they were so dead-set on just HATING it because it wasn't exactly like they were used to
They do not hate it because they are not used to it, they hate it because/. told them to hate it. This new group of geeks we have are a sad bunch of sheep with not an original thought in their brains. Geeks from back when I started out would just figure it out. As it comes to the explorer, we would go "Explorer, someone actually uses that and calls them selves a power user"?
According to Google 90% of Windows users do not know that they can search a document by either going (if you are in 2007) to the Edit menu and press "Find" or "Search" or whatever that is, or press Ctrl+F. 90%. That is statistically very close to "all". These are the users Microsoft needs to cater to. I just download Cygwin, take the time to learn Power Shell, and ignore whatever it is Microsoft does to try help my Dad who, like the average Windows user, is a little sketchy on the difference between an Application and a Document, who struggles with the difference between saving a web document to disk in order to retrieve it as he read it later on, and storing a link to the same document which, to his surprise, never gives him back exactly the same document.
Power users who complain about the ribbon interface are sheep who thinks it adds to their cool when they claim the Ribbon Interface, the Start Button (that was what they used to complain about) or a GUI in general (if they are "really old") is evil and productivity killing.
Microsoft should keep the average user in mind when designing their software, power users should manage be able to handle anything that is thrown at them once they download and install Cygwin. As any power user worth his salt should know. I don't care what Microsoft does to the Explorer interface, simply because I do not do advanced management through that interface, I use Power Shell or Cygwin, depending.
According to Google, 90% of computer users are unaware that they can press Ctrl+F and find text in a document. Apparently the majority of computer users, the vast majority to the point of statistically being close to "all", find things in documents by reading/scanning through them top to bottom. Microsoft must focus all of their attention on those users, not people who actually know how to use a computer and who keep on whining about all changes that were not in the spirit of Richard Stallman. If the ribbon interface is a problem for you, just download Cygwin and shut up about it.
Now show me an average Windows user that actually needs to do that.
Microsoft should keep the average user in mind when designing their software, power users should manage be able to handle anything that is thrown at them once they download and install Cygwin. As any power user worth his salt should know. I don't care what Microsoft does to the Explorer interface, simply because I do not do advanced management through that interface, I use Power Shell or Cygwin, depending.
According to Google, 90% of computer users are unaware that they can press Ctrl+F and find text in a document. Apparently the majority of computer users, the vast majority to the point of statistically being close to "all", find things in documents by reading/scanning through them top to bottom. Microsoft must focus all of their attention on those users, not people who actually know how to use a computer and who keep on whining about all changes that were not in the spirit of Richard Stallman. If the ribbon interface is a problem for you, just download Cygwin and shut up about it.
This would make the platform relevant. Changing paradigms are for silly student projects. In the real world, pragmatism is far more important. Pragmatically my software needs access to my data. In the real world, the vast majority of data is stored in Oracle and a few other areas. In the real world COBOL is still more important than Apache.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah... more irrelevant nonsense
Business data is stored in Oracle and in various IBM systems. So, if you want to be more than a toy project for funny student work, you can pull data from those. It's as simple as that. That is, of course, unless you are going to create yet another cool thing from scratch and do not care. As I said, a toy with such limited usability that it can only be characterized as a student fun project.
Really? Microsoft has made your life bad? Seriously? Then you should go see a shrink. Seriously. Microsoft simply doesn't have the power to make my life miserable since they do not know me. Also, they do have, as is generally agreed, the very best developer tools out there. I like that part. Wish they did VS2010 for Java though, I hate when I have to go back to that terror that is Eclipse.
The CompuTrekkers are good, particularly if you have a bit of equipment. Depending on where you go and what you do I would not give up the fast access to camera I get from the FastPack 350 however.
This is the first photo backpack I have been satisfied with after using for an extended period of time. All the others I found something to dislike after a while.
My recommendation is to not get one of those sling-shot-thingies, they are going to get uncomfortable if you are out walking for a while. Get a proper backpack. The LowePro FastPacks combine the one advantage the sling-thingies have, namely fast access to your camera, with comfortable carrying. It was on my back more or less constantly for a week in Ireland, and the camera was never more than a quick move away. The ability to grab the camera without taking the back-pack off is going to pay off again and again.
