1. Market Size [Volume] is not the same as Maket Share [Ratio]. You gain control on the market by dominating the % - like you own 30% of the market while the next runners up owns less than 5%, then you are the King.
2. It is not just the technicalbility of the product that would define the market segment. Rather it is how you position your product so that it's image / functions / price / outlook fit for a group of consumer and if this group could imply large profit margin because they are willing to spend if they *want* to, not if they can.
3. Having a large market volume does not necessary mean you can turn it into profit, which is the ultimate goal. For example, a large market volume on low-spending consumers with high product service cost usually equate to loss in profit, not to mention the money spent on marketing and advertisement in order to penerate into this sector.
Panther+PB may be great for J2SE/J2EE development but The Mac is still lacking the ever more important J2ME development environment, or am I overlooking something obvious?
Here in Hong Kong, the fee for mobile phone is much cheaper than the fee for a land line, assuming you are not a heavy duty user.
The cost of installing a land line is around US$14 per month with a one time installation charge of about US$60.
Compared to mobile phone pricing here, you can have a phone free of charge (in exchange to a 12 or 18 months contract), and a US$10 voice plan that include 700 minutes of air time, bunch of free value-added-services (caller number display, voice mail, call forwarding, etc.). and no hidden charges.
Hong Kong is tiny and densely populated. How many cell towers are there in the entire city/colony? 30 or 40, maybe?
Over 2,000 because of high rise buildings, mountains, indoor malls, office buildings and elevators (Yes, elevators! You can talk and talk and talk without realizing you have just leave your car, through the underground car park, took the elevator to the 60th floor, entered your office, sat down and about to have a sip at the aromatic coffee in front of you. Mmmm...)
As soon as a kid can travel alone between home and school, he/she would receive a mobile phone from his/her parents.
Not 100% of parents are doing this, of course, but it is the norm here, in Hong Kong.
Unlike Windows, booting a Mac from the iPod or any Firewire device doesn't mean a Mac was crashed. A typical PC user's point of view, I can tell.
It is because I *can* have my whole environment carrying on the portable device and booting from it means I do not have to ask the client for the necessary applications, settings, and all that hazzles only to find out that an important component is not loaded that the whole demo has to be postponed or the deal blew.
The unit itself would feature a user upgradable firmware
I think the iPod already does this.
Also, the flash memory it would accept will be removable, and will be the CompactFlash format - because I already own a 512 MB card for my digital camera, why should I have to pay extra for more memory if I don't need it?
Well consider the 1G MemoryStick cost around US$500, to load up the equivalent of an 20G iPod, it will cost US$10,000, allowing the removal of branding, and volume factors, it would still cost more than US$3,000.
I want a mesh, not locking one device to one host until I want to go through the hassle of retraining another one. I want my PDA, phone, and console to be able to grab my headset as needed. I want to be able to hear system events and dictate speech to my tablet on the bus, get a small beep when the phone (in my pocket) rings, maybe an onscreen notification of who it is, and tap a button on my headset to answer if I want.
Totally agreed. This should be the way to go. Looking on the bright side, it's probably going to happen soon and probably are SONY, Apple and MS branded, with the dark side being they won't work across platforms
I live in Hong Kong now and a quick random BT scan on a bus or a ferry give at least 2 BT phones and sometime PDAs. The most I got is during rush hours and 6 BT phones (most of them are, unsuprisingly, SE T610), 4 PDAs around me on the underground (aka the MTR).
It's a little program installed on your Mac and let you remote control your Mac including Powerpoint, DVD player, etc. via your BT phones. Works on any Mac with BT, and SE BT phones except P800. Not sure about P900, though.
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No, I don't work for Salling or know him personally (except with a few emails). I am just a happy user. That's all
Does anybody know how to configure a Mac (OS X, Panther) to serve as a RAS for a PDA using BT? I have read something similar on Linux involving the pppd (link forgotten 'coz I didn't have that need back then) but I don't know how to do this on the Panther.
I've got WLAN on my PDA but it eats battery much faster then BT does.
I also have a DCR-PC120BT Sony DV camcorder with BT, but I haven't actually found a good use for it's BT support
Then you shall upgrade your NZ90 to UX50. The UX50 have a little program that lets you to remote control the 120BT with the video from the 120BT send directly to the UX50 like a remote view finder. It also do motion detection capture, timed recording, etc..
I use BT to sync my calendars and address books between my PDA, Notebook, and Phone. I also use to do some small file ( click "Send via BT" -> click to choose the device -> click Send. 4 clicks in total, not bad.)
BTW, not only Apple but other brands also got BT built-in. SONY's latest VIAO(Japanese only, use the fish) is one such example.
