Overpriced compared to what? Compared to Microsoft? Apple has year-over-year EPS growth numbers that are over twice as high as Microsoft's. Stock valuation is based on expected future earnings growth. If you said that Google or Amazon are way over-priced compared to Microsoft you would have a legitimate argument since their earnings growth thus far has only matched Microsoft yet their P/E ratio paints a different picture. Let's focus on facts instead of vague hand-waving.
What has always irked me is that these same people, who don't care about picture quality, always insist on buying 1080p 240Hz TVs when a 720p 60Hz one would do fine for their needs.
After downloading the app, before you give it back to your kid, just go in and turn on the restrictions. You can disable the app store, in-app purchases, etc. It's a bit more work, but it gets around the 15 minute authorization issue.
Amazon wants to trumpet download numbers for their appstore app for some press release, so they let foreign users download the app whether or not they can actually access any content.
Isn't Google just delaying the source release until the release after Honeycomb which will combine the tablet version with the handset version? What's the big deal? If people are paranoid about running Honeycomb without seeing the source then they can wait until the next release.
Are you willing to stop increasing your consumption of energy? As consumption continues to rise what alternatives do we have? Nuclear energy is a necessary evil. Other alternative energy sources such as solar and wind just don't have the output and reliability that nuclear has.
This brings up the issue, will there be apps sold that are marked iPad2 required?
The Unreal Engine has no problem scaling to whatever hardware you give it. Compared to various PC configurations this should be much simpler. I foresee in the future there may be apps marked iPad2+ required when the hardware performance gets too disparate, but probably not between iPad and iPad2.
Opera ignores the parental controls in OS X. I would say that warrants some type of warning. I arrived at this conclusion immediately after seeing the 17+ label.
Sure, Google is still king of search, but it hasn't been able to get much traction in other areas (e.g. social networking). The article was written from an investment point of view not technological. As an investment GOOG has been disappointing for the past few years compared to other tech leaders. So this begs the question whether or not its "best days", as an investment, are past. It still remains to be seen whether Android will be able to contribute significantly to the company's revenue growth. The key word is growth, MS still continues to make tons of money, but their future growth prospects remain dubious which is reflected in their stock price.
RIM could have done that: Build on Android, add all the RIM messaging magic and some security features: Hit.
Wouldn't that mean that RIM would have to open source their changes if they decided to use Android because of GPL? I don't think they want to divulge their secrets.
Google going extremely strong? Looking at the stock price, its performance is only on par with HP in the last 5 years; yet you call HP a "degraded" company. Look at Amazon, Oracle, Apple, all of these companies have done much better in the same time period. It takes a visionary leader for a company to be great, engineer-driven is not the key ingredient.
I come to Slashdot to debunk sensational headlines. I value any comments that bring clarity to the issue, not those that just parrot the sensationalism.
But it implies that all apps can be hacked, which is clearly misleading. Saying "Some Mac App Store Apps Already Hacked" would be more accurate, but much less sensational.
Dividends are usually not guaranteed either (unless we're talking about preferreds), so I don't see why anyone who thinks the stock market is a "house of cards" would feel safer holding dividend paying stocks. By your logic aren't you still a chump for giving a lump sum of money away so that it can be slowly given back to you in small uncertain increments?
Sorry, but I don't trust having all my apps run from the web. Just the other day I was on a tight deadline trying to print a document from Docs when it crapped out on me refusing to print. It was late at night, so it's understandable if they needed to do some server maintenance. Or possibly it wasn't even Google's fault because there may have been issues with my ISP, but either way I was helpless to do anything. I would prefer to having things run locally and automatically sync to the cloud when possible.
Apple trades at around 20 times its earnings, similar to Google and Oracle which are both market leaders as well. Nothing out of the ordinary here. What doesn't seem to make sense is why a company like Amazon trades at 60 times its earnings. Is its growth potential 3 times greater than Apple?
The dip is caused by them now selling at a loss (which is pretty stupid, because if they hung onto it they could probably sell at a profit in six months or less).
Or it could be other investors selling because of the spike. Isn't it a bit presumptuous to assume that they're the same people selling at a loss?
Open market apps are probably lower quality when it comes to testing. So "freezes, crashes and data loss" are pretty common. If you're use to using freeware you're use to this type of behavior. Isn't the saying, "you get what you pay for"?
How do you propose to filter out the "useless and annoying" apps? When Apple tried to do some filtering people called them draconian and not being transparent with the review process. Please define "useless and annoying" such that both consumers and developers would be satisfied.
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Overpriced compared to what? Compared to Microsoft? Apple has year-over-year EPS growth numbers that are over twice as high as Microsoft's. Stock valuation is based on expected future earnings growth. If you said that Google or Amazon are way over-priced compared to Microsoft you would have a legitimate argument since their earnings growth thus far has only matched Microsoft yet their P/E ratio paints a different picture. Let's focus on facts instead of vague hand-waving.
