It's a wild goose chase. Move to Mandrake, and have problems, and someone will tell you you should be using Mint or OpenSUSE or Red Hat or whatever. Which means starting again over and over. Every time with the promise from someone that THIS one is ready for the big time. THIS one will work.
This is the Linux tax.
As the GP pointed out, people have work to do, and they want to spend as near to 100% of the time doing that. They don't have time to spend a day switching to another distro and setting it up, and more than they want to spend a day fixing the current distro to do what;s asked of it.
Even developers have abandoned Linux in droves. More developers use Macs than Linux.
One of the reasons Desktop Linux has never taken off is that Linux enthusiasts don't accept that there are faults with the OS and blame the users instead. That approach means that the faults don't get fixed.
How many times has Google said "fuck you" to people who trusted them and how many times have those people returned to Google for more? Who actually trusts Google anymore?
Considering how many Android fan boys there are around here, quite a few. But then even after a decade and more of Microsoft bad practices there were plenty of MS fans. Takes all sorts.
Increasingly there's another way to get around these days when you are banned from a city centre, or have to pay pollution justified tolls. Other than running a second car.
Drive an electric car. They're usually exempt. (Not sure specifically about Mexico City, but most places.)
Tesla are not some inexperienced startup any more. This is their 3rd EV. They know what's involved.
They didn't have to announce the price just yet if they weren't confident of hitting it and still making a profit.
The reason for the anti-Tesla articles is the same as the reason for every single other thing on commercial news websites. They need to say something that will cause people to click. Controversial being a popular technique.
Companies aren't expected to be profitable in their rapid growth stage. Money is expected to be spent on growth. Amazon wasn't profitable for most of it's existence. That doesn't mean it's a bad company. Nor does it mean that it wasn't very easy to raise finance.
Tesla keeps on investing in manufacturing capacity, as they keep growing 10 fold, and as they start manufacturing their own batteries.
However, we need to consider it in context of the entire automotive industry, and it most likely won't end up as the one car company to rule the world.
This idea that it's the goal of companies to rule the world (in their their field) is nonsense. It comes from Microsoft doing that in the 90s. But despite that occurrence it's very rare indeed. And it's not what companies generally shoot for. Success doesn't require extermination of all competitors.
So, 1%. That coincidentally was the share of the market Steve Jobs said he was shooting for with the iPhone. Get in a few short years they were in the 30% to 60% area of market share, where they've remained ever since.
The only way is up for Tesla. EV technology looks like one of these. https://slickercity.files.word... Might take decades, but the only way is up.
When Tesla was making the Roadster, they were producing 500 cards per year. At the start of the Model S, they were producing 5,000 per year. They are now producing 50,000 Model S and X per year. They are gearing up to produce 500,000 Model 3 per year.
I can see which way this is going even if you can't.
EV sales in the US are a rounding error and they will remain so until the price changes by a whole lot.
The price just did change by a whole lot. It's not in the ballpark of the average priced car. And it looks to be the best car you can buy for that money.
I expect Linus or someone else in the community could afford $99 per year to host Linux somewhere, given that it's not trivial, and is actually worth something to many people.
Thus your one example demonstrates my point.
As to the existing "TRIVIAL freeium apps", that's the thing about improving signal to noise ratio. There is still noise to point to. But the noise would be a hell of a lot worse without noise reduction. This isn't even theoretical - see Android app stores that don't charge anything for listing.
I'm strongly in the Apple camp, and most things they do are high quality. But you're right about power cords. Apple's are poor. The sleeving on the cable between the brick and the Mac is too thin and too soft, and it's always just a matter of time before it splits open. And they've been like that as long as I've had Macbooks.
Not only that, back in the days of shrinked wrapped software, the developers used to see between 2-5% of the retail price of the software, once everyone else had made a cut. i.e. The publishers/sitributers/retailers combined slices came to 95-98%. And even in the early days of mobile downloads, the cut taken by distributors was around 45% if I remember correctly. (I was doing mobile apps 15 years ago)
The people that complain about Apple's 30% cut are not app developers, and haven't got a clue about the industry. They are commenting from their bedrooms in their parents houses.
