Dude, it's not a drug. In fact, it sounds an awful lot like an athlete getting into the "zone." Nothing new here. I've heard this before, except that study was done on some Virtua Fighter professional player. Something about an increase of alpha waves or the sort.
This thing looks like a pizza box. Well, why didn't Apple include pizzas with it!? Sarcasmn aside, if the iPod taught us anything it's that we don't always have to pack in every possible feature out there, that sometimes less is more.
Isn't this exactly the same as the iPod from Apple? Why would buying from HP be any different than buying from Apple if you're purposely avoiding Apple products?
To this day, do you know how many people have come up to me and inquired about the iPod I'm listening to only to then ask, "But's it's made by Apple right? Does it work on my PC?"
These are the people HP is hoping will buy *their* iPod.
The olympics are actually a pretty big deal in the U.S. Part of that may be because we're winning so many medals (thus it gets reported in the news more often), but a huge part of it is simply patriotism. There's a lot of patriotic pride in the U.S., and these athletes are there representing our country. We try to give them as much support back home as we can so that they can do their best and represent us well.
Granted not everyone is interested in the olympics and certain sports are more popular than others. But generally, I think you'll find great enthusiasm for the competition in America.
What about "Mommy Laid An Egg"? Who knows how traumatized I would have been if in grade school I had read that and immediately thought back to those scrambled eggs I had for breakfast.
According to them, any program (including ActiveX controls) can access and edit the Windows Management Instrumentation database, and therefore spoof the security status of an insecure box to report that it is properly secured."
That's ok. MS probably wants it to be easy to use so that everyone can use it.;)
Two months ago I would have agreed with you, but in the past few weeks I've had to help a few friends with their virus infected computers (again). As always, I recommend that they stop using IE and switch to something like Firefox. The difference this time is that they actually agreed with me and switched (I was very, very surprised).
Tides are changing, and Microsft most likely knows this.
Same thing with the iPods. People didn't understand before why Apple made iPods exclusive to Mac users. They were griping Apple for not realizing iPod's full potential. We all know how that's turning out. Apple bided its time and came out with a PC-compatible model when it was ready to take on the market.
Same can be said about iTunes. Just because Apple isn't opening iTMS today doesn't mean they don't have plans to do so in the near future. Everyone just needs to chill out a bit and be patient. Apple is probably biding their time again and tweaking iTunes into a better service until they're ready to take on the market.
iTunes came out shortly after iPod became Windows compatible. Both have grown to dominate at roughly the same pace in their respective markets. This may be a case where Apple has built up two monopolies in similar but separate markets. And both monopolies just happen to complement each other.
I was referring to the fact that, other than the first three lines, his post was a complete mess. Like watching a chef make Shepherd's Pie with dog poop.
Maybe Sony wants to discourage their customers from using MP3, period.
The difference between Apple and Sony is whereas Apple is actively competing with illegal file-sharing by trying to find ways to offer a better value proposition, Sony is instead trying to discorage file-sharing altogether by purposely making their device less user-friendly to those who download MP3s. Sony really needs to turn things around quick cause they're in trouble.
You may not realize how old the iPod line really is. Apple released the first iPod in 2001. It only had 5GB and was only available for the Mac. And no, I really haven't seen any 5GB iPods around, but then again I don't know of too, too many people who had a Mac back then.
Because this *really* was suppose to be the iPod killer. Now that it doesn't look this way, that's good *news* for Apple. And unless these other companies start putting up more of fight, it looks like Microsoft will be the last company that has a chance of challenging Apple's dominance. They're rumored to be releasing their own online music store next month.
Lots of things can change in a few years, but I never would have thought I'd be using "monopoly" to describe Apple.
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Dude, it's not a drug. In fact, it sounds an awful lot like an athlete getting into the "zone." Nothing new here. I've heard this before, except that study was done on some Virtua Fighter professional player. Something about an increase of alpha waves or the sort.
haha, i didn't see that! thanks for pointing that one out.
This thing looks like a pizza box. Well, why didn't Apple include pizzas with it!? Sarcasmn aside, if the iPod taught us anything it's that we don't always have to pack in every possible feature out there, that sometimes less is more.
Isn't this exactly the same as the iPod from Apple? Why would buying from HP be any different than buying from Apple if you're purposely avoiding Apple products?
