TFA talks about additional ports and card slots. Are those defining characteristics? Whether they are or not, what they symbolize is an extension of the PC-centric model of computing that the iPad does not.
Beyond symbolism, what they represent is an easy, simple, straightforward and tactile way for people to copy their shit from one device to another without being leashed to Itunes, or jumping through bizarre hoops. If you want to do anything other than CONsume the paid-for media that Apple has sold you, the Ipad's user itrface workflow borders on the obscene:
Sending it in the other direction is possibly even more baroque. In the case of Apple's iWork applications, you go to My Documents, press the 'send' icon at the bottom of the page, and up come three options: send via email, share via iWork.com and export. Note that you can't save 'to' anywhere, you can't save at all because the iWork documents save themselves all the time, and as far as you're concerned there is no 'to'. The first options do what they say on the tin, while 'export' lets you export the file in a couple of different formats to... where?
OK, back to iTunes, connect your iPad, go to the apps tab for your iPad, scroll to the bottom, click on the app you exported it from, highlight the file, then click on Save to, and save the file onto your computer. You can't do any of this while you're working on the document itself on the iPad; you need to switch over to the My Documents section.
Nor can you name files on the iPad. Highlight a template and click on the plus sign underneath it, and you get an option to duplicate the document, in which case it'll open a file with 'copy' appended to the template's name. Edit directly from the template, and you'll find it creates a new file with '1' appended to the template's name. It gives itself two different ways to create non-relevant filenames, and won't let you have even one?
You've got to be fucking kidding me. Homer Simpson and friends want their porn on their Ipads and they don't want to have to go through this shite to get it. Give them a tablet with memory card, and they'll just copy the files onto it and swap the memory card over. It's what hundreds of millions of grandmothers have learned to do with cameras and photoframes and printers.
Recent HTC CDMA phones such as TP2 support all the GSM/HS frequencies *and* the advanced CDMA ones as well. Phones for Korea market include both SIM and CDMA removable cards.
I don't think Apple uses those to make money though
Microsoft didn't "make money" with Internet Explorer. It was and is a free app. It was still part of the primary evidence for Microsoft's illegal monopoly behaviour.
Didn't you read the Gruber link from the message almost immediately before yours? If even a notorious Apple Polisher like Gruber thinks something like this is worth calling out Apple on, then I for one am impressed. Undocumented API functions apparently do exist, and Apple lets favoured corporate partners use these APIs for competitive advantage. In other words, outside of the *public* terms of its developer contracts, there's obviously a whole less public sphere where influence and favours are being traded for access to the Iphone's innards. Apple is playing favourites and preferentially granting access to an effective monopoly to create a syndicate or cartel network. This is the same shite Standard Oil was doing back in the day, and it's the same shite Microsoft was pulling in the 1990s, and part of what eventually resulted in the entire company of Microsoft being judged a criminal monopoly. It's not crime to become a monopoly through fair competition, the crime emerges when you use that monopoly illegally to maintain market dominance for you and your cartel buddies through unfair competition.
How on earth can you screw up the capitalisation where then is only four letters in the word !
Maybe the poster decided s/he'd rather prefer to continue using English and its rules of capitalisation in the correct fashion, and not the way Mr Jobs would prefer you refer to his branded commodities?
The legacy 6.5.x (I am counting its equivalent Win CE here, because WM 6.5.x is basically a profile for that) is so ingrained in so many vertical markets that it will likely be around for another decade, at least. Especially in Asia, where the stylus+resisitive+inking combo is essential for quick messaging.
The reason to fork the platform is because MS simply wasn't getting enough traction in the US,and moving to a new codebase that basically runs Silverlight as a front-end on top of XNA enables MS to accomplish two things: 1) Unify its game/consumer and handheld markets, and 2) Produce a flashy new baseline interface using lots of sans-serif and finger-swooshing (ala HTC's SenseUI) that will het all the US-based dittohead bloggers excited.
We have different definitions of "failure". I've no especial love for WM, but I respect a platform that enabled millions of interested people to get their smartphone and handheld computing on for almost a full decade before the Second Coming of Apple's Phone (I'm counting the ROKR as V1).
