Actually the mini's specs are perfect for the corporate market. Its pretty much every corporate computer out there now.
And your right I spoke of one to one, trust me in my dealings with apple, you buy enough of them they will throw in the house to boot.
two points.
1) they could have said no comment, all it was was a rumor up till that point.
2) Technically they are copying MS and Nintendo on this one. The rumor basically said it was a MS style achievements system which used Nintendo styled Mii's.
3) People are calling it a blogger, but its not a blogger its one of the biggest web based news organizations that doesnt have a real world based presence, Gawker Media. Gawkers on slashdots main pages all the time, and infact many of Slashdots tech stories have been coming from Kotaku, Gizmodo and Lifehacker recently, all Gawker media sites.
4) The media is supposed to report news. Rumors are newsworth items. Sony can blackball all they want, but in the end all it does is make Sony look bad. Just look at Apple when they pulled a stunt like this with other sites in the wake of their misinformed lawsuit. The rule is as a company if you dont want a secret to get out early you keep the lid tight. You dont blackball media sources otherwise the hand you bite is going to slap you right back.
All Kotaku asked was to confirm it. Sony went beyond confirming and denying and said you publish this we are through. Thats not how you play ball in the media market and in the end its going to kill Sony's relationship with every media source since as a news organization I would be less likey to publish ANYTHING unconfirmed about Sony, which is the #1 way these companies trump up excitement for their machines.
All Sony did was shoot themselves in the foot to the people most likely to buy their stuff. They could have simply had said "no comment" and be done. Now everyone knows Kotaku had solid info (and thus ruined the surprise tuesday), and Sonys PR people are a huge bunch of assholes.
Dimension E520 wth Intel® Dual-Core Processor = 599 and there is no monitor included.
and if you want the freebees just go to Macmall and other resellers who will package in off brand monitors and stuff.
And people say the US is a police state. At least here people with 30-year-old shoplifting and minor drug possession convictions can aspire to become a senator!
Just reinforces my belief that people take a childs side way too often than they should, especially when the kid involved is a stain on humanity.
A situation like this happened with a co-workers step-child which ended up in his divorce from his wife. She couldnt see the kid for what he was and it ended up tearing them apart.
That kids now preparing to go to trial for killing his friend when in a drug haze he ran his car off the road and into a tree.
unless the services used by the phone require the operators participation.
No one is saying that it wont work per say, just that your a moron to spend 500 dollars and miss out on a lot of the benifits of the phone like data and visual voicemail
im sure as hell there is going to be a huge deal with the broadband access (as in no extra plan) TFA basically spelled that one out there that its likely the only thing that will be charged for access is a normal minutes service plan with web being free.
And I am sure there are other bells and whistles we havent seen yet.
No the iPhone simply only works as its supposed to because AT&T (Cing) let them do what the others didnt.
Once it sells like hotcakes you will see the rest of the GSM market bend over backwards to change their systems to allow for the iPhone to work right.
Its not a distribution issue, its a service issue. Apple wanted it one way and they where the only company to say ok, and even there I bet you they kicked and screemed.
Their heads are so far up their asses they cant even see that the problem with Open XML has less to do with Microsoft being the one who created it (which in MY mind is a problem in it's self) and a lot more to do with Open XML, which as a format, makes baby kittens cry.
Which is a interesting thing here. In a system designed to let you preview the music before buying, where the delivery method it's self is like opening a CD case, how can you have one set of rules for physical items and one for virtual.
or how about 3) most major applications including many of Microsofts own apps dont have Vista support yet, and Apple simply waited like everyone else for Vista to actually be in peoples hands.
That doesn't make any sense. Apple (Records) owned their trademark outright. The only people infringing on it was Apple (Computer) Inc. If a burglar broke into your house, would you agree to sign the title over if he let you live in it?
