Your reply betrays the crux of the problem: arrogance. We expect people to be trained on tool use, not of foundational issues. We make cars safe for them. We should make computers safe for them, too. Easy to understand, easy to navigate. We need to help them, not make them experts in arcane historical misfit problems with operating systems.
NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO BE AN OPERATING SYSTEM EXPERT.
Users should use computers as tools. There are responsibilities. But users are hapless. My aunt doesn't have to know about overhead cams to drive to work, and people shouldn't have to know about 64-bit Vista WiFi drivers to logon.
Plainly, some people are irresponsible and you can't catch idiocy no matter how you try-- nothing is foolproof because fools are so ingenious. But OS makers have a hallowed responsibility to make their targeted users both produtive and protected. To say otherwise, is hubris.
Still another rationalization and legal blow to liberty: searches without warrants, no probable cause, and it won't cease here. You're already stripped visually at airports, your personal data in relationship to the government made public, and there seems little that can be done to stop it. Perhaps a new breed of patriot might overthrow King George. No- wait, please don't mind this posting and start sending Treasury Agents to my door.... really-- I'm not a seditionist.
Apple is a sales company. They make stuff that ostensibly 'works'. Any computer maker that tries their own chip fab dies-- and IBM is the only exception to this. What happened to the Alpha? How is Sun and Solaris doing these days? Wanna buy a MIPS?
AMD is a hardware company. The fraction of sales that goes to end-consumers is near nill. They're caught in a battle with a cranky CEO that is out-of-breath trying to keep up with Intel, rather than simply out-smart Intel (it isn't tough; changing Intel is like turning the Queen Mary).
Apple doesn't really compete with WinTel if you think about it. They've gone there own way since before I bought an Apple ][. Buying a chip fab would be perhaps among the strangest shark-jumping things they could possibly do, except perhaps buying Johnson and Johnson.
This leap of logic, IMHO, shows a startlingly bad judgment in both business practices, economics, logic, and industrial acumen. Send this guy to bizniss skewl after he gets out of rehab.
Ballmer is on a mission. Trash the iPhone. Claim that UAC is theirs and unique (they're actually the last to come to the table with it, see SELinux, and various other Linux, MacOS, and BSD implementations).
You guys fall for this stuff. It's a red flag in front of you. The problem really is: there's no one competent standing up for non-Microsoft architectures to the public. So old Monkey-Dance gets in front of gullible 'jounalists', spews disinformation, and you guys snort and charge.
There's nothing to see here. Really. Those that are informed are already past this current deluge of PR crap. Oh yeah, Mikey likes Ubuntu. Suckas.
Open source is just barely starting to mature. That commercial influences are in the mix is a happy thing. Coders will continue to do what they love, and for all of the reasons that have made OSS and collaborative development a good thing.
Any coder-- any human for that matter-- can get burned out. Self-rejuvenation is a good thing and isn't limited to programming, development, and engineering. All of his diatribe points to frustration and stress. The basics haven't changed, but they have matured. Along the way, we get to shape this. He's seemingly feeling powerless against the Big Boys. That's natural, and the basics of doing code because you love it and want to contribute haven't changed. ANYBODY gets to use the code, subject to licensing-- little guys like me, and big guns like IBM and so on.
Whenever sales go into the crapper, it's every direct-model vendor's sworn duty to look at "the channel". I can't tell you how many times Dell's announced that they'll do right by "the channel" who uniformly hates Dell's very existence for sins over two decades. Dell's advertisements dissed "the channel", and each time Dell tried to bolster sales by stuffing alternate channels with product, the price dropped out like a rock, no one made any money, and Dell got a nice looking quarter to report to Wall Street. Yet people fall for it every time.
It's like the Look-Mikey Uses Linux PR that so many swallowed hook, line, and sinker.
Dell was built on direct sales. They do it very well. They found that they can't do support out of India for domestic North American consumption, and so their costs are up. Once again, they'll have to squeeze somebody to make their quarter look good to Wall Street. Guess who it is this time.
