I'd argue (and have before) that the failings of previous MP3 players was a lack of commitment from their makers to marketing in a big way.
Apple realized there was a huge untapped market out there and decided to throw money into convincing people that they needed an iPod. I saw no TV ads for iRiver (the name similarity still makes me giggle) but lots for iPods. All things considered, I'd prefer the former. Sony's reinvented digital Walkman? no such major promotion either.
But the big deal was the music store. iTunes was a good piece of work, and they really succeeded where others have failed before.
In fact, I'd add that I don't believe Apple needs to make a cheaper phone at all. I believe the risk Apple should be taking is the even faster and more expensive version of the iPhone.
Instead of promoting iPhone5 + 0.1 and iPhone5 - 0.1 they could be selling iPhone5 and iAwesome5 and upselling the incredible new features of their even more attractive and expensive device.
Obviously there's a market for very expensive hardware, so why not cater to it? If Monster can sell people speaker wires that cost more than my speakers, surely Apple can sell people the $1500 cell phone.
The company that did the Kinect work for Microsoft did an earlier version with the Eyetoy on the PS2 with Sony... but that's not relevant when you're a fanboy.
People care, they just don't want to know the underlying details. People care if their car goes smoothly, but they don't want to know how the transmission is tuned.
(Yes, most of them don't... geeks excluded).
Reminds me of Sony bragging about the PS2 emotion engine and so on, trying to impress people with raw hardware details that aren't comparable to anything else.
That is to say in this case, how does the A7 perform in reality, running normal apps vs. the latest HTC or Motorola or Sony devices running Android?
The abductions that don't really actually happen? Americans are all in fear of something that's so statistically rare, they'd all stop going to work, driving or swimming if they did the math on it long before they worried about their child being abducted.
My daughter (who is 11) just derived this week that the wifi passwords for the schools in our area are all derived from their location names... now she probably has free WiFi near any school in the region.
I showed my teacher how to get into the school-wide course software in grade 9 and that I could change any grade I wanted just by mapping the proper drive on the Novell server. She was not impressed... but they did ask me to fix it.
Android doesn't use X11 because it would be redundant and required too much memory -- do you recall how much RAM the first Android dev phone had? 32MB. Good luck running X in that. I happen to have an X server running on my Android tablet just fine fyi -- and no performance issues.
How do you store the last ten years' of photos you've taken, or your music collection?
The first two days of my child's life is enough raw video data to seriously dent an SSD all on its own.
I use an SSD for booting, but my primary filesystem is all spinning platters. With modern caching options (on Linux and Windows at least), you can get very near SSD speeds on frequently accessed files using a huge hard drive as your data store anyway.
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I'd argue (and have before) that the failings of previous MP3 players was a lack of commitment from their makers to marketing in a big way.
Apple realized there was a huge untapped market out there and decided to throw money into convincing people that they needed an iPod. I saw no TV ads for iRiver (the name similarity still makes me giggle) but lots for iPods. All things considered, I'd prefer the former. Sony's reinvented digital Walkman? no such major promotion either.
But the big deal was the music store. iTunes was a good piece of work, and they really succeeded where others have failed before.
In fact, I'd add that I don't believe Apple needs to make a cheaper phone at all. I believe the risk Apple should be taking is the even faster and more expensive version of the iPhone.
Instead of promoting iPhone5 + 0.1 and iPhone5 - 0.1 they could be selling iPhone5 and iAwesome5 and upselling the incredible new features of their even more attractive and expensive device.
Obviously there's a market for very expensive hardware, so why not cater to it? If Monster can sell people speaker wires that cost more than my speakers, surely Apple can sell people the $1500 cell phone.
Name the risks Nokia took at the time that Google invested in Android and Apple was producing the iPhone.
Its possible Apple's looking to hit 4GB of RAM sometime in the near future ... but its still not that big of a deal for performance.
cf. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/hardware/A7-processor-in-iPhone-5S-not-revolutionary-Analyst/articleshow/22470702.cms
Don't confuse the fanboy with the facts.
The company that did the Kinect work for Microsoft did an earlier version with the Eyetoy on the PS2 with Sony ... but that's not relevant when you're a fanboy.
All far too large? There are dozens of Android phones even smaller than the iPhone.
One of the beauties of the fragmented Android ecosystem is a huge range of devices. With and without 3D, with and without keyboards, big, small ...
That same $199 with a contract that you can't leave without paying penalties you mean.
That tie-in gives them a lot of value.
Don't your cell companies at least provide discounted plans for user-owned hardware?
People care, they just don't want to know the underlying details. People care if their car goes smoothly, but they don't want to know how the transmission is tuned.
(Yes, most of them don't ... geeks excluded).
Reminds me of Sony bragging about the PS2 emotion engine and so on, trying to impress people with raw hardware details that aren't comparable to anything else.
That is to say in this case, how does the A7 perform in reality, running normal apps vs. the latest HTC or Motorola or Sony devices running Android?
You mean by tazering you and then sticking your finger on the button when you stop flopping around? Of course not.
The abductions that don't really actually happen? Americans are all in fear of something that's so statistically rare, they'd all stop going to work, driving or swimming if they did the math on it long before they worried about their child being abducted.
Just like that location data that wasn't transmitted anywhere, but really was?
Flip the phone over ... duh.
Editing a post would possibly make the replies to that post irrelevant. Preview, commit.
Hmm ... might need to look up an app to use the flash on my Android phone as part of the alarm ringer :)
That said, I can't imagine it for notifications other than serious alarms.
I do love the notification LED ... "oh its blue, I don't care ... "
Apple nerds never admitted the notification tray on Android was any good until Apple suddenly "invented" it a couple years ago.
Come on.
Because the Chinese can afford a $550 cell phone more than a $650 one ... jeez. What a stupid move.
My daughter (who is 11) just derived this week that the wifi passwords for the schools in our area are all derived from their location names ... now she probably has free WiFi near any school in the region.
I showed my teacher how to get into the school-wide course software in grade 9 and that I could change any grade I wanted just by mapping the proper drive on the Novell server. She was not impressed ... but they did ask me to fix it.
Worth quoting: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/09/fingerprint-loc.html
Android doesn't use X11 because it would be redundant and required too much memory -- do you recall how much RAM the first Android dev phone had? 32MB. Good luck running X in that. I happen to have an X server running on my Android tablet just fine fyi -- and no performance issues.
Really? Because games ported to Linux through emulation often perform *better* than their Windows counterparts.
I haven't seen a single example of the X stack having a speed problem -- memory usage, yes, speed, no.
You mean these? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits
git, rsync, etc. are all excellent options.
Why on earth is anyone sync'ing server folders in 2013 anymore?
How do you store the last ten years' of photos you've taken, or your music collection?
The first two days of my child's life is enough raw video data to seriously dent an SSD all on its own.
I use an SSD for booting, but my primary filesystem is all spinning platters. With modern caching options (on Linux and Windows at least), you can get very near SSD speeds on frequently accessed files using a huge hard drive as your data store anyway.