That article also touches on how drugs get so expensive. We hear all about how many very expensive studies come to nothing and how the one success has to pay for all those failures. But in the case of Centocor, they had the golden opportunity to avoid the big costs by admitting early on that it wasn't all it should be. But they had "go fever" by then and so wasted boatloads of money trying to ram it through approval anyway. Perhaps if they would stop looking at their early studies as obstacles to be overcome and see them as valuable information to be considered instead, they wouldn't have to make up for so many losses when they have a success.
Actually, Centoxin was just a "Stocking Stuffer" (albeit, at a projected $3500 a DOSE, a potentially VERY profitable one!) to Lilly. Lilly actually wanted a DIFFERENT Centocor Drug, ReoPro, which ended up actually being a good heart drug, but as part of the terms of the Centocor/Lilly deal, they agreed to "help" Centocor get Centoxin through the (second) FDA approval process. I actually mostly blame Centoxin's inventor, T. Zimmerman, who, when you start reading some of the published papers BEFORE even the FIRST FDA Study, KNEW that Centoxin was effective in basically ZERO cases (because of the 120 minute time-limit, and because it actually made those with Gram-Positive infections WORSE (or DEAD)); but basically buried those facts in statistics so that her "baby" (Centoxin) would continue to be funded.
In doing a little research for my earlier post, I see that she is STILL working for Centocor; so either they never figured that out (which I did several years ago, in just a day or two's worth of research), OR they simply BURIED their knowledge of that, as well. Perhaps because of that golden "carrot" that they were chasing. But, I would say that it was JUST a little more sinister than simple "gold fever"...
I tried to take a picture of a document, then convert to PDF and upload to a website on an i device. I need to do this for the CRM system my company uses. They explicitly require PDF format.
Please tell me how to do this without pre-loading the PDF. I want to do this exclusively with just one device / phone / computer.
You're a TROLL, and/or a MORON.
A quick look at the iOS App Store (ya know, the one loaded on EVERY "iDevice") turned up a metric ton (I stopped counting at FIFTY) of Apps, some even FREE, to do EXACTLY that thing.
Point 2: If you're on a metered connection or a bad connection (say, in another country), and you just want to quickly download a file where you don't have a handler, how can I download it NOW (say, it's a limited time offer) without downloading another 50MB+ handler?
You haven't given enough information; but I would suggest one of the MANY ftp clients, or use something like GoodReader, which not only can down/up load from USB, peer-peer WiFI (from within the App!), and from/to FTP/SFTP, WebDAV, HTTP, AFP, SMB, DropBox, SkyDrive, GoogleDrive, SugarSync, POP/IMAP Servers. Plus, it has intrinsic "Viewers" for MANY file types, including, but not limited to, PDF and all "MS Office" types, media files, plus you can Open any downloaded files in any App that can handle that file type. It can handle ZIP and RAR archives, and maybe even others. Heck, it will even let you encrypt and decrypt files. And I think the newer versions can even do some cool stuff like PDF Annotations. Pretty cool for 5 dollars US.
Because it's my FUCKING computing device that I paid my FUCKING hard-earned cash for and I don't buy a computing device just so I can be FUCKING locked out of it.
By your definition, assuming you own them, your Microwave oven is a computer; your DVR is a computer, your set-top box is a computer, your TV is likely a computer, your A/V receiver is likely a computer, your dishwasher is a computer, your washing machine and dryer may be a computer, your car has a computer, your car's stereo is a computer, your personal music player is a computer, your blood pressure monitor is a computer, your blood glucose monitor is a computer, your computer monitor is a computer, et FUCKING cetera!
So, why aren't you all butthurt and posting all over the internet that you will never buy a Panasonic Microwave because you are locked-out of "rooting" it?
