AGGGHH POPPYCOCK! I had a $1300 Toshiba laptop break on me just after 2 months!!!
I left it on the roof of my car, drove down the highway and it hit the road after I reached about 60kms... but still I'm sure if I had an Apple it would of at least made it until 80kms before flying off and bounced itself to safety, hard-drive and screen intact. Instead of this crappy Toshiba that just obliterated on the side of the road!
Dell is a different story, Dell buys complete components from vendors. I.E a whole monitor, then takes the label off and puts the Dell logo in its place.
Dell elcheapo printers are just Lexmark printers with a different banner.
With Apple nobody can really speculate on the costs, even industry pros have no clue as to the agreements Apple has with its suppliers but I can guarantee a couple of chip-sets and un-powered LCD screens will cost significantly less, especially if they are un-fitted components in a large shipping container vs a QC product with packaging, user manuals and warranties enclosed.
Knowing the exact price of an iDevice is next to impossible. It would be strictly eyes only information done at the highest levels of Apple, as it should be, it would be massive trade secret.
Apple hypes the crap out of their products. They create a complete product from A to Z. They support the product and even distribute and manufacture the product. Lastly, they released it _earlier_ than everyone else.
Google what did they actually do? just wrote an OS (actually bought the OS and renamed it and changed it a bit) and they did that much slower than it took for Apple to do all those aforementioned things.
From the shear reputation that Google has a bunch of nothing brands (like HTC) jumped on the tidal wave "that is" Google, used Google's reputation to sell their devices. The main difference being Google had other companies do the leg work Apple chose to do themselves. As a result Google is now beating Apple in market share.
Google beats Apple's market share without even trying too hard. How is this nothing to brag about?
- Apple controls its distribution. So it's not by accident that 10 different vendors wont/cant sell iOS. Is it fear of rejection to do so? or the ability to control its product offering to maintain its up sell/value add reach? (another argument for another day) - iPhone for a long time was the only smartphone option and now its not as the competition has moved in. Not to say it took them long enough but it's always been the case that Apple has had the limelight on certain product offerings until competition knocks on the door. - Dell purchases its parts from many different vendors, making them the reseller as well. Apple does the same thing and tries and tinker with the vendor / reseller model. As such it works to a certain point.
Google's philosophy to beat Apple's at its game is too "divide and conquer". This report stipulates that their strategy is working. Bragging about it is fine by me, its good to see a well ployed strategy knock a potential monopolistic business model around a bit. It keeps Apple in their place in my mind.
If you buy 1 it might cost you $260, you by 500,000 units it costs to $10 maybe even $5 or $2 a screen.
A $35 laptop is VERY possible and can hold the same quality as a shiny Apple iPad when you break it down into units. India is a great place for this to begin simply from the fact their manufacturing costs will be low but _they_ still walk away with a sizable profit.
Apple is just like every other "Reseller" not vendor RESELLER. They take bits from everywhere else at a massive unit rate, assemble it in sweatshops like Foxconn for nothing, ship and sell it a with a massive markup with govt taxes and all. How do you think Apple made it successful? it certainly wasn't by offering their technology at a fair prices
The only successful vendor to do this (i can only thing of one) is Microsoft and they got away with selling their components at stupid prices. Windows could of been sold at $20 a pop and Microsoft would of been the size of every other vendor out there, nope sell it for the maximum and become a giant.
Apple's done that on the manufacturing and reseller front. Take the Dell approach of sales and milk it 2x 3x what they did, splash a bit of marketing into the mix and *BOOM* a winning formula for an IT giant.
The problem is its like the same problem the American Military has, show these 3rd world countries how to do war then they start taking shots at the people who taught them in the 1st place. Developing nations are now doing the same with IT and they'll undercut the crap out of their American mentors.
2 years ago you'd have a different tune being sung by myself, but time has passed and the guys at Ubuntu have not only created a great system but in many ways it shows a more current feature set than XP or OSX combined.
