Then I misunderstood what you meant by "software tied to your geographical location". If you mean the App Store uses your IP address to present different Apps for purchase sure, but to me software being tied to a geographical location connotes that the software will only work in a certain geographical location and leaving that location will disable it.
So if I install an OS other than iOS onto my iPhone, can I claim to be comparing iPhone to Android?
If you can do so without violating the terms of use then it's a start, at least.
My iPhone hardware does not have any terms of use. The software does and if I am replacing it, then they don't apply, do they?
If it hasn't been made clear, it was a joke. A bad one, but a joke nonetheless.
They also understand the use-case of the majority: wanting a device that works for them without needing in-depth knowledge of the underlying software and hardware. That's a large part of their success. Many technologists do have in-depth knowledge and find their products too limiting but many technologists then assume the entire market is like themselves when its not.
Are all Apple public statements this arrogant? They're running those horrid (and long) commercials right now showing people using iDevices in all kinds of contrived circumstances, too.
No. Many jokes if later presented as factual opinions do, though.
No one has every made a joke that exaggerated or generalized about a population. Nope, never. All statements everyone makes are always serious attempts to mind read.
Can you feel the self-awareness failure yet? Cook generalises about millions of users, but he's not the one at fault here; the commenter asks a question about one person (Cook) but apparently now he's "generalis[ing] about millions of people."
Fool boy, see me after class.
In humour, the punch line is often a generalization or exaggeration to emphasis the crux of the joke. At a feel-good conference where a corporation speaks to an assembled crowd of developers already invested in their platform jokes which rib the competition while bolstering the egos of the assembled developers are common.
I found Cook's joke rather stupid and groan-worthy but I also see it for what it is and do not assume those are his personal thoughts about millions of people. Did you feel the statement was meant to be a serious exegesis regarding millions of people?
Geographical? What? You do know the App Store isn't an actual store in the mall, right?
And you know that all content is not sold in all countries, right?
And is therefore tied to your geographical location.
I think "geographical" in this context is region-lock bit. I don't believe the iPhone uses the GPS to detect you moving geographically and disables software you purchased in the US when you are in the UK. I don't think the software is actually tied to your geographical location. Also, it's a pretty unfair comparison since the Google Play store does the same thing from what I understand. That said, I agree region-locking is dumb and bad business but let's stay to the facts when comparing.
So if I install an OS other than iOS onto my iPhone, can I claim to be comparing iPhone to Android? Cyanogenmod is an advantage to Android of course, but the majority of users will use what comes out of the box so it's best to compare those. Every user can of course change the status quo by installing third-party software on their hardware but that's hardly the majority.
Windows 8 is shit, from top to bottom.
Then how come the only criticism ever levied against it is the UI? Performance? Better than 7. Stability? Better than 7. Security? Better than 7. System requirements? Better than 7. The only thing you can legitimately criticize are subjective components like the interface, which some people like myself actually *prefer* to the start menu.
One needs to not only compare Windows 8 against Windows 7 for Windows 7 is not Window 8's only competition.
Snowden didn't turn himself in because he would not have gotten a trial of his peers under the American justice system. He will be given a closed-door non-jury military tribunal. Isn't that obvious? This is part of the reason why he is hiding outside the US's reach.
Machine time is cheap. What do I care that it takes a couple of hours to rebuild some binaries over night? The speed benefit, which might be minor in many cases, is real but not the biggest benefit. The biggest benefit is being able to say system-wide that I'd rather use Qt and not Gtk and have all my current and future binaries built to order.
I'm not wasting my time for a speed benefit, I am spending my machine's down time reducing my surface area and moving parts which has several benefits.
Both IE and Firefox run like shit especially when you have flash video's playing in websites you visit. Chrome, the fastest.
The solution isn't to brag about how fast your browser can play Flash videos, but to stop playing Flash videos.
what exactly does Beats have that Apple can't come up with by itself in an afternoon?
Already-signed, good deals licensing music recordings for streaming to customers.
Well I think there's a significant difference here between rather mundane conventional devices and trying to needlessly tie everything into the internet. What benefit is there to having, say, a washing machine that connects to the internet? Or a refrigerator? Or a microwave? Lighting could have a utility as related to the security system. But controlling your HVAC system through the internet?
This is not to say I'm saying that no one should have these things. I'm very libertarian about most things. So people should be able to spend their money on any kind of fluff that the wish. I simply can't understand why anyone would want such a set up. Hell, if nothing else this system is probably going to cost thousands of dollars to implement into a home. Money that could probably be better spent buying high quality appliances that aren't tired into an Apple system.
I too do not know where this all might lead, but that's the beauty of innovation: sometimes unexpected advancements happen. I can see having a refrigerator one could query the contents of remotely could be useful at times. The cost (in terms of risk, privacy and cost) probably outweighs the benefit today but the steps today lead to the steps tomorrow and so forth. Not wanting to participate in these steps makes a lot of sense--I don't either--but not seeing the appeal is blind to advancements we haven't conceived yet.
A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.
