Posts by Gil Grissum 529 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Aug 2009
On the plus side, you can get yourself a Moto Xoom quite easily since there are no lines to buy it and there are plenty left and available since hardly anyone wants one. more bada-boom tech geekery on board and you can brag to your friends about that while they show you their hi-rez screen iPads. LOL!!!
Love em or not, they sell and people buy them. I didn't wait for the new iPad. I got the iPad 2 for the price drop and I'm fine with that. Apple doesn't have to fake sales numbers. They're sitting on 100 billion in cash and their stock price is $595.75 right now. That's called SUCCESS, something the Android Tablet makers aren't achieving.
It's Balmer, I tell you? We went through this nonsense with Vista. I can tell you for a fact that the Medical School I work for shunned Vista and to this day, is still running XP on the majority of desktops. If Metro cannot be suppressed and the regular Windows UI brought to the forefront, my workplace will shun Windows 8 and upgrade us to Windows 7, which we'll be on for several years, just like Vista. Balmer needs to be done away with. He's sinking the ship. Is the board just asleep at the wheel, or wot?
As it's obviously a huge secret, anyone who knows isn't telling. If all this will be is planting the Apple TV guts inside an LCD TV with an Apple logo on it and charging a hefty fee, this is one time Apple may not be able to pull off a magic upset victory. TV is a much different field and yes, for those who already have working TV's attached to Cable, what is the incentive to over pay for an Apple branded LCD TV? If they are planning to charge $699 for a 37" LCD when a 40" LCD can be gotten from Walmart for $299.98, They are definitely going to have to offer something that can't be found on Cable or Satellite that is worth paying three times over for an Apple branded TV. I could be wrong though and they masses may just buy it because Apple makes it. We shall see, assuming Apple does produce an Apple branded TV set.
Siri has been able to remind me of things based on date and or time. Siri was able to tell me the five largest lakes in California, but I got nowhere on the prime numbers greater than 87 or similar tests to some of the commercials. Anything even coming close to that ridiculous teenaged guitarist wannabee commercial just isn't happening at all, so that's clearly not going to happen.
Until people's TV habits change from watching a TV connected to Cable, AT&T U-Verse, or Satellite, I don't see Apple gaining much support from the industry for any sort of streaming Internet TV service when Comcast and the others already allow TV shows to be streamed to TV's, Smartphones, and Tablets. Since content providers already have existing content delivery methods, there's really nothing in it for them accept losing revenue to Apple and none of them are going to be willing to do that.
This is true,
But that "next best thing" isn't going to be Apple. There are existing Smart TV's that bring the web to your TV. They aren't selling very well because very few are willing to pay a premium for an Internet TV when they can buy a big screen LCD TV for less and plug it into Cable or Satellite. Apple has zero leverage to strong arm anyone in the TV industry to work with them. Movie content may be another subject altogether, but again, Comcast is much bigger than Apple and doesn't need them, much less CBS or any of the others. They lose nothing by not working with Apple. Apple on the other hand loses an opportunity to get content providers on board.
Apple needs the broadcasters more than the broadcasters need Apple. Comcast is one of them, owning NBC. Comcast doesn't need Apple either because they already have an existing content delivery stream both via Cable and streaming via web. So Apple is going to be fighting an uphill battle in this topic. What does Apple have to offer the networks that the networks don't already have? What advantage is there in broadcasting content via an Apple TV? The TV industry isn't the same as the music industry. The music industry was facing a ton of illegal downloading thanks to Napster. Apple came up with a way for people to legally pay for and download songs. Thanks to the Kim DotCom trial, illegal movie downloads and streams have suddenly become scarce, so there isn't any incentive for anyone in the TV industry to want to partner with Apple.
What company feels the need to replace working desktop PC's with Ultrabooks? As for the almighty fondle slab, the idle rich who love paying for two capped data plans, will enjoy their "New IPad" until they reach their data cap. Have fun with that. I'll be checking out the WIFI version, since WiFi is everywhere and Sprint doesn't have LTE anyway (nor is it among the networks supporting the iPad).
So if you're buying an iPad with LTE on either network (Verizon or AT&T) hoping to be able to travel through Europe and use it, it seems to me that WiFi makes more sense than paying for a second data plan that you can't even use outside the USA. It doesn't even make sense to have a second data plan IN the USA, unless you have more money than sense. WiFi is everywhere these days. Save the money. WiFi is all you need in that iPad.
