The survey is backwards. It asks first if the person is interested in the iPhone _and then_ what price they'll pay. Apple has already said they aren't targeting every phone buyer. They're targeting phone buyers who are planning on/willing to spend $500+ on a phone. They don't (currently) care about the people who want an iPhone but are only willing to spend $200 (or whatever price).
I'd be more interested in what percentage of people who are willing to buy a $500+ phone are planning on getting an iPhone.
(And I'm going to skip the obvious commentary about wanting an iPhone but being "willing" to buy it for as cheap a price as the survey allows because many others are already making those (insightful) comments...)
I've tried the game and I know several people who have tried the game and they share my question - what's the point? How is it "fun" to set your ship to travel to a far-off location that's going to take 8 or 10 hours, of real time, to travel to, making it effectively impossible to play the character during that time? How is that sort of thing supposed to be fun? What am I missing?
My father always told me, if someone knocks on your door and asks where you want the piano that you didn't order, you tell them you want it in the corner of the living room. If they want to give you a piano, that's their choice.
"I mean, when I get some stupid pop song stuck in my head and I download it instead of buying it, that's a few bucks that won't go to the damn RIAA, and I have enough disposable cash that I might have bought it, if I had no other option."
When it comes to stupid pop songs, you always have another option - just turn on the radio and the song will come up in it's high-rotation slot within 30 minutes. Wait another 30 minutes and you'll probably hear the same song again...
"Currently, music purchased at Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store, for example, is wrapped in Apple's proprietary version of Digital Rights Management technology known as ''FairPlay'' and can only be played on the company's iPod devices."
For crying out loud! iTunes music purchase can be played on more than just Apple's iPods. I'm able to play them on (among my numerous Mac computers) my HP PC desktop (not made by Apple and not an iPod). I'm sure there are many people playing iTunes songs on a wide-variety of computers from various manufacturers as well as some people even playing them on cell phones (not made by Apple) that run iTunes. Is it really too much to ask for the media to try to remotely get their facts straight?
Not to mention that, if you are one of those extremes who's spent $30k on iTunes music, you probably don't care that it locks you into the iPod as your portable player. You're probably ok with that.
With the number of iPod/iTunes users out there, the extremes aren't important - the average user is. When businesses start catering to the extremes of their user-base, they run themselves out of business.
"DVD Jon" Johansen clearly is an idiot. When Jobs says "On average, that's 22 songs purchased from the iTunes store for each iPod ever sold." That means, on average. There will be extremes at both ends of the spectrum, but they are not the average.
I know it's a nitpick, but of course we're closer than ever to detecting them. Guess what, we're closer to detecting them now than when you began reading this reply (by a couple seconds, but still closer).
"There's a solid technical reason why Wii games only run on a Wii.
Really? And what would that be? Would it be the different operating system? The different drivers? The different hardware?
Sorta like the different OS's, drivers, and hardware that numerous PCs make use of yet there are 1000's of games released each year that manage to cross over all those boundaries and work (more or less), regardless of the differences.
No. The only reason Wii games only work on the Wii is to sell more Wii game systems. Period.
To all the people claiming that this is good because iTunes forces the end user to play their music on Apple-created hardware, can you please explain to me when Apple started building the PC on which I listen to my iTunes music because I must have missed that. Last time I checked, iTunes was a free music player on both the Mac and PC, but hey, I must be living in a cave and missed something, right?
Sorry, but this is a crock. I don't see Norway outlawing things like the Wii, 360, and PS3 even though all three systems have exclusive games that are licensed to Nintendo/MS/Sony that are only playable on the applicable game system. Sure, lots of games are playable on several of the systems but there are also many games only playable on one system. If it's evil for Apple, is it not evil for Nintendo, MS, and Sony?
"...why shouldn't iTunes be the great mythical omniscient music repository where all the world's music is available instantly? Is this simply a marketing decision?"
Isn't the answer to this obvious? The most logical answer, even to an outsider who isn't privy to the legal arrangements Apple has made with labels/artists, is that they have the online distribution rights to those songs in Japan and not North America. They _CAN_ sell the songs in Japan. They _CANNOT_ sell the songs outside of Japan. Seems pretty simple to me.
"Because for a Big Mac you look at the local costs and industries. (packaging, local labour cost, local agriculture (salad, meat...))"
You think that McDonalds uses local material for packaging? Local supplies of meat? Local anything? I'll grant labour (though I could make a humorous argument that they aren't even using local labour...), but the rest is probably imported from cheaper countries...
I seem to recall comments that the iPod was overpriced and that Apple would never capture the market with it when there were other options with lower price tags. Hmmm. Sounds familiar, no?
