1. The movie industry is constantly getting their stuff taken down, but at a rate that is slower than it gets put back up. That's clearly working very well for them.
2. It's not likely they would file a DMCA notice this is an Irish citizen and an Irish judge in an Irish court, and the DMCA is a US law. Also, it's a copyright law, and this isn't a copyright action. The judge could attempt a restraining order, but those need to be targeted; and good luck with that on the Internet where jurisdiction can change faster than most people change their socks.
So, does Amazon now get to sue Alcatel-Lucent for the amount of their settlement, as they were being extorted for greenmail on something that now doesn't exist, and isn't enforceable?
Yeah, it's easy to be the fastest growing when your installed base is barely above a statistical rounding error. You should consider getting a brain transplant - the one you're using seems to be defective in logic and math.
Let's say the eBook market before Apple's entry was 1,000 sales (it wasn't, but it makes the math easy), and they had 90%. That means they sold 900 eBooks.
If Apple enters, and the market increases by 50%, and Amazon still sells the same 900 that they did before (assuming flat growth without the customers Apple brings to the market), then they now have 60% with the exact same amount of sales.
Market share numbers are useless without knowing total sales volume within the market, and period-over-period growth numbers.
when in reality it was simply Apple making sure nothing ran on Apple hardware that they didn't get a cut.
Yeah, it totally sucks that I can't run Flash and Silverlight on my Mac. Oh wait, I can install both with zero restrictions outside of Adobe and Microsoft's license agreements. Apple sells more than the iOS devices.
Regardless, Flash is still a huge piece of shit, and everyone should be happy with it's demise. It's a zero-sum change moving from DRM in Flash / Silverlight to DRM in HTML5, except that it's no longer a framework owned by one company who can decide if they are going to develop for all platforms or not. Remember how long it took to get useable Flash on Linux? Won't have that problem with HTML5, since it's a specification and not a product.
If someone bought from Amazon before Apple got into the business, and then continued buying from Amazon after Apple got into the business with the same or lower prices, how did they get hurt again? It's not like e-books are a finite commodity.
You might be able to make an argument for Amazon getting hurt, but I don't see it for the non-Apple customer.
I stubbed my toe this morning. I'm pretty sure it's because the geographic poles shifted just enough that the door jamb of my bathroom was rotated axially just enough that my half-sleeping autopilot state didn't account for the drift, thus my little toe tried to occupy the same space.
Or, in a much easier and everyday explanation which just happens to be a car analogy - you have to balance the wheels on your car so that they don't bounce down the road at speed causing vibration.
Now, all we need is some planet-sized wheel weights, and we're all set.
Remember when everyone talked shit about Steve Jobs having a wireless problem during a keynote at the exact same venue, and everyone blasted Apple over that? Why do I have a feeling we won't see the same level of vitriol for this one?
News flash: You can't have 5,000 operating Wi-Fi radios in the same room and expect anything to work.
I also asked about Android, which you completely neglected to answer. There's been heaps of devices from manufacturers that shipped with obsolete software, with upgrades never announced nor delivered.
How many of those are still in use? How's the battery holding up on 3 year old devices after daily charge cycles?
1. Multimonitor is worse than it was before. The stupid tile display, even though it's designed to scroll horizontally (which would coincide with how the overwhelming majority of multi-display setups are) will only work on one screen. The task bar thing is mirrored on both displays, which wastes screen real estate showing you the exact same thing in two places simultaneously. When the tile display is up, the other display still shows your desktop; but if you click on it, it jerks the other display out of the tile thing back to the desktop. You cannot interact with a desktop app on one display, and Metro / Modern / WTF ever on the other simultaneously; which would be the only reason I can think of for this single-display tile scheme, unless they are just lazy and didn't want to deal with screen scaling and positioning.
2. There are real problems in hardware drivers. Windows Update tries to force an ancient version of Nvidia display drivers down over newer versions of drivers, which install without you knowing about it, and blowing up your video config until you either disable the update from ever running, or perform a system restore. See: http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/310.54/310.54-win8-win7-winvista-desktop-release-notes.pdf (buried on page 29). I have two different Nvidia cards in my box, which works great on Win7 and other OS families; but I can't load the drivers on both cards at the same time without a blue screen in Windows 8. So, the one I only use for desktop stuff has to use a "Standard VGA Display Device" driver (a.k.a. frame buffer out) in order to be stable. Again, works great in Windows 7 with no hassle whatsoever.
3. Microsoft is clueless when it comes to supporting EFI. Windows Setup will not work if you have any other EFI-based OS installed, or if any of the EFI system partitions that may be present have not-Windows on them. If you physically disconnect those drives, it then works. If you need to use the "automatic restore" and it sees an EFI system partition that has not-Windows on it, it will give you an error saying to need to choose which version of Windows you want to repair, and then not give you any way to do that. Again, physically disconnecting the drives resolves this. Having to disconnect hardware in order to get OS tools to function is complete shit, and the only way it could be worse is if it actually went and ruined those other OS installs while attempting to install / repair Windows 8.