So Microsoft's big plan is to go "app store" on us and have people writing and selling Metro Apps for Windows 8? I hope they aren't planning for Windows 8 apps to be exclusively Metro, because some of want to actually get some work done and I don't see a bunch of work related companies offering business apps for Metro. I could be wrong about that. We shall see.
Of course, by then Mountain Lion, the iPad 3, and the next iPhone will be out. How rellavent will MS be then if their tablets aren't selling?
Limbaugh will get a pink slip before November. His radio station isn't going to wait around for a Republican to take office if more advertisers bail on them. Adverts are how a radio station makes money. They're not going to keep this bloke around if he continues to lose money for them. They have no reason to wait around to lose more money. The media will push the issue to get ratings and continue the blood letting until the radio station sacks him. Wait for it. it's coming.
Well, you can always associate yourself with Facebook if Google's consolidation of information services, i.e. privacy policy, makes you nervous. Facebook already has your information consolidated across their games, apps, and services. Feel better now?
From an information management stand point, Google already has your information if you use multiple services of there's. Rather than have that same information separated across the services, you log in once and use all the services without having to log in again and again and again. It's not changing how they collect information or how they use it to blast advertising at you. It's consolidating the information so you don't have to log into every single Google service to use them. Separating the services and your info and causing you to have to log into everything separately is good, why?
Thank Goodness the Walled Garden doesn't allow this Facebook mockery of privacy. There is no reason for a Facebook app to need access to any personal information on my phone, including text. If it's "internal testing" then they should have that function on their INTERNAL PHONES, not phones outside of Facebook. It's a well known fact that both Facebook and Google want as much of your personal info as they can get. Android? No thanks!!!
I have an iPhone and a Macbook Pro, but with Quick Office on my iPhone and Libre Office on my Macbook Pro, I'm not dumping my Windows desktop at home and my employer isn't dumping Windows Desktops and replacing them with iPads. No medium to large size business is going to do that. That is the thing this author is missing. While the author may be willing to give up his Macbook Air and exclusively use his iPad with office, businesses aren't going to do that, and that is the reason why Windows with it's 84% market share, isn't going anywhere, any time soon. Not for businesses. Not for consumers. As much as I like the Apple technology I have, it's just not going to replace Windows computing. This is just like that "Network Computer" nonsense that was suppose to replace Windows. The iPad is not a computer replacement device. It's an add on. Everyone I know who has an iPad uses it as an add on device, not computer replacement. This may happen in emerging markets (other than China), but not in the USA and Europe.
Unless Adobe and AVID/Digidesign intend to put their apps exclusively in the App store, I don't see it happening. The graphics and music businesses are huge customers for Apple products. I doubt they intend to cut them off or hem them into to trying to make their gigantic file size apps exclusively available as app store downloads. And in the case of ProTools, this is also complicated by the need to have a USB iLock, if you're buying a full version of the software. You can't download a USB device online. So I don't see ProTools being an app store exclusive. ProTools does run on Windows as well and I do not think Apple wants Commercial Studios replacing Apple hardware.
Well, since Proview is likely to be shown to be more cash poor than Apple, who is cash rich at the moment, it shouldn't be a stretch to prove that Apple bought the rights to the iPad name and that Proview is only trying to extort money from them, hence the mention of a willingness to "Settle in or out of court". How can they choose a particular settlement amount when use of the iPad name isn't causing Proview to lose money or customers. They don't make any Tablets. Sales of the iPad isn't hurting any of their business. It's just the case of a small unsuccessful company extorting money from an American Capitalist company. Apple can do away with this nonsense by changing the name of the iPad and then what can Proview do but go down in flames with no cash for all the trouble?
So, on one hand Apple is supposed to be responsible for how it's suppliers treat their employees and "reinvest" in China? Apple already is investing in China be paying suppliers to build their products there.
And on the other hand a Chinese company (Proview) can apparently marshall the local law enforcement to remove iPads from Stores while also petitioning to prevent them from being exported out of China, effectively cutting off the supply chain? That's an interesting response to all the legal filings to block Samsung (which is located in South Korea, not China) from selling their products.
Maybe Apple should just go ahead and rename the iPad 3 something else. Then, The Chinese government will have no legal reason to block sales or exports of the iPad 3, or whatever Apple chooses to call it. Maybe it's time to rethink the whole "i" thing now?