Agreed. But the for the two examples you had given, don't they (Costco and Bestbuy) already sell iPods?
To this day, do you know how many people have come up to me and inquired about the iPod I'm listening to only to then ask, "But's it's made by Apple right? Does it work on my PC?"
These are the people HP is hoping will buy *their* iPod.
Imagine ... a beowulf cluster of these.
Why don't you imagine a beowulf cluster of slashdot moderators modding you down instead...
Oh no! They're coming after me!!
It's interesting reading through these comments now that the Olympics are almost over. Predictions and such, etc.
The olympics are actually a pretty big deal in the U.S. Part of that may be because we're winning so many medals (thus it gets reported in the news more often), but a huge part of it is simply patriotism. There's a lot of patriotic pride in the U.S., and these athletes are there representing our country. We try to give them as much support back home as we can so that they can do their best and represent us well.
Granted not everyone is interested in the olympics and certain sports are more popular than others. But generally, I think you'll find great enthusiasm for the competition in America.
What about "Mommy Laid An Egg"? Who knows how traumatized I would have been if in grade school I had read that and immediately thought back to those scrambled eggs I had for breakfast.
According to them, any program (including ActiveX controls) can access and edit the Windows Management Instrumentation database, and therefore spoof the security status of an insecure box to report that it is properly secured."
;)
That's ok. MS probably wants it to be easy to use so that everyone can use it.
Two months ago I would have agreed with you, but in the past few weeks I've had to help a few friends with their virus infected computers (again). As always, I recommend that they stop using IE and switch to something like Firefox. The difference this time is that they actually agreed with me and switched (I was very, very surprised).
Tides are changing, and Microsft most likely knows this.
Apple also doesn't make hardware compatible with Windows either. Uh huh. (Hint: iPod, Airport Express, LCD Screens, etc.)
This isn't 2000 anymore.
Can Windows Media Player on MacOSX even play WMA files downloaded from places like Napster?
Same thing with the iPods. People didn't understand before why Apple made iPods exclusive to Mac users. They were griping Apple for not realizing iPod's full potential. We all know how that's turning out. Apple bided its time and came out with a PC-compatible model when it was ready to take on the market.
Same can be said about iTunes. Just because Apple isn't opening iTMS today doesn't mean they don't have plans to do so in the near future. Everyone just needs to chill out a bit and be patient. Apple is probably biding their time again and tweaking iTunes into a better service until they're ready to take on the market.
How about Apple forsees iTunes as being a potential major money maker in the future. They're looking out for iPod and iTunes, and not just the iPod.
I fail to understand why so many people can't see that just because iTunes doesn't make any money TODAY doesn't mean it be rolling it in TOMORROW.
Let's stop it with the "Apple says they don't make money off of iTunes so why should Apple care what happens to it" argument.
iTunes came out shortly after iPod became Windows compatible. Both have grown to dominate at roughly the same pace in their respective markets. This may be a case where Apple has built up two monopolies in similar but separate markets. And both monopolies just happen to complement each other.
Not Apple's problem
I was referring to the fact that, other than the first three lines, his post was a complete mess. Like watching a chef make Shepherd's Pie with dog poop.
I can honestly say the first thing that popped into my mind after I finished reading your comment was, "What are you talking about?"
Maybe Sony wants to discourage their customers from using MP3, period.
The difference between Apple and Sony is whereas Apple is actively competing with illegal file-sharing by trying to find ways to offer a better value proposition, Sony is instead trying to discorage file-sharing altogether by purposely making their device less user-friendly to those who download MP3s. Sony really needs to turn things around quick cause they're in trouble.
You may not realize how old the iPod line really is. Apple released the first iPod in 2001. It only had 5GB and was only available for the Mac. And no, I really haven't seen any 5GB iPods around, but then again I don't know of too, too many people who had a Mac back then.
Amazing how much things can change in 3 years.
Because this *really* was suppose to be the iPod killer. Now that it doesn't look this way, that's good *news* for Apple. And unless these other companies start putting up more of fight, it looks like Microsoft will be the last company that has a chance of challenging Apple's dominance. They're rumored to be releasing their own online music store next month.
Lots of things can change in a few years, but I never would have thought I'd be using "monopoly" to describe Apple.