First of all, what is it with this generations demand that they get everything for free?
Secondly, the $99 membership is there to help increase the signal to noise ratio of the store. If $99 per annum is a significant hurdle, to you, then your app idea is so trivial no one wants it. Or you're a scammer who wants to keep opening new accounts as fast as Apple close them down.
It's certainly not there because Apple wants to make money from it. It's a trivial amount, and probably doesn't cover the costs involved in the registration process (which involves screening) and the 2 support tickets.
It's a hurdle. And I'm glad for every person who thinks it's too high to jump.
That's the mistake every idiot Android fan makes. Apple is ALWAYS top of the customer satisfaction surveys. People buy iPhones because they are better. Not because Androids are unfashionable.
Price is irrelevant. People buy iPhones because of their quality, not because they are cheap. Sure, if you want a cheap and nasty phone, buy an Android.
True. Android got there with fingerprint scanners first. But they were 1-dimensional scanners that you had to drag your finger across. A 2d scanner that registers the fingerprint more or less instantly is far better.
Apple has a Tick-tock product system for iPhone, with the 6 and 6+ being last years models, and 6S and 6S+ being this years. Of course the 6 and 6+ being new form factors had huge sales. The 6S and 6S+ being speed bumps in the same form factor are not as popular. Provided the iPhone 7 provides something new, it'll be the tick part of the cycle and sales will rush ahead again.
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It's a wild goose chase. Move to Mandrake, and have problems, and someone will tell you you should be using Mint or OpenSUSE or Red Hat or whatever. Which means starting again over and over. Every time with the promise from someone that THIS one is ready for the big time. THIS one will work.
This is the Linux tax.
As the GP pointed out, people have work to do, and they want to spend as near to 100% of the time doing that. They don't have time to spend a day switching to another distro and setting it up, and more than they want to spend a day fixing the current distro to do what;s asked of it.
Even developers have abandoned Linux in droves. More developers use Macs than Linux.
One of the reasons Desktop Linux has never taken off is that Linux enthusiasts don't accept that there are faults with the OS and blame the users instead. That approach means that the faults don't get fixed.
How many times has Google said "fuck you" to people who trusted them and how many times have those people returned to Google for more? Who actually trusts Google anymore?
Considering how many Android fan boys there are around here, quite a few. But then even after a decade and more of Microsoft bad practices there were plenty of MS fans. Takes all sorts.
Increasingly there's another way to get around these days when you are banned from a city centre, or have to pay pollution justified tolls. Other than running a second car.
Drive an electric car. They're usually exempt. (Not sure specifically about Mexico City, but most places.)
Tesla are not some inexperienced startup any more. This is their 3rd EV. They know what's involved.
They didn't have to announce the price just yet if they weren't confident of hitting it and still making a profit.
The reason for the anti-Tesla articles is the same as the reason for every single other thing on commercial news websites. They need to say something that will cause people to click. Controversial being a popular technique.
Companies aren't expected to be profitable in their rapid growth stage. Money is expected to be spent on growth. Amazon wasn't profitable for most of it's existence. That doesn't mean it's a bad company. Nor does it mean that it wasn't very easy to raise finance.
Tesla keeps on investing in manufacturing capacity, as they keep growing 10 fold, and as they start manufacturing their own batteries.
However, we need to consider it in context of the entire automotive industry, and it most likely won't end up as the one car company to rule the world.
This idea that it's the goal of companies to rule the world (in their their field) is nonsense. It comes from Microsoft doing that in the 90s. But despite that occurrence it's very rare indeed. And it's not what companies generally shoot for. Success doesn't require extermination of all competitors.
So, 1%. That coincidentally was the share of the market Steve Jobs said he was shooting for with the iPhone. Get in a few short years they were in the 30% to 60% area of market share, where they've remained ever since.
The only way is up for Tesla. EV technology looks like one of these.
https://slickercity.files.word...
Might take decades, but the only way is up.
You fail the comprehension exercise.
Taurus sales - about 50,000 cars per year. About a tenth of what they are planning to produce of the Tesla Model 3.
