People fly too much as it is, planes are fuelled with fossil fuels and I don't see why non-essential travel (holidays) should take priority over essential travel (going to work). Also the CO2, why should we have to cut down our electric use and go backwards in terms of progression just so planes can carry on flying as usual.
As someone who has flown about twice I don't see why I'm paying huge taxes on my income just for it to be given to big businesses that have not planned for such natural disasters.
Firstly Nokia thinks a camera phone can kill off the DSLR market and now Microsoft is moaning about TV resolutions?
TV has always been slow to improve, there are damn good reasons why.
Firstly, TVs are expensive. We don't all work for Microsoft and aren't all able to upgrade it every 6 months.
Secondly, the transmission technology for TV is slow to improve as well. Masts, cables, satellites etc.
Finally, media formats have been slow to improve, the journey from VHS to Bluray took about thirty years and TV resolution has only up about 2.6 times in that period.
Nobody wants to buy a TV and then wait for a year or three before something comes out that takes advantage of the resolution.
Anything Apple scrutinises and approves would seem to be approved by them. Apple becomes the distributor, the publisher. So if the app caused problems then they would share the blame.
We have passed a law about the same. But there's so few Police on patrol the law just isn't being enforced. I still see plenty of drivers hand holding a mobile, despite the fact you can get a bluetooth headset for £8 in the UK.
In the UK we drive largely manual gearbox and holding a phone while driving means not changing gear or letting go of the steering wheel while changing gear!
Apple just doesn't want lousy bloated code that is generated badly and lazily from some bloated Adobe app that probably costs a fortune.
XCode is free, Cocao touch and ObjC is much nicer to use than most mobile platforms (Symbian is horrid). Why buy some Adobe toolkit and churn out rubbish?
Developers for games consoles have to use the official SDK, why should a handheld gaming platform (that is also a phone) be any different?
Well they are a lot more innovative than Microsoft are that's for sure.
When Microsoft released a tablet PC it was just a tablet with Windows and some trivial extensions. The head of the Office team wouldn't rework Office to work with the tablet controls as he "doesn't like touch screens".
Hardly the sort of thing you want to buy is it, a tablet running an OS designed for a mouse and keyboard with some hacks on the top to make it try to work with a stylus.
Why is it "drinking koolaid" to want to simply buy a computer and use it? have the hardware and software working in unison to give a good user experience?
I'm well versed with Linux, Windows etc.. I've built up MythTV media centres using Linux (compiling my own kernel and all that). I choose to own a Mac because computers are just a tool to get things done. They shouldn't be like a car requiring lots of maintenance.
Except Apple is increasing market share by producing new products, innovating and taking risks.
Microsoft is only where it is today due to being rather lucky with getting IBM to take their vapour ware OS product DOS. Most of Microsoft's revenue still comes from Windows and Office, in fact they make more from Office than Windows!
There are many big technology companies and nobody was complaining when Sony entered the games console market and dominated it? So why should Apple be prevented from doing well in the consumer electronics market?
Just because they are good at it and other brands release products that are largely inferior doesn't mean Apple should be stopped.
Problem is this study will be shown to be proof worldwide when there are big differences between the US and other countries when it comes to driving and cars.
In the UK we're mostly manual transmission drivers. An auto is easier to drive when holding a phone, but try holding a phone, steering and changing gear at the same time!!
A stupid decision given the BBC broadcast DRM free mpeg2 over the airwaves. A £30 USB TV card will let you record broadcast quality TV, so why do they feel that lower quality net streaming is a risk?
This is all about piracy. Games are harder to pirate on the consoles. If you can boot a pirate copy on a console it can often be detected when you go online. You then get banned from online play.
You can also trade in console games and get a reasonable amount of money back.
1. Being too late. Search engines have been around for many years. You can't easily launch a search engine now without a massively improved user experience over what is already available.
2. Not being trusted, I don't want to use Microsoft's search engine as it may subvert the results to promote their wares.
3. Stupid name. Every time I hear "Bing" I think of Ned Ryserson from the film Groundhog Day.
4. OTT interface, I don't need a big background when I'm looking for stuff.
A whole desk computer is what you need, with easy ways of sending someone a document.
Imagine if you had a meeting room and the whole desk was a computer, but you could effectively bring your own computer display over to the desk? No need to bring your laptop, no need to bring a notepad with you.
Ok, we will need to move away from WIMP to make this possible perhaps?
Do you think Apple has actually invented much of the hardware in the iPhone? of course not, it's off the shelf parts. So why is Apple the target? it sounds like to me this is a software patent argument. The people supplying the chips to Apple are the people infringing.
Nokia may have a case if and when Apple produce their own cell silicon, the radio part of the phone.
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People fly too much as it is, planes are fuelled with fossil fuels and I don't see why non-essential travel (holidays) should take priority over essential travel (going to work). Also the CO2, why should we have to cut down our electric use and go backwards in terms of progression just so planes can carry on flying as usual.
As someone who has flown about twice I don't see why I'm paying huge taxes on my income just for it to be given to big businesses that have not planned for such natural disasters.
Same. I got sick of Windows and Linux.
Computers are for running software, they're not children that you need to mother and keep an eye on.
I thought the airlines were struggling after the EU airspace was closed? so how can they throw around free flights and hospitality?
Of course, they're hoping to get business out this publicity I suppose.
Firstly Nokia thinks a camera phone can kill off the DSLR market and now Microsoft is moaning about TV resolutions?
TV has always been slow to improve, there are damn good reasons why.
Firstly, TVs are expensive. We don't all work for Microsoft and aren't all able to upgrade it every 6 months.