Also, you don't need to hold the camera at arm's length. Adaptive face tracking makes the experience much less fraught.
Skype has been noticeably absent from the VOIP-over-3G landscape. Until today
Skype has been doing VOIP over 3G on my Sprint HTC Windows Mobile phone since 2007. And fring has also been doing that for almost as long. Bonus: for several years I have proudly demonstrated my nose hairs to a chosen few with Video VOIP using Microsoft Portrait on Windows Mobile. I hear that Apple's newest phone may finally have Video VOIP thus summer... I guess we will have to eagerly anticipate a bunch of Apple Astroturfers chiming in with "Video VOIP has been noticeably absent from the mobile phone landscape... until today"-type comments.
the only mobile platform that doesn't "just work" is Window Mobile.
Skype Mobile on WM has done 3G VOIP since 2007 on my Sprint network. It pretty much Just Worked. Bonus: have been enjoying occasional Video VOIP calls since then with Microsoft Portrait. That Just Works as well.
I have a HP Tm2 tabletPC that converts between laptop and slate mode. 10W CULV Core2. Discrete/hybrid Radeon/Intel gfx. Wacom 512-pressure sensitive screen/stylus and capacitive multitouch screen. Total cost $900. Came with Win 7, which is much better at the whole tablet experience than most of the haters say and it seems to me that many of them have not used Win7 on a tablet or some of the touch-specific apps or the Microsoft Surface apps or the touch-loving apps such as OneNote. The whole package is actually quite pleasant to use... Especially with touch-aware apps it's a whole new experience for casual computing, and it amuses me when I read all these new iPad owners writing like they've discovered heaven in their fingers when in fact casual touch has been available for the best part of a decade... as long as you were prepared to go outside Apple's walled garden to look for it.
Just for kicks, I installed Ubuntu on it... touch experience is less pleasant and reminds me of WinXP. Installed OSX on it. Apple's PC OS's support for touch is currently also crap... even worse than WinXP/Ubuntu. Maybe it will change this if it percolates some of the handheld UI touches up into its PC line, but right now the Mac touch experience is seriously deficient.
Disclaimer: I wrote my first touch-enabled UI app (a beauty store sales kiosk) way back in 1991, so the current vogue for bizarrely UI-dissimilar iPad apps is just so ridiculously familiar in terms of touchscreen and CD-ROM development in the early 1990s.
Whatever about the content of this exchange, I'm more interested in the apparent recent increase in the frequency of sometimes bizarre Jobsian missives to the masses. Remember, this is a guy who used to be *extreme* about protecting his image and privacy and speaking only through hand-picked media acolytes. Now, apparently, we have an insomniac Mr Jobs willing to engage in back and forth with any arsehole with a keyboard.
As a liver transplant survivor, Mr Jobs would most probably have been placed on a very high dose of glucocorticoids (among other medications, including calcineurin inhibitors, azathioprine or mycophenolate mofetil, and rapamycin or one of its close analogs). Hopefully his physicians have managed to taper the steroids dose down significantly, possibly even to zero if there is no sign of an ongoing immune-mediated primary disorder. This is good, because high dose glucocorticoids "are associated with significant side effects, including hypertension, dyslipidemia, glucose intolerance, infection, bone abnormalities, peptic ulcers, and psychiatric disorders", and he already will be dealing with enough unfortunate side effects from all the other immunosuppressive medication. However, judging by his weird choice of correspondents and replies apparently emanating from an unfiltered Mr Jobs over the past few months, it does seem as if his apparently existing and famous personality type has been enhanced. Or perhaps a 'roid-induced euphoria is continually tempting him to express it directly to the public more commonly than previously.
Unless you want to lose all of the Apple phone's pretensions towards being a data-centric "smart" phone, you're going to have to add a $30 Apple Tax onto each of those lines. Also, does that plan include 1500 minutes, unlimited texts and t-b-t navigation? Also, you have to deal with AT&T's provably sub-par connection and data rates. Finally, you are really not following the employee referral link in my original post. Who pays retail?