I have to specifically _KNOW_ that I'm not allowed to click any link on any website and download a disk image that works with an annoying warning box that tells you exactly how to disable it?
I have to specifically _KNOW_ that I'm not allowed to go buy any software at a retail store, and it installs without any problems whatsoever?
I have to specifically _KNOW_ that if the developer used a code signing certificate when they packaged the app, that I'll still not have any problems whatsoever?
But hey... anti-ms trolls are known to lie about things to push their agenda... nothing new here. Pot, meet kettle.
Yes, you are, as there is no irony to be seen. Mac development tools have been open for quite some time. Feel free to use emacs and llvm to develop OSS code targeted for Darwin as you please.
Yeah, but that only shows you how to get the useless "Charm" bar to appear, and then tells you to try clicking in other corners and see what happens!
Because people have nothing better to do than try to figure out how their new computer works, when they already know how to do it before it changed to a less intuitive version.
You mean besides hitting the button that no longer says "Start" on it, but is in the same location as the Start menu that everyone already knows, and then immediately seeing "Control Panel" in the resultant menu?
Yeah, because all the applications installing to/Applications, and being immediately accessible with cmd+shift+a, or in Launchpad with one click, is pretty hard to find. Or using cmd+space to be able to search for anything, anywhere, and open / launch it directly from the results. Or just drag and drop it once you find it onto the dock, and forever more be able to single-click it as soon as you're logged in.
Yeah, Mac OS is really hard to use and find things.
In the future they could charge users on non-Blackberry platforms a small subscription fee.
And they could watch their user base disappear. The only appeal that this has for me is cross-platform support for read receipts of MMS. I already get that with 85% of the messaging I do through iMessage, this would add the people I know that have Android.
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1. The movie industry is constantly getting their stuff taken down, but at a rate that is slower than it gets put back up. That's clearly working very well for them.
2. It's not likely they would file a DMCA notice this is an Irish citizen and an Irish judge in an Irish court, and the DMCA is a US law. Also, it's a copyright law, and this isn't a copyright action. The judge could attempt a restraining order, but those need to be targeted; and good luck with that on the Internet where jurisdiction can change faster than most people change their socks.
Come on, the damn summary already provided an Apple product that shipped for a decade or so that uses this idea.
I know that this is Slashdot, where nobody actually reads the article, but it's in the summary!
So, does Amazon now get to sue Alcatel-Lucent for the amount of their settlement, as they were being extorted for greenmail on something that now doesn't exist, and isn't enforceable?
Let the blowback begin!
So, a match made in hell then?
Yeah, it's easy to be the fastest growing when your installed base is barely above a statistical rounding error. You should consider getting a brain transplant - the one you're using seems to be defective in logic and math.
Or you're a paid shill. Your choice.
Let's say the eBook market before Apple's entry was 1,000 sales (it wasn't, but it makes the math easy), and they had 90%. That means they sold 900 eBooks.
If Apple enters, and the market increases by 50%, and Amazon still sells the same 900 that they did before (assuming flat growth without the customers Apple brings to the market), then they now have 60% with the exact same amount of sales.
Market share numbers are useless without knowing total sales volume within the market, and period-over-period growth numbers.
when in reality it was simply Apple making sure nothing ran on Apple hardware that they didn't get a cut.
Yeah, it totally sucks that I can't run Flash and Silverlight on my Mac. Oh wait, I can install both with zero restrictions outside of Adobe and Microsoft's license agreements. Apple sells more than the iOS devices.
Regardless, Flash is still a huge piece of shit, and everyone should be happy with it's demise. It's a zero-sum change moving from DRM in Flash / Silverlight to DRM in HTML5, except that it's no longer a framework owned by one company who can decide if they are going to develop for all platforms or not. Remember how long it took to get useable Flash on Linux? Won't have that problem with HTML5, since it's a specification and not a product.
If someone bought from Amazon before Apple got into the business, and then continued buying from Amazon after Apple got into the business with the same or lower prices, how did they get hurt again? It's not like e-books are a finite commodity.
You might be able to make an argument for Amazon getting hurt, but I don't see it for the non-Apple customer.
I have a feeling that you'll see more genuine Google apps on the platform, when the platform has a market share worth developing against.
Google isn't a charity - they aren't going to spend the time developing an app for all 20 users of Windows Phone when the web pages also work.
(Yes, I'm being a bit snarky with that last line, but the concept still stands)
Geographic pole, not magnetic pole.
I stubbed my toe this morning. I'm pretty sure it's because the geographic poles shifted just enough that the door jamb of my bathroom was rotated axially just enough that my half-sleeping autopilot state didn't account for the drift, thus my little toe tried to occupy the same space.
Fucking global warming stubbed my toe!
That would be global de-worming, which sounds like some kind of initiative to save the pets of the world.