LinuxLand is filled with great solid hacks. People, like Linus, put together code sets based on affinity and desire and a lot of blood/sweat/tears/tribulation and just plain brain power. So much the better. Stallman put together a pure kit of utilities that mimed the functionality of core Unix components. He did it for free, and forever free. So much the better.
It's ok to put money into these things to advance them and move them along. Money will follow good code that people need (ok, maybe some bad code, too-- it's the functionality that's important). If MySQL goes public, I like it. StarOffice, and OO get money, although not enough. So much the better.
I'm willing to back up my needs with cash-- I can't code my entire universe, and neither can you. I'll pay for what I need. It doesn't queer the product, or make it worse to have paid or putting incentive into what you or I want. There is no taint to commercial products. If it advances IBM's gains, great. If it's GPL and free, it advances mine, too. Close the source, or put restrictive licenses on the code, and you constrain it, and you constrain my ability to update the code, or use it subject to licensing constraints. Otherwise, cash hurts none of the effort. It's basic market capitalism at work-- not the socialism/communism that's often used by nitwits to describe how open source software works.
When his grass-roots election to ICANN happened, he ended up against the madness that ICANN was and is. Goto http://www.cavebear.com/ and get his story. He's a protocols expert, worked for Cisco at high levels, and knows his chops. You could also see him hanging from the rafters at InterOp. Yeah, he's a lawyer, too. Add a moral geek with an atty, and that's what you get.
> 1) it's not even a 3.5g phone-- it's a 1st generation phone It's actually a 2G GSM phone, 1G is a term used for analog mobile networks. >>I sit corrected. Slow in any event.
> 2) there's little room for third party apps unless you want to play Apple's usary for the privilege did you mean usury? lending money at unreasonably high interest rates? wft? >>yes, usury. Fealty.
> 3) the phone has inherent security problems because of #1 (think old GSM phones and how easily they're cracked) did you mean old analog phones? sounds like you have those confused with GSM >>No, GSM phones aren't exactly secure. Think not?
> 5) No Outlook. No SmackBerry. It has a mail client and supports push email, did you watch the webcast? Each iPhone will come with free yahoo push email Mmmm.. Yahoo mail. Yummy.
8) Can't change the SIM!!!!!! Imagine, every EU roamer will throw the iPhone under a train! the SIM card slot was shown in a slide in the keynote... watch the webcast >>No, I haven't seen "the webcast"
Your post is designed to spread FUD. Lets face it, if it wasn't for the iPhone, America wouldn't even have a mobile phone that stands up to European/Japanese designs. Even though it was designed by a Brit...
>>No, it's not designed to spread FUD. It's intended exactly to show why this unit will be ignored by business people. And while I don't particularly care for Dvorak, I agree with him that this phone will be torn to shreads in the marketplace.
Shiny lasts 30 seconds until it doesn't do something that I think it should, compared to those in the damned airport lounge surrrounding me. Then it's dustbin fodder. It's that easy.
WiFi is actually cool. Now tell me, do you use a WiFi VoIP phone? Ok, say you do. When was the last time you felt comfortable going into anyplace and logging on to a WiFi hotspot away from your home/office.
And do use WiFi, where you can get it, and with all the great authentication schemes available.
In terms of Outlook direct access, it's unlikely to work unless Microsoft does something. In terms of OWA access, if all is correct from stem to stern (meaning that the x.509 certs work in the new browser), then you could get OWA. Please bring your binoculars.
Vista support? See any Apple announcements copping to it? No, not yet. I wonder why.
No, the models seen so far don't have a way to change the SIM, just like you can't get to the battery.
So none of my points are wrong, save the Edge discussion. Now let's see, EDGE has three channels of upper-end transmission capabilities, where three channels are available. Want me to do the math, or can you see what 56K * 3 is? That's awful. WiFi is ok-- subject to the standing inherent problems of WiFi. So calm down and look at this thing rationally: a business person takes a look at the list and has a RAZR or an LG or a SmackBerry or a 650, looking at the iPhone. Pick one. And be rational about it. AT&T and Apple are going to get creamed in the first generation after the fanboi buy-cycle.