A Sprint "Everything" data plan, even with a $10 tariff for 4G, is still ridiculously cheaper than the crazy high prices that AT&T gouges from its Apple-dazed captive masses.
If you decide to swing an employee referral plan for the Evo then you are really coming out ahead.
To avoid premature pocket erosion, you can get a small key purse. You can think of this as a floppy wallet for your keys, if that makes you think it's less girly. Before I got a key purse, sorry, key wallet, my key pocket was always the first thing to go in old trousers. Now it's the last - usually it's the crotch that rots through instead after several thousand days of wear. This of course creates a whole different set of problems.
Microprocessor-free TTL. Less core than a Micral. Lame.
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The first PC was the Altair 8800
The first American PC was the Altair 8800. The world's first "personal digital computer" was the French Micral 8008, 1972.
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as a means of ranking one company against another. Or did we learn nothing from Enron and Worldcom? Look instead at sales, at product diversification, licensing and pipelines, and at past performance relative to market performance in terms of alpha/beta. Back in the early 1980s, when Apple launched the Lisa/Mac and Microsoft was launching Windows 1.0, Apple's employee number, market cap *and* sales were literally hundreds of times larger than Microsoft's at that time. Look where they went, and where they are now.
Skype video on my new Hp Tm2 convertible tablet is, IMHO, my current killer app. It all feels very "Star Trek". As does the Microsoft Surface Globe thingy.
as a means of ranking one company against another. Or did we learn nothing from Enron and Worldcom? Look instead at sales, at product diversification, licensing and pipelines, and at past performance relative to market performance in terms of alpha/beta. Back in the early 1980s, when Apple launched the Lisa/Mac and Microsoft was launching Windows 1.0, Apple's employee number, market cap *and* sales were literally hundreds of times larger than Microsoft's at that time. Look where they went, and where they are now.
It's not really ironic that with deep discounts in addition to coupons you can get this cheaply, but it's hardly relevant to the average customer, who gets neither.
Google: HP coupon tm2. Yeah you're right - this kid of stuff is far too complicated for the merely "average" customer.
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TFA talks about additional ports and card slots. Are those defining characteristics? Whether they are or not, what they symbolize is an extension of the PC-centric model of computing that the iPad does not.
Beyond symbolism, what they represent is an easy, simple, straightforward and tactile way for people to copy their shit from one device to another without being leashed to Itunes, or jumping through bizarre hoops. If you want to do anything other than CONsume the paid-for media that Apple has sold you, the Ipad's user itrface workflow borders on the obscene:
Prisoner of iTunes - the iPad file transfer horror
You've got to be fucking kidding me. Homer Simpson and friends want their porn on their Ipads and they don't want to have to go through this shite to get it. Give them a tablet with memory card, and they'll just copy the files onto it and swap the memory card over. It's what hundreds of millions of grandmothers have learned to do with cameras and photoframes and printers.
Recent HTC CDMA phones such as TP2 support all the GSM/HS frequencies *and* the advanced CDMA ones as well. Phones for Korea market include both SIM and CDMA removable cards.
Dell Latitude XT2 with the same sort of touch and pen technology = $2,686.00
HP Tm2 with the same kind of pen and touch technology as the Dell Latitude XT2, and faster gfx = $700
I don't think Apple uses those to make money though
Microsoft didn't "make money" with Internet Explorer. It was and is a free app. It was still part of the primary evidence for Microsoft's illegal monopoly behaviour.
Didn't you read the Gruber link from the message almost immediately before yours? If even a notorious Apple Polisher like Gruber thinks something like this is worth calling out Apple on, then I for one am impressed. Undocumented API functions apparently do exist, and Apple lets favoured corporate partners use these APIs for competitive advantage. In other words, outside of the *public* terms of its developer contracts, there's obviously a whole less public sphere where influence and favours are being traded for access to the Iphone's innards. Apple is playing favourites and preferentially granting access to an effective monopoly to create a syndicate or cartel network. This is the same shite Standard Oil was doing back in the day, and it's the same shite Microsoft was pulling in the 1990s, and part of what eventually resulted in the entire company of Microsoft being judged a criminal monopoly. It's not crime to become a monopoly through fair competition, the crime emerges when you use that monopoly illegally to maintain market dominance for you and your cartel buddies through unfair competition.