SONY's PDA, Notebooks(Japanese only, use the fish), Apple's PowerBooks, are a few examples of BT+WiFi implementations. I am sure there are many other similar coming.
There is a software available called Salling Clicker and it does that.
How? I guess it can be done because the application will got notify upon a BT device attach/detach, similar to a USB device. So, a device_attached signal will cause the application to kick up the screen saver, and vice versa.
Also, as the Mac OS X is a fully scriptable system, you can in fact carry out more complicated tasks upon attach/detach of the BT device other than just launching/killing the screensaver.
Since you explictly mentioned the Salling's Clicker Software, I'd presume you know that you can in fact control your presentations (PowerPoint, Keynote, PDF, etc) via BT from your $0 T610 - the wow-factor is at least quadurple than using the Apple BT mouse.
The money, effort and time spent for launching a manned spaceship, is insignificant when compared to raising the poor's living standard.
Going to space will help China in many ways, including establishing factories in the orbit to produce various medicine in low cost. This will have a direct benifit to those millions of poor and perhaps in a faster way.
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Well, even at 100% of the functionality of BT, WLAN hardware still consumes too much power and is physically larger in size, too.
Yes, it will get smaller and eat less batteries, and I do hope so so that I don't have to watch the battery indicator once every 15 min on my PDA when I am online at Starbucks.
I've got my SE T610 phone, and 802.11b + BT on my PDA, 802.11b + BT on my PowerBook, 802.11b + BT on my Desktops.
Work is smooth, I can sync my PDA/Phone with my Desktop, Powerbook via BT. I can go online anywhere from my PowerBook and PDA using GRPS dialup via BT, or WLAN if I so happen to sit in a cafe or at home.
I remote control my presentations, DVD player, iTunes, etc. on my PowerBook using the T610 or the PDA via BT, and lock/unlock my screensaver automatically when I was away from/arrive at my computers, no button clicked.
Files are being sent via BT from each other, no more mount/unmount from the network drive, painless.
No more wires, no more plug and they just play! I cannot be more happy with these.
Er, may be not, I still have my damn firewire cables that are as thick and as clumsy as the coaxial ethernet. Should get rid of those, too...
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1. Market Size [Volume] is not the same as Maket Share [Ratio]. You gain control on the market by dominating the % - like you own 30% of the market while the next runners up owns less than 5%, then you are the King.
2. It is not just the technicalbility of the product that would define the market segment. Rather it is how you position your product so that it's image / functions / price / outlook fit for a group of consumer and if this group could imply large profit margin because they are willing to spend if they *want* to, not if they can.
3. Having a large market volume does not necessary mean you can turn it into profit, which is the ultimate goal. For example, a large market volume on low-spending consumers with high product service cost usually equate to loss in profit, not to mention the money spent on marketing and advertisement in order to penerate into this sector.
the condensation of matter for a long time following the big bang would have equated to a gradual increase in gravitational forces, wouldn't it, ...
No, it wouldn't.
Remember E=mc^2? Energy is matter.
3G services offered by Hutchison in Europe, Australia and Hong Kong can offer 3G phone to/from NetMeeting. So there isn't exactly nobody to call :-)
Panther+PB may be great for J2SE/J2EE development but The Mac is still lacking the ever more important J2ME development environment, or am I overlooking something obvious?
anyone got a solution under Panther so that I can justify to carry a PB around?
Having JDK1.4.2 is great but the lack of J2ME 2 is more and more like missing a limb now, and the pain is growing each day.
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"The problem of standard is there are too many of them."
because there is the Sun pouring energy to the earth every second.
So it is not strictly a bootstrap argument.
The cost of installing a land line is around US$14 per month with a one time installation charge of about US$60.
Compared to mobile phone pricing here, you can have a phone free of charge (in exchange to a 12 or 18 months contract), and a US$10 voice plan that include 700 minutes of air time, bunch of free value-added-services (caller number display, voice mail, call forwarding, etc.). and no hidden charges.
Who need a land line here?
Over 2,000 because of high rise buildings, mountains, indoor malls, office buildings and elevators (Yes, elevators! You can talk and talk and talk without realizing you have just leave your car, through the underground car park, took the elevator to the 60th floor, entered your office, sat down and about to have a sip at the aromatic coffee in front of you. Mmmm...)
As soon as a kid can travel alone between home and school, he/she would receive a mobile phone from his/her parents. Not 100% of parents are doing this, of course, but it is the norm here, in Hong Kong.
Unlike Windows, booting a Mac from the iPod or any Firewire device doesn't mean a Mac was crashed. A typical PC user's point of view, I can tell.
