Not quite. We have had a law in the UK, that as I understand it, means that carriers must have made their money back within the first year, and then the phone can be legally unlocked.
Funnily enough, they sell phones in the same way. Most phone unlocking is done by a guy at a street stall, for £10, and most people probably assume it isn't quite legal. The carriers aren't stopping subsidies pf phones, because they know if they don't the other carriers will.
What they do dictate however is the features that go into phones. How would you like a wifi enabled phone, that connected to your home LAN and made VOIP calls when you were in range. Out of range, and you get charged for a normal mobile call. The technology is there, but no carrier is going to commit to a phone that will essentially lose them revenue. Guess who the mobile phone manufacturers biggest customers are...? The carriers. Screw them. You ought not to be defending another business model that is holding back innovation, and giving customers what they really want.
Consumers are so distrustful of Microsoft that Apple could double its market share due to defections from the Windows operating system
So that would mean about 6% in a best case scenario? Maybe Joe Consumer will start to hear about an operating system not produced by a money hungry corporation, but by people wanting an alternative and choose that instead.......
Consumers are so distrustful of Microsoft that Apple could
(Sadly I reckon they will stick with the easy option of Windows though).
"However, if you take one of the these college basketball athletes, any of them would be able to run miles without even breathing heavy. However, if you made them sit down and try to learn Java for 12 hours a day, most of them would be asleep at their desk before lunch"
I think that is a bit of a self flattering comment. There is a difference between programming a lanuage you know everyday and sitting learning a new one. The last time I had to sit through a three day Perl course (not that there was anything wrong with the course) I felt pretty bloody knakered by halfway through each day......
If you get off your arse and do a bit of excercise you will probably feel more motivated when you do sit down in front of the computer. (Or am I not really much of a geek?)
I suppose some have-switched Linux users wouldn't see that as a bad thing either.
I like the principle of choice, but many of the distros seem to reinvent the wheel and redo the same thing all having strong and weak points, which is why I swap about a lot......
Anything to do with Apple seems to get a disspropotionate amount of coverage on Slashdot these days, and when articles about Levis making a pair or jeans with an iPod pocket , or Apple making a leather case make it on here, I wonder why the fuck I am reading this tech site.
Fact is that as Apple grows, their computer side of their buisness becomes smaller relative to the rest of the company. In the eyes of Joe Public, they are a fashonable brand (or do you not have any non techie friends?). Dell and other companies are not recognised by the general public as being stylish, and are not associated with being a fashon item. (Maybe it's different where you live but thats how it is here in the UK). There is a guy from one of the other departments at my work who has got the standard issue Dell laptop, and put an Apple sticker over the Dell blob. Does that make the styling on his Dell any different? No, but it does make it look like he has a trendy brandname computer - which is probably what he wanted to achieve.
And for your information, I dont think that computers need to be ugly, or hard to use. I also dont believe you need to buy Apple to overcome either of these.
Stop being so over defensive of everything Apple, when the comment was more about the relevance of some of Slashdots articles, and the attention they recieve.
Will Apple stories still be posted on Slashdot when they are recognised as a fashon company, rather than a tech company. That seems to be the way they are going to me......
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Not quite. We have had a law in the UK, that as I understand it, means that carriers must have made their money back within the first year, and then the phone can be legally unlocked.
Funnily enough, they sell phones in the same way. Most phone unlocking is done by a guy at a street stall, for £10, and most people probably assume it isn't quite legal. The carriers aren't stopping subsidies pf phones, because they know if they don't the other carriers will.
What they do dictate however is the features that go into phones. How would you like a wifi enabled phone, that connected to your home LAN and made VOIP calls when you were in range. Out of range, and you get charged for a normal mobile call. The technology is there, but no carrier is going to commit to a phone that will essentially lose them revenue. Guess who the mobile phone manufacturers biggest customers are...? The carriers. Screw them. You ought not to be defending another business model that is holding back innovation, and giving customers what they really want.
Sounds like Apple fans, getting emotionally attached and over excited by a piece of technology.
Consumers are so distrustful of Microsoft that Apple could double its market share due to defections from the Windows operating system
So that would mean about 6% in a best case scenario? Maybe Joe Consumer will start to hear about an operating system not produced by a money hungry corporation, but by people wanting an alternative and choose that instead.......
Consumers are so distrustful of Microsoft that Apple could (Sadly I reckon they will stick with the easy option of Windows though).
"However, if you take one of the these college basketball athletes, any of them would be able to run miles without even breathing heavy. However, if you made them sit down and try to learn Java for 12 hours a day, most of them would be asleep at their desk before lunch"
I think that is a bit of a self flattering comment. There is a difference between programming a lanuage you know everyday and sitting learning a new one. The last time I had to sit through a three day Perl course (not that there was anything wrong with the course) I felt pretty bloody knakered by halfway through each day......
If you get off your arse and do a bit of excercise you will probably feel more motivated when you do sit down in front of the computer. (Or am I not really much of a geek?)
I suppose some have-switched Linux users wouldn't see that as a bad thing either.
I like the principle of choice, but many of the distros seem to reinvent the wheel and redo the same thing all having strong and weak points, which is why I swap about a lot......
How many user friendly desktop distos do we need?
Anything to do with Apple seems to get a disspropotionate amount of coverage on Slashdot these days, and when articles about Levis making a pair or jeans with an iPod pocket , or Apple making a leather case make it on here, I wonder why the fuck I am reading this tech site.
Fact is that as Apple grows, their computer side of their buisness becomes smaller relative to the rest of the company. In the eyes of Joe Public, they are a fashonable brand (or do you not have any non techie friends?). Dell and other companies are not recognised by the general public as being stylish, and are not associated with being a fashon item. (Maybe it's different where you live but thats how it is here in the UK). There is a guy from one of the other departments at my work who has got the standard issue Dell laptop, and put an Apple sticker over the Dell blob. Does that make the styling on his Dell any different? No, but it does make it look like he has a trendy brandname computer - which is probably what he wanted to achieve.
And for your information, I dont think that computers need to be ugly, or hard to use. I also dont believe you need to buy Apple to overcome either of these.
Stop being so over defensive of everything Apple, when the comment was more about the relevance of some of Slashdots articles, and the attention they recieve.
Will Apple stories still be posted on Slashdot when they are recognised as a fashon company, rather than a tech company. That seems to be the way they are going to me......