No its not...and it won't Apple will never be a serious contender for the Desktop, it simply costs too much. Sales dropped 22% last quarter...and shrunk a more manageable 2% this, but any pretence of world domination, or mass exodus to Apple simply aren't happening.
The reality is Apple could buy Dell (about 22 times), or they could License their OS, but if anything they have got used to relying on Microsoft being so awful..they get to roll around on wads of cash...and even though the salesman is dead, Cooky seems indent on second guessing what a dead man will do.
I love the idea of Apple going for Microsofts throat, but they Love the incredibly profitable Duopoly. It looks like companies are putting bets on Android...and Linux is sneaking market share.
Googling "best games for Android" doesn't give me very useful results.
Then your being deliberately obtuse I just types your phrase "best games for Android" and unsurprisingly gave modern up-to-date lists of Android games, the first post is http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/04/18/51-best-and-4-wtf-new-android-games-from-the-last-2-weeks-4213-41813/ 51 Best (And 4 WTF) New Android Gameswhich unsurprisingly gibes everything from strategy to flight simulator to...hell they even have a point-and-click adventure on the list. Ironically you caould have tried everything on the list...for less price than one of your dated console games.
Too many fucking 'social' requirements in games already.
Social gaming has always been big...ever since you could play Doom across a network (although many would claim Arcades were more social and first), and just because you want to game in isolation, most don't. It was interesting to see how although Microsoft had failed in so many years with the Xbox...Live has been an incredible earner, it even helped breath new life into Microsoft shares.
That costs over double the device in the article, whatever the specification; in the market they are aiming for price is everything. That said the specifications do seem a too low for useful Android. I think they should a price against sensible specifications, but then I think the same for similar projects like the raspberry pi.
Google on the other hand IS KNOWN to use tax avoidance
Apple on the other hand IS KNOWN to use tax avoidance, and we KNOW they made huge profits on which they paid very little tax, cheating people in countries all over the world.
I believe your favourite mega corporation right now famously borrowing money specifically to avoid paying tax:) iBonds I believe they are calling them.
VAT is paid by the Final Customer,... at the point of purchase, which in Amazon's case is an offshore subsidiary with lower tax. So basically they get to sell goods nearly tax free to UK residents where as local retailers have to pay full tax.
That is nothing to do with Amazon. In the UK books rightfully are vat free, but ebooks aren't. That is just wrong. The fact that throughout the EU ebooks are inconsistent...and Amazon take advantage of the fact is just an aside.
James Bridle "Ebooks are not exempt from VAT, being classed as, I believe, ‘electronic guides’ rather than ‘books’"
VAT does not work like that. VAT is paid by the Final Customer, The businesses in between don't pay. What you may be getting confused over is the HMRC *collect* the net of incoming VAT and outgoing VAT until it is finally paid in full by the final customer. Businesses essentially pay nothing.
Yes, if something, this is a feature to me. Both a Win8 tablet and phone without the intrusive behavior....
Let me introduce you to http://adsinapps.microsoft.com/ Ads in Apps or as Microsoft say "Start monetizing with advertising Ads in Apps for Windows 8 has the features that developers want."
For the Apple users amongst up http://advertising.apple.com/ iad "Every brand has a great story to tell. With iAd you can put that story into the hands of millions of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users around the globe."
you can use to put songs into the iTunes library: Just move it into the folder "~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Automatically Add to iTunes"..
That is "Just Broken", on a Android you don't need a third party program:). Having to remember such a complicated hierarchy of directories...and still use a third party program is a disgrace. iOS is so complicated.
Play is the largest online store, by every metric
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Yes, it's certainly not like like the iTunes Store is the single most popular music store worldwide or anything..
Its not...that would be Play...that is the point, and Music is just a small potion of what is sold.
Really what is confusing about the fact that Apple sell to Apple users through itunes and google sell to Android users through the Play store, and while it is possible to sell to each other now (although some Apple customers are still trapped by DRM...unless they pay a premium) in practice it happens less, and in Apples case...Apple don't allow alternative stores on their (not your) devices, so buying from Amazon has extra problems:), and management of mp3's again on their (not your) device relies on itunes!?