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The survey is backwards. It asks first if the person is interested in the iPhone _and then_ what price they'll pay. Apple has already said they aren't targeting every phone buyer. They're targeting phone buyers who are planning on/willing to spend $500+ on a phone. They don't (currently) care about the people who want an iPhone but are only willing to spend $200 (or whatever price).
I'd be more interested in what percentage of people who are willing to buy a $500+ phone are planning on getting an iPhone.
(And I'm going to skip the obvious commentary about wanting an iPhone but being "willing" to buy it for as cheap a price as the survey allows because many others are already making those (insightful) comments...)
I've tried the game and I know several people who have tried the game and they share my question - what's the point? How is it "fun" to set your ship to travel to a far-off location that's going to take 8 or 10 hours, of real time, to travel to, making it effectively impossible to play the character during that time? How is that sort of thing supposed to be fun? What am I missing?
Celine Dion.
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Highest honor? Bah! Stanley Cup tickets are the highest honor that can be bestoyed upon any real Canadian.
Wait! What I see in movies might not be real??
...
I'm SHOCKED!
Shocked, I tell you.
Maybe I'm just being Canadian and all, but paranoid much? Wow.
My father always told me, if someone knocks on your door and asks where you want the piano that you didn't order, you tell them you want it in the corner of the living room. If they want to give you a piano, that's their choice.
When it comes to stupid pop songs, you always have another option - just turn on the radio and the song will come up in it's high-rotation slot within 30 minutes. Wait another 30 minutes and you'll probably hear the same song again...
Nice. I think we've found the middle step. Sign me up!
Strap that to your belt.
For crying out loud! iTunes music purchase can be played on more than just Apple's iPods. I'm able to play them on (among my numerous Mac computers) my HP PC desktop (not made by Apple and not an iPod). I'm sure there are many people playing iTunes songs on a wide-variety of computers from various manufacturers as well as some people even playing them on cell phones (not made by Apple) that run iTunes. Is it really too much to ask for the media to try to remotely get their facts straight?
Not to mention that, if you are one of those extremes who's spent $30k on iTunes music, you probably don't care that it locks you into the iPod as your portable player. You're probably ok with that.
With the number of iPod/iTunes users out there, the extremes aren't important - the average user is. When businesses start catering to the extremes of their user-base, they run themselves out of business.
Here, Jon, if you're reading this - learn what "average" means in the mathematical sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average
I know it's a nitpick, but of course we're closer than ever to detecting them. Guess what, we're closer to detecting them now than when you began reading this reply (by a couple seconds, but still closer).
And Indy has tons MORE hotel space. Just because geeks are sentimental about Milwaukee doesn't mean it's a good location for business.
Company's trying to make money?!?! Those evil bastards!!
Really? And what would that be? Would it be the different operating system? The different drivers? The different hardware?
Sorta like the different OS's, drivers, and hardware that numerous PCs make use of yet there are 1000's of games released each year that manage to cross over all those boundaries and work (more or less), regardless of the differences.
No. The only reason Wii games only work on the Wii is to sell more Wii game systems. Period.
To all the people claiming that this is good because iTunes forces the end user to play their music on Apple-created hardware, can you please explain to me when Apple started building the PC on which I listen to my iTunes music because I must have missed that. Last time I checked, iTunes was a free music player on both the Mac and PC, but hey, I must be living in a cave and missed something, right?
Sorry, but this is a crock. I don't see Norway outlawing things like the Wii, 360, and PS3 even though all three systems have exclusive games that are licensed to Nintendo/MS/Sony that are only playable on the applicable game system. Sure, lots of games are playable on several of the systems but there are also many games only playable on one system. If it's evil for Apple, is it not evil for Nintendo, MS, and Sony?
A crock of crap law that should be shot down.
"...why shouldn't iTunes be the great mythical omniscient music repository where all the world's music is available instantly? Is this simply a marketing decision?"
Isn't the answer to this obvious? The most logical answer, even to an outsider who isn't privy to the legal arrangements Apple has made with labels/artists, is that they have the online distribution rights to those songs in Japan and not North America. They _CAN_ sell the songs in Japan. They _CANNOT_ sell the songs outside of Japan. Seems pretty simple to me.
"Because for a Big Mac you look at the local costs and industries. (packaging, local labour cost, local agriculture (salad, meat...))"
You think that McDonalds uses local material for packaging? Local supplies of meat? Local anything? I'll grant labour (though I could make a humorous argument that they aren't even using local labour...), but the rest is probably imported from cheaper countries...
Maybe people are noticing and they just don't care. Maybe the people who care are decidedly in the minority. Ever consider that?
I seem to recall comments that the iPod was overpriced and that Apple would never capture the market with it when there were other options with lower price tags. Hmmm. Sounds familiar, no?
What?
More funner? More funner? sigh... I hate being reminded that English is now a dead language...