Or, in a much easier and everyday explanation which just happens to be a car analogy - you have to balance the wheels on your car so that they don't bounce down the road at speed causing vibration.
Now, all we need is some planet-sized wheel weights, and we're all set.
Remember when everyone talked shit about Steve Jobs having a wireless problem during a keynote at the exact same venue, and everyone blasted Apple over that? Why do I have a feeling we won't see the same level of vitriol for this one?
News flash: You can't have 5,000 operating Wi-Fi radios in the same room and expect anything to work.
I also asked about Android, which you completely neglected to answer. There's been heaps of devices from manufacturers that shipped with obsolete software, with upgrades never announced nor delivered.
How many of those are still in use? How's the battery holding up on 3 year old devices after daily charge cycles?
There are still very real problems with Win8.
1. Multimonitor is worse than it was before. The stupid tile display, even though it's designed to scroll horizontally (which would coincide with how the overwhelming majority of multi-display setups are) will only work on one screen. The task bar thing is mirrored on both displays, which wastes screen real estate showing you the exact same thing in two places simultaneously. When the tile display is up, the other display still shows your desktop; but if you click on it, it jerks the other display out of the tile thing back to the desktop. You cannot interact with a desktop app on one display, and Metro / Modern / WTF ever on the other simultaneously; which would be the only reason I can think of for this single-display tile scheme, unless they are just lazy and didn't want to deal with screen scaling and positioning.
2. There are real problems in hardware drivers. Windows Update tries to force an ancient version of Nvidia display drivers down over newer versions of drivers, which install without you knowing about it, and blowing up your video config until you either disable the update from ever running, or perform a system restore. See: http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/310.54/310.54-win8-win7-winvista-desktop-release-notes.pdf (buried on page 29). I have two different Nvidia cards in my box, which works great on Win7 and other OS families; but I can't load the drivers on both cards at the same time without a blue screen in Windows 8. So, the one I only use for desktop stuff has to use a "Standard VGA Display Device" driver (a.k.a. frame buffer out) in order to be stable. Again, works great in Windows 7 with no hassle whatsoever.
3. Microsoft is clueless when it comes to supporting EFI. Windows Setup will not work if you have any other EFI-based OS installed, or if any of the EFI system partitions that may be present have not-Windows on them. If you physically disconnect those drives, it then works. If you need to use the "automatic restore" and it sees an EFI system partition that has not-Windows on it, it will give you an error saying to need to choose which version of Windows you want to repair, and then not give you any way to do that. Again, physically disconnecting the drives resolves this. Having to disconnect hardware in order to get OS tools to function is complete shit, and the only way it could be worse is if it actually went and ruined those other OS installs while attempting to install / repair Windows 8.
Yeah, because Microsoft has never just dumped entire developer ecosystems in the past (Zune, PlaysForSure, Kin, Sidekick)
Because Win7's EFI boot is a hash of new uEFI calls and 30-year old BIOS interrupt calls to initialize devices. Win8 fixes this.
I have to specifically _KNOW_ that I'm not allowed to click any link on any website and download a disk image that works with an annoying warning box that tells you exactly how to disable it?
I have to specifically _KNOW_ that I'm not allowed to go buy any software at a retail store, and it installs without any problems whatsoever?
I have to specifically _KNOW_ that if the developer used a code signing certificate when they packaged the app, that I'll still not have any problems whatsoever?
But hey... anti-ms trolls are known to lie about things to push their agenda... nothing new here.
Pot, meet kettle.
Yes, you are, as there is no irony to be seen. Mac development tools have been open for quite some time. Feel free to use emacs and llvm to develop OSS code targeted for Darwin as you please.
Short version: Mac != iOS
On my Win8 partition, the Start tile screen thing has three tiles on a 27" display: Desktop, Chrome, and Steam. The rest is a sea of neutral grey.
Then, I installed Classic Shell to get the functionality I really want.
Yeah, but that only shows you how to get the useless "Charm" bar to appear, and then tells you to try clicking in other corners and see what happens!
Because people have nothing better to do than try to figure out how their new computer works, when they already know how to do it before it changed to a less intuitive version.
You mean besides hitting the button that no longer says "Start" on it, but is in the same location as the Start menu that everyone already knows, and then immediately seeing "Control Panel" in the resultant menu?
Yeah, because all the applications installing to /Applications, and being immediately accessible with cmd+shift+a, or in Launchpad with one click, is pretty hard to find. Or using cmd+space to be able to search for anything, anywhere, and open / launch it directly from the results. Or just drag and drop it once you find it onto the dock, and forever more be able to single-click it as soon as you're logged in.
Yeah, Mac OS is really hard to use and find things.
In the future they could charge users on non-Blackberry platforms a small subscription fee.
And they could watch their user base disappear. The only appeal that this has for me is cross-platform support for read receipts of MMS. I already get that with 85% of the messaging I do through iMessage, this would add the people I know that have Android.
I don't care enough to pay for that though.