I think you're totally right. And considering that a group used Google's GWT to build a Javascript/HTML5 implementation of Doom (can't find the link now, but it's out there, including a video on youtube), there's no reason to think that there won't be a *lot* more gaming activity based on this burgeoning technology in the near future.
You make good points, and I would add that there are several other ways to skin this cat. For example, instead of a total cap, how about a usage-based speed cap. That is to say that short bursts would be allowed at any time, but depending on the rate plan you've chosen, the speed gets throttled down after either 10 seconds, a minute, 10 minutes, or an hour of high-volume usage during any minute-, hour-, day-, or week-long period, again, depending on the plan.
Don't like your speed? jump up to the next level for better performance.
That's a good point, and I thought about that. However, I think that Ford is still a good example because while they did allow for a gov't back-up plan, they declined to take any money.
If not for the gov't bail-out of the other big two, Ford might be the lone American giant in the auto industry right now, in which case, it was worth a lot more than its minimum price during the period.
4: Anti-trust. Look it up. you cannot abuse market dominance to actively force companies out of business, especially if the dominance is in a market area. They don't 'owe' Adobe a living but neither do they have the right to actively try to destroy them.
There's nothing that says Apple has to support Flash on devices they made. Before the iPhone existed, Flash didn't run it, right? Apple introduced a new set of devices, created a new market and they've never supported Flash. What's the problem? Does Apple have to support Silverlight, too?
All Adobe has to do to grow into this niche is to embrace HTML5 and build tools to allow people do do their graphics, games, animations, etc, on that platform, and they'll rule the world.
I'm not saying that I necessarily agree with what Apple is doing, but they're big boys and girls over at Adobe, and they've made bazillions of dollars over the years selling their Flash tools. There's no intrinsic reason that their business model is any safer than anyone else's.
I think you're right. I work for a company which builds database driven software, and while we always have our eyes out for newer and better solutions, people I've talked to on the DEV team clearly feel that if you're looking to deliver millions of transactions per hour, Oracle's still the king of the hill.
Let me amend that: for wired services, a few cents per GB, for wireless, a few bucks per.
What's ridiculous is the disparity between flat rates (that aren't really flat if you use too much) and the metered rates. My company pays for my BB contract, so I'm not sure how much that is, but I remember when I got my first data plan with Sprint for my Treo back in the day, and the choices were:
$15.00/mo flat-rate.
$0.01 per kilobyte.
Yes, that's kiloBYTE, meaning roughly $10.00 per MB, or $10,000 per GB. And of course, they rounded up to the next KB with each transaction, so if I downloaded a 1.2 KB email, that was $0.02, rather than looking at my transactions as a whole over the month and rounding, say, 1005.2 KB up to 1006.
I'm sure rates have gone down since then, but there's no way that delivering data cost them $0.01 per KB if they were offering flat rates of $15/mo.
I'm actually with you on this. The cake^H^H^H^H flat-rate offerings are a lie. If they had reasonable per GB charges and easy ways to monitor them throughout the month, I see no reason not to go that route. A few bucks per GB in $0.01 increments would be fine with me.
You make an interesting point, but beyond the other response to yours about the iPhone, I'm interested in seeing how the iPad plays into some markets. I wouldn't be surprised to see iPads showing up in a bunch of markets beyond "home". I'm thinking:
- Education, selling them at a steep discount pre-populated with textbooks to universities and even high schools.
- Medical. So long, clipboards!
- Sales and other personal-interaction-heavy industries where someone might want to be able to do presentations on the move, not necessarily needing a table and chair setup. In these situations, a laptop might be awkward where a tablet might do fine.
I'd agree with this. The company I'm working for has started to support the iPhone (I can't wait to replace my stupid Blackberry!), and since then, the halo effect has moved outwards, and they are supporting the use of MacBooks. My Dell laptop is up for replacement later this year; I'm hoping to get a MacBook pro...
If the market really took all of that into account, and was working on absolutely real, honest and predictable numbers, I would agree with you. Instead, it operates on a significant amount of hype, lies and half-truths; otherwise you wouldn't have insane boom-bust cycles as we've seen recently, both for the market as a whole and for individual companies. If Ford was worth $15 a share at the beginning of 2005, and it's worth $14 a share now, was it really only worth $1.40 on November 21, 2008? Or was that the "wisdom of crowds" working for you?
And some may say that's the fault of the individuals who do things like high-risk day trading based on patterns rather than real company research. But even the institutional investors make a lot of their decisions based on who is playing golf with whom. It's GIGPGO. Garbage in, garbage processing, garbage out. Don't forget, they've shown that a monkey, randomly choosing stocks can beat the market on a regular basis.
Buffet's no monkey, but he does happen to know who is playing golf with whom.
I have to say, I agree about Safari for Windows. It's painful to run. Of course, so is Firefox. Basically, when I'm on my Windows box, it's IE and Chrome.
Safari works great on Mac/iPhone/iPod Touch platforms, and I presume so on the iPad as well. What exactly are they doing so poorly in the Windows environment? Chrome makes it clear that Windows can't be entirely to blame...