Not very splundig at all.
How on earth can you screw up the capitalisation where then is only four letters in the word !
Maybe the poster decided s/he'd rather prefer to continue using English and its rules of capitalisation in the correct fashion, and not the way Mr Jobs would prefer you refer to his branded commodities?
Also, it's like waving a red flag at appletards.
the various institutions and individuals out there felt that as a company Apple Computer was worth more than Microsoft
These are the same people that ran up the valuations of so many ridiculous stocks ten years ago during a previous episode of irrational exuberance?
The platform that Microsoft has discontinued
Actually, it's more like forked.
The legacy 6.5.x (I am counting its equivalent Win CE here, because WM 6.5.x is basically a profile for that) is so ingrained in so many vertical markets that it will likely be around for another decade, at least. Especially in Asia, where the stylus+resisitive+inking combo is essential for quick messaging.
The reason to fork the platform is because MS simply wasn't getting enough traction in the US,and moving to a new codebase that basically runs Silverlight as a front-end on top of XNA enables MS to accomplish two things: 1) Unify its game/consumer and handheld markets, and 2) Produce a flashy new baseline interface using lots of sans-serif and finger-swooshing (ala HTC's SenseUI) that will het all the US-based dittohead bloggers excited.
We have different definitions of "failure". I've no especial love for WM, but I respect a platform that enabled millions of interested people to get their smartphone and handheld computing on for almost a full decade before the Second Coming of Apple's Phone (I'm counting the ROKR as V1).
Also, you don't need to hold the camera at arm's length. Adaptive face tracking makes the experience much less fraught.
Skype has been noticeably absent from the VOIP-over-3G landscape. Until today
Skype has been doing VOIP over 3G on my Sprint HTC Windows Mobile phone since 2007. And fring has also been doing that for almost as long. Bonus: for several years I have proudly demonstrated my nose hairs to a chosen few with Video VOIP using Microsoft Portrait on Windows Mobile. I hear that Apple's newest phone may finally have Video VOIP thus summer... I guess we will have to eagerly anticipate a bunch of Apple Astroturfers chiming in with "Video VOIP has been noticeably absent from the mobile phone landscape... until today"-type comments.
the only mobile platform that doesn't "just work" is Window Mobile.
Skype Mobile on WM has done 3G VOIP since 2007 on my Sprint network. It pretty much Just Worked. Bonus: have been enjoying occasional Video VOIP calls since then with Microsoft Portrait. That Just Works as well.
I have a HP Tm2 tabletPC that converts between laptop and slate mode. 10W CULV Core2. Discrete/hybrid Radeon/Intel gfx. Wacom 512-pressure sensitive screen/stylus and capacitive multitouch screen. Total cost $900. Came with Win 7, which is much better at the whole tablet experience than most of the haters say and it seems to me that many of them have not used Win7 on a tablet or some of the touch-specific apps or the Microsoft Surface apps or the touch-loving apps such as OneNote. The whole package is actually quite pleasant to use... Especially with touch-aware apps it's a whole new experience for casual computing, and it amuses me when I read all these new iPad owners writing like they've discovered heaven in their fingers when in fact casual touch has been available for the best part of a decade... as long as you were prepared to go outside Apple's walled garden to look for it.
Just for kicks, I installed Ubuntu on it... touch experience is less pleasant and reminds me of WinXP. Installed OSX on it. Apple's PC OS's support for touch is currently also crap... even worse than WinXP/Ubuntu. Maybe it will change this if it percolates some of the handheld UI touches up into its PC line, but right now the Mac touch experience is seriously deficient.
Disclaimer: I wrote my first touch-enabled UI app (a beauty store sales kiosk) way back in 1991, so the current vogue for bizarrely UI-dissimilar iPad apps is just so ridiculously familiar in terms of touchscreen and CD-ROM development in the early 1990s.