Its' Indicator feature (2 steps a head of what XP or OSX is doing), Ubuntu Software Centre (the appstore without the bullshit), It's media friendliness (the only thing i don't want it supporting is fing quicktime but it still does), Its font support (as good as windows if not better).
Ubuntu is following down the same vein as Android with its Broadcast features, so much praise can be said about Unbuntu and it's deserved.
I really take my hat off to the community that created this, Very Very Well Done. I'm gald to see someone like Dell offer credit where credit is due.
I agree with you on this. I have an iPad and iPhone, the lacking of simple features in the iPad is quite prevalent.
For instance the ability to search through pages which is a feature that I use all the time in day-to-day browsing is not there in the iPad. Something as simple as being able to find the word "dog" in an article about pets shows the iPad's weaknesses and its lack of usability.
The mail tools in the iPad are good, maps are okay and so is the diary but these things are on my iPhone and doing it on the iPad is redundant for me.
Its YouTube tool is okay mainly from the perspective that you're watching HD on a cool little 1cm thick TV screen but again back to the simple ability to find what you're looking for. No latest uploads, no order by most viewed, nothing usable is present so to pinpoint what you're really after in the YouTube app is next to impossible.
Since it's all locked down until Apple gets it's finger out to fix these problems no one else will write these features. Maybe Opera will come to iPad but that'll take months and their attempts at writing a browser for iGadgets have sucked so far.
The list of problems for the iPad are long and will take years for Apple to get right, everything from the 'lack' of application support, lack of ebook support, and lack of device connectivity, it really wont be hard for these other devices to overtake them in coming months.
I like the iPad, its cool cause i can browse the web while I'm on the toilet, thank you Steve Jobs for creating a tool i can use while i take a crap. It's great to use for presentations because everyone just wants to touch it "Oh you have iPad, let me play" but other than that it's advantages are far and few.
Yeah but like everything HTML its going to be a part of a mass conglomerate of attempted standards practices quietly manipulated by the each browser vendor.
To this day we still have to hack websites to work for individually for IE8, Safari/Chrome, Firefox. HTML5 isn't going to impose a solution to this, if anything we are years away from seeing any of these shortcomings you speak of disappear. As for Web Sockets, its yet another object of objects to add to the list.... "do we support this? no then do we support this? no, how about this? yep okay use ActiveXObject"
HTML5 is a good concept and too see it flourish is going to be pinnacle to my work, but alas I'm a cynic and lost faith with standards and compliance years ago (not that I'll ever make a website that _isn't_ strict complaint) but my iPad is a perfect example of how everything still wont render friendly. It mulls up font-types and screws up javascript code and every now and then. Now with each browser competing to be "more compliant" than its competitor, it gives the excuse to developers to worry about less and implementing less backward compatibility.
Not something I'm afraid of, I get to make up for it in all the billable hours on fixing broken websites. But it's falls in the same computing issues the world has seen time and time again, security and legacy working to destroy whats new (or vice-versa). What needs to happen is we need a more abstract approach to this legacy trump and put some sort of middleware on the web servers that can solve these issues for developers and track this standards garble the browsers play at.
What has the world come to where we lack the skills to build things. I bet you were one of those kids who never touched an electric drill and failed shop class, ordered your lunch every day from the cafeteria and to this day survive on fast food and make the occasional microwave dinner when you feel the urge to cook.
Construction is hard, construction isn't THAT hard, if it were it would be up there with neuroscience of physics. Granted, that most of us on this forum couldn't handle a hammer without breaking a finger trying to put a nail in a wall but we don't know how experienced this guy is to make assumptions. My Dad who was a mechanic with no real great qualifications who lived in a small terrace house as a child with limited tools and next to no experience built two houses in his life.
