Apple paid $100 million to creative for the rights to the music interface that Apple copied. Revisionist history doesn't work. But I get it, you're an Apple-lyte...
So when you make a product, you don't necessarily build it? Make is a verb, typically associated/used in terms of construction, building, physically realizing something. Like a cellphone. Pretty hard to "make" a cellphone without turning one screw or soldering one component...
Samsung builds their own phones. Foxconn builds Apple's phones. Apple knows how to work with an OEM/ODM to order hundreds of milions of phones, but Foxconn knows HOW to actually build them - because they do.
The XPS15 runs for 11 hours - are you claiming the MBP runs for 22 hours? And if Apple didn't use LPDDR couldn't they do 16 GB per stick? So it's Apple - not Intel - who is to blame here.
iPods: see Apple paying Creative millions and millions for stealing the idea and even violating patents. Music store? Napster and others were selling well before iTunes. DRM-free music? Hello Napster! Everything you've talked about from Apple was literally created elsewhere, and refined nicely by others but weren't "shiny" so we get Apple! And as far as font scaling - you mean like iOS - FOR YEARS - required a fixed resolution for all iOS devices (and even made their bigger screens an even integer of the base resolution) because they couldn't scale? At least TrueType is supported across the Microsoft world... Apple's trying to push (yet again) a proprietary format to try to lock in its ever-shrinking marketshare...
On most laptops and desktops from other manufacturers, you can select from a wide variety of CPUs. And if you want to upgrade your CPU in your non-Apple desktop, there are a massive number of standard-sized motherboards you can use to add whatever functionality you'd like. How can you upgrade that Mac Pro, or iMac?
Ahh, so APPLE chose to use RAM that cannot be upgraded because it meets their specific niche. It's not the Intel processor, it's APPLE'S choice of LPDDR memory that's the culprit? I mean - other laptops can go beyond 16 GB (Dell's XPS15, for example can run at 32 GB - and it's not a big laptop at all). So which is it - is it because "Intel can't create a new CPU without changing the socket so older motherboards won't work with it" or is it because the "RAM Apple uses for its low power and battery based systems are maxed out"?
Ahh, so the defense is "yeah, Apple didn't invent it, they just polished it up". Which was the GP's claim. The first touchscreen phone was around 15 years before Apple "invented" it. Apple doesn't invent - they simply try to refine (oftentimes terribly - puck mouse?) and then sell shiny to their flock...
For Microsoft: Other than mainstreaming the tablet nearly a decade before Apple? Or pioneering immersive video conferencing in the mid 2000s with RoundTable? Or laser mice? Or real-time multi-language translation? Or tool suites? Sharepoint?
For Google: Other than revolutionizing how search is done? Google Glass? Autocomplete? Google Translate? Self driving cars? Google Earth? WIFI balloons?
Now what about Apple? Other than rounded corners, of course...
No other computer manufacturer seems to have issues with Intels plethora of sockets. I'd rather the socket change to allow new features/capabilities in the CPU than restrict myself to much older, much more limited technologies. If Apple can't keep up - maybe it's an indictment of the quality of their PCB/computer engineering prowess?
Maybe not every year but quite often (2014, 2010, and 2008 being the last 3). Likewise with most islands in the Caribbean. Not really a surprise. What WAS a surprise was about 12 years without a major hurricane landfall in the US. But that was the exception, as anyone living long-term in Florida/Alabama/Louisiana/Texas/Mississippi would tell you...
Ahh yes, the "community"! We saw how that worked in the USSR, China, North Korea, and now Venezuela! The "community" - the people - need to own the means of production! But since it's so hard to get everyone together to agree, we'll just let the elected officials do it all - in the name of The People, the "community". And they will run things, and decide which industry to nationalize.
And I do not dispute the Nazis were fascists! You're missing the point though (or ignoring it because it's too uncomfortable for you) - true socialism (communism) REQUIRES fascism to work. Fascism is the ONLY way to implement socialism/communism as you define it here. Socialism/communism is the opposite of capitalism. And while yes, you could mix fascism and capitalism, that is relatively rare. But the mixing of fascism and socialism/communism is REQUIRED for the latter to work. Fascism and socialism/communism are two sides of the same coin: socialism/communism the economic model, and fascism the REQUIRED means of implementing the model.
Or, if you were committed to a good design, you'd run through user tests and discover people LIKE putting their phones in their back pocket and then design your phone so it would survive that treatment. Don't blame the customer for what they would assume would be normal handling and care - because all other phones can do it...
Ah yes, trying to get the identities of people engaged in actual riots, assault and battery, and property damage, and doing so via Court actions. Yes, that's trampling free speech all right! Just the same as "don't post anything we deem hateful or we'll fine you"!
Please list the ways other than libel or slander (which means actual measurable, quantifiable actual damages, not just hurt feelings) that you can get into legal difficulties with speech. Yes, sometimes "inciting violence" is tagged on, but I've yet to see that without ACTUAL violence happening near-simultaneously.
AFAIK, modern Christianity and Judaism doesn't criminalize homosexuality. It may consider it immoral and unnatural, but not illegal. Islam, on the other hand, considers it a mortal offense worthy of stoning or being tossed off a high building.
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Still leaving 700+ getting built.
China is also the largest builder of new coal plants... Just sayin...
So - not twice battery life? Meaning - you were wrong?
Apple paid $100 million to creative for the rights to the music interface that Apple copied. Revisionist history doesn't work. But I get it, you're an Apple-lyte...
