Why is it always assumed that people who spend $2500 on a computer have an unlimited amount of money?

We hear far too often, "If they have money for a hummer, they have enough for gas" too.

Maybe they got a $3000 check for tuition and they blew it on a computer, and otherwise don't have a dime to their name.

Sure, a small minority of people have an unlimited supply of $$, but I wouldn't be surprised if vast majority took out some line of credit to buy a $2500 "multimedia" PC for their college kid, simply because a highschooler from BestBuy told them that that computer will totally help them with photos, and movies, and homework...

Yeah, we know.

Dude....
I can not believe the amount of FAIL you packed in just two words.
That is a masterpiece.

You're right, it's not just Ballmer, the whole company is a behemoth, and overall can't move the needle fast enough.
But if they were to split the search, xbox, and phone and concentrate on just OS and Office, they'd have a chance for some rapid movement.
But what do I know.
I do know that Ballmer should stop taking marketing and PR advice from Spongebob, and run his ass around a block a few times.

How does a completely substanceless comment by an AC get to a 5 informative?

an AC thinks the interface is very sleek, and that is enough to save the phone the riducule? wtf mods?
Here's the summary of AC's post:

application interface is pretty good
it does do a good job
current version of OS do not provide support for SQL-CE DB or multi-tasking or even copy & paste .net provides pretty good infrastructureto concoct a rudimentary in-memory db
Other things would have been really useful
Despite these deficiencies I think, this is a pretty good OS

In a world dominated by iPhone and it's mighty App Store, Android and it's openness and Blackberry and it's enterprise qualities, in your opinion a "pretty good" phone from Microsoft is a contender?
This is why young people don't take slashdot seriously anymore.

Wow, I never thought that now, for Thanksgiving, instead of spending time with my family, I'll be able to fix both my mom's computer *and* her cellphone!!!!
Sweet, sign me up!

OK, I've compiled the 3+ posts, (reflecting the collective wisdom of slashdot) to send as a list of grievances to Steve Jobs.
I think after seeing the IT elite's overwhelming support for Flash, he will have no other recourse but to stop selling iPads at a million devices/month, until Flash runs on the iDevices.
Yes, they are selling like crazy, and yes people love using them, and not having to worry about technical details, and nerd-talk, but seriously, if all those devices run it, then his Steveness could bring it to his pet platform too, right?

Sign up below this post if you agree!!

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It's only when you see pages with lots of crap (ads) on them that performance becomes an issue. You can set the plug-in to On Demand, but when you select one flash object to load, I've noticed every flash objects loads and then performance suffers.

You need a minimum of a Cortex A8-family processor to run Flash and many lower-end and older Android phones just don't pack the horsepower to pull it off.

I'm actually using Beta 3 (the final version doesn't seem to be in the market despite what the article says). It is much better than the first beta and generally isn't too bad.
All in all, I don't think anyone could have done a much better job, but the fact is no current flash movies were designed for use on phones, and it shows badly.

The N900 has a special "cursor mode" that, when enabled, changes the dragging from scrolling to moving a virtual cursor that allows sending drag events to the browser (flash or javascript).
So, I've tried it on my Nexus One. It seems to play videos ok, but that's about it. You can't really interact with the flash because no flash videos are designed for touch input.
On the BBC news video players you can't control playback because the clickable area on the time-line is far too narrow to hit. You also can't drag anything because this just scrolls the website.
Conclusion: Steve Jobs was right; flash doesn't belong on phones and I'm glad he is killing it, even if he is still an annoying control freak.

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(Dear mods, the abovementioned post is heavy in what is called sarcasm.)

"the resolution/DPI is so dense that your eyes won't be able to distinguish individual pixels"

These are the words the average person does not understand:
-resolution
-DPI
-pixels

These are the words the average person isn't sure about:
-dense
-distinguish
-individual

That leaves the description as:
"the is so that your eyes won't be able to"

I think Steve will stick with Retina Display
Just as meaningless as your suggestion but 80% shorter, and it has marketing zing.

Thanks for noticing.
Been happening to me lately. And to many other people too.

I had it coming though, I didn't call anyone a Fanboi, nor put a "Goodbye Karma" disclaimer on it.

The app still seems to be available on the store. And it looks good too. Is this a slashvertisement? If so, it's a decent one.
linky

As far as the Android store being a wild west goes, sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but his Steveness didn't have anything to do with that.

Burger King.

Oh God, Apple should fracking buy it and call it Halo.

TrisexualPuppy, pray tell us what your young girlfriends say about this.
Also, some pictures would be appreciated.

Android market can get segmented quickly in terms of display resolutions and hardware capabilities, how do these "big players" expect to deliver quality apps to the Android devices?
I already have an iPad (that makes me a sheep according to some of you more "in the know" experts, I know) but I do like the idea of a strong competitor to Apple. Unfortunately, I don't think Android will deliver.
Had HP, Dell or anyone else had the balls to embrace Linux a few years back and deliver a few meaningful apps, I think they maybe would have a leg to stand on. But as it is right now, Apple provides you with all (well, maybe not all) your tunes, videos, pictures, comic books, books and a decent website experience, with some really nice apps, I think other manufacturers have a really steep hill to climb.

I am not convinced that the average consumer is interested in a fragmented (albeit "free") experience. Or to use a car analogy, at some point it was fun to start the Monte Carlo by sticking a pencil in the carb, but at this stage in my life, I just want the car to start when I turn the key...

They did! That was their failsafe, but he uses DVORAK!