That's not the point. The point is that you may store your music in a loss-less format for archival purposes, but then need to go through the trouble of transcoding it for every device you want to use that does not support such format.
Your comment regarding Samsung's perspective is reasonable.
However, when discussing marketshare the underlying subject is the viability of a platform. If indeed 10,000 tablets are sitting on Wal-Mart's shelves, it may not matter to Samsung, but it matters to partners, developers, and other entities depending on the actual adoption of the platform.
Note that I am not saying this is the case; I'm just pointing out a flaw in the argument that Samsung's sales to channel represent actual mass adoption of the Android platform over Apple's iOS. They may have wider adoption, but this report is not proof of it.
Don't be a dick. We're talking about the difference of selling to a distributor (shipped) vs. selling to a consumer (sold).
What purpose does it fit to supporters of a platform, such as app developers, that a vast number of devices are sitting on a shelf or warehouse instead of in the hands of consumers?
The "market" in marketshare is understood to be the device purchasing end users.
Because ALAC is less compute-intensive, which means it requires less powerful processors and consumes less power from the battery. These two things are very important on portable devices.
The third reason is that ALAC uses an MP4-compatible container, which means that it fits in line with a wider scoped workflow.
Ship and sold mean the same thing, uh? So, devices sitting in a warehouse somewhere, waiting to be sold, count as much as those in consumer's hands?
I'm sure it's comforting to all those app developers to know that they are reaching a mass market of... er... fork-lift operators, stevedores, and store clerks.
In United States patent law, a method, also called "process", is one of the four principal categories of things that may be patented. The other three are a machine, an article of manufacture (also termed a manufacture), and a composition of matter.
If the patent describes "Method to Y," then the "X" is merely the process that results in "Y."
>> You can f.e. unlock a phone in phone mode by swiping to the right and unlock it in camera mode by swiping to the left.
Not to be a pedant, but just wanted to offer a suggestion: You should use "e.g." instead of "f.e." which has been long established as the common abbreviation of "for example" or "for instance."
The big mistake our illustrious distortionist of reality was making is confusing competition with theft.
From any other company, perhaps. But from a company run by a member of your own board it's a bit more nuanced than that.
It's one thing releasing your product to the world and inspiring competitors. Everybody plans on that. It's another thing to lose the time-to-market advantage of your brand new product by the possible leakage of confidential strategy, technology, and business information to what you expected was a trusted ally and partner.
I don't think he was expecting no one else to do the same. Notice how he is not suing Microsoft for Windows Phone 7 nor Palm/HP for WebOS, which are distinct implementations of the same concepts.
I think he was expecting that a member of his company's own board would not do the same with a competitor, in such a slavish way.
No, like non-modal copy and paste, and pull-down menus. Also, refreshing the window views of non-active windows was an Apple invention. The Apple programmer that implemented it was not aware that the Xerox scientists had not figured out how to do it, and thought it was part of the overall requirements.
The other thing was the mouse. Dr. Engelbart invented the device and Xerox implemented it in their machines. However, the version from Xerox included a laser for tracking and some very complex mechanisms that was not only expensive to mass produce, but also did not stand to strenuous and constant use nor did it work properly in anything other than the special reflective surface made for it.
An industrial designer hired by Apple came up with the cheap, durable, and still accurate version that is common now after given an explanation of the concept by Jobs. Jobs also gave some very specific design requirements that were not considered by Xerox; mainly, that it had to be cheap, it had to be durable, and it had to work on any surface.
The point of acquiring YouTube was to turn it into the center for video access on the Internet, and monetize it by channeling all video content through it.
It ended up being a center for LOLCATZ and personal videos, a platform that movie studios and TV networks will not touch with a 10-foot pole. It is still not making much money for them so I really do not see it as a "successful" product.
Gmail, on the other hand, provides endless amount of seed data for their mining processes, so that one is substantially successful. Funding the continuous development of Gmail may be seen as the cost of doing business which feeds into their core competency. YouTube, not so much.
I disagree. He could be a few orders of magnitude more wrong. He could have said that 40 million users in Google+ is more than 800 million in Facebook. That's some substantial wrong right there.
There's plenty other ways he could have been even more wronger.
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So explain why they support MP3?
That's not the point. The point is that you may store your music in a loss-less format for archival purposes, but then need to go through the trouble of transcoding it for every device you want to use that does not support such format.
-dZ.
Your comment regarding Samsung's perspective is reasonable.
However, when discussing marketshare the underlying subject is the viability of a platform. If indeed 10,000 tablets are sitting on Wal-Mart's shelves, it may not matter to Samsung, but it matters to partners, developers, and other entities depending on the actual adoption of the platform.
Note that I am not saying this is the case; I'm just pointing out a flaw in the argument that Samsung's sales to channel represent actual mass adoption of the Android platform over Apple's iOS. They may have wider adoption, but this report is not proof of it.
dZ.
