I can't disagree more. On tablets, at least (I've never used a webOS phone), it's leaps and bounds ahead of iOS and Android, in my view. It's not only a great way to see what's open, but you can see the current states of apps and organize them by task by placing them into stacks. And closing apps is not only simple, swiping cards away to close them is both a great metaphor and surprisingly fun (even after having a Touchpad for over a month).
In all honesty, I like it so much I'm selling my iPad in favor of my Touchpad.
I'm in the same boat. Overclocked with F15C to 1.728GHz and the stability and sluggishness problems go away, without a horrible hit to battery life. Also a few other performance tweaks (less logging, faster transitions, etc.) and the thing really flies.
How is Apple able to do it, then? The iPad is crazy thin and has great battery life.
To answer the parent, HP's Touchpad was 9.7", and we all know how that went. (Which is a shame; I really like my Touchpad.)
My problem with Amazon right now is that their announcement almost feels like a bait and switch--they say the new, non-touch Kindle is $79, but don't say up-front that it's ad-supported. You have to go to the product page to see that. Same with the $99 touch Kindle. The price of Kindle eBooks are, from what I've seen, something of a ripoff (this goes for iBooks as well; haven't looked at Nook), but I'd buy a Kindle for $79...if it didn't have ads.
(To the pedants: I realize it isn't actually bait-and-switch, but more misleading.)
Two problems with Groupon that I've seen after briefly subscribing to it:
1. It's convoluted to see deals without subscribing. I imagine there are people out there who would be interested, but don't want to give out personal information. 2. Who can blame them? Most of the deals sucked in my area. This is one place where targeted advertising would be great--I specifically signed up to receive ads! Instead, I got an ad for pole dancing. As a male, I was not very intrigued.
According to that article, their costs went up a ton due to development of two new games that have yet to make them money. I have a hard time swallowing the article's claim that a 90% drop in profits isn't something to be alarmed about.
That must be why everyone flocked to Final Cut Pro X and Apple made tons of money. Oh wait, no they didn't. People freaked out, demanded refunds, bought from Adobe, and Apple had to scramble to release an update with requested features and a free trial period, as well as bringing back FCP7.
Does Apple spend a lot on marketing? Yes, obviously. But marketing alone won't bring in sales for long, so they must be doing something right with the products.
You should take a look at Indian laws then, They have reservations for EVERYONE except middle class and above men
(Assuming you mean Native-Americans or American-Indians or whatever new pet term there is now.) Have you ever been to a reservation? Not living in one is a good thing. (Maybe there are nice ones out there, but I've been to several in different states and all I have seen is abject poverty.)
Looking at the Indian laws, you see that they're allowed to build casinos. What really happens is that a few tribes can actually build them in places where they'll make money. They get rich while the others get screwed.
I don't think the ribbon is as bad as many feel, but I do have one gripe: the Home tab. If it acted as an aggregator and had duplicate entries for the most common tasks while also leaving the buttons in their appropriate spots, it would be fine. Instead, it actually takes functions away from their logical categories, which results in a lot of tab switching in some situations, and at other times it can be hard to tell if what you want will be under Home or something else. I don't have to use Office very much at my work, so it hasn't quite become automatic yet.
The more annoying issue for me is, as another poster mentioned, the removal of Ctrl+Shift+S as "Save As..." I often have to save new versions of documents, and having to click my way through it when I didn't have to before is annoying.
That wouldn't work, no "enviro-nazi" would dump that much carbon and other pollutants into the air. They'd probably bury it or send it to China or something.
I guess that's why buying the full album is usually couple bucks cheaper than it would be to buy each song individually. (I'm checking ITMS for this; not sure about other stores.) I agree, though--it feels like prices should be lower, since there's no physical media involved. Unlike many here, however, I don't mind companies having profit margins. Making songs cost 1c would be unprofitable--which means a lot less would be made (okay, that might actually be a good thing, but I digress).
Seigniorage is the extra value added when a government mints a coin with a face value greater than the value of the precious metal contained in the coin.
On the low end, Apple does cost a lot more than equivalent PCs. But that's because Apple doesn't really have a "low end". A few months ago, I compared the high-end Dell laptop to the high-end MacBook Pro, and was surprised at how small the price difference was. Dell was cheaper, but only by about $300, and we're talking about two machines that both cost over $2000. That $300 gives you much better hardware build quality and design and gives you easy, legitimate access to OS X (which may or may not be something you like; I just mention it as something Dell can't offer unless you go the Hackintosh route).
Price disparity is slowly disappearing. It will probably always exist, because Apple wants to be seen as a "premium" brand and avoid a race to the bottom, but it's certainly not like the old days. Hell, I first got a Macbook because, price-wise, it made the most sense for what I was doing.
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I can't disagree more. On tablets, at least (I've never used a webOS phone), it's leaps and bounds ahead of iOS and Android, in my view. It's not only a great way to see what's open, but you can see the current states of apps and organize them by task by placing them into stacks. And closing apps is not only simple, swiping cards away to close them is both a great metaphor and surprisingly fun (even after having a Touchpad for over a month).
In all honesty, I like it so much I'm selling my iPad in favor of my Touchpad.
I'm in the same boat. Overclocked with F15C to 1.728GHz and the stability and sluggishness problems go away, without a horrible hit to battery life. Also a few other performance tweaks (less logging, faster transitions, etc.) and the thing really flies.