It does of course depend a little on what you are hauling, I have a (rather largish) Canon 7D and a selection of lenses. If you are only carrying a single lens in addition to the one mounted on the cam, the camera compartment may be a little big. My experience is that you can never get enough space in the camera compartment though. I have a few lenses, a charger, an extra battery, some filters, a remote, some cleaning stuff etc in there. Fits beautifully.
My only point against it would be the lack of a place to hook your tripod, but you can attach it to the back of the bag if it is not too big and heavy.
I can not overstate the value of having easy access to the camera without taking the pack off your back. Both for speed, and also for convenience. You don't want to set the pack down on a wet/dirty ground or somewhere else nasty.
Compared to Lightroom. Like a tricycle compared to a reliable Ferrari. Give me a break.
It's easy to open photos in a "real" editor (eg, Raw Studio or GIMP)
Real? Compared to what? Paint?
but I know that video editing software does exist for Linux
Just because something can cut and merge videos, that doesn't mean it is a video editor. Compare these to Vegas Pro, Premiere Pro, Final Cut or Avid, and they are useless toys.
Netbeans for both Java (a fairly large Java project at that) and C++, and it's a far better IDE
Netbeans is good, I prefer VS2010, but that is just me. I have far more experience in Eclipse than in either of the other two, and compared to Eclipse VS2010 is heaven.
Now, the fact that I point out the rather obvious, that there is no professional level photo or video editing software for Linux is not an indication of me being a troll or ignorant, it is simply a fact. The toys that are out there are not usable in a professional house. Even the much awaited update to Final Cut is not usable in a professional environment, and the new version of FCP is heads and shoulders above anything for Linux. You mention GIMP as an alternative to Photoshop. It is not. Not for production work. Really, it simply can't do what professionals need it to do. GIMP, compared to PS, GIMP is not useful. Particularly for print production. For digital production the difference is less, but still in favor of PS.
A significant number of pros and enthusiasts today would rather give away all but one of their CF cards (or whatever your camera takes) rather than giving up Lightroom. Nothing like Lightroom on Linux. Not even the same ball park.
Linux is the way to go for 90% of the work, using Windows, properly licensed, for the few things that Linux does not do well yet.
Seriously? For most real business, Linux lacks at least half of the apps that they need. At least. Linux is great for SW development, it has some good tools, but nothing like VS2010. Really. Eclipse is not even close at this point in time, though it is really good in my opinion. Linux has a reasonable office suite in OO, but to me OO is bloated and slow compared to MS Office. There are some things OO does very well though, particularly with larger documents.
Other than SW development and Office, for a regular business, there isn't much. There is no real vector graphics package (like Illustrator), there is no photo management and editing package (like Lightroom or Photoshop). Are you saying that most business do not do anything in vector graphics or photo editing? Really? There is no video editing software for Linux (OK, now we are into specialty software). There is no personal package for Photo management and editing, so for non-business users, who I assume do need at least some photo management software, Linux isn't even in the game.
A lot of business have to use vertical proprietary software which is mostly not available for Linux. The dude who built the software in Delphi is retired and nobody can remember where the source is. Doing over is not an option. Windows is the only option.
There is an enormous amount of software out there that business needs to conduct business that is not available for Linux, and that will probably never become available for Linux, that to assume that most business can use Linux for anything but what Linux is great at, indicates a disturbing lack of understanding of what business actually is and does. Linux does a few things really well. Business app server if your business app is written in something that runs on Linux. Web-based, JBoss or other Java stuff etc. Linux is great for this. Linux is also great for SW development. Some DB servers can be run on Linux, but I still prefer other OSs for Oracle, depending on what you do, either Solaris or AIX, and Oracle is the king of DB servers. MySQL is of course not an option for business critical data, but it is for the presentation layer (stuff you want to put on the web or similar).
The problem is that getting Linux gets you nothing. You can't actually do anything sensible with Linux. You need software running on top of Linux to conduct business. If you are in anything other than the software development industry, there simply isn't software for Linux to accomplish the tasks you need to conduct your business. Perhaps a slight exaggeration, but mostly true.
