Was the smartphone, or tablet, or laptop, or music player revolutionary when apple released it, or was it the device they copied from that was revolutionary.
Take the iPad as an example, yes it was revolutionary. Microsoft and others had been trying tablet concepts since the late 1980s. Sometimes calling them tablets, sometimes slates, sometimes pads. Every last one of them was a flop.
Apple launched their iPad and it was an instant success.
Using the political connotation of revolution, this is the difference between a few people grumbling, and having a revolution that takes over the country, transforming politics from then on.
Apple didn't copy any of the previous tablets, why would they? They were all flops. Since Apple's iPad revolution, every tablet manufacturer now bases their tablet designs on the iPad though.
The intelligent person doesn't deny that a revolution took place, it clearly did. They work out what it was about Apple's design that struck a chord with the public. That made it a phenomenal success where all before had been failures.
And yet all they need to do is allow third party development, and in no time there will be 100s of thousands of apps for it. At $99 that would be a hell of a value proposition.
There seems to be no reason that they wouldn't do that. I suspect that they they wanted to get the new icon based interface out first, just in case the blogosphere decided to be critical about it. Let opinions about it die done... in a few months everyone will just accept it as the norm. Then announce 3rd party apps. At that stage, no one can spin it as a bad thing, it would be all good.
Oh yeah, Android is horribly fragmented into camps that like physical keyboards or not, HD cams or no, front facing cams or not, items in pink, blue or prints.
...camps that like to get OS updates late, and those who like to not get OS updates at all. Camps that want to buy from a single store, and camps that want malware. Camps that want clunky software, and camps that want carrier shovelware.
Android vendors have better margins even than Apple, and that's saying something.
What exactly is it that you are saying? That Androids are more cheaply made than iPhones, or Androids are overpriced compared with iPhones?
Count me in for four at least for my own house, and as many for gifts for Christmas.
Look at the Google Fanboi. It's not yet been officially announced, specs aren't yet known, and already he wants 8 of the new shiny. Google's reality distortion field has a strong effect on this one. A triumph of marketing over innovation.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the automated ABS systems in many cars will cut the brakes on fresh snow where locking the wheels would typically result in a shorter stopping distance.
Unlocked brakes means you still have some ability to steer. Locked brakes have no steerability. Locking the wheels will often result in the car going sideways down the road with no ability to steer into the skid. If there'a one thing worse than not being able to stop, it's the car travelling sideways whilst not being able to stop.
Rats don't live in warrens, rabbits do. The phrase you you didn't quite get right was rabbit warren.
The rest of what you wrote just as ignorantly failed to reflect what was in the linked article. It just betrayed a similar lack of thought. A knee-jerk reaction.
The first version released was Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999, and a desktop-oriented version, Mac OS X v10.0 "Cheetah" followed on March 24, 2001. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os_x
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No indeed. But different people buy in at different points of the technology adoption cycle. From early adopters to laggards. There's two pints to consider:
1) For those that don't care about resolution or having the latest thing, the price of the existing base model iPad2 has just reduced by $100. Reducing prices is one of those things that brings in more adopters.
2) As people do adopt tablets, Apple wants them to buy iPads rather than a competitor. And that requires periodic updates to keep ahead. With the doubling of resolution, iPad is now way ahead of competitors and will be for some time.
"Appears" eh? I'll wait till we know for certain what maps they are using now before I worry about attribution. Apple have bought some mapping companies in recent years, on the face of it it seems more likely these maps are Apple's own.
Certainly in the comparative viewers that OSM are linking to, it doesn't look to me any more like OSM than it looks like Google Maps. All three look different in presentation, but similar in content.. given that they are all modelling the same reality.
Go ahead and call me an AC. I've read this website on and off for 10 years and never cared to sign up for an account - because I'm too busy doing actual work and being paid quite handsomely for it.
Too busy to sign up, and yet not to busy to read and to post? You're full of bullshit like the rest of your Republican wannabe rich types.
1. They were asking for 'healthcare reform', not mandatory insurance.
And they'd have got more healthcare reform had the Republican's not blocked as much as they could.
The idea that people don't want to have healthcare cover is stupid. The idea that they want a choice whether they have healthcare cover or not is retarded. If people get ill, they want to be treated. No matter whether they can afford the treatment they need at that moment. The fact that the richest country in the world hasn't had universal healthcare for so long is a scandal.
Weird. Last I looked 'unemployment' was going down, but so was the number of Americans with jobs.
Well either you're imagining it, or it's somewhat more than a year ago that you looked. Because the number of people in employment has been consistently rising for at least the last year.
Then you're unusual. Despite many different models of Android tablet, few people are buying them. They're buying iPads. And not because of resolution either - until today iPad wasn't the one with the highest resolution.
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Was the smartphone, or tablet, or laptop, or music player revolutionary when apple released it, or was it the device they copied from that was revolutionary.
Take the iPad as an example, yes it was revolutionary. Microsoft and others had been trying tablet concepts since the late 1980s. Sometimes calling them tablets, sometimes slates, sometimes pads. Every last one of them was a flop.
Apple launched their iPad and it was an instant success.
Using the political connotation of revolution, this is the difference between a few people grumbling, and having a revolution that takes over the country, transforming politics from then on.
Apple didn't copy any of the previous tablets, why would they? They were all flops. Since Apple's iPad revolution, every tablet manufacturer now bases their tablet designs on the iPad though.
The intelligent person doesn't deny that a revolution took place, it clearly did. They work out what it was about Apple's design that struck a chord with the public. That made it a phenomenal success where all before had been failures.
And yet all they need to do is allow third party development, and in no time there will be 100s of thousands of apps for it. At $99 that would be a hell of a value proposition.
