First, chargers and cables should be separate. You can take an Apple cable (Lightning on one end, USB 2 on the other hand) and plug it into an iPhone and a Samsung or Nokia USB charger and it works.
And yet, during the hysteria few months ago about the iPhone charger that electrocuted a customer in China, Apple kept insisting people needed, oh they badly needed, to buy only Apple's branded cable. The shock risk was entirely in what the cable was plugged into, but they insisted otherwise, and it's doubtless that thousands of compliant Apple customers threw out their third-party charging systems (the evil ones that didn't have the Apple branding information on the packaging) and dashed to the Apple Store waving plastic.
Not always. The force to pull out is usually far lower than what would damage the device. And often enough the data session is far more important than the chance an inexpensive wall wart cable might be damaged.
Apple fosters and thrives by selling to a 'persecuted but superior minority' cult-like customer base. They make a product comparable to a Buick in a market where everybody else drives a regular Chevy, but claim their customers drive a BMW. (there- car analogy firmly in place)
My phone (Virgin Mobile) has no data cap and the entire cost is $35 a month, and no contract. It has a voice-call cap though. It's set up for us nerds who seldom talk on the pocket internet terminal we carry that happens to be a phone too.
Or, it could be that most Android devices are owned by people who are so satisfied with their lives that they don't seek escape from wherever they happen to be by taking out their phone and 'shopping' on it. Or any other long contrived reason any of us can spin up.
Me, I think it's because iPhones are turds and their owners shop online so as not to reveal to their friends that they don't have a good smartphone by going out in public carrying them.
When did anybody hold a gun to people's head and demand money? People don't need to listen to an artist's music. If you pose it as an extreme situation, you get to be all militant and snappy. That's fun and you can make yourself feel like you're a righteous extremist. But you're still just ranting around about entertainment.
If you want to participate in what you perceive as 'more free' markets, fucking do so. That means, uh, removing yourself from the mainstream market. Not pirating it.
I would contend that even a lot of 'music lovers' have opinions based on social perception. They like what is 'cool' and they attempt to be 'cool' in what music they listen to.
It might include rebelling against their parents by listening to music they know their parents wouldn't like. It's rarely a pure aesthetic choice.
Insurace rates should be graded according to risk. Correct.
So since a post-menopausal 50 year old woman can't get pregnant, she should not be forced to pay for ANY coverage for pregnancy.
No, it's not acceptable to lump the entire population into a pool and call it 'insurance.' That's called something else that was tried numerous times in the 20th century and proven a failure.
Elon Musk (in my opinion) is too high profiled and wealthy for them to attempt the same type of discrediting campaign
You're kidding, right? You know that little about DeLorean? He was a former top-level executive. He practically founded the modern Pontiac division. He was as much an insider as anybody at GM before he left to found his own company. Musk is a midget by comparison.
Most of us who got Windows 1.0 got it as a runtime included with a nice application or two that far exceeded what we were used to getting with MS-DOS applications. Micrografx Designer and Excel come to mind.
The Tesla is named Tesla in commemoration of someone who started out as a scientist and inventor but who went batshit crazy later in life, leading to becoming a cult hero with the sort of people who worship crackpot heroes who buck reality.
Tesla's under armor is quarter inch aluminum plating. The only way to seriously improve on that would be to put something engine sized, shaped and weighed in the front trunk to take the blow.
Or, possibley, a recall, and the fitting of 3/8" plating? The big-boy automakers issue recalls, not symbolic firmware upgrades.
Unfortunately, as a pioneer in the field, Musk is scarfing up and claiming as many patents as he can. Which the Slashdot fan-boys are at this point ignoring, just as they're ignoring that Musk made the loot that he's using to do his EV patent scarfing scheme with his PayPal scheme.
I'm not so worried about EVs exploding on the road as I am the impact of the cascading slashbot head explosion in the not distant future.
I've been wondering for awhile if anybody has been brave enough to walk in one of those parades, you know, the ones with a picture of the dead thug when he was 12 years old, carrying a Robitussin banner or sign, or waving a bottle of it.
Well, for one thing, we're not already crammed into the land as those tight airplanes planes as you Yurpeans are, so travel to visit with family means a further distance. And we haven't euthanized grandma, so she's available to visit.
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And yet, during the hysteria few months ago about the iPhone charger that electrocuted a customer in China, Apple kept insisting people needed, oh they badly needed, to buy only Apple's branded cable. The shock risk was entirely in what the cable was plugged into, but they insisted otherwise, and it's doubtless that thousands of compliant Apple customers threw out their third-party charging systems (the evil ones that didn't have the Apple branding information on the packaging) and dashed to the Apple Store waving plastic.
