Most people don't know what Firefox is. So, if Jobs had specifically talked at length about Firefox in his keynote, reporters are going to feel like they have to explain what FireFox is. Apple doesn't want that, obviously, because it is distracting. If someone is going to read an article about the WWDC keynote, you (if you are apple) don't want the take away to be something about FireFox.
As much as I would like this to happen, IE is bundled onto the computer when you get it (unless you buy a Mac) and it will be the only browser microsoft allows to be on the computer when you take it out of the box.
There are a lot of users who simply aren't tech savvy enough to install anything else. And this turns out to be a huge number. And then there are machines out there that some IT department has locked down. So, those will always be IE because the user isn't allowed to install anything else.
I think this ends up being a pretty large share of the market.
No, you're looking at a LOT MORE than $800 if you include the service contract. More like $3,000* assuming you cancel the contract after the required 2 year.
You are trying to defend a figure of $800 and you are just grasping at straws because that figure is wrong, not matter how you cut it.
*I'm basing 3,000 on $100/month plan at 24 months + the $600 for the device itself.
I assume you are specifically referring to the fact that it has glass?
The Newton had a glass screen and I recall seeing a lot of them fall and none ever broke the screen from the fall. One time someone dropped a newton onto the screen of another newton and the screen did break, but the one she dropped was OK.
So, who knows? It is possible that it might survive a fall but it is hard to say until it actually ships.
OK. I use Safari all the time - pretty much since it came out. My company has a web portal that our guy created using Firefox. It doesn't work in Safari. It does work in Firefox and IE.
I downloaded Safari for Windows today and I'm posting with it here now. It looks great and feels really fast. Hopefully our guy can start testing with it. We aren't buying him a Mac just to test the portal.
The hard drive in every laptop I've owned was twice as big as the previous one and they were all far too small.
My current laptop has a 200GB drive and I am rapidly running out of space:-(
Dude: That's five hours of talk time - not standby.
I doubt my phone now has five hours of talk time.
This would only be a problem if you were going to use it for watching video on a long trip (perhaps a very long plane trip?) and were going to drain the battery completely. Still, I don't think it has enough storage to store enough video for a >5 hour trip. I guess maybe you could be on a flight to Hawaii and completely drain the battery playing Tetris while listening to music and then you'd have to be "super pissed" because you couldn't make a call without recharging when you land.
On the other hand, that could be a problem with pretty much any phone. I don't see it as much of an issue, really.
Many of us already have AT&T (Cingular).
I got my first cell phone with AT&T wireless in 2000 and I've never really thought much about changing carriers. For every "Verizon is great" story I've heard, I've heard two "Verizon are asshats" stories.
Right now there are overriding business reasons to go with just one carrier and obviously they are going to choose the biggest one (AT&T).
You are correct, but it is also the case that Irving Gould failed to allow Jack Tramiel to do many of the things they would have needed to do in order to succeed.
Commodore was a tragedy because two different people failed to listen (and ultimately fired) people smarter than themselves (Irving fired Jack, Jack fired Charles Peddle).
Early on the Pet was a better machine. But you couldn't buy one in the US. Also, they never released a decent disk drive for it. The Apple II had a much worse tape drive than Pet, but it had a really nice and very fast and cheap floppy disk drive.
If commodore had put money into expanding their business early on and targeted business customers instead of focusing just on low price, and delivered a good disk drive, they could have owned the PC industry. But they didn't.
Does the iPhone have a GPS or not? No, it does not have a GPS. Lots of people wish that it had one. Lots of people wish it had 3G. I wish it had more than 8GB of storage (like maybe a 100 GB hard disk).
You are correct. Not only that, but I found that OpenOffice is very easy to run under X11. NeoOffice is a bit slow, but is native.
I think there are several excellent choices on the Mac platform for office kind of apps. Maybe even better choices than Windows (For example, I think that Nissus is a good choice for a word processor if you don't need Word compatibility. Keynote is better than PowerPoint, etc.)
It is not difficult to upgrade the RAM in a MacMini - that's ridiculous. It is no harder than swapping out the battery on an iPod which apparently the retarded people of the world also have a problem doing themselves.
Big company comes up with big brother type plan. Said plan is flawed and screws their customer. Company doesn't care.
I am unsurprised. The only surprising part is that the government wasn't involved somehow.
I have actually communicated with Bill Gates personally regarding the elmination of spam. (I am no longer a Microsoft employee.)
At the time he was only interested in eliminating spam provided that the proposed solution would tie people into a Microsoft proprietary solution which was not the kind of solution I was pitching.
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Duh. That's the point of what I was saying, dufus.
Most people don't know what Firefox is. So, if Jobs had specifically talked at length about Firefox in his keynote, reporters are going to feel like they have to explain what FireFox is. Apple doesn't want that, obviously, because it is distracting. If someone is going to read an article about the WWDC keynote, you (if you are apple) don't want the take away to be something about FireFox.
