Hey, a friend of mine has the "Benny" Featured Comic.:)
They can't sell it and add DRM to the comics, thats a key feature to make it a success. But i have to agree that we need a bigger screen for this, maybe an iPod pro or a real bookreader device. I don't need this portable device but i can understand why Apple will wait for it to offer PDF downloads. Euh, except for the CD booklets that is.;)
iTunes is perfect for selling Comics, it has a huge userbase that is willing to pay for digital content. Apple only needs a device to sell it for, the iTV is a possibility or a new handheld device.
Classic games are $5-10 and i beleve Apple is setting a new price for oldschool games with there $5 pricepoint for iPod games, $5 is clearly the sweet spot for casual games.
We make it unique with the accessory's, combined it gives us millions of unique combinations from ordinary to luxurious, from casual to geek. No other player has this, you ether buy a ordinary MP3 player or an iPod.
The last revision is almost a year ago i think and that is a very long time for a high tech gadget, Apple is just making an extra profit on it. Actually i'm surprised the sales aren't much less than the 8.1 mlj, this only proves that the iPod is becoming a commodity product that is bought when needed and not when there's a new model.
Its a perfect match with the Creative patent Apple settled with. It looks like creative and Apple are the only ones that can build a player with a menu structured interface.
What interface is the Zune using? EMI talked about it but apparently wasn't very impressed with the player or the service, they just talked about the financial backing by MS.
The other option is fighting the patent and make it invalid, it would take 4-5 years and then anybody can use this interface on there players. What's the win for Apple in this?
Now MS will have to license it or develop a new interface, that wont be easy. Apple also has a chance to win back future license fees and Creative will step into the made For iPod program for its speakers, its a win/win situation.
If Apple really wants to go head to head with the Vista release they would need something huge to to get on top of the MS marketing power, the only thing i can think of in this magnitude is making osX available for PC's with a similar construction like the Intel Mac. Hobbyists do it already with relative ease so this is more a management decision than a technical one. The biggest reason for this step is -what else- iTunes, Apple wants to control the complete iLife experience and the only way to really accomplish this is to make sure osX can run on all personal computers.
If Apple doesn't want to free osX they better release it before Vista, something like nov 2007 is a-ok.:)
On several places i have read that Apple can use the original Windows API, MS and Apple had a technology exchange and the API was part of it. Lets hope they use it.
If MS keeps there word then WinFS, Avalon and Indigo will be ported to the W2003 and XP systems, they can and want to do extreme ports for the business market but can't port a game API driver thats outside the kernal?
Gadgets are.. um.. gadgets and yes Apple had no excuse not to implement it in Panther, a shareware app did the job. Who says we where happy with this? Spotlight couldn't be backported and as a matter of fact os9 more or less had this feature before osX so glad you brought this up.
X10 is necessary for playing games, not some gadget.
X10 isn't an 3P app or an OS, its more comparable with Apple's QuickTime and QT6 was available for Windows, classic and osX. The best thing you can compare X10 with is openGL.
OSX also was a totally new UNIX based system so you have to give some credit here, osX at first wasn't always the best OS.
Vista is not based on the new longhorn code but is a glorified XP, a lot of business apps and features get implemented in XP but not the ones for consumers. Also XP is not old, its not 5 years of age, its brand new, its the newest Windows currently available so you can't really compare it with an old linux kernel and the Mac OS. In fact its more comparable with WMA, QT, Quickdraw, OpenGL,...
Europeans use MSN but that can change real fast when a better product arrives in all the different native languages. Spending more money on it won't make the product better unless its in the advertising department.
Dvorak may have a visionary moment but i'm willing to go further, if MS loses a big chunk of net income out of Windows or Office (thats not an if but when) then they are stone dead.
quote : "My prediction: by 2015, Windows is history"
Maybe much sooner, if Apple anticipates this Vista fiasco then there won't even be a Vista. Stock is down now and when osX picks up speed (maybe OEM PC's) then stock will plummet and kill MS. Windows is there main business for receiving oodles off cash but has done this with no real competition. If Apple go's OEM then MS will have to lower prices seriously damage there profit, there dead!
Legal problems and DRM won't make torrenting iTunes music easy and thats an understatement. In other words it would be ideal for Apple's own software, previews and the free stuff.
WoW uses it for the updates and it works perfect for all i know so bring it on Apple.:)
Hence giving more credit to the 99$ cube and 129$ PS2
MS totally blew it, they don't understand the usefulness of backwards compatibility and really cheap consoles to broaden the userbase. The focus is to much on being first with 10 million units sold, its an obsession more than economics and good management.
