Don't get me wrong, I use Linux on my IBM laptop all the time, but on OS X I can run the same programs and also all the nice Mac OS X only things like iTunes.
You also could run all your OSX apps using http://www.maconlinux.org/. It's pretty fast and reliable afaik
Perhaps a marketer like Apple can break through with an enhanced phone product that will create a demand that outweighs the current expectation on the part of consumers that phone hardware is free (as in beer) or nearly free.
Jobs already said that Apple isn't interested in getting into PDAs again, because it would force them into the cell phone market. He's apparently not considering this option.
Apart from that I never understood the idea about integrating new functions into a phone. I like SMS, because it enables me to send someone a message without causing any disturbance. But that's about everything new I like about mobile phones. It just has to be small, convenient to operate and solid. I'm glad if I don't realize that it's with me before it rings.
IMO it's a natural problem of the cell phone makers. It would be quite hard to justify 400$ a unit if they would have kept improving state of the art phones from ~2001 (I guess that it costs 20 bucks to manufacture them). They just had to come up with new features like color displays, PDA functions or neat little cameras.Otherwise we would buy phones for 30 bucks and we would also not accept 2 years contracts (common practice in Europe) with our providers. It's kinda obvious that the companies are not keen on such events.
And if Microsoft got caught adding code to hinder compatibility with third party programs (I don't really know if they actually did this), everyone on/. would get up in arms.
Others already mentioned it -/. got up in arms and I personally still believe that it was a pretty lame move by MS. However, they didn't do anything to prevent 3.11 from running on a competitor's OS - they just issued a warning message, which apparently convinced some people that there is something wrong about their (DRDOS) setup. That might be enough to suppress competition, because it certainly creates some FUD (by intention?). But 3.11 run perfectly under DRDOS. They haven't done anything to stop this OS from working.
you could easily patent scrambled eggs, but when you try to take license fees someone will sue you. He would win if he can prove that scrambled eggs have been created before you "invented" it. It's a simple case of prior art.
then we'll wait for another 15 years then anyone can use them.
Some patents might be of interest, but the first thing that comes to my mind thinking about 2034 is gnuclippy (please correct me if they don't have any clippy related patents).
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don't you think that it's quite exceptional that they have a section comparing mobos? Different manufacturers of the same chipset are usually pretty close in terms of perfomance (~4% is the highest I ever read in articles about certain chipsets). However, it perfectly makes sense to me after reading 21 pages featuring Abit ads. "Yes, your system is able to run it and it looks great, however, we'd like to make you read ~20 pages of appendix before we'll tell you. Just look at it this way - you'll know how your system performs before we come to a decent conclusion, so you don't have to look it up anymore. Apart from that we must make sure that you read every page, because otherwise noone will click on the banners we have. And btw, did you know that Abit motherboards rule, but other products by Abit didn't live up to our expectations, because we have different sponsors for sound and video." Just my (highly biased) roundup.
(and yes, my main box is equipped with an Abit board. I guess that's the reason it came to my attention)
And if Microsoft got caught adding code to hinder compatibility with third party programs (I don't really know if they actually did this), everyone on/. would get up in arms.
IIRC Win 3.11 checked for the version of DOS it run on. If it detected DRDOS (not too sure, might be another vendor) it came up with an error message on startup. It was just FUD, since 3.11 ran fine on DRDOS. But even a useless warning message sometimes has influence on customer decisions.
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Jobs already said that Apple isn't interested in getting into PDAs again, because it would force them into the cell phone market. He's apparently not considering this option.
Apart from that I never understood the idea about integrating new functions into a phone. I like SMS, because it enables me to send someone a message without causing any disturbance. But that's about everything new I like about mobile phones. It just has to be small, convenient to operate and solid. I'm glad if I don't realize that it's with me before it rings. IMO it's a natural problem of the cell phone makers. It would be quite hard to justify 400$ a unit if they would have kept improving state of the art phones from ~2001 (I guess that it costs 20 bucks to manufacture them). They just had to come up with new features like color displays, PDA functions or neat little cameras.Otherwise we would buy phones for 30 bucks and we would also not accept 2 years contracts (common practice in Europe) with our providers. It's kinda obvious that the companies are not keen on such events.
And if Microsoft got caught adding code to hinder compatibility with third party programs (I don't really know if they actually did this), everyone on /. would get up in arms.
Others already mentioned it - /. got up in arms and I personally still believe that it was a pretty lame move by MS. However, they didn't do anything to prevent 3.11 from running on a competitor's OS - they just issued a warning message, which apparently convinced some people that there is something wrong about their (DRDOS) setup. That might be enough to suppress competition, because it certainly creates some FUD (by intention?). But 3.11 run perfectly under DRDOS. They haven't done anything to stop this OS from working.
you could easily patent scrambled eggs, but when you try to take license fees someone will sue you. He would win if he can prove that scrambled eggs have been created before you "invented" it. It's a simple case of prior art.
Some patents might be of interest, but the first thing that comes to my mind thinking about 2034 is gnuclippy (please correct me if they don't have any clippy related patents).
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I always knew your company is inventing superior things every day. I just wonder what kept MS from implementing any of them? Sincerely yours -
don't you think that it's quite exceptional that they have a section comparing mobos? Different manufacturers of the same chipset are usually pretty close in terms of perfomance (~4% is the highest I ever read in articles about certain chipsets). However, it perfectly makes sense to me after reading 21 pages featuring Abit ads.
"Yes, your system is able to run it and it looks great, however, we'd like to make you read ~20 pages of appendix before we'll tell you. Just look at it this way - you'll know how your system performs before we come to a decent conclusion, so you don't have to look it up anymore. Apart from that we must make sure that you read every page, because otherwise noone will click on the banners we have. And btw, did you know that Abit motherboards rule, but other products by Abit didn't live up to our expectations, because we have different sponsors for sound and video." Just my (highly biased) roundup.
(and yes, my main box is equipped with an Abit board. I guess that's the reason it came to my attention)
And if Microsoft got caught adding code to hinder compatibility with third party programs (I don't really know if they actually did this), everyone on /. would get up in arms.
IIRC Win 3.11 checked for the version of DOS it run on. If it detected DRDOS (not too sure, might be another vendor) it came up with an error message on startup. It was just FUD, since 3.11 ran fine on DRDOS. But even a useless warning message sometimes has influence on customer decisions.