They bought the high-priced license-encumbered crapware-packed proprietary stuff because the salesman told them it was the best and they have no choice
No, they didn't, they bought the software they needed to run their business. They knew that, despite what the nut-case religious zealots told them, that there were no FOSS alternatives. There are no FOSS alternatives to the vast majority of software titles used by business to actually conduct their business. Of course, they could do as you suggest, stick with non-existing or non-functional software on their oh-so-wonderful Linux desktops, and then masturbated until they went bankrupt, but you see, most people are not like you, they prefer to actually complete the tasks their business was created to do.
they'll never even know they had alternatives
Again, they knew they didn't have any. They needed to accomplish more than you can with Eclipse and some software to display pictures of nude women for their mastubatory needs. Maybe they needed Photoshop for print work if they were an ad agency or Illustrator for doing design work, if they were a photography company they probably needed Lightroom for touch-ups and management, if they create videos they would have needed something like Premiere Pro, Vegas Pro or Final Cut Pro (pre the latest version which bizarrely can not do professional video work, don't know what Apple was thinking) and (no or here) Adobe After Effects. If the company was a travel agency they had to use proprietary software for this industry, not available on Linux.
Thinking that there actually are FOSS alternatives to most commercial software out there just shows that you have never actually been "out there". There isn't.
Sigh. This is a ridiculously naive posting and giving it a score of "insightful" is just plain dumb.
you should have chosen software without licensing issues
How was he supposed to do that? Is there software out there of this kind for all the types of software a business needs? How would you, for example, find software with similar features to Photoshop? Gimp? Don't make me laugh. How about Illustrator or Premiere Pro? Anything that is not license encumbered?
People acquire software to complete tasks. Software like Vegas Video, After Effects, Illustrator, Lightroom is essential to some business (that was just software for a business I know some things about) for which there are no real alternatives without licensing issues. Saying that people should have chosen other software is like saying they should find another field of work. There simply isn't any kind of software available for Linux, for example, that can do what this type of commercial software can do. Neither is anybody working on projects that will make the software available any time in the future.
The idea of keeping track of the sales receipts as well as the licenses themselves is ridiculous
You can't be serious. Not keeping track of what you legally purchase, as a business, is ridiculous. You have clearly never run a business of any kind. Of course you keep all the receipts, it's the law!, besides, not keeping them will cost you money since your accountant will not be able to deduct those expenses from your operating costs.
Nope. Since the world will probably never hit 10 billion with the current population growth measures, we don't have a problem. TFA is just fear mongering bullshit.
Yes, I am actually, I am just not a Born Again Apple Worshiper. Here is a clue. Apple is somewhere around 5-7% of the total market. That means, as I was saying, that even though they are the biggest, their share is simply not big enough to distort anything at all.
Android would have to be selling 10X what Apple sells to make up the difference of what Apple consumes from the flash market and just iOS devices
So, you have been playing with your calculator again? You really shouldn't, since it makes your calculator look like a genius compared to you. Android devices out-sell iOS devices. In other words, according to you, the average iOS device has more than ten times the on-board storage of the average Android device. That simply is pure and utter bullshit.
Flash memory is used everywhere. Cameras obviously, phones, cars, usb memory sticks, medical instruments, robotics and so on. So, how much of that market is Apple? The iPhone has sold some 50 million plus/minus since it came on the market. That is less in total than the estimated number of digital cameras sold each year (60-80 million digital cameras are sold each year). Apple has sold about as many iPods total as they have sold iPhones total. To make it easy, lets pretend that the iPod with flash and the iPhone has been on the market for the same amount of time, then Apple has sold some 100 million of these things in four years. In the same four years, if you go by the low number of digital cameras, 240 million have been sold, which means that digital cameras alone out-sell Apples entire iXXXX portfolio more than 2:1. How many of those digital camera owners have more than one flash chip? Since most digicams comes with a tiny chip, I'd say that probably half of the digicam customers have two chips. No iPods can switch chip, so that is not an issue. Suddenly camera equipment is out-selling Apple 3:1 or more.