The first was a 2nd story home with timber walls and a tin roof, it followed building code and was fine to live in for over 10 years. The second one he built was a double brick with gyprock, roof tiles, steal framing. The brick one survived a hurricane, meanwhile the wooden home still stands on a 100 acre farm in the middle of nowhere, this has been the case for the last 20 to 30 years.
Building houses is hard for idiots that get screwed over by labors and have next to no clue what they are doing and should just go off and buy home rather then _trying_ to build one.
Go camping sometime, learn to build a fire and cook food on it. If your real advantageous go and shoot something, skin it, make a pair of pants out of its skin, gut it and cook it on the newly made campfire and get back to your roots. Just because most "civilized" people haven't the basic god blessed skills we had for the last 10,000 years doesn't mean we are all like that.
Building houses only have become complicated because of how inept we've become as a race not because it is hard to do.
Yeah, its a bit of a redundant exercise IMHO but its really the nature of the beast. The Liberal Govt sold off Telstra (and privatized it) and now we have Labor in Govt they've decided to rebuild a brand new infrastructure to replace it. One would think they would of just kept Telstra and simply fixed the problems but this is a fine example of how politics fails for the people by not considering the sake of practicality.
Now they want to transition the customers back? amidst of an economic crisis? this really sucks. The world economy is falling apart and Australia has sucked its surplus dry trying to fix it but damn it! we want fast Internet! don't worry, Ruddie will make it happen!
The problem with Telstra really was the fact that the fibre went to the node. If they took it to the premises it would of sorted it (and been cheaper than the NBN) but no it had to go through the most long and arduous, costly and impractical approach.
The NBN is a great idea but the value vs the cost isn't. I just wish politicians would just stay out of technology issues (especially Australian polies) because they always seem to get it wrong even though their intentions may seem benevolent.
The "Designed & created in California" at the footer is a bit of a giggle. The design is very similar to the Apple site probably an identical color set if you were to match them.
The only thing I have a gripe with is the big photo that takes up nearly a physical screen and a half, but this is personal preference, I've always been in debate about this because its something Apple does on their site and it's something that a fair few of my customers do with their websites as well (or request) it. I have personal distaste from a usability perspective but it must hold some marketing value because a huge photo that takes up 75% body content is something we are seeing more of these days.
I agree with this a lot. What I find is its like someones preference of a football team. It doesn't really matter if their team has a good season or a bad season in their mind what they chosen is better and always will be.
I think the real zealot approach is to see them as nothing more than just brands, not really better or worse as each has their respective strengths and weaknesses.
Eventually comparisons against "Dell vs HP" will have the same sorts of comparisons made against "Apple vs HP" for example. The only real deciding factor will be the OS.
The day will come when OSX can run on all stock standard PC's. It will also be the day that Apple loses all uniqueness in the marketplace and will have to wholeheartedly have to rely on its brand to make its continued prominence BUT on the flip side, imagine the amount of distaste Microsoft would have knowing you can arrive at dell.com and purchase a brand new laptop with a factory installed version of OSX *ouch*:)
Oh look, another hater who is too stupid to understand why people love Apple products and who misrepresents past Apple headlines. ..
Okay, please tell me exactly what is so much better about Apple products? I've used various technologies over the years and Apple's products are good but I can't really see this "massive" benefit everyone talks about.
As for shininess my new Toshiba looks just as sexy as any Mac (actually it gets more comments from people in the office over any Mac). Just about anything brand new these days if you spend the same amount of money as you would on an Apple product usually looks just as physically good. Feature wise Apple products have always had less features with the express philosophy that the features they bring to the table are more refined. Now, If you went back 10 years granted Apple was quite original but now the more technology grows Apple goes down the same vein as it's competitors and the more they become alike. The software, well okay it runs UNIX and to me this is always good but to say that Windows 7 is a poor operating system as much as it pains me to say it Microsoft has got it right for a change. My Toshiba laptop with touchscreen (pen also) works really well, my laptop has never been slow and it does everything the top of a line Apple does and just as seamlessly (in many cases much better).
