That's right, they are already winning on price by a long shot so there's no reason to go lower.
However, there's more to why taking a loss would be pointless for them. You're a little of when you say there's more ground out there. There's the same amount of ground but more competition for it. One of the main points behind Nintendo's strategy with the Wii (and the DS) is to find new ground that the others aren't even playing on yet. If it pays off, Nintendo will be raking it in from console and game sales and end up with a huge, diverse user base while the other two take losses battling it out for the traditional demographic. If it doesn't, they at least seem to have gotten the attention of a lot of gamers that had just about written them off.
They're not morons, they're theives. They're not oblivious to logic, it's just that theives only understand the logic of theivery. Anyway, Dinosaurs Will Die.
...is that starting around the end of November, a lot of people who bought iPods just took them home and wrapped them in colorful paper instead of opening them and loading them with music. Wait.
Does it matter? OSX needs to be booted once every month or two when something like a security or OS update is available. The bit about launching apps more quickly is interesting though. Except for that, this sounds like that old concept of a saved state where the contents of RAM are stored someplace safe on shutdown and next time you start up they're just loaded so you get back to exactly where you were before. This might be more interesting than that, though.
Correct me if I'm wrong but... isn't the Blackberry just a small portable device used for reading and sending email? If it gets shut down, I have some advice for all the disgruntled users out there. Buy a mobile phone! They're pretty amazing these days; color screens, web access, email, and (quite uselessly) some can play music and take pictures.
Come on! Doom is going to be awesome! It's got The Rock, who would never make a bad movie, it's got lots of guns that shoot out blue beams or something, and best of all, it's got plenty of "first-person" scenes to make it just like the game! What a great idea! If Halo isn't 100% first-person, I just don't see how it can compete.
At the risk of sounding like an apologist, Apple's actions make perfect sense here. There was no need to find out who leaked the information since it was about a product that never existed in the first place. It was safe to assume that the information didn't come from within the company or, if it did, there was no way to determine who would have had access to the "information" as it was all fictional anyway.
The obvious question is then, "Why start a lawsuit over a story about a product that never existed?" I can think of two reasons, although I don't know if they make sense from a legal standpoint as I'm not a lawyer. One, a zero tolerance policy toward rumors. Probably not a good idea since the rumors sites are what kept the fanbase going through all the tough times in the past but maybe they've gotten arrogant with their recent success. The other reason, the idea that if potential customers find out about a future product (even a fictional one) too soon, it could hurt the sales of currently shipping products.
The entire population of Japan is less than 145 million and only around half are female. Anyway, many of them are blonde. It's fake, yes, but it's there.
Many Japanese men (I'm not one, by the way) do consider western (that is, of European ancestry) women to be exotic (I don't, by the way) but America doesn't have a monopoly on western women. Furthermore, "western women" doesn't apply to all American women. "Giant", "Scaley", "Meat-eating", and "Clawed" on the other hand...
How is it flamebait? Mac advocates have been trying to convince people using numbers like TCO for a long time and it just doesn't work. Maybe what Linux really needs is some kind of super popular product to create a halo effect.
You don't get it. If I buy a song from the iTMS, I can play that song on my desktop, my laptop, my iPod, my home stereo via airport express, or anything that can read a CD-R. If I buy a movie, I should be able to watch it on my desktop (moderately sized screen), my laptop (a little smaller), my video iPod (small screen? coming soon?), my TV (various sizes available at an electronics store near you) via airport express++ (coming soon?), or anything that can read a DVD-R.
You can quote Saint Jobs all you want regarding the small screen but when it's just one of many choices, or when the iPod is just a way to transport a video file from your computer to any TV, the point becomes moot.
That theory has been kicked around a little already and it seems to make sense on the surface but it ignores no less than three very important points.
1) Installed base. If Apple intends to promote a movie download service that only runs on Macintels, it's going to flop big time and worse than just flopping, it's going to really piss off people who bought PPC hardware in the past couple of years.
2) Transion time frame. Apple will begin the transition to Intel next year but it won't be selling Intel boxes exclusively until 2007. That means the announcement of a service that requires an Intel box would have to wait until then or risk killing hardware sales. Somebody else will be doing it before that.
3) iTMS model? Assuming they intend to follow the same model with their movie store, where selling movies is really just a way to move a different product (video iPod, set-top box, etc), they'll want to sell movies to Windows users as well as Mac users just as they do with music now. They'll also need to allow users to move their purchased movies to another device which may or may not contain the same DRM.
Anyway, they don't need hardware DRM to open a movie store. They have a perfectly good software based DRM for music so something similar should be enough to make the movie industry happy.