Well, then the GP was even more wrong than I thought! I'm all for spirited debate, but it's difficult when people make up the "facts" on which they are basing their arguments.
There are many different definitions for hacking. One of those is modifying something to accomplish a different purpose than that for which it was created. If I were to make my dishwasher into an alarm clock, for instance, that would be hacking, even though I own the dishwasher.
Your point, my friend, only works using your own personal definition of hacking. As such, it's an opinion, not a fact, as you are trying to frame it.
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Um, porn sites exist to make money for their owners. I'd be *really* surprised many of them haven't already jumped on the mobile bandwagon and begun offering their content in non-flash formats such as H.264.
ABC.com has put together an app for watching their online streaming shows on the iPad. I've heard Hulu and Netflix are going to do the same, and others are sure to follow, including the adult-oriented of the bunch.
Which is, btw, why you can't ever hack a piece of hardware to run a different operating sytem that you own. You own it. You did not do anything but enjoy your PROPERTY.
Huh? You can hack it. That's what this whole thread is about; someone figured out how to do it. Just because Apple doesn't support it doesn't mean it's not possible.
As a company, does Apple have to support all possible uses of their devices, regardless of the originally-designed intent? Colbert showed how the iPad would be great at making salsa; if he ruined his device and Apple refused to fix/replace it for free based on that activity, would that be wrong of them?
You reject shiny, but all your components are Campagnolo? Sounds like you like shiny, but just on certain things. Campy are the Apple of bicycle components from both a quality and coolness factor among their adherents. A parallel might be that I could talk about how my desk is just four pieces of presswood glued together with a bad paint job--also black, by coincidence--but the computer sitting on top of it is a MacBook, so the whole thing is beautiful in my eyes. I guess I reject shiny, too.
Also you can load non-DRMed ebooks whenever you want too, no need to buy all of them - impossible with iPad.
I'm not sure that's true. It may be impossible with the iBooks app, but there are a few other book apps on the iPhone/iPod that I'd expect to see on the iPad as well, like "Classics", which provide access to ebooks in different formats. There's no reason to think that other apps--such as the Kindle app, which I believe has been announced--won't allow this activity, even if iBooks doesn't.
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I think you're totally right. And considering that a group used Google's GWT to build a Javascript/HTML5 implementation of Doom (can't find the link now, but it's out there, including a video on youtube), there's no reason to think that there won't be a *lot* more gaming activity based on this burgeoning technology in the near future.
In Soviet Russia, your cell phone registers you!
Yup, your proposal is at least as good as mine. I think there are lots of opportunities for mix-and-match plans depending on someone's needs.
Even the abuse situation you describe could be handled via monitoring/alerts to notify someone of potential problems.
You make good points, and I would add that there are several other ways to skin this cat. For example, instead of a total cap, how about a usage-based speed cap. That is to say that short bursts would be allowed at any time, but depending on the rate plan you've chosen, the speed gets throttled down after either 10 seconds, a minute, 10 minutes, or an hour of high-volume usage during any minute-, hour-, day-, or week-long period, again, depending on the plan.
Don't like your speed? jump up to the next level for better performance.
That's a good point, and I thought about that. However, I think that Ford is still a good example because while they did allow for a gov't back-up plan, they declined to take any money.
If not for the gov't bail-out of the other big two, Ford might be the lone American giant in the auto industry right now, in which case, it was worth a lot more than its minimum price during the period.
All Apple it trying to do is limit the number of crap applications.
I heard they call them "crapps."
4: Anti-trust. Look it up. you cannot abuse market dominance to actively force companies out of business, especially if the dominance is in a market area. They don't 'owe' Adobe a living but neither do they have the right to actively try to destroy them.
There's nothing that says Apple has to support Flash on devices they made. Before the iPhone existed, Flash didn't run it, right? Apple introduced a new set of devices, created a new market and they've never supported Flash. What's the problem? Does Apple have to support Silverlight, too?
All Adobe has to do to grow into this niche is to embrace HTML5 and build tools to allow people do do their graphics, games, animations, etc, on that platform, and they'll rule the world.
I'm not saying that I necessarily agree with what Apple is doing, but they're big boys and girls over at Adobe, and they've made bazillions of dollars over the years selling their Flash tools. There's no intrinsic reason that their business model is any safer than anyone else's.
The gold rush is officially over on the iPhone
No no, you just have to write a better fart app.
I think you're right. I work for a company which builds database driven software, and while we always have our eyes out for newer and better solutions, people I've talked to on the DEV team clearly feel that if you're looking to deliver millions of transactions per hour, Oracle's still the king of the hill.
What's ridiculous is the disparity between flat rates (that aren't really flat if you use too much) and the metered rates. My company pays for my BB contract, so I'm not sure how much that is, but I remember when I got my first data plan with Sprint for my Treo back in the day, and the choices were:
Yes, that's kiloBYTE, meaning roughly $10.00 per MB, or $10,000 per GB. And of course, they rounded up to the next KB with each transaction, so if I downloaded a 1.2 KB email, that was $0.02, rather than looking at my transactions as a whole over the month and rounding, say, 1005.2 KB up to 1006.