Argggghhhhh. I use a PowerBook G4, but I don't even have the fanboi blindness you've displayed.
1) it's not even a 3.5g phone-- it's a 1st generation phone Which won't matter a whit for most businesses out there. "Shiny" will matter. >>Uh, no. Shiny no longer gets it. Functionality gets it. Why are there so many ugly Treo 650s out there? Because it's cute? We're talking businesses here. Cute lasts about 30 seconds.
2) there's little room for third party apps unless you want to play Apple's usary for the privilege Full featured web browser. >>And it renders as fast as Safari does? Egads. Sure, I'm going to browse with no keys and my thumbs. While driving.
3) the phone has inherent security problems because of #1 (think old GSM phones and how easily they're cracked) Your logic is truly dizzying. First, saying that "its new, and thus will have inherent security problems" is a logical fallacy. There will no doubt be bugs, but I haven't seen any evidence that they won't be easily fixable software bugs instead of 'inherent security problems.' Second, while there are certainly companies out there that care about security, very few are likely to think in terms of 'its new, thus security will be a problem.' They will ask if the feature list for security matches up with their requirements and probably leave it at that. Those that care about the stability of the platform will wait, but that has nothing to do with security. >>No, you don't get it. It's pretty easy to snarf a 1G GSM phone. Take your 'logical fallacy' argument and buy a sub to 2600.
4) you can't get high speed anything on the phone, not even GPRS speed, let alone UMTS/Edge, or even something reasonably kewl The only question that matters in this regard is: "will it be fast enough." "Something reasonably 'kewl'" does not fit into it. >> Oh yeah, fast enough. A network substrate that can support a blistering 20K/sec. MMmmm. HD on that would be well, a frame per fortnight.
5) No Outlook. No SmackBerry. And I'm only betting here, but no Vista support (iTunes-- hello???) Considering when it comes out, I am willing to bet on Vista support. iTunes has fairly well understood problems with running on Vista, none of which I can think of will apply to the iPhone. They also have several more months to work on it, and most environments don't seem to be switching to vista anyways. >>Sure. Vista support will come out before iTunes Vista support. Lots of time to work on it. No other projects have been put off for it, either (don't look at that Leopard in the corner). You get sucked in so dearly by PR.
A lack of Outlook support is more of a problem, but also not guaranteed to be the case. It may also not be that big of a deal: some companies it will matter and in some it will not, and it does promise to sync with the computer.
>>Sync and replace are two different concepts. Outlook is a moving target, if you haven't noticed. Or maybe it'll be an AT&T 'option'. Mmmmm Options.
6) Poorly designed UI-- no key depression feedback as there are no keys; and no 'say command' apps in this generation You are kidding, right? >> Yes, Jakob Neilsen would have a fit. No keys? Ok, eat that donut and dial, buddy.
7) Can't get at the battery??!!??? Who are these guys fooling??? I would love to see stats on how many people, percentage wise, actually ever change the batter on their phone. How many among business users would also be an interesting stat. >> Use as your first clue the shelf space dedicated at the Big Box retailers for battery widgets. Then pull out your imaginary stats.
8) Can't change the SIM!!!!!! Imagine, every EU roamer will throw the iPhone under a train! Which matters for most US-based businesses why? >> Yeah, the US market is going to make it for good ole Apple. Don't need that foreign sales crap at all. Nope. You're tied to a specific carrier, just like you're almost tied to iTunes. Open, that. Not.
1) it's not even a 3.5g phone-- it's a 1st generation phone 2) there's little room for third party apps unless you want to play Apple's usary for the privilege 3) the phone has inherent security problems because of #1 (think old GSM phones and how easily they're cracked) 4) you can't get high speed anything on the phone, not even GPRS speed, let alone UMTS/Edge, or even something reasonably kewl 5) No Outlook. No SmackBerry. And I'm only betting here, but no Vista support (iTunes-- hello???) 6) Poorly designed UI-- no key depression feedback as there are no keys; and no 'say command' apps in this generation 7) Can't get at the battery??!!??? Who are these guys fooling??? 8) Can't change the SIM!!!!!! Imagine, every EU roamer will throw the iPhone under a train! 9) Ok, it won't get a virus..... for a while.
