Mine has the new firmware and text messaging is completely hosed now. I'll have to hard reset to recover. Palm hasn't fixed the problem, they've only changed its appearance.
one more thing about the 910---incredibly slow and buggy applications particularly email. Makes the machine insufferable. The Treo apps are nice but the OS is buggy. The 910 is exactly the opposite. The 910 boot is painfully slow too. Neither is worth having.
No, it's bug-riddled and unstable. The newest firmware does not fix the memory allocation problem just makes it different. If you enjoy wiping your phone clean one a week and restoring it to cover up firmware bugs then the 650 is the phone for you.
doesn't really matter. it either infringes or it doesn't and litigating it is a crapshoot. if apple knows they infringe then they would have to prove the patent invalid. No one likes to do that when they're facing a jury of housewives.
If licensed it would be "the real thing". If Dell made it, the minitower chassis would hold more than a single CD and two hard drives as well. Wouldn't sound like a jet either. Pathetic!
I think Michael Dell has done alright for himself without a college degree---much more so than Steve Jobs. You have have a link to his supposed pronouncement? It would be very unlike him to say such a thing. About as likely as him concerning himself with Apple at all. Apple is not a competitor of Dell's.
My experience is that Macs, and Apple products in general, are not high quality at all. Macs are about mystique, not actual quality. Both my macs and all four of my iPods have failed---far worse than my perfect record with numerous (>8) Dell notebooks. "Truly innovating" is a stretch as well.
Actually, NEF is a bad example because some versions (D100) implement lossy compression.
White balance is just as easily adjusted in TIFF as it is in a RAW format as is most everything else. It's simply a matter of what tools are available. The only thing you lose is the opportunity to do the demosiac over again.
You do NOT always have redundant systems with scuba. In no-deco diving none of the breathing system is redundant. Your bailout plan is a buddy or the surface. It might help if you were certified.
What they don't say is that when you flood that lithium battery it will most definitely explode and kill you. Lead acid batteries would be a far safer choice but the weight would be much greater (but less than a tank).
no it doesn't. market share is market share, and you purchase computers, not users. market share NEVER implies number of users, only the share of the total market for purchased goods.
you can also just buy a Mac...plus enough third-party utilities, the right custom hardware, etc. You can't calibrate your mac without the same stuff PC's require.
"The important factors are color management throughout the whole system and the user interface design."? Hah! Mac's require color management throughout because they use non-standard gamma.
MS more "started over" with the NT kernel than Apple did with BSD/Mach as the basis of the current products. The assertion than the current Windows products are single-user, non-networked OS's is absurd. The history of the kernels of the two operating systems is very much the opposite of what you think.
No PC manufacturer accepts a failure rate of 20 percent. Typical costs of supporting a single failure in the field destroy the original margin on the system.
Memory can be had for cheap that works better than you suggest. What Apple/Dell/others do is price the parts as high as they can without encouraging their buyers to shop elsewhere. That's why memory and hard drive upgrades are so costly when purchased with the system. Car stereos are expensive when purchased at the dealer too.
Hmmm. My Powermac failed catastrophically in only 10 days. My mac mini went almost a month before its catastrophic failure. Bad main board in the powermac and a bad hard drive in the mini.
Don't think I'd recommend power* stuff as more reliable. All the iPods I've owned have failed as well. One straight out of the box.
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I think you forget that the software is Microsoft's property. It's up to Microsoft to determine the terms under which it's willing to allow the use of its software in Cuba. Cuba has no right to declare that it can use the software without compensation.
If Apple pioneered the PDA then why is it that no PDA today (or ever) looks anything like Apple's dismal PDA failure? The Newton was a piece of crap that got what it deserved and Apple deserves no credit for the success of the PDA (which is dying now anyway)
Small, handheld tablet PC have existed for a long time. The Newton was too big and worked too poorly. Palm's were what people wanted at the time. Increasingly, no one wants any of them anymore.
$10K is not a trivial amount of money for a college student and it doesn't provide the same level of development that millions of dollars would in an equivalent startup.
I'm involved with a few other guys in a startup that's been going on a while now. It's a hardware thing but the plan is to outsource the hardware itself. Our total investment between three of us is about $50K plus our considerable time (ignoring our living expenses) but it will take a few million to complete. Why? Because we have to obtain prototypes, do testing, marketing research, pursue customers, and all the other things that it actually takes to become a viable company. Sure the initial costs are low but the bulk of the costs are unaffected.
It's not as simple as that even assuming you want to outsource like you say. If you want to differentiate your hardware you won't do it by slapping your logo on someone else's design. Some people want to start up a business that competes with that outsourcer in Asia. Should they outsource their work to Asia?
Even if outsourcing hardware is the plan you still have a lot of infrastructure required to do it.
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Mine has the new firmware and text messaging is completely hosed now. I'll have to hard reset to recover. Palm hasn't fixed the problem, they've only changed its appearance.
one more thing about the 910---incredibly slow and buggy applications particularly email. Makes the machine insufferable. The Treo apps are nice but the OS is buggy. The 910 is exactly the opposite. The 910 boot is painfully slow too. Neither is worth having.
