Has there ever been a successful tech company run by a marketing person? This is an honest question.
Myspace isn't really a tech company, neither is facebook. They are content companies. The tech is just a conduit, means to an end.
That being said, isnt Myspace now owned by Newscorp? That probably has more to do with why they are failing, orders are coming down from Rupert to run the business in a certain way, users don't like so they leave.
If Google broke up into 10 smaller entities, it could increase shareholder value and spur more innovation.
Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, HP, Dell and EMC first.
Yep,
Microsoft's OS and Office divisions.
Apple's hardware and music sales decisions.
These two need to be broken up long before Google and I'm not entirely sure it's absolutely necessary to break these up, however we would benefit from it.
HP, they only have HW and Service, EDS needs to die, not be broken up. I've seen so many managed services contracts mismanaged by EDS.
Dell and EMC don't really have enough market share to be abusive, the only way I can see an EMC breakup being remotely useful is separating VMWare back into it's own entity but I cant see why that would be in any way necessary.
... in scientific research when you see the following:
- Sales and marketing are considered more important professions then doctor or scientist.
- Reality TV is considered an unmissable event.
- Solutions to problems involve cutting budgets to scientific organisations.
- It's popular to advertise your own ignorance.
- It's unpopular to show an aptitude for something.
- Scientific research in one area is halted by a religious minority waving an old book.
- You have to write lists of poorly thought out points to dissuade yourself from the fact science is failing in your own nation.
So if I were an American policy maker I wouldn't freak out because an uneducated populous allows you to openly serve other masters.
For the same reason you go anyplace to get something when you can go somewhere else for the same thing.
Because you like how its done better there.
I consider quoting myself to be a bit pretentious but anyway, I pointed that out in my GP post.
The only organisations who could possibly benefit from pay walls are those "news" organisations who don't provide news as much as a comforting blanket of skewed information to people who don't want their views challenged.
For all products, a large number of people are not using your product exclusively. There is typically a lot of competition. Take washing powder, I've used the same one for years now, but if the price of BioZet shot up, why would I not change to a competing brand?
What would make the "news" industry any different?
Real world numbers of fanboys (lets face it, they are exactly what we are talking about here) are actually very low. Brand loyalty is very weak in the overwhelming majority of people. Few people would ever be above changing a product if it inconvenienced them, the larger the inconvenience the less likely people will return. Look at how Gawker lost readers with a bad UI change, annoy people and they will go elsewhere.
I think any US "news" agency looking to use pay walls will quickly decimate their readership. In Europe and Asia, readership would be obliterated.
I play things like Project Reality where the maps are enormous and the gameplay is much slower. You squad up and hike across the map for a good several minutes without any enemy contact (though you have to be constantly on your toes). You reach a river. The whole squad crossing at once is suicidal, so you go in pairs, with everyone else staying in the trees and ready to provide cover fire. With 30 seconds for each pair to cross the river, you're going to be sitting there watching your sector for a while.
This sort of game I've often thought would be a great idea. However it always falls down when I remember that on-line FPS gamers cant really work together. BF Bad Company 2 is about the only example of where you can kind of have team players and that's pretty much only because you get extra points for reviving, assists, resupply and spotting.
The genius of the Times approach is that it actually might work because of the weaknesses. Instead of a pay wall that everyone would be striving to scale, they have a "pay hedge" where passers-by can see over, and view whatever they like. Only if they wish to stay a while and drink the tasty NYT lemonade (or kool-aid if you prefer) need they fork over some money to enter through the purely ornamental gate.
Why would I want to when I can get the same news for free from other sources?
As long as things like the BBC and ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) have a mandate to provide free news pay walls will never work. All they will do is consolidate readers into sources that are not pay walled.
Pay walls will make people close that tab, if they want to know about the article, they'll google it and find a free alternative. The only organisations who could possibly benefit from pay walls are those "news" organisations who don't provide news as much as a comforting blanket of skewed information to people who don't want their views challenged. Although I'd stand to say even Fox News would decimate their readership by putting up a paywall.
I think the same thing about BMWs and Mercedes Benz. However, some people still prefer to drive them.
Never understood this comparison. Mac's use the same off the shelf components as Dell, Asus, Lenovo, HP et al. yet charge twice the price for them.
Toyota does not put the same engine inside a Yaris and a Lexus, nor the same brakes, steering column. Do you see where I'm going with this, a Lexus costs more then a Yaris because it costs more to actually make a Lexus, the same is not true of Mac's.
