And the balloon turns on the switch, which makes the fan blow the paper airplane into the domino chain, where the last one falls off the bookshelf onto the mousetrap, which launches the green army man across the room into the basket, which pulls down the string connected to the...
Anyone who calls this a "solution" is fooling themselves.
I don't think that shipping 14.6M of anything can be called a market collapse, especially when it is happening to a product that is now 11 months old, and widely rumored (and not just in tech rags, but publications like the Wall Street Journal) to be ripe for replacement in two weeks. Which, you'll recall, didn't happen a year ago, since the iPad 3's lifecycle was all of 7 months long.
Yeah, sales are gonna slow down, if measuring year-over-year identical sales. Because they aren't identical sales.
There's a drive-in in Middletown, OH that is showing Back to the Future this week.
I didn't discover it until it was too late to go this weekend - they're showing some crap Disney cartoon first, and then what I'd actually want to see at 10:40p, and I have work...
There have been far more Presidents than not that were faithful to the vows they took before their wives that didn't have huge scandals while President. But I guess that doesn't serve your weak argument, so we'll let that slide on by...
I've never heard of a company giving a two-week notice to an employee that's being laid off or fired
It depends on the size of the layoff; see: the WARN Act. I was once given a paid 60 days absence before the actual layoff because they were shuttering the division. Gave me enough time to get another job, and get home from my first day of work to find a FedEx envelope with my final severance check.
That's how you downsize with class. Or, by being legal.
The thing is though, at least in the modern era of Apple, a lot of those disasters still provided great technical expertise they could recycle into hit products.
The Power Mac G4 Cube was widely panned as an expensive flop; but without the knowledge of how to shoehorn a energy-hungry G4 into that small enclosure without over-baking the whole mess we would have never had the PowerBook G4 that turned into the laptop that everyone emulates now, and Apple has iteratively improved into today's MacBook Pro. Or the Mac Mini, which only Lenovo comes close to replicating, and they have to use an external power brick.
Some products may be a flop, but the product itself isn't the only thing that is useful. The puck mouse from the original iMacs can die in a fire though. Absolutely nothing, other than hand cramps, came from that.
Yes, there are flagship android devices which actually are something special.
However, the vast chunk of "OMG Android is wiping the floor with Apple" is free-with-subsidy devices that might as well be feature phones, because they aren't used as a smartphone at all. And those devices are either 12+ month old junk with equally old software that will never be updated, or bargain-basement components with bargain-basement performance.
For the most part, people that buy Apple stay with Apple. I can see Samsung buyers likely staying with Samsung for a lot of the same reasons - it's a quality product at a price that is reasonable. I just don't see there being a large ecosystem beyond those two at the top of the pyramid; and Apple isn't concerned with the free phone crowd (depending on what the iPhone 5C rumors digest into next month).
The Win95 launch was an incredible stroke of marketing at exactly the right time. Personal Computing was finally catching on in a big way, because computers were finally useful for something besides dining around and playing games. However, everyone hated using PCs because they had their own cryptic language you had to use to get them to do anything. Unless you ran this thing called "Windows" which gave you a clunky point+click way of doing most things, but still required you to type in cryptic strings of letters to get your computer to do stuff, and it treated you like the boss everyone hates - it says nothing when you do it right, but gets in your face when you do it ever-so-slightly wrong.
Windows 95 finally made it so that normal people could use a computer to do stuff they wanted to do, if they didn't buy a Mac in the first place. However, every single advance in Windows since then has been iterative, and not decisively different from the last (to the non-technical crowd). They still operate basically the same, they just crash a bit less now.
You and I know that the plumbing is completely different underneath, but to the average non-techie, it all looks the same to them.
Yes, they were doing the tablet thing back in 2003. And absolutely nobody gave a shit, and practically nobody remembers. Why?
They were, and still are, terrible products.
Nobody wants an OS designed for a mouse + keyboard on their touchscreen. Just like nobody wants an OS designed for a touchscreen on a mouse + keyboard driven device. Apple knew this immediately, and designed a product to not do that. Google knew it immediately, and designed a product to not do that.
