The technical process of making people lose all sense of reality and simply consume whatever is most successful at telling them "buy me because I'm cool, and you can be too" is pretty straightforward to describe, but actually quite complicated to implement. It's called marketing. Apple is a marketing company that also makes electronics, they are quite adept at their core business, such that people don't even realize that they are pretty mediocre when it comes to their secondary, and in fact believe them to be the absolute greatest of all time.
Think about it: Macs and iPods crash all the time, they require special software which is incompatible with other hardware to operate, they cost a ton of extra money, they are not measurably better for any particular use or application than competing products, and yet they still have legions of fanatical users who couldn't even imagine using something else.
Once you take off the sex appeal, Apple's actual devices don't have much going for them, yet they still dominate because the marketing is so good.
All the people making comments like the above are just clueless. Get your head out of your ass, for Pete's sake. A ton of people using Apple computers are intelligent geeks (some probably a lot intelligent than this clueless poster above) who don't care two hoots about being cool. A computer (be in a Mac, windows or linux or *nix) are a tool. Use the one that fits you the best.
I don't get why people waste their time belittling people who choose Macs over their chosen platform. It is not that big a deal. If you do not want to buy/use a Mac, just don't. Nobody cares.
I use Windows, linux, Solaris professionally.
A couple of years back, I bought my first mac. Having used the "evil mac" for a few years, I don't get what the big deal is. It does everything that one would want to do with a computer.
I do not get the reason why these haters get all riled up when Apple (or Mac) is mentioned in any article. I do not get the hatred.
The first time I saw an iPhone, I thought to myself that it's clever and works fairly well. Then I tried to make a phone call. Ooops. Then I looked at the music capabilities... another ooops. Every time the device added lock-in or required that I jump through hoops to use it with Linux, it's coolness factor dropped by at least half.
You couldn't figure out how to make a phone call with an iPhone?
You think there is some problem with the "music capabilities" of an iPhone?
Give that millions of people are able to use the iphone well as a phone and as a music player, I think the problem might be you..!?!
I don't even know what the last sentence means. But do you whine and complain that an xBOX360 game does not work in PS3 too? No one cares if you do not buy one, but your opinions about products that you do not use are so factually incorrect it is embarrassing.
Before iPhone, my cellphone bill was $29.99/month + tax.
I used the phone for emergencies only.
After I got an iPhone, my cell phone bills is $75.00/ month + tax.
So in effect, I am paying 2.5 times as much per month MORE than I used to... AND I signed a 2 year contract with AT&T.
Where is all this money going?
If AT&T is paying the CEOs and the senior executives a BIGGER salary and HUGE bonus,... or distributing it to the shareholders, this is THEIR mistake. They should instead use all the profits they are making by the massively new HIGH PAYING customers and build a lot of infrastructure. If they have to double or triple their network capacity, they should. I thought that was the reason for the iPhone exclusive deal and consequently getting the ability to poach customers from other networks.
If AT&T failed to capitalize on this and build their network, it is the mistake of the executives and they must all be fired...
++ Am in EXACTLY the same boat. I have been waiting for iWork to get a spreadsheet to complete the office-suite. Until then, I will use Neo-Office.
AppleWorks is crap. As a switcher, I was horrified when I tried to use it. I think I opened Appleworks exactly once before downloading Neo-Office.
And I agree with everyone, it is high time for a rock-solid and fast version of OO on Mac OS X.
And, last,but not the least, I appreciate the work Neo-Office group have put towards giving us an office suite in the interim on their own time and effort. Thanks you guys!
Going by the coverage of Mac in PC world, they are filled with MS-shills. So yeah, now that they have an ex-MacWorld editor, their Apple bashing would reduce to a large extend. Am sure the old guards that were used to slinging mud at Apple whenever they get bored will have now have to actually write a more balanced piece. And if some ass hates Mac so much that he thinks he can't do it, he should resign.
I say "Good Riddence..!" We need more editor's who can give a balanced coverage to Macs, Windows, Linux and all other platforms.
No offense, But.... The school should get a trained (Knowledgable) Mac OS X Admin.
This is NOT meant as a slight to you. But it will be so much easier if everything is set up right the first time. Coz if you do set it up wrong, it will give you hours of frustration. Additionally, you also get to learn from him in addition to RTFM.