Let's take your business user case arguments and apply them against the above, not to mention the price, the captive (I won't even get into popularity here) carrier, and the fact that there are a lot of bright minds far, far ahead of Apple in this market. Now tell me that business users are going to swallow this up. At least the RAZR can proxy via Bluetooth-- an EV.DO connection.
I've been using photo cells for decades, I'm nearly off-grid now. The reason you see more in the media is because of the economics of using coal, oil, natural gas (non-renewable), and nuclear (renewable but with hideous waste byproducts) fuels: rough economics, enough to cause wars and craziness instead of rational fuel generation plans.
By rational, I mean the ability to prevent new housing and industry without having renewable fueling system in place and ready to fuel the needs of the new development. Worse, we don't recycle very well (planetwide) and spend exotic amounts of GNP just farting around-- rather than plan journeys, trips, or share fuel loads by carpooling. So, the prices go up, but people are loathe to change their consuming habits. They just pay the price. Now the price is high, and the media has latched on to the fact that there are alternatives. Hell, there've been alternatives for decades that are inexpensive (long term asset return) and quite viable.
Oh, gee, Michael Dell, running dog lackey Microsoft/Intel fanboi now uses Ubuntu! See? Dell is really trying to those pesky Linux people! See? Mikey uses one at home, although there is the altar of XP Media Center there just to make sure that Bill's not pissed.
C'mon, folks--- this is PR working at its finest and you're getting sucked right into the nozzle. Dell support for Linux has been scant and waffling for years. Now you're being seduced by the fantasy that The Big Dell actually uses an OSS system. Get real.
1) the attack, once found, would have a bevy of coders working on it (we hope, of course)
2) the testing and regression doesn't have the dependency matrix that Word does, and it's likely that if there was a link, it could be both understood and remedied quickly thru an open code supply chain
3) multiple hackers (oops, I mean coders) would likely offer variances of a patch, of which perhaps several would/could be part of the subsequent 'patched' tree
4) eight weeks is a travesty, and that the State Department of the United States of America didn't have an IDF that could detect the abberant traffic is just plain malfeasant. Heads should roll.
Yes, there are lots of people out there and some of them are actually getting those derned computing things with a real darned hookup to the InterWeb.
As the Internet is the ultimate flattener of the earth, there are no surprises here. What's interesting is that many thought that everything from google to ebay would dominate the world's commerce. Well, it did for a while, and naturally (lacking cultural adaptation to specific international markets) they're failing where other sites are now quite culturally adapted and are doing very well.
This will continue to occur until we understand more about each other's buying habits, distribution infrastructure and so on. Then, the best site wins, whether it's the next GooTube in China or Cabernet Wine site in Chile. My hopes: competition will continue to improve the bigger brands, keep them 'honest' and competitively priced.
The Kapersky source material is poorly written. Dig was used to compare DNS servers, but the actual problem was a round-robin home page with outreaching code with little presents inside. At first glance, it sounded like a DNS exploit but it's not-- it's a good old fashion page re-write. DNS has nothing to do with it.
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Your reply betrays the crux of the problem: arrogance. We expect people to be trained on tool use, not of foundational issues. We make cars safe for them. We should make computers safe for them, too. Easy to understand, easy to navigate. We need to help them, not make them experts in arcane historical misfit problems with operating systems.
No, instead it's irresponsible coders.
NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO BE AN OPERATING SYSTEM EXPERT.
Users should use computers as tools. There are responsibilities. But users are hapless. My aunt doesn't have to know about overhead cams to drive to work, and people shouldn't have to know about 64-bit Vista WiFi drivers to logon.
Plainly, some people are irresponsible and you can't catch idiocy no matter how you try-- nothing is foolproof because fools are so ingenious. But OS makers have a hallowed responsibility to make their targeted users both produtive and protected. To say otherwise, is hubris.
Your citations were great. I really enjoyed them.
Now, up against the wall, mother fletcher. You and I are both now in a database somewhere.