I was going to say "I can't test to see if my websites work in IE9." (Note that I no longer care about 6, 7, or 8.)
I agree with that sentiment, perhaps discounting IE 8 is a bit early. Any corporate SOE which hasn't moved to IE 8 by now needs help. Most will not have moved to IE 9 though.
But you've touched on the real reason why Mac's are unsuitable for web dev and why no web dev I've ever met has used one, things render differently on Mac's. Even Firefox and Chrome cant provide the same experience on Windows or Linux.
Not to mention that.net and flash are favoured languages of the web dev. Both of which are against the will of Steve.
I have a sinking feeling that being a PC gamer is nothing more than being an alpha tester for the 2015 consoles.
Stop playing games made by EA and that feeling goes away.
Seriously, I was going to buy Crysis 2 yesterday, but reading the system requirements it said "an internet connection is required to install and play online". I put the game back on the shelf, my A$80 (US$80.50) back into it's wallet and walked out of the store. Upon reading reveiws such as yours I'm glad, no-one I've spoken to has said anything favourable about the game.
DRM lost a sale, in fact given the general low quality I'm not even sure it's worth the bandwidth to download. I'm sure Cevat Yerli's going to have a big cry about piracy again. He just wont get that his game wont sell because it's buggy and generally the gameplay is pretty meh.
CIA wants them to store it for eternity. FTC wants them to get rid of it ASAP. Make up your mind, The Government!
Yes, the idea that the "gubbermint" is not some massively interconnected single entity which is hell bent on controlling all your lives and actually is a group of loosely connected group of small individual entities with their own needs and agenda's is uncomfortable to some people.
"I can tell that everyone suggesting you just put Windows on the Mac has never been married, or probably had a LT girlfriend but..."
Don't know what kind of women you are dating, but your impression of women as irrational things that should be manipulated so as not to blame you in the future sounds awful.
Care to point out where I actually said that they need to be manipulated.
Secondly women are not logical creatures, if you've ever dated one you'd know this.
All I said is that you'll avoid a lot of pain by letting her choose. You clearly have no idea of how women work, or people in general. If I choose something for another person and they don't like it, it's my fault for choosing it where as if they pick it, they cant simply place blame on you because they had a hand in choosing it. Why not let choice supportive bias work for you?
Sigh, you didn't get that I was suggesting brands where the OP could look, rather then making a decision on what laptop he should get.
Hi, the point is over here, you seemed to have missed it. I said the OP should let his wife pick the model, not knowing what specifics the wife would want (screen size et al) I cant recommend specific models, rather specific brands/product lines.
The poster blatantly assume stuff just to disagree
Secondly, care to point it out as all I can see is you having a big cry over keyboards which has nothing to do with this thread.
Finally, the +5 insightful came from the other advice I gave the OP. Give the wife the option, that way she has a reason to be happier with her choice (I.E. let choice supportive bias work for you, not against you by picking a laptop and forcing it on her). You are exactly the kind of person I mean when I say that responders have never had an LT girlfriend, women aren't logical creatures, you cant simply pick the best laptop and expect her to be happy with it. Even if there are no problems with it, she may just invent one because she isn't happy with the colour or placement of the ventilation holes, the problem will be yours because you picked it.
laptop batteries are cheap if bought the smart way, $40, don't walk into a computer store and buy them.
2.5 years?? laptops are good for over 5 years.
Missing the point,
First, there are likely to be other HW issues (real and imagined), just because you beleive that laptops are "good for 5 years" does not magically make it so. Longevity of IT equipment is extremely dependent on the user, with the way some people treat their laptops they are barely good for one year. So once again, making a blanket statement of "good for 5 years" is blatantly stupid.
Secondly and the point you couldn't have missed further is that the wife does not like it. Even if it works perfectly (which it wont, given the quality of Apple's Window's drivers) she will imagine the same problems are there and probably invent new ones. She's decided that she wants a new laptop, END OF STORY. Trying to fight that is more pain then it is worth just to save $500 which would easily be made up in your time not fixing problems (real or imagined).
Yeah, that's probably the best answer of all. Just run Windows on it. Also, I might say "make it dual boot" so that she has something to fall back on when her machine gets trashed and/or unusable... as we all know it will.
Actually it's about the worst answer.
1. the laptop is 2.5 years old. The battery will be almost gone and there will likely be other HW issues developing.
2. the wife does not like it.