My experience is that it is easier to learn things if there is someone who is an expert nearby. Ofcourse, you would need to compliment that by RTFM, but I think it would be a mistake for you to set, who has admitted to being a Mac novice, to set up the Mac machines in a mixed Windows-Mac envt.
Rubbish...!
In total OVERALL music sales... for today only... you're right. Now sit down for a moment and think.... Thank you! It is nice to know you agree that TODAY iTunes Music store is NOT a monopoly in overall Music Business.
Look at Nielsen SoundScan.. here's some breakdown [siliconvalley.com] It is disingenuous to suggest that the SOLE reason for decrease in Album sales is due to Online Sales. Guess what, if the music is not good, consumers are not going to run out and buy a new CD. Additionally, if there is ONLY 1 or 2 songs that are good in the entire CD, consumers will prefer to buy that alone instead of forking out > $14.00.
Additionally, as someone in an earlier post mentioned, why is it expected that the Album Sales will increase every year? I buy music only when I hear something that I like. So it could just be an indicator that the music these days are trash.
As you can see, album sales are DOWN worldwide (4.9% decrease), and internet sales are UP(65% increase). Take that trend out 5 to 10 years. Statistically, you'll see that Compact Disc will quickly be overwhelmed by digital media sales. And of that growth - Apple has 82% of the market captured [macworld.com] from Job's own mouth. He he he.. ROTFL.. haha ha. You are funny, do U know that??!?! Jokes apart, I think it is possible that Online distribution of music might increase too. Till there we are in agreement. But to suggest that 5 - 10 years from now iTunes will become a Monopoly, is the most disingenuous arguement I have heard in awhile.:D First off, How do you know Apple will still have 82 % marketshate in Online Music Download 5 - 10 years from now? What if Yahoo or Urge or MS Marketplace or emusic or MP3.com or a bunch of others take a few percent marketshare. It is within the realm of possibility. Next, One cannot treat a market leader like a monopoly coz you feel they might become one 10 years from now. 10 years is a long time. And didn't you now, Apple is DooooooOOMed and/or beleaguered.
Monopolies are defined by sales in a MARKET.. In the online music market, it's a monopoly. If sales continue their current trend Apple will have a overall music monopoly in a few years time. While I am sure you would like to define "Market" to suit your arguement, I don't know how many would agree with you. Here is another perspective. Music industry sells music. Some of it might be Cassette, some LPs, some CD, some DVDs. To this, online downloads is an additional distribution model, which at the moment is less than 10 % of the entire market. The market is the music Industry. And iTunes is in NO WAY a monopily in the Music Industry.
Now 10 years from now if CDs and other disappear, AND if Apple has 90 + marketshare in the sole music distribution market, I will agree with you. Till then, please do not spread FUD...
Well. Here is an option. *IF* RIAA agrees and Apple starts selling DRM free music, Apple would release a patch - Say iTunes 7.x.x. or something.
After you install it, the first time you open iTunes, a message pops us - "We have started selling DRM free music recently. All the songs you bought from us previously has DRM in it. Click "Remove DRM" button to remove the DRM from your current songs. iTunes will go thru you entire library and strip DRM from each of you songs.
Please keep in mind it will take sometime to strip DRM from your entire library"
Well?
PS: Somebody else made this suggestion in another thread. Can't remember where or who.
Dude...WTF are y ou talking about? Online music sales is like 10 % or so of the TOTAL music sales. WITHIN that 10% iTunes has something like 70 - 80 % lead. So that is 75 % of a 10% of a HUGE pie.
How on earth is that a Monopoly? What the heck are you smoking?
Are you intentionally spreading FUD or have you just been reading too much of RIAA propoganda? I am willing to give you the benefit of doubt, but please try to keep an open mind...
I had read EACH and EVERY book that Michael Crichton wrote.. until "State of Fear".
And that will be the last book written by Micheal Crichton that I every spend money on.
I have decided to boycott Crichton for ever.
I don't want a dime of my money going to him... ever.
For crying out loud, the petroleum industry BOUGHT him a "journalistic award" for writing a fiction - "State of Fear".
Dude...
WTF are you talking about?
Did you read the godammed Open letter from Steve?
Please read it a couple of times before spouting crap like this.
Just in case, I shall break it down for you:
(1) Steve says it makes not feasible to "Open Fairplay". (Reason? Read the damn Open Letter).
(2) Instead he proposes that NO DRM be used.