It's just that some people's attitudes are actually BEHIND the times: Just because a thing is an embedded system, doesn't mean that it automatically is transformed into a GENERAL-PURPOSE computing device, FFS! And just because it has SOME attributes in common WITH General-Purpose computing devices does NOT mean it has to go all the way. For example, if I purchase a high-end audio mixing console, and it allows the installation of software "plug-ins" for audio-processing, does that mean you have to be able to install Linux on it and expect it to run ERP software, or the manufacturer is "locking you out"?
Grow up! Get into the 21st century. "Computers" are EVERYWHERE; but they don't ALL have to be the same, just because they might share SOME (or even most) of the features of a General Purpose Computing Device.
But it's true. They target below average tech users to make it simple and lock out everything, have terrible user-facing business practices (price gouging, price fixing, choice restriction) and generally rely on user ignorance.
Wrong.
They "target" average people, who, for the most part, are not particularly "technical".
They tend to not provide GUI controls for things that are more "dangerous" than useful for most people; but you can almost always still get to those features through the Command-Line
As far as the rest of your baseless rant; it doesn't even rate a response.
Maybe they don't understand why Nardella would ask a question that hasn't been rehearsed thousands of time to ensure it would work?...it's called "preparation".
This. He forgot the first rule of Demos: If it can fuck up, it will.
As an Dynamics NAV Developer, this is a bit frightening to me.Because MS has already started to "Azure-ify" NAV, and I believe that what is happening to AX will trickle-down to NAV (even though they are entirely separate products).
You think? I always saw NAV as the more fun EFP solution, in terms of ways to get data in and out of the system. Some of the NAV concepts, like publishing a table or a class as an instant WebServices endpoint, would have to almost vanish in an Azure-ized version. Once you take all the fun bit out of NAV, is there really any point to the product?
I've never messed around in AX; so I'll take your word that NAV is "more fun". But, MS is slowly but surely pounding the "fun" out of NAV, that's for sure!
Once you take all the fun bit out of NAV, is there really any point to the product?
The "collusion" comes when the FDA, who discovered that Centocor was "cooking the books" on the FIRST study, didn't simply turn over Centocor (and Lilly) to the DoJ, instead of "giving them another chance to LIE better" with a SECOND study.
Worse yet, when my friend was asked to give "informed consent" to administer Centoxin, it was represented as the ONLY POSSIBLE TREATMENT for Septic Shock (however, they never mentioned that it ONLY worked on gram-negative sepsis, and that it HAD to be given within 120 MINUTES of the onset of symptoms, which they already knew YEARS before that study, and which time had LONG passed in his case); however, a quick cruise through the Physician's Desk Reference (PDR) lists SEVERAL antibiotics (such as Amoxicillin/Clavulinate, Clindamycin and Inipenem, to name a few) which are listed as treatment for Sepsis, and then Steroids and other anti-inflammatory drugs are given to reduce the deadly inflammatory response (primarily from the release of Interuekin-1 (IL1), IIRC) (sometimes your immune system is your worst enemy!), to try to stop your body from killing its own organs.
I normally can't stand the pompous, pseudo-intellectualism and general asshattery that permeates throughout the Scientology pseudo-religion and all that are involved therein; but they are spot-on when it comes to the over-prescribing of dangerous psychomeds, and SSRIs are universally at the head of that list.
SSRIs are E-VIL, period. And unless you have one of the VERY few conditions for which they ARE effective, most notably, OCD (but NOT bipolar disorder nor depression!), they should be used sparingly, or even better, not at all.
Speaking of which, I wonder how long it will take for Linux to 'metastasize' within the organization?
First, it fulfills a couple of roles here and there in MSFT. Next, they have to make their own in-house distro. Next, they discover that it's kind of useful for a few internal roles within a few internal departments (esp. budget-starved ones). Next...?
Slowly, surely... ?
They use OS X, too, in a few places (even outside of the Mac Business Unit). Just like Apple runs Windows on some production and test equipment, as well as some other places, I'm sure.
