Which is exactly why the government should be as small and weak as possible.
Ah, so you're enjoying your annihilated retirement fund, munching on your Mad Cow burger while your kids play with with their lead-painted toys in your asbestos lined trailer after you had to flee New Orleans on foot in 2005. And you'd get treatment for that nagging leukemia of yours, but your health insurance company denies coverage because you didn't mention that you once had acne, so their CEO can be worth three quarters of a billion dollars. So you feel like packing up the kids and going to one of those socialisicky countries that have actual health care, but your plane crashes because the exhausted pilot was working a second job to stay off food stamps and the air traffic controller had all of two hours of sleep between shifts.
The genius of small government and the free market at work....
No, you may try and convince yourself that it was some amazing new technology that sold the iPod but it wasn't, it was style. Sorority girls bought it because it was a fashion accessory.
Too bad the facts don't meet your storyline. The iPod didn't become cool because of marketing, it was cool because it was frikkin awesome. It was the first to use a micro hard drive when everything else was using tiny flash storage or bulky hard drives from laptops or even desktops. It used 400 Mpbs Firewire when everything else connected via 11 Mpbs USB, or even parallel. And it had a great hardware software interface when the primary alternative, Music Match, was a turd sandwich.
It was fast, user friendly, and had the best physical size/capacity of any device out there.
Well the same deal with their laptops these days. I know exceedingly few people that buy them because they are OS-X computers, they buy them because they like the style.
Do you now, Dr. Phil?
As such I think Apple ought to stop this crap of trying to lock their OS to their hardware and do two separate divisions and products.
And slit their own throats? Microsoft can sell operating systems without computers because they are a monopoly. Apple would have to raise the price of OS X dramatically to make up for lost hardware sales, and have to include draconian DRM to keep everyone and his brother from installing it on every POS computer.
It seems like Apple's insistence on doing computers they way they do is not based on a good business practice but just stubborn insistence.
Given the fact that Apple has a larger market cap than Dell and HP combined, I doubt they or I will start listening to your business advice any time soon....
Nobody can say this about Apple, who are still working to the 1960s proprietary hardware business model, and still behaving as if the PC revolution never happened.
LOL. And how many other competitors to Windows are still around? How is Commodore doing? Can you order a Dell with the Amiga OS? How is OS2 doing these days?
Not to mention all the OEM's that either died in the 80's, early 90's, or during the tech bubble. And what do you mean, "proprietary hardware"? They use Intel processors, SATA, PCI, USB, 1394, 802.11, Cardbus, DVI...why don't you draw up a list of proprietary hardware and get back to us.
LOL! Take everything out of this list that's more than 20 years old or bought from another company, and you're left with jack and shit, and Jack left town. I see you're as crazy with software as you are with politics....
Remember the Slashdot rules: even if any other physical or software manufacturer does the exact same act every day of the week and we would never give a shit, Apple gets publicly flayed for it.
Weirdly, slashdot decided to post an article about MS taking actions against modded Xboxes on the front page after I posted the GP. I see plenty of hate there.
Still working on that reading comprehension, I see.
I've been on slashdot for 10+ years, and I'm not sure I can name a single PERSON here. Who looks at screennames?
A longwinded, rationalized way to say "no, I can't".
So you think Microsoft somehow released a firmware update to the Xbox that bricked them, there wouldn't be significantly more complaints there than at Apple here?
What I think is that you can't read:
If it's not Apple, Microsoft or Sony, no one gives a shit.
...or get the (obvious) point that comparing the actions of a monopoly to a non-monopoly is comparing Apples to oranges.
The reason you say things like is because there's a large group of haters that repeatedly and thoughtlessly attack Apple on EVERYTHING they do. Much like how there are FAR more kool aid drinking PETA haters than actual kool aid drinking members of PETA, you'll find FAR more anti-Apple zealots than actual Apple fanboys.
Case in point: name a single actual Apple fanboy here on Slashdot. Just one.