Good luck and best of lawyers.
Still another rationalization and legal blow to liberty: searches without warrants, no probable cause, and it won't cease here. You're already stripped visually at airports, your personal data in relationship to the government made public, and there seems little that can be done to stop it. Perhaps a new breed of patriot might overthrow King George. No- wait, please don't mind this posting and start sending Treasury Agents to my door.... really-- I'm not a seditionist.
We agree on that. My thoughts are that the columnist was a lightweight idiot. That this columnist's observations runs on /. is depressing.
My point exactly.
Apple buying AMD would be a kiss of death-- probably for AMD if it doesn't drown Apple.
The Alpha was a wonderful design; visionary.
Apple is a sales company. They make stuff that ostensibly 'works'. Any computer maker that tries their own chip fab dies-- and IBM is the only exception to this. What happened to the Alpha? How is Sun and Solaris doing these days? Wanna buy a MIPS?
AMD is a hardware company. The fraction of sales that goes to end-consumers is near nill. They're caught in a battle with a cranky CEO that is out-of-breath trying to keep up with Intel, rather than simply out-smart Intel (it isn't tough; changing Intel is like turning the Queen Mary).
Apple doesn't really compete with WinTel if you think about it. They've gone there own way since before I bought an Apple ][. Buying a chip fab would be perhaps among the strangest shark-jumping things they could possibly do, except perhaps buying Johnson and Johnson.
This leap of logic, IMHO, shows a startlingly bad judgment in both business practices, economics, logic, and industrial acumen. Send this guy to bizniss skewl after he gets out of rehab.
Ballmer is on a mission. Trash the iPhone. Claim that UAC is theirs and unique (they're actually the last to come to the table with it, see SELinux, and various other Linux, MacOS, and BSD implementations).
You guys fall for this stuff. It's a red flag in front of you. The problem really is: there's no one competent standing up for non-Microsoft architectures to the public. So old Monkey-Dance gets in front of gullible 'jounalists', spews disinformation, and you guys snort and charge.
There's nothing to see here. Really. Those that are informed are already past this current deluge of PR crap. Oh yeah, Mikey likes Ubuntu. Suckas.
Open source is just barely starting to mature. That commercial influences are in the mix is a happy thing. Coders will continue to do what they love, and for all of the reasons that have made OSS and collaborative development a good thing.
Any coder-- any human for that matter-- can get burned out. Self-rejuvenation is a good thing and isn't limited to programming, development, and engineering. All of his diatribe points to frustration and stress. The basics haven't changed, but they have matured. Along the way, we get to shape this. He's seemingly feeling powerless against the Big Boys. That's natural, and the basics of doing code because you love it and want to contribute haven't changed. ANYBODY gets to use the code, subject to licensing-- little guys like me, and big guns like IBM and so on.
Whenever sales go into the crapper, it's every direct-model vendor's sworn duty to look at "the channel". I can't tell you how many times Dell's announced that they'll do right by "the channel" who uniformly hates Dell's very existence for sins over two decades. Dell's advertisements dissed "the channel", and each time Dell tried to bolster sales by stuffing alternate channels with product, the price dropped out like a rock, no one made any money, and Dell got a nice looking quarter to report to Wall Street. Yet people fall for it every time.
It's like the Look-Mikey Uses Linux PR that so many swallowed hook, line, and sinker.
Dell was built on direct sales. They do it very well. They found that they can't do support out of India for domestic North American consumption, and so their costs are up. Once again, they'll have to squeeze somebody to make their quarter look good to Wall Street. Guess who it is this time.
LinuxLand is filled with great solid hacks. People, like Linus, put together code sets based on affinity and desire and a lot of blood/sweat/tears/tribulation and just plain brain power. So much the better. Stallman put together a pure kit of utilities that mimed the functionality of core Unix components. He did it for free, and forever free. So much the better.
It's ok to put money into these things to advance them and move them along. Money will follow good code that people need (ok, maybe some bad code, too-- it's the functionality that's important). If MySQL goes public, I like it. StarOffice, and OO get money, although not enough. So much the better.
