Has the (city/Google) defence not argued it this way:
Surely if the woman has the intelligence to operate a Blackberry and access Google Maps on it in the first place, then she has the intelligence to be able to work out for herself that she's walking along a dangerous road?
You know, I'm pleased you gave me the correct answer because my first response was going to be "Because it cuts downs on development costs while still giving Apple the opportunity to overprice the item, thus allowing Steve Jobs to earn even more filthy fanboi lucre for just churning out a bigger Touch".
Thanks for putting me on the correct track, you may make a cultist of me yet!
Well, go on then... some examples of "big players" please, rather than the generalised sweeping statement typical of the genus fanboius incredibilus gobshite.
The Westboro Baptist Church was really not a very good example to give - I saw the interview on British TV with Shirley Phelps-Roper and her mad daughters. Believe me, it was the funniest thing I watched in ages...
What about those of us who *might* want a tablet if it had a maximum price of $500 and could run what we want to on it? If it's made by Asus and has Windows installed by default, then there's a good chance it can be made to run Linux also.
Asus should remarket themselves as "Snapple", call the device the "iPud" and appoint a new CEO with glasses called "Steve Jibs".
I'm sure if Steve Jibs of Snapple Inc. post some viral videos of the iPud showing its Adobe support, multi-tasking and USB ports, thousands of rabid fanbois would queue up outside Snapple Stores to buy one and part with their hard-earned cash before they had calmed down enough to realise they had been duped, albeit with a device of better capabilities than their iPads.
Yes, I am something of a CD collector and there are some that are out of print that demand higher collectors' prices in order to get hold of them.
But in recent years I have never seen so many remastered and reissued classic albums released by the record companies - yes, it's an excuse for them to get more money from people like me but the majority of them come out at a budget price and frequently with extra tracks. And here in the UK I can pretty much guarantee I can get a 15-track CD for much less than the £14.85 (at 99p per track) it would cost to download it.
I don't agree with killing for any reason, let alone in the name of religion but:
1. How many civilian building and civilians have been killed by the armed forces of non-Moslem countries in the countless wars and battles of the 20th century?
2. How long have our civilised Western countries had equal employment for women, the right for women to vote, laws around female equality etc.?
If you truly believe this is about free speech, then instead of throwing out a few swear words from behind the semi-anonymity of your Slashdot ID, why don't you go round to your nearest mosque and hand out the cartoons there? Get yourself a backbone, stop being a coward about it and go demonstrate your convictions!
My music "just appears" on my computer, ipod and iPhone.
I have a huge music collection, around 1200 CDs that I have ripped to FLAC and MP3 that I store on a central media server in my home. That media server serves to a number of desktops, laptops and a media PC in my lounge - not that it makes any difference here but those PCs run either Windows XP or Linux.
I also have a Nokia and a HTC phone that I use as media players that I download music and audiobooks onto from that server.
My missus has an iPhone and when she upgraded to it she gave me her iPod Touch. However, using iTunes to download to both those devices results in iTunes insisting it has to rewrite the MP3 tags on my central music repository, despite the fact I've spent many hours managing all the track names and tags. I don't care what iTunes does to the music as it downloads it to the device, I just don't want it changing stuff on the central repository.
As it happens, the solution I've found is to use MediaMonkey to download to the Touch which stops iTunes fiddling with the music tags. (My missus won't use MediaMonkey so I insist she copies the music to her local PC then syncs it from there.)
I'm sure, therefore, your music "just appears" provided that you let iTunes run roughshod over you music collection, but Apple does not stop to consider that maybe their hardware is being used in environments where there is other non-Apple hardware also being used and it's not simply a case of "one size fits all".
There is a healthy market for used hardware in high street "exchange" shops, and on eBay also. Lots of people are selling their used Apple devices and I don't for one minute believe that it's all just because they are upgrading to other Apple products.
The reason Apple is doing so well is that they turn out devices that suit the people's needs and are well-designed and reliable.
Sorry, why does this mean that everyone else doesn't?
This marketing bullshit about how Apple has some "secret sauce" is just nonsense promoted by those who can't research the stories they write - or those who want to turn out the same old junk and think they should be competitive just because they showed up.
But presumably if the same was being said about, say, Microsoft, you'd be all for it. In whatever market you look at, whether it's phones, music players or computers, Apple is still a minority player. And for any seller of anything, the reason for that is the same - most people don't want to pay the prices being asked for those items.
The so-called competitors have been shown up for what they really are and they're squealing. Ever use a Motorola phone? How did you like their excuse for a user interface? Or have you ever used a Blackberry? How many times a week do you have to pull the battery to reboot it? Even the newer Droid phones - great concept, but they leave a lot to be desired in the execution. And that's just the cell phones.