Secondly, the transmission technology for TV is slow to improve as well. Masts, cables, satellites etc.
Finally, media formats have been slow to improve, the journey from VHS to Bluray took about thirty years and TV resolution has only up about 2.6 times in that period.
Nobody wants to buy a TV and then wait for a year or three before something comes out that takes advantage of the resolution.
These days the Internet is big focus for people and web applications development isn't done in the sort of languages people write kernels in.
C was a big thing when I started coding, I've not done any in about 10 years.
Anything Apple scrutinises and approves would seem to be approved by them. Apple becomes the distributor, the publisher. So if the app caused problems then they would share the blame.
Don't they see the obvious joke you can make with the name?
Microsoft have some of the most talentless branding and marketing people in the world.
They call their OS Windows (it has windows) and their Office suite Office.
I'm amazed this phone isn't called Microsoft Child Phone or something.
We have passed a law about the same. But there's so few Police on patrol the law just isn't being enforced. I still see plenty of drivers hand holding a mobile, despite the fact you can get a bluetooth headset for £8 in the UK.
In the UK we drive largely manual gearbox and holding a phone while driving means not changing gear or letting go of the steering wheel while changing gear!
Maybe because they know that Apple would produce a decent alternative to Photoshop for a fraction of the price?
Apple massively undercut Steinberg's Cubase when they released Logic Studio. No lame dongle protection either!
Apple just doesn't want lousy bloated code that is generated badly and lazily from some bloated Adobe app that probably costs a fortune.
XCode is free, Cocao touch and ObjC is much nicer to use than most mobile platforms (Symbian is horrid). Why buy some Adobe toolkit and churn out rubbish?
Developers for games consoles have to use the official SDK, why should a handheld gaming platform (that is also a phone) be any different?
They'd probably like to forget about supplying machines to Hitler as well.
http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
Well they are a lot more innovative than Microsoft are that's for sure.
When Microsoft released a tablet PC it was just a tablet with Windows and some trivial extensions. The head of the Office team wouldn't rework Office to work with the tablet controls as he "doesn't like touch screens".
Hardly the sort of thing you want to buy is it, a tablet running an OS designed for a mouse and keyboard with some hacks on the top to make it try to work with a stylus.
Why is it "drinking koolaid" to want to simply buy a computer and use it? have the hardware and software working in unison to give a good user experience?
I'm well versed with Linux, Windows etc.. I've built up MythTV media centres using Linux (compiling my own kernel and all that). I choose to own a Mac because computers are just a tool to get things done. They shouldn't be like a car requiring lots of maintenance.
Except Apple is increasing market share by producing new products, innovating and taking risks.
Microsoft is only where it is today due to being rather lucky with getting IBM to take their vapour ware OS product DOS. Most of Microsoft's revenue still comes from Windows and Office, in fact they make more from Office than Windows!
There are many big technology companies and nobody was complaining when Sony entered the games console market and dominated it? So why should Apple be prevented from doing well in the consumer electronics market?
Just because they are good at it and other brands release products that are largely inferior doesn't mean Apple should be stopped.
Simple, if the other person who had the idea doesn't have a patent then someone else will patent it.
Courier will probably never see the light of day. Even if it does then it will be years away.
In terms of tablet PCs it is very unique. It has a 100% touch interface. No mouse or trackpad backup, not physical keyboard.
Even the Pocket PC had to revert to a stylus as it was still a WIMP style interface (with no pointer, but the stylus acted as one).
Nobody else has produced a tablet platform where the software is all 100% touch compatible.
Problem is this study will be shown to be proof worldwide when there are big differences between the US and other countries when it comes to driving and cars.
In the UK we're mostly manual transmission drivers. An auto is easier to drive when holding a phone, but try holding a phone, steering and changing gear at the same time!!
I use my iPhone for such things. It's safer in the long run.
Until someone comes up with a rogue cell repeater they can tap into.
With the global slump politicians are under pressure to spend money on software, not use open source.
Of course, the layman doesn't always understand that open source software is sold commercially as well.
Under freedom of information laws surely we're entitled to see information in a format anyone can read?
A stupid decision given the BBC broadcast DRM free mpeg2 over the airwaves. A £30 USB TV card will let you record broadcast quality TV, so why do they feel that lower quality net streaming is a risk?
This is all about piracy. Games are harder to pirate on the consoles. If you can boot a pirate copy on a console it can often be detected when you go online. You then get banned from online play.
You can also trade in console games and get a reasonable amount of money back.
I would say they lost by:
1. Being too late. Search engines have been around for many years. You can't easily launch a search engine now without a massively improved user experience over what is already available.
2. Not being trusted, I don't want to use Microsoft's search engine as it may subvert the results to promote their wares.
3. Stupid name. Every time I hear "Bing" I think of Ned Ryserson from the film Groundhog Day.
4. OTT interface, I don't need a big background when I'm looking for stuff.
There's no such thing as fraud proof. Humans are involved in the process and humans are corruptible.
In fact, fraud proof makes it difficult to prove someone stole your identity if they some how manage to fraudulently apply for ID in your name.
A whole desk computer is what you need, with easy ways of sending someone a document.
Imagine if you had a meeting room and the whole desk was a computer, but you could effectively bring your own computer display over to the desk? No need to bring your laptop, no need to bring a notepad with you.
Ok, we will need to move away from WIMP to make this possible perhaps?
Do you think Apple has actually invented much of the hardware in the iPhone? of course not, it's off the shelf parts. So why is Apple the target? it sounds like to me this is a software patent argument. The people supplying the chips to Apple are the people infringing.
Nokia may have a case if and when Apple produce their own cell silicon, the radio part of the phone.