Microsoft has had a decade to figure it out, and they still haven't. In fact, they just flipped the coin over and killed the sales of the product that props the whole company up by ruining desktops and laptops rather than just ruining convertible tablets that nobody buys. They've fucked the dog on this one, and still haven't figured it out.
And the award for the biggest vaporware announcement that has ever been, or ever will be; goes to... Elon Musk, for his Hyperloop press conference, where he even admitted that he won't be building it.
Seriously, this is news? I'm pretty sure a boy at age 6 somewhere saw the drive-up bank tubes and had this idea too.
I don't know, those of us here on I-75 in Cincinnati, Ohio would welcome a 30-minute trip to Southern California; and that would really be something to talk about, even though it would be just as vaporiffic as this idea.
Yeah, when you go from 0.1% to 0.3% of market share, that's 300% growth, which far outstrips everyone else. Ask Microsoft how they feel about being the "fastest growing part" of the smartphone business since Windows Phone 8 also shares that particular title.
Note: I am not disparaging ChromeOS or Chromebook with this post, I'm only pointing out how useless the term "fastest growing" is when applied to a platform that has been on the market for like 18 days (sarcasm).
It seems that the word "hybrid" is being redefined in common use. It is now being used to combine one old outdated thing that needs to be put out to pasture with a new state-of-the-art idea.
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Or they are already switching to Thin Clients and using desktop virtualization (Citrix, VMware Horizon, etc.).
I know that we're looking at it, and we don't jump into anything that is cutting edge.
So Netflix is supposed to completely re-engineer their entire delivery system for their original content in order to help you make a point?
Yeah, that 0.1% of the market that demands Linux streaming is really gonna hurt the bottom line over at Netflix.
Wait, all those people have Android devices because they are hardcore Linux guys... and Netflix streams to Android, right?
And the balloon turns on the switch, which makes the fan blow the paper airplane into the domino chain, where the last one falls off the bookshelf onto the mousetrap, which launches the green army man across the room into the basket, which pulls down the string connected to the...
Anyone who calls this a "solution" is fooling themselves.
I don't think that shipping 14.6M of anything can be called a market collapse, especially when it is happening to a product that is now 11 months old, and widely rumored (and not just in tech rags, but publications like the Wall Street Journal) to be ripe for replacement in two weeks. Which, you'll recall, didn't happen a year ago, since the iPad 3's lifecycle was all of 7 months long.
Yeah, sales are gonna slow down, if measuring year-over-year identical sales. Because they aren't identical sales.
There's a drive-in in Middletown, OH that is showing Back to the Future this week.
I didn't discover it until it was too late to go this weekend - they're showing some crap Disney cartoon first, and then what I'd actually want to see at 10:40p, and I have work...
They say that a good man is hard to find. I'd wager that finding 537 of them and sending them all to Washington DC is impossible.
There have been far more Presidents than not that were faithful to the vows they took before their wives that didn't have huge scandals while President. But I guess that doesn't serve your weak argument, so we'll let that slide on by...
I've been on some conference calls that make me want to do some damn distasteful things too.
There are three drive-in theaters within reasonable distance of Cincinnati, two of which are using digital projection already. I'm all set.
I've never heard of a company giving a two-week notice to an employee that's being laid off or fired
It depends on the size of the layoff; see: the WARN Act. I was once given a paid 60 days absence before the actual layoff because they were shuttering the division. Gave me enough time to get another job, and get home from my first day of work to find a FedEx envelope with my final severance check.
That's how you downsize with class. Or, by being legal.
The effect of all those anti-gun people are trying to reduce magazine capacities: people just carry more magazines with them.
Besides, you want to know what the most useless gun in the world is? The one that has no ammunition.
The thing is though, at least in the modern era of Apple, a lot of those disasters still provided great technical expertise they could recycle into hit products.
The Power Mac G4 Cube was widely panned as an expensive flop; but without the knowledge of how to shoehorn a energy-hungry G4 into that small enclosure without over-baking the whole mess we would have never had the PowerBook G4 that turned into the laptop that everyone emulates now, and Apple has iteratively improved into today's MacBook Pro. Or the Mac Mini, which only Lenovo comes close to replicating, and they have to use an external power brick.
Some products may be a flop, but the product itself isn't the only thing that is useful. The puck mouse from the original iMacs can die in a fire though. Absolutely nothing, other than hand cramps, came from that.
