It may have been a failure, this time, but they have a lot of new data on what happened. Soon they'll know why and progress will move forward. I hope they try again. Data gathering, new methods, and discovery are never complete failures.
Agreed! This is exciting. I go to rural areas to hike, explore, and get away from tech for a bit. Being able to send a text message is a fantastic safety net. Even just one time. Especially when pared with things such as smart watch fall detection.
Agreed. I haven't owned an iPhone since the 5s, but issues like this, and apps blocking usage if the phone has developer options turned on, are starting to push me back to iOS.
How bad can carbonated rice be?
And they're still charging too much for the amount of data.
No thanks.
You seem to confuse the ability to laugh at oneself with being too dense to realize one is the subject of the joke.
I would be more worried for countries so concerned with being mocked or subject to satire that the films and arts are censored. That definitely sounds like a sophisticated society.
Also, Borat was hilarious.
Ok =)
You put yours down first
Actually... I do have "A" weapon, but only Chuck Norris could bring down anything larger than a small mammal with it.
Can we just stop trying to solve all our problems with more weapons?
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There is a flaw in the original argument that everyone is ok paying $4 for a cup of coffee. I think the products are too different in target audience, demographics, and tangibility. I think a similar product with a broader reach could have been found.
Having said that, I suspect there is some truth to the argument, but I also suspect a contributing factor may be a feeling of a "lack of ownership". Do you really feel like you "own" it, or do you feel like you have $1 worth of lease time on it? Especially with the ability to remove apps after downloading them.
One thing I would suggest, is that consumers as a whole have taken that feeling of ownership into account on some level when deciding how much they're willing to pay for pure data as a product. I am much more willing to spend $15 dollars to own a physical piece of a medium than I ever would for a digital copy of say a movie. This is the primary reason I subscribe to netflix streaming and still buy physical DVD's but have never bought a digital copy of a DVD from a service like iTunes. Even if I'm only licensing the item, I still have a tangible product and that tangibility goes a long way with the human psyche.
I can theoretically stream 30 movies a month from Netflix for my $8 bringing the cost of the movie down to ~$.27 each. I think that would be a better comparison for the $1 apps. I have about the same feeling of "ownership" over the product.
It's like the actively work against the citizens of the US, but nobody cares...
Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.
