To put your argument in context, the new figures give Apple a global 51% revenue share. They're officially making more money on mobile phones than everyone else in the world put together.
I'd say that going from undisputed 50%+ marketshare champion to tied-for-first with an upstart that didn't even exist about three years ago is cause for concern, yeah. It only gets worse in the larger context. Symbian was spun off as an open-source project to be a cheap, ubiquitous smartphone platform, an objective at which it has been so thoroughly trounced by Android that Nokia has had to resorb the business. Nokia, meanwhile, locked itself into in a race to the bottom in hardware design on the catastrophically wrongheaded assumption that the market for high-end devices had dried up. As a result the platform's now shackled to slowly drowning hardware concern that it's become a joke in technology blogs and hardware review sites on both sides of the Atlantic.
Incidentally, the "new battery" is actually a swap for a refurbished handset of the same standard as their warranty replacements, i.e. as new. It's not a bad deal. I once tried to get a warranty replacement from Nokia and it wound up costing me about 10 hours of my life and 6 increasingly poorly assembled refurbs.
FWIW I've got an iPhone around here that's been run from full to empty every day since it came out in the UK, and it's got about as much battery life as it ever did.
People chose the more-open platforms because they were open in ways that mattered to the average user of that kind of product. Betamax's restrictions were troublesome to the average home movie viewer of the time. Mac's restrictions were troublesome to the average computer user of the time. I'm not sure that the iPhone's restrictions are the kind that matter to the average mobile phone user, any more than the iPod's restrictions mattered to the average portable audio customer. The exceptions cited in the article aren't flukes, they're an important weakness in the trend they're trying to spot.
People assume Apple sells to fanboys at their peril. Nokia, to read their media statements, assumed that the iPhone was a cut-back phone they intended to sell to iPod owners. If they'd appreciated that Apple had its sights set on their entire customer base they probably would've reacted a bit more urgently.
Not on a global scale. It's about as important as Germany getting the iPhone in the grand scheme: quantitatively significant, but not qualitatively important.
Apps can be downloaded and installed outside of the Android Market. In fact there are other, competing stores available, such as the one Amazon's supposedly about to launch.
Actually, Apple's currently the third-place player in the smartphone market, after Google and Symbian. (Apple's hardly going to fail in that business, though. Even six months ago they were making about half of the money in the entire mobile phone market.)
You both get one vote, but he effectively gets to change his mind if his candidate loses. It's up to you to decide whether you'd only ever want to vote for one person, or would wish to have an alternative.
A state shouldn't be a ship with a contest-winning captain calling all the shots, it should be a community with debate and argument and conflict over what the correct course of action is. If an issue is so controversial that you have trouble deciding what the right course is, well, maybe that's appropriate.
One can escape the label by signing up a new gamertag. This comes at an inconvenience cost (informing friends that you're changing gamertag etc.) which seems a reasonable punishment.
I suggest you go away and read up on what autism actually is. Posts like yours do no more to help understanding of the condition, than the very people you rail against for self-diagnosing as autistic.
Excellent question. No idea. Simpy copying saved games isn't against the rules, so presumably there's some more involved bit of dicking around going on than simply copying a friend's completed-game save.
Not to sound like a dick, but also I've heard a lot of psychics who claim to have abilities they cannot test, demonstrate in a controlled situation, or explain. You might want to consider whether your abilities are demonstrable, and as unusual as you suppose.
Having an effect which scales with exposure to something is usually considered one of the preliminary signs of a cause-effect relationship between the effect and the suspected cause. The others are an appropriate time sequence and that sacred gold standard, direct interventional research. At any rate, the looseness of the research is part of the point I was trying to make.
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Apple actually makes very little from iTunes or the App Store. They're a selling point for the hardware, and not much else.
To put your argument in context, the new figures give Apple a global 51% revenue share. They're officially making more money on mobile phones than everyone else in the world put together.