Not always. The force to pull out is usually far lower than what would damage the device. And often enough the data session is far more important than the chance an inexpensive wall wart cable might be damaged.
There really aren't 'Apple Haters.'
There are the true-believer-Apple-zealots.
And there are the rest of us.
Apple fosters and thrives by selling to a 'persecuted but superior minority' cult-like customer base. They make a product comparable to a Buick in a market where everybody else drives a regular Chevy, but claim their customers drive a BMW. (there- car analogy firmly in place)
But unfortunately encumbered by a Patent, and the patent is held by a company that won't share the design.
My phone (Virgin Mobile) has no data cap and the entire cost is $35 a month, and no contract. It has a voice-call cap though. It's set up for us nerds who seldom talk on the pocket internet terminal we carry that happens to be a phone too.
I paid $200 for a mid-range Android phone. Because it was unsubsidized. And only $35 a month for unlimited data, I might add.
Just FYI, webkit is what web-using iOS users are held hostage in. Apple doesn't allow Firefox on their iDevices, for instance.
Or, it could be that most Android devices are owned by people who are so satisfied with their lives that they don't seek escape from wherever they happen to be by taking out their phone and 'shopping' on it. Or any other long contrived reason any of us can spin up.
Me, I think it's because iPhones are turds and their owners shop online so as not to reveal to their friends that they don't have a good smartphone by going out in public carrying them.
That's nice and long and contrived, too.
When did anybody hold a gun to people's head and demand money? People don't need to listen to an artist's music. If you pose it as an extreme situation, you get to be all militant and snappy. That's fun and you can make yourself feel like you're a righteous extremist. But you're still just ranting around about entertainment.
If you want to participate in what you perceive as 'more free' markets, fucking do so. That means, uh, removing yourself from the mainstream market. Not pirating it.
I would contend that even a lot of 'music lovers' have opinions based on social perception. They like what is 'cool' and they attempt to be 'cool' in what music they listen to.
It might include rebelling against their parents by listening to music they know their parents wouldn't like. It's rarely a pure aesthetic choice.
Tell that to the kulaks.
Just make sure you wipe off your chin before saying anything, dude.
You wrote a pretty long post there, guy.
I know! Print it in fucking smaller print. That will work.
Insurace rates should be graded according to risk. Correct.
So since a post-menopausal 50 year old woman can't get pregnant, she should not be forced to pay for ANY coverage for pregnancy.
No, it's not acceptable to lump the entire population into a pool and call it 'insurance.' That's called something else that was tried numerous times in the 20th century and proven a failure.
Don't imply. Lay it all out for us, signed.
Elon Musk (in my opinion) is too high profiled and wealthy for them to attempt the same type of discrediting campaign
You're kidding, right? You know that little about DeLorean? He was a former top-level executive. He practically founded the modern Pontiac division. He was as much an insider as anybody at GM before he left to found his own company. Musk is a midget by comparison.
Most of us who got Windows 1.0 got it as a runtime included with a nice application or two that far exceeded what we were used to getting with MS-DOS applications. Micrografx Designer and Excel come to mind.
This is the Elon Musk worship shrine.
The Elon Musk/PayPal five-minute-hate ended ages ago.
The Tesla is named Tesla in commemoration of someone who started out as a scientist and inventor but who went batshit crazy later in life, leading to becoming a cult hero with the sort of people who worship crackpot heroes who buck reality.
Tesla's under armor is quarter inch aluminum plating. The only way to seriously improve on that would be to put something engine sized, shaped and weighed in the front trunk to take the blow.
Or, possibley, a recall, and the fitting of 3/8" plating? The big-boy automakers issue recalls, not symbolic firmware upgrades.
Tesla have upgraded the underside armour,
Tesla has recalled all the vehicles out on the road with the underside armour problem, to be refitted??
Fortunately, there are other options for EVs.
Unfortunately, as a pioneer in the field, Musk is scarfing up and claiming as many patents as he can. Which the Slashdot fan-boys are at this point ignoring, just as they're ignoring that Musk made the loot that he's using to do his EV patent scarfing scheme with his PayPal scheme.
I'm not so worried about EVs exploding on the road as I am the impact of the cascading slashbot head explosion in the not distant future.
Possibly one with a battery power system that will definitely not last longer than 5-10 years.
No, just a collage image of skittles, tea, and Robitussin.
I've been wondering for awhile if anybody has been brave enough to walk in one of those parades, you know, the ones with a picture of the dead thug when he was 12 years old, carrying a Robitussin banner or sign, or waving a bottle of it.
Well, for one thing, we're not already crammed into the land as those tight airplanes planes as you Yurpeans are, so travel to visit with family means a further distance. And we haven't euthanized grandma, so she's available to visit.