I like it so much I'm selling my iPad.
How is Apple able to do it, then? The iPad is crazy thin and has great battery life.
To answer the parent, HP's Touchpad was 9.7", and we all know how that went. (Which is a shame; I really like my Touchpad.)
My problem with Amazon right now is that their announcement almost feels like a bait and switch--they say the new, non-touch Kindle is $79, but don't say up-front that it's ad-supported. You have to go to the product page to see that. Same with the $99 touch Kindle. The price of Kindle eBooks are, from what I've seen, something of a ripoff (this goes for iBooks as well; haven't looked at Nook), but I'd buy a Kindle for $79...if it didn't have ads.
(To the pedants: I realize it isn't actually bait-and-switch, but more misleading.)
Actually, I did give them personal information. Signed up and everything. I should have made that more obvious.
Two problems with Groupon that I've seen after briefly subscribing to it:
1. It's convoluted to see deals without subscribing. I imagine there are people out there who would be interested, but don't want to give out personal information.
2. Who can blame them? Most of the deals sucked in my area. This is one place where targeted advertising would be great--I specifically signed up to receive ads! Instead, I got an ad for pole dancing. As a male, I was not very intrigued.
From what I've read, Zynga's revenues rose 115%, but profits dropped 90%+.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/09/zyngas-90-drop-in-second-quarter-profits-unlikely-to-derail-ipo.html
According to that article, their costs went up a ton due to development of two new games that have yet to make them money. I have a hard time swallowing the article's claim that a 90% drop in profits isn't something to be alarmed about.
That must be why everyone flocked to Final Cut Pro X and Apple made tons of money. Oh wait, no they didn't. People freaked out, demanded refunds, bought from Adobe, and Apple had to scramble to release an update with requested features and a free trial period, as well as bringing back FCP7.
Does Apple spend a lot on marketing? Yes, obviously. But marketing alone won't bring in sales for long, so they must be doing something right with the products.
You should take a look at Indian laws then,
They have reservations for EVERYONE except middle class and above men
(Assuming you mean Native-Americans or American-Indians or whatever new pet term there is now.)
Have you ever been to a reservation? Not living in one is a good thing. (Maybe there are nice ones out there, but I've been to several in different states and all I have seen is abject poverty.)
Looking at the Indian laws, you see that they're allowed to build casinos. What really happens is that a few tribes can actually build them in places where they'll make money. They get rich while the others get screwed.
That's a point in its favor.
Google doesn't actually want "Google" to be a verb.
I guess that's why iOS is the dominant smartphone OS and OS X is the dominant desktop OS, right? And why everyone has an Apple TV?
I don't think the ribbon is as bad as many feel, but I do have one gripe: the Home tab. If it acted as an aggregator and had duplicate entries for the most common tasks while also leaving the buttons in their appropriate spots, it would be fine. Instead, it actually takes functions away from their logical categories, which results in a lot of tab switching in some situations, and at other times it can be hard to tell if what you want will be under Home or something else. I don't have to use Office very much at my work, so it hasn't quite become automatic yet.
The more annoying issue for me is, as another poster mentioned, the removal of Ctrl+Shift+S as "Save As..." I often have to save new versions of documents, and having to click my way through it when I didn't have to before is annoying.
That wouldn't work, no "enviro-nazi" would dump that much carbon and other pollutants into the air. They'd probably bury it or send it to China or something.
Oh really? http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/ecoterrorism.asp
So, can we cut their "frivolous spending" budget?
Oh yeah? I'm in California, and I didn't feel it!
I guess that's why buying the full album is usually couple bucks cheaper than it would be to buy each song individually. (I'm checking ITMS for this; not sure about other stores.) I agree, though--it feels like prices should be lower, since there's no physical media involved. Unlike many here, however, I don't mind companies having profit margins. Making songs cost 1c would be unprofitable--which means a lot less would be made (okay, that might actually be a good thing, but I digress).
FTS:
So, no, it's not actually $5 trillion of metal.
On the low end, Apple does cost a lot more than equivalent PCs. But that's because Apple doesn't really have a "low end". A few months ago, I compared the high-end Dell laptop to the high-end MacBook Pro, and was surprised at how small the price difference was. Dell was cheaper, but only by about $300, and we're talking about two machines that both cost over $2000. That $300 gives you much better hardware build quality and design and gives you easy, legitimate access to OS X (which may or may not be something you like; I just mention it as something Dell can't offer unless you go the Hackintosh route).
Price disparity is slowly disappearing. It will probably always exist, because Apple wants to be seen as a "premium" brand and avoid a race to the bottom, but it's certainly not like the old days. Hell, I first got a Macbook because, price-wise, it made the most sense for what I was doing.
I bet many of these devs also criticized Apple for suing over the "App Store" trademark. Yay hypocrisy.
It also gives you photo uploads. And yes, it has notifications.
Because I really want to run wireshark on my freaking phone.
So now we can get paid for acting nicely? And here I've been doing it for free!
(Impressed he got FP with it too)
I like to think that he always has it in his clipboard on the off-chance it will be relevant.
That is somewhat surprising. When they replaced it, did you get a brand-new model, or a refurbished one?
Hopefully that won't happen :) We've gone through a couple hardware revisions since that article was written.