If Blackberry is that bad, why hasn't iPhone displaced it? Blackberry is still the most popular business mobile platform pretty much anywhere.
Plus my missus has an iPhone, but I went for an Android-based HTC Hero even after she bought it. I don't have a problem with the UI on it, I do have a problem with the Apple monoculture meaning I cannot do as much with an iPhone as I can with an Android.
How about tablets? I've used a HP TX series tablet and after that I bought an iPad. There's lots of noise from vaporware vendors but anything like competition for the iPad is nowhere in sight. At least HP looked at the way things are and killed their Windows tablet - they'll bring it out running Web/OS sometime in the future.
In my view, the tablet is a gimmick, just like HDTV and 3D cinema - it's there to sell more stuff, that's all.
Touchscreens are fine for emulating a keyboard on a device you want to stick in your pocket but for anything bigger buy a Netbook because it's far more versatile and flexible in what it can do.
Probably it'll be delivered by virgins riding unicorns.
Well, by the sound of it, if Steve Jobs tells you unicorns exist, you'll believe him.
Creating and building fully developed and well rounded products isn't a trivial task - Apple spent a lot of time and money making their iThingies good.
Again, why the assumption that nobody else does? Do you not think HP, Dell, etc, spend huge amounts of money on R&D?
And with all respect to Apple, they've never made anything that good that in almost 30 years of working and playing with computers, phones, etc. I've ever felt the remotest interest in buying.
I simply don't like what they do and how they do it - to me, a computer or a phone is a tool that has to do what I need it to do well. It's not a fashion accessory, it doesn't have to match my tie and it doesn't need to impress everyone else I run into. Therefore, paying a premium price for how a tool looks isn't the "bag" I'm into.
For those companies who want to compete with Apple on this ground - they're going to have to get rid of their "good enough" mentality and create great products.
Clearly you're a fanboi because clearly you're incapable of seeing that other companies have made and are capable of making great products, otherwise you'd have enough knowledge to be able to make clearer specific statements rather than sweeping ones.
For example, I have a 6 year-old IBM T40 laptop that isn't my primary laptop or computer, but has been pretty much around the world with me. It's been knocked, dropped & banged about, it's been running Gentoo Linux and Gnome for years and because it's such a reliable machine, a few months ago I decided to spend some money on it and bought a new hard disk, mor
Develop the patience to listen to an entire album rather than "pick and mix sweeties" tracks, develop some discernment to do enough research to only buy music from artists with enough talent to make good albums (not just one or two good tracks) and research you prices well where, invariably, you can end up buying the CD cheaper than buying the tracks.
And since a CD is an automatic backup for itself if you rip the tracks to your own media storage place, then you don't need to waste more money buying multiple disk backups etc.
Plus you get your music in a lossless DRM-free format from the outset that you can rip in a format, whenever you like, appropriate to what you intend playing it on.
Sorry, the only advantage download music has over CDs is to appease the "I must have it now" culture who can't wait a couple of days for a package in the post...
Maybe one day there will be a single OS that can do everything I need a computer to do but at the moment it's a combination of using Linux and Windows XP, and that's the second best option.
And in about 30 years of messing about with computers, never once have I felt that anything was missing from my computing experience through not ever owning one single Apple-made computer.
Please immediately put measures in place that stop all Apple iP[ao]ds and iPhones supporting WebM as you did with Flash.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading all of the tenuous fanboi postings about how lack of Flash is a good thing & am always more than happy to sit down with bag of popcorn and nice cup of tea to watch a great comedy sequel...
Sorry, what's "enjoyable" about being forced to buy all your software from *ONE* place and only being *ALLOWED* to download what you are told you can download.
As mostly Linux user, I will give Microsoft credit where it's due - you can run a Microsoft OS and throw on pretty much whatever free or commercial apps on it that you like, plus I understand from MS developer friends that they give away a lot of freebies to aid developers on Windows.
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Has the (city/Google) defence not argued it this way:
Surely if the woman has the intelligence to operate a Blackberry and access Google Maps on it in the first place, then she has the intelligence to be able to work out for herself that she's walking along a dangerous road?
You need to grow a thinner skin and/or not be an American/fanboi if you cannot see my play on words with a degree of humour.
Are you new here or something?
Do you want to cut and paste that response and store it in a text file somewhere, because you can use that one a lot on Slashdot!
Why do you think Apple put iPhone OS on the iPad?
You know, I'm pleased you gave me the correct answer because my first response was going to be "Because it cuts downs on development costs while still giving Apple the opportunity to overprice the item, thus allowing Steve Jobs to earn even more filthy fanboi lucre for just churning out a bigger Touch".
