I see this a lot in ethnic asian families. The kids are culturally pressured to study in prestigious or highly technical fields: law, medicine, engineering, science. I started off doing Computer Engineering at uni, then switched to Computer Science. I didn't know what was right for me. Looking back, I would've been a better fit with some kind of liberal arts major.
Nice little misdirection, I see you got modded up for it too.
And here's a little hint to you: Apple is not a marketing company. They're a tech company that intersects with the Liberal Arts. The so-called "marketing" is all done by rabid haters like you who kick up a stink on the Internet.
I'm surprised that so few people seem to have picked up on the fact that Assange, a certified computer geek, gets laid like a rock star. Who would've thought??
I'm an Australian and I have a hard time believing that Texas of all places has a daily home invasion epidemic, let alone the homeowners having guns making the problem worse.
Here in Sydney, Australia we have home invasions now and then, and people still get shot and beaten half to death regularly even though they don't have any guns to defend themselves with. Much of the time the motivation for the home invasion is drug or crime-link related -- not saying that the homeowners are criminals necessarily, but sometimes their family members or relatives or friends have criminal connections and that's how the home invaders get their "intell" for raiding the place.
I agree it's part of the overall human condition, but I wouldn't say people who engage in witch hunts are in a state of good mental health. They're damaged people, and need healing.
Well said. Apple products tend to be understated and a bit minimalist -- sometimes even conservative in design. It's the competitors' products that tend to be flashy and overdone.
Your argument doesn't make sense to me. Why would having Flash running on iPhone be a threat to Apple's profits? It's not like those Flash apps/games can replace App Store apps -- Flash apps would always be less than a native app. If Flash worked properly and efficiently, I can tell you that it would've been on the iPhone already and we would not be having this debate. Steve Jobs doesn't tolerate failure or incompetence, and Flash on mobile devices has been less than spectacular so far.
Apple has draconian App Store restrictions and unwritten rules etc not because they want to protect their profits, but because that is how Steve Jobs operates. He's a control freak -- he will do anything to protect his vision of how things are supposed to be. If he's purely in it for profit, there's dozens of things he could've done differently in order to milk the cash cow to the max. But nope, that's not how Apple rolls -- Apple is the embodiment of a technology company that intersects with the Liberal Arts. Steve Jobs is the brooding, demanding and often cranky artist holding the paintbrush. The App Store is effectively a dictatorship largely run at the (sometimes changing) whims and desires of one man.
"Saving the users" or "protecting the users" is exactly the kind of thing that Steve Jobs does.
Geeks tend to claim Apple's decisions are always in the name of protecting their profits, but that's usually not the case. It's about protecting Steve's vision of how things should work. Profits come second. That's why Apple has been so successful after Steve's return. Apple was in trouble during Steve's absence precisely because they were only concerned with milking for cash, and they didn't care about quality or the user experience. Steve turned that all around. Geeks keep on screaming how Apple is the ultimate evil and how its downfall is imminent, but it won't happen as long as Steve Jobs is the CEO. He's got too strong a vision. He won't sell out.
The iOS platform is a definite threat in the casual games sector. In that sense, Nintendo has a lot more to be worried about than Sony. It's a no-brainer, iOS devices will rule the roost when it comes to "simple" games.
I like Apple products but I haven't ever imagined Apple as being more ethical or trustworthy than any other corporation. To me, they happen to make better products than most of the rest of the industry, but that doesn't make them saintly or anything.
I don't think you'll ever find a "clean" corporation to buy from. Charities have corruption scandals all the time -- it's human nature, unfortunately.
You'd think a multitouch device with no physical feedback wouldn't work well for vision impaired users, right? Fortunately, Apple has proved that wrong. Gotta love innovation.
Apple is all about what Steve Jobs wants. The day you'll get a hardcore Mac gaming machine is the day Steve Jobs becomes a hardcore gamer (read: never).
Agreed that the Mac Pro is not a gaming rig per se. Unless you have bucketloads of cash lying around.