I can tell that everyone suggesting you just put Windows on the Mac has never been married, or probably had a LT girlfriend but if the wife wants something, a half arsed solution like slapping Windows on top of it wont help, in fact it will make things a lot worse.
My advice for the OP, let the wife choose. Pick about 5 different models that you know are good (Dell Latitude, Lenovo Thinkpad, Asus and Toshiba, wife will probably like the look of the Asus) put some pictures into a document and let her pick which one she wants. That way the onus is on her to like it, having her make the decision reduces the likelihood that she'll turn around and blame you for any issues (as she is currently doing with the Mac).
Why stop with traffic violations? The profit motive is just as corrupting for other crimes. ALL fines should be paid back out to the public, or simply destroyed increasing the value of our dollars.
What happens in your county if not this.
A. Police force operates out of the budget (taxation is a part).
B. Police force collects fines.
C. Fine revenue is applied against operating budget.
D. Amount needed from federal/state coffers is lowered.
Dont get me wrong, I know in many SE Asian nations the "fine" goes directly into the pockets of the local police but I didn't think that kind of thing happened in America.
Now my big problem with the idea of fines being nothing but revenue generators is this, if you don't speed or drink drive, you dont get fined. So avoiding the fine is simple, if they wanted to entrap people they wouldn't be so open about how to avoid it.
As I said, I've been to SE Asia, in Thailand the cops will often stop you and invent problems simply to get 500 Baht out of you. The only crime you're really guilty of is having money. That's real revenue generation, I see none of this in western nations.
I assume this was article was submitted by an Australian, and to that person I would say you need to get a little self-respect.
Not how it works in Oz, politicians are the lowest form of life, lower then ameoba, racists and Fremantle Dockers fans.
We like it this way, they tend not to get delusions of grandeur like pollies in the states.
Would you seriously submit an article about the yanky prezo and expect it to be published?
Well that's how you get most articles published. How many articles go "Obama $ACTION $VERB $ISSUE"?
This aside, the headline is completely wrong, the PM or her office did not do this, it's the National Audit Office, who's job it is to Audit governmental data has recommended that webmail services should be blocked. Of course they are behind the times as most govt. depts already do this.
Her Ranga-ness, the Honourable Julia Gillard or the Department of the PM and Cabinet had nothing to do with it.
There in lies the problem, if they ate less maybe we'd end up getting a higher quality of content out of the vicious strugle for food.
The reason the NYT et al. are losing revenue is because the quality of content is equal to the mad semi-political rambling of Bob's Gardening Blog.
The likes of Colbert didn't become respected journalists because Colbert is a competent journalist. He's crap at it and I live in a nation with a decent news agency but because the quality of the legitimate news agencies went down to his level.
Apple owns the OS, you've just licensed it.
Apple owns the software, you've just licensed it.
Apple owns the content distribution, you've just been permitted access.
Apple owns the bootloader key, you're not permitted to have that.
You may as well just accept you've leased the hardware seeing as you cant replace the OS, regardless of what the the law says.
speeding tickets were just revenue collection (which they are)
Wait, punishment for breaking the law is revenue collection?
Speeding tickets in this country (Australia) are the easiest thing to get out of, the hardest thing to get (unless you're going over the speed limit) and speed is a massive factor in road accident fatalities (yes it really is only 10 KPH between the hospital and the morgue).
If you don't speed, you don't get speeding tickets. I don't get what's wrong about that, no doubt you'll respond with some ill thought out rant about how the police are conspiring, don't bother as I've heard the whole thing before and it's bollocks.
Apple never had a monopoly in music players or music downloads.
Yes it does.
Monopoly in economic terms does not mean 100% of the market, it means enough market share to "determine significantly on which terms" others can access that market.
MS has never had 100% of the OS market, but for a long time MS has had enough to prevent others from accessing it. By the same token, Apple has been using it's influence to make non-Apple MP3 players disappear from store shelves. To fix prices at which other stores can sell MP3's and prevent other stores from operating in certain nations (As an Australian the only digital alternative I have to ITMS is piracy).
Sorry but Apple is both a monopoly and abusing that position.
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Their CEO has a background in international business and marketing. Talk about the kiss of death for a technology company.
Has there ever been a successful tech company run by a marketing person? This is an honest question.
Myspace isn't really a tech company, neither is facebook. They are content companies. The tech is just a conduit, means to an end.
