Hate to break this to you, but...The 360 exists on less people's radars in Japan than the Sega Saturn. Theres no need for it to be on the survey. It miaswell not exist in Japan as it stands right now outside of the crazy Ameri-Town Otaku crowd. On to your 60% girls are in the survey. Guess what, ALLOT more women play games in Japan. Not to mention honestly, a 10% margin in the direction favoring women is not enough to honestly throw such a survey off.
I'll tell you the real reason the DS outsells the PSP hand over fist honestly. The DS has by far a much higher number of pick up & go games than the PSP. If the game takes more than 15-30 seconds to get into theres just no way on the train. The Japanese have this impulse to do something while riding a train for 20-30min, and while reading books is nice, it does seem to be something house-wives, and old Obaa-sans do usually. Not to mention the Japanese tend to go the way those around them swing (almost roboticly), and if you get on almost ANY train in Japan you'll see people mucking about on a DS, or busy texting on a cellphone. I think over the course of my month I spent in Japan in July running around everywhere between Hiroshima, and Sapporo (thats a brutal direct 16 hour train ride btw) I saw a grand total of maybe 2 or 3 PSPs.
Dude, seriously. Take the Sony dick out of your mouth. You lost me when you said you don't like Halo (you know theres a pretty decent game besides the OPTIONAL online play right?) yet enjoy Resistance more than anything else on the Wii. LBP will not be the game the PS3 so fervently needs to capture the family crowd. It's been done already. Nintendo owns that crowd lock, stock, and barrel. Whatever of that demographic is left is on the 360 playing UNO, and Bejeweled.
Huh? The iPhone & PSP have jack all shit to do with each other. The PSP is a bulky game system that wants to be a movie player so very badly, and the iPhone is just that. A PHONE, and an iPod. Stop drinking the haterade (yes, I just said haterade).
Yes, he is comparing it to the closed DS-Lite...WHEN STORING IT. It's much easier to store than either PSP. When you actually use it, you could care less what the size is, and is honestly a benefit in the DS-Lite's case.
Don't count on this getting too far. Corn producers have their heels into politicians pretty good on the matter, and Hydrogen has this problem of being very hard to contain with a problem of brittling most metals used to contain it outside of titanium.
This is already happening. Other countries are doing this with other companies who will likely reach the US in due time. That, or just avoid the US entirely until people ask what fuck is up? Sprint in them will have a hard time getting their broad patents recognized in countries like China & Japan.
Oh I was more concerned with international traveling (I do a little bit of it to say the least). Kinda disappointing to hear about the lack of US support from GSM side though.
Seriously man, who should Apple give a crap about more? The 120million people still on the antiquated CDMA system that exists only in the US, and somewhat in Japan (which are quite different), or the rest of the world who are almost ALL on GSM? I certainly know who I'd care about more from a business standpoint (especially once scorned by a big CDMA carrier). GSM is the way the world has already moved, and companies like: Verizon, Sprint, and Altel (I'm still amazed they are in business) have a deathgrip on their aging systems. Hell, not like it matters anyways, as you stated, Verizon turned Apple down. That FLATTLY killed a CDMA iPhone for the next few years at least even if CDMA can keep the user base it has now in a few years.
Your right though, I don't know you (great comeback since theres NO FUCKING WAY I know if you piss your bed still or not), but if your phone has everything you need, why are you bitching about the iPhone? Your cheap lil contract phone your bankroll will allow is just what you need. Others? We are happy to spend more for something different that suits us better. Hell, I personally don't even own an iPhone right now. The phone I own isn't even carried by any US cellular carriers (Nokia N95). When the new 3G radios come out that are thinner, require less power, and manage to find their way into the iPhone I may finally chuck my current phone. Till then, my swiss army knife phone works fine for me, just wish it was thinner (side effect of 3G radios size right now).
As it stands though it looks like the only way you'll have an iPhone is from the 2nd hand market. Apple will likely never bring it down to the bargain basement price you want outside of an inventory flush so they can sell the next gen. Theres just no reason to compete for the mid-low end Walmart crowd's money. Those people have zero brand loyalty which Apple likes to see happen.
Yes, because the general populous knows how to flash their DAP to a 2ndary firmware (that should have been there in the first place) to make their current music library work. Guess how many people have to do that for the iPod? ZERO...It, just, works!
