What a stupid article/essay/book excerpt. When things are going well for people, they don't want things to change. Really? Wow. Color me shocked by such deep insight.
It certainly is viable for most people. But, most people (Americans at least), live way, way, beyond their means. Hence the need for credit (and debt). Pay cash for everything but a house, and put 20% down for a house, and you don't need credit at all. Of course, once you get that house paid for, you should never have to need credit again.
That's what you think. But don't think for a minute that the people who are paying for your credit card usage (the people you buy stuff from) aren't tacking 3% onto prices everywhere. You're part of the system. If we ever get a fair government, we'll get rid of the laws that don't allow retailers to discount cash purchases, and this "benefit" that you think you're seeing will go away.
our statement just underscores how successful Apple has been in the past decade. Microsoft? Not so much.
If by "success", you're referring to selling overpriced gadgets to brain-dead consumers, you're right. If by "success" you mean sales numbers, profitability, or anything else that people would commonly measure the "success" of a company by, you're very wrong.
"And isn't it just recognition that tablet-only input is insufficient?"
It is. So what? Tablets are very difficult to type on for any extended period of time. I've never seen an iPad without a keyboard attached to it, anyway. Instead, I'd say that Apple is pretending that a keyboard isn't required to make a tablet useful.
Sure, there's transparency. There's total transparency. Everything you enter into your GMail account is property of Google. Everything you enter into your Facebook account is property of Facebook.
I don't know. If by "success" you mean " funded", then yeah, there are lots of those. But I'm talking about the company actually doing something after being funded. From my poking around, it seems like a lot of these fully funded companies went on to do nothing at all. (Meaning that did not do the thing that they intended to do in real-life, not VC/funding world).
I was with you until you started praising payment startups. Those are truly moronic. They're aimed at people who don't know how the credit card system works, and are too dumb to do anything that doesn't have an "app". Square? Really? How is forking over an extra 1-1.5% of gross to a company that adds no value, "solving a problem"?
You're right. I've been reading these train wreck Kickstarter ideas with people throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars down the drain on people with ideas who don't know how to execute (and largely, dont).
What VC's reject startups? An absurd number of startups have an even absurd amount of money thrown at them every day. All I read about is stupid VC's throwing stupid money at stupid ideas.
No, getting an education should not be about getting a job. For many people, it is, and those people are missing out on some important things in life. An education teaches people to think and reason and eventually become a fully formed, thinking individual. Job training is about pushing buttons. What you're suggesting is short sighted, and wrong.
Absolutely right. Google's got lots of consumer level hardware on the market. Like the.... hmmm...
Why do you think that there's a better likelihood that a company that has never, to my knowledge, made a consumer gadget, will be able to make a better gadget than a company that has been making them for 20+ years?
Yeah, Kickstarter.... I'm sure this'll pan out as well as so many other projects have.
The problem with so many of these Kickstarter projects is that the people asking for money really have no idea what they're doing, and they all seem to think, "If we only had this money..." To do something, like create a product, or in this case, launch a satellite, takes some skill that not everybody has. I wish 'em luck, but I've just spent time looking at a bunch of "coming soon" Kickstarter projects that were fully funded a loooong time ago.
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What a stupid article/essay/book excerpt. When things are going well for people, they don't want things to change. Really? Wow. Color me shocked by such deep insight.
It's no coincidence that smart people tend to be more liberal. As the bumper sticker says, "Reality has a liberal bias".
It certainly is viable for most people. But, most people (Americans at least), live way, way, beyond their means. Hence the need for credit (and debt). Pay cash for everything but a house, and put 20% down for a house, and you don't need credit at all. Of course, once you get that house paid for, you should never have to need credit again.
Insurance for what...? I'm sorry, I'd never heard of Dave Ramsey before.
If you don't have credit, you'll never be in debt. You don't have to care about what "they" will or will not loan you.
That's what you think. But don't think for a minute that the people who are paying for your credit card usage (the people you buy stuff from) aren't tacking 3% onto prices everywhere. You're part of the system. If we ever get a fair government, we'll get rid of the laws that don't allow retailers to discount cash purchases, and this "benefit" that you think you're seeing will go away.
No, you're wrong. Having no credit is a good thing. That means that you're a free person, in debt to nobody.
"If a guy walks into a bar with an IPad, there is a good chance he'll walk out with a hot chick on his arm."
What kind of bars do YOU go to?
While Apple is selling a consumer electronic gadget that is named after a feminine hygiene device...? Are you fucking kidding me?
"Make no mistake that MS doesn't know what it is doing."
Thanks for that insight and analysis "UnknowingFool". Which billion-dollar company do you own?
our statement just underscores how successful Apple has been in the past decade. Microsoft? Not so much.
If by "success", you're referring to selling overpriced gadgets to brain-dead consumers, you're right. If by "success" you mean sales numbers, profitability, or anything else that people would commonly measure the "success" of a company by, you're very wrong.
"And isn't it just recognition that tablet-only input is insufficient?"
It is. So what? Tablets are very difficult to type on for any extended period of time. I've never seen an iPad without a keyboard attached to it, anyway. Instead, I'd say that Apple is pretending that a keyboard isn't required to make a tablet useful.
That's some really lame armchair quarterbacking. Apple is not threatening MS's Windows business. Don't be silly.
"No transparency"?
Sure, there's transparency. There's total transparency. Everything you enter into your GMail account is property of Google. Everything you enter into your Facebook account is property of Facebook.
I don't know. If by "success" you mean " funded", then yeah, there are lots of those. But I'm talking about the company actually doing something after being funded. From my poking around, it seems like a lot of these fully funded companies went on to do nothing at all. (Meaning that did not do the thing that they intended to do in real-life, not VC/funding world).
Suckers.
I was with you until you started praising payment startups. Those are truly moronic. They're aimed at people who don't know how the credit card system works, and are too dumb to do anything that doesn't have an "app". Square? Really? How is forking over an extra 1-1.5% of gross to a company that adds no value, "solving a problem"?
You're right. I've been reading these train wreck Kickstarter ideas with people throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars down the drain on people with ideas who don't know how to execute (and largely, dont).
What VC's reject startups? An absurd number of startups have an even absurd amount of money thrown at them every day. All I read about is stupid VC's throwing stupid money at stupid ideas.
No, getting an education should not be about getting a job. For many people, it is, and those people are missing out on some important things in life. An education teaches people to think and reason and eventually become a fully formed, thinking individual. Job training is about pushing buttons. What you're suggesting is short sighted, and wrong.
Wow.
What you said doesn't relate to what I said in any kind of meaningful way.
Absolutely right. Google's got lots of consumer level hardware on the market. Like the.... hmmm...
Why do you think that there's a better likelihood that a company that has never, to my knowledge, made a consumer gadget, will be able to make a better gadget than a company that has been making them for 20+ years?
A real education isn't about job training.
Yeah, Kickstarter.... I'm sure this'll pan out as well as so many other projects have.
The problem with so many of these Kickstarter projects is that the people asking for money really have no idea what they're doing, and they all seem to think, "If we only had this money..." To do something, like create a product, or in this case, launch a satellite, takes some skill that not everybody has. I wish 'em luck, but I've just spent time looking at a bunch of "coming soon" Kickstarter projects that were fully funded a loooong time ago.