Don't be a dick. We're talking about the difference of selling to a distributor (shipped) vs. selling to a consumer (sold).
What purpose does it fit to supporters of a platform, such as app developers, that a vast number of devices are sitting on a shelf or warehouse instead of in the hands of consumers?
The "market" in marketshare is understood to be the device purchasing end users.
dZ.
Because ALAC is less compute-intensive, which means it requires less powerful processors and consumes less power from the battery. These two things are very important on portable devices.
The third reason is that ALAC uses an MP4-compatible container, which means that it fits in line with a wider scoped workflow.
-dZ.
It may play files in those formats, but it will rip and transcode only MP3, AAC, AIFF, and ALAC formats.
For those using iTunes to organize their media, ALAC is the only loss-less format with compression that is built-into the tool for media management.
-dZ.
Not necessarily.
Not necessarily.
-dZ.
Ship and sold mean the same thing, uh? So, devices sitting in a warehouse somewhere, waiting to be sold, count as much as those in consumer's hands?
I'm sure it's comforting to all those app developers to know that they are reaching a mass market of... er... fork-lift operators, stevedores, and store clerks.
Have you ever heard of channel stuffing?
-dZ.
Imagine you are in a bus with Sandra Bullock... or on an elevator with Keanu Reeves...
-dZ.
Take a look at this
If the patent describes "Method to Y," then the "X" is merely the process that results in "Y."
-dZ.
>> You can f.e. unlock a phone in phone mode by swiping to the right and unlock it in camera mode by swiping to the left.
Not to be a pedant, but just wanted to offer a suggestion: You should use "e.g." instead of "f.e." which has been long established as the common abbreviation of "for example" or "for instance."
-dZ.
Which part of the door is the touch-screen and which part is the gesture reading implemented in software?
-dZ.
What are you talking about? if-then-else is just a symbolic expression of the test-and-branch pattern in Assembly which surely came first.
-dZ.
Cities are founded, not found. These are the past tense of two different verbs: to found and to find, respectively.
-dZ.
Can you send it to me, I didn't get it.
-dZ.
Another one gone!
I once created a variant of BASIC to run on the C=64 when I was a kid... OMG! Could I be next??
-dZ.
Especially when that competitor was sitting on your own board, and perhaps even in on your corporate strategy and product plans.
-dZ.
From any other company, perhaps. But from a company run by a member of your own board it's a bit more nuanced than that.
It's one thing releasing your product to the world and inspiring competitors. Everybody plans on that. It's another thing to lose the time-to-market advantage of your brand new product by the possible leakage of confidential strategy, technology, and business information to what you expected was a trusted ally and partner.
-dZ.
I don't think he was expecting no one else to do the same. Notice how he is not suing Microsoft for Windows Phone 7 nor Palm/HP for WebOS, which are distinct implementations of the same concepts.
I think he was expecting that a member of his company's own board would not do the same with a competitor, in such a slavish way.
-dZ.
No, like non-modal copy and paste, and pull-down menus. Also, refreshing the window views of non-active windows was an Apple invention. The Apple programmer that implemented it was not aware that the Xerox scientists had not figured out how to do it, and thought it was part of the overall requirements.
The other thing was the mouse. Dr. Engelbart invented the device and Xerox implemented it in their machines. However, the version from Xerox included a laser for tracking and some very complex mechanisms that was not only expensive to mass produce, but also did not stand to strenuous and constant use nor did it work properly in anything other than the special reflective surface made for it.
An industrial designer hired by Apple came up with the cheap, durable, and still accurate version that is common now after given an explanation of the concept by Jobs. Jobs also gave some very specific design requirements that were not considered by Xerox; mainly, that it had to be cheap, it had to be durable, and it had to work on any surface.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/16/110516fa_fact_gladwell
Knowledge, it's a wonderful thing.
-dZ.
But it is the same as being "less than forthcoming."
Actually, with a comment like,
the adverb "now" implies that it was not so in the past.
-dZ.
Ah! Then it must be in mother Russia.
The point of acquiring YouTube was to turn it into the center for video access on the Internet, and monetize it by channeling all video content through it.
It ended up being a center for LOLCATZ and personal videos, a platform that movie studios and TV networks will not touch with a 10-foot pole. It is still not making much money for them so I really do not see it as a "successful" product.
Gmail, on the other hand, provides endless amount of seed data for their mining processes, so that one is substantially successful. Funding the continuous development of Gmail may be seen as the cost of doing business which feeds into their core competency. YouTube, not so much.
-dZ.
I disagree. He could be a few orders of magnitude more wrong. He could have said that 40 million users in Google+ is more than 800 million in Facebook. That's some substantial wrong right there.
There's plenty other ways he could have been even more wronger.
-dZ.