Great, good for you. Typical American, only thinking of their specific situation. Just like Jobs, "if it's good for me, it's good for everyone!"
Ever think of someone that needs to carry a spare? A built-in battery on a phone is Busch League and I can't believe anyone ever bought... Oh wait, it's Apple junk, of course people bought it.
Text (SMS) are sent over paging channels, not data channels. This is why they're still 160 characters. Yes, it's data but it's send in messaging protocols used for voice signaling. They can still get through if there are no voice channel available since they never need to setup a whole call.
Telecom is old, don't assume things work the way they seem to as lots of legacy protocols are still in use.
The record companies are getting the royalties, they aren't about to actually pay the musicians more. It's the record companies that want the money, so either Apple eats it (yeah right, they're as crooked as MS ever was) or people pay more. Their profits are probably down for the year and need to make up for more and more people getting tired of the crap they produce.
There's a 0% iTunes DRM factory is going anywhere, prices are going up and not for Apple.
If that's in the EULA, they can't enforce it. That's like selling someone a recipe book and on the inside cover of the book it says "You are only allowed to use McCormick Brand spices for these recipes or you will be in violation of the user agreement."
In all honesty, I can't see why AMD hasn't filed a lawsuit against Apple for artificially locking them out of their hardware sales and granting Intel a monopoly in Mac products.
Not a chance, an optical disc is many times cheaper to manufacture. Reducing profit margins to use a different medium of no real benefit is dumb and bad business. Flash will NEVER be cheaper than optical, ever, ever, ever, ever. It's simply too complicated in comparison.
I'm pretty sure he meant online services. If my copy isn't in my hand, I'm not buying. If we're talking about anything but music or movies, I'll play ball, but the **AA's are worse than the mafia and I don't trust them one bit. Plus, who wants to pay every time they watch a movie?
If Apple could write a program that runs on anything but OSX that might be a possibility. You assume they make good products for every platform, what they do is make a compatible, annoying, crash-prone version for Windows so they can say "well, it's works better on a Mac" but leave out the "because we put little to no effort into this port."
Anyway, Safari for Windows is about as good as Quicktime for Windows, buggy, annoying autoupdate, and as stable as Windows ME.
No, unless they're specifically approved by Master Steve. It really doesn't do much at all compared to smartphones, just some gimmicky programs, no real functionality beyond a dumbphone from a few years back.
The "Internet" contains the web you're referring to, but also includes Usenet, gopher, FTP, tor, SSH, and ton of other protocols. The statement was ignorant and 100% wrong.
Yes, because Youtube and other video sites would work perfectly with HTML-only. They must be horribly designed because they had to pick a video codec and went with the most popular one available.
You guys missed the joke, "any computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals." Last I checked, $1500 worth of parts being sold for $3000 was not a sales price that makes it useful to individuals.
$129.... plus $3000 for a decent computer that's been blessed to run it.... and $200 more for a warranty that's longer than 90 days.... and $1000 for a monitor.... and $$$ for a keyboard and mouse.
Apple customers amaze me. You know you could just not buy that crap until they're forced to sell it for a reasonable price, right?
Hahahaha, that was priceless. You really think they'd throttle their own content? No, they're throttling Netflix and anyone else trying to do VOD.
Comcast offers VOD on their internal network, this costs them nothing. Netflix VOD comes over the Internet link they rent from another company, so they would rather make this unwatchable and continue to have a monopoly on content delivery.
They're preemptively trying to stamp out any competition but under the guise of "oh noes we're out of the bandwidths." Comcast charges plenty for the bandwidth you're using, but to push profits higher they need your Internet use to go down but your costs to go up. Just another instance where Wall St.'s "make more every year" mentality is going to hurt us more every year.
I don't get it, why doesn't this idiot just get a CableCARD and a Tivo? You could sue over SDV and the fact that it's only compatible with cable boxes right now, but is this guy just stupid or something?
But if your kids ask for it, you have to buy it. Don't you understand that saying "no" to a child makes them hate you forever and scars their emotional development?
