We're talking software, though. With its overweight JVM stack and a must run everywhere mandate, Android is not like x86. What remains to be seen is if Google will tolerate the current mess that is the Android ecosystem, and allow it to sort of dribble off in any direction that the mass of Chinese and Korean device makers collectively choose, or institute an Apple like lockdown.
All the Droid device makers are trying to squeeze each other dry, and I'm sure that this is exactly how Apple (and MS) like it.
In this case, it doesn't matter for two reasons. First, unlike the usual case with more typical and run of the mill tech shops, there's is no separate Apple iOS division, and second, the post I referred to above, if it exists, is hardly veracious or authoritave in any event.
It's ironic that you tout your use of XBMC while simultaneously downplaying iTunes, as there are probably fifty thousand iTunes installs for each XBMC install.
I guess some folks forget that iTunes runs on OS X and Windows XP and up, together accounting for something like 99% of the desktop OS installs out there.
HP makes one (or did anyway) called the Envy. It was ironically named, as it had the old inferior scummy plastic trackpad and was several hundred dollars more expensive than a comparable Air.
Anyway, an Android device may "work" as a portable touch computer on its own, without a cell plan. What people like about it iPod touch is that it integrates with their Apple computers they already have. My wife has one and uses it as a remote for controlling iTunes on the Mini sitting under the TV here.
This is curious to me. Did the person who posted Apple's 3rd quarter statement subtract all the outlay for iOS device parts, joint ventures on fabs, and all the other stuff they spent money on for iOS devices?
Probably not. They likely just did a simple bit of math and subtracted iOS device profits.
Wikipedia's stats site is much more useful. Statcounter isn't some neutral data collection point, they market a tracking bug middleware platform for App makers.
Lots of people in India, China, South America, etc can't afford a $500+ phone. That's a year's income in some of those parts.
Marketshare doesn't matter one whit. Profit does, and Apple has never scraped the bottom of the barrel - they leave that to Samsung and friends on the phone side, and Dell and friends on the PC side.
So, sure, if count all the Android makers (who are fighting each other as much as they are Apple) as a consortium, they are beating Apple in market share, but they only make $2-6 per phone in profit. It's enough to make money with, but not enough to bother Apple. Just look at cell / tablet app store figures - Apple still makes 90% of the money in the industry there.
Just so you know, PDF is not merely a wrapper for PostScript. It's essentially similar to an object file produced by a PostScript interpreter. Like, but not exactly, a compiled PS program.
Not only do they constantly track your browsing habits, but there are indications that the latest models constantly record all audio in the vicinity and upload it to Google for further processing.
No. Most cell phones are never rooted or unlocked. Never. Sure, that particular model or brand name may be rooted or unlocked at some point and a few people may install some pirated software on it, or another version of Android, but the overwhelmingly vast majority of cell phones are never rooted or unlocked because people simply do not care enough to do it.
Most people are of the opinion that it is an unmitigated disaster. Businesses don't like it, consumers find it confusing, it's ugly, and there are banner ads lurking in the built-in programs.
I don't know of a single business that actually has any plans to adopt Windows 8, and I am in contact with many. Most have plans to stay with Windows 7 until it is phased out, by which time I imagine that most will be in a BYOD type arrangement.
Proper taxes would be no personal income tax, taxes only on corporations with NO WRITE-OFFS and NO HOLLYWEIRD ACCOUNTING, and extreme import tariffs.
What you want is to keep your sicko commie wealth-redistribution scheme, have the gubberment supporting every kind of program they can dream up in arts and education, etc, and in addition to this also tax the shit out of anybody who isn't on welfare so we can have roads paved with gold.
When you save money with a discount, you, as an individual, save that money at that time.
People may be treated as a sort of statistical model by business and by people who study them and predict their behavior, but they are not in actuality mere mathematical abstractions.
If you are using Macs as workstations you are probably running Logic or Final Cut Pro or other Mac-only software packages on them. Since no virtualization software even has working 3D support on OS X, let alone proper audio drivers, virtualization is a retarded idea.
Aside from this, it is unlikely that you can spec out a high end workstation for much cheaper than the Mac Pro anyway, even if it is home built.
Slashdot Mirror
We're talking software, though. With its overweight JVM stack and a must run everywhere mandate, Android is not like x86. What remains to be seen is if Google will tolerate the current mess that is the Android ecosystem, and allow it to sort of dribble off in any direction that the mass of Chinese and Korean device makers collectively choose, or institute an Apple like lockdown.
All the Droid device makers are trying to squeeze each other dry, and I'm sure that this is exactly how Apple (and MS) like it.