It took me until the last 3 months to go out and get myself an iPhone. When I was first exposed to them I thought some of the things it brought to the table were good but it wasn't until I needed a new phone did I actually make the decision to get one. I think that's how a lot of people shop when it comes to phones because I don't see people regularly spending a marginal amount of money on something as "unimportant" to their daily lives as phone handset (it's really a luxury item). Unless the company you work for opts up to buy you a new phone the only real time the average person purchases a new phone is when their plan is up and the chance to grab a current handset is offered too them.
Their uniqueness put them this far ahead of their competitors but I don't think they are that unique anymore as the speed of which competing Tablet's are being created and released into the market is a fine example of this as we are expected to see nearly 50 brands of Tablets hit the market within the next 6 months. If anything its simply brand awareness now and I think that's why they keep at it with all this hype. They are sticking to what works well to sell their products and not really about the quality of the product because Apple knows how prominent they are and they know all too well which one they have to push. It's "product quality" vs "marketability" and I think marketability is now cheaper for them and easier.
Mate, here in Australia we either use the words "piss" or "fuck" before the word "off". Such as, "piss off" or "fuck off" or for the more creative mind "piss the fuck off".
Using the word "sod" is likely to get you banned from our borders and have you sent to New Zealand.
Not sure what 3G is like in the states but here in Australia not very good unless you live in the really built up areas or unless you use Telstra which is the one and only brand that has decent 3G coverage and they really make you pay for it.
It would be interesting to see which of the 6 different types of iPad out which one is the biggest seller.
For me, I'll probably end up getting one as my company will give me one eventually (I'll have to make iPad friendly websites at some stage, and that isn't a freaking racket if you ask me and yet another redundant aspect too the iPad) but it certainly wont be something I'll use my own money on.
Actually that exclaims my point. Why go to the trouble of having to build iPad friendly websites if these things are standard? its all really so tiring, iPhone based sites and now iPad based sites. How many different types of stylesheets do we have to apply to websites thanks to Apple and their "standard" behavior?
Instead of giving an honest opinion, what you did was repeat a line of bullshit that you'd read elsewhere. A line that doesn't hold up under even the most casual scrutiny. I notice you still don't try to justify your 'opinion'.
AKKKKKKKK!!! APPLE HOW DID YOU BREED THESE NUTCASES!?!?!
(I only ask because I'm thinking Scientology and Apple both have this whole cult concept really well thought out)
Let me break this down for you, I went TO the store to BUY one because of what I READ from news sites / TV. From what I READ iPad's seemed really GOOD but when I arrived I TRIED one and _DID NOT LIKE_ how they worked...
Let me say that again I TRIED ONE AND DIDN'T LIKE HOW THEY WORKED!
Did I breach that reality distortion field yet? or you still cant figure it out?
The grammar isn't great but the point is fairly obvious so if you can't figure it out let me try again...
1024px or typically 990px to include the scrollbar is the bare minimum width used in web development since about 2001 and iPads render it at the bare minimum resolution making most websites look like crap.
If i wanted to see websites look like this I would of purchased a 8 year old laptop with IE6 and XP off ebay for a fraction of the price rather then going to the store to buy something brand spanking new.
Or should i even explain it simpler than that. Epic fail for Apple! there, got it yet?
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The machines come equipped with sensors that can recognize age and sex with a 75% accuracy
Sounds like this machine is as accurate as a drunk guy in a poorly light nightclub. We don't talk about what happens the other 25% of the time :P
AGGGHH POPPYCOCK! I had a $1300 Toshiba laptop break on me just after 2 months!!!
I left it on the roof of my car, drove down the highway and it hit the road after I reached about 60kms ... but still I'm sure if I had an Apple it would of at least made it until 80kms before flying off and bounced itself to safety, hard-drive and screen intact. Instead of this crappy Toshiba that just obliterated on the side of the road!
