I understand why they hate people using their products that are over thirty, but we spend a lot of money on their products. It sucks to see them intentionally make their products less useful for us.
I understand some like drinking the Hatorade like it's a fine wine...but have you tried increasing the font size?
Considering that most people that use their phones to take video don't even fucking know that they should probably turn the fucking phone
The best camera is the fucking one in your fucking possession when you fucking need to use it. Most people carry their cell phones at most times. Most people do not carry around dedicated 4k video cameras or high end DSLR's.
Yes, the Pro is the most descriptive word possible. It's the iPad you buy to do work on.
And to finally make Duet Display worth the purchase price. 10" screen is a weee bit on the small side to be useful as a second monitor. But 13"? That's as big as my laptop's built-in display.
They somewhat filled that void with a range of very expensive iMonitors
Dell sells a 5k monitor for $1900. For a hundred dollars more, you can get a 5k monitor from Apple - with an i7 computer built in.
that also happen to come equipped with a rather permanently configured computer inside of them, reinforcing my original point.
Apple's point is that most people don't upgrade their laptops beyond the occasional memory upgrade. That doesn't work for everyone, which is why they are free to buy what they want that does what they want, from the manufacturers they want. Zombie Steve isn't holding a gun to anyone's head.
the prices being charged are just nuts pretty much sums up the history of Apple for the last 15 years if not the entire history of the company.
Hateboi Distortion Field. You're going to pay the same price for a new Galaxy as you are for an iPhone 6S. Newegg has a Dell 5k display for $1900....for a hundred dollars more, you get that display in a 5k iMac plus a computer with an i7 processor.
Styluses and keyboards have been available for use with the iPad pretty much from the beginning of the product line, just not made by Apple themselves. And the iPad Pro is still going to be running iOS, not a full version of Mac OS X the way a Surface Pro runs a full version of Windows.
1) You didn't spell "Republic" correctly. You're not a democracy.
Because it's not a pure democracy? No more than not having a parliament means there is no Legislative branch in the U.S. If you think a republic is incompatible with a democracy, you don't really understand either term.
I'll just copy and paste; maybe the second time someone will actually address the actual point:
If he had any input, from the packaging to the color scheme of the keyboard, he could accurately have claimed to be on the design team. When did he claim to be a technical engineer? When did Jobs hold something up and say "hey, I invented this widget in the lab that powers that gizmo"?
So that's another non-response. When did Jobs claim to be a technical. engineer. When did he claim to have invented a piece of technology that someone else developed.
How about from the horse's mouth. Steve Jobs claims to be part of the design team of the Apple I:
If he had any input, from the packaging to the color scheme of the keyboard, he could accurately have claimed to be on the design team. When did he claim to be a technical engineer? When did Jobs hold something up and say "hey, I invented this widget in the lab that powers that gizmo"?
And that's assuming that he said the words 'I was on the design team'. Nobody's going to sit through a 23 minute shitty VHS video based on the say-so of some random dude on the internet.
Of course, but if you listen to the narrative being peddled by a lot of people (including prominent media and websites), you'd think Jobs was nothing short of a one-man company genius, able to do tech design, aesthetic design, management, logistics, sales and marketing all by himself.
No. That's the straw man being attacked by those huffing the Hatorade bong. Jobs never claimed to have been a tech inventor, sorry.
Apple entered the market 8 years ago. Roku has been doing fine.
And Netscape was around before Microsoft got into web browsing, and Blackberry dominated the smartphone market before Apple came along. Roku best not be complacent.
Ya, but if it's apple it's going to be a walled garden.
Only because it's Apple. No one complains that they can't replace the GPS software on a new car with Waze, before they go home to play some GTAV on their Playstation 4.
On $150K/year? I smell hyperbole. I made a @#$%load less than that in the first Dot-Com era and lived comfortably in a (shared) house near downtown Menlo Park.
Let me guess...you're also one of those people who dismiss the student loan burdens of today's graduates, because you got your degree back in '95 while working part time at Home Depot?
I love this fantasy you have that if they had only tried to poach each others employees then somehow everyone's salary would be higher. So silly.
