Would you buy an Apple iTablet if Kindle prices were cut in half on the day of its launch? Even at an guesstimated $200 price premium over the Kindle, the iTablet has been called the Kindle Killer - not that Amazon should mind since they could just be selling Kindle books to iTablet early adopters for the same profit. But with free Whispernet to d/l a lot of free and other subscription content, as a reader Kindle is fairly priced at the moment. Just wish I could afford it to read my own Kindle books on.
And keep in mind that the books Amazon sells on Kindle constrain them in pricing since Amazon - unlike other eBook sellers (*cough* *cough* Fictionwise) -- isn't screwing over the authors when they discount their prices from list. Those discounts come out of Amazon's percentage. As such, it would be hard for them to subsidize the hardware as well in this business model.
Remember when you price your cost of your iTablet to add in the cost of nationwide connectivity as well. And that Kindle has better battery life by far and may also get new functionality improvements in the future. Consider than and then it may not compare nearly as favorably for many people who don't need yet another thicker, heavier, computer.
Now when is the next Oprah show when she'll be giving DX's away to the entire audience with her favorite books already loaded on it?:^)
A seriously important requirement for any darknet is the ability to conceal your IP address from the other participants. I don't yet see how that happens here.
How is tethering really any different than buying a wireless cellular modem for your laptop? Those devices are happily sold with data plans - tethering your cell phone just cuts out one additional device. Are they really making that big a profit on those plug-in wireless cards?
I would think that someone planning to release their code afterwards would write better code and comment it to a higher standard so that the release wouldn't embarrass them in the process. And that other students who felt their own solution was superior would post their own code provoking competition and robust debate.
And how can this be a bad thing? You may learn ways of solving a problem that you'd never thought of before.
Comcast, who cut out included Usenet access late last year, and stood up to the NFL channel extortion, so I'm amazingly disappointed in them for giving in on this. This whole idea would be DOA if none of the big ISP's signed on. I'm on the phone complaining to them about this right now. If they hear about it from en
Apple should just cut ties with everyone - sell the iPhone for cost
This would be a net loss to Apple since they believe that anyone who wants the iPhone bad enough will switch to AT&T to get it, and Apple makes far more than the sales cost of the phone due to the "exclusivity cut" of the monthly fees that they receive from AT&T at the moment. In an open market no carrier would be cutting Apple in on their profits and Apple would not only have the App Store as their only other source of ongoing revenue, but the additional problems and headaches of each individual cell phone company wanting to block different apps from "their" phones.
The easiest solution for consumers is to realize that you really can live without an iPhone in your life.
If it's going to go boom, expect the signs of it to arrive in 2012 to coincide with other endings predicted for that year. And expect this to be a total insult to the Egyptian Pharaohs who seemed to revere that star above just about all else.
Are we really sure we're far enough away to be safe? I've heard before that a supernova even dozens of lightyears away would be a very bad thing for Earth.
Sequels are hard. Why? That WOW! factor the first time your Toys start moving and talking, you were transported under the ocean, or to a world of intelligent funny Cars, a tiny trash compactor turned out to have a huge personality, or your house flys Up, Up, and away is really hard to replicate a second time around.
People go to sequels to get the same feelings that they got in the original movie. The problem is, that after a few viewings of the original movie you've developed an immune response to this Wow factor. If you didn't, then you could just keep watching that original over and over again for the same effect.
For sequels to have the same effect you need to punch everything up to a higher level, but that's really hard. Chances are that you liked the original movie simply because it did take things absolutely as far as you felt they could be taken. Now you need more - a stronger hit. In order to give you that the studios need to figure out what you liked about the original and how to punch it up even more. They tend to do this badly, resulting in sequels that are often more parodies of the originals than true sequels.
A truly original idea in Hollywood is the rarest of things. A truly good sequel that can affect you as strongly as the original did, and for as long as the original did, has got to be the next rarest thing.
Sequels can succeed - and even be better. See Godfather II. But it's really, really hard to do them right.