Dell is a different story, Dell buys complete components from vendors. I.E a whole monitor, then takes the label off and puts the Dell logo in its place.
Dell elcheapo printers are just Lexmark printers with a different banner.
With Apple nobody can really speculate on the costs, even industry pros have no clue as to the agreements Apple has with its suppliers but I can guarantee a couple of chip-sets and un-powered LCD screens will cost significantly less, especially if they are un-fitted components in a large shipping container vs a QC product with packaging, user manuals and warranties enclosed.
Knowing the exact price of an iDevice is next to impossible. It would be strictly eyes only information done at the highest levels of Apple, as it should be, it would be massive trade secret.
Oh I just thought of a few more...
Apple hypes the crap out of their products. They create a complete product from A to Z. They support the product and even distribute and manufacture the product. Lastly, they released it _earlier_ than everyone else.
Google what did they actually do? just wrote an OS (actually bought the OS and renamed it and changed it a bit) and they did that much slower than it took for Apple to do all those aforementioned things.
From the shear reputation that Google has a bunch of nothing brands (like HTC) jumped on the tidal wave "that is" Google, used Google's reputation to sell their devices. The main difference being Google had other companies do the leg work Apple chose to do themselves. As a result Google is now beating Apple in market share.
Google beats Apple's market share without even trying too hard. How is this nothing to brag about?
Several issues here.
- Apple controls its distribution. So it's not by accident that 10 different vendors wont/cant sell iOS. Is it fear of rejection to do so? or the ability to control its product offering to maintain its up sell/value add reach? (another argument for another day)
- iPhone for a long time was the only smartphone option and now its not as the competition has moved in. Not to say it took them long enough but it's always been the case that Apple has had the limelight on certain product offerings until competition knocks on the door.
- Dell purchases its parts from many different vendors, making them the reseller as well. Apple does the same thing and tries and tinker with the vendor / reseller model. As such it works to a certain point.
Google's philosophy to beat Apple's at its game is too "divide and conquer". This report stipulates that their strategy is working. Bragging about it is fine by me, its good to see a well ployed strategy knock a potential monopolistic business model around a bit. It keeps Apple in their place in my mind.
*Bullshit* *Cough* *Cough*
If you buy 1 it might cost you $260, you by 500,000 units it costs to $10 maybe even $5 or $2 a screen.
A $35 laptop is VERY possible and can hold the same quality as a shiny Apple iPad when you break it down into units. India is a great place for this to begin simply from the fact their manufacturing costs will be low but _they_ still walk away with a sizable profit.
Apple is just like every other "Reseller" not vendor RESELLER. They take bits from everywhere else at a massive unit rate, assemble it in sweatshops like Foxconn for nothing, ship and sell it a with a massive markup with govt taxes and all. How do you think Apple made it successful? it certainly wasn't by offering their technology at a fair prices
The only successful vendor to do this (i can only thing of one) is Microsoft and they got away with selling their components at stupid prices. Windows could of been sold at $20 a pop and Microsoft would of been the size of every other vendor out there, nope sell it for the maximum and become a giant.
Apple's done that on the manufacturing and reseller front. Take the Dell approach of sales and milk it 2x 3x what they did, splash a bit of marketing into the mix and *BOOM* a winning formula for an IT giant.
The problem is its like the same problem the American Military has, show these 3rd world countries how to do war then they start taking shots at the people who taught them in the 1st place. Developing nations are now doing the same with IT and they'll undercut the crap out of their American mentors.
2 years ago you'd have a different tune being sung by myself, but time has passed and the guys at Ubuntu have not only created a great system but in many ways it shows a more current feature set than XP or OSX combined.
Its' Indicator feature (2 steps a head of what XP or OSX is doing), Ubuntu Software Centre (the appstore without the bullshit), It's media friendliness (the only thing i don't want it supporting is fing quicktime but it still does), Its font support (as good as windows if not better).
