The 15% drop in PC-sales last quarter, that's the numbers they are talking about.
But the real numbers are of course that 92% of desktop users world wide are using Windows. Hell, they could lose almost half their users and they still wouldn't be over.
And what percentage of consumer computers are desktops? 50%? The market has shifted.
After using W8 for a few months (due to hardware support for a slide scanner) I don't see much basis for all the hate. Yeah, the UI is retarded and flashy and gets in the way of getting things done , but I've learned to adapt.
Well, there you go. Good interfaces should be natural. You've adapted to not getting things done. No OS should obstruct your productivity simply because it wants attention.
Do you really think that the IRA bombings are purely religious? That the Holocaust wouldnt have happened without a religious target? That the people in the Westboro church would be cuddly kittens if only it werent for religion?
(emphasis mine) It's difficult to say with certainty, but I'd like to think so. The idea of having a deity on your side is an intoxicating one.
Why bring up some unrelated literature?
Because he doesn't believe it to be unrelated.
You fools, don't you realize Steve Jobs himself was the elite apple assassin?
If he was, he wasn't very good. His throwing stars were confiscated by the Japanese.
As a consumer, no. A significant portion of the value of a textbook, to me, is that I can keep it for life and use it as a reference, let other people borrow it, and, heck, pass it on to the next generation. (Certainly, when I was young, I spent a lot of time with my Dad's old text books.)
Does your intended use still make you a "consumer" in the sense of one who uses & discards? If not, then you're not Apple's target.
Then how, exactly, is anyone supposed to be able to ever watch?
Isn't the whole point of DRM to prevent you from watching anything?
No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.
