Comment Re:Apple's now worse than Microsucks (Score 1) 358
Huh? It's much more complicated then you want it to look like, I guess:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._Robins
Comment Re:"PC" (Score 1) 485
It has an actual etymology: "PC" is a relic of the original "IBM PC" in 1981.
Nope. Apple at least since 1977 referred to their Apple II as a ”personal computer“:
http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/MiscAds2/AisFor1.jpg
Check out the rest of their ads from the late 70s, for many more occurrences of the term, here:
http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/gallery1.html
In 1974 HP published this:
http://www.hpmuseum.org/journals/65a.htm
Dig a little bit more in history and you may find who used the term first:
Comment Re:Shareholders don't like it? (Score 4, Informative) 370
*Stake*holders. As in people with an interest in donations having the best possible impact.
From TFA: “Donor nations were shocked last month, when UNICEF disclosed that it has been forced to pay artificially elevated prices for vaccines under an arrangement called the Advance Market Commitment, which was brokered by Gates Foundation-dominated GAVI alliance, to greatly increase drug company profits. Stakeholders also worry that industry reports of particular vaccine's effectiveness might be skewed by marketing goals.”
Comment Re:Denial (Score 1) 230
Why am I reminded of the Iraqi Propaganda Minister?
“The Apple infidels are committing suicide at the gates of
Wait, what? “Waterloo”? God, this is the good stuff
Comment Re:Apple and Microsoft are one of the worst compan (Score 2) 113
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Comment Re:Summary is bullshit flamebait (Score 1) 290
Confusing Warranty (Garantie) and the EU mandated "Gewährleistung" (what you referred to as "Mangelhaftung") is actually quite a common mistake.
Yup, the German Civil Code (BGB) now uses terms like “Sachmaengelhaftung”. Doubtful that it will help Otto Normalverbraucher*, though
*= Joe Sixpack
Comment Summary is bullshit flamebait (Score 5, Informative) 290
You may be surprised that a summary on
Repeat after me: *There is NO “mandatory 2 years warranty” in the European Union*
What there is, is a “Maengelhaftung”, which is usually translated to “Liability for defects”. This is to be granted by the *seller* of a consumer good to a consumer. It is valid for 2 years from the date of purchase. Any defect showing in the first 6 months is assumed to be a manufacturing error, burden of proof of the opposite is with the seller, for the remaining 18 months the customer has to proof that the defect was already present at time of purchase.
As Apple sells its products in its own stores in europe (online included) it adheres to EU law, if Apple products are sold through a third party, the consumer has to deal with that third party.
Apple grants a voluntary 1 year warranty. This actually strengthens the purchasers position, because the above mentioned “burden of proof” now lies with Apple for the first *12* months. No consumer advocacy group in Europe has a problem with this.
But Apple additionally sells “Apple Care” contracts, which extend Apples warranty to three years. If you read closely this far, you'll notice that this is a much better protection for the consumer than the mandatory “Liability for defects” the EU imposes and absolutely doesn't touch this EU Directive. Regardless of any voluntary or sold warranty the EU Directive still stands.
Now, what the european consumer advocacy groups say is that Apple misleads the already (through the “Liability for defects” EU Directive) fine protected consumer into believing they wouldn't be protected after 12 months without buying Apple Care. If people are very stupid, and often they are, this could very well be the case.
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31999L0044:EN:HTML
Comment /.-style summary (Score 1) 570
"... which Jobs suspended in 1995
Uhuh. Right
"... a good strategy for ensuring that Apple remains a hungry, growth-oriented entrepreneurial company might be for it to distribute much of its cash to shareholders."
LOL. Stay hungry, stay entrepreneurial, send me your money!
In fact Tim Cook didn't suggest any dividend, that's just wishful thinking. Why should Apple do that when the stock price is still rising? There are one or two chinese people they can some iStuff to
Submission + - Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than total Macs in 28 years (blogspot.com)
quantr writes: ""A new breakdown of Apple's blockbuster 2011 notes that the company sold more iPhones, iPads and iPod touches in the 12-month span than it has sold Mac computers in the company's history.
The revelation was made this week by Horace Dediu at Asymco, who noted that Apple sold a total of 156 million iOS devices in 2011. That was enough to top the total number of Macs ever sold, which sits at 122 million.
As a whole, there have been 316 million cumulative iOS units sold to date. That means 2011 accounted for nearly half of all iOS devices sold by Apple since the platform launched in 2007.
Of course, the lead iOS device is the iPhone, which is likely to cross the milestone of 200 million units sold during the current quarter. Boosted by the launch of the iPhone 4S, Apple set a new record in the 2011 holiday season, with 37 million iPhones sold in that three-month span alone.""
The revelation was made this week by Horace Dediu at Asymco, who noted that Apple sold a total of 156 million iOS devices in 2011. That was enough to top the total number of Macs ever sold, which sits at 122 million.
As a whole, there have been 316 million cumulative iOS units sold to date. That means 2011 accounted for nearly half of all iOS devices sold by Apple since the platform launched in 2007.
Of course, the lead iOS device is the iPhone, which is likely to cross the milestone of 200 million units sold during the current quarter. Boosted by the launch of the iPhone 4S, Apple set a new record in the 2011 holiday season, with 37 million iPhones sold in that three-month span alone.""
Comment Re:Sounds about right... (Score 1) 435
Limua phones are heavily promoted
Well, no wonder then
Comment timothy ... (Score 5, Funny) 223
You actually read the submission and checked the facts, possibly avoiding a flame fest. This is totally unacceptable and goes against everything
Comment Re:...Good for you? (Score 1) 627
This is a blog entry, and a short one at that.
With 2217 words? Ok for me
Comment XNU (Score 2) 293
I thought it was a Mach kernel and a BSD userland. How exactly that's quintessentially different from me installed Cygwin on my Windows machine and calling it a Unix machine is beyond me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/whatismacosx//arch.html
Comment Re:I was there (Score 1) 392
From Wikipedia article on IB:
History
Thanks for the answer. I checked that article right after reading your post and before replying. The part you quote is preceded by: Interface Builder first made its appearance in 1988 as part of NeXTSTEP 0.8.“. Hence my curiosity. So it wasn't publicly released before 1988?
Comment Re:I was there (Score 1) 392
I introduced Steve to Interface Builder in 1986 (at NeXT). (It was written in ExperLISP for the Mac - completely OO, and deeply integrated with the toolbox.).
Whaa