There seems to be no reason that they wouldn't do that. I suspect that they they wanted to get the new icon based interface out first, just in case the blogosphere decided to be critical about it. Let opinions about it die done... in a few months everyone will just accept it as the norm. Then announce 3rd party apps. At that stage, no one can spin it as a bad thing, it would be all good.
As usual Dilbert has is right.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-02-23/
Oh yeah, Android is horribly fragmented into camps that like physical keyboards or not, HD cams or no, front facing cams or not, items in pink, blue or prints.
...camps that like to get OS updates late, and those who like to not get OS updates at all. Camps that want to buy from a single store, and camps that want malware. Camps that want clunky software, and camps that want carrier shovelware.
Android vendors have better margins even than Apple, and that's saying something.
What exactly is it that you are saying? That Androids are more cheaply made than iPhones, or Androids are overpriced compared with iPhones?
I don't want something that is seen by some as an essential fashion accessory. I would rather do without.
So, you're allowing your choice to be influenced by what others think of the brand. You might think that's anti-fashion, but actually, that's fashion.
I just to not want to be associated with that group that does.
You are following the fashion, every bit as much as punks who said their choice was about not wanting to be associated with glam rockers.
Your list is just a way of justifying the fashion choice you've made. Just as a punk might have listed everything they found wrong with glam rock.
Count me in for four at least for my own house, and as many for gifts for Christmas.
Look at the Google Fanboi. It's not yet been officially announced, specs aren't yet known, and already he wants 8 of the new shiny. Google's reality distortion field has a strong effect on this one. A triumph of marketing over innovation.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the automated ABS systems in many cars will cut the brakes on fresh snow where locking the wheels would typically result in a shorter stopping distance.
Unlocked brakes means you still have some ability to steer. Locked brakes have no steerability. Locking the wheels will often result in the car going sideways down the road with no ability to steer into the skid. If there'a one thing worse than not being able to stop, it's the car travelling sideways whilst not being able to stop.
Socialists in California? Theres another person that actually needs to get a passport and travel outside his own back yard.
Rats don't live in warrens, rabbits do. The phrase you you didn't quite get right was rabbit warren.
The rest of what you wrote just as ignorantly failed to reflect what was in the linked article. It just betrayed a similar lack of thought. A knee-jerk reaction.
Parking and traffic have to do with the number of cars, not just their driver's skill.
Sure, but driver's skill can certainly reduce both issues, and computer driven cars even more so.
Clearly you've never travelled. Try Italy or India for example.
Of course they wouldn't use their own spacecraft, they'd just hijack someone elses...
Colonization of Mars will be done by China. What's it got to do with NASA?
What? I repeat OSX was RELEASED before Vista was development even started.
Microsoft began work on Windows Vista, known at the time by its codename Longhorn, in May 2001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista
The first version released was Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999, and a desktop-oriented version, Mac OS X v10.0 "Cheetah" followed on March 24, 2001.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os_x
What was that about ignorance?
Have you tried screen wipes...
No indeed. But different people buy in at different points of the technology adoption cycle. From early adopters to laggards. There's two pints to consider:
1) For those that don't care about resolution or having the latest thing, the price of the existing base model iPad2 has just reduced by $100. Reducing prices is one of those things that brings in more adopters.
2) As people do adopt tablets, Apple wants them to buy iPads rather than a competitor. And that requires periodic updates to keep ahead. With the doubling of resolution, iPad is now way ahead of competitors and will be for some time.
OK, that's the kind of evidence I didn't see before. Clearly it is OSM data. Let's see what Apple's explanation is in a few days time.
"it appears that Apple"
"Appears" eh? I'll wait till we know for certain what maps they are using now before I worry about attribution. Apple have bought some mapping companies in recent years, on the face of it it seems more likely these maps are Apple's own.
Certainly in the comparative viewers that OSM are linking to, it doesn't look to me any more like OSM than it looks like Google Maps. All three look different in presentation, but similar in content.. given that they are all modelling the same reality.
Waiting for proper evidence.
Go ahead and call me an AC. I've read this website on and off for 10 years and never cared to sign up for an account - because I'm too busy doing actual work and being paid quite handsomely for it.
Too busy to sign up, and yet not to busy to read and to post? You're full of bullshit like the rest of your Republican wannabe rich types.
Amazingly, jobness is also at a 4 year low (number of people who have jobs)
Is it fuck. Number of people who have jobs has been rising for at least a year.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
Amazing what statistics you can come up with when
Amazing what statistics you can come up with when you talk out of your ass. And I mean you.
1. They were asking for 'healthcare reform', not mandatory insurance.
And they'd have got more healthcare reform had the Republican's not blocked as much as they could.
The idea that people don't want to have healthcare cover is stupid. The idea that they want a choice whether they have healthcare cover or not is retarded. If people get ill, they want to be treated. No matter whether they can afford the treatment they need at that moment. The fact that the richest country in the world hasn't had universal healthcare for so long is a scandal.
Weird. Last I looked 'unemployment' was going down, but so was the number of Americans with jobs.
Well either you're imagining it, or it's somewhat more than a year ago that you looked. Because the number of people in employment has been consistently rising for at least the last year.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
Right. So when you didn't think AAPL was growing it was a "big yawn". Now you know it is, it's "bubble". How childish are you?
This despite the fact that my post you replies to said iPad growth, not AAPL growth. Here, take a look at those.
http://frncs.co/apple/
Or look at it another way. Only 2 years on the market and Apple already sells more iPads than any PC manufacturer sells PCs.
Bubbles are irrational rises in stock price based on sentiment. AAPLs rise is based on unprecedented sales growth.
Then you're unusual. Despite many different models of Android tablet, few people are buying them. They're buying iPads. And not because of resolution either - until today iPad wasn't the one with the highest resolution.