Yes, Apple is (with a slight margin) the largest semi conductor buyer in the world. That doesn't tell us anything about the absolute market power Apple has, since "the largest" could be anything from less than one percent to more than fifty percent. Apple is somewhere around five percent. Five percent is not enough to be able to skew the market. Not even close. Which was my point.
Now turn around and sob into your Steve Jobs pillow and take Economy 101 over.
Sigh. Apple accounts for far less than 10% of Sammy revenue, and it wasn't really Sammy who sued Apple, they counter-sued. I am not sure Apple is the smart one here. Their phone stuff accounts for half their income. If Sammy loses all of Apple's business it will mean a lot less to them than the current currency fluctuations in the markets they operate in.
LOL! Apple putting Sammy out of business? Apple is 3-6% of Sammy's business. Compared to Sammy, Apple is small potatoes (it's inflated market value not taken into account). If Sammy can only hurt phone sales, Apple is toast. Apple can not touch most of Sammy's business. I'm not sure how Apple could, for example, make a dent in Sammy's ship-building operations.
Sigh. Why is it that maths is so hard for so many people.
Phones and the like is about 50% of Apple's business. Apple is 3-5% of Samsung's business. Apple took a gamble, assuming Samsung would fold. They did not, and this now only has the potential to hurt Apple. Sammy won't even get a small paper cut.
This is going to end with Apple dropping its law suits against Sammy, Sammy doing the same for Apple. Apple getting some nice consolation price from Sammy and Sammy taking a cut out of every iStuff sold. Good move Apple.
You are right, his numbers are off. Apple should be more like 4-5%. Whooptidoo, that changes his argument completely. Get a calculator or stop posting nonsense.
Apple accounts for $7-8 billion of a total of $180-200 billion revenue. Samsung is obviously not going to like losing Apple, but currency fluctuations are more important to their bottom line than is Apple.
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they were so dead-set on just HATING it because it wasn't exactly like they were used to
They do not hate it because they are not used to it, they hate it because /. told them to hate it. This new group of geeks we have are a sad bunch of sheep with not an original thought in their brains. Geeks from back when I started out would just figure it out. As it comes to the explorer, we would go "Explorer, someone actually uses that and calls them selves a power user"?
According to Google 90% of Windows users do not know that they can search a document by either going (if you are in 2007) to the Edit menu and press "Find" or "Search" or whatever that is, or press Ctrl+F. 90%. That is statistically very close to "all". These are the users Microsoft needs to cater to. I just download Cygwin, take the time to learn Power Shell, and ignore whatever it is Microsoft does to try help my Dad who, like the average Windows user, is a little sketchy on the difference between an Application and a Document, who struggles with the difference between saving a web document to disk in order to retrieve it as he read it later on, and storing a link to the same document which, to his surprise, never gives him back exactly the same document.
Power users who complain about the ribbon interface are sheep who thinks it adds to their cool when they claim the Ribbon Interface, the Start Button (that was what they used to complain about) or a GUI in general (if they are "really old") is evil and productivity killing.
Microsoft should keep the average user in mind when designing their software, power users should manage be able to handle anything that is thrown at them once they download and install Cygwin. As any power user worth his salt should know. I don't care what Microsoft does to the Explorer interface, simply because I do not do advanced management through that interface, I use Power Shell or Cygwin, depending.
According to Google, 90% of computer users are unaware that they can press Ctrl+F and find text in a document. Apparently the majority of computer users, the vast majority to the point of statistically being close to "all", find things in documents by reading/scanning through them top to bottom. Microsoft must focus all of their attention on those users, not people who actually know how to use a computer and who keep on whining about all changes that were not in the spirit of Richard Stallman. If the ribbon interface is a problem for you, just download Cygwin and shut up about it.
Now show me an average Windows user that actually needs to do that.
Microsoft should keep the average user in mind when designing their software, power users should manage be able to handle anything that is thrown at them once they download and install Cygwin. As any power user worth his salt should know. I don't care what Microsoft does to the Explorer interface, simply because I do not do advanced management through that interface, I use Power Shell or Cygwin, depending.