Uh, can you read? At all? Because the parent clearly said:
Having to deal with linux printing a decade ago, be glad that Apple bought CUPS and continued to develop it.
And don't get me wrong, there are tons of zealots out there for everything but take the time to read your computing history instead of trying to rewrite it to suit your needs.
Why don't you work on that reading comprehension BEFORE jerking that knee.
I'm not judging the legitimacy or morality of their actions; I just know slashdot, and if any other company had done something like this they'd be excoriated here.
Except every single time Apple does something remotely questionable or popular, there's half a dozen people on Slashdot saying "now if this were Microsoft, you'd all be up in arms", smug in their own cleverness and superiority.
When in fact the only reason this story is on here in the first place is because it's Apple. If it's not Apple, Microsoft or Sony, no one gives a shit. Two people scratch their new iPod screens and it's a story here, whereas it literally takes a Dell laptop battery exploding and starting on fire to even be mentioned.
If I use my genuine, personal hardware to do something illegal with a legal program, I am using the hardware in an illegal/abusive way.
What illegal action? He's not downloading child porn, distributing copies of software, or hacking government databases, so your point doesn't seem relevant.
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Which is exactly why the government should be as small and weak as possible.
Ah, so you're enjoying your annihilated retirement fund, munching on your Mad Cow burger while your kids play with with their lead-painted toys in your asbestos lined trailer after you had to flee New Orleans on foot in 2005. And you'd get treatment for that nagging leukemia of yours, but your health insurance company denies coverage because you didn't mention that you once had acne, so their CEO can be worth three quarters of a billion dollars. So you feel like packing up the kids and going to one of those socialisicky countries that have actual health care, but your plane crashes because the exhausted pilot was working a second job to stay off food stamps and the air traffic controller had all of two hours of sleep between shifts.
The genius of small government and the free market at work....
Umm, gee, I wonder what the XBox and 360 are?
Obviously, game counsels. Obviously. How many businesses, schools and individuals have an XBox sitting on their desk as a personal computer?
Get your sarcasm detector into the shop, it needs maintenance....
No, you may try and convince yourself that it was some amazing new technology that sold the iPod but it wasn't, it was style. Sorority girls bought it because it was a fashion accessory.
Too bad the facts don't meet your storyline. The iPod didn't become cool because of marketing, it was cool because it was frikkin awesome. It was the first to use a micro hard drive when everything else was using tiny flash storage or bulky hard drives from laptops or even desktops. It used 400 Mpbs Firewire when everything else connected via 11 Mpbs USB, or even parallel. And it had a great hardware software interface when the primary alternative, Music Match, was a turd sandwich.
It was fast, user friendly, and had the best physical size/capacity of any device out there.
Well the same deal with their laptops these days. I know exceedingly few people that buy them because they are OS-X computers, they buy them because they like the style.
Do you now, Dr. Phil?
As such I think Apple ought to stop this crap of trying to lock their OS to their hardware and do two separate divisions and products.
And slit their own throats? Microsoft can sell operating systems without computers because they are a monopoly. Apple would have to raise the price of OS X dramatically to make up for lost hardware sales, and have to include draconian DRM to keep everyone and his brother from installing it on every POS computer.
It seems like Apple's insistence on doing computers they way they do is not based on a good business practice but just stubborn insistence.
Given the fact that Apple has a larger market cap than Dell and HP combined, I doubt they or I will start listening to your business advice any time soon....
Nobody can say this about Apple, who are still working to the 1960s proprietary hardware business model, and still behaving as if the PC revolution never happened.
LOL. And how many other competitors to Windows are still around? How is Commodore doing? Can you order a Dell with the Amiga OS? How is OS2 doing these days?
Not to mention all the OEM's that either died in the 80's, early 90's, or during the tech bubble. And what do you mean, "proprietary hardware"? They use Intel processors, SATA, PCI, USB, 1394, 802.11, Cardbus, DVI...why don't you draw up a list of proprietary hardware and get back to us.
