Seriously? Ipad has been mono until now?! What a piece of garbage. Hmm, stereo sound has been out how many decades, and they have saved what with keeping it mono? Frieking unbelievable!
Yup! Sure has been mono until now. Even the iPod Touch is mono. The Nano DOESN'T EVEN HAVE SPEAKERS TO PLAY MUSIC! It's almost like nobody gives a crap and everyone who listens to TV, Movies or Music on their portable devices uses speakers or headphones.
Apple wrote the vast majority of iOS.
Wrote, past tense. It's not like it costs them any more for each tablet sold.
iOS 2? 3? 4? 5? 6? The one you know they are working on now? I remember an iPhone running an OS that couldn't handle Retina graphics, tablet sized displays, Bluetooth stereo, cut and paste, Exchange support, voice control, AirPlay, third-party apps, wireless sync, background operations, persistent notifications, didn't have driving directions or their own map content, folders, Game Center, MMS, high definition video, HDR, panorama photo shooting, video calling, 4G/LTE, and a few other things.
Each generation of iOS has a real, measurable (but not released to the public) development cost. Which needs to be recouped, and of course is a part of the cost of offering iOS devices.
It might help you realize how silly it would be to expect (for example) that a vehicle should should have the same markup as a toaster. That's dumb.
It might help you to realize that we're not comparing a vehicle to a toaster, but different models of vehicles from different manufacturers. I'd expect a Chrysler, GM and Ford vehicles to all have similar markups.
I wouldn't expect vehicles to have similar markups. I would expect a Chevy and a Dodge sedan to be quite similar, but if you look at all sedans (Toyota, Mazda, Chevy, Dodge, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, Volkswagen, Kia, Hyundai, Fiat and who knows how many more) you'd find several ranges of prices and margins. Some focus on low end, high volume, low margin (let's say.... Kia). Others focus on low volume, high end, high margin (let's say..... Mercedes). Some even hit multiple targets. A Camry isn't the cheapest car, but it's affordable and well built (iPad Mini). Their Lexus stuff is more expensive, and still well built, with some higher end features (iPad 4 with better graphics, higher resolution).
The only thing that really makes me mad... is that somehow I got pulled into a car analogy.
Also, for some reason, AMZN's model seems to be better valued on Wall Street, with a PE of >3100, in spite of the fact that they basically have no profits for like a decade. But AAPL, with huge growth of profits only has a PE of 13.
No doubt Apple executives everywhere (especially the millionaire ones) are so upset about that.
You could cite an example from your own experience, perhaps some company that you yourself in your moral superiority that you patronize.
Moral superiority? I mostly buy from Amazon, actually. Closest I can think of is I patronize a supermarket that has 23 locations (just two in my state), versus Publix or Winn-Dixie, the two large chains in my area. But again, that's not necessarily a "local" company, nor done because of my "moral superiority". They sell meat, fruit and vegetables cheaper and the checkout lines tend to be shorter. Plus their seafood is a bit more diverse in selection.
I just re-read my comment, I'm missing the part where I proclaimed (or insinuated) any superiority. Just asked a question.
Shop locally... Best Buy is not local. Sears is not local, Radio Shack is 50% higher and not local. Please identify these imaginary local companies. I would LOVE To support a local business owner instead of a company that is no different than Amazon.com
If nationally known chains aren't local, and you don't mention where you live, who could identify any local companies for you?
I like prime myself, I shop a lot online. But for a lot of people it is price gouging. The free books and streaming media collection suck, they are worthless. Two day shipping is a convenience, but not worth it to a lot of people. It is for me, even if I opt for standard shipping, Amazon ships though OnTrac, which is usually 1 day shipping.
That's not price gouging. That's something that is for some people and not for others. To me, the streaming is as good as Netflix for my kids. I buy enough that the shipping is a great deal for me. But it's not "price gouging".
Considering Amazon's normal two-day rates which are in the $6 to $12 range typically, if you want fast shipping and buy half a dozen items a year, it's a good deal at $80 even if you never stream any video.
If you pay $80 and buy one thing, once, that's not price gouging, that's you buying something you didn't need.
This is as strong as a case forever to stop paying attention to the media.
Sounds like you already stopped paying attention. Had you even checked the one link in the article, or even read the summary, you'd know it was a catastophy, and New York will not function "perfectly tomorrow like nothing ever happened."
Schools closed. Subways closed 4-5 days. 38 people dead. Market closed. Fire in Queens destroys dozens of homes. Power outages for millions. 7% of the US population in fact without power. Tunnels flooded (subway and car). NYU Tisch hospital evacuated due to flood related generator failures, including premature babies on ventilators. Just a small summary, of just one city.
I'm a former NYer. Have spoken to many friends and family. None expect normal life tomorrow. Some have considerable property damage. None lost a life, thankfully. I live in South Florida, incidentally, and rather well understand how damaging hurricanes can be. Wilma damaged my car, and cancelled my wedding day as the roof caved in on the place we were getting married in that Friday.
This is a rare strong case to NOT stop paying attention to the media.
Actually maybe you should read "Misquoting Jesus" by B. Ehrman - it is written by a blblical scholar, actually the farther back in time you go the _less_ consistent the texts of the new testament are - the exact opposite of what you would expect if they all derived from a common source - this coupled with the fact that stories similar to story of Jesus (except with Egyptian or other mediteranean gods as heros) had been floating around for years before the supposed birth of Christ and finally the lack of any historical Roman records of Christ's existence make even the statment that "Christ was a historical figure" that I hear from even many atheists and agnostic completely untenable - there is no evidence for a historical Christ
I'm not sure you understand Ehrman very well. Have you read Did Jesus Exist? If you are going to cite Bart Ehrman, a former Christian, a current professor of the New Testament, and the holder of a Masters in Divinity, why not quote the part where he's 100% certain the evidence points to there being a historical Christ. Ehrman has many doubts about Christianity, but one of them isn't whether Jesus was a historical figure.
And I'm sure they would simply love to re-encode the iToons library to support the new codec.
I'm guessing that this codec fails simply because Apple didn't write it and will, therefore, refuse to support it.
Have you met MP3 and AAC? The two main formats covering 99% of all music on iDevices, neither of which Apple invented? I'm sure the real reason is they control so much of the market, and most of those users, myself included, really don't care what's more space efficient, unencumbered by patents, royalty free, higher quality sounding, or easily incorporated into Windows Phone 8. Yawn!
More expensive, but not TOO expensive (these days) is a set of SATA cages and some SSDs, which will do the job far faster still (than conventional SATA drives).
24tb worth of SSDs? That's a lot of cages, and yes, it would be TOO expensive.
$100/mo does buy the equivalent of 7Mbit dedicated at a colo (100Mbit burstable connection). $60/month should be enough to buy 4.2Mbit (1.36 terabytes/mo). If you're paying more for a wired connection, you're being ripped off.
So a colo, where hundreds or thousands of customers convene in one centralized location, with massive amounts of infrastructure coming in at huge scales maps exactly pricewise to getting that same bandwidth and pricing to every single house in america.
Please tell me how Google "locked iOS users out from using Vimeo".
The same way that removing Youtube locks iOS users out from using Youtube. Hint: The answer to both is it doesn't. PS: Google already has said they'll have a YouTube app in the app store soon.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