According to Google, 90% of computer users are unaware that they can press Ctrl+F and find text in a document. Apparently the majority of computer users, the vast majority to the point of statistically being close to "all", find things in documents by reading/scanning through them top to bottom. Microsoft must focus all of their attention on those users, not people who actually know how to use a computer and who keep on whining about all changes that were not in the spirit of Richard Stallman. If the ribbon interface is a problem for you, just download Cygwin and shut up about it.
This would make the platform relevant. Changing paradigms are for silly student projects. In the real world, pragmatism is far more important. Pragmatically my software needs access to my data. In the real world, the vast majority of data is stored in Oracle and a few other areas. In the real world COBOL is still more important than Apache.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah... more irrelevant nonsense
Business data is stored in Oracle and in various IBM systems. So, if you want to be more than a toy project for funny student work, you can pull data from those. It's as simple as that. That is, of course, unless you are going to create yet another cool thing from scratch and do not care. As I said, a toy with such limited usability that it can only be characterized as a student fun project.
They require that you use their database
and from the Opa page
A hierarchical database
and poof, another silly student project vanishes into irrelevant oblivion long before it is born.
Really? Microsoft has made your life bad? Seriously? Then you should go see a shrink. Seriously. Microsoft simply doesn't have the power to make my life miserable since they do not know me. Also, they do have, as is generally agreed, the very best developer tools out there. I like that part. Wish they did VS2010 for Java though, I hate when I have to go back to that terror that is Eclipse.
The CompuTrekkers are good, particularly if you have a bit of equipment. Depending on where you go and what you do I would not give up the fast access to camera I get from the FastPack 350 however.
This is the first photo backpack I have been satisfied with after using for an extended period of time. All the others I found something to dislike after a while.
My recommendation is to not get one of those sling-shot-thingies, they are going to get uncomfortable if you are out walking for a while. Get a proper backpack. The LowePro FastPacks combine the one advantage the sling-thingies have, namely fast access to your camera, with comfortable carrying. It was on my back more or less constantly for a week in Ireland, and the camera was never more than a quick move away. The ability to grab the camera without taking the back-pack off is going to pay off again and again.
It does of course depend a little on what you are hauling, I have a (rather largish) Canon 7D and a selection of lenses. If you are only carrying a single lens in addition to the one mounted on the cam, the camera compartment may be a little big. My experience is that you can never get enough space in the camera compartment though. I have a few lenses, a charger, an extra battery, some filters, a remote, some cleaning stuff etc in there. Fits beautifully.
My only point against it would be the lack of a place to hook your tripod, but you can attach it to the back of the bag if it is not too big and heavy.
I can not overstate the value of having easy access to the camera without taking the pack off your back. Both for speed, and also for convenience. You don't want to set the pack down on a wet/dirty ground or somewhere else nasty.
It does, but there is a difference between "The Desktop" and "A Desktop". You'll learn the difference once you hit middle school or so.
Honestly, you'd have to try Lightroom to know. It is not a case of individual features, it is a case of a package perfect for its job.
F-Spot, Shotwell, and Darktable
Compared to Lightroom. Like a tricycle compared to a reliable Ferrari. Give me a break.
It's easy to open photos in a "real" editor (eg, Raw Studio or GIMP)
Real? Compared to what? Paint?
but I know that video editing software does exist for Linux
Just because something can cut and merge videos, that doesn't mean it is a video editor. Compare these to Vegas Pro, Premiere Pro, Final Cut or Avid, and they are useless toys.
Netbeans for both Java (a fairly large Java project at that) and C++, and it's a far better IDE
Netbeans is good, I prefer VS2010, but that is just me. I have far more experience in Eclipse than in either of the other two, and compared to Eclipse VS2010 is heaven.
Now, the fact that I point out the rather obvious, that there is no professional level photo or video editing software for Linux is not an indication of me being a troll or ignorant, it is simply a fact. The toys that are out there are not usable in a professional house. Even the much awaited update to Final Cut is not usable in a professional environment, and the new version of FCP is heads and shoulders above anything for Linux. You mention GIMP as an alternative to Photoshop. It is not. Not for production work. Really, it simply can't do what professionals need it to do. GIMP, compared to PS, GIMP is not useful. Particularly for print production. For digital production the difference is less, but still in favor of PS.
