Of course it has nothing to do with Software being more profitable than Hardware. It has to be that MS is hiding its losses with dodgy tactics, I suggest you take a look at the 3 companies.
Google, MSFT and Apple.
Google and MSFT have very similar margins and operational structure, Apple is very different and why? because they sell the hardware coupled with the software, the margins are thinner therefore they have to push more out the door to make up the revenue flow.
P.S Please point out exactly what your talking about so I know the reference of which your speaking about.
BZZT wrong. It's market cap dictates that its the biggest by future investment. At the moment it is only slightly bigger than Microsoft balance sheet wise, and less profitable by percent and a much better run company.
It depends on what you call success, pre iPad Apple was just another big bad company on the market, after the iPad it was the biggest badest of them all.
MS saw the redefinition of the market and created a product that trumped Apple in the marketplace causing Apple to go into bankruptcy.
MS saw the iPod era, tried it on and couldn't get the legs but really nobody really cared cause the iPod didn't turn Apple in to a market monster, just a market leader.
Samsung is going after the iPad, the one product which has been responsible for Apple's crazy revenue growth. Samsung is getting traction as seen with the iPhone. Apple is scared history will repeat itself and rightly so see http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL&fstype=ii and click Annual Data. 2011 saw the iPad and look at the massive revenue growth, that's the iPad, the Phone didnt do that!
Black on white has always been the Apple UI and it's really not that impressive IMHO. People also pay lots of money to listen to Justin Beiber as well but that doesn't make him the best. Computing is such a way now where fashion has sold a brand, same thing when I was a kid and Reboks were in, now its Globe and if I wore my Reboks I'd be considered lame and outdated.
In my job I get my hands on ALL latest tech and at present I have an iPad, Windows Mobile Phone, Ubuntu desktop, Debian and FreeBSD servers. I've had Samsung Tab, didn't like the lag, tossed it, had an iPhone tossed it cause it's retro shit compared to WP7, also had HTC till I dropped it, realistically I've had about 7 different handsets in the past 6 months, I'm sticking with Nokia and very happy about it. Had a Mac desktop and tossed it cause it was full of bugs and started to chug after 3 months. I will be on the pre order list for Google Glasses and Microsoft Surface, I was on the pre order list for Raspberry Pi. The cool thing about my job is I don't have to pay for ANY of it I get to chose if I keep it or bin it.
I don't fanboy but I don't unfanboy, I pretty much use what's in front of me at the time. It's a not question of one particular brand better than the other and when you have this privilege you really get to see how full of shit tech reviewers really are and how cruel and bias they are because they like a particular brand.
For now, Windows Phone 7 rips the shit out of iOS, Ubuntu Gnome Classic (not that unity shit) rips over Windows and MacOS, and server it's CLI all the way for me...
P.S I don't use laptops but was given a Samsung Ultrabook that sits there and collects dust, My opinion, really kicks the shit out of anything in the market with MacBook air a close second / third. Funny story on how I got it, cause I'm not a laptop person, I argued with my boss about the fact Surface was boasting how thin their devices are and how only Apple to date pulled off a device that came close, I was told off literally and was told to stop listening to these idiot reviewers, my punishment was the Ultrabook.
Now go learn about stack based overflows and heap based overflows. Then see how OS's like Linux has had ASLR since 05. Then go find papers on ALSR's and their various methods of circumventing them.
Unless you go for an OS with dtrace or similar managing direct syscalls and question every single one of them you'll be hard pressed to find a faultless OS. Fact of the matter is Lion is the first OS of Apples to host a fully pledged ASLR and many within the industry are skeptical it will up to the test.
My philosophy is this and what has been proven to me time and time again, regardless of what you put into an OS someone somehow if needed will find a way to get around it. New methods are always discovered and shared in places like packetstorm and securityfocus, many are not and kept secret until they wish to pillage from the online world.
As for your references to the malware scanners - good on them. We over in PC land have had the same thing for well over a decade, way to innovate guys.
I guess you should feel special knowing that online criminals actually give a shit about you now....
P.S I so so hate Apple's interface, its been 20 years already why do cropped screenshots of OSX look nearly the same as OS7. I remember looking at the iPhone config panel and thinking, shit I played with this back in 6th grade, didn't like it then, don't like it now.
From your username i wont take offence at your personal attacks. I speaking ill about Apple is akin to calling your mother a whore.
If an app was developed by an unknown developer — one with no Developer ID — Gatekeeper can keep your Mac safe by blocking the app from being installed.