What has always irked me is that these same people, who don't care about picture quality, always insist on buying 1080p 240Hz TVs when a 720p 60Hz one would do fine for their needs.
After downloading the app, before you give it back to your kid, just go in and turn on the restrictions. You can disable the app store, in-app purchases, etc. It's a bit more work, but it gets around the 15 minute authorization issue.
Amazon wants to trumpet download numbers for their appstore app for some press release, so they let foreign users download the app whether or not they can actually access any content.
Isn't Google just delaying the source release until the release after Honeycomb which will combine the tablet version with the handset version? What's the big deal? If people are paranoid about running Honeycomb without seeing the source then they can wait until the next release.
Aren't there lawsuits against iOS too? Patent lawsuits are just a cost of doing business these days.
Are you willing to stop increasing your consumption of energy? As consumption continues to rise what alternatives do we have? Nuclear energy is a necessary evil. Other alternative energy sources such as solar and wind just don't have the output and reliability that nuclear has.
This brings up the issue, will there be apps sold that are marked iPad2 required?
The Unreal Engine has no problem scaling to whatever hardware you give it. Compared to various PC configurations this should be much simpler. I foresee in the future there may be apps marked iPad2+ required when the hardware performance gets too disparate, but probably not between iPad and iPad2.
Opera ignores the parental controls in OS X. I would say that warrants some type of warning. I arrived at this conclusion immediately after seeing the 17+ label.
Sure, Google is still king of search, but it hasn't been able to get much traction in other areas (e.g. social networking). The article was written from an investment point of view not technological. As an investment GOOG has been disappointing for the past few years compared to other tech leaders. So this begs the question whether or not its "best days", as an investment, are past. It still remains to be seen whether Android will be able to contribute significantly to the company's revenue growth. The key word is growth, MS still continues to make tons of money, but their future growth prospects remain dubious which is reflected in their stock price.
RIM could have done that: Build on Android, add all the RIM messaging magic and some security features: Hit.
Wouldn't that mean that RIM would have to open source their changes if they decided to use Android because of GPL? I don't think they want to divulge their secrets.
No one knows exactly how Apple will name the product until it's released, so calling it iPad 2 is a convenient way to refer to the next revision.
Google going extremely strong? Looking at the stock price, its performance is only on par with HP in the last 5 years; yet you call HP a "degraded" company. Look at Amazon, Oracle, Apple, all of these companies have done much better in the same time period. It takes a visionary leader for a company to be great, engineer-driven is not the key ingredient.
Funny, and you think the Chinese government will let you use any encryption you like. Sorry, but only dissidents use strong encryption...
I come to Slashdot to debunk sensational headlines. I value any comments that bring clarity to the issue, not those that just parrot the sensationalism.
But it implies that all apps can be hacked, which is clearly misleading. Saying "Some Mac App Store Apps Already Hacked" would be more accurate, but much less sensational.
Dividends are usually not guaranteed either (unless we're talking about preferreds), so I don't see why anyone who thinks the stock market is a "house of cards" would feel safer holding dividend paying stocks. By your logic aren't you still a chump for giving a lump sum of money away so that it can be slowly given back to you in small uncertain increments?
Sorry, but I don't trust having all my apps run from the web. Just the other day I was on a tight deadline trying to print a document from Docs when it crapped out on me refusing to print. It was late at night, so it's understandable if they needed to do some server maintenance. Or possibly it wasn't even Google's fault because there may have been issues with my ISP, but either way I was helpless to do anything. I would prefer to having things run locally and automatically sync to the cloud when possible.
How is the lag on the bluetooth Senns? I've read that there are audio lags when watching video with bluetooth headphones.
Apple trades at around 20 times its earnings, similar to Google and Oracle which are both market leaders as well. Nothing out of the ordinary here. What doesn't seem to make sense is why a company like Amazon trades at 60 times its earnings. Is its growth potential 3 times greater than Apple?
But you don't have to pay for each mistaken phone call that you make...
The dip is caused by them now selling at a loss (which is pretty stupid, because if they hung onto it they could probably sell at a profit in six months or less).
Or it could be other investors selling because of the spike. Isn't it a bit presumptuous to assume that they're the same people selling at a loss?
Go for a hybrid like the Seagate Momentus XT (review on CNet).
Which seem to be having problems with MBPs.
Open market apps are probably lower quality when it comes to testing. So "freezes, crashes and data loss" are pretty common. If you're use to using freeware you're use to this type of behavior. Isn't the saying, "you get what you pay for"?
How do you propose to filter out the "useless and annoying" apps? When Apple tried to do some filtering people called them draconian and not being transparent with the review process. Please define "useless and annoying" such that both consumers and developers would be satisfied.