But hey, it worked with Windows so who am i to bitch about it. I don't even want a 360 yet, to expensive, not enough 2e hand games and they die to fast.:p
All songs bought in the ITMS can be burned to a normal music CD, thats not the case with the other music stores. Its not Apple that has to be afraid, its all the rest.
Drivers may be an issue now but nothings stopping the PC makers to market systems that only use Apple supported hardware, 99,9 % osX compatible like in the good old days with IBM.:)
Just give it another year, osX and Vista will install on all new hardware be it on gray boxes or Mac. The battle will finally be on even grounds and may de best OS win!
The price will obviously be a key factor for the sales but P2P is indeed just a buzz word with positive and negative vibes. If they want DVD prices for there movies than its obvious why Apple isn't offering them, its ridicules.
What is a fair price for an online movie in video quality (like iTunes)?
I think 5 dollar is the sweet spot but i'm afraid it will end up being 10 dollar. This is to high for me, unlike digital music there is a big decline in quality and there needs to be a compensation in the price.
Up until now Apple didn't really had a good use for the Pixar content and the distribution was with Disney. Pixar lately did use more and more osX and Apple hardware so there is a business connection somewhere.
Did Pixar use Shake?
(Apple's digital animation/effects software)
I'm wondering what the Disney/Pixar - Apple relation is going to work out. iTunes is selling Disney material now so apparently there is some cooperation.
If it brings down the price for a download its good, i think Apple will promote value for money on its front page more than the expensive series.
Apple doesn't allow adds in the series and won't let them pay for front page exposure (see iTunes music) but will embrace cheaper episodes, maybe even occasional free content to promote the networks.
Now, if i format the HD in 2 partitions. 1 in a UNIX or mac only filesystem (HFS+?) and the other in a Windows compatible file system. If i now install Windows it will see only this one partition yes, viruses too? Does XP always need a C-drive?
I'm new to all this as its been years since i last used Windows but i want the games!:(
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Hey, a friend of mine has the "Benny" Featured Comic. :)
They can't sell it and add DRM to the comics, thats a key feature to make it a success. But i have to agree that we need a bigger screen for this, maybe an iPod pro or a real bookreader device. I don't need this portable device but i can understand why Apple will wait for it to offer PDF downloads. Euh, except for the CD booklets that is. ;)
iTunes is perfect for selling Comics, it has a huge userbase that is willing to pay for digital content. Apple only needs a device to sell it for, the iTV is a possibility or a new handheld device.
Classic games are $5-10 and i beleve Apple is setting a new price for oldschool games with there $5 pricepoint for iPod games, $5 is clearly the sweet spot for casual games.
We make it unique with the accessory's, combined it gives us millions of unique combinations from ordinary to luxurious, from casual to geek. No other player has this, you ether buy a ordinary MP3 player or an iPod.
The last revision is almost a year ago i think and that is a very long time for a high tech gadget, Apple is just making an extra profit on it. Actually i'm surprised the sales aren't much less than the 8.1 mlj, this only proves that the iPod is becoming a commodity product that is bought when needed and not when there's a new model.
Its a perfect match with the Creative patent Apple settled with. It looks like creative and Apple are the only ones that can build a player with a menu structured interface.
What interface is the Zune using? EMI talked about it but apparently wasn't very impressed with the player or the service, they just talked about the financial backing by MS.
The other option is fighting the patent and make it invalid, it would take 4-5 years and then anybody can use this interface on there players. What's the win for Apple in this?
Now MS will have to license it or develop a new interface, that wont be easy. Apple also has a chance to win back future license fees and Creative will step into the made For iPod program for its speakers, its a win/win situation.
If Apple really wants to go head to head with the Vista release they would need something huge to to get on top of the MS marketing power, the only thing i can think of in this magnitude is making osX available for PC's with a similar construction like the Intel Mac. Hobbyists do it already with relative ease so this is more a management decision than a technical one. The biggest reason for this step is -what else- iTunes, Apple wants to control the complete iLife experience and the only way to really accomplish this is to make sure osX can run on all personal computers.
:)
If Apple doesn't want to free osX they better release it before Vista, something like nov 2007 is a-ok.
On several places i have read that Apple can use the original Windows API, MS and Apple had a technology exchange and the API was part of it. Lets hope they use it.