Apple's containment process is unsavoury to ones computing freedom and precisely the problem with the security model. It's like the cave man vs the modern human, you give the cave man some raw meat and he eats it no troubles. Give it too the modern man and he dies because of sort of bacteria in the meat.
Apple's germ free environment is why when the malware industry does hit. It will hit them hard.
What a waste of a patient. The HMD technology displayed in there seems fairly rudimentary. No mention of 3D tech which would of been my first thought of holding any real use to the experience of HMD (if someone can find it good for them let me know).
It takes care of motion but so did Google Glasses and it was published publicly first, so that takes care of that about who did what first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-mounted_display takes care of the existence of HMD's before. NB to fanboys pay close attention to the manufacturers section these guys did it first okay not Apple okay even if they acquire one of these companies.
There are by the looks 4 different methods applied for viewing OLED, LED, Laser, LCoS I'm certain Apple didn't invent these either, someone else can cite this as its not worth the digging.
That leaves the concept of splitting it between two displays for each eye. Pretty sure it was thought of before, you know cause we have two of them... wait wait, yes the first point raised in "Performance parameters" under the Wikipedia article linked above.
It's not about floodgates it's about prevention and it's about criminal activity / value. The damage will speak for itself when normal people have their cc drained because the data was pulled out of AppStore or something akin.
Also remember a Trojan/Worm/whatever isn't about being known, it's the unknown malicious apps out there that are the concern. Techs find an exploit here or there but is that simply the tip of the iceberg? and Apple's security focus is simply under manned and considered an afterthought?
The issue is when you are a business you address what the market demands, the question is when the market demands mitigative services is Apple prepared? I don't believe they are from looking at their track record.
Saying it has never convinced the Mac community though. All those years of MS bashing will eventually come full circle.
Computers store valuable information, linux, windows, bsd, osx, they are all computers they all have something of value to steal. I've always thought just as the computing industry has smartened up to malicious activity so have the criminals, biding their time with Apple I've always thought was a long term investment, wait until there was enough Mac users out there so that when you make a run on people's CC details you make it a good one.
Remember it took 10 years for MS to learn their lesson, talking about what would kill Apple, a 10 year long "I told you so" would do it. I guess that'll never happen because eventually (after they suck up their pride) they can ask MS or even Trend/Norton/McAfee for help, which they will because Apple is completely unprepared for the shit storm that is to follow.
Perhaps, but the time it takes to read this article someone from google / OSS community will actually fix the problem.
Meanwhile, Apple first has to deny there is a problem, wait until people / media outlets nag them about the problem, then they'll attempt to release a fix that doesn't work, eventually tying it into an os release which requires the users to redownload iTunes, QuickTime and a iOS image that only a small number of the Apple market bother doing.
I bought a Nokia Lumia 900 today and what a phone! Apple should be scared and I'd love to see them try it on with Nokia because Lumia is so slick and so different than anything Apple. It's easy and it does everything the iPhone did, yes I've had iPhone 3, 3GS and 4S and I own an iPad and iPod nano. As for this retina crap it's just that, after getting used to the new Lumia I believe that any reviewer / tech mag that says otherwise is bogus and has Apple in their pocket because the screen on the Lumia IS BETTER, it's crisp, it's CLEARER and it's better utilized.
I've paid my fair share of Apple tax in my day and I'm happy to say I AM EXCITED ABOUT SURFACE. I will be eBaying the iPad as soon as it hits shelves and getting the first gen model and I'm not worried about the old "never buy MS first gen" saying because Lumia has made it myth. If it's anything like my brand new awesome Lumia they have my money without question.
Those issues with the Windows Marketplace, again myth, if you're a gamer you'll love marketplace as it links right into your xbox live. iCloud? New? Get on board MS has been doing it for years now, Lumia has successfully introduced it into the mobile world, elegantly and easily. Lastly, app range Marketplace everything you need minus the spam shit Apple allows in their AppStore as I DONT want a bigger app range I want a quality app range and Marketplace delivers.
Apple, old school, outdated and interface wise? Cheap and basic, Lumia 10x sexier, better and easier to navigate and more importantly MAKES SENSE!
A friend of a friend has a patent on touchscreen technology. He sits in his beachhouse never having to work again because some manufacturer pays him for it's use. No it's not Apple or Samsung, some smaller vendors use the specific technology he "invented".