No, it's bug-riddled and unstable. The newest firmware does not fix the memory allocation problem just makes it different. If you enjoy wiping your phone clean one a week and restoring it to cover up firmware bugs then the 650 is the phone for you.
doesn't really matter. it either infringes or it doesn't and litigating it is a crapshoot. if apple knows they infringe then they would have to prove the patent invalid. No one likes to do that when they're facing a jury of housewives.
Hardly legendary. In fact, hardly at all. That quote was from 8 years ago. If Dell talks so much smack surely there are more links than this...
If licensed it would be "the real thing". If Dell made it, the minitower chassis would hold more than a single CD and two hard drives as well. Wouldn't sound like a jet either. Pathetic!
I think Michael Dell has done alright for himself without a college degree---much more so than Steve Jobs. You have have a link to his supposed pronouncement? It would be very unlike him to say such a thing. About as likely as him concerning himself with Apple at all. Apple is not a competitor of Dell's.
My experience is that Macs, and Apple products in general, are not high quality at all. Macs are about mystique, not actual quality. Both my macs and all four of my iPods have failed---far worse than my perfect record with numerous (>8) Dell notebooks. "Truly innovating" is a stretch as well.
Actually, NEF is a bad example because some versions (D100) implement lossy compression.
White balance is just as easily adjusted in TIFF as it is in a RAW format as is most everything else. It's simply a matter of what tools are available. The only thing you lose is the opportunity to do the demosiac over again.
love it when you talk technical. your logic is inescapable...
You do NOT always have redundant systems with scuba. In no-deco diving none of the breathing system is redundant. Your bailout plan is a buddy or the surface. It might help if you were certified.
Far, far lighter. Like an order of magnitude.
What they don't say is that when you flood that lithium battery it will most definitely explode and kill you. Lead acid batteries would be a far safer choice but the weight would be much greater (but less than a tank).
has a smaller, lower resolution screen and uses a 1.8" hard drive. Replacing the drive with a larger one is not trivial either.
no it doesn't. market share is market share, and you purchase computers, not users. market share NEVER implies number of users, only the share of the total market for purchased goods.
you can also just buy a Mac...plus enough third-party utilities, the right custom hardware, etc. You can't calibrate your mac without the same stuff PC's require.
"The important factors are color management throughout the whole system and the user interface design."? Hah! Mac's require color management throughout because they use non-standard gamma.
because it was insulting. yours was just one reason for SMS. There are other uses for it.
MS more "started over" with the NT kernel than Apple did with BSD/Mach as the basis of the current products. The assertion than the current Windows products are single-user, non-networked OS's is absurd. The history of the kernels of the two operating systems is very much the opposite of what you think.
No PC manufacturer accepts a failure rate of 20 percent. Typical costs of supporting a single failure in the field destroy the original margin on the system.
Memory can be had for cheap that works better than you suggest. What Apple/Dell/others do is price the parts as high as they can without encouraging their buyers to shop elsewhere. That's why memory and hard drive upgrades are so costly when purchased with the system. Car stereos are expensive when purchased at the dealer too.
Hmmm. My Powermac failed catastrophically in only 10 days. My mac mini went almost a month before its catastrophic failure. Bad main board in the powermac and a bad hard drive in the mini.
Don't think I'd recommend power* stuff as more reliable. All the iPods I've owned have failed as well. One straight out of the box.
Maybe RMS will give you some of his inheritance.
I think you forget that the software is Microsoft's property. It's up to Microsoft to determine the terms under which it's willing to allow the use of its software in Cuba. Cuba has no right to declare that it can use the software without compensation.
If Apple pioneered the PDA then why is it that no PDA today (or ever) looks anything like Apple's dismal PDA failure? The Newton was a piece of crap that got what it deserved and Apple deserves no credit for the success of the PDA (which is dying now anyway)
Small, handheld tablet PC have existed for a long time. The Newton was too big and worked too poorly. Palm's were what people wanted at the time. Increasingly, no one wants any of them anymore.
Safari has nothing to offer Windows users. It's a lousy browser compared to Firefox.
for very specific kinds of businesses
$10K is not a trivial amount of money for a college student and it doesn't provide the same level of development that millions of dollars would in an equivalent startup.
I'm involved with a few other guys in a startup that's been going on a while now. It's a hardware thing but the plan is to outsource the hardware itself. Our total investment between three of us is about $50K plus our considerable time (ignoring our living expenses) but it will take a few million to complete. Why? Because we have to obtain prototypes, do testing, marketing research, pursue customers, and all the other things that it actually takes to become a viable company. Sure the initial costs are low but the bulk of the costs are unaffected.
It's not as simple as that even assuming you want to outsource like you say. If you want to differentiate your hardware you won't do it by slapping your logo on someone else's design. Some people want to start up a business that competes with that outsourcer in Asia. Should they outsource their work to Asia?
Even if outsourcing hardware is the plan you still have a lot of infrastructure required to do it.