I'd like Apple to make a mid-range desktop tower. Their consumer desktop range, the iMac, uses a lot of laptop components. I wish the iMac had room for a desktop graphics card, but I don't think that's ever going to be the case.
Typical Apple hater post, Apple is only successful because it's "cool" yadda yadda. Smartphones sucked majorly before Apple released the iPhone. Now Apple has raised the bar significantly, which is a win for everyone. Competition is grand.
If you think Apple gear is "through the roof" expensive then you're clearly not operating in the real world.
Apple is pretty much one of the only tech companies that successfully integrates technology with the liberal arts. Their success isn't driven by marketing or "fashion" as you put it. They make products which cater for the average consumer, not the hardcore techheads which most other tech companies seem to make products for. This is why they sell so much.
It's true that a lot of Apple products are seen as "cool", but I'd say this is a byproduct of their success at making great gadgets.
A lot of clueless geeks on sites like Slashdot claim Apple's success is all due to their marketing and other such superficial nonsense, but even a cursory examination shows that this is far from true. Apple's marketing is fairly unremarkable for the most part. The difference is that their products work so well for the average consumer that they end up marketing themselves.
If you look at most of Apple's "competitors", it's obvious why Apple is doing so well. Just about everyone else is making awful crappy products.
I always found Wolf3D to be repetitive and tedious, but Doom was genuinely creepy and fun to play. Just enough variety and surprises to keep you on your toes.
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I see this a lot in ethnic asian families. The kids are culturally pressured to study in prestigious or highly technical fields: law, medicine, engineering, science. I started off doing Computer Engineering at uni, then switched to Computer Science. I didn't know what was right for me. Looking back, I would've been a better fit with some kind of liberal arts major.
Nice little misdirection, I see you got modded up for it too.
And here's a little hint to you: Apple is not a marketing company. They're a tech company that intersects with the Liberal Arts. The so-called "marketing" is all done by rabid haters like you who kick up a stink on the Internet.
Typical pathetic Apple-hater strawman... when did Apple always say that they're non-exploitable?
What an ignorant comment, just another variation of the banal "only Apple fanboys would buy Apple's shit, therefore Apple is doomed to fail".
It's a gaming console. If you want a hackable box, go buy something else, or better yet build your own custom machine. Jesus christ.
I'm surprised that so few people seem to have picked up on the fact that Assange, a certified computer geek, gets laid like a rock star. Who would've thought??
I'm an Australian and I have a hard time believing that Texas of all places has a daily home invasion epidemic, let alone the homeowners having guns making the problem worse.
Here in Sydney, Australia we have home invasions now and then, and people still get shot and beaten half to death regularly even though they don't have any guns to defend themselves with. Much of the time the motivation for the home invasion is drug or crime-link related -- not saying that the homeowners are criminals necessarily, but sometimes their family members or relatives or friends have criminal connections and that's how the home invaders get their "intell" for raiding the place.
I call BS on the guy being a devout "leftist" -- he had a lot of hate for Muslims, possibly stemming from his "documentary" tour being embedded with the troops in Afghanistan:
http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/08/26/who-is-michael-enright-tracing-the-suspect-in-the-taxi-stabbing/
Never miss an opportunity to spread some lies, eh?
You forgot to mention Apple -- Slashdot is falling behind in the Apple-bashing quota today.
Great, as if all the viagra and cialis spam wasn't bad enough, now we'll start getting bionic penis spam.
I agree it's part of the overall human condition, but I wouldn't say people who engage in witch hunts are in a state of good mental health. They're damaged people, and need healing.
Well said. Apple products tend to be understated and a bit minimalist -- sometimes even conservative in design. It's the competitors' products that tend to be flashy and overdone.
Your argument doesn't make sense to me. Why would having Flash running on iPhone be a threat to Apple's profits? It's not like those Flash apps/games can replace App Store apps -- Flash apps would always be less than a native app. If Flash worked properly and efficiently, I can tell you that it would've been on the iPhone already and we would not be having this debate. Steve Jobs doesn't tolerate failure or incompetence, and Flash on mobile devices has been less than spectacular so far.