That being said, isnt Myspace now owned by Newscorp? That probably has more to do with why they are failing, orders are coming down from Rupert to run the business in a certain way, users don't like so they leave.
If Google broke up into 10 smaller entities, it could increase shareholder value and spur more innovation.
Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, HP, Dell and EMC first.
Yep,
Microsoft's OS and Office divisions.
Apple's hardware and music sales decisions.
These two need to be broken up long before Google and I'm not entirely sure it's absolutely necessary to break these up, however we would benefit from it.
HP, they only have HW and Service, EDS needs to die, not be broken up. I've seen so many managed services contracts mismanaged by EDS.
Dell and EMC don't really have enough market share to be abusive, the only way I can see an EMC breakup being remotely useful is separating VMWare back into it's own entity but I cant see why that would be in any way necessary.
... in scientific research when you see the following:
- Sales and marketing are considered more important professions then doctor or scientist.
- Reality TV is considered an unmissable event.
- Solutions to problems involve cutting budgets to scientific organisations.
- It's popular to advertise your own ignorance.
- It's unpopular to show an aptitude for something.
- Scientific research in one area is halted by a religious minority waving an old book.
- You have to write lists of poorly thought out points to dissuade yourself from the fact science is failing in your own nation.
So if I were an American policy maker I wouldn't freak out because an uneducated populous allows you to openly serve other masters.
For the same reason you go anyplace to get something when you can go somewhere else for the same thing.
Because you like how its done better there.
I consider quoting myself to be a bit pretentious but anyway, I pointed that out in my GP post.
The only organisations who could possibly benefit from pay walls are those "news" organisations who don't provide news as much as a comforting blanket of skewed information to people who don't want their views challenged.
For all products, a large number of people are not using your product exclusively. There is typically a lot of competition. Take washing powder, I've used the same one for years now, but if the price of BioZet shot up, why would I not change to a competing brand?
What would make the "news" industry any different?
Real world numbers of fanboys (lets face it, they are exactly what we are talking about here) are actually very low. Brand loyalty is very weak in the overwhelming majority of people. Few people would ever be above changing a product if it inconvenienced them, the larger the inconvenience the less likely people will return. Look at how Gawker lost readers with a bad UI change, annoy people and they will go elsewhere.
I think any US "news" agency looking to use pay walls will quickly decimate their readership. In Europe and Asia, readership would be obliterated.
This sort of game I've often thought would be a great idea. However it always falls down when I remember that on-line FPS gamers cant really work together. BF Bad Company 2 is about the only example of where you can kind of have team players and that's pretty much only because you get extra points for reviving, assists, resupply and spotting.
The genius of the Times approach is that it actually might work because of the weaknesses. Instead of a pay wall that everyone would be striving to scale, they have a "pay hedge" where passers-by can see over, and view whatever they like. Only if they wish to stay a while and drink the tasty NYT lemonade (or kool-aid if you prefer) need they fork over some money to enter through the purely ornamental gate.
Why would I want to when I can get the same news for free from other sources?
As long as things like the BBC and ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) have a mandate to provide free news pay walls will never work. All they will do is consolidate readers into sources that are not pay walled.
Pay walls will make people close that tab, if they want to know about the article, they'll google it and find a free alternative. The only organisations who could possibly benefit from pay walls are those "news" organisations who don't provide news as much as a comforting blanket of skewed information to people who don't want their views challenged. Although I'd stand to say even Fox News would decimate their readership by putting up a paywall.
I think the same thing about BMWs and Mercedes Benz. However, some people still prefer to drive them.
Never understood this comparison. Mac's use the same off the shelf components as Dell, Asus, Lenovo, HP et al. yet charge twice the price for them. Toyota does not put the same engine inside a Yaris and a Lexus, nor the same brakes, steering column. Do you see where I'm going with this, a Lexus costs more then a Yaris because it costs more to actually make a Lexus, the same is not true of Mac's.
That's like saying man up and go see the new production of Glitter Boys on Broadway and then go get a pedicure.
Well we are talking about Mac users.
I was going to say "I can't test to see if my websites work in IE9." (Note that I no longer care about 6, 7, or 8.)
I agree with that sentiment, perhaps discounting IE 8 is a bit early. Any corporate SOE which hasn't moved to IE 8 by now needs help. Most will not have moved to IE 9 though.
.net and flash are favoured languages of the web dev. Both of which are against the will of Steve.