By definition it depressed the labor pool. What does depressing a labor pool do, whether it's noncompete clauses or trucking in H1-B workers? It depresses prevailing wages, by design./remedialeconomics
I am not a big fan of unions, or at least, how unions have been in the US
I'm not a big fan of business, at least in the US. Starting a business means you will defraud investors, sexually harass secretaries, engage in human trafficking, and dump toxic waste in the river.
What some businesses have done, all businesses will do.
With class action lawsuits, the lawyers bear all of the costs and all of the risks if the lawsuit fails. Yes, $5k for each worker is a pittance based on what the companies kept from their paychecks, but they got something for nothing.
Don't like it - higher your own damn lawyer, and shoulder your own damn risk. Which in a case like this would involve tens of thousands in legal fees, and if you won your payout would come out of AppFaGoogle's penny jar without them even noticing.
$400 million is a joke, but at least the companies involved noticed, and might not doing it again. You as an individual win $40k plus attorneys fees, they would never notice.
The Soviet Union fell after being drawn into the violent quagmire of Afghanistan. The United States would be in the same position, if it actually gave a fuck to it's stated goals of making a stable government and protecting human rights, rather than just protecting access to natural resources.
South African Apartheid The British occupation of India
Only ended with the threat of violence. Brutal colonialist occupiers DGAF about your non-violent protests - just ask the Israelis who bomb Gaza when the Palestinians have become too non-violent, as they did with Operation Cast Lead, when even the IDF admits that Hamas had been observing a truce.
Gandhi's protests were a demonstration of power, not acquiescence. GTFO or hordes of my people will overwhelm and massacre your occupying asses. And everyone knows that Nelson Mandela was called a terrorist by the CIA, for decades - because he dared use violence to fight his people's oppressors. Which is why the white South African government backed down, to avoid the inevitable regional and civil war.
Tell me does your idea that our salaries would be e.g. $30k higher
For software engineers heading large projects, it could have been far higher than $30k per year.
But lets go ahead and say it was just a $5k per year difference. Notice the emphasis? This wasn't something that Apple and Google tried for a fiscal year, this went on for some time. Which means a $5k payout isn't close to being compensatory, much less punitive.
In Hollywood movies, the criminals are usually brilliant masterminds, because that makes for an interesting story. But, in real life, most criminals are pretty stupid.
Hollywood scriptwriters can be pretty stupid, too. Every freaking season of 24 had a traitor that communicated with her handlers, right in the middle of the agency headquarters, with a cell phone.
Why not more reasonably priced hardware? Chromebooks or even some 'doze laptops.
You mean more cheaply made laptops? Sure, the school could have done that, but then they'd be getting what they paid for. A plastic Chromebook isn't going to take the abuse of an aluminum case and is going to be far more limited in what it can do. An equivalently speced "doze" laptop is going to cost you an equivalent price, with any meager savings made up for by the higher maintenance cost of running Windows.
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I understand some like drinking the Hatorade like it's a fine wine...but have you tried increasing the font size?
The best camera is the fucking one in your fucking possession when you fucking need to use it. Most people carry their cell phones at most times. Most people do not carry around dedicated 4k video cameras or high end DSLR's.
So did the AppleTV 1 and 2. WYP?
Not a big thing to do everything a Chromecast can do and more? Oookay.
And to finally make Duet Display worth the purchase price. 10" screen is a weee bit on the small side to be useful as a second monitor. But 13"? That's as big as my laptop's built-in display.
Dell sells a 5k monitor for $1900. For a hundred dollars more, you can get a 5k monitor from Apple - with an i7 computer built in.
Apple's point is that most people don't upgrade their laptops beyond the occasional memory upgrade. That doesn't work for everyone, which is why they are free to buy what they want that does what they want, from the manufacturers they want. Zombie Steve isn't holding a gun to anyone's head.
Hateboi Distortion Field. You're going to pay the same price for a new Galaxy as you are for an iPhone 6S. Newegg has a Dell 5k display for $1900....for a hundred dollars more, you get that display in a 5k iMac plus a computer with an i7 processor.
Styluses and keyboards have been available for use with the iPad pretty much from the beginning of the product line, just not made by Apple themselves. And the iPad Pro is still going to be running iOS, not a full version of Mac OS X the way a Surface Pro runs a full version of Windows.
Because it's not a pure democracy? No more than not having a parliament means there is no Legislative branch in the U.S. If you think a republic is incompatible with a democracy, you don't really understand either term.