As an example, the premier ERP solution that Microsoft has, Dynamics AX, is currently totally tied to Windows. The next version, AX 7, changes the game completely. The rich client - the bit the user interacts with - is gone, replaced with a browser-agnostic UI (sporting a Windows 8 Start screen look-and-feel, but that's another story). The server and database components are now running on Azure. Windows has effectively vanished from the equation. And this the flagship ERP application.
For another example, look at Microsoft Office.
Microsoft is no longer the company that makes Windows and defends the Windows franchise; it's now services, services, services, and Windows with stand-alone Office etc.
As an Dynamics NAV Developer, this is a bit frightening to me.Because MS has already started to "Azure-ify" NAV, and I believe that what is happening to AX will trickle-down to NAV (even though they are entirely separate products).
Don't show your ignorance. I was at my local Sprint/Radio Shack store on Tuesday. They have done the remodel and the stuff that is no longer going to be sold is on clearance. The big drawer cabinet of parts remains. The Arduino stuff and the pegboards with tools and soldering supplies and bare circuit boards and connectors are still there and not on clearance. There's a divide in the carpeting with two colors, an area with the Sprint and an area with the Radio Shack stuff.
Stick to your hipster Apple Store, if you feel safer, but here in the Midwest there are still Radio Shacks.
Actually, I did NOT know that! That's actually GREAT NEWS!
I knew that Sprint was going to buy at least some of the Radio Shack stores; but had NO idea that they planned on keeping at least SOME of the "hobbyist" stuff!
That's all I ever go into Rat Shack for; so THANK YOU for edumacating me!
None of which matters if the cost and performance / power capabilities of the Atom processor is better than the equivalent ARM processor.
Which would be great, if it were even REMOTELY true.
I'm sure that using Android-anything is below your dignity, so you wouldn't know firsthand, but in actual reality Intel- and ARM-based tablets in the same price class have comparable performance and battery life. Yes, Intel is subsidizing SoC costs in order to push its tech. Yes, there isn't as much choice in Intel-land. But the difference isn't astronomic anymore.
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Although I'm first to admit that I am an unabashed Apple-snob, who washes his hands anytime I've had to so much as touch an Android phone (I kid, really!), I really am NOT a CPU-snob, and so, if Intel can wake up and smell the silicon, so much the better for everyone.
Afterall, since iOS, like OS X, is likely pretty processor-agnostic, if Intel gets to looking better than what Apple can design themselves, they may actually switch to Intel for their mobile products as well. I'm SURE Intel would fall over backwards to give Apple SPECTACULAR pricing on their SoCs, don'tcha know?
I'm pretty sure that most users will not get the patch for a very long time, if ever, due to carriers not caring one bit about updating in a timely manner.
This. It seems that the US carriers rarely send out OS updates for the many security updates. This needs to change.
I see. So even though a Windows tablet is entirely capable of being a full desktop in its own right, to take into an office or hotel and do real work, you think it's that RDP is an adequate replacement.
With an adequate internet connection and possibly a bluetooth keyboard (which would benefit the Windows tablet, too), sure. Done it many times with my iPad. And with the new iPad Pro, it's pretty much a no-brainer.
well over here in Asia the last 2 years saw a big flow back. People like their iphone 4 and iphone 4s, but then they liked the big screens of certain new androids more, with the 6 plus I noticed a good number of people switching back.
So, what that means is that, they ended up HATING Android, and would rather go through the PITA to move BACK to iOS than to suffer with Android for one minute more.
Thanks! That's VERY interesting. Especially since people generally will defend their platform choice, even if they don't really "feel" it.
At the end of the day the phone does what I want: makes calls, does email and text, takes some pics, play my music (although it's crap compared to iOS or Android in that regards) and play a couple of games (the selection is terrible though). It will do for a while though.
Yeah buddy! Sounds like QUITE the upgrade over your iPhone (rolls eyes)...
