It has more than 100 million active users, about 60 percent of whom are aged 13 to 24, making it an attractive way for advertisers to reach millennials.
And by the time the investors figure out that those people don't have much disposable income, the current owners will have all cashed out.
Oh, and just keep an eye on how much money various banks will make out of this.
I currently have a Galaxy S4, which has a 5" screen and that's as big as I need, so I'm a bit out of luck I suppose.
Sony are out of the question. They have taken money from me in the past and given me crappy rubbish that fails just out of warranty. I've been told their phones are quite good, but I have personal boycott going on that I'm not willing to forgo.
We restricted attachment sizes when some numpty emailed 30 colleagues a 30MB zip of his holiday snaps, and they all spent the afternoon replying all with the zip still attached.
I'm at a severe loss as to how Amazon is going to make this affordable and simultaneously worthwhile for people to pursue as gainful employment.
Amazon are going to exploit someone. Either the customer or the tradesmen (probably the tradesmen).
As an aside, I had a lift in an Uber car last week, and asked the driver how he liked it. He said it was his last shift, as he couldn't make any money out of it.
Seriously? Have they ever thought of not publishing the RSS feed then?...
The ignorant PHB who decided this probably has not, no. The stupid PHB would also never think of wandering over to the CBC IT department and asking one of the tech people how this all works either, because they probably think of it as a 'Business" thing.
Don't forget, the chances that the person who is in charge actually has any clue is about 50/50.
I base that on 30 years of working in the private sector, I don't imagine the ratio is much better at CBC.
I have a work iPhone 6 and a personal Samsung Galaxy S4. The Samsung is 3 years old and works fine. If I was to sell it second hand I might get $50 for it.
The iPhone would sell for at least $500 (local dollars, not US).
The old Samsung does everything the iPhone does. I noticed the Apple marketing for the iPhone 7 recently, and the things the iPhone 7 camera can do I have been able to do on my Samsung for the last three years. (Not that I do, they're mostly gimmicks).
All of my wife's friends were Apple users until the last 12 months or so, now my wife is the last iPhone user in her group of friends. That's hardly a scientific poll or anything, but white, relatively wealthy middle class women used to be the core iPhone buyer.
Just my two cents worth really, make of it what you will.
Maybe, just maybe, we should stop basing politics on feelings/desires and focus on what works.
But then we would be Rightist.
Not necessarily, Sweden works pretty well and I'm not sure many Americans would call them rightists.
I live in a Western country friendly to the US. The Governing party here is pretty right-wing by our standards, but would be considered dangerously communist in the US.
It sounds a lot like a software firewall I used many years ago on my Windows 98 box. It worked pretty well, and didn't seem to slow things down too much, (I think the box had 64 MB of RAM).
One fine day the programme prompted me to update, which I did, and it started displaying all sorts of ads and nags to purchase the "Premium Version".
It took about a week for me to get sick of that nonsense.
I'm trying to remember what it was called, but the name has slipped my mind.
it sounds like plain extortion. Personally I would go to the local provincial or federal authorities, and if they say it's illegal, demand that they press charges for extortion.
I don't live in Canada, but here in New Zealand we have this thing called Private Prosecution where anyone can take a criminal prosecution against anyone else.
The fact that the prosecutor has to pay their own expenses makes it a rare occurrence, but when a local mayoral candidate was accused of cheating on his electoral expenses and the Attorney General declined to take the case, a private citizen did us all a favour and took over. It ended with a loss on appeal, but the idea was a great one IMHO: This gives some information.
I see the AG did eventually take over the case, but in a pretty half-hearted manner.
The point I'm trying to make is that taking an extortion case against a copyright owner in these circumstances ought to be at least possible, and would be a lot of fun.
I'm not very smart and nearly fell for one of these scams a few years ago.
The man said my wife owed money on a speeding fine (which sounded plausible) and it wasn't until he wanted my credit card details that I even thought about it.
He then threated her with arrest, which I agreed was the best course of action, but about 15 years later, she has yet to be arrested.
My first thought was that Marni Walden, the executive vice president of business innovation for Verizon has no business innovation left, so is resorting to spending boatloads of money on buying stuff in a bid to gain "market share" or whatever.
This is what C level idiots do when they have no idea. Also just because Marni thinks the brand has some value (or is at least saying that in public) does not make it true, or even believable.
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Why would the name SyFy appeal to women?
It wouldn't. Marketing people are idiots.
Interestingly replacement batteries seem to be getting cheaper, although they might start to be hard to get soon.
It has more than 100 million active users, about 60 percent of whom are aged 13 to 24, making it an attractive way for advertisers to reach millennials.
And by the time the investors figure out that those people don't have much disposable income, the current owners will have all cashed out.
Oh, and just keep an eye on how much money various banks will make out of this.
That might just be the perfect phone.
Not that it's a deal breaker, if I really want to take a photo I use my DSLR.
I currently have a Galaxy S4, which has a 5" screen and that's as big as I need, so I'm a bit out of luck I suppose.
