I've been using it for a while on Delta (they've had it for at least the last few months). It shows "checked in/on plane/off plane/at pickup" level of granularity. Enough to know if there's a problem...
"Fake Market", just as fake as the absurdly low gasoline tax in the US that promotes the use of gasoline, or the absurdly high subsidies for corn to be grown and then converted into ethenol?
OK, subsidies I get - those are fake. The Government is artificially covering the costs of something to make it cheaper to buy. But a fake market from taxes? What - the Government is not adding enough EXTRA costs to slow down the market? Adding a cost doesn't make something more attractive to buy...
Fully agree we shouldn't fight for ME oil (given that we get precious little of it in the US - domestic production, Canada, Venezuela, and Mexico are where we get our oil). I hope we don't vote in the one Presidential candidate who voted for those idiotic wars in the Middle East (and has shown a tendency to keep FUBARing the region)...
As far as "on domestic land", you mean public land? Like the GP complained about?
Feel lucky. When I was living in Ballard we could only use knocks on logs as that's all the old Norwegian loggers set us up to use. Then in Edmonds, it was even worse - we could only do smoke signals, and with the constant rain and wind and clouds you were lucky to send out one tweet a month!
Hey now, they showed amazing COURAGE for dropping the headphone jack. Maybe not "storm the beach at Normandy" levels of courage, but courage nevertheless! After all, they told us it did...
Just think if you used Whatsapp or Skype, you can chat/share files and photos/real-time video with everyone on about any platform since they support iOS, Android, Windows, and OSX.
If by 10% of the entire installed base you mean damn big, then yes - it is. Meanwhile, Skype and Whatsapp both cover 100% of the ecosystem - Apple and non-Apple. 100% > 10%...
I like Skype. Text, calls, filesharing, screen sharing. And I have SkypeIn phone numbers too, so - like right now - I can receive calls in Costa Rica when you call my local US or Hong Kong numbers. Track me down anywhere in the world I have a connection (WiFi or even 2G). Works on all platforms, is free (other than the SkypeIn numbers that I use for business), and does everything that iMessage does. Except tell me that the other user is using an iPhone (green/blue bubbles) but I guess that peer pressure is stronger for some than others...
Because Skype doesn't exist on all platforms, does group chats/videos, and supports file sharing and the like? Oh, Skype's too old-skool? I guess WhatsApp having PC, web, and iOS/Android versions doesn't count either...
If they rolled out iMessage for Android about 3 years ago, it would have actually worked as planned. Now, with Line (560 million monthly users), Whatsapp (1 billion monthly users), and in China WeChat (800 million monthly users), iMessage doesn't stand a chance. Those three are the big ones, that together make up complete saturation of the market. After all it is estimated there are around 2 billion active smartphones worldwide, and if you add up the numbers above you have more than 100% of the total smartphone market. Apple releasing an Android version of iMessage now won't do much of anything - it's already lost the battle.
It's around 42% or so, although Android still holds the lead. Apple benefits from massive lock-in, and that means less attrition of users.
But with falling sales (see the other/. story), the complete stagnation of the US market (the only place to sell to new customers is in SE Asia, China, and India - which cannot afford iPhones), and the move to support Android, it's clear that Apple reads the future about Android's growth (80% worldwide and rising) and will pivot to a services company to try to stay allive on other platforms.
They haven't moved - the goalpost of actual energy produced when needed is all that matters. If you don't hit that goalpost - you have brownouts/blackouts and not enough power for modern society.
So - a couple of schematic capture programs where you can't even find a job or listing wanting the ability to use it (compared to tens of thousands for Altium, OrCAD and PADS). And for CAD/CAM - NX is not supported on the latest version of OSX. Sorry!
The fact is that Apple systems are designed on Windows - because the tools simply do not exist to do otherwise. And that's from working inside Apple...
As I posted over here, the new TVA nuclear power plant that just went on-line will be about 1/3rd the cost to build as equivalent solar power plants, and will produce power for about 1/10th the cost as well, over a 40 year lifespan. I'm sure we can decommission and store the waste for about $4,000,000,000 (if we're sane, that is). Nuclear simply is lower cost to build per MWh output, and much lower cost to run, as compared to most "green" solutions (hydro is the one that kicks ass).
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So buy Apple products. They Just Work.
Oh wait...
How appropriate: "You are in the Apple Ecosystem. There is no Escape."
Delta seems to do pretty well in the overall ratings. Not the highest, but in the top half...
I've been using it for a while on Delta (they've had it for at least the last few months). It shows "checked in/on plane/off plane/at pickup" level of granularity. Enough to know if there's a problem...