The power companies should be given incentives to offer cheaper off-peak electricity. A great example is drying clothes, it produces heat and takes lots of electricity. During the summer, this makes your A/C run more to balance the heat when people are already consuming the most electricity out of the whole year.
If it were cheaper to run your dryer after 10PM, why wouldn't you wait, reduce the load on the grid and the load on your A/C? Just one example, but charging cars is a great future example. I'm genuinely surprised there's not something like this being done by power companies to reduce summer, daytime loads on the grid.
You're lying. The network/file copy issues are resolved in SP1. Your English is also crap, not like "I'm learning English" but more like "I'm and uneducated American."
You're having driver problems. I bought good hardware and have never had a driver issue. Granted, I don't see any value in Vista that XP didn't have. Vista needed to be much faster than XP, but it's not because MS needed to push DX10 and there wasn't much low-end hardware to support it at release so it runs like crap on old hardware.
In the next year Vista will hit its stride as cheaper hardware will handle it. Then we'll all sit around and hate on the next version of Windows.
"Essentially you'd be promoting a sponsorship model which would destroy the risk taking and innovation of game developers."
Hahhhahahahhahahaha. That's priceless. Madden 2028, God of War 12, Pokemon Silver Tournament Card Champion Alpha 3, The Sims Universe, and Mario Party 234 would like to discuss how innovation and risk died when game budgets started hitting in the tens of millions.
Evil? All corporations are pretty shady, Apple makes underfeatured, overpriced stuff, isn't that a good enough reason not to get an iPod? They also have similar audio quality to an FM radio from 1973 but only when playing lossless formats, iPods playing lossy formats sound like AM radio.
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Great, good for you. Typical American, only thinking of their specific situation. Just like Jobs, "if it's good for me, it's good for everyone!"
Ever think of someone that needs to carry a spare? A built-in battery on a phone is Busch League and I can't believe anyone ever bought... Oh wait, it's Apple junk, of course people bought it.
Text (SMS) are sent over paging channels, not data channels. This is why they're still 160 characters. Yes, it's data but it's send in messaging protocols used for voice signaling. They can still get through if there are no voice channel available since they never need to setup a whole call.
Telecom is old, don't assume things work the way they seem to as lots of legacy protocols are still in use.
0% chance it's going away, that is.
The record companies are getting the royalties, they aren't about to actually pay the musicians more. It's the record companies that want the money, so either Apple eats it (yeah right, they're as crooked as MS ever was) or people pay more. Their profits are probably down for the year and need to make up for more and more people getting tired of the crap they produce.
There's a 0% iTunes DRM factory is going anywhere, prices are going up and not for Apple.
If that's in the EULA, they can't enforce it. That's like selling someone a recipe book and on the inside cover of the book it says "You are only allowed to use McCormick Brand spices for these recipes or you will be in violation of the user agreement."
In all honesty, I can't see why AMD hasn't filed a lawsuit against Apple for artificially locking them out of their hardware sales and granting Intel a monopoly in Mac products.
KOTOR was an RPG, this is Star Wars: Force Throw Bonanza.
The two games have nothing in common except the universe.
Not a chance, an optical disc is many times cheaper to manufacture. Reducing profit margins to use a different medium of no real benefit is dumb and bad business. Flash will NEVER be cheaper than optical, ever, ever, ever, ever. It's simply too complicated in comparison.
I'm pretty sure he meant online services. If my copy isn't in my hand, I'm not buying. If we're talking about anything but music or movies, I'll play ball, but the **AA's are worse than the mafia and I don't trust them one bit. Plus, who wants to pay every time they watch a movie?
If Apple could write a program that runs on anything but OSX that might be a possibility. You assume they make good products for every platform, what they do is make a compatible, annoying, crash-prone version for Windows so they can say "well, it's works better on a Mac" but leave out the "because we put little to no effort into this port."