Chromebook is a cheap single device from a single manufacturer.
Chromebooks are made by Google; HP; Lenovo; Acer and Samsung; The list of companies producing these laptops continues to grow. As for them being cheap...the Pixel is famously $1299 price was more than six times that of the lowest cost Chromebook, the Acer C7.
I have no idea where Chrome will end up. I suspect that it will be merged with Android where sensible, and I suspect it will start fighting Windows machines from Underneath. google barely advertised these machines, and already they have a great following.
You only get that here on Slashdot. In the real world, when I see people play music from a laptop 9 times out of 10 they are using iTunes to do it.
...Then you must be in an Apple store. 80% of the world use Android phones for their MP3 needs, and with Apples market share, also went its store. Its what you argue for in thread after thread. Short term hardware profits over long term advertising/content models from Google/Amazon. Its a niche player now.
A relative of mine recently bought a laptop that was supposed to arrive with FreeDos, but had Ubuntu 12.04 on it instead.
You should have told http://www.freedos.org/ freedos is available here. I understand the massive growth in people wanting freedos, with its clutter free CLI.
This happens all the time. I would insist that new machines label themselves quite clearly as having Ubuntu inside. To prevent the hordes of freeDos users being disappointed. Perhaps its time for a Class Action Lawsuit!!
This is complete bullshit by any reasonable understanding of what it is to force someone to do something. Safari came as a default extra via the installer and the auto update mechanism. That approach is a turnoff for me. Even so users could still use Firefox. How were they forced to use Safari?
itunes is very much part of the iPod success story. It was a horrible bit of software that should be burned with fire. For those of us who used platforms that it didn't work on, it made owning an iPod/iPhone a nightmare, and used to prop up Apples monopoly in the Mp3 players (thank god they Jobs was stopped with books). It was used by Jobs to destroy Firefox unsuccessfully by forcing people to use Safari. It tangles itself to the OS in unpleasantly hard to remove ways. Its still used to update devices!? Play turned 1 a couple of weeks ago without much fanfair, and works through a browser, or native on Android hardware.
Its one redeeming feature is it popularised 3-plane music players. Personally though I'm using Clementine which is everything right about a music player.
This article is about Intel and white label manufactures using Android, in response 3 consecutive drops in sales of Windows, using price as a catalyst. Apple have products in this market...the macbook Air, they could have competed on price (or licenses their OS to others that could)...but never have since launch 1976.
The bottom line is Apple could have produced an iOS device (I do mean iPad) *with* a keyboard (with the appropriate software tweeks), and cut the price across its product range to create market share focussing on down the line profits from the Apple store. That has more interest to me than iTV or iWatch. Instead they hand another market over to a competitor.
The point on any level that a overpriced tablet even with a clunky solution is the same as good value laptop, is living in a fantasy land, real world metrics as opposed to "my mum comments" show this to be the case.
As Steve Jobs said in the iPad launch keynote "They're just cheap laptops"
Except the quote was this ""They're slow, they have low quality displays and they run clunky old PC software. They're not better than a laptop at anything, they're just cheaper: they're just cheap laptops."
The new generation of $200 laptops are fast, high quality displays...and run Android.
In context of price mentioned in this quote, Android has already surpassed Apple in the tablet market by producing better value tablets. Perhaps price is something Jobs should not have dismissed so easily.
Ironically younger Jobs agrees with me "What ruined Apple was not growth They got very greedy Instead of following the original trajectory of the original vision, which was to make the thing an appliance and get this out there to as many people as possible they went for profits. They made outlandish profits for about four years. What this cost them was their future. What they should have been doing is making rational profits and going for market share.”"
I don't want a touch screen. How about saving the touch screen and making a $150 laptop?
Ignoring that the Android OS has advantages when using a touchscreen. I think you need to look for your saving elsewhere. We live in Bazarro world where my (relevantly) expensive low resolution and DPI touchless laptop cost's more than my relatively *cheap* touchsceen high DPI tablet. The bought a whole tablet yesterday for $100. I'd be surprised if the keyboard would cost $50.