I'm certainly no "fanboy". Hell I got into this BECAUSE I own a Nokia N95 (one of the few smartphone MORE expensive than the iPhone @ $750). I honestly can't fault Apple for saying no to 3G. The hardwares more expensive, the power requirements aren't worth it until the new less power hungry radios roll out in a year or so, and you seriously think the general populous of phone buyers know how the hell to turn 3G on & off? Apple wanted their phone to "just work", and be thiner than the Blackjack (impossible with current 3G radios).
The thing I'm more annoyed about is the Anti-Apple "fanbois". Most have little to no idea what rational thinking brings to the table. Things like power consumption, size requirements, and market forces are far beyond their grasp. And yes, I do own quite a bit of Apple hardware, I own just about any piece of hardware that I need. Which oddly enough, does not entail an iPhone at this time (hell I just blew $750 on a phone a month before the iPhone came out!). It's nice hardware, but I don't need a replacement yet, and I certainly don't need to be under a contract to AT&T. I like being able to goto another provider if they piss me off.
I was talking to a Sprint Rep a month back when I was setting up a customer with EV-DO since they don't get Cable/DSL, and Satalite is a joke. I was bitching about their lack of GSM in their phones. Turns out they carry Blackberry phones with GSM radios in them now. No idea how well they work personally (not to mention I'll never buy a BB), but it is nice to see that some phone makers are getting smart enough to know they need to support both if they are going to deal with CDMA.
Stop throwing the 120million number out there. Thats two different carriers who each own half of. For that number to mean jack, fucking, shit, we would have to assume that both carriers would support the phone as AT&T is (Visual Voicemail for instance). Good, fucking, luck, with that. They are doing what they always do right now, they start with the biggest share they can (while keeping as much control as possible in case issues arise), and once the ball gets rolling and they are damn well ready they roll their hardware to everyone. Once the iPhone is proven with AT&T Apple will then be able to request just about anything they want from the other carriers. Don't want to play ball with Apple? Ok, we'll make a press release about it, and see more of your subscribers jump ship.
Seriously, stop bitching because you chose any company but AT&T, and suddenly want an iPhone.
At which point the owner notices a drop in signal quality. That video is a scare piece (hell it's a fucking marketing piece for a company who wants to sell their hardware encryption tech). Their caveat that gives it away is "unless there is equipment is in place to check for signal degradation". You flatly do NOT setup a fiber system, not to mention one as big as what Google is debating without the proper equipment. Hell, you really don't even need equipment. Just software to check for degraded data.
And I do have it on GSM generally. To have such a thing though shouldn't require such excessive power requirements. 3G has some maturing to do in this regard.
That would be called the dealership who sold you the car. They keep on file what keys go to whos cars. Now the crux is what happens when you want to change the locks on your music?
Yeah, you can have your HDSPA. My Nokia N95 needs to be charged twice daily due to how badly 3G sucks down the battery. Jobs & them are waiting for the less power hungry 3G, and sticking with what works for now.
Yeah, too bad BT is designed to be suspicious of other clients, and checks hashes for each chunk received. Too many bad chunks? Banned from the client. At best their seeding of bad files made people take 30min more to download a file. Hell I'm sure it cost more to power for the machine doing their work than it earned the record companies.
I've never had anyone ask me "how do you work this?" with my iPod. Even my grandparents knew how to use it when they picked it up. Not one other player has ever accomplished this. Everything is plainly labeled, the only thing that isn't (the click wheel) you figure in under 5 seconds of touching it, it supports enough formats (shut up before you bitch about OGG, less than 0.5% of MP3 buyers give a shit), and it works as advertised. Add music, plug in iPod, and it magically appears on the iPod without any question. None of the gimpy drag & drop into their own directory junk so many just have to have. It's called labeling your tracks with their ID3 tags. Otherwise, it looks a hell of allot better than anything else on the market. Not everyone needs to be an AC/DC fashion victim (yes I 3 AC/DC).
Too bad what a large chunk of the core gamers want to play come from Japan. If the system doesn't sell there, you don't get a large outpouring of support from the Japanese dev base. If you lose Japan, you just lose at the end of the day. They have 1/3 the people, but a whole lot larger population there spends their bucks on videogames, and such.
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Hate to break this to you, but...The 360 exists on less people's radars in Japan than the Sega Saturn. Theres no need for it to be on the survey. It miaswell not exist in Japan as it stands right now outside of the crazy Ameri-Town Otaku crowd. On to your 60% girls are in the survey. Guess what, ALLOT more women play games in Japan. Not to mention honestly, a 10% margin in the direction favoring women is not enough to honestly throw such a survey off.