English courts ruled that Apple Corp was not being infringed by Apple Inc. since Apple Inc was not producing music, just being a third party salesman thus your simile is wrong. The fact is, while Apple Corps is putting out music, as a label they are pretty much irrelevant beyond selling Beatles and Lennon hits. When Corps was able to win the court battles there was no point in settling it outright with Apple Inc., since they where winning. But the English judges put a stop to it, so now it makes no sense to fight when the person your fighting says not only would they protect your trademark (which is what Apple Inc now has to do for Apple Corp) but they would also help move your entire catalog to the web, something that Apple Corp has been very slow to do (just as they where with CDs)
Trademark cases are not black and white. You can own a name and still lose it because you have become shadowed by a Company you once had a agreement with. These are not patents and copyrights, they have totally different laws more to do with perception than fact. This is exactly why the Cisco case will be very interesting, because by all accounts despite owning it first, Apple can easily prove at this point in time all Cisco is doing is name squatting in the hopes of Apple buying the name for a huge sum.
Listen I know its fun to have this whole revisionist history of the DRM battles going around the net, but people forget iTunes was the first to sell MAJOR LABEL music on the net. When they did this the Napster battle had yet to come out of trial. Those labels didnt want ANYTHING on the net that wasnt protected. Apple showed them how futile it was but was still made to have DRM on their music through contracts.
There is a lot that is different about net and the labels outlooks on music on the web that didnt exist then. Dislike iTunes DRM all you want but there IS a reason why it was on there and why its locked how it is and why it hasnt been removed due to the contracts signed at the time. Im sure when the contracts are up for renewal in 2 years, things will change.
Corp. agreed to this. Something tells me Apple Inc said "listen you agree to give us your trademark, and we will not only protect it with OUR lawyers (thus costing Apple corps nothing) BUT throw in all the help mastering your albums for the iTunes Music Store for free AND let you use the name without having to pay us"
I strongly suspect thats how it goes, especially since Jobs was the one who inked out the deal and released the press announcment. Jobs is A HUGE Beatles fan.
Still short of true drag and drop compatibility, but that's all Apples doing trying to tie iTunes and the iPod together (thus getting more market penetration for their ITMS).
Nice try, but no.
That was a DRM requirement put forth by the music companies to prevent people from loading up their iPods and copying them to other computers. Easily bypassed, but just enough to not freak out the stupid record execs.
a member of the bomb squad actually called it a IED. They where just as complacent in the act of stupidity this was as the media and their own government. Sadly this kind of stupidity doesnt shock me anymore in the world of white powder = anthrax.
I dont think anyone would have even thought about it had it not been for Boston going postal and screaming "the towelheads are comming, the towelheads are comming"
Seriously this would have just flown under the radar had some bombsquad buffoon not thought D batteries + wires + LEDs = BOMB!!!!!!!
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Actually the mini's specs are perfect for the corporate market. Its pretty much every corporate computer out there now. And your right I spoke of one to one, trust me in my dealings with apple, you buy enough of them they will throw in the house to boot.
2) Technically they are copying MS and Nintendo on this one. The rumor basically said it was a MS style achievements system which used Nintendo styled Mii's.
3) People are calling it a blogger, but its not a blogger its one of the biggest web based news organizations that doesnt have a real world based presence, Gawker Media. Gawkers on slashdots main pages all the time, and infact many of Slashdots tech stories have been coming from Kotaku, Gizmodo and Lifehacker recently, all Gawker media sites.
4) The media is supposed to report news. Rumors are newsworth items. Sony can blackball all they want, but in the end all it does is make Sony look bad. Just look at Apple when they pulled a stunt like this with other sites in the wake of their misinformed lawsuit. The rule is as a company if you dont want a secret to get out early you keep the lid tight. You dont blackball media sources otherwise the hand you bite is going to slap you right back.
All Sony did was shoot themselves in the foot to the people most likely to buy their stuff. They could have simply had said "no comment" and be done. Now everyone knows Kotaku had solid info (and thus ruined the surprise tuesday), and Sonys PR people are a huge bunch of assholes.
nope 599. http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx /dimen_e520?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
Dimension E520 wth Intel® Dual-Core Processor = 599 and there is no monitor included. and if you want the freebees just go to Macmall and other resellers who will package in off brand monitors and stuff.