Dying?? WTF, go read their revenue GROWTH and profit GROWTH for the last quarter before you say moronic things. To be dying their growth would have to at least be stagnant, preferably decreasing, hint IT ISN'T. So far android laptops have failed, the chromebooks have sold less than the disaster that was surface tablets.
IBM doesn't sell many computers either.;). Microsoft has had revenue growth despite three quarter of dropping windows computer sales, on the back of raised priced in server live, an EOL console live subscriptions, making more monet from online office...instead of offline office....hold the bus three quarters of dropping sales.
My sister is an Apple fan, so my mom is now using an iPad as her *only* (not just primary) device. She hasn't had an issue so far, other than she had to re-buy some programs she had with equivelent apps.
Your topic being off-topic it is worth noting in context of this article that Android are now outselling Apple on tablets, and if your sister/mom has need for a keyboard in future its probably better to invest in Android.
200$ for a tablet that will not potentially suck with a windows CE OS and a Pentium era CPU, maybe sold, if it replaces my 10 inch fujitsu lifebook running w2k and office 2000
Apart from the obvious. Windows CE was awful...badly received and in any way a joke when compared to Android. Even Microsoft put a bullet in that horse (Although its amusing that what they replace it with is more unpopular)
The reality is these machines are placed as direct replacements to windows Laptops.
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Apple *is* getting converts in key sectors
No its not...and it won't Apple will never be a serious contender for the Desktop, it simply costs too much. Sales dropped 22% last quarter...and shrunk a more manageable 2% this, but any pretence of world domination, or mass exodus to Apple simply aren't happening.
The reality is Apple could buy Dell (about 22 times), or they could License their OS, but if anything they have got used to relying on Microsoft being so awful..they get to roll around on wads of cash...and even though the salesman is dead, Cooky seems indent on second guessing what a dead man will do.
I love the idea of Apple going for Microsofts throat, but they Love the incredibly profitable Duopoly. It looks like companies are putting bets on Android...and Linux is sneaking market share.
I can't find decent strategy games for mobile.
Googling "best games for Android" doesn't give me very useful results.
Then your being deliberately obtuse I just types your phrase "best games for Android" and unsurprisingly gave modern up-to-date lists of Android games, the first post is http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/04/18/51-best-and-4-wtf-new-android-games-from-the-last-2-weeks-4213-41813/ 51 Best (And 4 WTF) New Android Gameswhich unsurprisingly gibes everything from strategy to flight simulator to...hell they even have a point-and-click adventure on the list. Ironically you caould have tried everything on the list...for less price than one of your dated console games.
Too many fucking 'social' requirements in games already.
Social gaming has always been big...ever since you could play Doom across a network (although many would claim Arcades were more social and first), and just because you want to game in isolation, most don't. It was interesting to see how although Microsoft had failed in so many years with the Xbox...Live has been an incredible earner, it even helped breath new life into Microsoft shares.
It cost me $50 for just a single unit....
That costs over double the device in the article, whatever the specification; in the market they are aiming for price is everything. That said the specifications do seem a too low for useful Android. I think they should a price against sensible specifications, but then I think the same for similar projects like the raspberry pi.
Apple UK had revenue of £1B, and a profit of £81.3M
Apple is famous for their .813 Profit Margins *rolls eyes*
Google on the other hand IS KNOWN to use tax avoidance
Apple on the other hand IS KNOWN to use tax avoidance, and we KNOW they made huge profits on which they paid very little tax, cheating people in countries all over the world.
Here is a quote from the Guardian "Apple is estimated to have avoided more than £550m in tax in Britain in 2011. Its latest accounts show UK turnover at just over £1bn and profit at £81.3m, generating a tax bill of £14.4m." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/9829894/Apple-shelters-almost-1bn-a-week-from-US-tax-man.html
I believe your favourite mega corporation right now famously borrowing money specifically to avoid paying tax :) iBonds I believe they are calling them.
VAT is paid by the Final Customer, ... at the point of purchase, which in Amazon's case is an offshore subsidiary with lower tax. So basically they get to sell goods nearly tax free to UK residents where as local retailers have to pay full tax.