"Fake Market", just as fake as the absurdly low gasoline tax in the US that promotes the use of gasoline, or the absurdly high subsidies for corn to be grown and then converted into ethenol?
OK, subsidies I get - those are fake. The Government is artificially covering the costs of something to make it cheaper to buy. But a fake market from taxes? What - the Government is not adding enough EXTRA costs to slow down the market? Adding a cost doesn't make something more attractive to buy...
C'mon, Hillary's not a businessperson...
Fully agree we shouldn't fight for ME oil (given that we get precious little of it in the US - domestic production, Canada, Venezuela, and Mexico are where we get our oil). I hope we don't vote in the one Presidential candidate who voted for those idiotic wars in the Middle East (and has shown a tendency to keep FUBARing the region)...
As far as "on domestic land", you mean public land? Like the GP complained about?
Feel lucky. When I was living in Ballard we could only use knocks on logs as that's all the old Norwegian loggers set us up to use. Then in Edmonds, it was even worse - we could only do smoke signals, and with the constant rain and wind and clouds you were lucky to send out one tweet a month!
So then we have agreeance on the use of the word...
Hey now, they showed amazing COURAGE for dropping the headphone jack. Maybe not "storm the beach at Normandy" levels of courage, but courage nevertheless! After all, they told us it did...
Just think if you used Whatsapp or Skype, you can chat/share files and photos/real-time video with everyone on about any platform since they support iOS, Android, Windows, and OSX.
If by 10% of the entire installed base you mean damn big, then yes - it is. Meanwhile, Skype and Whatsapp both cover 100% of the ecosystem - Apple and non-Apple. 100% > 10%...
I like Skype. Text, calls, filesharing, screen sharing. And I have SkypeIn phone numbers too, so - like right now - I can receive calls in Costa Rica when you call my local US or Hong Kong numbers. Track me down anywhere in the world I have a connection (WiFi or even 2G). Works on all platforms, is free (other than the SkypeIn numbers that I use for business), and does everything that iMessage does. Except tell me that the other user is using an iPhone (green/blue bubbles) but I guess that peer pressure is stronger for some than others...
Because Skype doesn't exist on all platforms, does group chats/videos, and supports file sharing and the like? Oh, Skype's too old-skool? I guess WhatsApp having PC, web, and iOS/Android versions doesn't count either...
If they rolled out iMessage for Android about 3 years ago, it would have actually worked as planned. Now, with Line (560 million monthly users), Whatsapp (1 billion monthly users), and in China WeChat (800 million monthly users), iMessage doesn't stand a chance. Those three are the big ones, that together make up complete saturation of the market. After all it is estimated there are around 2 billion active smartphones worldwide, and if you add up the numbers above you have more than 100% of the total smartphone market. Apple releasing an Android version of iMessage now won't do much of anything - it's already lost the battle.
No, renamed/rebranded to Pixel. Do try to keep up with technology, this is a tech site after all...
It's around 42% or so, although Android still holds the lead. Apple benefits from massive lock-in, and that means less attrition of users.
But with falling sales (see the other /. story), the complete stagnation of the US market (the only place to sell to new customers is in SE Asia, China, and India - which cannot afford iPhones), and the move to support Android, it's clear that Apple reads the future about Android's growth (80% worldwide and rising) and will pivot to a services company to try to stay allive on other platforms.
Fossil fuel tax breaks? And access to public lands that they have to pay for? Where oh where do those windmills and solar plants go?
They haven't moved - the goalpost of actual energy produced when needed is all that matters. If you don't hit that goalpost - you have brownouts/blackouts and not enough power for modern society.
So - a couple of schematic capture programs where you can't even find a job or listing wanting the ability to use it (compared to tens of thousands for Altium, OrCAD and PADS). And for CAD/CAM - NX is not supported on the latest version of OSX. Sorry!
The fact is that Apple systems are designed on Windows - because the tools simply do not exist to do otherwise. And that's from working inside Apple...
Worse yet - it's a score of scores! Antiquated units are exponentially increasing! RUN FOR THE HILLS!
As I posted over here, the new TVA nuclear power plant that just went on-line will be about 1/3rd the cost to build as equivalent solar power plants, and will produce power for about 1/10th the cost as well, over a 40 year lifespan. I'm sure we can decommission and store the waste for about $4,000,000,000 (if we're sane, that is). Nuclear simply is lower cost to build per MWh output, and much lower cost to run, as compared to most "green" solutions (hydro is the one that kicks ass).
Is that you, Hillary? After all, Hillary and Musk are besties...
If you RTFS, you would have seen this link where CR revoked their recommendation of the model S because of poor reliability.
SOMEONE has to automate the creation of TPS reports...