I'll tell you the real reason the DS outsells the PSP hand over fist honestly. The DS has by far a much higher number of pick up & go games than the PSP. If the game takes more than 15-30 seconds to get into theres just no way on the train. The Japanese have this impulse to do something while riding a train for 20-30min, and while reading books is nice, it does seem to be something house-wives, and old Obaa-sans do usually. Not to mention the Japanese tend to go the way those around them swing (almost roboticly), and if you get on almost ANY train in Japan you'll see people mucking about on a DS, or busy texting on a cellphone. I think over the course of my month I spent in Japan in July running around everywhere between Hiroshima, and Sapporo (thats a brutal direct 16 hour train ride btw) I saw a grand total of maybe 2 or 3 PSPs.
Dude, seriously. Take the Sony dick out of your mouth. You lost me when you said you don't like Halo (you know theres a pretty decent game besides the OPTIONAL online play right?) yet enjoy Resistance more than anything else on the Wii. LBP will not be the game the PS3 so fervently needs to capture the family crowd. It's been done already. Nintendo owns that crowd lock, stock, and barrel. Whatever of that demographic is left is on the 360 playing UNO, and Bejeweled.
Huh? The iPhone & PSP have jack all shit to do with each other. The PSP is a bulky game system that wants to be a movie player so very badly, and the iPhone is just that. A PHONE, and an iPod. Stop drinking the haterade (yes, I just said haterade).
Yes, he is comparing it to the closed DS-Lite...WHEN STORING IT. It's much easier to store than either PSP. When you actually use it, you could care less what the size is, and is honestly a benefit in the DS-Lite's case.
You mean like how my wireless router, and phone even usually crap crap out when a microwave turns on?
Don't count on this getting too far. Corn producers have their heels into politicians pretty good on the matter, and Hydrogen has this problem of being very hard to contain with a problem of brittling most metals used to contain it outside of titanium.
Ahhhh I remeber those days...such fun playing cat & mouse with Dave :)
This is already happening. Other countries are doing this with other companies who will likely reach the US in due time. That, or just avoid the US entirely until people ask what fuck is up? Sprint in them will have a hard time getting their broad patents recognized in countries like China & Japan.
I'm with ya on that! If you can't find it seeded fully on Demonoid it's likely not worth bothering with. Good community to it too.
Easy, vote, you do that, and you get called on in under a year where I am all too often (Las Vegas).
Oh I was more concerned with international traveling (I do a little bit of it to say the least). Kinda disappointing to hear about the lack of US support from GSM side though.
Seriously man, who should Apple give a crap about more? The 120million people still on the antiquated CDMA system that exists only in the US, and somewhat in Japan (which are quite different), or the rest of the world who are almost ALL on GSM? I certainly know who I'd care about more from a business standpoint (especially once scorned by a big CDMA carrier). GSM is the way the world has already moved, and companies like: Verizon, Sprint, and Altel (I'm still amazed they are in business) have a deathgrip on their aging systems. Hell, not like it matters anyways, as you stated, Verizon turned Apple down. That FLATTLY killed a CDMA iPhone for the next few years at least even if CDMA can keep the user base it has now in a few years.
Your right though, I don't know you (great comeback since theres NO FUCKING WAY I know if you piss your bed still or not), but if your phone has everything you need, why are you bitching about the iPhone? Your cheap lil contract phone your bankroll will allow is just what you need. Others? We are happy to spend more for something different that suits us better. Hell, I personally don't even own an iPhone right now. The phone I own isn't even carried by any US cellular carriers (Nokia N95). When the new 3G radios come out that are thinner, require less power, and manage to find their way into the iPhone I may finally chuck my current phone. Till then, my swiss army knife phone works fine for me, just wish it was thinner (side effect of 3G radios size right now).
As it stands though it looks like the only way you'll have an iPhone is from the 2nd hand market. Apple will likely never bring it down to the bargain basement price you want outside of an inventory flush so they can sell the next gen. Theres just no reason to compete for the mid-low end Walmart crowd's money. Those people have zero brand loyalty which Apple likes to see happen.
Your not Apple's target demographic, get over it.
Yes, because the general populous knows how to flash their DAP to a 2ndary firmware (that should have been there in the first place) to make their current music library work. Guess how many people have to do that for the iPod? ZERO...It, just, works!