What a ringing endorsement of Windows Phone (pun intended).
The other thing I like about Android and Windows is that with the phones I choose, I can use an SD card to expand the storage. This is something that's important to me because even a small amount of media (videos, photos, music) can quickly fill up the 16GB iPhone. For $15 I can get a 32 GB MicroSD, and be able to bring way more stuff with me than I could on an iPhone, for a fraction of the price it would cost to upgrade to an iPhone with a reasonable amount of storage.
So what? You're going to carry a wallet-full of SD cards around, just waiting to lose, break or corrupt one (whoops! I guess I shoulda backed that up...)???
SD Storage-expansion SOUNDS like a good idea; but in practice, it really doesn't fit well with the idea of "my phone goes with me everywhere".
And with a 128 GB iPhone being available, do you REALLY need more than that WITH YOU at one time? If so, make it available via a home server over VPN. Honest, that's a MUCH more REASONABLE solution than carrying around a pocket-full of plastic potato chips with precious data on them.
They're made of the same stuff, and assembled by slave labor, let go of the fantasy.
That statement says volumes about what you DON'T understand about Industrial Design, Contract Manufacturing, and Process Control.
Apple's got it; ALL the others don't.
There's a LOT more to creating a well engineered, well manufactured product than stuffing some low-quality parts on a Printed Circuit Board and punching out a case from some shit-grade, thin-ass sheet of Aluminum, or can't-wait-to-crack styrene-type Plastic.
A former boss of mine went to work for Fairchild, and consequently, got to see some of the procurement and material-qualifications processes for, among other tech manufacturers, Apple. He came away completely blown-away at the much-tighter-than-average material specifications, quality tolerances, etc. when dealing with Apple, relative to their "peers". He said it was like specifying stuff for the Aerospace industry, rather than a consumer electronics company.
The laptop stuff from MSI, Gigabyte etc. looks (at least looks) good. They are motherboard vendors, and graphics card vendors too so I trust them more than HP/Dell/Packard Bell etc. at making hardware, and it's not littered with stickers.
But there's a HUGE difference between getting some Contract Manufacturer to stuff a PCB and doing the industrial engineering necessary for an entire PRODUCT.
Apple has a PROVEN track-record in the latter, Gigabyte and MSI, er, don't.
but it really got bad during the financial collapse of 2008.
Ya know what was really strange to me? During the deep recession of late 2008 to 2010, Apple's stock (and marketshare) SURGED, while the rest of the industry TANKED.
As you mentioned, Apple products are not bargain-basement; but for whatever reason, they weathered the economic storms of the Recession with AMAZING performance!
Frankly, it amazed me, too. But facts is facts, and you didn't check them. So hereyougo...
They are still making loads of money with the iPhone - but their global market share is shrinking relentlessly. This is just proof that they have seen the writing in the wall.
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Can you edit a Powerpoint presentation and forward it on to your boss's laptop for him to use at the next sales meeting?
Yes. I counted about NINETEEN Apps (some even FREE), including, shock, Microsoft PowerPoint that purport to do EXACTLY that.
But you should really clue your boss in to Keynote. It obliterates that toy, PowerPoint.
Next?
I just moved my mother from one droid to another, total time 10 minutes.
About the same time (maybe more) than it took to move from my previous iPhone to my new one.
That article also touches on how drugs get so expensive. We hear all about how many very expensive studies come to nothing and how the one success has to pay for all those failures. But in the case of Centocor, they had the golden opportunity to avoid the big costs by admitting early on that it wasn't all it should be. But they had "go fever" by then and so wasted boatloads of money trying to ram it through approval anyway. Perhaps if they would stop looking at their early studies as obstacles to be overcome and see them as valuable information to be considered instead, they wouldn't have to make up for so many losses when they have a success.