(3) Non-DRMed music will play across all hardware, and so it is, inherently, OPEN.
(4) Steve, says that *IF* the content owners are willing to license their content (music) without DRM, Apple will start selling DRM-FREE music in iTunes.
(5) So any Digital Music players can play songs bought from iTunes.
For god's sake read before trolling....
Cheers
Jester
I agree. Am a little puzzled to see the tech-sites (Slashdot, ARS) that are normally against DRM suddenly arguing in favor of DRM since Steve's Open Letter.
I don't care what Steve's motivations are. I hate DRM. I think it is an artificial barrier. And WHEN I pay for music, I want my music free of any DRM or other such crap. I don't want to waste my processor cycles "decrypting" the DRM.
What a lot of people trying to debate BOTH sides do not realize is that if I or anyone here were to say "No DRM." No one will listen. Steve has the visibility and also the ears of the mainstream media. If it takes Steve's Open Letter to deliver the Deathblow to DRM, I think we all should rally around him. So I am with the parent poster....
That doesn't mean we have to sell our souls or buy Macs if you don't prefer Macs. Just support him on this, coz this is also our cause....
Boy. What is it with the media these days. Anything that even remotely references Apple seem to have a Negative Connotation.
It is as if Apple just cannot catch a break since New Year. Think about it. Steve says remove DRM. At first blush, one would think the Media would run with it and the public opinion will have the masses in street demanding that DRM be killed. Guess what, there is a spate of Netagive articles all over the Net. And curiously enough, it does NOT come from RIAA. But from everybody else. Now, instead of crying for the death of DRM , the public is debating that "Steve must have been lying"... OR "why not open FairPlay".
The iPhone is introduced. After the initial few days, all sorts of negative articles seem to appear out of nowhere. And the phone isn't even released...
I wonder if there is a single source behind all the negativity....
[quote] One quicky example of how Apple's logic is poor slapped me in the face when I turned on my system. Apple is constantly giving me offers to install an iSight update. I don't have an iSight. I tried to install it once to get it to stop offering it to me - I can't, because I don't have one. Why is it that Microsoft can manage not to offer me updates I can't install, but Apple can't? [/quote]
Strange. This has never happened to me. I own an iMac G5 Rev B (before iSight became default) I am curious, does anybody else have this issue other than parent?
Or.... am I mad ? After reading that entire paranoid rant, I think you might be...
To me, it almost sounds like a "frame-up" that they used Polonium that can be traced right back. This sounds eerily like the WMD found in Iraq sentiment. The hyping by the mass media also indicates some kind of vested interest... as if sreaming at the top of the voice "It is Putin" will drown other saner, calmer voices from being heard.
Ask yourself, "What if Putin is being Framed". "If Putin or KGB wanted to dispose off this ex-spy, couldn't they have done in a more subtle manner". "Even if the ex-spy had an accident, or was mugged to death, the other spies would DEFINITELY get the message"
To me, the fact that the "link" is SOOOO OBVIOUS makes it suspect. Especially the War Cry "about the cold War" seems aimed at making Putin seem guilty from the very beginning.
As for "What if Russia attacks Georgia.... " So what? We (US.. with UK's aquicense) attacked Iraq. While I don't condone it, What makes such a HYPOTHETICAL scenario worse than the real facts in the ground? Different standards for diffferent countries huh?
Calm down. Take a deep breath. Don't wet your pants by some hype on the media. Chances are the Brit Govt wants to pass some laws curbing the citizens rights to "protect them from big bad Russia".
Nevertheless..... I am tired of seeing this question in EVERY Mac OS discussion. For the millionth time, 10.4 --> 10.5 is NOT a minor update.
Mac OS X is a brand name. Read Tiger as "Mac OS X. Release 4." Read Leopard as "Mac OS X. Release 5".
(If you are still having problem, tell ur brain it is New Mac OS 4 and New Mac OS 5. They are the Next MAJOR release of Mac OS X. Since Apple has spent a lot of money marketting the Mac OS X brand, they want to leverage it for as long as possible.]
To give a windows parallel. Windows NT--> Windows 2000 --> Windows XP -----> Vista
Similarly for the Mac OS X, the sequence is as follows. Jaguar------> Panther --------> Tiger ----------> Leopard.
They are NOT minor updates or point release despite the naming convention,which has some historical reasons.
The point... is that we need more diverse eco-system when it comes to Operating Systems.