I'm willing to back up my needs with cash-- I can't code my entire universe, and neither can you. I'll pay for what I need. It doesn't queer the product, or make it worse to have paid or putting incentive into what you or I want. There is no taint to commercial products. If it advances IBM's gains, great. If it's GPL and free, it advances mine, too. Close the source, or put restrictive licenses on the code, and you constrain it, and you constrain my ability to update the code, or use it subject to licensing constraints. Otherwise, cash hurts none of the effort. It's basic market capitalism at work-- not the socialism/communism that's often used by nitwits to describe how open source software works.
When his grass-roots election to ICANN happened, he ended up against the madness that ICANN was and is. Goto http://www.cavebear.com/ and get his story. He's a protocols expert, worked for Cisco at high levels, and knows his chops. You could also see him hanging from the rafters at InterOp. Yeah, he's a lawyer, too. Add a moral geek with an atty, and that's what you get.
> 1) it's not even a 3.5g phone-- it's a 1st generation phone
- devoured-by-evdo/
It's actually a 2G GSM phone, 1G is a term used for analog mobile networks.
>>I sit corrected. Slow in any event.
> 2) there's little room for third party apps unless you want to play Apple's usary for the privilege
did you mean usury? lending money at unreasonably high interest rates? wft?
>>yes, usury. Fealty.
> 3) the phone has inherent security problems because of #1 (think old GSM phones and how easily they're cracked)
did you mean old analog phones? sounds like you have those confused with GSM
>>No, GSM phones aren't exactly secure. Think not?
> 4) you can't get high speed anything on the phone, not even GPRS speed, let alone UMTS/Edge, or even something reasonably kewl
it has EDGE and WiFi - did you read the specs? http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/specs.html
>>Again, I sit corrected. See http://gracefulflavor.net/2007/01/19/iphones-edge
> 5) No Outlook. No SmackBerry.
It has a mail client and supports push email, did you watch the webcast? Each iPhone will come with free yahoo push email
Mmmm.. Yahoo mail. Yummy.
8) Can't change the SIM!!!!!! Imagine, every EU roamer will throw the iPhone under a train!
the SIM card slot was shown in a slide in the keynote... watch the webcast
>>No, I haven't seen "the webcast"
Your post is designed to spread FUD. Lets face it, if it wasn't for the iPhone, America wouldn't even have a mobile phone that stands up to European/Japanese designs. Even though it was designed by a Brit...
>>No, it's not designed to spread FUD. It's intended exactly to show why this unit will be ignored by business people. And while I don't particularly care for Dvorak, I agree with him that this phone will be torn to shreads in the marketplace.
Shiny lasts 30 seconds until it doesn't do something that I think it should, compared to those in the damned airport lounge surrrounding me. Then it's dustbin fodder. It's that easy.
Now look up Edge and GPRS and then go to http://gracefulflavor.net/2007/01/19/iphones-edge- devoured-by-evdo/ and do the #s.
WiFi is actually cool. Now tell me, do you use a WiFi VoIP phone? Ok, say you do. When was the last time you felt comfortable going into anyplace and logging on to a WiFi hotspot away from your home/office.
I was wrong about Edge. See http://gracefulflavor.net/2007/01/19/iphones-edge- devoured-by-evdo/ For an interesting data sample of what that means.
And do use WiFi, where you can get it, and with all the great authentication schemes available.
In terms of Outlook direct access, it's unlikely to work unless Microsoft does something. In terms of OWA access, if all is correct from stem to stern (meaning that the x.509 certs work in the new browser), then you could get OWA. Please bring your binoculars.
Vista support? See any Apple announcements copping to it? No, not yet. I wonder why.
No, the models seen so far don't have a way to change the SIM, just like you can't get to the battery.
So none of my points are wrong, save the Edge discussion. Now let's see, EDGE has three channels of upper-end transmission capabilities, where three channels are available. Want me to do the math, or can you see what 56K * 3 is? That's awful. WiFi is ok-- subject to the standing inherent problems of WiFi. So calm down and look at this thing rationally: a business person takes a look at the list and has a RAZR or an LG or a SmackBerry or a 650, looking at the iPhone. Pick one. And be rational about it. AT&T and Apple are going to get creamed in the first generation after the fanboi buy-cycle.
