It seems to me that early adopters will continue to have problems as long as consumers keep their memories short. There is undeniable pressure to get new products to market fast. This leads to shoddy engineering. Thing is, generally companies do not feel many repercussions when they screw up, because consumers do not avaoid other products from that company. Phillips will take a hit in this recall, but six months from now, it will be forgotten by the world at large and Phillips will maintain the status quo: get new shinies in the store as fast as possible.
Remember that the XBox 360 had a duff power supply? That has hardly hurt the sales of that product and you can bet nobody will associate that debacle with the upcoming release of Vista.
Just look at TV. Most people pay around 50$ (or more) a month, and there are 15mn+ of commercials per hour.
TV is free. Just plug in you TV to a power source and watch free broadcasts. What? You want more channels and guarenteed quality reception? Well, you are in luck, for $50/mo we can hook you up.
1) Cost. Copper filled nanotubes? Doesn't sound cheap. I'd expect even a plain paint with a relevant amount of copper in it to be expensive, let alone copper filled nanotubes.
Why wouldn't it be? Its a purely passive method of damping.
When I was a kid I helped my father build a corrugated tin shed. My brother tried to use his cell phone in it over christmas and found no signal. There have been no charges laid in connection with the construction of the shed.
True. But IE is the most dominant browser because it was bundled with the OS. This is why Netscape died. That Firefox is growing is a testament to its superiority.
This is so profound. I am simply staggered with this depth of reasoning involved with this. Companies that depend on the availability of a resource will be affected if that resource is unavailable. Amazing!
In a related story, high tech companies are concerned that they may lose money in the event of a power outage.
WMP does not establish a monopoly. The issue is that the OS monopoloy is being leveraged to restrict competition with other media players. Consumers (or so the theory goes) need not buy or even acquire another media player because WMP is already there. This stifles competition. And it is illegal.
What happend to Standard Oil? It was dismantled and each component was forced to compete with the others. This is how we got: Esso, Exxon, Mobil, etc. (some have remerged by now, this happened 100 years ago)
Microsoft could be shattered into seperate companies. A Windows OS company. An Office productivity software company. A media player company (which would last about a fortnight). This is a real possibility.
I believe what we are witnessing here is something of a bit of a "shotgun effect" where a company tries to offer many different things and invariably along the way gets something right.
I prefer the analogy of: "Throw stuff up and see what sticks."
Mostly because a lot of tech companies offer products that are really regurgitated slop.
I agree with your comments. As an aside I'd like to add that I think there will be significant resistance to the a la carte style services you advocate. Phone companies, power companies and the like have operated for a long time with guaranteed income because of their monopoly status and as such now operate with the attitude that they are entitled to it. Which they are not, of course. Verizon assumes that its subscribers will pay to have access to the pipes because they always have. They will fight to maintain this staus quo, and they have bags of money to subsidise the fight. Lat's hope its all resolved quickly.
You do realize that the touch sensors are independent from the screen itself, right?
The idea was that the display screen and the touch screen would be integrated into a single reconfigurable display that covered the whole fron face of an iPod. The touch screen aspect of this very large integrated display would preclude the addition of a plastic covering.
There is no way Jobs would allow a design where the screen was covered with hard plastic save for a big circular hole in one end. Its all or nothing. Maybe the new touch screen covering is scratch resistant. Here's hoping.
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What ever happened to Mozilla Sunbird? That was a calendar project too.
Well done, sir. Take a bow.
It seems to me that early adopters will continue to have problems as long as consumers keep their memories short. There is undeniable pressure to get new products to market fast. This leads to shoddy engineering. Thing is, generally companies do not feel many repercussions when they screw up, because consumers do not avaoid other products from that company. Phillips will take a hit in this recall, but six months from now, it will be forgotten by the world at large and Phillips will maintain the status quo: get new shinies in the store as fast as possible.
Remember that the XBox 360 had a duff power supply? That has hardly hurt the sales of that product and you can bet nobody will associate that debacle with the upcoming release of Vista.
Just look at TV. Most people pay around 50$ (or more) a month, and there are 15mn+ of commercials per hour.
TV is free. Just plug in you TV to a power source and watch free broadcasts. What? You want more channels and guarenteed quality reception? Well, you are in luck, for $50/mo we can hook you up.
a break in the church?
I thought it was a Bazaar.
Nicely done.
1) Cost. Copper filled nanotubes? Doesn't sound cheap. I'd expect even a plain paint with a relevant amount of copper in it to be expensive, let alone copper filled nanotubes.
The cost of popcorn is going to $1/kernel.
I expect that the usher will have access to afunctioning communication device.
Just don't go in the theatre/church/classroom. You don't have a right to cell phone reception on private property.
Why wouldn't it be? Its a purely passive method of damping.
When I was a kid I helped my father build a corrugated tin shed. My brother tried to use his cell phone in it over christmas and found no signal. There have been no charges laid in connection with the construction of the shed.
Netscape wasn't free. If Firefox cost money, it would not be where it is right now.
True. But IE is the most dominant browser because it was bundled with the OS. This is why Netscape died. That Firefox is growing is a testament to its superiority.
This is so profound. I am simply staggered with this depth of reasoning involved with this. Companies that depend on the availability of a resource will be affected if that resource is unavailable. Amazing!
In a related story, high tech companies are concerned that they may lose money in the event of a power outage.
Rockefeller had more money than Microsoft evr had or ever will have. And his company was dismantled.
Very true.
Those Linux distro guys are really abusing their monopoly on operating systems.
WMP does not establish a monopoly. The issue is that the OS monopoloy is being leveraged to restrict competition with other media players. Consumers (or so the theory goes) need not buy or even acquire another media player because WMP is already there. This stifles competition. And it is illegal.
What happend to Standard Oil? It was dismantled and each component was forced to compete with the others. This is how we got: Esso, Exxon, Mobil, etc. (some have remerged by now, this happened 100 years ago)
Microsoft could be shattered into seperate companies. A Windows OS company. An Office productivity software company. A media player company (which would last about a fortnight). This is a real possibility.
I believe what we are witnessing here is something of a bit of a "shotgun effect" where a company tries to offer many different things and invariably along the way gets something right.
I prefer the analogy of: "Throw stuff up and see what sticks."
Mostly because a lot of tech companies offer products that are really regurgitated slop.
That thing would be ideal for running a dungeon mapper for table top RPGs.
It is sales of servers with the OS on them. Not sales of the OS. So more servers were sold that run Windows than those sold that run Unix.
Just be patient. It is going to happen. Just not now with RIM.
A shark's 6th sense.
"I see soon-to-be dead people"
I agree with your comments. As an aside I'd like to add that I think there will be significant resistance to the a la carte style services you advocate. Phone companies, power companies and the like have operated for a long time with guaranteed income because of their monopoly status and as such now operate with the attitude that they are entitled to it. Which they are not, of course. Verizon assumes that its subscribers will pay to have access to the pipes because they always have. They will fight to maintain this staus quo, and they have bags of money to subsidise the fight. Lat's hope its all resolved quickly.
You do realize that the touch sensors are independent from the screen itself, right?
The idea was that the display screen and the touch screen would be integrated into a single reconfigurable display that covered the whole fron face of an iPod. The touch screen aspect of this very large integrated display would preclude the addition of a plastic covering.
There is no way Jobs would allow a design where the screen was covered with hard plastic save for a big circular hole in one end. Its all or nothing. Maybe the new touch screen covering is scratch resistant. Here's hoping.