You might build computers comparable to the Mac Pro, but I'm willing to bet you're not building computers comparable to an iMac or Mac Mini. Or are you really building i5 machines the size of 4 CD jewel cases?
(And yes, my hand-built PCs are generally from superior parts from vendor PCs, including box, cooling, PSU
And of a completely different form factor. You can have an iMac on a table with literally one cable running up into it, did you calculate that into your price?
Yes, everybody is stupid but you. Give me a fucking break, AC, the reason the ipod pretty much created the modern digital music player market because of it's usability, not in spite of it.
Everyone but Windows and Mac users, yes.
So everyone but 95% of PC users on the planet.
It's not that hard to beat Windows, but you must offer apps that people want so badly that they'll dump Windows apps for it.
Sure, you just need a better, more stable, easier-to-use OS with more exclusive, powerful, easy to use apps that runs on 500 million different computer setups.
Easy.
My iPhone 3G won't take the latest iOS, it was also released before the first Android phone came out.
Nothing like some good old freetard FUD.
Talk to any company that develops for both Android and iOS, ask them which platform makes them more money. See if you can compare income to phone market penetration.
The fact that you were able to get knocked out reliably means that medical practices have gotten a LOT better.
It's more than most people spend on music in 2011, just because most people pirate music. Really, it's only two albums. I pirate music like I'm Long John Silver, but give me an option to pay $25/year to make my music legit, and I'll be the first in line to do it.
I remember the demo scene. I remember having to use QEMM to get enough ram for the demos to run, then having them crash. I remember some demos working on my gfx card and not my friends', I remember having drivers for specific sound cards, etc.
Not everything Apple does is a hit, the same as Google - usually for different reasons, but usually with same outcome: a killed product/product line quietly brushed under the rug.
Apple takes existing technology and polish the implementation until it fits the average user perfectly. You'll never see them deliver well on any technology that hasn't been well rehearsed elsewhere first.
Yeah, like Firewire, USB, touch screen cell phones, app stores, Thunderbolt, unibody laptops, single-unit computers, etc.
For a community that's been up in arms agains anti-OSS FUD over the past decade, slashdot sure has no problem using the same tactics against non-OSS products/companies.
This contrasts many eastern european schools where "honors" students come out knowing aprox 3,000 equations but don't have enough practical life skills to open a bank account or form an original thought.
Usenet, son.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