A significant number of pros and enthusiasts today would rather give away all but one of their CF cards (or whatever your camera takes) rather than giving up Lightroom. Nothing like Lightroom on Linux. Not even the same ball park.
After Effects.
Linux is the way to go for 90% of the work, using Windows, properly licensed, for the few things that Linux does not do well yet.
Seriously? For most real business, Linux lacks at least half of the apps that they need. At least. Linux is great for SW development, it has some good tools, but nothing like VS2010. Really. Eclipse is not even close at this point in time, though it is really good in my opinion. Linux has a reasonable office suite in OO, but to me OO is bloated and slow compared to MS Office. There are some things OO does very well though, particularly with larger documents.
Other than SW development and Office, for a regular business, there isn't much. There is no real vector graphics package (like Illustrator), there is no photo management and editing package (like Lightroom or Photoshop). Are you saying that most business do not do anything in vector graphics or photo editing? Really? There is no video editing software for Linux (OK, now we are into specialty software). There is no personal package for Photo management and editing, so for non-business users, who I assume do need at least some photo management software, Linux isn't even in the game.
A lot of business have to use vertical proprietary software which is mostly not available for Linux. The dude who built the software in Delphi is retired and nobody can remember where the source is. Doing over is not an option. Windows is the only option.
There is an enormous amount of software out there that business needs to conduct business that is not available for Linux, and that will probably never become available for Linux, that to assume that most business can use Linux for anything but what Linux is great at, indicates a disturbing lack of understanding of what business actually is and does. Linux does a few things really well. Business app server if your business app is written in something that runs on Linux. Web-based, JBoss or other Java stuff etc. Linux is great for this. Linux is also great for SW development. Some DB servers can be run on Linux, but I still prefer other OSs for Oracle, depending on what you do, either Solaris or AIX, and Oracle is the king of DB servers. MySQL is of course not an option for business critical data, but it is for the presentation layer (stuff you want to put on the web or similar).
I seem to remember some IBM ads for Linux on TV
The problem is that getting Linux gets you nothing. You can't actually do anything sensible with Linux. You need software running on top of Linux to conduct business. If you are in anything other than the software development industry, there simply isn't software for Linux to accomplish the tasks you need to conduct your business. Perhaps a slight exaggeration, but mostly true.
They bought the high-priced license-encumbered crapware-packed proprietary stuff because the salesman told them it was the best and they have no choice
No, they didn't, they bought the software they needed to run their business. They knew that, despite what the nut-case religious zealots told them, that there were no FOSS alternatives. There are no FOSS alternatives to the vast majority of software titles used by business to actually conduct their business. Of course, they could do as you suggest, stick with non-existing or non-functional software on their oh-so-wonderful Linux desktops, and then masturbated until they went bankrupt, but you see, most people are not like you, they prefer to actually complete the tasks their business was created to do.
they'll never even know they had alternatives
Again, they knew they didn't have any. They needed to accomplish more than you can with Eclipse and some software to display pictures of nude women for their mastubatory needs. Maybe they needed Photoshop for print work if they were an ad agency or Illustrator for doing design work, if they were a photography company they probably needed Lightroom for touch-ups and management, if they create videos they would have needed something like Premiere Pro, Vegas Pro or Final Cut Pro (pre the latest version which bizarrely can not do professional video work, don't know what Apple was thinking) and (no or here) Adobe After Effects. If the company was a travel agency they had to use proprietary software for this industry, not available on Linux.
Thinking that there actually are FOSS alternatives to most commercial software out there just shows that you have never actually been "out there". There isn't.
Sigh. This is a ridiculously naive posting and giving it a score of "insightful" is just plain dumb.
you should have chosen software without licensing issues
How was he supposed to do that? Is there software out there of this kind for all the types of software a business needs? How would you, for example, find software with similar features to Photoshop? Gimp? Don't make me laugh. How about Illustrator or Premiere Pro? Anything that is not license encumbered?
People acquire software to complete tasks. Software like Vegas Video, After Effects, Illustrator, Lightroom is essential to some business (that was just software for a business I know some things about) for which there are no real alternatives without licensing issues. Saying that people should have chosen other software is like saying they should find another field of work. There simply isn't any kind of software available for Linux, for example, that can do what this type of commercial software can do. Neither is anybody working on projects that will make the software available any time in the future.