Argggghhhhh. I use a PowerBook G4, but I don't even have the fanboi blindness you've displayed.
1) it's not even a 3.5g phone-- it's a 1st generation phone
Which won't matter a whit for most businesses out there. "Shiny" will matter.
>>Uh, no. Shiny no longer gets it. Functionality gets it. Why are there so many ugly Treo 650s out there? Because it's cute? We're talking businesses here. Cute lasts about 30 seconds.
2) there's little room for third party apps unless you want to play Apple's usary for the privilege
Full featured web browser.
>>And it renders as fast as Safari does? Egads. Sure, I'm going to browse with no keys and my thumbs. While driving.
3) the phone has inherent security problems because of #1 (think old GSM phones and how easily they're cracked)
Your logic is truly dizzying. First, saying that "its new, and thus will have inherent security problems" is a logical fallacy. There will no doubt be bugs, but I haven't seen any evidence that they won't be easily fixable software bugs instead of 'inherent security problems.' Second, while there are certainly companies out there that care about security, very few are likely to think in terms of 'its new, thus security will be a problem.' They will ask if the feature list for security matches up with their requirements and probably leave it at that. Those that care about the stability of the platform will wait, but that has nothing to do with security.
>>No, you don't get it. It's pretty easy to snarf a 1G GSM phone. Take your 'logical fallacy' argument and buy a sub to 2600.
4) you can't get high speed anything on the phone, not even GPRS speed, let alone UMTS/Edge, or even something reasonably kewl
The only question that matters in this regard is: "will it be fast enough." "Something reasonably 'kewl'" does not fit into it.
>> Oh yeah, fast enough. A network substrate that can support a blistering 20K/sec. MMmmm. HD on that would be well, a frame per fortnight.
5) No Outlook. No SmackBerry. And I'm only betting here, but no Vista support (iTunes-- hello???)
Considering when it comes out, I am willing to bet on Vista support. iTunes has fairly well understood problems with running on Vista, none of which I can think of will apply to the iPhone. They also have several more months to work on it, and most environments don't seem to be switching to vista anyways.
>>Sure. Vista support will come out before iTunes Vista support. Lots of time to work on it. No other projects have been put off for it, either (don't look at that Leopard in the corner). You get sucked in so dearly by PR.
A lack of Outlook support is more of a problem, but also not guaranteed to be the case. It may also not be that big of a deal: some companies it will matter and in some it will not, and it does promise to sync with the computer.
>>Sync and replace are two different concepts. Outlook is a moving target, if you haven't noticed. Or maybe it'll be an AT&T 'option'. Mmmmm Options.
6) Poorly designed UI-- no key depression feedback as there are no keys; and no 'say command' apps in this generation
You are kidding, right?
>> Yes, Jakob Neilsen would have a fit. No keys? Ok, eat that donut and dial, buddy.
7) Can't get at the battery??!!??? Who are these guys fooling???
I would love to see stats on how many people, percentage wise, actually ever change the batter on their phone. How many among business users would also be an interesting stat.
>> Use as your first clue the shelf space dedicated at the Big Box retailers for battery widgets. Then pull out your imaginary stats.
8) Can't change the SIM!!!!!! Imagine, every EU roamer will throw the iPhone under a train!
Which matters for most US-based businesses why?
>> Yeah, the US market is going to make it for good ole Apple. Don't need that foreign sales crap at all. Nope. You're tied to a specific carrier, just like you're almost tied to iTunes. Open, that. Not.
9)
1) it's not even a 3.5g phone-- it's a 1st generation phone
2) there's little room for third party apps unless you want to play Apple's usary for the privilege
3) the phone has inherent security problems because of #1 (think old GSM phones and how easily they're cracked)
4) you can't get high speed anything on the phone, not even GPRS speed, let alone UMTS/Edge, or even something reasonably kewl
5) No Outlook. No SmackBerry. And I'm only betting here, but no Vista support (iTunes-- hello???)
