I call BS. Microsoft has no business competing with Google in the first place. Microsoft software sucks because the company has become so bloated and the bureaucracy is so big that it's impossible to do anything innovative. Microsoft should focus on what made it such a success in the first place. Operating systems, it's suite of server software and Office on the desktop. Vista is a fucking disaster of epic proportions.
If Microsoft stopped trying to compete with every big tech company out there, eliminated the bureaucracy and spent all of that cash on R&D for the core software that it sells, it might actually be able to produce a half way decent operating system.
Why don't the Democrats have the balls to impeach Bush? If pissing on the 4th Amendment of the Constitution isn't a high crime or misdemeanor than what the hell is? I realize that Senate Republicans have enough votes to prevent him from being removed from office and I realize that we will be rid of him in January of 2009 regardless, but it's the point of matter.
You should be thankful for Apple and the fact that they are #1. It's because of Apple that the labels have allowed Amazon to sell MP3's without any kind of DRM whatsoever. If Apple had never gotten such a stranglehold on the digital marketplace, most of the labels would have never allowed Amazon to sell DRM free music. I'm glad that Apple is where it is and I hope that people continue to buy music from them. I won't be among them but as long as Apple keeps doing what it's doing, the labels will allow Amazon and others to sell music without DRM as a counterweight and smart consumers will be able to purchase legit, DRM free music.
It's either a giant oversight or a sign that Apple believes it doesn't have to cater to the same user base that it has in the past. Either way it was a stupid move on their part.
Enough with the Android talk. Nobody knows how successful the platform will be as it hasn't been released yet. The iPhone has, and it's done very well without any easy way of installing 3rd party apps. Officially supporting 3rd party apps, even if their functionality is limited, will only result in more sales. Let's see if Android has as much market share as the iPhone one year after it's release. Then we'll talk.
I wish I had mod points today. The haters are laughable. Enjoy your "smart phone" with so many background tasks running that your battery lasts 2 hours. Battery life is extremely important to me. If my phone battery can't last a full day, the phone is useless. Further, if the phone constantly crashes, it's useless as well. I'm glad that Apple is making sure that the Apps that are available from their store won't kill the battery and won't make the phone unstable. This isn't a PC, it's a cell phone. Battery life and stability are priority #1. Apple get's it. Hence their recent success.
That market has proven these devices are popular and consumers really like them. The Slashdot iPhone haters have so far been proven wrong at every turn. I doubt they're right on this. They remind me of the pro Iraq war crowd that was wrong about everything they predicted about how the war would go down (greeted as liberators, Iraqi oil will pay for it, 120,000 troops will be enough) who are now predicting chaos if we leave. Nice try, but it's pretty obvious based on previous predictions that you people don't know what the hell your talking about.
Your story mirrors mine exactly. My best buddy had a Mac and you just couldn't play the games or do some of the customizing that you could do on a PC with Windows so I was anti-Mac. I've been a proud Mac owner for two years, I bit the bullet when the first Mac Mini model was released and have been a Mac user ever since. I've got an iMac that I use as my primary machine now, but that little Mini has worked without a problem since I bought it.
Further, there is a very good reason for it. Apple's costs related the iPhone aren't relegated the cost of the materials used to create it. There was the R&D involved in developing the devices and there are the ongoing costs of marketing, paying developers to continue to develop the OS and the apps that run on it and then there are the costs associated with providing support for it and the costs associated with providing warranty coverage as well. You can't calculate their profit on a device by subtracting it's retail cost from the costs of the materials to make it. There are a boat load of other costs associated with selling and supporting the iPhone that must also be taken into account.
No, the next few years belong to the Mac. Linux is still to hard to use for the average computer user (Copy and Paste more than text between apps, etc) and is way to obscure. Everybody is now familiar with Apple, you can walk into an Appke retail store and walk out witha Mac or easily order one online and not have to fuss with convincing the hardware vendor to install some OS other than Windows. Apple has the momentum. Linux ok the desktop is talked about year in and year out and every year the results are the same. Nobody, outside of geeks and thief friends and family, runs Linux.
At the end of the day, Microsoft will remain on top because the are so entrenched, but there is no doubt that Mac's will see a larger consumer market share increase than Linux in the coming years. Linux lacks the marketing to make a real dent.