Thanks for putting me on the correct track, you may make a cultist of me yet!
Well, go on then... some examples of "big players" please, rather than the generalised sweeping statement typical of the genus fanboius incredibilus gobshite.
...it is a "Suppository" PC because the mere mention of it on Slashdot these days makes we want to ram one up the nearest smug fanboi's ass!
I hate to say this but in some parts of the UK, "Jobs" (or "Jobbies") mean "turds".
Yes, because of course there's been an absolute *DELUGE* of web sites migrating away from Flash to HTML5 since the iPad came out!
I think you've missed my point - I was joking about Asus exploiting the feeble-mindedness of the fanbois in order to make some money out of them...
The Westboro Baptist Church was really not a very good example to give - I saw the interview on British TV with Shirley Phelps-Roper and her mad daughters. Believe me, it was the funniest thing I watched in ages...
What about those of us who *might* want a tablet if it had a maximum price of $500 and could run what we want to on it? If it's made by Asus and has Windows installed by default, then there's a good chance it can be made to run Linux also.
Asus should remarket themselves as "Snapple", call the device the "iPud" and appoint a new CEO with glasses called "Steve Jibs".
I'm sure if Steve Jibs of Snapple Inc. post some viral videos of the iPud showing its Adobe support, multi-tasking and USB ports, thousands of rabid fanbois would queue up outside Snapple Stores to buy one and part with their hard-earned cash before they had calmed down enough to realise they had been duped, albeit with a device of better capabilities than their iPads.
Let us know when their flights back to the UK are.
I'm sure there's more that a few of us here will happily barricade the airports so they can't get back in and have to return to face US prosecution.
Sorry, your figures don't stack up.
Yes, I am something of a CD collector and there are some that are out of print that demand higher collectors' prices in order to get hold of them.
But in recent years I have never seen so many remastered and reissued classic albums released by the record companies - yes, it's an excuse for them to get more money from people like me but the majority of them come out at a budget price and frequently with extra tracks. And here in the UK I can pretty much guarantee I can get a 15-track CD for much less than the £14.85 (at 99p per track) it would cost to download it.
I'm seeing increasing levels of wine amongst my artsy Apple friends.
I thought the Apple Store didn't allow the sale of emulation software on it.
I don't agree with killing for any reason, let alone in the name of religion but:
1. How many civilian building and civilians have been killed by the armed forces of non-Moslem countries in the countless wars and battles of the 20th century?
2. How long have our civilised Western countries had equal employment for women, the right for women to vote, laws around female equality etc.?
If you truly believe this is about free speech, then instead of throwing out a few swear words from behind the semi-anonymity of your Slashdot ID, why don't you go round to your nearest mosque and hand out the cartoons there? Get yourself a backbone, stop being a coward about it and go demonstrate your convictions!
My music "just appears" on my computer, ipod and iPhone.
I have a huge music collection, around 1200 CDs that I have ripped to FLAC and MP3 that I store on a central media server in my home. That media server serves to a number of desktops, laptops and a media PC in my lounge - not that it makes any difference here but those PCs run either Windows XP or Linux.
I also have a Nokia and a HTC phone that I use as media players that I download music and audiobooks onto from that server.
My missus has an iPhone and when she upgraded to it she gave me her iPod Touch. However, using iTunes to download to both those devices results in iTunes insisting it has to rewrite the MP3 tags on my central music repository, despite the fact I've spent many hours managing all the track names and tags. I don't care what iTunes does to the music as it downloads it to the device, I just don't want it changing stuff on the central repository.
As it happens, the solution I've found is to use MediaMonkey to download to the Touch which stops iTunes fiddling with the music tags. (My missus won't use MediaMonkey so I insist she copies the music to her local PC then syncs it from there.)
I'm sure, therefore, your music "just appears" provided that you let iTunes run roughshod over you music collection, but Apple does not stop to consider that maybe their hardware is being used in environments where there is other non-Apple hardware also being used and it's not simply a case of "one size fits all".
Why is this so difficult for you to accept?
There is a healthy market for used hardware in high street "exchange" shops, and on eBay also. Lots of people are selling their used Apple devices and I don't for one minute believe that it's all just because they are upgrading to other Apple products.
The reason Apple is doing so well is that they turn out devices that suit the people's needs and are well-designed and reliable.
Sorry, why does this mean that everyone else doesn't?
This marketing bullshit about how Apple has some "secret sauce" is just nonsense promoted by those who can't research the stories they write - or those who want to turn out the same old junk and think they should be competitive just because they showed up.