I'll just copy and paste; maybe the second time someone will actually address the actual point:
If he had any input, from the packaging to the color scheme of the keyboard, he could accurately have claimed to be on the design team. When did he claim to be a technical engineer? When did Jobs hold something up and say "hey, I invented this widget in the lab that powers that gizmo"?
So you were born yesterday and don't know what a straw man is. Not my problem.
So that's another non-response. When did Jobs claim to be a technical. engineer. When did he claim to have invented a piece of technology that someone else developed.
If he had any input, from the packaging to the color scheme of the keyboard, he could accurately have claimed to be on the design team. When did he claim to be a technical engineer? When did Jobs hold something up and say "hey, I invented this widget in the lab that powers that gizmo"?
And that's assuming that he said the words 'I was on the design team'. Nobody's going to sit through a 23 minute shitty VHS video based on the say-so of some random dude on the internet.
No. That's the straw man being attacked by those huffing the Hatorade bong. Jobs never claimed to have been a tech inventor, sorry.
Quote is addressing a wee bit of a straw man. Still, it's a good drop of blood in the water for the Jobs haters to turn out.
Which was no doubt the idea behind posting it in the first place.
And Netscape was around before Microsoft got into web browsing, and Blackberry dominated the smartphone market before Apple came along. Roku best not be complacent.
Only because it's Apple. No one complains that they can't replace the GPS software on a new car with Waze, before they go home to play some GTAV on their Playstation 4.
Let me guess...you're also one of those people who dismiss the student loan burdens of today's graduates, because you got your degree back in '95 while working part time at Home Depot?
By definition it depressed the labor pool. What does depressing a labor pool do, whether it's noncompete clauses or trucking in H1-B workers? It depresses prevailing wages, by design. /remedialeconomics
I'm not a big fan of business, at least in the US. Starting a business means you will defraud investors, sexually harass secretaries, engage in human trafficking, and dump toxic waste in the river.
What some businesses have done, all businesses will do.
With class action lawsuits, the lawyers bear all of the costs and all of the risks if the lawsuit fails. Yes, $5k for each worker is a pittance based on what the companies kept from their paychecks, but they got something for nothing.
Don't like it - higher your own damn lawyer, and shoulder your own damn risk. Which in a case like this would involve tens of thousands in legal fees, and if you won your payout would come out of AppFaGoogle's penny jar without them even noticing.
$400 million is a joke, but at least the companies involved noticed, and might not doing it again. You as an individual win $40k plus attorneys fees, they would never notice.
The Soviet Union fell after being drawn into the violent quagmire of Afghanistan. The United States would be in the same position, if it actually gave a fuck to it's stated goals of making a stable government and protecting human rights, rather than just protecting access to natural resources.
Only ended with the threat of violence. Brutal colonialist occupiers DGAF about your non-violent protests - just ask the Israelis who bomb Gaza when the Palestinians have become too non-violent, as they did with Operation Cast Lead, when even the IDF admits that Hamas had been observing a truce.
Gandhi's protests were a demonstration of power, not acquiescence. GTFO or hordes of my people will overwhelm and massacre your occupying asses. And everyone knows that Nelson Mandela was called a terrorist by the CIA, for decades - because he dared use violence to fight his people's oppressors. Which is why the white South African government backed down, to avoid the inevitable regional and civil war.
For software engineers heading large projects, it could have been far higher than $30k per year.
But lets go ahead and say it was just a $5k per year difference. Notice the emphasis? This wasn't something that Apple and Google tried for a fiscal year, this went on for some time. Which means a $5k payout isn't close to being compensatory, much less punitive.
Hollywood scriptwriters can be pretty stupid, too. Every freaking season of 24 had a traitor that communicated with her handlers, right in the middle of the agency headquarters, with a cell phone.
You mean more cheaply made laptops? Sure, the school could have done that, but then they'd be getting what they paid for. A plastic Chromebook isn't going to take the abuse of an aluminum case and is going to be far more limited in what it can do. An equivalently speced "doze" laptop is going to cost you an equivalent price, with any meager savings made up for by the higher maintenance cost of running Windows.
If you grill up a Big Mac and a t-bone steak in the same kitchen, are they going to be of the same quality?