I'm certainly no "fanboy". Hell I got into this BECAUSE I own a Nokia N95 (one of the few smartphone MORE expensive than the iPhone @ $750). I honestly can't fault Apple for saying no to 3G. The hardwares more expensive, the power requirements aren't worth it until the new less power hungry radios roll out in a year or so, and you seriously think the general populous of phone buyers know how the hell to turn 3G on & off? Apple wanted their phone to "just work", and be thiner than the Blackjack (impossible with current 3G radios).
The thing I'm more annoyed about is the Anti-Apple "fanbois". Most have little to no idea what rational thinking brings to the table. Things like power consumption, size requirements, and market forces are far beyond their grasp. And yes, I do own quite a bit of Apple hardware, I own just about any piece of hardware that I need. Which oddly enough, does not entail an iPhone at this time (hell I just blew $750 on a phone a month before the iPhone came out!). It's nice hardware, but I don't need a replacement yet, and I certainly don't need to be under a contract to AT&T. I like being able to goto another provider if they piss me off.
I was talking to a Sprint Rep a month back when I was setting up a customer with EV-DO since they don't get Cable/DSL, and Satalite is a joke. I was bitching about their lack of GSM in their phones. Turns out they carry Blackberry phones with GSM radios in them now. No idea how well they work personally (not to mention I'll never buy a BB), but it is nice to see that some phone makers are getting smart enough to know they need to support both if they are going to deal with CDMA.
Stop throwing the 120million number out there. Thats two different carriers who each own half of. For that number to mean jack, fucking, shit, we would have to assume that both carriers would support the phone as AT&T is (Visual Voicemail for instance). Good, fucking, luck, with that. They are doing what they always do right now, they start with the biggest share they can (while keeping as much control as possible in case issues arise), and once the ball gets rolling and they are damn well ready they roll their hardware to everyone. Once the iPhone is proven with AT&T Apple will then be able to request just about anything they want from the other carriers. Don't want to play ball with Apple? Ok, we'll make a press release about it, and see more of your subscribers jump ship.
Seriously, stop bitching because you chose any company but AT&T, and suddenly want an iPhone.
At which point the owner notices a drop in signal quality. That video is a scare piece (hell it's a fucking marketing piece for a company who wants to sell their hardware encryption tech). Their caveat that gives it away is "unless there is equipment is in place to check for signal degradation". You flatly do NOT setup a fiber system, not to mention one as big as what Google is debating without the proper equipment. Hell, you really don't even need equipment. Just software to check for degraded data.
And I do have it on GSM generally. To have such a thing though shouldn't require such excessive power requirements. 3G has some maturing to do in this regard.
That would be called the dealership who sold you the car. They keep on file what keys go to whos cars. Now the crux is what happens when you want to change the locks on your music?
Yeah, you can have your HDSPA. My Nokia N95 needs to be charged twice daily due to how badly 3G sucks down the battery. Jobs & them are waiting for the less power hungry 3G, and sticking with what works for now.
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Amen to that. Check out Zero Punctuation's review of Bioshock. He does make some damn spot on right remarks about the game.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/1394-Zero-Punctuation-BioShock
Yeah, too bad BT is designed to be suspicious of other clients, and checks hashes for each chunk received. Too many bad chunks? Banned from the client. At best their seeding of bad files made people take 30min more to download a file. Hell I'm sure it cost more to power for the machine doing their work than it earned the record companies.
I've never had anyone ask me "how do you work this?" with my iPod. Even my grandparents knew how to use it when they picked it up. Not one other player has ever accomplished this. Everything is plainly labeled, the only thing that isn't (the click wheel) you figure in under 5 seconds of touching it, it supports enough formats (shut up before you bitch about OGG, less than 0.5% of MP3 buyers give a shit), and it works as advertised. Add music, plug in iPod, and it magically appears on the iPod without any question. None of the gimpy drag & drop into their own directory junk so many just have to have. It's called labeling your tracks with their ID3 tags. Otherwise, it looks a hell of allot better than anything else on the market. Not everyone needs to be an AC/DC fashion victim (yes I 3 AC/DC).
Too bad what a large chunk of the core gamers want to play come from Japan. If the system doesn't sell there, you don't get a large outpouring of support from the Japanese dev base. If you lose Japan, you just lose at the end of the day. They have 1/3 the people, but a whole lot larger population there spends their bucks on videogames, and such.