But presumably if the same was being said about, say, Microsoft, you'd be all for it. In whatever market you look at, whether it's phones, music players or computers, Apple is still a minority player. And for any seller of anything, the reason for that is the same - most people don't want to pay the prices being asked for those items.
The so-called competitors have been shown up for what they really are and they're squealing. Ever use a Motorola phone? How did you like their excuse for a user interface? Or have you ever used a Blackberry? How many times a week do you have to pull the battery to reboot it? Even the newer Droid phones - great concept, but they leave a lot to be desired in the execution. And that's just the cell phones.
If Blackberry is that bad, why hasn't iPhone displaced it? Blackberry is still the most popular business mobile platform pretty much anywhere.
Plus my missus has an iPhone, but I went for an Android-based HTC Hero even after she bought it. I don't have a problem with the UI on it, I do have a problem with the Apple monoculture meaning I cannot do as much with an iPhone as I can with an Android.
How about tablets? I've used a HP TX series tablet and after that I bought an iPad. There's lots of noise from vaporware vendors but anything like competition for the iPad is nowhere in sight. At least HP looked at the way things are and killed their Windows tablet - they'll bring it out running Web/OS sometime in the future.
In my view, the tablet is a gimmick, just like HDTV and 3D cinema - it's there to sell more stuff, that's all.
Touchscreens are fine for emulating a keyboard on a device you want to stick in your pocket but for anything bigger buy a Netbook because it's far more versatile and flexible in what it can do.
Probably it'll be delivered by virgins riding unicorns.
Well, by the sound of it, if Steve Jobs tells you unicorns exist, you'll believe him.
Creating and building fully developed and well rounded products isn't a trivial task - Apple spent a lot of time and money making their iThingies good.
Again, why the assumption that nobody else does? Do you not think HP, Dell, etc, spend huge amounts of money on R&D?
And with all respect to Apple, they've never made anything that good that in almost 30 years of working and playing with computers, phones, etc. I've ever felt the remotest interest in buying.
I simply don't like what they do and how they do it - to me, a computer or a phone is a tool that has to do what I need it to do well. It's not a fashion accessory, it doesn't have to match my tie and it doesn't need to impress everyone else I run into. Therefore, paying a premium price for how a tool looks isn't the "bag" I'm into.
For those companies who want to compete with Apple on this ground - they're going to have to get rid of their "good enough" mentality and create great products.
Clearly you're a fanboi because clearly you're incapable of seeing that other companies have made and are capable of making great products, otherwise you'd have enough knowledge to be able to make clearer specific statements rather than sweeping ones.
For example, I have a 6 year-old IBM T40 laptop that isn't my primary laptop or computer, but has been pretty much around the world with me. It's been knocked, dropped & banged about, it's been running Gentoo Linux and Gnome for years and because it's such a reliable machine, a few months ago I decided to spend some money on it and bought a new hard disk, mor
Even better - buy the CDs.
Develop the patience to listen to an entire album rather than "pick and mix sweeties" tracks, develop some discernment to do enough research to only buy music from artists with enough talent to make good albums (not just one or two good tracks) and research you prices well where, invariably, you can end up buying the CD cheaper than buying the tracks.
And since a CD is an automatic backup for itself if you rip the tracks to your own media storage place, then you don't need to waste more money buying multiple disk backups etc.
Plus you get your music in a lossless DRM-free format from the outset that you can rip in a format, whenever you like, appropriate to what you intend playing it on.
Sorry, the only advantage download music has over CDs is to appease the "I must have it now" culture who can't wait a couple of days for a package in the post...
Totally agree...
Maybe one day there will be a single OS that can do everything I need a computer to do but at the moment it's a combination of using Linux and Windows XP, and that's the second best option.
And in about 30 years of messing about with computers, never once have I felt that anything was missing from my computing experience through not ever owning one single Apple-made computer.
Please immediately put measures in place that stop all Apple iP[ao]ds and iPhones supporting WebM as you did with Flash.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading all of the tenuous fanboi postings about how lack of Flash is a good thing & am always more than happy to sit down with bag of popcorn and nice cup of tea to watch a great comedy sequel...
Yes, because of course you can put 100% of your trust in apps from a truly professional site with "Our server is maintaining" on its home page...
Sorry, what's "enjoyable" about being forced to buy all your software from *ONE* place and only being *ALLOWED* to download what you are told you can download.
As mostly Linux user, I will give Microsoft credit where it's due - you can run a Microsoft OS and throw on pretty much whatever free or commercial apps on it that you like, plus I understand from MS developer friends that they give away a lot of freebies to aid developers on Windows.
Unlike Steve The Control Freak Jobs...