This Gates guy seems to be the "Chief Software Architect" at Microsoft so why is he making announcements about a hardware product? I understand that he's also the chairman but this doesn't seem to have much to do with the expected duties of that position either. I really wonder exactly how that company is run. Shouldn't this announcement have come in the form of Steve Balmer jumping around and screaming "HD-DVD! HD-DVD! HD-DVD!"?
I don't claim to be an expert on these things but my understanding of it is pretty much exactly as you've put it. It's often said of modern Japanese that they are born Shinto, married Christian, and buried Buddhist. Of course, this is mostly an observation of type of cermonies used and not a suggestion that people choose to really believe something different at different points in their lives. Most Japanese have no religion and a common answer to "What do you believe?" is "I believe in myself."
As for the drug thing, the typical Japanese is terrified of even the most harmless illegal drug. It's a common belief that pot is highly addictive and can kill you. However, since some quantity of hemp is needed for ceremonial purposes, the government has the power to grant farmers a permit to grow it. I read an article in the newspaper a few years ago about this and the pictured farmer looked exactly like a damn dirty hippy so you can form your own conclusions about that.
Actually, you can worship hemp in Shinto if you want to. It's pretty open ended as I understand the explanation given to me by an actual Shinto priest/MD. Anyway, it's a fact that hemp has an important ceremonial role in several aspects of traditional japanese society. Mostly ropes used in Sumo and in some way relating directly to the Emperor himself althouth I can't remember exactly how at the moment. So, whether that relates to Shinto or not, it's easy to see how some confusion could arise.
Apple's departure may not remove a significant revenue stream now, but if the Mac lines are truely growing at 3x the rate of the rest of the industry, it could look like a huge missed opportunity within a few years. Yeah yeah, I know. I can't seem to remember where I put my RDF protective goggles.
So... we will get Answers after asking More Questions? How many more questions must be asked before the answers will be given? Are you assuring us that all questions previously and yet to be asked will be answered?
Parent should not be modded flamebait, it's a valid point. For many years, the MacOS was horribly unstable. Personally, I never considered it a piece of shit but I can see why some people did. A lot of the machines in schools now are still running those older, crash-prone versions of the OS.
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I didn't know the Medium Access Control had so many fans.
That's right, they are already winning on price by a long shot so there's no reason to go lower.
However, there's more to why taking a loss would be pointless for them. You're a little of when you say there's more ground out there. There's the same amount of ground but more competition for it. One of the main points behind Nintendo's strategy with the Wii (and the DS) is to find new ground that the others aren't even playing on yet. If it pays off, Nintendo will be raking it in from console and game sales and end up with a huge, diverse user base while the other two take losses battling it out for the traditional demographic. If it doesn't, they at least seem to have gotten the attention of a lot of gamers that had just about written them off.
But if we had, the Russians would have won!
They're not morons, they're theives. They're not oblivious to logic, it's just that theives only understand the logic of theivery. Anyway, Dinosaurs Will Die.
It is really so great to be right all the time.
...is that starting around the end of November, a lot of people who bought iPods just took them home and wrapped them in colorful paper instead of opening them and loading them with music. Wait.
Does it matter? OSX needs to be booted once every month or two when something like a security or OS update is available. The bit about launching apps more quickly is interesting though. Except for that, this sounds like that old concept of a saved state where the contents of RAM are stored someplace safe on shutdown and next time you start up they're just loaded so you get back to exactly where you were before. This might be more interesting than that, though.
Great! So if all other phones stop working and Blackberry stays in business somehow, I now know what to buy!
Correct me if I'm wrong but... isn't the Blackberry just a small portable device used for reading and sending email? If it gets shut down, I have some advice for all the disgruntled users out there. Buy a mobile phone! They're pretty amazing these days; color screens, web access, email, and (quite uselessly) some can play music and take pictures.
Come on! Doom is going to be awesome! It's got The Rock, who would never make a bad movie, it's got lots of guns that shoot out blue beams or something, and best of all, it's got plenty of "first-person" scenes to make it just like the game! What a great idea! If Halo isn't 100% first-person, I just don't see how it can compete.
At the risk of sounding like an apologist, Apple's actions make perfect sense here. There was no need to find out who leaked the information since it was about a product that never existed in the first place. It was safe to assume that the information didn't come from within the company or, if it did, there was no way to determine who would have had access to the "information" as it was all fictional anyway.
The obvious question is then, "Why start a lawsuit over a story about a product that never existed?" I can think of two reasons, although I don't know if they make sense from a legal standpoint as I'm not a lawyer. One, a zero tolerance policy toward rumors. Probably not a good idea since the rumors sites are what kept the fanbase going through all the tough times in the past but maybe they've gotten arrogant with their recent success. The other reason, the idea that if potential customers find out about a future product (even a fictional one) too soon, it could hurt the sales of currently shipping products.