Actually, Centoxin was just a "Stocking Stuffer" (albeit, at a projected $3500 a DOSE, a potentially VERY profitable one!) to Lilly. Lilly actually wanted a DIFFERENT Centocor Drug, ReoPro, which ended up actually being a good heart drug, but as part of the terms of the Centocor/Lilly deal, they agreed to "help" Centocor get Centoxin through the (second) FDA approval process. I actually mostly blame Centoxin's inventor, T. Zimmerman, who, when you start reading some of the published papers BEFORE even the FIRST FDA Study, KNEW that Centoxin was effective in basically ZERO cases (because of the 120 minute time-limit, and because it actually made those with Gram-Positive infections WORSE (or DEAD)); but basically buried those facts in statistics so that her "baby" (Centoxin) would continue to be funded.
In doing a little research for my earlier post, I see that she is STILL working for Centocor; so either they never figured that out (which I did several years ago, in just a day or two's worth of research), OR they simply BURIED their knowledge of that, as well. Perhaps because of that golden "carrot" that they were chasing. But, I would say that it was JUST a little more sinister than simple "gold fever"...
I tried to take a picture of a document, then convert to PDF and upload to a website on an i device. I need to do this for the CRM system my company uses. They explicitly require PDF format.
Please tell me how to do this without pre-loading the PDF. I want to do this exclusively with just one device / phone / computer.
You're a TROLL, and/or a MORON.
A quick look at the iOS App Store (ya know, the one loaded on EVERY "iDevice") turned up a metric ton (I stopped counting at FIFTY) of Apps, some even FREE, to do EXACTLY that thing.
Point 2: If you're on a metered connection or a bad connection (say, in another country), and you just want to quickly download a file where you don't have a handler, how can I download it NOW (say, it's a limited time offer) without downloading another 50MB+ handler?
You haven't given enough information; but I would suggest one of the MANY ftp clients, or use something like GoodReader, which not only can down/up load from USB, peer-peer WiFI (from within the App!), and from/to FTP/SFTP, WebDAV, HTTP, AFP, SMB, DropBox, SkyDrive, GoogleDrive, SugarSync, POP/IMAP Servers. Plus, it has intrinsic "Viewers" for MANY file types, including, but not limited to, PDF and all "MS Office" types, media files, plus you can Open any downloaded files in any App that can handle that file type. It can handle ZIP and RAR archives, and maybe even others. Heck, it will even let you encrypt and decrypt files. And I think the newer versions can even do some cool stuff like PDF Annotations. Pretty cool for 5 dollars US.
] So, what was your objection again?
Because it's my FUCKING computing device that I paid my FUCKING hard-earned cash for and I don't buy a computing device just so I can be FUCKING locked out of it.
By your definition, assuming you own them, your Microwave oven is a computer; your DVR is a computer, your set-top box is a computer, your TV is likely a computer, your A/V receiver is likely a computer, your dishwasher is a computer, your washing machine and dryer may be a computer, your car has a computer, your car's stereo is a computer, your personal music player is a computer, your blood pressure monitor is a computer, your blood glucose monitor is a computer, your computer monitor is a computer, et FUCKING cetera!
So, why aren't you all butthurt and posting all over the internet that you will never buy a Panasonic Microwave because you are locked-out of "rooting" it?
It's just that some people's attitudes are actually BEHIND the times: Just because a thing is an embedded system, doesn't mean that it automatically is transformed into a GENERAL-PURPOSE computing device, FFS! And just because it has SOME attributes in common WITH General-Purpose computing devices does NOT mean it has to go all the way. For example, if I purchase a high-end audio mixing console, and it allows the installation of software "plug-ins" for audio-processing, does that mean you have to be able to install Linux on it and expect it to run ERP software, or the manufacturer is "locking you out"?
Grow up! Get into the 21st century. "Computers" are EVERYWHERE; but they don't ALL have to be the same, just because they might share SOME (or even most) of the features of a General Purpose Computing Device.
Yea, because IOS users would never troll Andriod users, it is always the other way around.