But it is impossible for a normal company to come and launch a new OS. Sony happens to be in the unique position where they can have instant marketshare coz of the millions of PS3 they will have. So they can initially launch it as the PS-3 OS. Once developers have become comfortable writing games on it, they can introduce it on their desktop version at some point in future. The point is, there is potential there, if Sony wants to break free from Microsoft.
Now that Microsoft is attacking Sony, that time may NOT be too far away. So Sony either may want to try to license Mac OS X, but apple seems to be becoming a competitor.
Since Microsoft is "migrating" to Vista, this is the perfect opportunity to attack the Windows monopoly. Mac OS X is the ONLY alternative on desktops currently. Linux is there on servers. But a few more diverse OS would be nice and this is the Perfect time.
I just had this thought... more along the lines of random musings. I apologize if someone had already discussed this:)
PS-3 would actually be a good vehicle for Sony to introduce its own OS.. a la-Apple. coz they will rightaway have a HUGE marketshare. And they can sell higher priced hardware (Vaios etc) using the same OS, which means that games written for PS3 that does NOT use PS3 specific hardware feature would work on the Sony PCs.
If Sony had bought, BeOS, which I hear has low latency and was made from the ground up for Multi-media, they may have had an OS which is mostly done. They just need to tune it for their PS3.
Disclaimer: I do not know too much about BeOS. So you can replace that with your fav OS, like Amiga, Plan9 or whatever. I mentioned BeOS coz I seem to remember reading that it was called a Media OS.
Anyone notice how MANY times the writer references MySpace?
He is trying to RELATE zune to MySpace which has become a tremendous hit among teens and youths. By repeating the references throughout the article, he is making that invisible connection in the reader's subconscious mind.
This is DEFINITELY a PR piece written by Microsoft PR group. I guess this is one of the first salvo, before they launch the product. There will be more like it... and we will be inundated with these opinions from these so-called tech gurus....
After reading a dozen such reviews, the teens will think that zune probably is good.
Slashdot Mirror
The technical process of making people lose all sense of reality and simply consume whatever is most successful at telling them "buy me because I'm cool, and you can be too" is pretty straightforward to describe, but actually quite complicated to implement. It's called marketing. Apple is a marketing company that also makes electronics, they are quite adept at their core business, such that people don't even realize that they are pretty mediocre when it comes to their secondary, and in fact believe them to be the absolute greatest of all time.
Think about it: Macs and iPods crash all the time, they require special software which is incompatible with other hardware to operate, they cost a ton of extra money, they are not measurably better for any particular use or application than competing products, and yet they still have legions of fanatical users who couldn't even imagine using something else.
Once you take off the sex appeal, Apple's actual devices don't have much going for them, yet they still dominate because the marketing is so good.
All the people making comments like the above are just clueless. Get your head out of your ass, for Pete's sake. A ton of people using Apple computers are intelligent geeks (some probably a lot intelligent than this clueless poster above) who don't care two hoots about being cool. A computer (be in a Mac, windows or linux or *nix) are a tool. Use the one that fits you the best. I don't get why people waste their time belittling people who choose Macs over their chosen platform. It is not that big a deal. If you do not want to buy/use a Mac, just don't. Nobody cares. I use Windows, linux, Solaris professionally. A couple of years back, I bought my first mac. Having used the "evil mac" for a few years, I don't get what the big deal is. It does everything that one would want to do with a computer. I do not get the reason why these haters get all riled up when Apple (or Mac) is mentioned in any article. I do not get the hatred.
The first time I saw an iPhone, I thought to myself that it's clever and works fairly well. Then I tried to make a phone call. Ooops. Then I looked at the music capabilities... another ooops. Every time the device added lock-in or required that I jump through hoops to use it with Linux, it's coolness factor dropped by at least half.
You couldn't figure out how to make a phone call with an iPhone? You think there is some problem with the "music capabilities" of an iPhone? Give that millions of people are able to use the iphone well as a phone and as a music player, I think the problem might be you..!?! I don't even know what the last sentence means. But do you whine and complain that an xBOX360 game does not work in PS3 too? No one cares if you do not buy one, but your opinions about products that you do not use are so factually incorrect it is embarrassing.