1. Snooper? Yes. Until you're no longer a minor and move out of the house.
2. Lack of Trust? Second offense. Parental trust violated in a big way.
3. Bad Temper? More like the kid is the one with the temper. Father has the right to be outraged by unacceptable child behavior. If more parents did things like this, less kids would be screwing up. They'd be too scared to screw up and that is a good thing.
4. Gun nut? No. Made a valid point in a way that prevents any back talk.
5. Bad hat? Great hat. Don't like the hat? BOOM!!! Like it now?
LOL!!!!
When I was a kid, I got my ass kicked for back talk and i tightened up and learned to do the right thing. Today's kids are too full of mouth, themselves, and their bad attitude celebrity heroes. Parents don't put foot to ass enough. A 12 gauge to that laptop would've been better, but a 45 got the job done. If she's not stupid, she's shut her mouth, say "yes sir", and "yes mam" to her parents, do what she's told, perform her chores, and get her butt out of the trouble it's in. If she's an idiot or brain dead, she'll continue to be a useless screw up, which if she does after seeing this, is proof that she's brain dead.
Cheers to the Dad. I'll like to shake that man's hand.
Good point,
Dell use to do this to Intel to get better bulk chip prices out of them. Someone would leak that they were considering AMD chips and all of a sudden, they got a better deal on bulk orders from Intel. Apple may be doing this to get first crack and better bulk prices on new Intel CPU's. After all, why would Apple want to go the Netbook Route with Arm CPU's in a Macbook Air. That's been done and quickly on the decline.
I've been watching the platform since launch and definitely like what I see, but when it came time for me to do my annual upgrade with Sprint, there were no Windows Phone's available. NONE. There was the Galaxy S II (Android) and the iPhone 4S. Having had bad experiences with Gingerbread upgrade on an EVO 4G, I opted for an iPhone 4S because I needed a phone I could live with for two years and not have phone envie one year into the contract (like other Telcos, Sprint no longer offers annual phone upgrades). Where's the WIndows Phone ad campaign? Android and iPhone have theirs. If there's no advertising, no one is going to know the thing exists. T-Mobile now has a Windows Phone ad campaign but do any of the other Telcos have any Windows Phones?
Everyone else will bury Apple and Apple will have to stop selling products because they can't license any patents. In your dreams pal. Apple has a license to print money and more than any other company out there, can withstand this patent suit nonsense. At some point, all of these companies will come to their senses when they realize that they are making lawyers rich with money they should be making for themselves selling great products and all will go back to beating each other with R&D and great products. All these lawsuits are just expensive pissing contests and ego flexing. It can't go on forever and in the next year, they will likely all end so everyone can get back to work making products we all want to buy. Neither side can bury the other because both sides are needed to have competition for both. Neither side can be allowed to exist exclusively without the other. Don't think so? Did AT&T merge with T-Mobile. That is why. Competition is the only way to insure choice among consumers.
To be honest, I use BING most of the time for searches and get exactly what I want. It makes sense for Google to consolidate information from all it's services. Why duplicate when you can organize and consolidate. Once enough cash changes hands, the regulators will go away until they're broke again. Despite that old line about money not being "everything", the fact is, money is everything and once everyone is paid off, it will be business as usual again for Google. By the way, don't expect any resistance to them owning Motorola either. It's in everyone's best interest.
I was impressed by the first round of Windows phones. If Nokia steps it up this year when Windows phone 8 arrives, they could sell more. Business users could be a big target for them. Integration with Outlook and built in MS Office are major pluses that don't involve the purchase of additional software to get the functionality.
This article promotes a rather optimistic viewpoint for Windows Phone. Seems like random calculations based purely on speculation. This assumes of course that Apple's iPhone release this year and next year aren't even remotely impressive or that less people buy them than are to be expected. Or maybe this article is based on the fact that Windows phones have replaced iPhones on popular CBS TV shows? LOL!!!
It's good to know I'm not the only one who jumps on FB just to check and see if one of their pointless system updates has reset my privacy settings. I'm with you on not having to wade through the useless clutter of updates on what games people are playing, their past posts form years ago and other useless info. Every time they update the thing, I use it less.
I've never used Facebook apps and have no intention of ever doing so. They can mine someone else's data. Facebook apps don't entice me to use Timeline. I don't like anything about it and refuse to use it unless forced to and if they do that, I'll just block all past content, limit future posts on my primary profile and just post from my band fan site exclusively. I've reduced my usage of Facebook dramatically, as each update brings with it more of what I don't want. I spend more time on Google+ and Twitter. They are far more interesting.
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