It works as well or as poorly as it ever did and it ever will. Only MS will kill it with Multimedia formats, add-ons and such. I still run one old Win-2000 SP5 machine.
Even under liquidation they were selling their stuff for maybe 10% off. I can't tell you how many I watched walking out and telling each other "This is why they're going out of business..."
Iron barrels tend to explode randomly if you overload them with powder. This is why the bronze gun was developed. The thermoelastic performance of bronze is such that the gun can take a much higher charge and will gently stretch instead of shattering like iron does.
By the way, the Turks developed this in the 16th Century.
The Apps store has a lot of junk. Quite a few apps are buggy. Some are interesting. The business apps are typically tied to third party services. Some are only interesting for 10 minutes. And some have a great deal of potential that's unrealized.
For instance I'd love a restaurant locator app that works outside of San Francisco, Chicago and New York.
I just can't see an American company getting this right w/o 'accidentally' overcharging me or just screwing it up completely. I don't need another billing problem to call Sprint about.
High end Sprint PDA phones require the $100/month x24 month unlimited plans. That's $240. They'll probably charge $300-$350 for the phone in the beginning. Plus taxes, that's a $3,000 phone.
At least 15% of them will toss them away. That's 15% fewer Zunes Microsoft has to worry about and potentially 15% more in possible sales. It's basically a huge test of how much pain your customers will tolerate and an opportunity to make some money as well. But the real point of this is that Zune isn't a product. Zune itself was a big experiment in DRM to understand how customers use it. Now that Microsoft knows what they have to build into Win7 they don't need the Zune anymore and is willing to let it die.
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What planet do these people live on? Seriously.
It works as well or as poorly as it ever did and it ever will. Only MS will kill it with Multimedia formats, add-ons and such. I still run one old Win-2000 SP5 machine.
Not about anything else. Sorry. Free speech does not apply to Islam.
Only takes calls from flunkies and paranoids.
You've got to read secret alien to make sense out of the owners' manual.
Even under liquidation they were selling their stuff for maybe 10% off. I can't tell you how many I watched walking out and telling each other "This is why they're going out of business..."
Iron barrels tend to explode randomly if you overload them with powder. This is why the bronze gun was developed. The thermoelastic performance of bronze is such that the gun can take a much higher charge and will gently stretch instead of shattering like iron does.
By the way, the Turks developed this in the 16th Century.
As always, it's you.
But it was just an example.
The Apps store has a lot of junk. Quite a few apps are buggy. Some are interesting. The business apps are typically tied to third party services. Some are only interesting for 10 minutes. And some have a great deal of potential that's unrealized.
For instance I'd love a restaurant locator app that works outside of San Francisco, Chicago and New York.
After all, it's the new paradigm.
Is to clutter it up with so much debris that no one can launch a thing. In fact it's the best way to end all space flights altogether.
You can only rent it.
Ok then mark me a troll. Do you want a $50 keyboard or do you feel it's merely your moral obligation. Pay for mine too, thanks.
Other than that, I don't care.
If this was the US the price would be $1000 a month.
Every Rap and R+B 'artist' will win at least 10 Grammys with this!
I just can't see an American company getting this right w/o 'accidentally' overcharging me or just screwing it up completely. I don't need another billing problem to call Sprint about.
Why have Beta when you can charge people for the first two or three test versions?
Seriously, comrade
It's probably crap. Just listen to the people on line at Blockbuster if you doubt this.
High end Sprint PDA phones require the $100/month x24 month unlimited plans. That's $240. They'll probably charge $300-$350 for the phone in the beginning. Plus taxes, that's a $3,000 phone.
At least 15% of them will toss them away. That's 15% fewer Zunes Microsoft has to worry about and potentially 15% more in possible sales. It's basically a huge test of how much pain your customers will tolerate and an opportunity to make some money as well. But the real point of this is that Zune isn't a product. Zune itself was a big experiment in DRM to understand how customers use it. Now that Microsoft knows what they have to build into Win7 they don't need the Zune anymore and is willing to let it die.
No apparently not, at least not from an applications standard view it isn't. Perhaps this has more to do with how those apps were written under IE6
Not an absolute one but many many applications and websites work only with IE6. FF with an IBM add-on PLUS IETAB is an absolute requirement.