To put things into perspective, this rumor was started by the same guy who predicted two years ago that Apple would bring the iPhone to Costco to sell for $149 and then, last October, predicted that Apple would launch a “SmartBook” device for $899 with an OLED screen and a Cortex-A9 processor.
Being heavily consumer products driven now, Apple is very susceptible to a sudden shift in purchasing behavior. This year's hot commodity, is next years' rubick's cube or legwarmers -- 'that's so 2010!' or 'i already have one'.
I'd agree with you completely on this if it weren't for one thing: since the return of Steve Jobs, Apple has consistently and repeatedly delivered products that people want and are willing to pay a premium for.
Okay, okay, you're right--there was the G4 Cube but that was an exception to the overall rule and it proves that even if one product happens to tank, Apple can shrug it off and come up with something else.
Would it satisfy the GPL requirements if the source code was made available for free download on another site or does it have to be included with the binary?
But when will I be able to buy a reasonable-size and reasonable-price display that uses OLEDs? Lab toys are cute, but real products are sexy.
Apple apparently considered an OLED display for the iPhone 4G but decided against it because of cost and reliability concerns. However, the fact that they even considered it suggests that it won't be all that much longer before manufacturers start shipping OLEDs in actual products.
They are clearly always a step or 10 ahead of everyone else
Like in mobile phones? Or music players
Sony is a lot like HP--a once-great engineering company that has been given over too and ruined by marketing drones, at least at the consumer product level. Their pro video equipment is still great stuff but even in that realm Sony no longer rules the way it once did.
I suppose my point is, why does it matter whether those phones were sold or were given away?
It only matters when it comes to someone claiming that the sales of the Android were greater than the sales of the iPhone. Since Verizon was doing the two-for-one and AT&T was not, the figures for the Android phone are not directly comparable with those of the iPhone for that quarter.
Almost all iPhones were given away by AT&T, by that criteria.
No they weren't. All last quarter Verizon was running a two-for-one offer. Buy an Android phone (with a two-year contract, of course), get a second one for free. AT&T has offered nothing like that with the iPhone.
I won't touch the iPad until it has a USB interface. Sometimes being able to add flash memory or a real keyboard is a good thing...
I agree that a real USB port would be a great addition to the iPad. In the mean time, however, any standard Bluetooth keyboard will work with one and Apple also sells one that will plug into the docking port.
Your "car analogy" doesn't have anything to do with what you wrote.
Sure it does. He's saying that he no longer wants to be forced into dicking around to get his tablet computer to do what he needs it to do, much in the same way that he no longer wants a car that requires him to pop the hood and stick a pencil in the carburetor in order to get the engine started. He's also saying that the iPad is the equivalent of a newer car that just starts when he turns the key.
Now my kid buys a $300 "required" book only to be told it has NO resale value come next semester because it is the "old edition". With Kindle, et al, that planned obsolescence can take place FASTER.
Yes, but so much more conveniently...
No longer will your kid have to stand in long lines at the college bookstore waiting to be ripped off. Now he can be ripped off in the comfort of his own dorm room.
Adobe, the reason Apple hates your guts is because you never ever supported their OS properly until you absolutely had to.
IMHO, Adobe still hasn't properly supported OS X. It's slow, it's buggy and it crashes a lot. I've got it blocked on my Mac. On the other hand, Flash works pretty well on my XP machine.
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When I first read the title of the summary, I thought to myself "Shit, yet another one about Apple versus Adobe..."
The Nexus One has a big beautiful OLED display right now.
See? I told you it wouldn't be that much longer! ;-)
Seriously, how do those phones do in bright light? I know that brightness is a problem with OLEDs right now.
To put things into perspective, this rumor was started by the same guy who predicted two years ago that Apple would bring the iPhone to Costco to sell for $149 and then, last October, predicted that Apple would launch a “SmartBook” device for $899 with an OLED screen and a Cortex-A9 processor.
Being heavily consumer products driven now, Apple is very susceptible to a sudden shift in purchasing behavior. This year's hot commodity, is next years' rubick's cube or legwarmers -- 'that's so 2010!' or 'i already have one'.
I'd agree with you completely on this if it weren't for one thing: since the return of Steve Jobs, Apple has consistently and repeatedly delivered products that people want and are willing to pay a premium for.