Whatever about the content of this exchange, I'm more interested in the apparent recent increase in the frequency of sometimes bizarre Jobsian missives to the masses. Remember, this is a guy who used to be *extreme* about protecting his image and privacy and speaking only through hand-picked media acolytes. Now, apparently, we have an insomniac Mr Jobs willing to engage in back and forth with any arsehole with a keyboard.
As a liver transplant survivor, Mr Jobs would most probably have been placed on a very high dose of glucocorticoids (among other medications, including calcineurin inhibitors, azathioprine or mycophenolate mofetil, and rapamycin or one of its close analogs). Hopefully his physicians have managed to taper the steroids dose down significantly, possibly even to zero if there is no sign of an ongoing immune-mediated primary disorder. This is good, because high dose glucocorticoids "are associated with significant side effects, including hypertension, dyslipidemia, glucose intolerance, infection, bone abnormalities, peptic ulcers, and psychiatric disorders", and he already will be dealing with enough unfortunate side effects from all the other immunosuppressive medication. However, judging by his weird choice of correspondents and replies apparently emanating from an unfiltered Mr Jobs over the past few months, it does seem as if his apparently existing and famous personality type has been enhanced. Or perhaps a 'roid-induced euphoria is continually tempting him to express it directly to the public more commonly than previously.
Unless you want to lose all of the Apple phone's pretensions towards being a data-centric "smart" phone, you're going to have to add a $30 Apple Tax onto each of those lines. Also, does that plan include 1500 minutes, unlimited texts and t-b-t navigation? Also, you have to deal with AT&T's provably sub-par connection and data rates. Finally, you are really not following the employee referral link in my original post. Who pays retail?
A Sprint "Everything" data plan, even with a $10 tariff for 4G, is still ridiculously cheaper than the crazy high prices that AT&T gouges from its Apple-dazed captive masses.
If you decide to swing an employee referral plan for the Evo then you are really coming out ahead.
Why is AT&T astroturfing here?
To avoid premature pocket erosion, you can get a small key purse. You can think of this as a floppy wallet for your keys, if that makes you think it's less girly. Before I got a key purse, sorry, key wallet, my key pocket was always the first thing to go in old trousers. Now it's the last - usually it's the crotch that rots through instead after several thousand days of wear. This of course creates a whole different set of problems.
I'm not sure what your point is, really.
This might help. I call this new thing "satirificationising".
Been doing this for years.
1. Plug HTC WM phone into charger outlet.
2. Activate WMWiFiRouter app to share out Sprint 3G over USB, wireless, or bluetooth.
3. ?????
4. Profit!
Microprocessor-free TTL. Less core than a Micral. Lame.
The first PC was the Altair 8800
The first American PC was the Altair 8800. The world's first "personal digital computer" was the French Micral 8008, 1972.
as a means of ranking one company against another. Or did we learn nothing from Enron and Worldcom? Look instead at sales, at product diversification, licensing and pipelines, and at past performance relative to market performance in terms of alpha/beta. Back in the early 1980s, when Apple launched the Lisa/Mac and Microsoft was launching Windows 1.0, Apple's employee number, market cap *and* sales were literally hundreds of times larger than Microsoft's at that time. Look where they went, and where they are now.
Skype video on my new Hp Tm2 convertible tablet is, IMHO, my current killer app. It all feels very "Star Trek". As does the Microsoft Surface Globe thingy.
as a means of ranking one company against another. Or did we learn nothing from Enron and Worldcom? Look instead at sales, at product diversification, licensing and pipelines, and at past performance relative to market performance in terms of alpha/beta. Back in the early 1980s, when Apple launched the Lisa/Mac and Microsoft was launching Windows 1.0, Apple's employee number, market cap *and* sales were literally hundreds of times larger than Microsoft's at that time. Look where they went, and where they are now.
Timing.
And sacrificing chickens.
It's not really ironic that with deep discounts in addition to coupons you can get this cheaply, but it's hardly relevant to the average customer, who gets neither.
Google: HP coupon tm2. Yeah you're right - this kid of stuff is far too complicated for the merely "average" customer.