Before iPhone, my cellphone bill was $29.99/month + tax. I used the phone for emergencies only. After I got an iPhone, my cell phone bills is $75.00/ month + tax. So in effect, I am paying 2.5 times as much per month MORE than I used to... AND I signed a 2 year contract with AT&T. Where is all this money going? If AT&T is paying the CEOs and the senior executives a BIGGER salary and HUGE bonus,... or distributing it to the shareholders, this is THEIR mistake. They should instead use all the profits they are making by the massively new HIGH PAYING customers and build a lot of infrastructure. If they have to double or triple their network capacity, they should. I thought that was the reason for the iPhone exclusive deal and consequently getting the ability to poach customers from other networks. If AT&T failed to capitalize on this and build their network, it is the mistake of the executives and they must all be fired...
++
,but not the least, I appreciate the work Neo-Office group have put towards giving us an office suite in the interim on their own time and effort. Thanks you guys!
Am in EXACTLY the same boat.
I have been waiting for iWork to get a spreadsheet to complete the office-suite.
Until then, I will use Neo-Office.
AppleWorks is crap. As a switcher, I was horrified when I tried to use it. I think I opened Appleworks exactly once before downloading Neo-Office.
And I agree with everyone, it is high time for a rock-solid and fast version of OO on Mac OS X.
And, last
Going by the coverage of Mac in PC world, they are filled with MS-shills. So yeah, now that they have an ex-MacWorld editor, their Apple bashing would reduce to a large extend.
Am sure the old guards that were used to slinging mud at Apple whenever they get bored will have now have to actually write a more balanced piece. And if some ass hates Mac so much that he thinks he can't do it, he should resign.
I say "Good Riddence..!"
We need more editor's who can give a balanced coverage to Macs, Windows, Linux and all other platforms.
Oh well!. I guess yours in a special case. :)
No offense, But....
The school should get a trained (Knowledgable) Mac OS X Admin.
This is NOT meant as a slight to you. But it will be so much easier if everything is set up right the first time. Coz if you do set it up wrong, it will give you hours of frustration. Additionally, you also get to learn from him in addition to RTFM.
My experience is that it is easier to learn things if there is someone who is an expert nearby. Ofcourse, you would need to compliment that by RTFM, but I think it would be a mistake for you to set, who has admitted to being a Mac novice, to set up the Mac machines in a mixed Windows-Mac envt.
Good Luck!
Jes
Additionally, if there is ONLY 1 or 2 songs that are good in the entire CD, consumers will prefer to buy that alone instead of forking out > $14.00.
Additionally, as someone in an earlier post mentioned, why is it expected that the Album Sales will increase every year? I buy music only when I hear something that I like. So it could just be an indicator that the music these days are trash. As you can see, album sales are DOWN worldwide (4.9% decrease), and internet sales are UP(65% increase). Take that trend out 5 to 10 years. Statistically, you'll see that Compact Disc will quickly be overwhelmed by digital media sales. And of that growth - Apple has 82% of the market captured [macworld.com] from Job's own mouth. He he he.. ROTFL
Jokes apart, I think it is possible that Online distribution of music might increase too. Till there we are in agreement. But to suggest that 5 - 10 years from now iTunes will become a Monopoly, is the most disingenuous arguement I have heard in awhile.
First off, How do you know Apple will still have 82 % marketshate in Online Music Download 5 - 10 years from now?
What if Yahoo or Urge or MS Marketplace or emusic or MP3.com or a bunch of others take a few percent marketshare. It is within the realm of possibility.
Next, One cannot treat a market leader like a monopoly coz you feel they might become one 10 years from now. 10 years is a long time. And didn't you now, Apple is DooooooOOMed and/or beleaguered. Monopolies are defined by sales in a MARKET.. In the online music market, it's a monopoly. If sales continue their current trend Apple will have a overall music monopoly in a few years time. While I am sure you would like to define "Market" to suit your arguement, I don't know how many would agree with you. Here is another perspective. Music industry sells music. Some of it might be Cassette, some LPs, some CD, some DVDs. To this, online downloads is an additional distribution model, which at the moment is less than 10 % of the entire market. The market is the music Industry. And iTunes is in NO WAY a monopily in the Music Industry.
Now 10 years from now if CDs and other disappear, AND if Apple has 90 + marketshare in the sole music distribution market, I will agree with you. Till then, please do not spread FUD...
Jes
++
Well put! That is probably the best and succint post on this topic ever...
jes
Well. Here is an option.
*IF* RIAA agrees and Apple starts selling DRM free music, Apple would release a patch - Say iTunes 7.x.x. or something.