But you've touched on the real reason why Mac's are unsuitable for web dev and why no web dev I've ever met has used one, things render differently on Mac's. Even Firefox and Chrome cant provide the same experience on Windows or Linux.
Not to mention that
Mac, render different.
Actually, a tax on overly large sound systems could be a bonus.
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They can sit at thier desks and eat donuts.
* doughnuts,
En_AU mate.
Stop playing games made by EA and that feeling goes away.
Seriously, I was going to buy Crysis 2 yesterday, but reading the system requirements it said "an internet connection is required to install and play online". I put the game back on the shelf, my A$80 (US$80.50) back into it's wallet and walked out of the store. Upon reading reveiws such as yours I'm glad, no-one I've spoken to has said anything favourable about the game.
DRM lost a sale, in fact given the general low quality I'm not even sure it's worth the bandwidth to download. I'm sure Cevat Yerli's going to have a big cry about piracy again. He just wont get that his game wont sell because it's buggy and generally the gameplay is pretty meh.
CIA wants them to store it for eternity. FTC wants them to get rid of it ASAP. Make up your mind, The Government!
Yes, the idea that the "gubbermint" is not some massively interconnected single entity which is hell bent on controlling all your lives and actually is a group of loosely connected group of small individual entities with their own needs and agenda's is uncomfortable to some people.
"I can tell that everyone suggesting you just put Windows on the Mac has never been married, or probably had a LT girlfriend but..."
Don't know what kind of women you are dating, but your impression of women as irrational things that should be manipulated so as not to blame you in the future sounds awful.
Care to point out where I actually said that they need to be manipulated.
Secondly women are not logical creatures, if you've ever dated one you'd know this.
All I said is that you'll avoid a lot of pain by letting her choose. You clearly have no idea of how women work, or people in general. If I choose something for another person and they don't like it, it's my fault for choosing it where as if they pick it, they cant simply place blame on you because they had a hand in choosing it. Why not let choice supportive bias work for you?
Every of the 5 makers (not models)
Sigh, you didn't get that I was suggesting brands where the OP could look, rather then making a decision on what laptop he should get.
Hi, the point is over here, you seemed to have missed it. I said the OP should let his wife pick the model, not knowing what specifics the wife would want (screen size et al) I cant recommend specific models, rather specific brands/product lines.
The poster blatantly assume stuff just to disagree
Secondly, care to point it out as all I can see is you having a big cry over keyboards which has nothing to do with this thread.
Finally, the +5 insightful came from the other advice I gave the OP. Give the wife the option, that way she has a reason to be happier with her choice (I.E. let choice supportive bias work for you, not against you by picking a laptop and forcing it on her). You are exactly the kind of person I mean when I say that responders have never had an LT girlfriend, women aren't logical creatures, you cant simply pick the best laptop and expect her to be happy with it. Even if there are no problems with it, she may just invent one because she isn't happy with the colour or placement of the ventilation holes, the problem will be yours because you picked it.
laptop batteries are cheap if bought the smart way, $40, don't walk into a computer store and buy them. 2.5 years?? laptops are good for over 5 years.
Missing the point,
First, there are likely to be other HW issues (real and imagined), just because you beleive that laptops are "good for 5 years" does not magically make it so. Longevity of IT equipment is extremely dependent on the user, with the way some people treat their laptops they are barely good for one year. So once again, making a blanket statement of "good for 5 years" is blatantly stupid.
Secondly and the point you couldn't have missed further is that the wife does not like it. Even if it works perfectly (which it wont, given the quality of Apple's Window's drivers) she will imagine the same problems are there and probably invent new ones. She's decided that she wants a new laptop, END OF STORY. Trying to fight that is more pain then it is worth just to save $500 which would easily be made up in your time not fixing problems (real or imagined).
Yeah, that's probably the best answer of all. Just run Windows on it. Also, I might say "make it dual boot" so that she has something to fall back on when her machine gets trashed and/or unusable... as we all know it will.
Actually it's about the worst answer.
1. the laptop is 2.5 years old. The battery will be almost gone and there will likely be other HW issues developing.
2. the wife does not like it.
I can tell that everyone suggesting you just put Windows on the Mac has never been married, or probably had a LT girlfriend but if the wife wants something, a half arsed solution like slapping Windows on top of it wont help, in fact it will make things a lot worse.
My advice for the OP, let the wife choose. Pick about 5 different models that you know are good (Dell Latitude, Lenovo Thinkpad, Asus and Toshiba, wife will probably like the look of the Asus) put some pictures into a document and let her pick which one she wants. That way the onus is on her to like it, having her make the decision reduces the likelihood that she'll turn around and blame you for any issues (as she is currently doing with the Mac).