The just made popular ones that have locked their users into expensive second rate hardware with expensive looking finishes.
On what planet is that, exactly? What's Apple done that is remotely on the level of Windows Activation and Windows Genuine Advantage?
LOL! Take everything out of this list that's more than 20 years old or bought from another company, and you're left with jack and shit, and Jack left town. I see you're as crazy with software as you are with politics....
You go AC, go get those straw men!
Apple didn't invent the MP3 player, web store or smart phone.
Who said they did?
The just made popular ones that have locked their users into expensive second rate hardware with expensive looking finishes.
Yes, as demonstrated by Apple's tiny marketshare of mp3 players.
No, you haven't. Microsoft doesn't make PC's.
Even if you take the form factor and power usage off the table - this would be different from any other OEM how, exactly?
Remember the Slashdot rules: even if any other physical or software manufacturer does the exact same act every day of the week and we would never give a shit, Apple gets publicly flayed for it.
Fixed that for you.
So anyone that has ever written in the margins of a textbook and then resold it is not within light years of the law! ;)
Except your analogy would only be relevant if you
1. Ripped out passages of the book
2. Inserted some of your own
3. Resold the book
Then you would be wrong, obviously.
Good thing you weren't a dick about it, like the other guys replying to him. :)
If I ask you when the last time was that you beat your wife, and other's point out that that's an unfair question, does that make them AC fanboys?
Good god man, way to ignore the (obvious) point.
Weirdly, slashdot decided to post an article about MS taking actions against modded Xboxes on the front page after I posted the GP. I see plenty of hate there.
Still working on that reading comprehension, I see.
I've been on slashdot for 10+ years, and I'm not sure I can name a single PERSON here. Who looks at screennames?
A longwinded, rationalized way to say "no, I can't".
Holy shit, that was years ago. I remember those articles... Do you always hold grudges this long?
WHOOOSH.
So you think Microsoft somehow released a firmware update to the Xbox that bricked them, there wouldn't be significantly more complaints there than at Apple here?
What I think is that you can't read:
...or get the (obvious) point that comparing the actions of a monopoly to a non-monopoly is comparing Apples to oranges.
The reason you say things like is because there's a large group of haters that repeatedly and thoughtlessly attack Apple on EVERYTHING they do. Much like how there are FAR more kool aid drinking PETA haters than actual kool aid drinking members of PETA, you'll find FAR more anti-Apple zealots than actual Apple fanboys.
Case in point: name a single actual Apple fanboy here on Slashdot. Just one.
Like which ones? Rottwielers?
Caucasians.
Bought up by Apple Inc. more like.
Wow, you're the third person who needs to work on his reading comprehension.
Apple didn't create CUPS.
Which is probably why he - clearly - said Apple bought CUPS.
Uh, Apple didn't develop CUPS at all.
Uh, can you read? At all? Because the parent clearly said:
And don't get me wrong, there are tons of zealots out there for everything but take the time to read your computing history instead of trying to rewrite it to suit your needs.
Why don't you work on that reading comprehension BEFORE jerking that knee.
I'm not judging the legitimacy or morality of their actions; I just know slashdot, and if any other company had done something like this they'd be excoriated here.
Except every single time Apple does something remotely questionable or popular, there's half a dozen people on Slashdot saying "now if this were Microsoft, you'd all be up in arms", smug in their own cleverness and superiority.
When in fact the only reason this story is on here in the first place is because it's Apple. If it's not Apple, Microsoft or Sony, no one gives a shit. Two people scratch their new iPod screens and it's a story here, whereas it literally takes a Dell laptop battery exploding and starting on fire to even be mentioned.
If by "many" you mean "the Macbook and Macbook Air", then yes. Everything else has Firewire 800, even the Mini.
If I use my genuine, personal hardware to do something illegal with a legal program, I am using the hardware in an illegal/abusive way.
What illegal action? He's not downloading child porn, distributing copies of software, or hacking government databases, so your point doesn't seem relevant.