Sony are out of the question. They have taken money from me in the past and given me crappy rubbish that fails just out of warranty. I've been told their phones are quite good, but I have personal boycott going on that I'm not willing to forgo.
what I would like from my next phone is:
I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get any of that.
We restricted attachment sizes when some numpty emailed 30 colleagues a 30MB zip of his holiday snaps, and they all spent the afternoon replying all with the zip still attached.
I'm at a severe loss as to how Amazon is going to make this affordable and simultaneously worthwhile for people to pursue as gainful employment.
Amazon are going to exploit someone. Either the customer or the tradesmen (probably the tradesmen).
As an aside, I had a lift in an Uber car last week, and asked the driver how he liked it. He said it was his last shift, as he couldn't make any money out of it.
Seriously? Have they ever thought of not publishing the RSS feed then?...
The ignorant PHB who decided this probably has not, no. The stupid PHB would also never think of wandering over to the CBC IT department and asking one of the tech people how this all works either, because they probably think of it as a 'Business" thing.
Don't forget, the chances that the person who is in charge actually has any clue is about 50/50.
I base that on 30 years of working in the private sector, I don't imagine the ratio is much better at CBC.
I think that's largely correct. My wife uses an iPhone because it's easy, and she is also a computer illiterate.
Oh, how Slashdot has gone to hell.
The above exchange might be the straw that broke the camel's back for me. Stupid name calling is about all this place has left.
Such a shame.
The old Samsung does everything the iPhone does. I noticed the Apple marketing for the iPhone 7 recently, and the things the iPhone 7 camera can do I have been able to do on my Samsung for the last three years. (Not that I do, they're mostly gimmicks).
All of my wife's friends were Apple users until the last 12 months or so, now my wife is the last iPhone user in her group of friends. That's hardly a scientific poll or anything, but white, relatively wealthy middle class women used to be the core iPhone buyer.
Just my two cents worth really, make of it what you will.
Maybe, just maybe, we should stop basing politics on feelings/desires and focus on what works. But then we would be Rightist.
Not necessarily, Sweden works pretty well and I'm not sure many Americans would call them rightists.
I live in a Western country friendly to the US. The Governing party here is pretty right-wing by our standards, but would be considered dangerously communist in the US.
It sounds a lot like a software firewall I used many years ago on my Windows 98 box. It worked pretty well, and didn't seem to slow things down too much, (I think the box had 64 MB of RAM).
One fine day the programme prompted me to update, which I did, and it started displaying all sorts of ads and nags to purchase the "Premium Version". It took about a week for me to get sick of that nonsense.
I'm trying to remember what it was called, but the name has slipped my mind.
I can't imagine a lot of businesses using Windows 10
I work for a pretty large company (about 40,000 computers) and we are in the process of testing Win10, in fact my company laptop has it installed.
I believe the plan is to go all out on Win 10 next year.
We make some odd decisions though, when I started here a few years ago I had to eliminate the last of the Vista machines on the network.
it sounds like plain extortion. Personally I would go to the local provincial or federal authorities, and if they say it's illegal, demand that they press charges for extortion.
I don't live in Canada, but here in New Zealand we have this thing called Private Prosecution where anyone can take a criminal prosecution against anyone else. The fact that the prosecutor has to pay their own expenses makes it a rare occurrence, but when a local mayoral candidate was accused of cheating on his electoral expenses and the Attorney General declined to take the case, a private citizen did us all a favour and took over. It ended with a loss on appeal, but the idea was a great one IMHO: This gives some information.
I see the AG did eventually take over the case, but in a pretty half-hearted manner.
The point I'm trying to make is that taking an extortion case against a copyright owner in these circumstances ought to be at least possible, and would be a lot of fun.
The ANZ has adopted Apple Pay because it can use it as a marketing tool and a way to get customers...
And in a year's time when it is still the only Aussie bank with Apple pay, it will refuse to pay Apple a cent.
Source: Lives in New Zealand. Has to deal with the big 4 Aussie banks.
Where I live the smallest coin is 10c, our $1 and $2 notes became coins 20 years ago, and the rest of the banknotes are made out of plastic.
This is a company that can't even kill Microsoft.
The man said my wife owed money on a speeding fine (which sounded plausible) and it wasn't until he wanted my credit card details that I even thought about it.
He then threated her with arrest, which I agreed was the best course of action, but about 15 years later, she has yet to be arrested.
Judging by the decisions he makes in his private life, he might be keen.
My first thought was that Marni Walden, the executive vice president of business innovation for Verizon has no business innovation left, so is resorting to spending boatloads of money on buying stuff in a bid to gain "market share" or whatever.
This is what C level idiots do when they have no idea. Also just because Marni thinks the brand has some value (or is at least saying that in public) does not make it true, or even believable.
Telstra sent everyone on it's network an ad SMS and charged them all for it...
This happened in New Zealand too, also by the formerly publically owned former monopoly.
Hillery voter? Wot me? I don't live in the US, so no. Not even a sympathiser really, although the other option is just as bad as far as I can see.