Ubuntu is following down the same vein as Android with its Broadcast features, so much praise can be said about Unbuntu and it's deserved.
I really take my hat off to the community that created this, Very Very Well Done. I'm gald to see someone like Dell offer credit where credit is due.
I agree with you on this. I have an iPad and iPhone, the lacking of simple features in the iPad is quite prevalent.
For instance the ability to search through pages which is a feature that I use all the time in day-to-day browsing is not there in the iPad. Something as simple as being able to find the word "dog" in an article about pets shows the iPad's weaknesses and its lack of usability.
The mail tools in the iPad are good, maps are okay and so is the diary but these things are on my iPhone and doing it on the iPad is redundant for me.
Its YouTube tool is okay mainly from the perspective that you're watching HD on a cool little 1cm thick TV screen but again back to the simple ability to find what you're looking for. No latest uploads, no order by most viewed, nothing usable is present so to pinpoint what you're really after in the YouTube app is next to impossible.
Since it's all locked down until Apple gets it's finger out to fix these problems no one else will write these features. Maybe Opera will come to iPad but that'll take months and their attempts at writing a browser for iGadgets have sucked so far.
The list of problems for the iPad are long and will take years for Apple to get right, everything from the 'lack' of application support, lack of ebook support, and lack of device connectivity, it really wont be hard for these other devices to overtake them in coming months.
I like the iPad, its cool cause i can browse the web while I'm on the toilet, thank you Steve Jobs for creating a tool i can use while i take a crap. It's great to use for presentations because everyone just wants to touch it "Oh you have iPad, let me play" but other than that it's advantages are far and few.
Yeah but like everything HTML its going to be a part of a mass conglomerate of attempted standards practices quietly manipulated by the each browser vendor.
To this day we still have to hack websites to work for individually for IE8, Safari/Chrome, Firefox. HTML5 isn't going to impose a solution to this, if anything we are years away from seeing any of these shortcomings you speak of disappear. As for Web Sockets, its yet another object of objects to add to the list .... "do we support this? no then do we support this? no, how about this? yep okay use ActiveXObject"
HTML5 is a good concept and too see it flourish is going to be pinnacle to my work, but alas I'm a cynic and lost faith with standards and compliance years ago (not that I'll ever make a website that _isn't_ strict complaint) but my iPad is a perfect example of how everything still wont render friendly. It mulls up font-types and screws up javascript code and every now and then. Now with each browser competing to be "more compliant" than its competitor, it gives the excuse to developers to worry about less and implementing less backward compatibility.
Not something I'm afraid of, I get to make up for it in all the billable hours on fixing broken websites. But it's falls in the same computing issues the world has seen time and time again, security and legacy working to destroy whats new (or vice-versa). What needs to happen is we need a more abstract approach to this legacy trump and put some sort of middleware on the web servers that can solve these issues for developers and track this standards garble the browsers play at.
They are expected to pay 5% of their royalties since 2002 and from now on.
So how much extra money did they make from all this extra press coverage?
Might balance it all out in the long run ....
*facepalm*
What has the world come to where we lack the skills to build things. I bet you were one of those kids who never touched an electric drill and failed shop class, ordered your lunch every day from the cafeteria and to this day survive on fast food and make the occasional microwave dinner when you feel the urge to cook.
Construction is hard, construction isn't THAT hard, if it were it would be up there with neuroscience of physics. Granted, that most of us on this forum couldn't handle a hammer without breaking a finger trying to put a nail in a wall but we don't know how experienced this guy is to make assumptions. My Dad who was a mechanic with no real great qualifications who lived in a small terrace house as a child with limited tools and next to no experience built two houses in his life.
The first was a 2nd story home with timber walls and a tin roof, it followed building code and was fine to live in for over 10 years. The second one he built was a double brick with gyprock, roof tiles, steal framing. The brick one survived a hurricane, meanwhile the wooden home still stands on a 100 acre farm in the middle of nowhere, this has been the case for the last 20 to 30 years.