I've been using iTunes since it was called SoundJam.
The bastardization of the product happened long before Steve's tumors started growing.
Terminal > Network Computer > Thin Client > Cloud Computing
It's all the same idea, and it has been for 40 years. The whole world shines shit and declares it gold.
So much this.
Yes, there are flagship android devices which actually are something special.
However, the vast chunk of "OMG Android is wiping the floor with Apple" is free-with-subsidy devices that might as well be feature phones, because they aren't used as a smartphone at all. And those devices are either 12+ month old junk with equally old software that will never be updated, or bargain-basement components with bargain-basement performance.
For the most part, people that buy Apple stay with Apple. I can see Samsung buyers likely staying with Samsung for a lot of the same reasons - it's a quality product at a price that is reasonable. I just don't see there being a large ecosystem beyond those two at the top of the pyramid; and Apple isn't concerned with the free phone crowd (depending on what the iPhone 5C rumors digest into next month).
The Win95 launch was an incredible stroke of marketing at exactly the right time. Personal Computing was finally catching on in a big way, because computers were finally useful for something besides dining around and playing games. However, everyone hated using PCs because they had their own cryptic language you had to use to get them to do anything. Unless you ran this thing called "Windows" which gave you a clunky point+click way of doing most things, but still required you to type in cryptic strings of letters to get your computer to do stuff, and it treated you like the boss everyone hates - it says nothing when you do it right, but gets in your face when you do it ever-so-slightly wrong.
Windows 95 finally made it so that normal people could use a computer to do stuff they wanted to do, if they didn't buy a Mac in the first place. However, every single advance in Windows since then has been iterative, and not decisively different from the last (to the non-technical crowd). They still operate basically the same, they just crash a bit less now.
You and I know that the plumbing is completely different underneath, but to the average non-techie, it all looks the same to them.
Yes, they were doing the tablet thing back in 2003. And absolutely nobody gave a shit, and practically nobody remembers. Why?
They were, and still are, terrible products.
Nobody wants an OS designed for a mouse + keyboard on their touchscreen. Just like nobody wants an OS designed for a touchscreen on a mouse + keyboard driven device. Apple knew this immediately, and designed a product to not do that. Google knew it immediately, and designed a product to not do that.
Microsoft has had a decade to figure it out, and they still haven't. In fact, they just flipped the coin over and killed the sales of the product that props the whole company up by ruining desktops and laptops rather than just ruining convertible tablets that nobody buys. They've fucked the dog on this one, and still haven't figured it out.
And the award for the biggest vaporware announcement that has ever been, or ever will be; goes to... Elon Musk, for his Hyperloop press conference, where he even admitted that he won't be building it.
Seriously, this is news? I'm pretty sure a boy at age 6 somewhere saw the drive-up bank tubes and had this idea too.
I don't know, those of us here on I-75 in Cincinnati, Ohio would welcome a 30-minute trip to Southern California; and that would really be something to talk about, even though it would be just as vaporiffic as this idea.
Declaration of War? Check.
Ship with guns on it? Check.
Ship flying flag of nation that declared war? Check.
Empty the guns.
Nobody, in any nation, would give a shit what bearing the ship is on, if the three things stated above are all true.
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Classic Slashdot.
Yeah, when you go from 0.1% to 0.3% of market share, that's 300% growth, which far outstrips everyone else. Ask Microsoft how they feel about being the "fastest growing part" of the smartphone business since Windows Phone 8 also shares that particular title.
Note: I am not disparaging ChromeOS or Chromebook with this post, I'm only pointing out how useless the term "fastest growing" is when applied to a platform that has been on the market for like 18 days (sarcasm).
They could fix this so easy and fast, but they don't because they are bull-headed and know what their customer wants (or, at least, think they do.)
If there is a mouse / keyboard, use the Win7 UI.
If there is a touchscreen and no mouse, use the tiles.
Regardless of the above, put a radio button in the control panel to easily switch between the two.
I just fixed Windows 8.
It seems that the word "hybrid" is being redefined in common use. It is now being used to combine one old outdated thing that needs to be put out to pasture with a new state-of-the-art idea.