6) Poorly designed UI-- no key depression feedback as there are no keys; and no 'say command' apps in this generation
7) Can't get at the battery??!!??? Who are these guys fooling???
8) Can't change the SIM!!!!!! Imagine, every EU roamer will throw the iPhone under a train!
9) Ok, it won't get a virus..... for a while.
Let's take your business user case arguments and apply them against the above, not to mention the price, the captive (I won't even get into popularity here) carrier, and the fact that there are a lot of bright minds far, far ahead of Apple in this market. Now tell me that business users are going to swallow this up. At least the RAZR can proxy via Bluetooth-- an EV.DO connection.
I've been using photo cells for decades, I'm nearly off-grid now. The reason you see more in the media is because of the economics of using coal, oil, natural gas (non-renewable), and nuclear (renewable but with hideous waste byproducts) fuels: rough economics, enough to cause wars and craziness instead of rational fuel generation plans.
By rational, I mean the ability to prevent new housing and industry without having renewable fueling system in place and ready to fuel the needs of the new development. Worse, we don't recycle very well (planetwide) and spend exotic amounts of GNP just farting around-- rather than plan journeys, trips, or share fuel loads by carpooling. So, the prices go up, but people are loathe to change their consuming habits. They just pay the price. Now the price is high, and the media has latched on to the fact that there are alternatives. Hell, there've been alternatives for decades that are inexpensive (long term asset return) and quite viable.
Oh, gee, Michael Dell, running dog lackey Microsoft/Intel fanboi now uses Ubuntu! See? Dell is really trying to those pesky Linux people! See? Mikey uses one at home, although there is the altar of XP Media Center there just to make sure that Bill's not pissed.
C'mon, folks--- this is PR working at its finest and you're getting sucked right into the nozzle. Dell support for Linux has been scant and waffling for years. Now you're being seduced by the fantasy that The Big Dell actually uses an OSS system. Get real.
1) the attack, once found, would have a bevy of coders working on it (we hope, of course)
2) the testing and regression doesn't have the dependency matrix that Word does, and it's likely that if there was a link, it could be both understood and remedied quickly thru an open code supply chain
3) multiple hackers (oops, I mean coders) would likely offer variances of a patch, of which perhaps several would/could be part of the subsequent 'patched' tree
4) eight weeks is a travesty, and that the State Department of the United States of America didn't have an IDF that could detect the abberant traffic is just plain malfeasant. Heads should roll.
not "death of innocents".
DId video games play a part? We don't know. I do know that there's just far too much violence out there and violence as an easy-end.
Don't mince words, and don't describe this in the form of a euphenism-- it was cold blooded murder.
Yes, there are lots of people out there and some of them are actually getting those derned computing things with a real darned hookup to the InterWeb.
As the Internet is the ultimate flattener of the earth, there are no surprises here. What's interesting is that many thought that everything from google to ebay would dominate the world's commerce. Well, it did for a while, and naturally (lacking cultural adaptation to specific international markets) they're failing where other sites are now quite culturally adapted and are doing very well.
This will continue to occur until we understand more about each other's buying habits, distribution infrastructure and so on. Then, the best site wins, whether it's the next GooTube in China or Cabernet Wine site in Chile. My hopes: competition will continue to improve the bigger brands, keep them 'honest' and competitively priced.
The days of no gravity were my favorites. The other days, when gravity nailed you to your bed, were the dark days.
So many images, so many interesting newly invented words, imagery, and the skewering of organized religions and belief systems.
Vonnegut was a Zen Master in a Hoosier Veteran's body, with a keen eye for the obscenity and violence that man foists upon man.
There's a vacuum in humanity where he once stood, a lit Lucky Strike in his hand, smiling with rapt amusement at it all.
The world was his ghetto, and rubbing feet together could make it better.
The Kapersky source material is poorly written. Dig was used to compare DNS servers, but the actual problem was a round-robin home page with outreaching code with little presents inside. At first glance, it sounded like a DNS exploit but it's not-- it's a good old fashion page re-write. DNS has nothing to do with it.