The problem with the patents you mentioned are the same with my friend's friend patent. If you design something a certain way, you own that certain specific invention, not the same concept applied in different ways.
Samsung creates a box if that box has 1% different polymer whatever plastic to make that box then it steps around the patent, it becomes a matter for the courts yes, because they need to prove the specifics behind the patent and the offenders use but I'd imagine that won't be hard for samsung, besides if it sits on the use of android that alone will absolve samsung as it then falls on googles shoulders.
Oh yes, the misuse of the English language yet again.
Invent implies they had something to do with the r&d into the development of touch screens. They "integrated" touch screens into a product which they received after acquiring fingerworks.
You either haven't been watching this case, or we're talking about another case.
There is 1 legal hurdle samsung has to clear in order to remove the injunction and that is deceiving the end user by introducing a product into the market that would confuse them to buy their product. It's not a hard hurdle for samsung to bound over and I'm certain they will.
If there are other infringing patients like you say, I'd say pulling the product would be moot, how would Apple file for damages if the product is pulled? Rather they would sit back let samsung sell the product and the request royalties or sue.
Which begs the question wouldn't that be a more typical / plausible course of action. Wait 6 months to a year and go "hey, samsung where's my payout?"
And hence the reason why the article ends with the sentiment "they haven't seen our evidence yet" like statement. Apple really needs to check itself on this, they do not want to make enemies of google on this one, they would be very sorry if they did.
"It's no coincidence that Samsung's latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging," an Apple spokeswoman said in an email. "This kind of blatant copying is wrong and, as we've said many times before, we need to protect Apple's intellectual property when companies steal our ideas."
Oh yes because Apple invented phones, calendars, address books, web browsers and SMS messaging tools. I'm sure don't believe their own shit, rather they see this as a means to delay successful delpoyment of a competitive product.
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Of course it has nothing to do with Software being more profitable than Hardware. It has to be that MS is hiding its losses with dodgy tactics, I suggest you take a look at the 3 companies.
Google, MSFT and Apple.
Google and MSFT have very similar margins and operational structure, Apple is very different and why? because they sell the hardware coupled with the software, the margins are thinner therefore they have to push more out the door to make up the revenue flow.
P.S Please point out exactly what your talking about so I know the reference of which your speaking about.
BZZT wrong. It's market cap dictates that its the biggest by future investment. At the moment it is only slightly bigger than Microsoft balance sheet wise, and less profitable by percent and a much better run company.
APPL (52 weeks ending 2011-09-24)
Revenue 108,249.00
Gross Profit 43,818.00
MSTF (12 months ending 2011-06-30)
Revenue 69,943.00
Gross Profit 54,366.00
It depends on what you call success, pre iPad Apple was just another big bad company on the market, after the iPad it was the biggest badest of them all.
FTFY
Apple's success was the GUI, iPod and iPad.
MS saw the redefinition of the market and created a product that trumped Apple in the marketplace causing Apple to go into bankruptcy.
MS saw the iPod era, tried it on and couldn't get the legs but really nobody really cared cause the iPod didn't turn Apple in to a market monster, just a market leader.
Samsung is going after the iPad, the one product which has been responsible for Apple's crazy revenue growth. Samsung is getting traction as seen with the iPhone. Apple is scared history will repeat itself and rightly so see http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL&fstype=ii and click Annual Data. 2011 saw the iPad and look at the massive revenue growth, that's the iPad, the Phone didnt do that!
Black on white has always been the Apple UI and it's really not that impressive IMHO. People also pay lots of money to listen to Justin Beiber as well but that doesn't make him the best. Computing is such a way now where fashion has sold a brand, same thing when I was a kid and Reboks were in, now its Globe and if I wore my Reboks I'd be considered lame and outdated.
In my job I get my hands on ALL latest tech and at present I have an iPad, Windows Mobile Phone, Ubuntu desktop, Debian and FreeBSD servers. I've had Samsung Tab, didn't like the lag, tossed it, had an iPhone tossed it cause it's retro shit compared to WP7, also had HTC till I dropped it, realistically I've had about 7 different handsets in the past 6 months, I'm sticking with Nokia and very happy about it. Had a Mac desktop and tossed it cause it was full of bugs and started to chug after 3 months. I will be on the pre order list for Google Glasses and Microsoft Surface, I was on the pre order list for Raspberry Pi. The cool thing about my job is I don't have to pay for ANY of it I get to chose if I keep it or bin it.