What Apple is doing with Safari is no different than what Google does with it's toolbar for IE. In fact, it's less annoying and obtrusive because Apple only bundles Safari with one app. If I had a dollar for every app I've installed that was bundled with the Google toolbar I'd be a wealthy man. Just about every time I'm called to a friend I'd family members house to clean the spyware and adware off their PC's I also remove all of the toolbarsinstslled in IE and the Google toolbar is there most of the time and usually when I ask if the person intended to install any of the toolbars, including Google's, the answer is no.
Yes, bundling Safari is annoying, but it's hardly anything to waste time complaint about, and if you are going to complain, let's not be hypocritical and focus only on Apple, let's focus on all companies who do it.
I know it's a common sentiment on slashdot that everyone should get everything for free and everyone (else) should work without pay to give you everything you want free, but the attitude is getting tiresome.
I don't know about that. That's been the basic premise of modern liberalism for decades and it's still alive and kicking. Everybody thinks they are entitled to everything and they believe that somebody else should have pay for it. Neo cons think the same thing, but they want a future generation to pay for it so they run up the debt rather than raise taxes but it's the same basic principle at work.
Sweet. I'll just walk into my local mobile phone store and pickup an Andriod phone to compare it to. Oh wait.... I can't. Until the product ships, the iPhone wins because it exists and you can actually purchase one.
Professor: Hell no! We're going to wipe all other universities off the face of the Earth!
Student: Let's start with Ohio State! Hold on to your nuts Buckeyes!
Are you that much of an idiot? How much as the Iraq war costs? Trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives. You precious Republicans, champions of fiscal responsibility and small government, have increased the size of goverment at a rate not seen since Linden Johnson's great society programs in the 60's. They've added trillions to the national debt and vastly increased the size and scope of government.
Obama will pay for the increase in entitlements by getting us out of Iraq, which will save hundreds of billions of dollars, he'll decrease taxes on the poor and middle class by closing corporate loopholes and raising taxes on the CEO's who make 250 times what they pay their workers and do so by eliminating middle class jobs.
No, your the one who is so fucking wrong. Corporations set the status quo, and they've spent millions donating to Hillary and McCain. Hillary and McCain are completely beholden to corporations. Hillary (learn to spell her name before you pontificate) have nothing to stand on. Both supported the war, yet both claim to have experience. Experience is not wisdom. Some of the best politicians we've ever had (Lincoln immediately springs to mind) didn't have much experience, but had wisdom. If you weren't retarded and had bothered to look at who is donating to the various candidates you would find that those who are for things like the DCMA (RIAA and MPAA member companies) had donated to Hillary and McCain in droves. You are the worst kind of idiot. An idiot who thinks he's informed.
It's of no consequence. Obama's time has come. He will will beat Hillary Clinton in the primary, emerge battle tested and go on to beat John McCain in November as the demoralized conservative base of the Republican party sits this one out. If Obama wins in November he will begin the process of righting the ship.
If your tired of your privacy rights being trampled on by the government and if you're sick of having our laws written by lobbyists, stop bitching and moaning and do something about it.
Your country is the size of one of our states and we have 50 states. Things like 3G wireless can't be rolled out as quickly in the US as they can in small countries because there is a lot more area that has to be covered and as such it takes longer and costs more.
Sounds funny, if I can't have Ron Paul, I want Obama.
It doesn't sound funny at all. I was for McCain when he ran against George W. Bush back in 2000 but he's gotten to cozy with the Republican establishment and I can no longer support him. If I can't have Paul, I want Obama as well. In fact I've already donated to his campaign and plan to do it again in the future. That being said, if Hillary is the nominee, I'll gladly vote for McCain in November.
I always have a choice. We have our own Windows Update Server where I work that only sends the updates we choose to push out. I don't blindly trust anyone.
Now we're talking apples and oranges. In a corporate environment with an IT department, you should never run into a situation where an update (from Microsoft, Apple or anyone else) hoses a system because said update will be properly tested and only rolled out once IT confirms that there aren't any issues with it.
Average consumers don't have that luxary. Updates are pushed out by Apple and Microsoft, and in Apple's case, you get a choice as to whether or not you want to install said update, that has proven to not always be the case with Microsoft.
