This raises the question, why wasn't this thought of before when the whole space race was on? I'd like to know...were there any technological limitations back in the day? After all, this amounts to a plane with rocket engines strapped on for use at higher altitudes..kind of like we've been seeing in popular scifi for decades.
The problem is the expectation (in the US) that a problem with the phone has to be fixed by the carrier, again because the carrier sold them the phone. How does it make sense to maintain a whole support team for resolving handset issues is beyond me. To get back to car analogies, the highway department is not who you buy your cars from, hence you go to the car dealer/repair shop and not to them when the engine doesn't start.
You may have some weekend gamers pick up a bubble buster game or two in lieu of reading a book or watching TV but hardcore gamers will never touch it.
Except that the mass market that Apple targets is not composed of hardcore gamers. Look at the Wii, it outsold the Xbox and Playstation because of targeting casual gamers and older people; many of its customers were probably first time gamers. Hardcore gamers will continue to play their blockbuster releases on consoles or monster PC rigs.
It's still a tiny company, after over a decade of operation
Well, if size is your metric for success.. It's tiny because he chooses to keep it that way. He doesn't want any venture capitalist coming in and insisting on 'growth', adding dozens more employees and product lines and turning into yet another midsized bureaucratic publicly traded mediocrity.
It's not a 'script', it's a full fledged ebook management software that can convert between various formats, download metadata for your ebooks and sync between your device and desktop.
Pirates are going to pirate no matter what the cost is.
Which is why you ignore them and concentrate on the 10% of people who do pay. They are your customers. Your focus should be on delivering great value for money to them, not worrying about the pirates. With digital goods, a pirated copy is the same as a non existent sale, but NOT necessarily the same as a lost sale. At your low price point, the usual excuse of being too expensive doesn't hold. Therefore those who pirate are just those who will do so no matter what, and they can be safely ignored.
. Apple products have always appealed to those who just have to have the newest iProduct no matter what
Apple wasn't ever about the technology. They consistently dumb things down and then polish them to appeal to the broad demographic. There's a rumor going round now that the iPhone 5 may have an 8mp camera sensor, when they're been around for years now on Nokia/SonyEricsson phones.
(if they haven't already). Add a clause saying that apps that are racist, sexist, discriminatory etc will be rejected, and Apple reserves the final say in this matter. I'd be surprised if they haven't already done so. In which case, there's no need to paint them as an arbitrary enforcer of morality. The app violated their TOS and was banned, plain and simple. Don't like the terms? Tough luck - it's their playground and their rules. If I've got it right, First Amendment applies to public or govt. owned places and the Appstore doesn't qualify as one since it's owned by Apple.
I haven't been up to date on gaming for over 5 years, but based on discussions here I understand that many modern games have removed the ability to host your own server. This is also in line with the console crowd, who can't use other servers anyway. So when a company decides to shut down its server, your copy of the game becomes useless for multiplayer..compare with how old classics like the entire Quake/UT series, Half Life 1, TFC, or even something as ancient as Doom can be used for LAN parties over and over. I remember when the server browser in the original UT used to have dozens of entries.
Relax, this isn't Halo or Counterstrike where 'more the merrier' is best. In fact, it would be tons more fun if they allowed you to start your own server and host a LAN party, like the good old Quakes and Unreal Tournaments of yesteryear without having to log onto some server maintained by the company and have to listen to anonymous 14 year olds hurling abuses over headphones.
Now, quad-band GSM has been common for a long time, but I have yet to see a UMTS handset that supported both the world frequencies and all of the US frequencies
I point you to Nokia's latest Symbian^3 based handsets (N8,C6-01,C7 and E7). All have pentaband 3G radios for exactly this reason. You can use them anywhere in the world for 3G/GSM, and with regard to the US, they would work on both AT&T and T mobile 3G frequencies.
Here's the thing - the digital hoarders were never content customers to begin with. In the pre Internet era, they would've just gotten by without the stuff they're 'stealing'. So it's useless to consider them as lost sales. They might as well not exist. The popularity of iTunes should show that if pricing is done right (along with hassle free transfer of songs to your device in this case) people wouldn't mind paying what is a reasonable amount for them rather than torrenting albums.