Actually, by and large, most iOS users don't even acknowledge Android users. But the other way around...?
But it's true. They target below average tech users to make it simple and lock out everything, have terrible user-facing business practices (price gouging, price fixing, choice restriction) and generally rely on user ignorance.
Wrong.
They "target" average people, who, for the most part, are not particularly "technical".
They tend to not provide GUI controls for things that are more "dangerous" than useful for most people; but you can almost always still get to those features through the Command-Line
As far as the rest of your baseless rant; it doesn't even rate a response.
Maybe they don't understand why Nardella would ask a question that hasn't been rehearsed thousands of time to ensure it would work? ...it's called "preparation".
This. He forgot the first rule of Demos: If it can fuck up, it will.
As an Dynamics NAV Developer, this is a bit frightening to me.Because MS has already started to "Azure-ify" NAV, and I believe that what is happening to AX will trickle-down to NAV (even though they are entirely separate products).
You think? I always saw NAV as the more fun EFP solution, in terms of ways to get data in and out of the system. Some of the NAV concepts, like publishing a table or a class as an instant WebServices endpoint, would have to almost vanish in an Azure-ized version. Once you take all the fun bit out of NAV, is there really any point to the product?
I've never messed around in AX; so I'll take your word that NAV is "more fun". But, MS is slowly but surely pounding the "fun" out of NAV, that's for sure!
Once you take all the fun bit out of NAV, is there really any point to the product?
Well, for one, it keeps me fed... ;-)
Essentially they fabricated a study to support a use of a drug, and the conclusions in that study were not founded .. because it wasn't a real study.
Sorry, but that's pretty much a criminal activity in my books.
But in the collusive atmosphere that is the relationship between Big Pharma and the FDA, it's known as "Just another workday".
Witness the story of the now-rejected Centocor/Lilly Anti-Septic Shock Drug, HA1A, or "Centoxin". My best friend's father died in September, 1992 after being given Centoxin in lieu of the standard treatments for Septic Shock (steriods, aggressive antibiotics). He was part of the "second" Centoxin study (the one that was HALTED by the FDA, due to an unacceptable death rate...)
The "collusion" comes when the FDA, who discovered that Centocor was "cooking the books" on the FIRST study, didn't simply turn over Centocor (and Lilly) to the DoJ, instead of "giving them another chance to LIE better" with a SECOND study.
Worse yet, when my friend was asked to give "informed consent" to administer Centoxin, it was represented as the ONLY POSSIBLE TREATMENT for Septic Shock (however, they never mentioned that it ONLY worked on gram-negative sepsis, and that it HAD to be given within 120 MINUTES of the onset of symptoms, which they already knew YEARS before that study, and which time had LONG passed in his case); however, a quick cruise through the Physician's Desk Reference (PDR) lists SEVERAL antibiotics (such as Amoxicillin/Clavulinate, Clindamycin and Inipenem, to name a few) which are listed as treatment for Sepsis, and then Steroids and other anti-inflammatory drugs are given to reduce the deadly inflammatory response (primarily from the release of Interuekin-1 (IL1), IIRC) (sometimes your immune system is your worst enemy!), to try to stop your body from killing its own organs.
I normally can't stand the pompous, pseudo-intellectualism and general asshattery that permeates throughout the Scientology pseudo-religion and all that are involved therein; but they are spot-on when it comes to the over-prescribing of dangerous psychomeds, and SSRIs are universally at the head of that list.
SSRIs are E-VIL, period. And unless you have one of the VERY few conditions for which they ARE effective, most notably, OCD (but NOT bipolar disorder nor depression!), they should be used sparingly, or even better, not at all.
Disclaimer: IANAD.
Speaking of which, I wonder how long it will take for Linux to 'metastasize' within the organization?
First, it fulfills a couple of roles here and there in MSFT. Next, they have to make their own in-house distro. Next, they discover that it's kind of useful for a few internal roles within a few internal departments (esp. budget-starved ones). Next...?