I don't fanboy but I don't unfanboy, I pretty much use what's in front of me at the time. It's a not question of one particular brand better than the other and when you have this privilege you really get to see how full of shit tech reviewers really are and how cruel and bias they are because they like a particular brand.
For now, Windows Phone 7 rips the shit out of iOS, Ubuntu Gnome Classic (not that unity shit) rips over Windows and MacOS, and server it's CLI all the way for me...
P.S I don't use laptops but was given a Samsung Ultrabook that sits there and collects dust, My opinion, really kicks the shit out of anything in the market with MacBook air a close second / third. Funny story on how I got it, cause I'm not a laptop person, I argued with my boss about the fact Surface was boasting how thin their devices are and how only Apple to date pulled off a device that came close, I was told off literally and was told to stop listening to these idiot reviewers, my punishment was the Ultrabook.
http://www.ijailbreak.com/jailbreak/ios-5-1-untethered-jailbreak-aslr-pod2g/
Now go learn about stack based overflows and heap based overflows. Then see how OS's like Linux has had ASLR since 05. Then go find papers on ALSR's and their various methods of circumventing them.
Unless you go for an OS with dtrace or similar managing direct syscalls and question every single one of them you'll be hard pressed to find a faultless OS. Fact of the matter is Lion is the first OS of Apples to host a fully pledged ASLR and many within the industry are skeptical it will up to the test.
My philosophy is this and what has been proven to me time and time again, regardless of what you put into an OS someone somehow if needed will find a way to get around it. New methods are always discovered and shared in places like packetstorm and securityfocus, many are not and kept secret until they wish to pillage from the online world.
Apple is 4 years behind, get over it!
Does MacOS boast ASLR? Do your research is DEP and get back to me :)
AHAHAHAHA someone woke up cranky.
As for your references to the malware scanners - good on them. We over in PC land have had the same thing for well over a decade, way to innovate guys.
I guess you should feel special knowing that online criminals actually give a shit about you now....
P.S I so so hate Apple's interface, its been 20 years already why do cropped screenshots of OSX look nearly the same as OS7. I remember looking at the iPhone config panel and thinking, shit I played with this back in 6th grade, didn't like it then, don't like it now.
From your username i wont take offence at your personal attacks. I speaking ill about Apple is akin to calling your mother a whore.
If an app was developed by an unknown developer — one with no Developer ID — Gatekeeper can keep your Mac safe by blocking the app from being installed.
Apple's containment process is unsavoury to ones computing freedom and precisely the problem with the security model. It's like the cave man vs the modern human, you give the cave man some raw meat and he eats it no troubles. Give it too the modern man and he dies because of sort of bacteria in the meat.
Apple's germ free environment is why when the malware industry does hit. It will hit them hard.
yes i see the typo .....
What a waste of a patient. The HMD technology displayed in there seems fairly rudimentary. No mention of 3D tech which would of been my first thought of holding any real use to the experience of HMD (if someone can find it good for them let me know).
It takes care of motion but so did Google Glasses and it was published publicly first, so that takes care of that about who did what first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-mounted_display takes care of the existence of HMD's before. NB to fanboys pay close attention to the manufacturers section these guys did it first okay not Apple okay even if they acquire one of these companies.
There are by the looks 4 different methods applied for viewing OLED, LED, Laser, LCoS I'm certain Apple didn't invent these either, someone else can cite this as its not worth the digging.
That leaves the concept of splitting it between two displays for each eye. Pretty sure it was thought of before, you know cause we have two of them... wait wait, yes the first point raised in "Performance parameters" under the Wikipedia article linked above.
It's not about floodgates it's about prevention and it's about criminal activity / value. The damage will speak for itself when normal people have their cc drained because the data was pulled out of AppStore or something akin.
Also remember a Trojan/Worm/whatever isn't about being known, it's the unknown malicious apps out there that are the concern. Techs find an exploit here or there but is that simply the tip of the iceberg? and Apple's security focus is simply under manned and considered an afterthought?
The issue is when you are a business you address what the market demands, the question is when the market demands mitigative services is Apple prepared? I don't believe they are from looking at their track record.
Saying it has never convinced the Mac community though. All those years of MS bashing will eventually come full circle.
Computers store valuable information, linux, windows, bsd, osx, they are all computers they all have something of value to steal. I've always thought just as the computing industry has smartened up to malicious activity so have the criminals, biding their time with Apple I've always thought was a long term investment, wait until there was enough Mac users out there so that when you make a run on people's CC details you make it a good one.