Ok. I guess it's a question of what one can get away with, then. My point was that Economic Times has a reputation of its own to consider, so they would not want to be called out for open plagiarization of this sort.
They obviously must have. . Haven't you heard of news syndication (Associated Press, Reuters etc all do that)? ET must have syndicated this article from NYT. It's hardly a new concept.As for having a deal,Economic Times is THE most widely read business newspaper in India(sister publication to the 180+ year old Times of India), owned by the Bennett & Coleman media group, they're not some hole in the wall publication. They regularly publish articles from NYT, Washington Post, Reuters etc, and have their own syndicated news service.
I saw the article and Nokia Bubbles came to mind - a bubble driven UI that lets you perform certain functions like viewing SMSes, using the screen as a torch, responding to missed calls etc without having to unlock the phone, released for their Symbian^3 devices recently.
According to NetQin, the cybercriminals usually install the spyware on the phone by sending an MMS containing the spyware to users to lure them to click.
In other words, moronic end users who click on anything are susceptible to exploits. News at 11. I'll start worrying the day they are actually able to produce zero user intervention Symbian malware, right now, in 2011.
Nokia's Ovi Store was upto 4 million downloads a day and growing, by the end of January. Remember that when Ovi Store was launched, it already had a huge base of Symbian smartphones to run on in several countries around the world.Given time (don't know if they had it), it would have grown into a decent ecosystem on its own. Nokia has tied up with 103 operators across 32 countries to support direct operator billing - so the apps you buy are charged to your monthly mobile bill instead of the risk of having to enter your credit card number on your phone, or pass it to an app.
A decent ecosystem was in place, and already growing - they killed everything just to gain a foothold in the US market.
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Even the iPhone name was the subject of litigation with Cisco, and later they settled.
QQ = cry (supposed to look like eyes with tears)
T_T is way more recognizable...this one looks like the tears slant sideways defying gravity.
This raises the question, why wasn't this thought of before when the whole space race was on? I'd like to know...were there any technological limitations back in the day? After all, this amounts to a plane with rocket engines strapped on for use at higher altitudes..kind of like we've been seeing in popular scifi for decades.
The problem is the expectation (in the US) that a problem with the phone has to be fixed by the carrier, again because the carrier sold them the phone.
How does it make sense to maintain a whole support team for resolving handset issues is beyond me. To get back to car analogies, the highway department is not who you buy your cars from, hence you go to the car dealer/repair shop and not to them when the engine doesn't start.
You may have some weekend gamers pick up a bubble buster game or two in lieu of reading a book or watching TV but hardcore gamers will never touch it.
Except that the mass market that Apple targets is not composed of hardcore gamers. Look at the Wii, it outsold the Xbox and Playstation because of targeting casual gamers and older people; many of its customers were probably first time gamers.
Hardcore gamers will continue to play their blockbuster releases on consoles or monster PC rigs.
It's still a tiny company, after over a decade of operation
Well, if size is your metric for success..
It's tiny because he chooses to keep it that way. He doesn't want any venture capitalist coming in and insisting on 'growth', adding dozens more employees and product lines and turning into yet another midsized bureaucratic publicly traded mediocrity.
It's not a 'script', it's a full fledged ebook management software that can convert between various formats, download metadata for your ebooks and sync between your device and desktop.
Pirates are going to pirate no matter what the cost is.
Which is why you ignore them and concentrate on the 10% of people who do pay. They are your customers. Your focus should be on delivering great value for money to them, not worrying about the pirates.
With digital goods, a pirated copy is the same as a non existent sale, but NOT necessarily the same as a lost sale. At your low price point, the usual excuse of being too expensive doesn't hold. Therefore those who pirate are just those who will do so no matter what, and they can be safely ignored.
. Apple products have always appealed to those who just have to have the newest iProduct no matter what
Apple wasn't ever about the technology. They consistently dumb things down and then polish them to appeal to the broad demographic. There's a rumor going round now that the iPhone 5 may have an 8mp camera sensor, when they're been around for years now on Nokia/SonyEricsson phones.
(if they haven't already). Add a clause saying that apps that are racist, sexist, discriminatory etc will be rejected, and Apple reserves the final say in this matter.
