Well, not really. Apple's legal team made sure they were the 'only innovator' in the early GUI days, but that was it for that period. They capitalized on the music biz with their MP3 player at the right time and in a slick way.
But they abandoned the PDA right when it was becoming a big market, and it remained a rather rich market for a decade without them.
Their cellphone just doesn't matter. It's got lots of hype behind it, but it's one of the crowd.
In my family the Ipad hype died before the first purchase. My father was sort of wound up and thinking about getting one (his present computer is a pentium 1 thinkpad, and he was an IBM employee from 1956 and an 650 programmer in the early 60's, so he isn't a technophobe.) He was talking about it, but by the time they got the wireless hub installed and mom's NetBook up and working on it, he'd changed his mind.
I bought an Ipod Touch two months ago, my first Apple new-hardware purchase ever (though I have a fleet of SE/30's, a Quadra 650, various iMacs, a Beige G3 minitower, etc....) but probably my last. It's cool, but not that cool.
Resale value on the MacBook is only realized if you sell it after one or two years. IOW, before it's useful life is gone. Further, Apple has been busy making sure they obsolete their current models a lot quicker lately than they used to.
Pronouncements about 'this generation' rarely are permanent. The kids will grow up. I didn't care much about privacy when I was 20 either. I mean, OMG. Some of the shit that I did. I'm sure glad all the photographs are locked in the analog photo vault of the college newspaper, and that online was the room full of ASR-33 teletypes in the basement of the Engineering Building.
Unfortunately the HP Calculator group has been gone a long time. That was the Corvalis Group. They made the HP calculators, the HP Palmtops and the very first generation Omnibooks (the 300 and 450.) They are long, long gone.
One very effective way to fight Facebook, if this stuff pisses you off as much as it pisses me off, is to set up lots of bogus accounts. Seed their database with total trash made-up people. If enough of us were to do that, their database would quickly become pretty worthless.
Yes. Crapflooding For Social Progress.
I'm sure many Slashbots can see the merit in this idea.
Infrastructure is what makes a nation strong and resilient
Strong nations are not necessarily a good thing. Resilience just means nobody can talk back to the bureaucrats and get away with it.
With your starry-eyed optimism, I am sure everything will be alright. Have you contributed that extra money above your required taxes to the government yet? You do know that you can send more than the minimum to the IRS, don't you?
That was my first impression as well. And it would be a perfect fit, as the Finder is from the old single tasking MacOS. You know, the one that Apples' developers made themselves, not the new one they bought from outside the company.
Why the hell do so many people think he did something evil?
It made Steven Jobs angry. So naturally all his flying monkeys are going to swirl around with fury. Also, this is apple.slashdot.org not the real Slashdot, so this stuff is to be expected.
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Well, not really. Apple's legal team made sure they were the 'only innovator' in the early GUI days, but that was it for that period. They capitalized on the music biz with their MP3 player at the right time and in a slick way.
But they abandoned the PDA right when it was becoming a big market, and it remained a rather rich market for a decade without them.
Their cellphone just doesn't matter. It's got lots of hype behind it, but it's one of the crowd.
In my family the Ipad hype died before the first purchase. My father was sort of wound up and thinking about getting one (his present computer is a pentium 1 thinkpad, and he was an IBM employee from 1956 and an 650 programmer in the early 60's, so he isn't a technophobe.) He was talking about it, but by the time they got the wireless hub installed and mom's NetBook up and working on it, he'd changed his mind.
I bought an Ipod Touch two months ago, my first Apple new-hardware purchase ever (though I have a fleet of SE/30's, a Quadra 650, various iMacs, a Beige G3 minitower, etc....) but probably my last. It's cool, but not that cool.
Jobs has realized his mortality big-time, and it shows in all ways. It's beyond him looking like Mick Jagger up on the stage at this point.
Resale value on the MacBook is only realized if you sell it after one or two years. IOW, before it's useful life is gone. Further, Apple has been busy making sure they obsolete their current models a lot quicker lately than they used to.
Pronouncements about 'this generation' rarely are permanent. The kids will grow up. I didn't care much about privacy when I was 20 either. I mean, OMG. Some of the shit that I did. I'm sure glad all the photographs are locked in the analog photo vault of the college newspaper, and that online was the room full of ASR-33 teletypes in the basement of the Engineering Building.
Mae Ling Mak, naked and petrified.
Well, nothing electronic defines that. I guess you can go out and play badmiton in the back yard, though...
the market for small indie games is bound to get bigger.
Small indie games are getting eaten up and absorbed by outfits like Facebook right now.
Well, the bottom is about to fall out of the healthcare business, though. Unless you like putting Depends on boomers, it's something to stay out of.
It really doesn't matter how many Freshmen enroll.
We need to see the second year statistics. And, soon, the graduation figures, and then placement figures.
I notice that above me in this browser window as I type this comment, there's a University of Phoenix ad. Hmmm...
This is not on the apple.slashdot.org domain. It's okay here.
It's pretty clear that you think in an adjective, adjective way about things. Are you sure you're not in marketing?
Unfortunately the HP Calculator group has been gone a long time. That was the Corvalis Group. They made the HP calculators, the HP Palmtops and the very first generation Omnibooks (the 300 and 450.) They are long, long gone.
There is a link in the redirected search on my ISP too.
The link didn't work.
I just switched away from their DNS server.
4.2.2.1 works adequately.
Apple needs some huggy love from Bubba the Big Goverment Bear.
You'd have to explain what you mean by 'naked capitalism' and how it could be seen as a bad thing.
Then you'd have to explain how 'society' would be sensible to 'retrain' it.
It sort of sounds like you have a bondage thing going there, with your restraining naked something or other.
One very effective way to fight Facebook, if this stuff pisses you off as much as it pisses me off, is to set up lots of bogus accounts. Seed their database with total trash made-up people. If enough of us were to do that, their database would quickly become pretty worthless.
Yes. Crapflooding For Social Progress.
I'm sure many Slashbots can see the merit in this idea.
Infrastructure is what makes a nation strong and resilient
Strong nations are not necessarily a good thing. Resilience just means nobody can talk back to the bureaucrats and get away with it.
With your starry-eyed optimism, I am sure everything will be alright. Have you contributed that extra money above your required taxes to the government yet? You do know that you can send more than the minimum to the IRS, don't you?
No. It's not ok for that guy to do it either. I'm glad we've straightened this out and come to an agreement.
Every new generation that comes along thinks SNL stopped being funny about a decade ago.
True. And one of the only things funny about SNL is that they're all right.
One question I have is: when you bring Congress to a halt, is the term for that Progress?
So, by your judgment, it follows that an illegal act occurred, so anything the police want to do in response is acceptable, legal or not?
Yes. We know. Apple. Praise Steve.
I'm sure they're still infested with Stockholm Syndrome, like most of the more rabid Apple enthusiasts.
Carry on!
That was my first impression as well. And it would be a perfect fit, as the Finder is from the old single tasking MacOS. You know, the one that Apples' developers made themselves, not the new one they bought from outside the company.
Why the hell do so many people think he did something evil?
It made Steven Jobs angry. So naturally all his flying monkeys are going to swirl around with fury. Also, this is apple.slashdot.org not the real Slashdot, so this stuff is to be expected.