Anyway, Safari for Windows is about as good as Quicktime for Windows, buggy, annoying autoupdate, and as stable as Windows ME.
You do know that large companies have corporate lawyers on staff, right?
No, unless they're specifically approved by Master Steve. It really doesn't do much at all compared to smartphones, just some gimmicky programs, no real functionality beyond a dumbphone from a few years back.
The "Internet" contains the web you're referring to, but also includes Usenet, gopher, FTP, tor, SSH, and ton of other protocols. The statement was ignorant and 100% wrong.
The iPhone can access 1 protocol on the Internet.
Yes, because Youtube and other video sites would work perfectly with HTML-only. They must be horribly designed because they had to pick a video codec and went with the most popular one available.
You guys missed the joke, "any computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals." Last I checked, $1500 worth of parts being sold for $3000 was not a sales price that makes it useful to individuals.
But how much did Apple force you to pay for the Intel processor and magic motherboard that is special enough to run this "cheap" upgrade?
$129.... plus $3000 for a decent computer that's been blessed to run it.... and $200 more for a warranty that's longer than 90 days.... and $1000 for a monitor.... and $$$ for a keyboard and mouse.
Apple customers amaze me. You know you could just not buy that crap until they're forced to sell it for a reasonable price, right?
Hahahaha, that was priceless. You really think they'd throttle their own content? No, they're throttling Netflix and anyone else trying to do VOD.
Comcast offers VOD on their internal network, this costs them nothing. Netflix VOD comes over the Internet link they rent from another company, so they would rather make this unwatchable and continue to have a monopoly on content delivery.
They're preemptively trying to stamp out any competition but under the guise of "oh noes we're out of the bandwidths." Comcast charges plenty for the bandwidth you're using, but to push profits higher they need your Internet use to go down but your costs to go up. Just another instance where Wall St.'s "make more every year" mentality is going to hurt us more every year.
Why, because TV owns your life and you can't see anyone living without cable?
I don't get it, why doesn't this idiot just get a CableCARD and a Tivo? You could sue over SDV and the fact that it's only compatible with cable boxes right now, but is this guy just stupid or something?
But if your kids ask for it, you have to buy it. Don't you understand that saying "no" to a child makes them hate you forever and scars their emotional development?
The power companies should be given incentives to offer cheaper off-peak electricity. A great example is drying clothes, it produces heat and takes lots of electricity. During the summer, this makes your A/C run more to balance the heat when people are already consuming the most electricity out of the whole year.
If it were cheaper to run your dryer after 10PM, why wouldn't you wait, reduce the load on the grid and the load on your A/C? Just one example, but charging cars is a great future example. I'm genuinely surprised there's not something like this being done by power companies to reduce summer, daytime loads on the grid.
You're lying. The network/file copy issues are resolved in SP1. Your English is also crap, not like "I'm learning English" but more like "I'm and uneducated American."
You're having driver problems. I bought good hardware and have never had a driver issue. Granted, I don't see any value in Vista that XP didn't have. Vista needed to be much faster than XP, but it's not because MS needed to push DX10 and there wasn't much low-end hardware to support it at release so it runs like crap on old hardware.
In the next year Vista will hit its stride as cheaper hardware will handle it. Then we'll all sit around and hate on the next version of Windows.
"Essentially you'd be promoting a sponsorship model which would destroy the risk taking and innovation of game developers."
Hahhhahahahhahahaha. That's priceless. Madden 2028, God of War 12, Pokemon Silver Tournament Card Champion Alpha 3, The Sims Universe, and Mario Party 234 would like to discuss how innovation and risk died when game budgets started hitting in the tens of millions.
Evil? All corporations are pretty shady, Apple makes underfeatured, overpriced stuff, isn't that a good enough reason not to get an iPod? They also have similar audio quality to an FM radio from 1973 but only when playing lossless formats, iPods playing lossy formats sound like AM radio.
It's an Apple product, you never "owned" it to begin with. You just rent it and use it how they tell you you can.
Hell, MS isn't this bad.