That is nothing to do with Amazon. In the UK books rightfully are vat free, but ebooks aren't. That is just wrong. The fact that throughout the EU ebooks are inconsistent...and Amazon take advantage of the fact is just an aside.
James Bridle "Ebooks are not exempt from VAT, being classed as, I believe, ‘electronic guides’ rather than ‘books’"
We have a tax like that already - VAT
VAT does not work like that. VAT is paid by the Final Customer, The businesses in between don't pay. What you may be getting confused over is the HMRC *collect* the net of incoming VAT and outgoing VAT until it is finally paid in full by the final customer. Businesses essentially pay nothing.
There is a nice explanation and example at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_added_tax
Yes, if something, this is a feature to me. Both a Win8 tablet and phone without the intrusive behavior....
Let me introduce you to http://adsinapps.microsoft.com/ Ads in Apps or as Microsoft say "Start monetizing with advertising Ads in Apps for Windows 8 has the features that developers want."
For the Apple users amongst up http://advertising.apple.com/ iad "Every brand has a great story to tell. With iAd you can put that story into the hands of millions of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users around the globe."
Clearly your not using Google ;)
you can use to put songs into the iTunes library: Just move it into the folder "~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Automatically Add to iTunes". .
That is "Just Broken", on a Android you don't need a third party program :). Having to remember such a complicated hierarchy of directories...and still use a third party program is a disgrace. iOS is so complicated.
Yes, it's certainly not like like the iTunes Store is the single most popular music store worldwide or anything..
Its not...that would be Play...that is the point, and Music is just a small potion of what is sold.
You seem to be just slightly confused
Really what is confusing about the fact that Apple sell to Apple users through itunes and google sell to Android users through the Play store, and while it is possible to sell to each other now (although some Apple customers are still trapped by DRM...unless they pay a premium) in practice it happens less, and in Apples case...Apple don't allow alternative stores on their (not your) devices, so buying from Amazon has extra problems :), and management of mp3's again on their (not your) device relies on itunes!?
Chromebook is a cheap single device from a single manufacturer.
Chromebooks are made by Google; HP; Lenovo; Acer and Samsung; The list of companies producing these laptops continues to grow. As for them being cheap...the Pixel is famously $1299 price was more than six times that of the lowest cost Chromebook, the Acer C7.
I have no idea where Chrome will end up. I suspect that it will be merged with Android where sensible, and I suspect it will start fighting Windows machines from Underneath. google barely advertised these machines, and already they have a great following.
Your post is simply wrong.
You only get that here on Slashdot. In the real world, when I see people play music from a laptop 9 times out of 10 they are using iTunes to do it.
...Then you must be in an Apple store. 80% of the world use Android phones for their MP3 needs, and with Apples market share, also went its store. Its what you argue for in thread after thread. Short term hardware profits over long term advertising/content models from Google/Amazon. Its a niche player now.
A relative of mine recently bought a laptop that was supposed to arrive with FreeDos, but had Ubuntu 12.04 on it instead.
You should have told http://www.freedos.org/ freedos is available here. I understand the massive growth in people wanting freedos, with its clutter free CLI.
This happens all the time. I would insist that new machines label themselves quite clearly as having Ubuntu inside. To prevent the hordes of freeDos users being disappointed. Perhaps its time for a Class Action Lawsuit!!
This is complete bullshit by any reasonable understanding of what it is to force someone to do something. Safari came as a default extra via the installer and the auto update mechanism. That approach is a turnoff for me. Even so users could still use Firefox. How were they forced to use Safari?
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/18/is-apple-aiming-at-firefox/ This is a sad looking Jobs in 2007 and the famous graph that does not include firefox anymore. How wrong he was.
itunes is very much part of the iPod success story. It was a horrible bit of software that should be burned with fire. For those of us who used platforms that it didn't work on, it made owning an iPod/iPhone a nightmare, and used to prop up Apples monopoly in the Mp3 players (thank god they Jobs was stopped with books). It was used by Jobs to destroy Firefox unsuccessfully by forcing people to use Safari. It tangles itself to the OS in unpleasantly hard to remove ways. Its still used to update devices!? Play turned 1 a couple of weeks ago without much fanfair, and works through a browser, or native on Android hardware.
