I'm a tech savvy user and I like my Windows Phone. The difference is that I do business-y stuff on my phone (lots oh phone calls, email, scheduling, etc.), and I don't use it for games or fart noises or whatever else people do with their phones.
It's only about the "apps" if your phone doesn't do what it's supposed to do out of the box. I've had a Windows phone for 6+ months, and haven't purchased a single "app". Haven't needed to.
I really like mine. My life runs through an Exchange Server, so I picked the Windows Phone for it's Exchange integration. And I gotta say, it's really better than I thought a "smart" phone would be. It's easy to use, I haven't run into any bugs or crashes at all. It's definitely much more streamlined than the Android or Apple phones. Both of those are a real mess of all kinds of different features thrown together with different apps. The Windows Phone does everything I need it to do without any extra "apps", making a really easy-to-use experience. Of course, you can get "apps", but if you're not using it as a toy, there's not much that most business-y people would need that it doesn't come with already. About the only thing I dislike about it is the integration with Bing. Google's local stuff isn't up to date, but Bing's is far worse.
In the windows world, this economics doesn't make as much sense due to the quick obsolescence of hardware, but in the Mac world, it's quite doable
You have that backwards. I'm writing this on a 2002 laptop that works just fine and is 100% supported by MS's current OS's. You must've been buying Apple stuff for a while to think that 4 years is a long time to continue to use hardware.
None of these "problems" that you mention are best solved by using a made-up Internet currency. All of them are either inherent in government controlled money systems, or the fault of clueless individuals who still use commercial, for-profit banks.
The customer base for I* stuff is obviously much more willing to part with their money than other people (their gadgets are significantly more expensive than others). If you've got to choose one platform or another, it only makes sense to develop for the I* customers.
You don't get out much, do you? Facebook sells your information. Always has. Always will. It was in the agreement you agreed to when you signed up. People have been talking about it for years. Where have you been?
Windows is backwards compatible, you know.... most apps 20 years old (including Civ 2) sill run fine in Windows 7, and will probably continue to run in Windows 8.
And you shop there, why, exactly? It's not to get dirt cheap prices, is it? Nah. I'm sure you shop there because they're a local company that gives back to your community, right? I'm sure you shop there because you know that the owners of the company will do good things with the money, right?
Drug dealers and traffickers don't have anything to do with your rights. What other people choose to buy or sell or do with their bodies is none of your business, and certainly doesn't warrant them being locked up like animals for most of their lives. The US is supposed to be about "freedom". Instead, we have more people in prison than any other country on the planet, and most of it is for doing things that have no impact, whatsoever, on you or your precious "rights" that you pretend are violated. It's stupid, and it's savage. Congratulations for helping to make the world look a bit more like Fahrenheit 451.
Most people in the US are not in prison for "violating someone else's rights". Most are in there for non-violent drug offenses that have violated nobody's rights.
Your lack of sympathy is absolutely shocking. You seriously think that people should be locked up for decades (mostly for drug charges), with no access to exercise or entertainment? That people should be forced to sit in concrete rooms for 20 years at a time? Of course, it's all about YOU, of course, but still. This level of crass disregard for human life is shocking.
The size and weight are a factor in moving it around.
We're talking about modern laptops, right?. They range in weight from a few pounds up to about 10. Size and weight don't really factor in to this situation, as all non-handicapped, healthy human adults should be able to move a 10 lb item with the same ease of a 4-5 lb item. A 10 lb item is not "less portable" than a lighter item.
You don't understand. Anybody can sell you stuff based on what you're doing now. Google is making entire profiles of people based on what they do online. This is much more valuable than what you're suggesting.
Most people use the same password in multiple places. I'm guessing that 80% of those Linkedin email/password combinations will also get one into bank accounts, as well.
If he was confident that his idea would be a success, $500K is not a lot of money. It's a lot of money for a bad idea. He's talking other people's money because he's not willing to risk his own. I'd wager that most real entrepreneurs risk well more than 50% of their net worth to start their businesses. Most people I know risked 100%.
He doesn't need bank backing. He has the cash. He just doesn't want to risk his own cash because it's a really stupid idea, and there are lots of stupid people out there willing to hand him cash for no particular reason.
I'm willing to bet you're right. In this case, we're talking about an established author asking people to give him half a million bucks for some stupid idea that he's not willing to invest his own money into.
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I'm a tech savvy user and I like my Windows Phone. The difference is that I do business-y stuff on my phone (lots oh phone calls, email, scheduling, etc.), and I don't use it for games or fart noises or whatever else people do with their phones.
It's only about the "apps" if your phone doesn't do what it's supposed to do out of the box. I've had a Windows phone for 6+ months, and haven't purchased a single "app". Haven't needed to.
