That's actually a bald faced lie that you're hoping nobody will check. Example: iPad 3 announced on March 7. AAPL continued to rise until Apr 5 when it turned south.
You didn't actually check 7th March did you. Open: $536.80 Close: $530.69
That's down, not up.
OK, it's ad hominem time. You really earned this. Look, there is no honesty in you or integrity. You are just an Apple apologist. Pretty much every word you say can be discounted that way. If you bothered to check your facts you might get some respect. As it is, you just make Apple look bad. Which is fine by me.
So it wasn't enough for you to be wrong. You were determined to make a fool of yourself too. I especially like the bit when you say "If you bothered to check your facts you might get some respect." No respect for you then.
Why make a kid throw away a perfectly nice $2000 Apple laptop because the software they need to run is Windows-only?
Apple laptops can double boot to Windows. Or run it in a VM.
But in any case, it seems most kids get bought a new laptop when they go to college. And if they're studying film-making, the school will no doubt have some machines with the standard editing software on them.
Yes, but whatever choice the school makes is not the same choice a future employer will make, so getting them to learn the school's tools doesn't have any long-term benefit.
Neither will the student's choice be.
People don't go to college to learn how to use software.
I didn't say that they did. I said "it causes far less problems if everyone in a workplace or school is using the same app." Not the same app for all schools and workplaces. Just the same app within a school or workplace.
It makes collaboration easier. And students need to collaborate with each other and with the teacher.
Your suggestion of a free for all doesn't make anything better, but does makes collaboration more difficult. It's a solution looking for a problem.
OK, I've done it. The majority of what's listed is articles asking the question "Is the iPad Mini Too Expensive" in their titles, and mostly concluding that no, as an Apple product it can probably do alright at that price. As Apple competes on quality, not cheapness.
I guarantee that you will find plenty of posters who own Apple devices and are buying Google this time. I hope it doesn't make your head explode. And I guarantee that Apple's "phenomenal growth" has hit a roadblock called Android.
Obviously you think your guarantees are worth something. No one else does.
Google Maps already has gotten better. Apple aren't competing with the Google Maps of 7 years ago, they're competing with the Google Maps of today.
Absolutely. That's why Google Maps beta was good enough, but Apple Maps v1.0 isn't. Even though Apple's first maps product is better than Google's first Maps product was.
Apple already has the data, bought in from data suppliers. Data that other successful maps solutions already use. They need to improve the integration of that data. i.e. Where there are multiple data sources for the same ground truth, they need to get better about choosing which one to use.
The good news is that the App itself is way better than Google Maps was. Vector graphics means infinite scaling and rotation. Turn-by-turn navigation. Flyover.
Smartphone, that was IBM, Microsoft, Sony, and RIM long before Apple.
No, it was the Nokia Communicator.
I was one of the engineers working on a later model of Nokia Communicator, the 9210. And a number of other smartphones. And we all realised that Apple had revolutionised the smartphone the day the iPhone was launched. As did the entire industry. That's why most mobile phone design changed radically then, and most smartphones these days are iPhone inspired.
Similar story with MP3 players after the iPod and ultrabooks after the Macbook Air.
Can't be absolutely sure, but it is the consensus, as witnessed by AAPL getting a 3 1/4% haircut that day.
Buy on the rumour, sell on the news. It's perfectly usual for AAPL to go up before an announcement and then fall on the day. It happens more often than not. It doesn't stop the products being amazingly successful, or stop the medium and long term phenomenal growth of AAPL stock.
If you want more data on it, google "ipad mini too expensive" and you will find plenty of folks announcing their decision to go Android.
Anecdotes are not data. A few fandroids posting their perpetual Apple hatred means nothing.
Give me a break. Tim Cook didn't know what price the iPad mini would be introduced at, and didn't understand how stupid that was? Didn't know that doing something about the fixed resolution problem is a top priority? Wasn't involved in the decision to drop Google maps?
Just because you as a fandroid think those are bad ideas, doesn't mean they are bad ideas.
You poor wretch, you must have a terrible time in the grocery store. Folgers or maxwell House or house brand? With each brand having its own several different blends to choose from?
Read The Paradox of Choice. He explains and demonstrates with experimental data why too much choice is a bad thing, and one of the examples is the existence of way too much choice in supermarkets.
The OP has more knowledge of the topic of choice than you, not less.
To technical people, the average/.er, the computer is a tool. You code something, the computer does it.
