Yeah, one of Apple's selling points is no-brainer compatability with other Apple products. Having seperate companies would have to hurt them there.
One another note, how are smaller, specialized companies more stable than larger diversified companies. Isn't diversification a basic principle of business? I'd say Apple has that part down pretty well.
You can read an interesting piece from an analyst at the University of Iowa here. (It's the google-ized html of a pdf.) The summary: Apple stock is nice because of their diversity as a company. Here's a quote:
Diversification in product offerings not only draws new customers, but also deepens the commitment of existing users.
But then we knew that already.;)
How would this affect Apple's financial wellbeing?
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Should Apple Buy TiVo?
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Regardless of tivo's strengths as a product, it could be interesting to consider the financial side of things.
Tivo is trading at around $7 right now. This is pretty normal for tivo's stock. In the last year it's been as high as $8 or so. (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TIVO&d=c&t=1y&l=on&z =b&q=l)
Apple on the other hand is trading around $19. It's a tad down right now (as is everything else), but has been as high as $25 in a year. (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL&d=c&t=1y&l=on&z =b&q=l)
So could tivo's aquisition help Apple's stock? I have no idea... I'm a computer science major.;) Any CPAs out there who can help interpret the stock stuff?
It's hard to find a kid who likes just animation anymore. Kids have evolved. You don't have many boys watching cartoons when they're thirteen. That's not happening anymore. They are evolving emotionally faster.
Yet the anime and manga industries thrive in Japan. While that industry and our cartoon industry have many differences, I'll bet we're talking about the same demographic.
Children may be evolving emotionally faster, but the blame can be placed directly on American cartoons' coefficient of crappiness. Emotionally mature adults gobble up anime all the time.
I don't disagree with you. But you can't deny that this looks bad for Steve and Apple. People say that good will is a meaningless accounting term, but the name Apple Computer does count for something. Apple's position as a Microsoft alternative is hurt by bad PR.
Remember this? It looked really bad for Apple then, now there's another smudge on the Apple name.
I love Apple, but you have to admit that the $1/year fiasco was at least a PR mis-step.
Just as PJ and his writers missed the contextual meanings (and brilliance) of LotR, you're misunderstanding the context of Nermal's post. What you call improvements, true fans of LotR see as perversions of characters and plot.
I'm done with this thread. If you have to get the last word, go for it. It is fairly obvious that you're in love with your own words...
Again, I am not one of those "it differed from the book by a sentence and is therefore crap" people. But there are limits to how much one can change before such changes become audacious and it matters whether or not the changes are improvements.
So your repeated, "Oh no, another departure from "canon"!" is really unfounded. Did you even read his post, or did you just glance at it and start flaming away?
What Nermal's talking about is contextual change. He's not complaining about departure from the origional literal work.
How your flaimbait can be modded up is beyond my understanding...
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LOTR: The Two Towers
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Kudos on a well-written post. I totally agree with what you're saying. PJ has cheapened the story and really didn't have to.
At the end of the first movie I was really happy. Sure, it deviated from the book, but with good cause. At the end of Two Towers I was cursing at the screen in vain.
Maybe it was naive of me to think all three movies could be well-made. Watching this pale immatation of the Two Towers felt like a carpet was being pulled from under me.
Seems PJ was tempted by the Ring of cash being thrown at him to make a dumbed-down flick that would be palatable to the masses. Too bad there's no Gollum to chomp off his finger...
Thanks, Dran. I was hoping someone would mention these points. I was really upset by the movie. Tolkien's books have been loved for half a century... why does Hollywood (yeah, Kiwis included) feel like they have to spice it up?
And the grudge match between Frodo and the Witch King kinda ruins the plot... Frodo and Sam are able to make it only because Sauron doesn't know about them. Having Frodo march up to the Lord of the Nazgul and give him a righteous stink-eye is a good way to blow your cover.
But hey, no matter how bad the movie stinks they can never ruin the book.
Will these OS-less boxes help promote more widespread use of Linux, or will they just screw over computer-illiterates who thought they found a really good deal?
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One another note, how are smaller, specialized companies more stable than larger diversified companies. Isn't diversification a basic principle of business? I'd say Apple has that part down pretty well.
You can read an interesting piece from an analyst at the University of Iowa here. (It's the google-ized html of a pdf.) The summary: Apple stock is nice because of their diversity as a company. Here's a quote:
But then we knew that already.
Regardless of tivo's strengths as a product, it could be interesting to consider the financial side of things.
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;) Any CPAs out there who can help interpret the stock stuff?
Tivo is trading at around $7 right now. This is pretty normal for tivo's stock. In the last year it's been as high as $8 or so. (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TIVO&d=c&t=1y&l=on&
Apple on the other hand is trading around $19. It's a tad down right now (as is everything else), but has been as high as $25 in a year. (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL&d=c&t=1y&l=on&
So could tivo's aquisition help Apple's stock? I have no idea... I'm a computer science major.
Yet the anime and manga industries thrive in Japan. While that industry and our cartoon industry have many differences, I'll bet we're talking about the same demographic.
Children may be evolving emotionally faster, but the blame can be placed directly on American cartoons' coefficient of crappiness. Emotionally mature adults gobble up anime all the time.
... how AAC compression works? What would be involved in writing a filter to convert from AAC to MP3?
Remember this? It looked really bad for Apple then, now there's another smudge on the Apple name.
I love Apple, but you have to admit that the $1/year fiasco was at least a PR mis-step.
Just as PJ and his writers missed the contextual meanings (and brilliance) of LotR, you're misunderstanding the context of Nermal's post. What you call improvements, true fans of LotR see as perversions of characters and plot.
I'm done with this thread. If you have to get the last word, go for it. It is fairly obvious that you're in love with your own words...
Again, I am not one of those "it differed from the book by a sentence and is therefore crap" people. But there are limits to how much one can change before such changes become audacious and it matters whether or not the changes are improvements.
So your repeated, "Oh no, another departure from "canon"!" is really unfounded. Did you even read his post, or did you just glance at it and start flaming away?
What Nermal's talking about is contextual change. He's not complaining about departure from the origional literal work.
How your flaimbait can be modded up is beyond my understanding...
Kudos on a well-written post. I totally agree with what you're saying. PJ has cheapened the story and really didn't have to.
At the end of the first movie I was really happy. Sure, it deviated from the book, but with good cause. At the end of Two Towers I was cursing at the screen in vain.
Maybe it was naive of me to think all three movies could be well-made. Watching this pale immatation of the Two Towers felt like a carpet was being pulled from under me.
Seems PJ was tempted by the Ring of cash being thrown at him to make a dumbed-down flick that would be palatable to the masses. Too bad there's no Gollum to chomp off his finger...
Thanks, Dran. I was hoping someone would mention these points. I was really upset by the movie. Tolkien's books have been loved for half a century... why does Hollywood (yeah, Kiwis included) feel like they have to spice it up?
And the grudge match between Frodo and the Witch King kinda ruins the plot... Frodo and Sam are able to make it only because Sauron doesn't know about them. Having Frodo march up to the Lord of the Nazgul and give him a righteous stink-eye is a good way to blow your cover.
But hey, no matter how bad the movie stinks they can never ruin the book.
*Sigh* This was funny before the parent was modded into the troll-abyss.
Feature gaps like a fox!
Will these OS-less boxes help promote more widespread use of Linux, or will they just screw over computer-illiterates who thought they found a really good deal?
...or both?