Building houses is hard for idiots that get screwed over by labors and have next to no clue what they are doing and should just go off and buy home rather then _trying_ to build one.
Go camping sometime, learn to build a fire and cook food on it. If your real advantageous go and shoot something, skin it, make a pair of pants out of its skin, gut it and cook it on the newly made campfire and get back to your roots. Just because most "civilized" people haven't the basic god blessed skills we had for the last 10,000 years doesn't mean we are all like that.
Building houses only have become complicated because of how inept we've become as a race not because it is hard to do.
Yeah, its a bit of a redundant exercise IMHO but its really the nature of the beast. The Liberal Govt sold off Telstra (and privatized it) and now we have Labor in Govt they've decided to rebuild a brand new infrastructure to replace it. One would think they would of just kept Telstra and simply fixed the problems but this is a fine example of how politics fails for the people by not considering the sake of practicality.
Now they want to transition the customers back? amidst of an economic crisis? this really sucks. The world economy is falling apart and Australia has sucked its surplus dry trying to fix it but damn it! we want fast Internet! don't worry, Ruddie will make it happen!
The problem with Telstra really was the fact that the fibre went to the node. If they took it to the premises it would of sorted it (and been cheaper than the NBN) but no it had to go through the most long and arduous, costly and impractical approach.
The NBN is a great idea but the value vs the cost isn't. I just wish politicians would just stay out of technology issues (especially Australian polies) because they always seem to get it wrong even though their intentions may seem benevolent.
The "Designed & created in California" at the footer is a bit of a giggle. The design is very similar to the Apple site probably an identical color set if you were to match them.
The only thing I have a gripe with is the big photo that takes up nearly a physical screen and a half, but this is personal preference, I've always been in debate about this because its something Apple does on their site and it's something that a fair few of my customers do with their websites as well (or request) it. I have personal distaste from a usability perspective but it must hold some marketing value because a huge photo that takes up 75% body content is something we are seeing more of these days.
diff -q ozzy-dna.01-01-1980.c ozzy-dna.01-01-2010.c
I agree with this a lot. What I find is its like someones preference of a football team. It doesn't really matter if their team has a good season or a bad season in their mind what they chosen is better and always will be.
I think the real zealot approach is to see them as nothing more than just brands, not really better or worse as each has their respective strengths and weaknesses.
Eventually comparisons against "Dell vs HP" will have the same sorts of comparisons made against "Apple vs HP" for example. The only real deciding factor will be the OS.
The day will come when OSX can run on all stock standard PC's. It will also be the day that Apple loses all uniqueness in the marketplace and will have to wholeheartedly have to rely on its brand to make its continued prominence BUT on the flip side, imagine the amount of distaste Microsoft would have knowing you can arrive at dell.com and purchase a brand new laptop with a factory installed version of OSX *ouch* :)
Oh look, another hater who is too stupid to understand why people love Apple products and who misrepresents past Apple headlines. . .
Okay, please tell me exactly what is so much better about Apple products? I've used various technologies over the years and Apple's products are good but I can't really see this "massive" benefit everyone talks about.
As for shininess my new Toshiba looks just as sexy as any Mac (actually it gets more comments from people in the office over any Mac). Just about anything brand new these days if you spend the same amount of money as you would on an Apple product usually looks just as physically good. Feature wise Apple products have always had less features with the express philosophy that the features they bring to the table are more refined. Now, If you went back 10 years granted Apple was quite original but now the more technology grows Apple goes down the same vein as it's competitors and the more they become alike. The software, well okay it runs UNIX and to me this is always good but to say that Windows 7 is a poor operating system as much as it pains me to say it Microsoft has got it right for a change. My Toshiba laptop with touchscreen (pen also) works really well, my laptop has never been slow and it does everything the top of a line Apple does and just as seamlessly (in many cases much better).