If there's a $99 iPhone, can a $79 iPod Touch be far behind? All Apple is doing for sure is ensuring that a Touch of similar capacity cannot exceed $99 any longer since an iPhone w/o a contract will otherwise be a better deal.
Other new features in 3.0 include the much debated tethering ability, allowing you to use your iPhone as a cellular modem (unfortunately there was no mention of AT&T actually supporting this feature, a wonder there wasn't a riot)
Considering that the iPhone itself is really a small form-factor computer with communication abilities built in, the line has already been so blurred between phone and computer that I can't see how that fact that another computer can also access the Internet through the connection is all that different. Especially since you, the customer are paying to have the ability to transfer a given number of bits per month. Why should it even matter -- except to anal companies like AT&T who what to sell you capacity and then prevent you from actually using it -- the eventual destination of those bits? How it tethering even different from storing the downloaded data in an iPhone and transferring it later to another device?
Answer: It isn't!
The same for VoIP. It's all just bits being sent and received. Now create a business model that acknowledges this axiom.
You know, I think I would have held off on the marriage until this was settled. Just live together, sleep together, and allow Jamie to declare bankruptcy if necessary on her own first.
I wish they'd fix the d@mn VS help files. Visual Studio 5/6 had easy to read, easy to use help file system that reached its end with the MSDN Library of October 2001.
The VS.NET help files have been Crap from the very beginning, and at least through 2008 have remained Crap to try to read and understand compared to their VS 6 predecessors. Whatever "genius" they hired to revamp the system into something more trendy should be stripped naked, dusted with itching powder, and hung out to rot!
Is it good, or bad, to reveal Palm's trick? It only makes it easier for Apple to attack Palm's workaround and I'm not sure how that benefits the majority of the consumers.
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Would you buy an Apple iTablet if Kindle prices were cut in half on the day of its launch? Even at an guesstimated $200 price premium over the Kindle, the iTablet has been called the Kindle Killer - not that Amazon should mind since they could just be selling Kindle books to iTablet early adopters for the same profit. But with free Whispernet to d/l a lot of free and other subscription content, as a reader Kindle is fairly priced at the moment. Just wish I could afford it to read my own Kindle books on.
:^)
And keep in mind that the books Amazon sells on Kindle constrain them in pricing since Amazon - unlike other eBook sellers (*cough* *cough* Fictionwise) -- isn't screwing over the authors when they discount their prices from list. Those discounts come out of Amazon's percentage. As such, it would be hard for them to subsidize the hardware as well in this business model.
Remember when you price your cost of your iTablet to add in the cost of nationwide connectivity as well. And that Kindle has better battery life by far and may also get new functionality improvements in the future. Consider than and then it may not compare nearly as favorably for many people who don't need yet another thicker, heavier, computer.
Now when is the next Oprah show when she'll be giving DX's away to the entire audience with her favorite books already loaded on it?
Like Kodak did for their inkjet printers and ink.
Very much unlike what Apple and AT&T do for the iPhone.
Add me to the list of people who prefer this model of honesty.
A seriously important requirement for any darknet is the ability to conceal your IP address from the other participants. I don't yet see how that happens here.
How is tethering really any different than buying a wireless cellular modem for your laptop? Those devices are happily sold with data plans - tethering your cell phone just cuts out one additional device. Are they really making that big a profit on those plug-in wireless cards?
Can Slashdot be far behind?
I would think that someone planning to release their code afterwards would write better code and comment it to a higher standard so that the release wouldn't embarrass them in the process. And that other students who felt their own solution was superior would post their own code provoking competition and robust debate.
And how can this be a bad thing? You may learn ways of solving a problem that you'd never thought of before.
Comcast, who cut out included Usenet access late last year, and stood up to the NFL channel extortion, so I'm amazingly disappointed in them for giving in on this. This whole idea would be DOA if none of the big ISP's signed on. I'm on the phone complaining to them about this right now. If they hear about it from en
This would be a net loss to Apple since they believe that anyone who wants the iPhone bad enough will switch to AT&T to get it, and Apple makes far more than the sales cost of the phone due to the "exclusivity cut" of the monthly fees that they receive from AT&T at the moment. In an open market no carrier would be cutting Apple in on their profits and Apple would not only have the App Store as their only other source of ongoing revenue, but the additional problems and headaches of each individual cell phone company wanting to block different apps from "their" phones.