Slowly, surely... ?
They use OS X, too, in a few places (even outside of the Mac Business Unit). Just like Apple runs Windows on some production and test equipment, as well as some other places, I'm sure.
Your comment would be correct 5 years ago.
Now, cloud services are the thing.
As an example, the premier ERP solution that Microsoft has, Dynamics AX, is currently totally tied to Windows. The next version, AX 7, changes the game completely. The rich client - the bit the user interacts with - is gone, replaced with a browser-agnostic UI (sporting a Windows 8 Start screen look-and-feel, but that's another story). The server and database components are now running on Azure. Windows has effectively vanished from the equation. And this the flagship ERP application.
For another example, look at Microsoft Office.
Microsoft is no longer the company that makes Windows and defends the Windows franchise; it's now services, services, services, and Windows with stand-alone Office etc.
As an Dynamics NAV Developer, this is a bit frightening to me.Because MS has already started to "Azure-ify" NAV, and I believe that what is happening to AX will trickle-down to NAV (even though they are entirely separate products).
Don't show your ignorance. I was at my local Sprint/Radio Shack store on Tuesday. They have done the remodel and the stuff that is no longer going to be sold is on clearance. The big drawer cabinet of parts remains. The Arduino stuff and the pegboards with tools and soldering supplies and bare circuit boards and connectors are still there and not on clearance. There's a divide in the carpeting with two colors, an area with the Sprint and an area with the Radio Shack stuff.
Stick to your hipster Apple Store, if you feel safer, but here in the Midwest there are still Radio Shacks.
Actually, I did NOT know that! That's actually GREAT NEWS!
I knew that Sprint was going to buy at least some of the Radio Shack stores; but had NO idea that they planned on keeping at least SOME of the "hobbyist" stuff!
That's all I ever go into Rat Shack for; so THANK YOU for edumacating me!
None of which matters if the cost and performance / power capabilities of the Atom processor is better than the equivalent ARM processor.
Which would be great, if it were even REMOTELY true.
I'm sure that using Android-anything is below your dignity, so you wouldn't know firsthand, but in actual reality Intel- and ARM-based tablets in the same price class have comparable performance and battery life. Yes, Intel is subsidizing SoC costs in order to push its tech. Yes, there isn't as much choice in Intel-land. But the difference isn't astronomic anymore.
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Although I'm first to admit that I am an unabashed Apple-snob, who washes his hands anytime I've had to so much as touch an Android phone (I kid, really!), I really am NOT a CPU-snob, and so, if Intel can wake up and smell the silicon, so much the better for everyone.
Afterall, since iOS, like OS X, is likely pretty processor-agnostic, if Intel gets to looking better than what Apple can design themselves, they may actually switch to Intel for their mobile products as well. I'm SURE Intel would fall over backwards to give Apple SPECTACULAR pricing on their SoCs, don'tcha know?
Intel knows that desktop is a dwindling market as well as anybody else, so they have been working on mobile SoCs for a while.
No, Intel knows that ARM is whipping their ASS in the Mobile Market, and so is trying to die-shrink themselves into relevance in that market.
As for app support, anything written in Java works effortlessly.
Maybe so; but then, it's still JAVA. Isn't there a REASON why people have FLED from Java on the Desktop? Why repeat history?
Maybe I'm crazy; but, IMHO, C, C++, ObjC and now Swift sounds a LOT better than Java, or even worse, EMULATED ARMs running Dalvik...
I'm pretty sure that most users will not get the patch for a very long time, if ever, due to carriers not caring one bit about updating in a timely manner.
This. It seems that the US carriers rarely send out OS updates for the many security updates. This needs to change.
That change can be had TODAY.
Fixed that link for you.
Really? Looks like a broken link to me. ;-)
I see. So even though a Windows tablet is entirely capable of being a full desktop in its own right, to take into an office or hotel and do real work, you think it's that RDP is an adequate replacement.