As much as I would like this to happen, IE is bundled onto the computer when you get it (unless you buy a Mac) and it will be the only browser microsoft allows to be on the computer when you take it out of the box.
There are a lot of users who simply aren't tech savvy enough to install anything else. And this turns out to be a huge number. And then there are machines out there that some IT department has locked down. So, those will always be IE because the user isn't allowed to install anything else.
I think this ends up being a pretty large share of the market.
No, you're looking at a LOT MORE than $800 if you include the service contract. More like $3,000* assuming you cancel the contract after the required 2 year. You are trying to defend a figure of $800 and you are just grasping at straws because that figure is wrong, not matter how you cut it. *I'm basing 3,000 on $100/month plan at 24 months + the $600 for the device itself.
I assume you are specifically referring to the fact that it has glass?
The Newton had a glass screen and I recall seeing a lot of them fall and none ever broke the screen from the fall. One time someone dropped a newton onto the screen of another newton and the screen did break, but the one she dropped was OK.
So, who knows? It is possible that it might survive a fall but it is hard to say until it actually ships.
See you in line on the 29th!
No wonder you were modded troll - the cost isn't $800 - it is $500 or $600 depending on the model.
OK. I use Safari all the time - pretty much since it came out. My company has a web portal that our guy created using Firefox. It doesn't work in Safari. It does work in Firefox and IE. I downloaded Safari for Windows today and I'm posting with it here now. It looks great and feels really fast. Hopefully our guy can start testing with it. We aren't buying him a Mac just to test the portal.
The hard drive in every laptop I've owned was twice as big as the previous one and they were all far too small. My current laptop has a 200GB drive and I am rapidly running out of space :-(
Do Windows users even use NTFS? My Win32 boxes are all FAT32.
I think there are more serious differences between CDMA and GSM that a DLL. I think it requires an actual different radio.
Dude: That's five hours of talk time - not standby.
I doubt my phone now has five hours of talk time.
This would only be a problem if you were going to use it for watching video on a long trip (perhaps a very long plane trip?) and were going to drain the battery completely. Still, I don't think it has enough storage to store enough video for a >5 hour trip. I guess maybe you could be on a flight to Hawaii and completely drain the battery playing Tetris while listening to music and then you'd have to be "super pissed" because you couldn't make a call without recharging when you land.
On the other hand, that could be a problem with pretty much any phone. I don't see it as much of an issue, really.
Many of us already have AT&T (Cingular). I got my first cell phone with AT&T wireless in 2000 and I've never really thought much about changing carriers. For every "Verizon is great" story I've heard, I've heard two "Verizon are asshats" stories. Right now there are overriding business reasons to go with just one carrier and obviously they are going to choose the biggest one (AT&T).
What tasks are you doing without looking at the phone? I will be surprised if it is anything other than dialing a speed dial number.
How were you let down by the Newton hardware? I own every single model of Newton and they don't have hardware problems.
You are correct, but it is also the case that Irving Gould failed to allow Jack Tramiel to do many of the things they would have needed to do in order to succeed.
Commodore was a tragedy because two different people failed to listen (and ultimately fired) people smarter than themselves (Irving fired Jack, Jack fired Charles Peddle).
Early on the Pet was a better machine. But you couldn't buy one in the US. Also, they never released a decent disk drive for it. The Apple II had a much worse tape drive than Pet, but it had a really nice and very fast and cheap floppy disk drive. If commodore had put money into expanding their business early on and targeted business customers instead of focusing just on low price, and delivered a good disk drive, they could have owned the PC industry. But they didn't.
There is always next year.
You are correct. Not only that, but I found that OpenOffice is very easy to run under X11. NeoOffice is a bit slow, but is native. I think there are several excellent choices on the Mac platform for office kind of apps. Maybe even better choices than Windows (For example, I think that Nissus is a good choice for a word processor if you don't need Word compatibility. Keynote is better than PowerPoint, etc.)
It is not difficult to upgrade the RAM in a MacMini - that's ridiculous. It is no harder than swapping out the battery on an iPod which apparently the retarded people of the world also have a problem doing themselves.
Big company comes up with big brother type plan. Said plan is flawed and screws their customer. Company doesn't care. I am unsurprised. The only surprising part is that the government wasn't involved somehow.
Yeah, I'm sure Apple trusted some manager at a Cingular retail outlet with that information. He was talking out of his ass.
They threatened/bribed wholesalers into buying them en masse. There are a ton of them at most of the stores I go to.
And then no one would buy your WiFi router because it was "too hard to use".
I have actually communicated with Bill Gates personally regarding the elmination of spam. (I am no longer a Microsoft employee.) At the time he was only interested in eliminating spam provided that the proposed solution would tie people into a Microsoft proprietary solution which was not the kind of solution I was pitching.
This is not a new idea. It is also not ethical.