It took me until the last 3 months to go out and get myself an iPhone. When I was first exposed to them I thought some of the things it brought to the table were good but it wasn't until I needed a new phone did I actually make the decision to get one. I think that's how a lot of people shop when it comes to phones because I don't see people regularly spending a marginal amount of money on something as "unimportant" to their daily lives as phone handset (it's really a luxury item). Unless the company you work for opts up to buy you a new phone the only real time the average person purchases a new phone is when their plan is up and the chance to grab a current handset is offered too them.
Their uniqueness put them this far ahead of their competitors but I don't think they are that unique anymore as the speed of which competing Tablet's are being created and released into the market is a fine example of this as we are expected to see nearly 50 brands of Tablets hit the market within the next 6 months. If anything its simply brand awareness now and I think that's why they keep at it with all this hype. They are sticking to what works well to sell their products and not really about the quality of the product because Apple knows how prominent they are and they know all too well which one they have to push. It's "product quality" vs "marketability" and I think marketability is now cheaper for them and easier.
I wonder how many sales Apple would make from this. I'd imagine an article posted in /. would bring worthy leads.
Queensland Accent ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_variation_in_Australian_English#Regional_vocabulary
The rest of the country speaks pretty fairly understandable English :)
... I would of just told them to sod off ...
Mate, here in Australia we either use the words "piss" or "fuck" before the word "off". Such as, "piss off" or "fuck off" or for the more creative mind "piss the fuck off".
Using the word "sod" is likely to get you banned from our borders and have you sent to New Zealand.
And if your Linux you're always the victim of unsuspecting FUD clouding everyone's judgment.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/linux-infection-proves-windows-malware-monopoly-is-over/2206?tag=mantle_skin;content
This article is hardly what I'd consider a fair call.
Not sure what 3G is like in the states but here in Australia not very good unless you live in the really built up areas or unless you use Telstra which is the one and only brand that has decent 3G coverage and they really make you pay for it.
It would be interesting to see which of the 6 different types of iPad out which one is the biggest seller.
For me, I'll probably end up getting one as my company will give me one eventually (I'll have to make iPad friendly websites at some stage, and that isn't a freaking racket if you ask me and yet another redundant aspect too the iPad) but it certainly wont be something I'll use my own money on.
Actually that exclaims my point. Why go to the trouble of having to build iPad friendly websites if these things are standard? its all really so tiring, iPhone based sites and now iPad based sites. How many different types of stylesheets do we have to apply to websites thanks to Apple and their "standard" behavior?
Instead of giving an honest opinion, what you did was repeat a line of bullshit that you'd read elsewhere. A line that doesn't hold up under even the most casual scrutiny. I notice you still don't try to justify your 'opinion'.
AKKKKKKKK!!! APPLE HOW DID YOU BREED THESE NUTCASES!?!?!
(I only ask because I'm thinking Scientology and Apple both have this whole cult concept really well thought out)
Let me break this down for you, I went TO the store to BUY one because of what I READ from news sites / TV. From what I READ iPad's seemed really GOOD but when I arrived I TRIED one and _DID NOT LIKE_ how they worked ...
Let me say that again I TRIED ONE AND DIDN'T LIKE HOW THEY WORKED!
Did I breach that reality distortion field yet? or you still cant figure it out?
The grammar isn't great but the point is fairly obvious so if you can't figure it out let me try again ...
1024px or typically 990px to include the scrollbar is the bare minimum width used in web development since about 2001 and iPads render it at the bare minimum resolution making most websites look like crap.
If i wanted to see websites look like this I would of purchased a 8 year old laptop with IE6 and XP off ebay for a fraction of the price rather then going to the store to buy something brand spanking new.
Or should i even explain it simpler than that. Epic fail for Apple! there, got it yet?
Its called planet Australia
http://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers/apple-ipad/