Maybe so, but Nintendo will still have made massive profits while Sony sinks deeper and deeper into the abyss that is their game division atm.
Why is 500 for the iPhone too much, when its 450 for the Motorola Q and its a terrible phone that people still buy?
agreed, for all the hyping of "data protection" I can promise you 80% of all the sensitive data out there, ends up going out unencripted.
And people say the US is a police state. At least here people with 30-year-old shoplifting and minor drug possession convictions can aspire to become a senator!
A situation like this happened with a co-workers step-child which ended up in his divorce from his wife. She couldnt see the kid for what he was and it ended up tearing them apart.
That kids now preparing to go to trial for killing his friend when in a drug haze he ran his car off the road and into a tree.
the data uses Cingulars edge data network, so if you moved the phone to another service, it wont work.
unless the services used by the phone require the operators participation. No one is saying that it wont work per say, just that your a moron to spend 500 dollars and miss out on a lot of the benifits of the phone like data and visual voicemail
im sure as hell there is going to be a huge deal with the broadband access (as in no extra plan) TFA basically spelled that one out there that its likely the only thing that will be charged for access is a normal minutes service plan with web being free. And I am sure there are other bells and whistles we havent seen yet.
Once it sells like hotcakes you will see the rest of the GSM market bend over backwards to change their systems to allow for the iPhone to work right.
Its not a distribution issue, its a service issue. Apple wanted it one way and they where the only company to say ok, and even there I bet you they kicked and screemed.
Their heads are so far up their asses they cant even see that the problem with Open XML has less to do with Microsoft being the one who created it (which in MY mind is a problem in it's self) and a lot more to do with Open XML, which as a format, makes baby kittens cry.
or how about 3) most major applications including many of Microsofts own apps dont have Vista support yet, and Apple simply waited like everyone else for Vista to actually be in peoples hands.
just a clue, Microsofts products all DONT work for Intel macs, over a year since release. They have to be emulated to work.
if its dead dead and you know the SN of the computer (for Apple machines) you can also tell a iTunes tech and they will deauthorize it for free.
English courts ruled that Apple Corp was not being infringed by Apple Inc. since Apple Inc was not producing music, just being a third party salesman thus your simile is wrong. The fact is, while Apple Corps is putting out music, as a label they are pretty much irrelevant beyond selling Beatles and Lennon hits. When Corps was able to win the court battles there was no point in settling it outright with Apple Inc., since they where winning. But the English judges put a stop to it, so now it makes no sense to fight when the person your fighting says not only would they protect your trademark (which is what Apple Inc now has to do for Apple Corp) but they would also help move your entire catalog to the web, something that Apple Corp has been very slow to do (just as they where with CDs)
Trademark cases are not black and white. You can own a name and still lose it because you have become shadowed by a Company you once had a agreement with. These are not patents and copyrights, they have totally different laws more to do with perception than fact. This is exactly why the Cisco case will be very interesting, because by all accounts despite owning it first, Apple can easily prove at this point in time all Cisco is doing is name squatting in the hopes of Apple buying the name for a huge sum.
There is a lot that is different about net and the labels outlooks on music on the web that didnt exist then. Dislike iTunes DRM all you want but there IS a reason why it was on there and why its locked how it is and why it hasnt been removed due to the contracts signed at the time. Im sure when the contracts are up for renewal in 2 years, things will change.
I strongly suspect thats how it goes, especially since Jobs was the one who inked out the deal and released the press announcment. Jobs is A HUGE Beatles fan.
That was a DRM requirement put forth by the music companies to prevent people from loading up their iPods and copying them to other computers. Easily bypassed, but just enough to not freak out the stupid record execs.
a member of the bomb squad actually called it a IED. They where just as complacent in the act of stupidity this was as the media and their own government. Sadly this kind of stupidity doesnt shock me anymore in the world of white powder = anthrax.
Seriously this would have just flown under the radar had some bombsquad buffoon not thought D batteries + wires + LEDs = BOMB!!!!!!!