So when you make a product, you don't necessarily build it? Make is a verb, typically associated/used in terms of construction, building, physically realizing something. Like a cellphone. Pretty hard to "make" a cellphone without turning one screw or soldering one component...
Samsung builds their own phones. Foxconn builds Apple's phones. Apple knows how to work with an OEM/ODM to order hundreds of milions of phones, but Foxconn knows HOW to actually build them - because they do.
The XPS15 runs for 11 hours - are you claiming the MBP runs for 22 hours? And if Apple didn't use LPDDR couldn't they do 16 GB per stick? So it's Apple - not Intel - who is to blame here.
iPods: see Apple paying Creative millions and millions for stealing the idea and even violating patents. Music store? Napster and others were selling well before iTunes. DRM-free music? Hello Napster! Everything you've talked about from Apple was literally created elsewhere, and refined nicely by others but weren't "shiny" so we get Apple! And as far as font scaling - you mean like iOS - FOR YEARS - required a fixed resolution for all iOS devices (and even made their bigger screens an even integer of the base resolution) because they couldn't scale? At least TrueType is supported across the Microsoft world... Apple's trying to push (yet again) a proprietary format to try to lock in its ever-shrinking marketshare...
On most laptops and desktops from other manufacturers, you can select from a wide variety of CPUs. And if you want to upgrade your CPU in your non-Apple desktop, there are a massive number of standard-sized motherboards you can use to add whatever functionality you'd like. How can you upgrade that Mac Pro, or iMac?
Ahh, so APPLE chose to use RAM that cannot be upgraded because it meets their specific niche. It's not the Intel processor, it's APPLE'S choice of LPDDR memory that's the culprit? I mean - other laptops can go beyond 16 GB (Dell's XPS15, for example can run at 32 GB - and it's not a big laptop at all). So which is it - is it because "Intel can't create a new CPU without changing the socket so older motherboards won't work with it" or is it because the "RAM Apple uses for its low power and battery based systems are maxed out"?
Making a useable, useful touchscreen UI and selling it in the hundreds of millions - that's what's hard.
Absolutely! Just ask Samsung and Foxconn...
Ahh, so the defense is "yeah, Apple didn't invent it, they just polished it up". Which was the GP's claim. The first touchscreen phone was around 15 years before Apple "invented" it. Apple doesn't invent - they simply try to refine (oftentimes terribly - puck mouse?) and then sell shiny to their flock...
For Microsoft: Other than mainstreaming the tablet nearly a decade before Apple? Or pioneering immersive video conferencing in the mid 2000s with RoundTable? Or laser mice? Or real-time multi-language translation? Or tool suites? Sharepoint?
For Google: Other than revolutionizing how search is done? Google Glass? Autocomplete? Google Translate? Self driving cars? Google Earth? WIFI balloons?
Now what about Apple? Other than rounded corners, of course...
No other computer manufacturer seems to have issues with Intels plethora of sockets. I'd rather the socket change to allow new features/capabilities in the CPU than restrict myself to much older, much more limited technologies. If Apple can't keep up - maybe it's an indictment of the quality of their PCB/computer engineering prowess?
Ike was a cat 2 hurricane when it made US landfall. Yes, a hurricane, but not a major (3+) hurricane - as I stated.
Maybe not every year but quite often (2014, 2010, and 2008 being the last 3). Likewise with most islands in the Caribbean. Not really a surprise. What WAS a surprise was about 12 years without a major hurricane landfall in the US. But that was the exception, as anyone living long-term in Florida/Alabama/Louisiana/Texas/Mississippi would tell you...
Ahh yes, the "community"! We saw how that worked in the USSR, China, North Korea, and now Venezuela! The "community" - the people - need to own the means of production! But since it's so hard to get everyone together to agree, we'll just let the elected officials do it all - in the name of The People, the "community". And they will run things, and decide which industry to nationalize.
And I do not dispute the Nazis were fascists! You're missing the point though (or ignoring it because it's too uncomfortable for you) - true socialism (communism) REQUIRES fascism to work. Fascism is the ONLY way to implement socialism/communism as you define it here. Socialism/communism is the opposite of capitalism. And while yes, you could mix fascism and capitalism, that is relatively rare. But the mixing of fascism and socialism/communism is REQUIRED for the latter to work. Fascism and socialism/communism are two sides of the same coin: socialism/communism the economic model, and fascism the REQUIRED means of implementing the model.
Reminds me not to taunt Happy Fun Ball...
Or, if you were committed to a good design, you'd run through user tests and discover people LIKE putting their phones in their back pocket and then design your phone so it would survive that treatment. Don't blame the customer for what they would assume would be normal handling and care - because all other phones can do it...
Ah yes, trying to get the identities of people engaged in actual riots, assault and battery, and property damage, and doing so via Court actions. Yes, that's trampling free speech all right! Just the same as "don't post anything we deem hateful or we'll fine you"!
What legal actions are being taken over the protests of the National anthem? Who's being arrested or fined?
Please list the ways other than libel or slander (which means actual measurable, quantifiable actual damages, not just hurt feelings) that you can get into legal difficulties with speech. Yes, sometimes "inciting violence" is tagged on, but I've yet to see that without ACTUAL violence happening near-simultaneously.
AFAIK, modern Christianity and Judaism doesn't criminalize homosexuality. It may consider it immoral and unnatural, but not illegal. Islam, on the other hand, considers it a mortal offense worthy of stoning or being tossed off a high building.
Standing in front of a Jewish shop and shouting: 'Death to all Jews!' is a crime. Writing the same thing on facebook is a crime, too.
Then why are sales of the Koran allowed throughout Europe?
Define hate speech, please.