I'd say that going from undisputed 50%+ marketshare champion to tied-for-first with an upstart that didn't even exist about three years ago is cause for concern, yeah. It only gets worse in the larger context. Symbian was spun off as an open-source project to be a cheap, ubiquitous smartphone platform, an objective at which it has been so thoroughly trounced by Android that Nokia has had to resorb the business. Nokia, meanwhile, locked itself into in a race to the bottom in hardware design on the catastrophically wrongheaded assumption that the market for high-end devices had dried up. As a result the platform's now shackled to slowly drowning hardware concern that it's become a joke in technology blogs and hardware review sites on both sides of the Atlantic.
Incidentally, the "new battery" is actually a swap for a refurbished handset of the same standard as their warranty replacements, i.e. as new. It's not a bad deal. I once tried to get a warranty replacement from Nokia and it wound up costing me about 10 hours of my life and 6 increasingly poorly assembled refurbs.
FWIW I've got an iPhone around here that's been run from full to empty every day since it came out in the UK, and it's got about as much battery life as it ever did.
People chose the more-open platforms because they were open in ways that mattered to the average user of that kind of product. Betamax's restrictions were troublesome to the average home movie viewer of the time. Mac's restrictions were troublesome to the average computer user of the time. I'm not sure that the iPhone's restrictions are the kind that matter to the average mobile phone user, any more than the iPod's restrictions mattered to the average portable audio customer. The exceptions cited in the article aren't flukes, they're an important weakness in the trend they're trying to spot.
People assume Apple sells to fanboys at their peril. Nokia, to read their media statements, assumed that the iPhone was a cut-back phone they intended to sell to iPod owners. If they'd appreciated that Apple had its sights set on their entire customer base they probably would've reacted a bit more urgently.
What cycle, exactly?
Not on a global scale. It's about as important as Germany getting the iPhone in the grand scheme: quantitatively significant, but not qualitatively important.
Apps can be downloaded and installed outside of the Android Market. In fact there are other, competing stores available, such as the one Amazon's supposedly about to launch.
Actually, Apple's currently the third-place player in the smartphone market, after Google and Symbian. (Apple's hardly going to fail in that business, though. Even six months ago they were making about half of the money in the entire mobile phone market.)
You both get one vote, but he effectively gets to change his mind if his candidate loses. It's up to you to decide whether you'd only ever want to vote for one person, or would wish to have an alternative.
A state shouldn't be a ship with a contest-winning captain calling all the shots, it should be a community with debate and argument and conflict over what the correct course of action is. If an issue is so controversial that you have trouble deciding what the right course is, well, maybe that's appropriate.
ID isn't creationism, though, is it? It's science. It's got intelligent right in the name.
There are "Western democracies" that aren't the USA, and are doing science teaching properly, you know.
His gamerscore was zeroed according to the article. MS does that when someone has boosted achievements.
It's exactly double the PSP's linear resolution. Makes scaling easier for back compatibility.
Be careful with that meme, it's an antique.
NGP isn't the retail name, it's just what the system's called until they come up with something better than "PSP2".
They do inform you why you are being reset, if you ask. Bans and suspensions come with an explanation by email.
One can escape the label by signing up a new gamertag. This comes at an inconvenience cost (informing friends that you're changing gamertag etc.) which seems a reasonable punishment.
I suggest you go away and read up on what autism actually is. Posts like yours do no more to help understanding of the condition, than the very people you rail against for self-diagnosing as autistic.
Excellent question. No idea. Simpy copying saved games isn't against the rules, so presumably there's some more involved bit of dicking around going on than simply copying a friend's completed-game save.
Oh yeah, save transferring is totally kosher, provided you don't go about trying to apply the achievements from one account to another.
Not to sound like a dick, but also I've heard a lot of psychics who claim to have abilities they cannot test, demonstrate in a controlled situation, or explain. You might want to consider whether your abilities are demonstrable, and as unusual as you suppose.
Having an effect which scales with exposure to something is usually considered one of the preliminary signs of a cause-effect relationship between the effect and the suspected cause. The others are an appropriate time sequence and that sacred gold standard, direct interventional research. At any rate, the looseness of the research is part of the point I was trying to make.