Most technical people are not coders. The computer is a tool for them of course. But the open availability of the facility to code is irrelevant to them.
It might have taken you 30 seconds to learn how to use a piece of lab equipment. But nobody learns Photoshop/Gimp/FCP/Avid in that amount of time. It takes a long time to learn to use heavyweight creative packages like these. And it causes far less problems if everyone in a workplace or school is using the same app.
You want to make things much less efficient for a naive idea that choice is always a good thing. Well it's not. Ref: The Paradox of Choice.
They have the data from Tom Tom and their subsidiary Tele Atlas. So why would they need to buy the company.
Navteq belongs to Nokia, and they won't be selling because it's one of their few successful businesses right now. Apple could of course buy Nokia, but it's overkill to get a single data supplier.
There's nothing wrong with the data sources Apple has. It's their integration of all the data together that is a big and error prone operation.
If you are claiming that only "tech geeks" could possibly appreciate unrestricted freedom of choice, that is interesting.
It's easy to think unrestricted freedom of choice is an absolute good. It's the common man's belief.
It takes someone with rather more intelligence to understand that actually very often too much choice is a bad thing, and people are often better off and happier with limited choices or no choice. Read: The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz.
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Read the comments to the articles.
Comments to articles?
Ignore the articles and listen to the comments?
Ha ha ha ha ha!. What an outstanding example of an idiot you are.
As I said, a few fandroids posting their perpetual Apple hatred means nothing.
That's actually a bald faced lie that you're hoping nobody will check. Example: iPad 3 announced on March 7. AAPL continued to rise until Apr 5 when it turned south.
You didn't actually check 7th March did you.
Open: $536.80
Close: $530.69
That's down, not up.
OK, it's ad hominem time. You really earned this. Look, there is no honesty in you or integrity. You are just an Apple apologist. Pretty much every word you say can be discounted that way. If you bothered to check your facts you might get some respect. As it is, you just make Apple look bad. Which is fine by me.
So it wasn't enough for you to be wrong. You were determined to make a fool of yourself too. I especially like the bit when you say "If you bothered to check your facts you might get some respect." No respect for you then.
There's a pattern here.
I didn't post that.
Why make a kid throw away a perfectly nice $2000 Apple laptop because the software they need to run is Windows-only?
Apple laptops can double boot to Windows. Or run it in a VM.
But in any case, it seems most kids get bought a new laptop when they go to college. And if they're studying film-making, the school will no doubt have some machines with the standard editing software on them.
Yes, but whatever choice the school makes is not the same choice a future employer will make, so getting them to learn the school's tools doesn't have any long-term benefit.
Neither will the student's choice be.
People don't go to college to learn how to use software.
I didn't say that they did. I said "it causes far less problems if everyone in a workplace or school is using the same app." Not the same app for all schools and workplaces. Just the same app within a school or workplace.
It makes collaboration easier. And students need to collaborate with each other and with the teacher.
Your suggestion of a free for all doesn't make anything better, but does makes collaboration more difficult. It's a solution looking for a problem.
Go ahead, do my search.
OK, I've done it. The majority of what's listed is articles asking the question "Is the iPad Mini Too Expensive" in their titles, and mostly concluding that no, as an Apple product it can probably do alright at that price. As Apple competes on quality, not cheapness.
I guarantee that you will find plenty of posters who own Apple devices and are buying Google this time. I hope it doesn't make your head explode. And I guarantee that Apple's "phenomenal growth" has hit a roadblock called Android.
Obviously you think your guarantees are worth something. No one else does.
Google Maps already has gotten better. Apple aren't competing with the Google Maps of 7 years ago, they're competing with the Google Maps of today.
Absolutely. That's why Google Maps beta was good enough, but Apple Maps v1.0 isn't. Even though Apple's first maps product is better than Google's first Maps product was.
Apple already has the data, bought in from data suppliers. Data that other successful maps solutions already use. They need to improve the integration of that data. i.e. Where there are multiple data sources for the same ground truth, they need to get better about choosing which one to use.
The good news is that the App itself is way better than Google Maps was. Vector graphics means infinite scaling and rotation. Turn-by-turn navigation. Flyover.
On the downside, it hasn't got street view.
Sure. But I don't believe for one moment they are screwed. They released their own maps too early, but it'll get better. Google Maps did.
What? Because v1.0 has issues, that means that they're incapable of fixing them? There's no logic in that.