The idea of keeping track of the sales receipts as well as the licenses themselves is ridiculous
You can't be serious. Not keeping track of what you legally purchase, as a business, is ridiculous. You have clearly never run a business of any kind. Of course you keep all the receipts, it's the law!, besides, not keeping them will cost you money since your accountant will not be able to deduct those expenses from your operating costs.
Nope. Since the world will probably never hit 10 billion with the current population growth measures, we don't have a problem. TFA is just fear mongering bullshit.
We don't have a problem of a "constant growing population". Read up on the topic.
You are simply not getting it at all
Yes, I am actually, I am just not a Born Again Apple Worshiper. Here is a clue. Apple is somewhere around 5-7% of the total market. That means, as I was saying, that even though they are the biggest, their share is simply not big enough to distort anything at all.
Android would have to be selling 10X what Apple sells to make up the difference of what Apple consumes from the flash market and just iOS devices
So, you have been playing with your calculator again? You really shouldn't, since it makes your calculator look like a genius compared to you. Android devices out-sell iOS devices. In other words, according to you, the average iOS device has more than ten times the on-board storage of the average Android device. That simply is pure and utter bullshit.
Flash memory is used everywhere. Cameras obviously, phones, cars, usb memory sticks, medical instruments, robotics and so on. So, how much of that market is Apple? The iPhone has sold some 50 million plus/minus since it came on the market. That is less in total than the estimated number of digital cameras sold each year (60-80 million digital cameras are sold each year). Apple has sold about as many iPods total as they have sold iPhones total. To make it easy, lets pretend that the iPod with flash and the iPhone has been on the market for the same amount of time, then Apple has sold some 100 million of these things in four years. In the same four years, if you go by the low number of digital cameras, 240 million have been sold, which means that digital cameras alone out-sell Apples entire iXXXX portfolio more than 2:1. How many of those digital camera owners have more than one flash chip? Since most digicams comes with a tiny chip, I'd say that probably half of the digicam customers have two chips. No iPods can switch chip, so that is not an issue. Suddenly camera equipment is out-selling Apple 3:1 or more.
Yes, Apple is (with a slight margin) the largest semi conductor buyer in the world. That doesn't tell us anything about the absolute market power Apple has, since "the largest" could be anything from less than one percent to more than fifty percent. Apple is somewhere around five percent. Five percent is not enough to be able to skew the market. Not even close. Which was my point.
Now turn around and sob into your Steve Jobs pillow and take Economy 101 over.
Sigh. Apple accounts for far less than 10% of Sammy revenue, and it wasn't really Sammy who sued Apple, they counter-sued. I am not sure Apple is the smart one here. Their phone stuff accounts for half their income. If Sammy loses all of Apple's business it will mean a lot less to them than the current currency fluctuations in the markets they operate in.
LOL! Apple putting Sammy out of business? Apple is 3-6% of Sammy's business. Compared to Sammy, Apple is small potatoes (it's inflated market value not taken into account). If Sammy can only hurt phone sales, Apple is toast. Apple can not touch most of Sammy's business. I'm not sure how Apple could, for example, make a dent in Sammy's ship-building operations.
Sigh. Why is it that maths is so hard for so many people.
Phones and the like is about 50% of Apple's business. Apple is 3-5% of Samsung's business. Apple took a gamble, assuming Samsung would fold. They did not, and this now only has the potential to hurt Apple. Sammy won't even get a small paper cut.
This is going to end with Apple dropping its law suits against Sammy, Sammy doing the same for Apple. Apple getting some nice consolation price from Sammy and Sammy taking a cut out of every iStuff sold. Good move Apple.
Wow. Two phones with rounded corners and icons on them. Any Ford and Chevy have far more in common. Maybe Ford should start suing other car makers.
You are right, his numbers are off. Apple should be more like 4-5%. Whooptidoo, that changes his argument completely. Get a calculator or stop posting nonsense.
Apple accounts for $7-8 billion of a total of $180-200 billion revenue. Samsung is obviously not going to like losing Apple, but currency fluctuations are more important to their bottom line than is Apple.