No, I have never had any IE update remove basic functionality from the OS that the only remedy was re-installing the OS. IE can be rolled back to previous versions simply by uninstalling the updates. I have had updates from MS that have broken things before, sure - but never to the point where and entire re-installation of Windows was necessary, and that was my point.
At least you have a choice as to whether or not you want to upgrade when Apple releases an update. Unlike Microsoft.
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I call BS. Microsoft has no business competing with Google in the first place. Microsoft software sucks because the company has become so bloated and the bureaucracy is so big that it's impossible to do anything innovative. Microsoft should focus on what made it such a success in the first place. Operating systems, it's suite of server software and Office on the desktop. Vista is a fucking disaster of epic proportions.
If Microsoft stopped trying to compete with every big tech company out there, eliminated the bureaucracy and spent all of that cash on R&D for the core software that it sells, it might actually be able to produce a half way decent operating system.
Why don't the Democrats have the balls to impeach Bush? If pissing on the 4th Amendment of the Constitution isn't a high crime or misdemeanor than what the hell is? I realize that Senate Republicans have enough votes to prevent him from being removed from office and I realize that we will be rid of him in January of 2009 regardless, but it's the point of matter.
You should be thankful for Apple and the fact that they are #1. It's because of Apple that the labels have allowed Amazon to sell MP3's without any kind of DRM whatsoever. If Apple had never gotten such a stranglehold on the digital marketplace, most of the labels would have never allowed Amazon to sell DRM free music. I'm glad that Apple is where it is and I hope that people continue to buy music from them. I won't be among them but as long as Apple keeps doing what it's doing, the labels will allow Amazon and others to sell music without DRM as a counterweight and smart consumers will be able to purchase legit, DRM free music.
It's either a giant oversight or a sign that Apple believes it doesn't have to cater to the same user base that it has in the past. Either way it was a stupid move on their part.
The flaw was in Safari and the patch has been available for some time.
Enough with the Android talk. Nobody knows how successful the platform will be as it hasn't been released yet. The iPhone has, and it's done very well without any easy way of installing 3rd party apps. Officially supporting 3rd party apps, even if their functionality is limited, will only result in more sales. Let's see if Android has as much market share as the iPhone one year after it's release. Then we'll talk.
Are you retarded. Obviously Apple's strategy works. See their stock price.
I wish I had mod points today. The haters are laughable. Enjoy your "smart phone" with so many background tasks running that your battery lasts 2 hours. Battery life is extremely important to me. If my phone battery can't last a full day, the phone is useless. Further, if the phone constantly crashes, it's useless as well. I'm glad that Apple is making sure that the Apps that are available from their store won't kill the battery and won't make the phone unstable. This isn't a PC, it's a cell phone. Battery life and stability are priority #1. Apple get's it. Hence their recent success.
That market has proven these devices are popular and consumers really like them. The Slashdot iPhone haters have so far been proven wrong at every turn. I doubt they're right on this. They remind me of the pro Iraq war crowd that was wrong about everything they predicted about how the war would go down (greeted as liberators, Iraqi oil will pay for it, 120,000 troops will be enough) who are now predicting chaos if we leave. Nice try, but it's pretty obvious based on previous predictions that you people don't know what the hell your talking about.
Nope. Nobody wins until the browser in question is released to the public.
Your story mirrors mine exactly. My best buddy had a Mac and you just couldn't play the games or do some of the customizing that you could do on a PC with Windows so I was anti-Mac. I've been a proud Mac owner for two years, I bit the bullet when the first Mac Mini model was released and have been a Mac user ever since. I've got an iMac that I use as my primary machine now, but that little Mini has worked without a problem since I bought it.
Further, there is a very good reason for it. Apple's costs related the iPhone aren't relegated the cost of the materials used to create it. There was the R&D involved in developing the devices and there are the ongoing costs of marketing, paying developers to continue to develop the OS and the apps that run on it and then there are the costs associated with providing support for it and the costs associated with providing warranty coverage as well. You can't calculate their profit on a device by subtracting it's retail cost from the costs of the materials to make it. There are a boat load of other costs associated with selling and supporting the iPhone that must also be taken into account.
Neither format is going to replace Microsoft's own de facto DOC format standard anytime in the foreseeable future.