The entire population of Japan is less than 145 million and only around half are female. Anyway, many of them are blonde. It's fake, yes, but it's there.
Many Japanese men (I'm not one, by the way) do consider western (that is, of European ancestry) women to be exotic (I don't, by the way) but America doesn't have a monopoly on western women. Furthermore, "western women" doesn't apply to all American women. "Giant", "Scaley", "Meat-eating", and "Clawed" on the other hand...
So...American chicks, then?
How is it flamebait? Mac advocates have been trying to convince people using numbers like TCO for a long time and it just doesn't work. Maybe what Linux really needs is some kind of super popular product to create a halo effect.
Another study done by every Mac user ever has proven definitively that nobody who actually purchases computers cares about TCO and never will.
What's the big deal? Who cares if I can add one extra year to my life? Is this what passes for progress?
You don't get it. If I buy a song from the iTMS, I can play that song on my desktop, my laptop, my iPod, my home stereo via airport express, or anything that can read a CD-R. If I buy a movie, I should be able to watch it on my desktop (moderately sized screen), my laptop (a little smaller), my video iPod (small screen? coming soon?), my TV (various sizes available at an electronics store near you) via airport express++ (coming soon?), or anything that can read a DVD-R.
You can quote Saint Jobs all you want regarding the small screen but when it's just one of many choices, or when the iPod is just a way to transport a video file from your computer to any TV, the point becomes moot.
That theory has been kicked around a little already and it seems to make sense on the surface but it ignores no less than three very important points.
1) Installed base. If Apple intends to promote a movie download service that only runs on Macintels, it's going to flop big time and worse than just flopping, it's going to really piss off people who bought PPC hardware in the past couple of years.
2) Transion time frame. Apple will begin the transition to Intel next year but it won't be selling Intel boxes exclusively until 2007. That means the announcement of a service that requires an Intel box would have to wait until then or risk killing hardware sales. Somebody else will be doing it before that.
3) iTMS model? Assuming they intend to follow the same model with their movie store, where selling movies is really just a way to move a different product (video iPod, set-top box, etc), they'll want to sell movies to Windows users as well as Mac users just as they do with music now. They'll also need to allow users to move their purchased movies to another device which may or may not contain the same DRM.
Anyway, they don't need hardware DRM to open a movie store. They have a perfectly good software based DRM for music so something similar should be enough to make the movie industry happy.
This Gates guy seems to be the "Chief Software Architect" at Microsoft so why is he making announcements about a hardware product? I understand that he's also the chairman but this doesn't seem to have much to do with the expected duties of that position either. I really wonder exactly how that company is run. Shouldn't this announcement have come in the form of Steve Balmer jumping around and screaming "HD-DVD! HD-DVD! HD-DVD!"?
I don't claim to be an expert on these things but my understanding of it is pretty much exactly as you've put it. It's often said of modern Japanese that they are born Shinto, married Christian, and buried Buddhist. Of course, this is mostly an observation of type of cermonies used and not a suggestion that people choose to really believe something different at different points in their lives. Most Japanese have no religion and a common answer to "What do you believe?" is "I believe in myself."
As for the drug thing, the typical Japanese is terrified of even the most harmless illegal drug. It's a common belief that pot is highly addictive and can kill you. However, since some quantity of hemp is needed for ceremonial purposes, the government has the power to grant farmers a permit to grow it. I read an article in the newspaper a few years ago about this and the pictured farmer looked exactly like a damn dirty hippy so you can form your own conclusions about that.
Actually, you can worship hemp in Shinto if you want to. It's pretty open ended as I understand the explanation given to me by an actual Shinto priest/MD. Anyway, it's a fact that hemp has an important ceremonial role in several aspects of traditional japanese society. Mostly ropes used in Sumo and in some way relating directly to the Emperor himself althouth I can't remember exactly how at the moment. So, whether that relates to Shinto or not, it's easy to see how some confusion could arise.
You are wrong. Consider yourself corrected.
Apple's departure may not remove a significant revenue stream now, but if the Mac lines are truely growing at 3x the rate of the rest of the industry, it could look like a huge missed opportunity within a few years. Yeah yeah, I know. I can't seem to remember where I put my RDF protective goggles.
So... we will get Answers after asking More Questions? How many more questions must be asked before the answers will be given? Are you assuring us that all questions previously and yet to be asked will be answered?
Parent should not be modded flamebait, it's a valid point. For many years, the MacOS was horribly unstable. Personally, I never considered it a piece of shit but I can see why some people did. A lot of the machines in schools now are still running those older, crash-prone versions of the OS.