It is because I *can* have my whole environment carrying on the portable device and booting from it means I do not have to ask the client for the necessary applications, settings, and all that hazzles only to find out that an important component is not loaded that the whole demo has to be postponed or the deal blew.
$249 expensive? This is priceless, man!
I think the iPod already does this.
Also, the flash memory it would accept will be removable, and will be the CompactFlash format - because I already own a 512 MB card for my digital camera, why should I have to pay extra for more memory if I don't need it?
Well consider the 1G MemoryStick cost around US$500, to load up the equivalent of an 20G iPod, it will cost US$10,000, allowing the removal of branding, and volume factors, it would still cost more than US$3,000.
I don't think I will go for one such device now
Totally agreed. This should be the way to go. Looking on the bright side, it's probably going to happen soon and probably are SONY, Apple and MS branded, with the dark side being they won't work across platforms
Antennas are wires, too. Does that ring a bell?
I live in Hong Kong now and a quick random BT scan on a bus or a ferry give at least 2 BT phones and sometime PDAs. The most I got is during rush hours and 6 BT phones (most of them are, unsuprisingly, SE T610), 4 PDAs around me on the underground (aka the MTR).
It's a little program installed on your Mac and let you remote control your Mac including Powerpoint, DVD player, etc. via your BT phones.
Works on any Mac with BT, and SE BT phones except P800. Not sure about P900, though.
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No, I don't work for Salling or know him personally (except with a few emails). I am just a happy user. That's all
Does anybody know how to configure a Mac (OS X, Panther) to serve as a RAS for a PDA using BT? I have read something similar on Linux involving the pppd (link forgotten 'coz I didn't have that need back then) but I don't know how to do this on the Panther.
I've got WLAN on my PDA but it eats battery much faster then BT does.
Thanks a lot.
I also have a DCR-PC120BT Sony DV camcorder with BT, but I haven't actually found a good use for it's BT support
Then you shall upgrade your NZ90 to UX50. The UX50 have a little program that lets you to remote control the 120BT with the video from the 120BT send directly to the UX50 like a remote view finder. It also do motion detection capture, timed recording, etc..
I use BT to sync my calendars and address books between my PDA, Notebook, and Phone. I also use to do some small file ( click "Send via BT" -> click to choose the device -> click Send. 4 clicks in total, not bad.)
BTW, not only Apple but other brands also got BT built-in. SONY's latest VIAO(Japanese only, use the fish) is one such example.
SONY's PDA, Notebooks(Japanese only, use the fish), Apple's PowerBooks, are a few examples of BT+WiFi implementations. I am sure there are many other similar coming.
There is a software available called Salling Clicker and it does that.
How? I guess it can be done because the application will got notify upon a BT device attach/detach, similar to a USB device. So, a device_attached signal will cause the application to kick up the screen saver, and vice versa.
Also, as the Mac OS X is a fully scriptable system, you can in fact carry out more complicated tasks upon attach/detach of the BT device other than just launching/killing the screensaver.
Since you explictly mentioned the Salling's Clicker Software, I'd presume you know that you can in fact control your presentations (PowerPoint, Keynote, PDF, etc) via BT from your $0 T610 - the wow-factor is at least quadurple than using the Apple BT mouse.
My experience, your milage may wobble a bit.
The money, effort and time spent for launching a manned spaceship, is insignificant when compared to raising the poor's living standard.
Going to space will help China in many ways, including establishing factories in the orbit to produce various medicine in low cost. This will have a direct benifit to those millions of poor and perhaps in a faster way.
Well, even at 100% of the functionality of BT, WLAN hardware still consumes too much power and is physically larger in size, too.
Yes, it will get smaller and eat less batteries, and I do hope so so that I don't have to watch the battery indicator once every 15 min on my PDA when I am online at Starbucks.
I've got my SE T610 phone, and 802.11b + BT on my PDA, 802.11b + BT on my PowerBook, 802.11b + BT on my Desktops.
Work is smooth, I can sync my PDA/Phone with my Desktop, Powerbook via BT. I can go online anywhere from my PowerBook and PDA using GRPS dialup via BT, or WLAN if I so happen to sit in a cafe or at home.
I remote control my presentations, DVD player, iTunes, etc. on my PowerBook using the T610 or the PDA via BT, and lock/unlock my screensaver automatically when I was away from/arrive at my computers, no button clicked.
Files are being sent via BT from each other, no more mount/unmount from the network drive, painless.
No more wires, no more plug and they just play! I cannot be more happy with these.
Er, may be not, I still have my damn firewire cables that are as thick and as clumsy as the coaxial ethernet. Should get rid of those, too...
It is obvious CJM has confused BT with WLAN.