Its one redeeming feature is it popularised 3-plane music players. Personally though I'm using Clementine which is everything right about a music player.
And you have an odd definition of "off topic"
This article is about Intel and white label manufactures using Android, in response 3 consecutive drops in sales of Windows, using price as a catalyst. Apple have products in this market...the macbook Air, they could have competed on price (or licenses their OS to others that could)...but never have since launch 1976.
The bottom line is Apple could have produced an iOS device (I do mean iPad) *with* a keyboard (with the appropriate software tweeks), and cut the price across its product range to create market share focussing on down the line profits from the Apple store. That has more interest to me than iTV or iWatch. Instead they hand another market over to a competitor.
The point on any level that a overpriced tablet even with a clunky solution is the same as good value laptop, is living in a fantasy land, real world metrics as opposed to "my mum comments" show this to be the case.
As Steve Jobs said in the iPad launch keynote "They're just cheap laptops"
Except the quote was this ""They're slow, they have low quality displays and they run clunky old PC software. They're not better than a laptop at anything, they're just cheaper: they're just cheap laptops."
The new generation of $200 laptops are fast, high quality displays...and run Android.
In context of price mentioned in this quote, Android has already surpassed Apple in the tablet market by producing better value tablets. Perhaps price is something Jobs should not have dismissed so easily.
Ironically younger Jobs agrees with me "What ruined Apple was not growth They got very greedy Instead of following the original trajectory of the original vision, which was to make the thing an appliance and get this out there to as many people as possible they went for profits. They made outlandish profits for about four years. What this cost them was their future. What they should have been doing is making rational profits and going for market share.”"
Office doesn't run on Android.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/libreoffice-for-android-frustratingly-close-to-release/ LibreOffice is close to release :) Although Android has a several of its own.
I don't want a touch screen. How about saving the touch screen and making a $150 laptop?
Ignoring that the Android OS has advantages when using a touchscreen. I think you need to look for your saving elsewhere. We live in Bazarro world where my (relevantly) expensive low resolution and DPI touchless laptop cost's more than my relatively *cheap* touchsceen high DPI tablet. The bought a whole tablet yesterday for $100. I'd be surprised if the keyboard would cost $50.
Just having Office make this better than Android.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/libreoffice-for-android-frustratingly-close-to-release/ Libreoffice in close to release so you don't have to wait too long. Although many users have already moved to alternatives like Google Docs.
Dying?? WTF, go read their revenue GROWTH and profit GROWTH for the last quarter before you say moronic things. To be dying their growth would have to at least be stagnant, preferably decreasing, hint IT ISN'T. So far android laptops have failed, the chromebooks have sold less than the disaster that was surface tablets.
IBM doesn't sell many computers either. ;). Microsoft has had revenue growth despite three quarter of dropping windows computer sales, on the back of raised priced in server live, an EOL console live subscriptions, making more monet from online office...instead of offline office....hold the bus three quarters of dropping sales.
Interestingly if we look at Amazon...the largest online retailer. http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/565108/ref=sr_bs_1 A chromebook is *still* the bestselling laptop....I couldn't see the surface in the top 100!?
My sister is an Apple fan, so my mom is now using an iPad as her *only* (not just primary) device. She hasn't had an issue so far, other than she had to re-buy some programs she had with equivelent apps.
Your topic being off-topic it is worth noting in context of this article that Android are now outselling Apple on tablets, and if your sister/mom has need for a keyboard in future its probably better to invest in Android.
200$ for a tablet that will not potentially suck with a windows CE OS and a Pentium era CPU, maybe sold, if it replaces my 10 inch fujitsu lifebook running w2k and office 2000
Apart from the obvious. Windows CE was awful...badly received and in any way a joke when compared to Android. Even Microsoft put a bullet in that horse (Although its amusing that what they replace it with is more unpopular)
The reality is these machines are placed as direct replacements to windows Laptops.