MS is again making it way to complicated :(
If MS keeps there word then WinFS, Avalon and Indigo will be ported to the W2003 and XP systems, they can and want to do extreme ports for the business market but can't port a game API driver thats outside the kernal?
Gadgets are .. um .. gadgets and yes Apple had no excuse not to implement it in Panther, a shareware app did the job. Who says we where happy with this? Spotlight couldn't be backported and as a matter of fact os9 more or less had this feature before osX so glad you brought this up.
X10 is necessary for playing games, not some gadget.
X10 isn't an 3P app or an OS, its more comparable with Apple's QuickTime and QT6 was available for Windows, classic and osX. The best thing you can compare X10 with is openGL. OSX also was a totally new UNIX based system so you have to give some credit here, osX at first wasn't always the best OS.
Vista is not based on the new longhorn code but is a glorified XP, a lot of business apps and features get implemented in XP but not the ones for consumers. Also XP is not old, its not 5 years of age, its brand new, its the newest Windows currently available so you can't really compare it with an old linux kernel and the Mac OS. In fact its more comparable with WMA, QT, Quickdraw, OpenGL, ...
I own Apple stock so yay indeed but i do think some prices will go down, the mini is 100$ to expensive for me or at least a dual core on all models.
Europeans use MSN but that can change real fast when a better product arrives in all the different native languages. Spending more money on it won't make the product better unless its in the advertising department.
Dvorak may have a visionary moment but i'm willing to go further, if MS loses a big chunk of net income out of Windows or Office (thats not an if but when) then they are stone dead.
quote : "My prediction: by 2015, Windows is history" Maybe much sooner, if Apple anticipates this Vista fiasco then there won't even be a Vista. Stock is down now and when osX picks up speed (maybe OEM PC's) then stock will plummet and kill MS. Windows is there main business for receiving oodles off cash but has done this with no real competition. If Apple go's OEM then MS will have to lower prices seriously damage there profit, there dead!
Legal problems and DRM won't make torrenting iTunes music easy and thats an understatement. In other words it would be ideal for Apple's own software, previews and the free stuff.
:)
WoW uses it for the updates and it works perfect for all i know so bring it on Apple.
Hence giving more credit to the 99$ cube and 129$ PS2 MS totally blew it, they don't understand the usefulness of backwards compatibility and really cheap consoles to broaden the userbase. The focus is to much on being first with 10 million units sold, its an obsession more than economics and good management. But hey, it worked with Windows so who am i to bitch about it. I don't even want a 360 yet, to expensive, not enough 2e hand games and they die to fast. :p
All songs bought in the ITMS can be burned to a normal music CD, thats not the case with the other music stores. Its not Apple that has to be afraid, its all the rest.
Drivers may be an issue now but nothings stopping the PC makers to market systems that only use Apple supported hardware, 99,9 % osX compatible like in the good old days with IBM. :)
Just give it another year, osX and Vista will install on all new hardware be it on gray boxes or Mac. The battle will finally be on even grounds and may de best OS win!
ok, core image. But why can't MS make a core image thingy for Viasta? active-X-core or something, is it that hard?
The price will obviously be a key factor for the sales but P2P is indeed just a buzz word with positive and negative vibes. If they want DVD prices for there movies than its obvious why Apple isn't offering them, its ridicules. What is a fair price for an online movie in video quality (like iTunes)? I think 5 dollar is the sweet spot but i'm afraid it will end up being 10 dollar. This is to high for me, unlike digital music there is a big decline in quality and there needs to be a compensation in the price.
Up until now Apple didn't really had a good use for the Pixar content and the distribution was with Disney. Pixar lately did use more and more osX and Apple hardware so there is a business connection somewhere. Did Pixar use Shake? (Apple's digital animation/effects software)
I'm wondering what the Disney/Pixar - Apple relation is going to work out. iTunes is selling Disney material now so apparently there is some cooperation.
If it brings down the price for a download its good, i think Apple will promote value for money on its front page more than the expensive series. Apple doesn't allow adds in the series and won't let them pay for front page exposure (see iTunes music) but will embrace cheaper episodes, maybe even occasional free content to promote the networks.
Now, if i format the HD in 2 partitions. 1 in a UNIX or mac only filesystem (HFS+?) and the other in a Windows compatible file system. If i now install Windows it will see only this one partition yes, viruses too? Does XP always need a C-drive? I'm new to all this as its been years since i last used Windows but i want the games! :(