After you install it, the first time you open iTunes, a message pops us - "We have started selling DRM free music recently. All the songs you bought from us previously has DRM in it. Click "Remove DRM" button to remove the DRM from your current songs. iTunes will go thru you entire library and strip DRM from each of you songs.
Please keep in mind it will take sometime to strip DRM from your entire library"
Well?
PS: Somebody else made this suggestion in another thread. Can't remember where or who.
Jes
Dude...WTF are y ou talking about?
...
Online music sales is like 10 % or so of the TOTAL music sales.
WITHIN that 10% iTunes has something like 70 - 80 % lead.
So that is 75 % of a 10% of a HUGE pie.
How on earth is that a Monopoly? What the heck are you smoking?
Are you intentionally spreading FUD or have you just been reading too much of RIAA propoganda? I am willing to give you the benefit of doubt, but please try to keep an open mind
Jes
I had read EACH and EVERY book that Michael Crichton wrote .. until "State of Fear".
... ever.
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And that will be the last book written by Micheal Crichton that I every spend money on.
I have decided to boycott Crichton for ever.
I don't want a dime of my money going to him
For crying out loud, the petroleum industry BOUGHT him a "journalistic award" for writing a fiction - "State of Fear".
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Jester
Dude... WTF are you talking about? Did you read the godammed Open letter from Steve? Please read it a couple of times before spouting crap like this. Just in case, I shall break it down for you: (1) Steve says it makes not feasible to "Open Fairplay". (Reason? Read the damn Open Letter). (2) Instead he proposes that NO DRM be used. (3) Non-DRMed music will play across all hardware, and so it is, inherently, OPEN. (4) Steve, says that *IF* the content owners are willing to license their content (music) without DRM, Apple will start selling DRM-FREE music in iTunes. (5) So any Digital Music players can play songs bought from iTunes. For god's sake read before trolling.... Cheers Jester
++
I agree.
Am a little puzzled to see the tech-sites (Slashdot, ARS) that are normally against DRM suddenly arguing in favor of DRM since Steve's Open Letter.
I don't care what Steve's motivations are. I hate DRM. I think it is an artificial barrier. And WHEN I pay for music, I want my music free of any DRM or other such crap. I don't want to waste my processor cycles "decrypting" the DRM.
What a lot of people trying to debate BOTH sides do not realize is that if I or anyone here were to say "No DRM." No one will listen. Steve has the visibility and also the ears of the mainstream media.
If it takes Steve's Open Letter to deliver the Deathblow to DRM, I think we all should rally around him.
So I am with the parent poster....
That doesn't mean we have to sell our souls or buy Macs if you don't prefer Macs.
Just support him on this, coz this is also our cause....
Cheers!
Jester
Awesome response!
This article is a sham.. and is possibly a plant from those with vested interests.
Apple sure seems to be making powerful enemies....
Boy. What is it with the media these days. Anything that even remotely references Apple seem to have a Negative Connotation.
... OR "why not open FairPlay".
It is as if Apple just cannot catch a break since New Year.
Think about it.
Steve says remove DRM. At first blush, one would think the Media would run with it and the public opinion will have the masses in street demanding that DRM be killed.
Guess what, there is a spate of Netagive articles all over the Net.
And curiously enough, it does NOT come from RIAA.
But from everybody else.
Now, instead of crying for the death of DRM , the public is debating that "Steve must have been lying"
The iPhone is introduced. After the initial few days, all sorts of negative articles seem to appear out of nowhere. And the phone isn't even released...
I wonder if there is a single source behind all the negativity....
Jes
Thank you!
/you're" mis-use too.
:)
I have been noticing the increasing use of "must of" too.
And "your
Due to some reason, it totally bothers me....
Jes
What is the author smoking?
That was the stupidest (Is there such a word) article, I've ever read.
And these guys get paid for writing such tripe...?
Jester
Propoganda!
Now that Zune and the Marketplace is released, someone needs "news item" saying iTunes is folding up. Who would benefit from that...
Hmm. That is a touch one!
*scratches my head*
Just-A-Jester
[quote]
One quicky example of how Apple's logic is poor slapped me in the face when I turned on my system. Apple is constantly giving me offers to install an iSight update. I don't have an iSight. I tried to install it once to get it to stop offering it to me - I can't, because I don't have one. Why is it that Microsoft can manage not to offer me updates I can't install, but Apple can't?