I don't know what a "self signed certificate is", but I connected mine to my Exchange Server in about 30 seconds.
I really like mine. My life runs through an Exchange Server, so I picked the Windows Phone for it's Exchange integration. And I gotta say, it's really better than I thought a "smart" phone would be. It's easy to use, I haven't run into any bugs or crashes at all. It's definitely much more streamlined than the Android or Apple phones. Both of those are a real mess of all kinds of different features thrown together with different apps. The Windows Phone does everything I need it to do without any extra "apps", making a really easy-to-use experience. Of course, you can get "apps", but if you're not using it as a toy, there's not much that most business-y people would need that it doesn't come with already. About the only thing I dislike about it is the integration with Bing. Google's local stuff isn't up to date, but Bing's is far worse.
In the windows world, this economics doesn't make as much sense due to the quick obsolescence of hardware, but in the Mac world, it's quite doable
You have that backwards. I'm writing this on a 2002 laptop that works just fine and is 100% supported by MS's current OS's. You must've been buying Apple stuff for a while to think that 4 years is a long time to continue to use hardware.
Many users simply can't afford to buy the new model every year.
But many can, and those are Apple customers.
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OMG! M$ is sooo expensive! Nobody will spend that much on an OS! It's the year of Linux on the tablet! M$ is dead! Stooopid M$!
Is this article really about eighty dollars? Most people spend more than that every month on cable TV. This article is moronic.
None of these "problems" that you mention are best solved by using a made-up Internet currency. All of them are either inherent in government controlled money systems, or the fault of clueless individuals who still use commercial, for-profit banks.
I think the same thing about buying anything at Wal-Mart.
The customer base for I* stuff is obviously much more willing to part with their money than other people (their gadgets are significantly more expensive than others). If you've got to choose one platform or another, it only makes sense to develop for the I* customers.
You don't get out much, do you? Facebook sells your information. Always has. Always will. It was in the agreement you agreed to when you signed up. People have been talking about it for years. Where have you been?
Windows is backwards compatible, you know.... most apps 20 years old (including Civ 2) sill run fine in Windows 7, and will probably continue to run in Windows 8.
Newegg's greed
And you shop there, why, exactly? It's not to get dirt cheap prices, is it? Nah. I'm sure you shop there because they're a local company that gives back to your community, right? I'm sure you shop there because you know that the owners of the company will do good things with the money, right?
Drug dealers and traffickers don't have anything to do with your rights. What other people choose to buy or sell or do with their bodies is none of your business, and certainly doesn't warrant them being locked up like animals for most of their lives. The US is supposed to be about "freedom". Instead, we have more people in prison than any other country on the planet, and most of it is for doing things that have no impact, whatsoever, on you or your precious "rights" that you pretend are violated. It's stupid, and it's savage. Congratulations for helping to make the world look a bit more like Fahrenheit 451.
Most people in the US are not in prison for "violating someone else's rights". Most are in there for non-violent drug offenses that have violated nobody's rights.
Your lack of sympathy is absolutely shocking. You seriously think that people should be locked up for decades (mostly for drug charges), with no access to exercise or entertainment? That people should be forced to sit in concrete rooms for 20 years at a time? Of course, it's all about YOU, of course, but still. This level of crass disregard for human life is shocking.
The size and weight are a factor in moving it around.
We're talking about modern laptops, right?. They range in weight from a few pounds up to about 10. Size and weight don't really factor in to this situation, as all non-handicapped, healthy human adults should be able to move a 10 lb item with the same ease of a 4-5 lb item. A 10 lb item is not "less portable" than a lighter item.
I honestly had no idea that people still "instant messaged" each other. What's the point? Why not send a text via a cell phone?
What does "more portable" mean? Either you can carry it, or you can't.
You don't understand. Anybody can sell you stuff based on what you're doing now. Google is making entire profiles of people based on what they do online. This is much more valuable than what you're suggesting.
That's only if everybody decides to read web pages exclusively from mobile gadgets. That's not likely to happen.
Most people use the same password in multiple places. I'm guessing that 80% of those Linkedin email/password combinations will also get one into bank accounts, as well.
Ok. whatever you say. I'm sure they made it for all of those consumers with Exchange servers in their closets...
If he was confident that his idea would be a success, $500K is not a lot of money. It's a lot of money for a bad idea. He's talking other people's money because he's not willing to risk his own. I'd wager that most real entrepreneurs risk well more than 50% of their net worth to start their businesses. Most people I know risked 100%.
He doesn't need bank backing. He has the cash. He just doesn't want to risk his own cash because it's a really stupid idea, and there are lots of stupid people out there willing to hand him cash for no particular reason.
I'm willing to bet you're right. In this case, we're talking about an established author asking people to give him half a million bucks for some stupid idea that he's not willing to invest his own money into.