No, the next few years belong to the Mac. Linux is still to hard to use for the average computer user (Copy and Paste more than text between apps, etc) and is way to obscure. Everybody is now familiar with Apple, you can walk into an Appke retail store and walk out witha Mac or easily order one online and not have to fuss with convincing the hardware vendor to install some OS other than Windows. Apple has the momentum. Linux ok the desktop is talked about year in and year out and every year the results are the same. Nobody, outside of geeks and thief friends and family, runs Linux. At the end of the day, Microsoft will remain on top because the are so entrenched, but there is no doubt that Mac's will see a larger consumer market share increase than Linux in the coming years. Linux lacks the marketing to make a real dent.
What Apple is doing with Safari is no different than what Google does with it's toolbar for IE. In fact, it's less annoying and obtrusive because Apple only bundles Safari with one app. If I had a dollar for every app I've installed that was bundled with the Google toolbar I'd be a wealthy man. Just about every time I'm called to a friend I'd family members house to clean the spyware and adware off their PC's I also remove all of the toolbarsinstslled in IE and the Google toolbar is there most of the time and usually when I ask if the person intended to install any of the toolbars, including Google's, the answer is no.
Yes, bundling Safari is annoying, but it's hardly anything to waste time complaint about, and if you are going to complain, let's not be hypocritical and focus only on Apple, let's focus on all companies who do it.
I don't know about that. That's been the basic premise of modern liberalism for decades and it's still alive and kicking. Everybody thinks they are entitled to everything and they believe that somebody else should have pay for it. Neo cons think the same thing, but they want a future generation to pay for it so they run up the debt rather than raise taxes but it's the same basic principle at work.
Sweet. I'll just walk into my local mobile phone store and pickup an Andriod phone to compare it to. Oh wait .... I can't. Until the product ships, the iPhone wins because it exists and you can actually purchase one.
Fixed.
Are you that much of an idiot? How much as the Iraq war costs? Trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives. You precious Republicans, champions of fiscal responsibility and small government, have increased the size of goverment at a rate not seen since Linden Johnson's great society programs in the 60's. They've added trillions to the national debt and vastly increased the size and scope of government.
Obama will pay for the increase in entitlements by getting us out of Iraq, which will save hundreds of billions of dollars, he'll decrease taxes on the poor and middle class by closing corporate loopholes and raising taxes on the CEO's who make 250 times what they pay their workers and do so by eliminating middle class jobs.
No, your the one who is so fucking wrong. Corporations set the status quo, and they've spent millions donating to Hillary and McCain. Hillary and McCain are completely beholden to corporations. Hillary (learn to spell her name before you pontificate) have nothing to stand on. Both supported the war, yet both claim to have experience. Experience is not wisdom. Some of the best politicians we've ever had (Lincoln immediately springs to mind) didn't have much experience, but had wisdom. If you weren't retarded and had bothered to look at who is donating to the various candidates you would find that those who are for things like the DCMA (RIAA and MPAA member companies) had donated to Hillary and McCain in droves. You are the worst kind of idiot. An idiot who thinks he's informed.
It's of no consequence. Obama's time has come. He will will beat Hillary Clinton in the primary, emerge battle tested and go on to beat John McCain in November as the demoralized conservative base of the Republican party sits this one out. If Obama wins in November he will begin the process of righting the ship.
If your tired of your privacy rights being trampled on by the government and if you're sick of having our laws written by lobbyists, stop bitching and moaning and do something about it.
Your country is the size of one of our states and we have 50 states. Things like 3G wireless can't be rolled out as quickly in the US as they can in small countries because there is a lot more area that has to be covered and as such it takes longer and costs more.
It doesn't sound funny at all. I was for McCain when he ran against George W. Bush back in 2000 but he's gotten to cozy with the Republican establishment and I can no longer support him. If I can't have Paul, I want Obama as well. In fact I've already donated to his campaign and plan to do it again in the future. That being said, if Hillary is the nominee, I'll gladly vote for McCain in November.
Now we're talking apples and oranges. In a corporate environment with an IT department, you should never run into a situation where an update (from Microsoft, Apple or anyone else) hoses a system because said update will be properly tested and only rolled out once IT confirms that there aren't any issues with it.
Average consumers don't have that luxary. Updates are pushed out by Apple and Microsoft, and in Apple's case, you get a choice as to whether or not you want to install said update, that has proven to not always be the case with Microsoft.
At least you have a choice as to whether or not you want to upgrade when Apple releases an update. Unlike Microsoft.