You can. Or you can win. But if you win, be prepared to fight a fight afterwards. You'll make enemies of those who were hoping to make you the fall guy. But, then again, if you gonna make enemies who better than them?
Had this happen to me once. It was fun when the project manager was reporting to the CTO that my work was not only flawed but that I was unproductive. That was when I threw the repository activity charts over the table. Those showed I had worked *more* than everyone else in the project combined. I followed that by throwing at the table the minutes of the regularly scheduled meetings where he previously had hands on evaluated my work and declared it as good to put into production. Then he got lambasted by the CTO.
Since the project did not perform fully to his expectation and I wasn't one of his "buddies" on the dev team I was supposed to be the fall guy. Well that enough for me I just quit. I had done all that was contracted in the allotted time. I later learned they replaced me with three people.
It was like being in kiddie grade man. Don't get in a place like that.
Well I never got an iPod. I got an iPhone for similar reason though. I couldn't buy the HTC Desire back here because it wasn't available in this country. But for me that is a marketing issue not a product quality issue. Next phone I buy will probably be a Samsung Galaxy device or some other Android device. If my money and pants are big enough I will probably get the Galaxy Note.
You are wrong. It was less portable. It was bigger than a lot of MP3 devices and it didn't handle e.g. being dropped on the floor as well because it used a hard disk drive instead of flash for storage like most of the other players were doing by then. It had more capacity. Which is something different. Arguably it had a better UI but Creative Labs and others sued Apple for the UI and Apple had to settle. I think that says enough about how original their UI was. I still remember when the Diamond RIO came out. That was innovation man. The RIAA sued their pants off, just like they sued Sony for making Walkmans decades before. Apple took that and made basically a huge portable hard disk that could store and play music too. It was popular with some Mac heads and prolly made some profit but did not sell well at all. In fact back then it did not even have iTunes. They only added that POS later on after they bought off a 3rd party company which made the precursor software. Eventually it got cheaper. I remember it being popular, but only after the flash memory based models with USB I/O came out. I don't know a single person with a hard disk iPod.
That is because it had a hard disk instead of using flash. Plus transfers were fast because it used Firewire at a time USB 2 was not available. There were other players with hard disks back then man. The iPod was outrageously expensive as a music playing device. AFAIK a lot of people bought it just because they could use it as mobile storage as well. For me it was useless because it was expensive and you couldn't drop it without risking messing up the hard disk heads. Not to mention that Firewire never quite got wide adoption on PCs. The funny thing is Apple themselves eventually switched to USB for I/O and Flash for storage. So guess which approach won in the end?
Yes. So instead of DnD you wait for iPod to sync. Plus you can't use it as an USB pen. Which I did more than once. For me its a misfeature. But I can understand some people may like that. I don't. I like to know what is in the device. I am one of those guys that meticulously arranges his shelves man.
Millions of people can't be wrong. Use Windows. Drink Coke. Eat McDonalds.
I could care less. I don't like it. FWIW I was a late, late adopter of MP3 player technology and I got a ZEN Stone. Why? Well my mobile phoneback then, a Sony Ericsson K750i, could play MP3s just fine. Yes all way back in 2005 *before* the iPhone was released. In fact it even had a better camera than my iPhone 3GS that I got years after. Only recently has Apple decided to bless its users with 'innovations' like the camera flash I had back then. I just got that MP3 player because I wanted something small that I could toss around while I jogged without being afraid of dropping it in the ground. In that regard the iPod would have been useless to me. Unless it was the Mini, or Nano, or whatever model. just not the Classic which is probably the only model they make money with.
Apple needs to trim its iPod line to *two* models. If not *one* model. They are just dumb if they think they can stop losing money on it by offering more case colors.
Yeah. But the thing is the software wasn't made with that usage mode as a goal. Knowing Jobs he would get them to fix that. Then there is the fact that the iPod Nano AFAIK doesn't use iOS. Not to mention that you need to charge it too often to be reliable as a watch. The Pebble uses E-Ink in order to have low power consumption. Another alternative would be something like the Pixel Qi displays. IMO the display technology would make or break such a device from a reliability and availability perspective.
Yes Apple never announces it. But curiously it always 'leaks' and something the leaks are too close to reality. Some people think its an astroturfing campaign masquerading as a leak. I don't have a clue and I don't care.
Its more like marketing. BTW the only MP3 player I ever bought was from Creative Labs and at least their bundled headphones weren't a complete POS. I plugged it in and i looked just like any other USB pen and I can drag and drop MP3 files into it easily. Much better than having to use iTunes.
You keep thinking like this is the US where literally no one lives in the center which is composed of office spaces. This is not the case in European cities. Many people live in the center and quite often their building has no parking space at all. Because it was built in the XIXth century or whatever when people did not need such things. And the streets are often narrow because horses needed less space to move around.
