The interest you save on two years isn't worth the hassle/unlock cost.
Even the cellular iPad is less expensive than the iPhone.
And we all know they make much more profit on the cellular iPad. The radio is not worth $130. You can get stand-alone WiFi/Cellular hotspot for that price. As well as cheap smartphones.
The 0% interest is the subsidy.
My point of view is that if you don't have $700 for a phone, you can't afford a $700 phone, period, even if you finance it on two years.
Sometimes it costs more to get similar performance into a smaller package.
Sometimes, but not in that case. They use the same components. The A9 CPU in the iPhone is NOT a miniaturized version of the A9 in the iPad.
It amazes me that they can offer the iPad for so cheap compared to the iPhone. Most components are the same, but the display and battery (probably the two most expensive components) must be much more expensive on the tablet, because of the size.
We can thank carrier subsidies. A lot of people buy phones they can't afford because of that. I doubt they would be going to the bank to get a loan if it wasn't offered by the carrier.
So the nonsense that happiness is expected to trend downwards is...exaggeration at least.
Is it?
Hint: Are Trump's policies going to bring the USA closer to countries making the top of this report? It seems pretty obvious he is going in the opposite direction.
I doubt it changed that much. Torrents are still there and young people even started "streaming" (they often don't even understand they are pirating) TV shows and movies, this was clearly not possible 20 years ago (it was technically possible, but bandwidth was worth more so not a lot of people wanted to saturate their connection only for some random pirates to be able to watch a show).
What are those expectations based on?
We expect young people with less money to pirate more. Some slashdotters said young people no longer read books, that may be an explanation.
And having a penny would make me the richest person on Mars. A subsistence farmer with little or no income could have a better quality of life than someone making $60,000 per year in San Francisco. Having more money means squat if the cost of living is higher; location matters.
Put it the way you want, I don't think a lot of people earning $60k in San Francisco are looking to move to Congo to do subsistence farming. I'm sure a lot of subsistence farmers from Congo would be glad to be allowed to move to San Francisco, a $60k job would only be a bonus. You may not know Congo very well but I'll give you a hint: the subsistence farmer doesn't complain about his cell phone data cap or the taste of his starbuck.
Except I am not talking about Haiti and such but the world average. And I even said you could compare to the average of developed countries.
With $60k+, we are part of the rich, like it or not. The 1% is not people with private jets and huge mansions. That's the 0.0001%, and I am probably forgetting some 0's. The 1% is us, people with good jobs in developed countries.
So in short, you don't want the voice actors and sound technicians to be paid, only the author?
The key word is "relatively". 30 to 44 is indeed older than we could have expected.
Also $60K puts you in the global 0.19% according to http://www.globalrichlist.com/
It's definitely rich on a world-wide scale, and no, you don't need to compare only the third world. Even in developed countries that must easily be in the top 20%.
But hey, it's easier to complain when you think you are poor.
VHS movies were cut for a different ratio (4:3). TVs and phones have very similar ratios (usually 16:9) so why bother making different versions?
Not allowing retailers to sell for profits below or beyond what Apple dictates is not illegal either.
Yes it is, or at least should be in any civilized country.
This is price fixing. Apple is free to raise the price of its products, but shouldn't be allowed to dictate the price for resellers. If they don't want any profit margin it's their problem.
In the US, free speech is protected by the Constitution. Courts consistently rule to protect it here. There's no such constitutional protection in Europe on speech.
This is a common US-American misconception. There is freedom of speech protection in Europe. It's in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (which is legally binding in the whole EU) as well as in the constitution of many/most European countries, including Germany and France.
The difference is the interpretation and the limitations of such right. As you said yourself, even in the USA that right isn't absolute.
Or, in your case, in Canada or Mexico.
Of course nothing is stopping him from suing, except for the slight annoyance of being dead.
in the winter, pretty sure it's colder than that.
So what? Gazprom is a state owned company. When it sells natural gas to European countries, does it forbid the resale at a different price? I don't think so.
I think the main feature these legacy IM protocols lacked is message synchronization across devices. I don't want to read the same message 3 times and I want to be able to continue a conversation I started on my phone on my PC.
Well it's called RCS and it's being deployed, by everyone but Apple.
But it's still a bad idea because the carrier is in control (can still bill you for every message sent/received) and it still rely on phone numbers, which is probably the worst identifier I could think of.
Not everyone's use case can possibly be covered with one application.
Of course. But we don't need to cover everyone's use case. We only need to cover the use cases for 99% of the people and that can easily be done in a single application. Only 1% have special needs such as the options provided by WeChat. And as much as I'd like added security and privacy, most people don't care about that either.
So if there is a single open standard solution which works on all devices, which is used by 99% of the people, the other 1% will have to follow despite the lacking features.
iMessage is a huge step backward as it's not only proprietary, it's single vendor. Let say every phone vendor cloned iMessage. We would still be stuck with hundred of incompatible messaging protocols. Sure, they would all fall back to SMS, but that would also mean that you couldn't change phone number (especially internationally), and that we would all be stuck on our tiny phones even if we have a real keyboard on our much faster PCs.
The sole purpose of iMessage is to form a closed community of Apple device owners.
We are not going to solve this problem at once. The first step is to stop using the crappiest instant messaging solutions and move on until we get only open standards, and hopefully there will only be one.
1. Stop using proprietary, single-vendor solutions (iMessage)
2. Stop using proprietary solutions not working on common internet-connected devices (Whatsapp doesn't work on PCs)
3. Stop using open solutions unable to work on all internet-connected devices by design (SMS)
4. Stop using proprietary solutions not accepting third party clients (can't work inside pidgin)
5. Stop using proprietary solutions not using an open standard as a back-end (many protocols use XMPP but are still locked-down)
6. Use only open standards
There are workarounds but still not good enough. Phone numbers are still location based, you can't get a Google Voice number in almost all countries, and it's often more expensive to send international SMS.
The problem is that you don't own the phone number, the carrier (or Google in your case) does.