Your argument is like saying "Apple forces me to learn Objective C"
Yeah, I get rather tired of that one. I was in Apple DTS in the days when all the newbs bitched about wanting to write Cocoa apps in C++. Some people are way too proud of having mastered needless complexity.
I disagree. For that 30%, Apple is hosting the apps, collecting the payment and remitting it to the developer, distributing the updates, providing a global notification service, and making apps easy to find with centralized searching.
Compare it to what software companies used to pay distributors like Ingram.
At this point, MS needs Office on iPad more than Apple does.
Exactly. As the PC fades into history and the iPad takes over, MS has a rapidly-closing window in which to maintain their market position as the default business apps vendor.
I know that's not the accepted conventional wisdom,
The only people I see who haven't realized it are working in Redmond and trying to pretend that the world isn't changing under their feet.
Is that Apple doesn't need them anymore. The iPhone alone makes more revenue than all of Microsoft, and it got to this position without MS office. This isn't 1996.
No, this is a thief trying to get the government to businesses to allow him to steal the use of their equipment and services. The carriers don't want spammers any more than you do, because the spammers irritate their customers and waste their resources.
Spamming is not, and has never been a free speech issue. It's a property rights issue. The spammer's right to free speech does not create a duty for anyone else to allow him to use their privately-owned equipment to send the spam. If the greasy little bastard wants to advertise, then he should buy ad space like any legitimate business would.
Perhaps you can explain what's so "civilized" about handing money over to governments? Don't forget that it's governments, not Microsoft's shareholders, that kill people on an industrial scale.
So, these companies employ competent accountants, tax attorneys and financial managers to preserve their shareholders' earnings. That's exactly what they're supposed to do.: It's called meeting their fiduciary duty.
The effect of the New Deal was to maintain the depression until after FDR's death. The recovery occurred in 1946, when we cut federal spending by 2/3, and release a million men from military service.
The Luddites were right
Oh, for crying out loud. You are a blithering idiot.
Automation guarantees that we will, eventually, have 50+% permanent unemployment. We'll need to transition to a socialist economy to survive
Yeah, because a majority of all the people are unemployed now that we only need 4% of the population to work on farms to feed us, right? Back around 1900, when 80% of the people in the USA worked on farms, who could have foreseen the horrific effects of mechanization of agriculture? The horror!
You are very sadly misinformed about the effects of automation on productivity.
Apple didn't ditch them. Alex Grossman saw that he could make a very good living filling the niche that was left when Apple got out of that line of work, and several other people went with him over the following year.
As for that IDC report, it appears to include everything from bare drives to NAS. Xserve RAID was #3 after EMC and NetApp in their product category.
even Apple acknowledges that there's no market for their server grade systems and they've stopped selling them.
That's not quite correct. Apple's server and storage business was doing quite well. With the Xserve RAID, Apple was in fact the #3 storage vendor in the world when they discontinued the product.
The problem was that a line of business can be very successful, but still not successful enough to be worth Apple's investment of engineering time. If the same people who designed the Xserve can develop the next iMac instead, then Apple can't really justify delaying the consumer product.
If there were enough hardware engineers to fill these jobs, Apple might still be in the server business.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Any act of congress which purports to empower the executive branch to search without probable cause is unconstitutional, and therefore not a law at all.
Nonsense. There's no shortage of market incentive to develop better battery technology, and there's no reason to expect that whoever the DOE picks out of a hat is going to succeed. The DOE's track record on this kind of boondoggle is hundreds of millions pissed away on politically-connected charlatans like Solyndra's hucksters.
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Your argument is like saying "Apple forces me to learn Objective C"
Yeah, I get rather tired of that one. I was in Apple DTS in the days when all the newbs bitched about wanting to write Cocoa apps in C++. Some people are way too proud of having mastered needless complexity.
-jcr
Promises, promises.
-jcr
Get over it.
Get over what? A year-end buying opportunity?
I have no complaints about AAPL's performance. I've been all-in since 2002.
-jcr
It's a theft of services.
-jcr
30% is absurd as it is.
I disagree. For that 30%, Apple is hosting the apps, collecting the payment and remitting it to the developer, distributing the updates, providing a global notification service, and making apps easy to find with centralized searching.