No. I remember that time. WordPerfect, like most other 3rd parties, took forever to port to Windows 95. IIRC part of the problem was that Microsoft was developing Office and Windows simultaneously taking advantage of APIs they had not publicly disclosed until much later so they had a much greater head start than any of the competition. Using Windows 3.1 applications in Windows 95 was pathetic. No one wanted to use them. They could not even support Windows 95 long filenames properly. I remember that quite well.
Competition was high with what? Tell me another prominent word processing program for Windows 95. I dare you.
Everything else came out one year afterward and it sucked. I remember. Corel's Wordperfect back then was trying to move its application suite to Java of all things.
It isn't. You seem to think market cap has any resemblance with real value. It doesn't. Take Apple. No hard assets except for a building with some R&D people. If it goes belly up from a bad product launch all their profits essentially become zero and their useable assets at most will consist of cash and investments into things which are not related to the business they supposedly are in.
People seem to think that whatever money Apple has it is enough to compete into the future. I have the following to say: semiconductor fab costs grow exponentially at nearly the same rate as the number of transistors increases. Apple has been trying to get someone to essentially hand them over a fab at bargain prices, e.g. TSMC, but they refuse it. Why? Because they know the economics of the business. And Apple knows they cannot afford to be in the fab business.
Still think they are flush with cash? Think again. Lenovo and Samsung are vertically integrated companies. They can extract higher margins and sell at prices a lot lower than Apple can while they outsource everything. At the same time the current Apple CEO has proved he neither has the design insight nor the reality distortion field of his predecessor.
Apple will probably have some growth for the next couple of years as they finally break into the Chinese and Indian markets. But the growth will be low because they will be losing everywhere else. Eventually it will go negative.
They could not do it without risking the ire of the Android OEMs. What would you rather have them do pull a 3fx buys STB systems move? Yeah that worked really well. Not.
They got the patents which is what they wanted. Nothing more to see here. Lenovo at least has the money to continue driving competition in the Android OEM market, not to mention the in-house production expertise since they do vertical integration. Only them and Samsung have the in-house capacity required to mass produce cheap high quality cellphones and still make a profit.
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You can. Or you can win. But if you win, be prepared to fight a fight afterwards. You'll make enemies of those who were hoping to make you the fall guy. But, then again, if you gonna make enemies who better than them?
Had this happen to me once. It was fun when the project manager was reporting to the CTO that my work was not only flawed but that I was unproductive. That was when I threw the repository activity charts over the table. Those showed I had worked *more* than everyone else in the project combined. I followed that by throwing at the table the minutes of the regularly scheduled meetings where he previously had hands on evaluated my work and declared it as good to put into production. Then he got lambasted by the CTO.
Since the project did not perform fully to his expectation and I wasn't one of his "buddies" on the dev team I was supposed to be the fall guy. Well that enough for me I just quit. I had done all that was contracted in the allotted time. I later learned they replaced me with three people.
It was like being in kiddie grade man. Don't get in a place like that.
Well I never got an iPod. I got an iPhone for similar reason though. I couldn't buy the HTC Desire back here because it wasn't available in this country. But for me that is a marketing issue not a product quality issue. Next phone I buy will probably be a Samsung Galaxy device or some other Android device. If my money and pants are big enough I will probably get the Galaxy Note.
You are wrong. It was less portable. It was bigger than a lot of MP3 devices and it didn't handle e.g. being dropped on the floor as well because it used a hard disk drive instead of flash for storage like most of the other players were doing by then. It had more capacity. Which is something different. Arguably it had a better UI but Creative Labs and others sued Apple for the UI and Apple had to settle. I think that says enough about how original their UI was. I still remember when the Diamond RIO came out. That was innovation man. The RIAA sued their pants off, just like they sued Sony for making Walkmans decades before. Apple took that and made basically a huge portable hard disk that could store and play music too. It was popular with some Mac heads and prolly made some profit but did not sell well at all. In fact back then it did not even have iTunes. They only added that POS later on after they bought off a 3rd party company which made the precursor software. Eventually it got cheaper. I remember it being popular, but only after the flash memory based models with USB I/O came out. I don't know a single person with a hard disk iPod.
That is because it had a hard disk instead of using flash. Plus transfers were fast because it used Firewire at a time USB 2 was not available. There were other players with hard disks back then man. The iPod was outrageously expensive as a music playing device. AFAIK a lot of people bought it just because they could use it as mobile storage as well. For me it was useless because it was expensive and you couldn't drop it without risking messing up the hard disk heads. Not to mention that Firewire never quite got wide adoption on PCs. The funny thing is Apple themselves eventually switched to USB for I/O and Flash for storage. So guess which approach won in the end?
Yes. So instead of DnD you wait for iPod to sync. Plus you can't use it as an USB pen. Which I did more than once. For me its a misfeature. But I can understand some people may like that. I don't. I like to know what is in the device. I am one of those guys that meticulously arranges his shelves man.