In this case, it doesn't matter for two reasons. First, unlike the usual case with more typical and run of the mill tech shops, there's is no separate Apple iOS division, and second, the post I referred to above, if it exists, is hardly veracious or authoritave in any event.
It's ironic that you tout your use of XBMC while simultaneously downplaying iTunes, as there are probably fifty thousand iTunes installs for each XBMC install.
I guess some folks forget that iTunes runs on OS X and Windows XP and up, together accounting for something like 99% of the desktop OS installs out there.
HP makes one (or did anyway) called the Envy. It was ironically named, as it had the old inferior scummy plastic trackpad and was several hundred dollars more expensive than a comparable Air.
Anyway, an Android device may "work" as a portable touch computer on its own, without a cell plan. What people like about it iPod touch is that it integrates with their Apple computers they already have. My wife has one and uses it as a remote for controlling iTunes on the Mini sitting under the TV here.
Try that with your Android.
This is curious to me. Did the person who posted Apple's 3rd quarter statement subtract all the outlay for iOS device parts, joint ventures on fabs, and all the other stuff they spent money on for iOS devices?
Probably not. They likely just did a simple bit of math and subtracted iOS device profits.
Wikipedia's stats site is much more useful. Statcounter isn't some neutral data collection point, they market a tracking bug middleware platform for App makers.
Lots of people in India, China, South America, etc can't afford a $500+ phone. That's a year's income in some of those parts.
Marketshare doesn't matter one whit. Profit does, and Apple has never scraped the bottom of the barrel - they leave that to Samsung and friends on the phone side, and Dell and friends on the PC side.
So, sure, if count all the Android makers (who are fighting each other as much as they are Apple) as a consortium, they are beating Apple in market share, but they only make $2-6 per phone in profit. It's enough to make money with, but not enough to bother Apple. Just look at cell / tablet app store figures - Apple still makes 90% of the money in the industry there.
They sure could be manipulating the market by live editing. This wouldn't even be surprising at this point.
I wouldn't call them great, but they're better than they used to be.
Just so you know, PDF is not merely a wrapper for PostScript. It's essentially similar to an object file produced by a PostScript interpreter. Like, but not exactly, a compiled PS program.
That's some good kibology right there. Kibo should be impressed, if he's still knocking about.
Thanks. I never click on the headlines - I don't want to be part of Dice Holdings' SEO scheme here, which realistically is what Slashdot has become.
Not only do they constantly track your browsing habits, but there are indications that the latest models constantly record all audio in the vicinity and upload it to Google for further processing.
No. Most cell phones are never rooted or unlocked. Never. Sure, that particular model or brand name may be rooted or unlocked at some point and a few people may install some pirated software on it, or another version of Android, but the overwhelmingly vast majority of cell phones are never rooted or unlocked because people simply do not care enough to do it.
Most people are of the opinion that it is an unmitigated disaster. Businesses don't like it, consumers find it confusing, it's ugly, and there are banner ads lurking in the built-in programs.
I don't know of a single business that actually has any plans to adopt Windows 8, and I am in contact with many. Most have plans to stay with Windows 7 until it is phased out, by which time I imagine that most will be in a BYOD type arrangement.
Why is it that every post you make is shilling Wndows 8?
Seriously your history reads like marketing material.
The magic? When there's a pan, getting seasick is magic?
Watching motion break up is magic?
No, no no.
Nice SEO spam there. Trade front page today!
Proper taxes would be no personal income tax, taxes only on corporations with NO WRITE-OFFS and NO HOLLYWEIRD ACCOUNTING, and extreme import tariffs.
What you want is to keep your sicko commie wealth-redistribution scheme, have the gubberment supporting every kind of program they can dream up in arts and education, etc, and in addition to this also tax the shit out of anybody who isn't on welfare so we can have roads paved with gold.
You weird sicko.
That was a lot of nothing.
When you save money with a discount, you, as an individual, save that money at that time.
People may be treated as a sort of statistical model by business and by people who study them and predict their behavior, but they are not in actuality mere mathematical abstractions.
I seriously doubt if any iOS users are jealous of these mythical excellent Android applications.
"do not carry a gun"
Are you some kind of queer?
Kind of a tacit admission that you're jealous of iOS users, even though that's probably not what you intended.
If you are using Macs as workstations you are probably running Logic or Final Cut Pro or other Mac-only software packages on them. Since no virtualization software even has working 3D support on OS X, let alone proper audio drivers, virtualization is a retarded idea.
Aside from this, it is unlikely that you can spec out a high end workstation for much cheaper than the Mac Pro anyway, even if it is home built.
Nice troll though.
You won't lose your job over clicking a Wikileaks link. More than half the traffic to Wikileaks is from .gov or .mil domains anyway.