I'd be surprised if they haven't already done so. In which case, there's no need to paint them as an arbitrary enforcer of morality. The app violated their TOS and was banned, plain and simple. Don't like the terms? Tough luck - it's their playground and their rules. If I've got it right, First Amendment applies to public or govt. owned places and the Appstore doesn't qualify as one since it's owned by Apple.
I haven't been up to date on gaming for over 5 years, but based on discussions here I understand that many modern games have removed the ability to host your own server. This is also in line with the console crowd, who can't use other servers anyway. So when a company decides to shut down its server, your copy of the game becomes useless for multiplayer..compare with how old classics like the entire Quake/UT series, Half Life 1, TFC, or even something as ancient as Doom can be used for LAN parties over and over. I remember when the server browser in the original UT used to have dozens of entries.
Relax, this isn't Halo or Counterstrike where 'more the merrier' is best. In fact, it would be tons more fun if they allowed you to start your own server and host a LAN party, like the good old Quakes and Unreal Tournaments of yesteryear without having to log onto some server maintained by the company and have to listen to anonymous 14 year olds hurling abuses over headphones.
Now, quad-band GSM has been common for a long time, but I have yet to see a UMTS handset that supported both the world frequencies and all of the US frequencies
I point you to Nokia's latest Symbian^3 based handsets (N8,C6-01,C7 and E7). All have pentaband 3G radios for exactly this reason. You can use them anywhere in the world for 3G/GSM, and with regard to the US, they would work on both AT&T and T mobile 3G frequencies.
Here's the thing - the digital hoarders were never content customers to begin with. In the pre Internet era, they would've just gotten by without the stuff they're 'stealing'. So it's useless to consider them as lost sales. They might as well not exist.
The popularity of iTunes should show that if pricing is done right (along with hassle free transfer of songs to your device in this case) people wouldn't mind paying what is a reasonable amount for them rather than torrenting albums.
Ok. I guess it's a question of what one can get away with, then. My point was that Economic Times has a reputation of its own to consider, so they would not want to be called out for open plagiarization of this sort.
They obviously must have. . Haven't you heard of news syndication (Associated Press, Reuters etc all do that)? ET must have syndicated this article from NYT. It's hardly a new concept.As for having a deal,Economic Times is THE most widely read business newspaper in India(sister publication to the 180+ year old Times of India), owned by the Bennett & Coleman media group, they're not some hole in the wall publication. They regularly publish articles from NYT, Washington Post, Reuters etc, and have their own syndicated news service.
Uh, it very clearly credits NYT just above the headline!
That was John Romero, not Carmack.
I saw the article and Nokia Bubbles came to mind - a bubble driven UI that lets you perform certain functions like viewing SMSes, using the screen as a torch, responding to missed calls etc without having to unlock the phone, released for their Symbian^3 devices recently.
According to NetQin, the cybercriminals usually install the spyware on the phone by sending an MMS containing the spyware to users to lure them to click.
In other words, moronic end users who click on anything are susceptible to exploits. News at 11. I'll start worrying the day they are actually able to produce zero user intervention Symbian malware, right now, in 2011.
The Ravenclaw sequence didn't really bother me - I had heard it was supposed to be really scary - but most of the rest of the levels did.
Yeah, Ravenclaw is quite tame. Now Slytherin, that's a scary level! Unless you meant Ravenholm.
..they haven't been LO-FING around!
(Billy Bishop, the WWI fighter ace who shot down the Red Baron)
Wrong. Bishop was nowhere near Richthofen at the time of the latter's death.
'World' = US, according to Arse Technica, Engadget, TechCrunch GizmoDodo and other blowhard American tech blogs.
This from a country where people have to pay for incoming mobile calls and are at the mercy of the operators.
Nokia's Ovi Store was upto 4 million downloads a day and growing, by the end of January. Remember that when Ovi Store was launched, it already had a huge base of Symbian smartphones to run on in several countries around the world.Given time (don't know if they had it), it would have grown into a decent ecosystem on its own.
Nokia has tied up with 103 operators across 32 countries to support direct operator billing - so the apps you buy are charged to your monthly mobile bill instead of the risk of having to enter your credit card number on your phone, or pass it to an app.
A decent ecosystem was in place, and already growing - they killed everything just to gain a foothold in the US market.