Remember it took 10 years for MS to learn their lesson, talking about what would kill Apple, a 10 year long "I told you so" would do it. I guess that'll never happen because eventually (after they suck up their pride) they can ask MS or even Trend/Norton/McAfee for help, which they will because Apple is completely unprepared for the shit storm that is to follow.
Perhaps, but the time it takes to read this article someone from google / OSS community will actually fix the problem.
Meanwhile, Apple first has to deny there is a problem, wait until people / media outlets nag them about the problem, then they'll attempt to release a fix that doesn't work, eventually tying it into an os release which requires the users to redownload iTunes, QuickTime and a iOS image that only a small number of the Apple market bother doing.
3rd there was also a sega app ages ago that was stealing voucher and cc funds.
On last thing there is no "sent from my iPhone/HTC/Samsung" defaulted in my email sigs like a pompous fuck.
I bought a Nokia Lumia 900 today and what a phone! Apple should be scared and I'd love to see them try it on with Nokia because Lumia is so slick and so different than anything Apple. It's easy and it does everything the iPhone did, yes I've had iPhone 3, 3GS and 4S and I own an iPad and iPod nano. As for this retina crap it's just that, after getting used to the new Lumia I believe that any reviewer / tech mag that says otherwise is bogus and has Apple in their pocket because the screen on the Lumia IS BETTER, it's crisp, it's CLEARER and it's better utilized.
I've paid my fair share of Apple tax in my day and I'm happy to say I AM EXCITED ABOUT SURFACE. I will be eBaying the iPad as soon as it hits shelves and getting the first gen model and I'm not worried about the old "never buy MS first gen" saying because Lumia has made it myth. If it's anything like my brand new awesome Lumia they have my money without question.
Those issues with the Windows Marketplace, again myth, if you're a gamer you'll love marketplace as it links right into your xbox live. iCloud? New? Get on board MS has been doing it for years now, Lumia has successfully introduced it into the mobile world, elegantly and easily. Lastly, app range Marketplace everything you need minus the spam shit Apple allows in their AppStore as I DONT want a bigger app range I want a quality app range and Marketplace delivers.
Apple, old school, outdated and interface wise? Cheap and basic, Lumia 10x sexier, better and easier to navigate and more importantly MAKES SENSE!
A friend of a friend has a patent on touchscreen technology. He sits in his beachhouse never having to work again because some manufacturer pays him for it's use. No it's not Apple or Samsung, some smaller vendors use the specific technology he "invented".
The problem with the patents you mentioned are the same with my friend's friend patent. If you design something a certain way, you own that certain specific invention, not the same concept applied in different ways.
Samsung creates a box if that box has 1% different polymer whatever plastic to make that box then it steps around the patent, it becomes a matter for the courts yes, because they need to prove the specifics behind the patent and the offenders use but I'd imagine that won't be hard for samsung, besides if it sits on the use of android that alone will absolve samsung as it then falls on googles shoulders.
My comment is full of typos but my mis-use was less mis-useir than the GP okay!
Oh yes, the misuse of the English language yet again.
Invent implies they had something to do with the r&d into the development of touch screens. They "integrated" touch screens into a product which they received after acquiring fingerworks.
For yor reference see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch
You either haven't been watching this case, or we're talking about another case.
There is 1 legal hurdle samsung has to clear in order to remove the injunction and that is deceiving the end user by introducing a product into the market that would confuse them to buy their product. It's not a hard hurdle for samsung to bound over and I'm certain they will.
If there are other infringing patients like you say, I'd say pulling the product would be moot, how would Apple file for damages if the product is pulled? Rather they would sit back let samsung sell the product and the request royalties or sue.
Which begs the question wouldn't that be a more typical / plausible course of action. Wait 6 months to a year and go "hey, samsung where's my payout?"
I quite like the MS marketplace is as, it's like AppStore minus the shit.
And hence the reason why the article ends with the sentiment "they haven't seen our evidence yet" like statement. Apple really needs to check itself on this, they do not want to make enemies of google on this one, they would be very sorry if they did.
"It's no coincidence that Samsung's latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging," an Apple spokeswoman said in an email. "This kind of blatant copying is wrong and, as we've said many times before, we need to protect Apple's intellectual property when companies steal our ideas."
Oh yes because Apple invented phones, calendars, address books, web browsers and SMS messaging tools. I'm sure don't believe their own shit, rather they see this as a means to delay successful delpoyment of a competitive product.