The easiest solution for consumers is to realize that you really can live without an iPhone in your life.
Actually they will, after they and your new carrier merge.
Or they were told not to spoil the festive atmosphere of the party with a line that was sure to bring out the Boo Birds bigtime.
If it's going to go boom, expect the signs of it to arrive in 2012 to coincide with other endings predicted for that year. And expect this to be a total insult to the Egyptian Pharaohs who seemed to revere that star above just about all else.
Are we really sure we're far enough away to be safe? I've heard before that a supernova even dozens of lightyears away would be a very bad thing for Earth.
It's not the first until it actually implements it. Until then, any other system could still get there first.
Of course with no USB 3.0 ports or hardware, it hardly matters.
I thought the Democrats were working to legalize Internet poker again.
Sounds like it would create a black hole nearby regarding all information transmissions. That could be interesting...
Stop the presses! Common sense discovered in France!
Sequels are hard. Why? That WOW! factor the first time your Toys start moving and talking, you were transported under the ocean, or to a world of intelligent funny Cars, a tiny trash compactor turned out to have a huge personality, or your house flys Up, Up, and away is really hard to replicate a second time around.
People go to sequels to get the same feelings that they got in the original movie. The problem is, that after a few viewings of the original movie you've developed an immune response to this Wow factor. If you didn't, then you could just keep watching that original over and over again for the same effect.
For sequels to have the same effect you need to punch everything up to a higher level, but that's really hard. Chances are that you liked the original movie simply because it did take things absolutely as far as you felt they could be taken. Now you need more - a stronger hit. In order to give you that the studios need to figure out what you liked about the original and how to punch it up even more. They tend to do this badly, resulting in sequels that are often more parodies of the originals than true sequels.
A truly original idea in Hollywood is the rarest of things. A truly good sequel that can affect you as strongly as the original did, and for as long as the original did, has got to be the next rarest thing.
Sequels can succeed - and even be better. See Godfather II. But it's really, really hard to do them right.
DRM and Linux -- two words that should never go together.
No, this one had clear rectangular plastic tanks and clear 1/4" tubing.
If you can't buy it over the counter sans service contract for $99, then it's NOT a $99 iPhone. It's a lie!
It's a deserving moniker for someone who is hell-bent on stealing the public domain and "finding infringement" where none exists under Swedish law.
If there's a $99 iPhone, can a $79 iPod Touch be far behind? All Apple is doing for sure is ensuring that a Touch of similar capacity cannot exceed $99 any longer since an iPhone w/o a contract will otherwise be a better deal.
Considering that the iPhone itself is really a small form-factor computer with communication abilities built in, the line has already been so blurred between phone and computer that I can't see how that fact that another computer can also access the Internet through the connection is all that different. Especially since you, the customer are paying to have the ability to transfer a given number of bits per month. Why should it even matter -- except to anal companies like AT&T who what to sell you capacity and then prevent you from actually using it -- the eventual destination of those bits? How it tethering even different from storing the downloaded data in an iPhone and transferring it later to another device?
Answer: It isn't!
The same for VoIP. It's all just bits being sent and received. Now create a business model that acknowledges this axiom.
You know, I think I would have held off on the marriage until this was settled. Just live together, sleep together, and allow Jamie to declare bankruptcy if necessary on her own first.
I wish they'd fix the d@mn VS help files. Visual Studio 5/6 had easy to read, easy to use help file system that reached its end with the MSDN Library of October 2001.
The VS.NET help files have been Crap from the very beginning, and at least through 2008 have remained Crap to try to read and understand compared to their VS 6 predecessors. Whatever "genius" they hired to revamp the system into something more trendy should be stripped naked, dusted with itching powder, and hung out to rot!
Is it good, or bad, to reveal Palm's trick? It only makes it easier for Apple to attack Palm's workaround and I'm not sure how that benefits the majority of the consumers.