[/quote]
Strange.
This has never happened to me.
I own an iMac G5 Rev B (before iSight became default)
I am curious, does anybody else have this issue other than parent?
aJester
To me, it almost sounds like a "frame-up" that they used Polonium that can be traced right back.
This sounds eerily like the WMD found in Iraq sentiment.
The hyping by the mass media also indicates some kind of vested interest... as if sreaming at the top of the voice "It is Putin" will drown other saner, calmer voices from being heard.
Ask yourself,
"What if Putin is being Framed".
"If Putin or KGB wanted to dispose off this ex-spy, couldn't they have done in a more subtle manner".
"Even if the ex-spy had an accident, or was mugged to death, the other spies would DEFINITELY get the message"
To me, the fact that the "link" is SOOOO OBVIOUS makes it suspect.
Especially the War Cry "about the cold War" seems aimed at making Putin seem guilty from the very beginning.
As for "What if Russia attacks Georgia.... "
So what? We (US.. with UK's aquicense) attacked Iraq.
While I don't condone it, What makes such a HYPOTHETICAL scenario worse than the real facts in the ground?
Different standards for diffferent countries huh?
Calm down. Take a deep breath. Don't wet your pants by some hype on the media.
Chances are the Brit Govt wants to pass some laws curbing the citizens rights to "protect them from big bad Russia".
That is it. You sir are a troll...
Nevertheless.....
I am tired of seeing this question in EVERY Mac OS discussion.
For the millionth time, 10.4 --> 10.5 is NOT a minor update.
Mac OS X is a brand name.
Read Tiger as "Mac OS X. Release 4."
Read Leopard as "Mac OS X. Release 5".
(If you are still having problem, tell ur brain it is New Mac OS 4 and New Mac OS 5. They are the Next MAJOR release of Mac OS X. Since Apple has spent a lot of money marketting the Mac OS X brand, they want to leverage it for as long as possible.]
To give a windows parallel.
Windows NT--> Windows 2000 --> Windows XP -----> Vista
Similarly for the Mac OS X, the sequence is as follows.
Jaguar------> Panther --------> Tiger ----------> Leopard.
They are NOT minor updates or point release despite the naming convention,which has some historical reasons.
Jes
The point ... is that we need more diverse eco-system when it comes to Operating Systems.
But it is impossible for a normal company to come and launch a new OS.
Sony happens to be in the unique position where they can have instant marketshare coz of the millions of PS3 they will have. So they can initially launch it as the PS-3 OS. Once developers have become comfortable writing games on it, they can introduce it on their desktop version at some point in future. The point is, there is potential there, if Sony wants to break free from Microsoft.
Now that Microsoft is attacking Sony, that time may NOT be too far away. So Sony either may want to try to license Mac OS X, but apple seems to be becoming a competitor.
Since Microsoft is "migrating" to Vista, this is the perfect opportunity to attack the Windows monopoly.
Mac OS X is the ONLY alternative on desktops currently.
Linux is there on servers.
But a few more diverse OS would be nice and this is the Perfect time.
peace!
jester
I just had this thought... more along the lines of random musings. :)
.. a la-Apple. coz they will rightaway have a HUGE marketshare.
I apologize if someone had already discussed this
PS-3 would actually be a good vehicle for Sony to introduce its own OS
And they can sell higher priced hardware (Vaios etc) using the same OS, which means that games written for PS3 that does NOT use PS3 specific hardware feature would work on the Sony PCs.
If Sony had bought, BeOS, which I hear has low latency and was made from the ground up for Multi-media, they may have had an OS which is mostly done. They just need to tune it for their PS3.
Disclaimer: I do not know too much about BeOS. So you can replace that with your fav OS, like Amiga, Plan9 or whatever. I mentioned BeOS coz I seem to remember reading that it was called a Media OS.
Any thoughts......
Jester
Anyone notice how MANY times the writer references MySpace?
He is trying to RELATE zune to MySpace which has become a tremendous hit among teens and youths. By repeating the references throughout the article, he is making that invisible connection in the reader's subconscious mind.
This is DEFINITELY a PR piece written by Microsoft PR group.
I guess this is one of the first salvo, before they launch the product.
There will be more like it... and we will be inundated with these opinions from these so-called tech gurus....
After reading a dozen such reviews, the teens will think that zune probably is good.
Jester