With an adequate internet connection and possibly a bluetooth keyboard (which would benefit the Windows tablet, too), sure. Done it many times with my iPad. And with the new iPad Pro, it's pretty much a no-brainer.
well over here in Asia the last 2 years saw a big flow back. People like their iphone 4 and iphone 4s, but then they liked the big screens of certain new androids more, with the 6 plus I noticed a good number of people switching back.
So, what that means is that, they ended up HATING Android, and would rather go through the PITA to move BACK to iOS than to suffer with Android for one minute more.
Thanks! That's VERY interesting. Especially since people generally will defend their platform choice, even if they don't really "feel" it.
At the end of the day the phone does what I want: makes calls, does email and text, takes some pics, play my music (although it's crap compared to iOS or Android in that regards) and play a couple of games (the selection is terrible though). It will do for a while though.
Yeah buddy! Sounds like QUITE the upgrade over your iPhone (rolls eyes)...
What a ringing endorsement of Windows Phone (pun intended).
The other thing I like about Android and Windows is that with the phones I choose, I can use an SD card to expand the storage. This is something that's important to me because even a small amount of media (videos, photos, music) can quickly fill up the 16GB iPhone. For $15 I can get a 32 GB MicroSD, and be able to bring way more stuff with me than I could on an iPhone, for a fraction of the price it would cost to upgrade to an iPhone with a reasonable amount of storage.
So what? You're going to carry a wallet-full of SD cards around, just waiting to lose, break or corrupt one (whoops! I guess I shoulda backed that up...)???
SD Storage-expansion SOUNDS like a good idea; but in practice, it really doesn't fit well with the idea of "my phone goes with me everywhere".
And with a 128 GB iPhone being available, do you REALLY need more than that WITH YOU at one time? If so, make it available via a home server over VPN. Honest, that's a MUCH more REASONABLE solution than carrying around a pocket-full of plastic potato chips with precious data on them.
They're made of the same stuff, and assembled by slave labor, let go of the fantasy.
That statement says volumes about what you DON'T understand about Industrial Design, Contract Manufacturing, and Process Control.
Apple's got it; ALL the others don't.
There's a LOT more to creating a well engineered, well manufactured product than stuffing some low-quality parts on a Printed Circuit Board and punching out a case from some shit-grade, thin-ass sheet of Aluminum, or can't-wait-to-crack styrene-type Plastic.
A former boss of mine went to work for Fairchild, and consequently, got to see some of the procurement and material-qualifications processes for, among other tech manufacturers, Apple. He came away completely blown-away at the much-tighter-than-average material specifications, quality tolerances, etc. when dealing with Apple, relative to their "peers". He said it was like specifying stuff for the Aerospace industry, rather than a consumer electronics company.
The laptop stuff from MSI, Gigabyte etc. looks (at least looks) good. They are motherboard vendors, and graphics card vendors too so I trust them more than HP/Dell/Packard Bell etc. at making hardware, and it's not littered with stickers.
But there's a HUGE difference between getting some Contract Manufacturer to stuff a PCB and doing the industrial engineering necessary for an entire PRODUCT.
Apple has a PROVEN track-record in the latter, Gigabyte and MSI, er, don't.
but it really got bad during the financial collapse of 2008.
Ya know what was really strange to me? During the deep recession of late 2008 to 2010, Apple's stock (and marketshare) SURGED, while the rest of the industry TANKED.
As you mentioned, Apple products are not bargain-basement; but for whatever reason, they weathered the economic storms of the Recession with AMAZING performance!
Frankly, it amazed me, too. But facts is facts, and you didn't check them. So here you go...
They are still making loads of money with the iPhone - but their global market share is shrinking relentlessly. This is just proof that they have seen the writing in the wall.
ORLY?
Then how do you explain THIS, or THIS?