Millions of people can't be wrong. Use Windows. Drink Coke. Eat McDonalds.
I could care less. I don't like it. FWIW I was a late, late adopter of MP3 player technology and I got a ZEN Stone. Why? Well my mobile phoneback then, a Sony Ericsson K750i, could play MP3s just fine. Yes all way back in 2005 *before* the iPhone was released. In fact it even had a better camera than my iPhone 3GS that I got years after. Only recently has Apple decided to bless its users with 'innovations' like the camera flash I had back then. I just got that MP3 player because I wanted something small that I could toss around while I jogged without being afraid of dropping it in the ground. In that regard the iPod would have been useless to me. Unless it was the Mini, or Nano, or whatever model. just not the Classic which is probably the only model they make money with.
Apple needs to trim its iPod line to *two* models. If not *one* model. They are just dumb if they think they can stop losing money on it by offering more case colors.
Yeah. But the thing is the software wasn't made with that usage mode as a goal. Knowing Jobs he would get them to fix that. Then there is the fact that the iPod Nano AFAIK doesn't use iOS. Not to mention that you need to charge it too often to be reliable as a watch. The Pebble uses E-Ink in order to have low power consumption. Another alternative would be something like the Pixel Qi displays. IMO the display technology would make or break such a device from a reliability and availability perspective.
Yes Apple never announces it. But curiously it always 'leaks' and something the leaks are too close to reality. Some people think its an astroturfing campaign masquerading as a leak. I don't have a clue and I don't care.
I use one. A Casio G-Shock.
Its more like marketing. BTW the only MP3 player I ever bought was from Creative Labs and at least their bundled headphones weren't a complete POS. I plugged it in and i looked just like any other USB pen and I can drag and drop MP3 files into it easily. Much better than having to use iTunes.
Not really first post. Sony has had smartwatches for longer. Heck IBM demonstrated a smartwatch running Linux year back.
Pippin. Newton. The list goes on.
If Jobs was still around that would probably be it. Except it wouldn't have taken this long to develop.
Easier to ship to China? From the Gulf? It would be easier to ship to China from Vancouver or whatever.
Ozone is made of oxygen.
Water vapor is a greenhouse gas man. That's how stupid this debate can get.
Yeah and even back then Nero wanted to burn it down and rebuild it because he thought the city design was too old.
You keep thinking like this is the US where literally no one lives in the center which is composed of office spaces. This is not the case in European cities. Many people live in the center and quite often their building has no parking space at all. Because it was built in the XIXth century or whatever when people did not need such things. And the streets are often narrow because horses needed less space to move around.
The President didn't want SLS either. It was pushed by Senate.
Who cares about that. NASM uses the same syntax and is better.
No. I remember that time. WordPerfect, like most other 3rd parties, took forever to port to Windows 95. IIRC part of the problem was that Microsoft was developing Office and Windows simultaneously taking advantage of APIs they had not publicly disclosed until much later so they had a much greater head start than any of the competition. Using Windows 3.1 applications in Windows 95 was pathetic. No one wanted to use them. They could not even support Windows 95 long filenames properly. I remember that quite well.
Competition was high with what? Tell me another prominent word processing program for Windows 95. I dare you.
Everything else came out one year afterward and it sucked. I remember. Corel's Wordperfect back then was trying to move its application suite to Java of all things.
It isn't. You seem to think market cap has any resemblance with real value. It doesn't. Take Apple. No hard assets except for a building with some R&D people. If it goes belly up from a bad product launch all their profits essentially become zero and their useable assets at most will consist of cash and investments into things which are not related to the business they supposedly are in.
People seem to think that whatever money Apple has it is enough to compete into the future. I have the following to say: semiconductor fab costs grow exponentially at nearly the same rate as the number of transistors increases. Apple has been trying to get someone to essentially hand them over a fab at bargain prices, e.g. TSMC, but they refuse it. Why? Because they know the economics of the business. And Apple knows they cannot afford to be in the fab business.
Still think they are flush with cash? Think again. Lenovo and Samsung are vertically integrated companies. They can extract higher margins and sell at prices a lot lower than Apple can while they outsource everything. At the same time the current Apple CEO has proved he neither has the design insight nor the reality distortion field of his predecessor.
Apple will probably have some growth for the next couple of years as they finally break into the Chinese and Indian markets. But the growth will be low because they will be losing everywhere else. Eventually it will go negative.
It was a dick move. But what Apple was doing required doing it. That is all.
They could not do it without risking the ire of the Android OEMs. What would you rather have them do pull a 3fx buys STB systems move? Yeah that worked really well. Not.
They got the patents which is what they wanted. Nothing more to see here. Lenovo at least has the money to continue driving competition in the Android OEM market, not to mention the in-house production expertise since they do vertical integration. Only them and Samsung have the in-house capacity required to mass produce cheap high quality cellphones and still make a profit.