Why stop with traffic violations? The profit motive is just as corrupting for other crimes. ALL fines should be paid back out to the public, or simply destroyed increasing the value of our dollars.
What happens in your county if not this.
A. Police force operates out of the budget (taxation is a part).
B. Police force collects fines.
C. Fine revenue is applied against operating budget.
D. Amount needed from federal/state coffers is lowered.
Dont get me wrong, I know in many SE Asian nations the "fine" goes directly into the pockets of the local police but I didn't think that kind of thing happened in America.
Now my big problem with the idea of fines being nothing but revenue generators is this, if you don't speed or drink drive, you dont get fined. So avoiding the fine is simple, if they wanted to entrap people they wouldn't be so open about how to avoid it.
As I said, I've been to SE Asia, in Thailand the cops will often stop you and invent problems simply to get 500 Baht out of you. The only crime you're really guilty of is having money. That's real revenue generation, I see none of this in western nations.
Not how it works in Oz, politicians are the lowest form of life, lower then ameoba, racists and Fremantle Dockers fans.
We like it this way, they tend not to get delusions of grandeur like pollies in the states.
Well that's how you get most articles published. How many articles go "Obama $ACTION $VERB $ISSUE"?
This aside, the headline is completely wrong, the PM or her office did not do this, it's the National Audit Office, who's job it is to Audit governmental data has recommended that webmail services should be blocked. Of course they are behind the times as most govt. depts already do this.
Her Ranga-ness, the Honourable Julia Gillard or the Department of the PM and Cabinet had nothing to do with it.
Reporters need to eat, though.
There in lies the problem, if they ate less maybe we'd end up getting a higher quality of content out of the vicious strugle for food.
The reason the NYT et al. are losing revenue is because the quality of content is equal to the mad semi-political rambling of Bob's Gardening Blog.
The likes of Colbert didn't become respected journalists because Colbert is a competent journalist. He's crap at it and I live in a nation with a decent news agency but because the quality of the legitimate news agencies went down to his level.
How is that Android's problem. The issue is with the US allowing it's telco's to do whatever they wanted.
Besides, there's sideloading which AT&T has been able to do nothing about.
Also where's the AT&T Iphone where I can install applications from any source I like.
The developer of Tiny Wings has no time to port it to Android.
Once again, how is one person/organisation's bad time management an Android problem.
The rights owners to Scrabble got Scrabulous taken down from the App Store? Now you're not even allowed to try to put a Scrabble clone up there.
My point being, if you wanted to create a tetris clone and call it tetris you could publish on your own market or site...
Or you could just install one of the numerous clones from the android market.
Are you blindly swinging at Android or trying to prove that Apple like control is a good thing because I cant tell.
Apple owns the OS, you've just licensed it.
Apple owns the software, you've just licensed it.
Apple owns the content distribution, you've just been permitted access.
Apple owns the bootloader key, you're not permitted to have that.
You may as well just accept you've leased the hardware seeing as you cant replace the OS, regardless of what the the law says.
Wait, punishment for breaking the law is revenue collection?
Speeding tickets in this country (Australia) are the easiest thing to get out of, the hardest thing to get (unless you're going over the speed limit) and speed is a massive factor in road accident fatalities (yes it really is only 10 KPH between the hospital and the morgue).
If you don't speed, you don't get speeding tickets. I don't get what's wrong about that, no doubt you'll respond with some ill thought out rant about how the police are conspiring, don't bother as I've heard the whole thing before and it's bollocks.
Steve Jobs May Be Questioned In iTunes Monopoly Suit
Actually it should be:
Steve Jobs Will Be Questioned In iTunes Monopoly Suit.
This ruling clears up any ambiguity in his attendance.
Apple never had a monopoly in music players or music downloads.
Yes it does.
Monopoly in economic terms does not mean 100% of the market, it means enough market share to "determine significantly on which terms" others can access that market.
MS has never had 100% of the OS market, but for a long time MS has had enough to prevent others from accessing it. By the same token, Apple has been using it's influence to make non-Apple MP3 players disappear from store shelves. To fix prices at which other stores can sell MP3's and prevent other stores from operating in certain nations (As an Australian the only digital alternative I have to ITMS is piracy).
Sorry but Apple is both a monopoly and abusing that position.