Compare it to what software companies used to pay distributors like Ingram.
-jcr
At this point, MS needs Office on iPad more than Apple does.
Exactly. As the PC fades into history and the iPad takes over, MS has a rapidly-closing window in which to maintain their market position as the default business apps vendor.
I know that's not the accepted conventional wisdom,
The only people I see who haven't realized it are working in Redmond and trying to pretend that the world isn't changing under their feet.
-jcr
Apple doesn't distribute their Windows apps through the MS store, so no.
-jcr
Is that Apple doesn't need them anymore. The iPhone alone makes more revenue than all of Microsoft, and it got to this position without MS office. This isn't 1996.
-jcr
Don't most ISPs these days have terms of service that include spammers having to pay damages?
-jcr
No, this is a thief trying to get the government to businesses to allow him to steal the use of their equipment and services. The carriers don't want spammers any more than you do, because the spammers irritate their customers and waste their resources.
-jcr
Spamming is not, and has never been a free speech issue. It's a property rights issue. The spammer's right to free speech does not create a duty for anyone else to allow him to use their privately-owned equipment to send the spam. If the greasy little bastard wants to advertise, then he should buy ad space like any legitimate business would.
-jcr
"Fair share"? What exactly is "fair" about taking someone's earnings under threat of violence?
-jcr
Perhaps you can explain what's so "civilized" about handing money over to governments? Don't forget that it's governments, not Microsoft's shareholders, that kill people on an industrial scale.
-jcr
Please let me know what companies have let you on their boards, so that I can call my broker and short them.
-jcr
So, these companies employ competent accountants, tax attorneys and financial managers to preserve their shareholders' earnings. That's exactly what they're supposed to do.: It's called meeting their fiduciary duty.
-jcr
The effect of the New Deal was to maintain the depression until after FDR's death. The recovery occurred in 1946, when we cut federal spending by 2/3, and release a million men from military service.
The Luddites were right
Oh, for crying out loud. You are a blithering idiot.
-jcr
Automation guarantees that we will, eventually, have 50+% permanent unemployment. We'll need to transition to a socialist economy to survive
Yeah, because a majority of all the people are unemployed now that we only need 4% of the population to work on farms to feed us, right? Back around 1900, when 80% of the people in the USA worked on farms, who could have foreseen the horrific effects of mechanization of agriculture? The horror!
You are very sadly misinformed about the effects of automation on productivity.
-jcr
Apple didn't ditch them. Alex Grossman saw that he could make a very good living filling the niche that was left when Apple got out of that line of work, and several other people went with him over the following year.
As for that IDC report, it appears to include everything from bare drives to NAS. Xserve RAID was #3 after EMC and NetApp in their product category.
-jcr
even Apple acknowledges that there's no market for their server grade systems and they've stopped selling them.
That's not quite correct. Apple's server and storage business was doing quite well. With the Xserve RAID, Apple was in fact the #3 storage vendor in the world when they discontinued the product.
The problem was that a line of business can be very successful, but still not successful enough to be worth Apple's investment of engineering time. If the same people who designed the Xserve can develop the next iMac instead, then Apple can't really justify delaying the consumer product.
If there were enough hardware engineers to fill these jobs, Apple might still be in the server business.
-jcr
Wasn't the Partiot Act supposed to be a temporary measure and set to expire?
Yeah, just like income tax withholding.
-jcr
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Any act of congress which purports to empower the executive branch to search without probable cause is unconstitutional, and therefore not a law at all.
-jcr
I do that with any portable machine I use, all the time. Why would anyone not do so?
-jcr
Nonsense. There's no shortage of market incentive to develop better battery technology, and there's no reason to expect that whoever the DOE picks out of a hat is going to succeed. The DOE's track record on this kind of boondoggle is hundreds of millions pissed away on politically-connected charlatans like Solyndra's hucksters.
-jcr
Launch from somewhere accessible to the market via other modes, but with sane local regulations.
So, if I want to go SFO->HKG, I'd need to hop a flight to Mexico first?
I think that would still be a win, actually.
-jcr
You need to take an economics class.
Follow your own advice. Pay attention when they mention the phrase "comparative advantage."
-jcr