cirus
Apr 20, 07:57 PM
OK, I'll bite. Why spend anything at all? Why not go down to the library and use their computers for free?
The homeless bum thinks you're crazy for spending $600 on a computer when you can get the same experience for free.
You think we Applites are crazy for spending $1,200 on a computer when you can get the same experience for $600.
I can do it in my house that's why. Minimum cost to do this IN MY HOUSE. Cost plays a major role in most people's decisions to buy things. Generally I've found that once you cross a threshold price, your computer has much less problems (read the reviews and stuff to make sure its still good).
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The homeless bum thinks you're crazy for spending $600 on a computer when you can get the same experience for free.
You think we Applites are crazy for spending $1,200 on a computer when you can get the same experience for $600.
I can do it in my house that's why. Minimum cost to do this IN MY HOUSE. Cost plays a major role in most people's decisions to buy things. Generally I've found that once you cross a threshold price, your computer has much less problems (read the reviews and stuff to make sure its still good).
fly75
Mar 16, 01:49 PM
If the majority of this forum (not adressing or insulting you) would take of their Apple glasses, they would see the reality or at least the potential of the Windows Phone. I love my mac, but I am not biased to some cult.
Windows Phone launched in November, since then they managed to deliver 10k+ apps (and no, 70% of them aren't spam) ! Faster than both iOS and Android app growth rate when they launched. Of course, Microsoft needs to play catch up right now but they surely DID deliver an almost bug-free system right out the box.
Add that (apparently) they managed to sell around 600K+ phones only in February and the total is now around 2.5 million .. NOT bad for a starter, eh ?
Microsoft spent half a bilion only on advertising. They also "bought" Nokia for 1 billion. They basically bought the best hardware manufacturer (IMO, a smartphone in 2011 with a price of >400$ made of plastic is a cheap joke! No wonder about that 500$ laptop Steve quote ..) thus being able to penetrate markets worldwide much faster. Nokia is still #1 in terms of popularity at least. Agressive to say the least..
Have you actually used a WP? Every single time someone watched mine or played with it they went totally wow. Updates are coming and scheduled already.
Joe Belfiore (the "chief" of WP department) was invited to AllThingsD and while being bashed by that old man Apple fanboy he kept his calm and also stayed totally pro also providing a 2-year time to become a big player.
Android is now where it is because of the time they hit, not because of providing a better experience than iOS. They were the first to fight iOS while others were still cooking their own OS or were still using Symbian lol. It's still a laggy OS even with dual cores for crying out loud.
I am not saying WP is going to beat iOS in 2 years, no way but I see it as Microsoft most ambitious project since 360. And look where that got.
That's one way of looking at it.
Another would be that Microsoft managed to fumble away a substantial foothold in the mobile marketplace before delivering WP7, while watching Apple and Google stake their claims.
Windows Phone launched in November, since then they managed to deliver 10k+ apps (and no, 70% of them aren't spam) ! Faster than both iOS and Android app growth rate when they launched. Of course, Microsoft needs to play catch up right now but they surely DID deliver an almost bug-free system right out the box.
Add that (apparently) they managed to sell around 600K+ phones only in February and the total is now around 2.5 million .. NOT bad for a starter, eh ?
Microsoft spent half a bilion only on advertising. They also "bought" Nokia for 1 billion. They basically bought the best hardware manufacturer (IMO, a smartphone in 2011 with a price of >400$ made of plastic is a cheap joke! No wonder about that 500$ laptop Steve quote ..) thus being able to penetrate markets worldwide much faster. Nokia is still #1 in terms of popularity at least. Agressive to say the least..
Have you actually used a WP? Every single time someone watched mine or played with it they went totally wow. Updates are coming and scheduled already.
Joe Belfiore (the "chief" of WP department) was invited to AllThingsD and while being bashed by that old man Apple fanboy he kept his calm and also stayed totally pro also providing a 2-year time to become a big player.
Android is now where it is because of the time they hit, not because of providing a better experience than iOS. They were the first to fight iOS while others were still cooking their own OS or were still using Symbian lol. It's still a laggy OS even with dual cores for crying out loud.
I am not saying WP is going to beat iOS in 2 years, no way but I see it as Microsoft most ambitious project since 360. And look where that got.
That's one way of looking at it.
Another would be that Microsoft managed to fumble away a substantial foothold in the mobile marketplace before delivering WP7, while watching Apple and Google stake their claims.
WillEH
Mar 29, 05:52 PM
OP is the same guy trolling over here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1127611 Take what he says with a grain of microscopic salt.
I was going to say, hehe. Thanks ;)
I was going to say, hehe. Thanks ;)
iBookG4user
May 5, 07:13 PM
If one buys a $999 laptop, why would they give away a $499 iPad with it? That's half the price of the laptop and over double what they have done in the past. I don't see it happening, I'd be happy to be proven wrong though. I'd pick up a MacBook if they were giving away a free iPad with it.
newdeal
Apr 20, 02:05 PM
I wonder if apples hardware sales would start to drop if they were to announce that there will be no more work towards a jailbreak on future devices
YoungCreative
Jan 23, 10:30 AM
The old/current matte displays look so lifeless, compared to new glossy displays....