I'm sure rates have gone down since then, but there's no way that delivering data cost them $0.01 per KB if they were offering flat rates of $15/mo.
I'm actually with you on this. The cake^H^H^H^H flat-rate offerings are a lie. If they had reasonable per GB charges and easy ways to monitor them throughout the month, I see no reason not to go that route. A few bucks per GB in $0.01 increments would be fine with me.
Hell, I stood in line for Commander Taco, and all I got was this stupid T-shirt.
Hah! Simpsons reference for the win! I can picture Homer setting his house on fire right now!
You make an interesting point, but beyond the other response to yours about the iPhone, I'm interested in seeing how the iPad plays into some markets. I wouldn't be surprised to see iPads showing up in a bunch of markets beyond "home". I'm thinking:
- Education, selling them at a steep discount pre-populated with textbooks to universities and even high schools.
- Medical. So long, clipboards!
- Sales and other personal-interaction-heavy industries where someone might want to be able to do presentations on the move, not necessarily needing a table and chair setup. In these situations, a laptop might be awkward where a tablet might do fine.
I'd agree with this. The company I'm working for has started to support the iPhone (I can't wait to replace my stupid Blackberry!), and since then, the halo effect has moved outwards, and they are supporting the use of MacBooks. My Dell laptop is up for replacement later this year; I'm hoping to get a MacBook pro...
If the market really took all of that into account, and was working on absolutely real, honest and predictable numbers, I would agree with you. Instead, it operates on a significant amount of hype, lies and half-truths; otherwise you wouldn't have insane boom-bust cycles as we've seen recently, both for the market as a whole and for individual companies. If Ford was worth $15 a share at the beginning of 2005, and it's worth $14 a share now, was it really only worth $1.40 on November 21, 2008? Or was that the "wisdom of crowds" working for you?
And some may say that's the fault of the individuals who do things like high-risk day trading based on patterns rather than real company research. But even the institutional investors make a lot of their decisions based on who is playing golf with whom. It's GIGPGO. Garbage in, garbage processing, garbage out. Don't forget, they've shown that a monkey, randomly choosing stocks can beat the market on a regular basis.
Buffet's no monkey, but he does happen to know who is playing golf with whom.
I have to say, I agree about Safari for Windows. It's painful to run. Of course, so is Firefox. Basically, when I'm on my Windows box, it's IE and Chrome.
Safari works great on Mac/iPhone/iPod Touch platforms, and I presume so on the iPad as well. What exactly are they doing so poorly in the Windows environment? Chrome makes it clear that Windows can't be entirely to blame...
Well, then the GP was even more wrong than I thought! I'm all for spirited debate, but it's difficult when people make up the "facts" on which they are basing their arguments.
There are many different definitions for hacking. One of those is modifying something to accomplish a different purpose than that for which it was created. If I were to make my dishwasher into an alarm clock, for instance, that would be hacking, even though I own the dishwasher.
Your point, my friend, only works using your own personal definition of hacking. As such, it's an opinion, not a fact, as you are trying to frame it.
Um, porn sites exist to make money for their owners. I'd be *really* surprised many of them haven't already jumped on the mobile bandwagon and begun offering their content in non-flash formats such as H.264.
ABC.com has put together an app for watching their online streaming shows on the iPad. I've heard Hulu and Netflix are going to do the same, and others are sure to follow, including the adult-oriented of the bunch.
When I buy a computer I buy it so that I can use it, and my usage pattern is always around writing software.
Then I understand your objection to an iPad, and a MacBook might be more your style.
if you are paying money for a piece of hardware, you should be able to do with the hardware anything you wish.
Including a cable TV decoder box?
Or a dishwasher? I know there's a computer in there somewhere. I want it to be my home media server, damn it!
So they're not supporting Flash? Bastards!
Which is, btw, why you can't ever hack a piece of hardware to run a different operating sytem that you own. You own it. You did not do anything but enjoy your PROPERTY.
Huh? You can hack it. That's what this whole thread is about; someone figured out how to do it. Just because Apple doesn't support it doesn't mean it's not possible.
As a company, does Apple have to support all possible uses of their devices, regardless of the originally-designed intent? Colbert showed how the iPad would be great at making salsa; if he ruined his device and Apple refused to fix/replace it for free based on that activity, would that be wrong of them?
You reject shiny, but all your components are Campagnolo? Sounds like you like shiny, but just on certain things. Campy are the Apple of bicycle components from both a quality and coolness factor among their adherents. A parallel might be that I could talk about how my desk is just four pieces of presswood glued together with a bad paint job--also black, by coincidence--but the computer sitting on top of it is a MacBook, so the whole thing is beautiful in my eyes. I guess I reject shiny, too.
Also you can load non-DRMed ebooks whenever you want too, no need to buy all of them - impossible with iPad.
I'm not sure that's true. It may be impossible with the iBooks app, but there are a few other book apps on the iPhone/iPod that I'd expect to see on the iPad as well, like "Classics", which provide access to ebooks in different formats. There's no reason to think that other apps--such as the Kindle app, which I believe has been announced--won't allow this activity, even if iBooks doesn't.