Actually Tesla are making the car business look easy.
And the 115,000 doesn't represent annual production or anything. It's just the number of people who paid a deposit on the first day.
You remind me of this guy.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/1...
When Tesla was making the Roadster, they were producing 500 cards per year. At the start of the Model S, they were producing 5,000 per year. They are now producing 50,000 Model S and X per year. They are gearing up to produce 500,000 Model 3 per year.
I can see which way this is going even if you can't.
EV sales in the US are a rounding error and they will remain so until the price changes by a whole lot.
The price just did change by a whole lot. It's not in the ballpark of the average priced car. And it looks to be the best car you can buy for that money.
I expect Linus or someone else in the community could afford $99 per year to host Linux somewhere, given that it's not trivial, and is actually worth something to many people.
Thus your one example demonstrates my point.
As to the existing "TRIVIAL freeium apps", that's the thing about improving signal to noise ratio. There is still noise to point to. But the noise would be a hell of a lot worse without noise reduction. This isn't even theoretical - see Android app stores that don't charge anything for listing.
I'm strongly in the Apple camp, and most things they do are high quality. But you're right about power cords. Apple's are poor. The sleeving on the cable between the brick and the Mac is too thin and too soft, and it's always just a matter of time before it splits open. And they've been like that as long as I've had Macbooks.
Not only that, back in the days of shrinked wrapped software, the developers used to see between 2-5% of the retail price of the software, once everyone else had made a cut. i.e. The publishers/sitributers/retailers combined slices came to 95-98%. And even in the early days of mobile downloads, the cut taken by distributors was around 45% if I remember correctly. (I was doing mobile apps 15 years ago)
The people that complain about Apple's 30% cut are not app developers, and haven't got a clue about the industry. They are commenting from their bedrooms in their parents houses.
First of all, what is it with this generations demand that they get everything for free?
Secondly, the $99 membership is there to help increase the signal to noise ratio of the store. If $99 per annum is a significant hurdle, to you, then your app idea is so trivial no one wants it. Or you're a scammer who wants to keep opening new accounts as fast as Apple close them down.
It's certainly not there because Apple wants to make money from it. It's a trivial amount, and probably doesn't cover the costs involved in the registration process (which involves screening) and the 2 support tickets.
It's a hurdle. And I'm glad for every person who thinks it's too high to jump.
A large collection of music in multiple genres at bitrate from 192 to 256 kbps takes a fair share of that.
128GB is about 150 days worth of 256kbps audio. If you were playing audio 24/7, even when you were asleep.
And people that want (certainly not need) that kind of access to music are subscribed to Spotify anyway.
Again, there's no reasonable requirement for a phone larger than 128GB.
Which is a completely different story to what you said in your last post: that people buy iPhones for fashion reasons.
That's the mistake every idiot Android fan makes. Apple is ALWAYS top of the customer satisfaction surveys. People buy iPhones because they are better. Not because Androids are unfashionable.
The SD Card would be slower and less secure.
Price is irrelevant. People buy iPhones because of their quality, not because they are cheap. Sure, if you want a cheap and nasty phone, buy an Android.
I haven't used a quarter yet. Give me a legitimate reason for needing more than 128 feature length films or equivalent on a phone.
A feature length movie needs the order of a GB. Why do you need 100 movies or the data equivalent for camping or going to Cuba.
Sure you want to film your holidays. But you could film every minute of them and still not fill up 128GB.
My iPhone has 128GB. Why do I need an SD?
If you'r buying an Android with 8GB, I can see why you'd need one.
Sounds like you were born yesterday.
True. Android got there with fingerprint scanners first. But they were 1-dimensional scanners that you had to drag your finger across. A 2d scanner that registers the fingerprint more or less instantly is far better.
Apple has a Tick-tock product system for iPhone, with the 6 and 6+ being last years models, and 6S and 6S+ being this years. Of course the 6 and 6+ being new form factors had huge sales. The 6S and 6S+ being speed bumps in the same form factor are not as popular. Provided the iPhone 7 provides something new, it'll be the tick part of the cycle and sales will rush ahead again.