And nobody's going to pay the prices asked, for such old tech. no matter how good the quality... seemingly so close to an update, no matter how far away it is.
Have you spent time working with one of the new glossy displays? I used a new 24" iMac at my day job and it drove me nuts with the reflections. Last week I bought a new MacPro for home and happily grabbed a 23" ACD. So, you better update your stats when you say "nobody's" going to buy an existing ACD.
I bought one, and I love it! If I want glossy, I'll master the DVD and play it back on my TV.
My kids are disappointed that there is no iSight camera, but I reminded them that they aren't getting to use my MacPro anyway, so it doesn't matter. :D
And nobody's going to pay the prices asked, for such old tech. no matter how good the quality... seemingly so close to an update, no matter how far away it is.
Have you spent time working with one of the new glossy displays? I used a new 24" iMac at my day job and it drove me nuts with the reflections. Last week I bought a new MacPro for home and happily grabbed a 23" ACD. So, you better update your stats when you say "nobody's" going to buy an existing ACD.
I bought one, and I love it! If I want glossy, I'll master the DVD and play it back on my TV.
My kids are disappointed that there is no iSight camera, but I reminded them that they aren't getting to use my MacPro anyway, so it doesn't matter. :D
njaremka
Apr 18, 09:06 AM
That's the bottom line. You're dropping a c-note on a developer preview. If you want spend that much money to play around with go for it. In the past (except for SL) upgrades were costing around 125 so in theory you could save some money if apple follows that path. If they don't, you run the potential of over-paying for the OS
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Apr 15, 03:39 PM
Yadda yadda
About the 3D, yeah we're definitely agreeing here. No real gain, more work. Cost/benefit doesn't pan out.
As far as the second thing, I wasn't referencing you. Whoops. Sorry. :o Should have quoted them. Anyway, I agree that virtual sticks aren't the devil (unlike cursors controlled by dpads). Still, I think there has to be a better way for some of the interactions and that they're mostly being used as kludges (again, basically agreeing).
About the 3D, yeah we're definitely agreeing here. No real gain, more work. Cost/benefit doesn't pan out.
As far as the second thing, I wasn't referencing you. Whoops. Sorry. :o Should have quoted them. Anyway, I agree that virtual sticks aren't the devil (unlike cursors controlled by dpads). Still, I think there has to be a better way for some of the interactions and that they're mostly being used as kludges (again, basically agreeing).
bousozoku
Oct 9, 02:01 PM
While this is true in your area, it doesn't contradict what I said.
T-Mobile, contrary to what the person I was replying to said, does have its own network. In most areas where it operates, it is not using Cingular's network. In some areas, it uses Cingular's, and in others Cingular uses its, but in most areas, they're both independent of one another.
T-Mobile is the aggregate of most of the independent GSM operators that were coming online in the late nineties. Most of them were bought by Voicestream, T-Mobile took over Voicestream and then bought Powertel.
True. I had an Aerial phone from 1999-2000 and toward the end, the company was bought by Voicestream, which must have gotten all 15 of Aerial's towers in the U.S.A. ;) Verizon got the little purple alien's phone company.
T-Mobile, contrary to what the person I was replying to said, does have its own network. In most areas where it operates, it is not using Cingular's network. In some areas, it uses Cingular's, and in others Cingular uses its, but in most areas, they're both independent of one another.
T-Mobile is the aggregate of most of the independent GSM operators that were coming online in the late nineties. Most of them were bought by Voicestream, T-Mobile took over Voicestream and then bought Powertel.
True. I had an Aerial phone from 1999-2000 and toward the end, the company was bought by Voicestream, which must have gotten all 15 of Aerial's towers in the U.S.A. ;) Verizon got the little purple alien's phone company.
silversin
Apr 19, 03:59 AM
Sounds plausible, except for the delay.
Guessing Apple will re announce the white iPhone 4 on WWDC and compensate the delay with adding the A5. And hey, the black one will get it too. Sounds cheap, but anything is better than my good ol' 3G right now.
Guessing Apple will re announce the white iPhone 4 on WWDC and compensate the delay with adding the A5. And hey, the black one will get it too. Sounds cheap, but anything is better than my good ol' 3G right now.
vettori
Apr 18, 04:01 PM
5 = 4s ?
UCPonch
Apr 15, 01:04 PM
I keep seeing percentages but never the raw numbers. iOS and Android may be increasing their market share but is the market just increasing as far as the number of users? I would guess that iOS and Android aren't leeching customers from traditional handhelds so much as expanding the user base overall and their market share is increasing because that increased user base is only coming from those devices and not from the traditional handhelds (ie DS, PSP, etc.)
projectle
Dec 14, 09:48 AM
Ok...
Then, is there a program somewhere that while running would prevent the computer from going to sleep (rather than a standard configuration page)?
Then, is there a program somewhere that while running would prevent the computer from going to sleep (rather than a standard configuration page)?