Okay, okay, you're right--there was the G4 Cube but that was an exception to the overall rule and it proves that even if one product happens to tank, Apple can shrug it off and come up with something else.
Apple Script.
Would it satisfy the GPL requirements if the source code was made available for free download on another site or does it have to be included with the binary?
But when will I be able to buy a reasonable-size and reasonable-price display that uses OLEDs? Lab toys are cute, but real products are sexy.
Apple apparently considered an OLED display for the iPhone 4G but decided against it because of cost and reliability concerns. However, the fact that they even considered it suggests that it won't be all that much longer before manufacturers start shipping OLEDs in actual products.
They are clearly always a step or 10 ahead of everyone else
Like in mobile phones? Or music players
Sony is a lot like HP--a once-great engineering company that has been given over too and ruined by marketing drones, at least at the consumer product level. Their pro video equipment is still great stuff but even in that realm Sony no longer rules the way it once did.
Dont forget our standard unit for fluid flow: hogsheads per acre fortnight.
Or speed: furlongs per fortnight.
nowadays they have only two units of scale: a human hair and the state of Texas.
Not quite true. The human hair unit has three levels: the hair, the cunt hair and the red cunt hair.
They've never been able to bring the most innovative designs to market.. they bring 'good enough' wrapped in the x86 instruction set.
And, judging by what I've heard, a lot of people would say that the x86 instruction set itself is nothing more than 'good enough.'
I think the "movie" that plays in my head when I read Gibson's prose is probably better than anything that Hollywood could come up with anyway.
You probably don't need a quantum computer to wait on I/O in your home PC.
That depends. Will it speed up the Gaussian Blur filter in Photoshop?
It's the University of Reading.
He had to go to a university to learn how to read? Not much of a scientist.
(To you Brits: yes, I know it's pronounced "Redding." But where's the joke in that?)
With the labor market, we could just hire people to come and act out the movie for us. Call it "RealLife-O-Vision".
It will never work out. The special effects explosions in action movies are hell on the furniture.
I think he's on about the aluminum oxide in his "tin" foil hat...
I suppose my point is, why does it matter whether those phones were sold or were given away?
It only matters when it comes to someone claiming that the sales of the Android were greater than the sales of the iPhone. Since Verizon was doing the two-for-one and AT&T was not, the figures for the Android phone are not directly comparable with those of the iPhone for that quarter.
Almost all iPhones were given away by AT&T, by that criteria.
No they weren't. All last quarter Verizon was running a two-for-one offer. Buy an Android phone (with a two-year contract, of course), get a second one for free. AT&T has offered nothing like that with the iPhone.
I won't touch the iPad until it has a USB interface. Sometimes being able to add flash memory or a real keyboard is a good thing...
I agree that a real USB port would be a great addition to the iPad. In the mean time, however, any standard Bluetooth keyboard will work with one and Apple also sells one that will plug into the docking port.
Android is selling more units than iphone at this point.
Not really. Roughly half of all those Android phones that were "sold" over the last quarter we're actually given away by Verizon.
Your "car analogy" doesn't have anything to do with what you wrote.
Sure it does. He's saying that he no longer wants to be forced into dicking around to get his tablet computer to do what he needs it to do, much in the same way that he no longer wants a car that requires him to pop the hood and stick a pencil in the carburetor in order to get the engine started. He's also saying that the iPad is the equivalent of a newer car that just starts when he turns the key.
Now my kid buys a $300 "required" book only to be told it has NO resale value come next semester because it is the "old edition". With Kindle, et al, that planned obsolescence can take place FASTER.
Yes, but so much more conveniently...
No longer will your kid have to stand in long lines at the college bookstore waiting to be ripped off. Now he can be ripped off in the comfort of his own dorm room.
I think you meant to post "$#*! the $#*!ing $#*!ers!"
Actually, in this context, $#*! stands for shit, not fuck. As in Shit My Dad Says .
Adobe, the reason Apple hates your guts is because you never ever supported their OS properly until you absolutely had to.
IMHO, Adobe still hasn't properly supported OS X. It's slow, it's buggy and it crashes a lot. I've got it blocked on my Mac. On the other hand, Flash works pretty well on my XP machine.
Sprint probably won't get it since their 4G is WiMax not LTE like everybody else.
Well, coincidentally (and conveniently), a rumor about that very thing hit the wires today. Just a rumor, of course, but an interesting one.