Google Maps at the start was riddled with errors too. Every map product has been. The quality goes up with time, as errors are reported and fixed.
And of course Siri HAS got better over time.
Smartphone, that was IBM, Microsoft, Sony, and RIM long before Apple.
No, it was the Nokia Communicator.
I was one of the engineers working on a later model of Nokia Communicator, the 9210. And a number of other smartphones. And we all realised that Apple had revolutionised the smartphone the day the iPhone was launched. As did the entire industry. That's why most mobile phone design changed radically then, and most smartphones these days are iPhone inspired.
Similar story with MP3 players after the iPod and ultrabooks after the Macbook Air.
You think Jobs never fired anyone?!
It's good that Cook recognised he made a mistake in hiring him, and rectified it.
Wait for the quarterlies, my friend
Indeed. None of your previous predictions of failed Apple products ever came true, so why would this one.
Can't be absolutely sure, but it is the consensus, as witnessed by AAPL getting a 3 1/4% haircut that day.
Buy on the rumour, sell on the news. It's perfectly usual for AAPL to go up before an announcement and then fall on the day. It happens more often than not. It doesn't stop the products being amazingly successful, or stop the medium and long term phenomenal growth of AAPL stock.
If you want more data on it, google "ipad mini too expensive" and you will find plenty of folks announcing their decision to go Android.
Anecdotes are not data. A few fandroids posting their perpetual Apple hatred means nothing.
Give me a break. Tim Cook didn't know what price the iPad mini would be introduced at, and didn't understand how stupid that was? Didn't know that doing something about the fixed resolution problem is a top priority? Wasn't involved in the decision to drop Google maps?
Just because you as a fandroid think those are bad ideas, doesn't mean they are bad ideas.
Everything from Jony is either grey, black or white.
Jony Ive designed the original gum-drop coloured translucent iMacs at a time when everyone else's computers were beige or grey.
And he designed the colourful iPod Minis and Nanos at a time when competing MP3 players were grey, black or silver.
So no, he doesn't have a monochrome fixation. He uses colour when that is appropriate for his design goals.
You poor wretch, you must have a terrible time in the grocery store. Folgers or maxwell House or house brand? With each brand having its own several different blends to choose from?
Read The Paradox of Choice. He explains and demonstrates with experimental data why too much choice is a bad thing, and one of the examples is the existence of way too much choice in supermarkets.
The OP has more knowledge of the topic of choice than you, not less.
English tourist to Irish man: How do you get to Cork from here?
Irish man: Well now, if I was going to Cork, I wouldn't start from here.
To technical people, the average /.er, the computer is a tool. You code something, the computer does it.
Most technical people are not coders. The computer is a tool for them of course. But the open availability of the facility to code is irrelevant to them.
It might have taken you 30 seconds to learn how to use a piece of lab equipment. But nobody learns Photoshop/Gimp/FCP/Avid in that amount of time. It takes a long time to learn to use heavyweight creative packages like these. And it causes far less problems if everyone in a workplace or school is using the same app.
You want to make things much less efficient for a naive idea that choice is always a good thing. Well it's not. Ref: The Paradox of Choice.
They have the data from Tom Tom and their subsidiary Tele Atlas. So why would they need to buy the company.
Navteq belongs to Nokia, and they won't be selling because it's one of their few successful businesses right now. Apple could of course buy Nokia, but it's overkill to get a single data supplier.
There's nothing wrong with the data sources Apple has. It's their integration of all the data together that is a big and error prone operation.
This trying to name who shot first, or who's fault it is is silly and not realistic.
They had a negotiation. They didn't manage to find a common position that they were both happy with, so there was no agreement. Simple as that.
Google didn't withhold anything from Apple, just set prices for various aspects of their service.
What's your source for Google offering Apple turn-by-turn navigation for a price? I haven't seen that anywhere else.
If you are claiming that only "tech geeks" could possibly appreciate unrestricted freedom of choice, that is interesting.
It's easy to think unrestricted freedom of choice is an absolute good. It's the common man's belief.
It takes someone with rather more intelligence to understand that actually very often too much choice is a bad thing, and people are often better off and happier with limited choices or no choice. Read: The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz.
Or perhaps you're not smart enough to realise the benefits and value of a walled garden.
Ignorance is indeed bliss...
I train engineers, not artists.
Ahem. There's a reason Knuth named his series of books "The Art of Computer Programming".