Apple has draconian App Store restrictions and unwritten rules etc not because they want to protect their profits, but because that is how Steve Jobs operates. He's a control freak -- he will do anything to protect his vision of how things are supposed to be. If he's purely in it for profit, there's dozens of things he could've done differently in order to milk the cash cow to the max. But nope, that's not how Apple rolls -- Apple is the embodiment of a technology company that intersects with the Liberal Arts. Steve Jobs is the brooding, demanding and often cranky artist holding the paintbrush. The App Store is effectively a dictatorship largely run at the (sometimes changing) whims and desires of one man.
"Saving the users" or "protecting the users" is exactly the kind of thing that Steve Jobs does.
Geeks tend to claim Apple's decisions are always in the name of protecting their profits, but that's usually not the case. It's about protecting Steve's vision of how things should work. Profits come second. That's why Apple has been so successful after Steve's return. Apple was in trouble during Steve's absence precisely because they were only concerned with milking for cash, and they didn't care about quality or the user experience. Steve turned that all around. Geeks keep on screaming how Apple is the ultimate evil and how its downfall is imminent, but it won't happen as long as Steve Jobs is the CEO. He's got too strong a vision. He won't sell out.
The iOS platform is a definite threat in the casual games sector. In that sense, Nintendo has a lot more to be worried about than Sony. It's a no-brainer, iOS devices will rule the roost when it comes to "simple" games.
Hey, lucky you can own an M4 carbine. In my country (Australia, surprise surprise) you can't :(
I like Apple products but I haven't ever imagined Apple as being more ethical or trustworthy than any other corporation. To me, they happen to make better products than most of the rest of the industry, but that doesn't make them saintly or anything.
I don't think you'll ever find a "clean" corporation to buy from. Charities have corruption scandals all the time -- it's human nature, unfortunately.
So I take it you speak Cherokee?
You'd think a multitouch device with no physical feedback wouldn't work well for vision impaired users, right? Fortunately, Apple has proved that wrong. Gotta love innovation.
Why would people be after him if he was just fabricating stuff? Besides, lots of stuff he posts can be validated and verified, and has been already.
Apple is all about what Steve Jobs wants. The day you'll get a hardcore Mac gaming machine is the day Steve Jobs becomes a hardcore gamer (read: never).
Agreed that the Mac Pro is not a gaming rig per se. Unless you have bucketloads of cash lying around.
I'd like Apple to make a mid-range desktop tower. Their consumer desktop range, the iMac, uses a lot of laptop components. I wish the iMac had room for a desktop graphics card, but I don't think that's ever going to be the case.
Where does it say these parents buy their kids iPhones? For all we know, they don't want mobile phones either.
Typical Apple hater post, Apple is only successful because it's "cool" yadda yadda. Smartphones sucked majorly before Apple released the iPhone. Now Apple has raised the bar significantly, which is a win for everyone. Competition is grand.
If you think Apple gear is "through the roof" expensive then you're clearly not operating in the real world.
Apple is pretty much one of the only tech companies that successfully integrates technology with the liberal arts. Their success isn't driven by marketing or "fashion" as you put it. They make products which cater for the average consumer, not the hardcore techheads which most other tech companies seem to make products for. This is why they sell so much.
It's true that a lot of Apple products are seen as "cool", but I'd say this is a byproduct of their success at making great gadgets.
A lot of clueless geeks on sites like Slashdot claim Apple's success is all due to their marketing and other such superficial nonsense, but even a cursory examination shows that this is far from true. Apple's marketing is fairly unremarkable for the most part. The difference is that their products work so well for the average consumer that they end up marketing themselves.
If you look at most of Apple's "competitors", it's obvious why Apple is doing so well. Just about everyone else is making awful crappy products.
I always found Wolf3D to be repetitive and tedious, but Doom was genuinely creepy and fun to play. Just enough variety and surprises to keep you on your toes.