For Apple the point here is to sell iPods to people who might not otherwise every buy one (my Mom, for example), to bring digital downloads to people who don't have broadband or even a computer, and to make it all incredibly easy.
Man, my iPod is going to a lot less cool when my Mom has one.
That's not the reason the ROKR is failing. That's the reason so many people are overreacting and calling it a complete flop.
No phone is going to have the uptake that an iPod has because of exactly the things mentioned- existing contracts, friends/family already on a specific carrier, calling plans for a carrier don't quite match up to needs. This doesn't mean the cell phone market is saturated either. It just works differently than other markets. The reality is that Motorola is selling ROKRs and is making money on them.
Is it the whiz-bang phone that we hoped for? No. Unfortunately, Cingular is also part of Motorola's market and has to be considered. If they don't buy the phone from Motorola, no one gets an iTunes phone. Apple, as a partner, also had a say. Why do you think Steve Jobs likes to control the hardware, the software, the stores, and everything in between?
Did Apple sabatoge the ROKR? No, but they didn't exactly own up to their part of the development either. Steve Jobs only comment on the 100 song limit so far has been, "I can't comment on other companies' products." Yeah, right. He knows nothing about that.
It's fast and has all the features I want.
The question is "Taking the existing extensions and add-ons" into account. But finding and installing FF extensions to get to the feature set I want takes some amount of time (both initial install and keeping it up to date). And when I tried out the Deer Park beta half of my extensions broke.
The Opera ads take up a small amount of real estate but, since I'm already running Privoxy, at least I don't see any of them.
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My password is banana too.
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I learned Dvorak at the beginning of the year and have been nearly 100% Dvorak for a few months. I wouldn't say it's hard to back and forth- a little strange maybe. I tried to stay away from Qwerty completely for a while as I learned but now going back and forth isn't too bad.
The biggest problem for me are passwords since they tend to be ingrained into muscle memory the most. That and sometimes you have to switch back and forth *even on the same computer*. Windows XP always assumes Qwerty when you log in and switches to Dvorak (my personal setting) *after* I log in. My Apple computer switches immediately to Dvorak as soon as I select my name and the password field appears so I always type my password in Dvorak (which makes more sense).
Windows also has problems with not switching for already running programs if I switch the settings back and forth to Qwerty as I use it. Then some of the programs are stuck in the old layout and some switch to the new layout. My Apple has no problems with switching back and forth. This happens often enough as other people sit down to use my computers that it's an annoyance.
A side note- Apple has a language setting Dvorak with Qwerty commands. It's Dvorak when typing but things like command-C, command-V to cut and paste are in the Qwerty locations. Interesting and cool but I found going 100% Dvorak was better in the long run for consistency.
> She lived in the 1800s so one cannot expect to see any new material from her.... > I'm hoping that Google's emphasis on "freshness" won't make his site fall in ranking.
So you're afraid that your friend's page is going to be bumped by a page that more frequently updates these poems from the 1800s?
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Man, my iPod is going to a lot less cool when my Mom has one.
That's not the reason the ROKR is failing. That's the reason so many people are overreacting and calling it a complete flop.
No phone is going to have the uptake that an iPod has because of exactly the things mentioned- existing contracts, friends/family already on a specific carrier, calling plans for a carrier don't quite match up to needs. This doesn't mean the cell phone market is saturated either. It just works differently than other markets. The reality is that Motorola is selling ROKRs and is making money on them.
Is it the whiz-bang phone that we hoped for? No. Unfortunately, Cingular is also part of Motorola's market and has to be considered. If they don't buy the phone from Motorola, no one gets an iTunes phone. Apple, as a partner, also had a say. Why do you think Steve Jobs likes to control the hardware, the software, the stores, and everything in between?
Did Apple sabatoge the ROKR? No, but they didn't exactly own up to their part of the development either. Steve Jobs only comment on the 100 song limit so far has been, "I can't comment on other companies' products." Yeah, right. He knows nothing about that.
The black wire on the right of the picture tipped me off that maybe it wasn't really wireless.
Well, how can we tell it's sarcasm until it gets modded funny for us?
Short term PR benefits, long term business and economy benefits. Can't argue with that.
It's fast and has all the features I want. The question is "Taking the existing extensions and add-ons" into account. But finding and installing FF extensions to get to the feature set I want takes some amount of time (both initial install and keeping it up to date). And when I tried out the Deer Park beta half of my extensions broke. The Opera ads take up a small amount of real estate but, since I'm already running Privoxy, at least I don't see any of them.
Looks ok in Opera on Windows, too.
My password is banana too.
I learned Dvorak at the beginning of the year and have been nearly 100% Dvorak for a few months. I wouldn't say it's hard to back and forth- a little strange maybe. I tried to stay away from Qwerty completely for a while as I learned but now going back and forth isn't too bad.
The biggest problem for me are passwords since they tend to be ingrained into muscle memory the most. That and sometimes you have to switch back and forth *even on the same computer*. Windows XP always assumes Qwerty when you log in and switches to Dvorak (my personal setting) *after* I log in. My Apple computer switches immediately to Dvorak as soon as I select my name and the password field appears so I always type my password in Dvorak (which makes more sense).
Windows also has problems with not switching for already running programs if I switch the settings back and forth to Qwerty as I use it. Then some of the programs are stuck in the old layout and some switch to the new layout. My Apple has no problems with switching back and forth. This happens often enough as other people sit down to use my computers that it's an annoyance.
A side note- Apple has a language setting Dvorak with Qwerty commands. It's Dvorak when typing but things like command-C, command-V to cut and paste are in the Qwerty locations. Interesting and cool but I found going 100% Dvorak was better in the long run for consistency.
> She lived in the 1800s so one cannot expect to see any new material from her....
> I'm hoping that Google's emphasis on "freshness" won't make his site fall in ranking.
So you're afraid that your friend's page is going to be bumped by a page that more frequently updates these poems from the 1800s?
IBM shares technology by making their patents free. Microsoft shares by selling their technology.
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