J the Ninja
Nov 8, 06:08 PM
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Sep 12, 09:07 AM
I was aboard a transcontinental flight to Los Angeles on the morning of Sept. 11, going to a trade show. The captain gave no indication of what was going on in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., saying only that there was a problem with the air traffic control system. As a result, the system was going to be shut down within the hour and our flight needed to return home. We were about 30 minutes out at that point.
edesignuk
May 11, 05:13 PM
I'm still wondering how in the hell they are paying for all these free services offered to 10's of thousands of members (inc. me :D)...it just baffles me :confused:
edesignuk
Sep 11, 08:15 AM
I was at work, which at the time was Morgan Stanley. I'm told that Morgan Stanley had more floors in the twin towers than any the one company, so you can imagine what it was like in the London offices. Everyone was in the dining areas watching the big screen projection TV's, or gathered on the trading floors to view the plasmas.
Very, very weird day :(.
Very, very weird day :(.
macenforcer
Aug 8, 05:30 PM
Wonder how much they paid Connectix just to abandon it.
Gazillions and boy did connectix make a smart move.
Gazillions and boy did connectix make a smart move.
macintoshmartin
Jun 1, 06:43 PM
I haven't taken the printer apart, and the print head moves from the middle to the right, then the paper feeds out, and then the print head moves toward the middle and the amber light starts blinking at the top of the case.
kainjow
Oct 26, 11:51 AM
You have to read the AppleInsider to get the full story. Automatic brightness settings... motion detection...
"For example," Apple said, "the touch sensitive bezel can be used to sense touch gestures, such as touch and drag operations, made by the user. Using the touch gestures, a user can perform a number of user controls, such as move portions of an image that are being displayed, move a curser to drop and drag visual elements displayed scroll up and down through a screen, skip through images in an album or series of images, adjust the setting or value of a user control, or perform similar operations."
Move a cursor? mini-OS X? ;)
http://images.appleinsider.com/pantent-tsbezel-102606-6.jpg
Wow! This one looks like it could be a tablet if the hand is drawn to scale:
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"For example," Apple said, "the touch sensitive bezel can be used to sense touch gestures, such as touch and drag operations, made by the user. Using the touch gestures, a user can perform a number of user controls, such as move portions of an image that are being displayed, move a curser to drop and drag visual elements displayed scroll up and down through a screen, skip through images in an album or series of images, adjust the setting or value of a user control, or perform similar operations."
Move a cursor? mini-OS X? ;)
http://images.appleinsider.com/pantent-tsbezel-102606-6.jpg
Wow! This one looks like it could be a tablet if the hand is drawn to scale:
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jzuena
Mar 11, 11:36 AM
Saw an ABC Australia journalist in Japan reporting that because the phones are down people are using Facebook to post their status and location to let their families and friends know how they are. I assume Facebook will make some mileage out of this.
One of my friends has Facebook posts of one of the aftershocks where he and a bunch of others are standing out by the airplanes at Tokyo's airport. He said that luckily nobody at the International terminal in the airport seemed to be hurt, and that the duty free shops were pretty much toast. I assume he and the others are spending the night at the airport and not trying to head back to the city.
One of my friends has Facebook posts of one of the aftershocks where he and a bunch of others are standing out by the airplanes at Tokyo's airport. He said that luckily nobody at the International terminal in the airport seemed to be hurt, and that the duty free shops were pretty much toast. I assume he and the others are spending the night at the airport and not trying to head back to the city.
ELA2
May 6, 12:55 PM
Thats why I bought 8GB memory and 256GB SSD from Apple in my new MBP. Compatibility and the fact that if ANYTHING goes wrong with it I don't have to futz with it.
simX
Sep 12, 08:11 PM
- iTunes 7 will confirm if you wish to re-download content, and has a backup utility for backing up your library. Also introduced is a feature called "skip count" which tells you how often you have skipped a song.
This is not new to iTunes 7. This has been in iTunes since practically version 4. Where did you get the idea that this was a new feature?
BTW, the iPod software update 1.2 for video iPods does not appear to give the new Advanced Search function to older 5G iPods.
no one seems to be pointing out that they got rid of educational pricing for iPods... that's a bummer.
It's not really that much of a bummer. The max discount you ever got was $30 (I think, not sure if you got more for a $399 model), but with the new models, Apple discounted the highest iPods by $50 instead. So if you buy at full price, you're still paying less than you would have with the educational discount previously.
I don't think the shuffles ever had special educational pricing, and I'm not sure the nanos ever did either.
This is not new to iTunes 7. This has been in iTunes since practically version 4. Where did you get the idea that this was a new feature?
BTW, the iPod software update 1.2 for video iPods does not appear to give the new Advanced Search function to older 5G iPods.
no one seems to be pointing out that they got rid of educational pricing for iPods... that's a bummer.
It's not really that much of a bummer. The max discount you ever got was $30 (I think, not sure if you got more for a $399 model), but with the new models, Apple discounted the highest iPods by $50 instead. So if you buy at full price, you're still paying less than you would have with the educational discount previously.
I don't think the shuffles ever had special educational pricing, and I'm not sure the nanos ever did either.
Bobdude161
Aug 10, 02:44 AM
Does that mean that VirtualPC is now abandonware and can be distributed freely?
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