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Apple Introduces A Slightly Bigger Samsung S III (And Faster, "Excel-Optimized" New New iPad 4)
Below is a picture of the product that Steve Jobs never wanted launched, and which Apple has been forced to release due to competitors which are suddenly beating it in its own game. And the price: $329. The Nexus starting price is $199 which is also Kindle Fire territory. Anyway, the 8 inch iPad is here (which upon measurement actually turns out to be 5"... particularly the white version). So when is the iPad 36C coming? Finally: will there be an iDiscount for those with over $100,000 in student debt?
Oh, and Apple also launched a New iPad. Or wait, is that iPad 4? Confusing. Whatever it is it has a faster CPU for all those excel spreadsheets you will be doing on it all day long.

One word summary: cannibalization... and maybe another: GoogleMaps?
AAPL Stock -2.5% - below Friday's closing VWAP...
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good for +20 es baby
Um, I didn't see an extra row of icons in that one.
Trouble in paradise.
But they are going to move the headphone jack to the BOTTOM. Pshshhhh!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf5-Prx19ZM
Brilliant marketing by Samsung.
One day soon we'll all wake up and Apple won't be cool anymore. Then it'll be a total stock shitshow.
You hear that guys? That's the sound of the music stopping. Good luck finding a seat.
They might want to rethink who the disruptors really are.
$81.00 straight from Shanghai.
http://i.imgur.com/Fx7k6.jpg
Reminds me of the Hi-Phone.
Good luck to Apple trying to sue these guys. I'm sure it would work out fantastically.
The suits against Samsung et al were about control of the western market. Once again confirming that Apple is stuck on the old model.
What about a High-Phone?
This was *the* reason for Android - turn Apple's grain basket into scorched earth by commoditising the smartphone & tablet markets. There'll be quad-core Arm SOCs in $100 smartphones and tablets, within a year (dual core ones are currently a bit more). Android 4 on a single core Cortex A8 tablet isn't laggy even with 1280x780 screen (not 'retina' but higher pixel density than most laptops...)
It's uneven hardware quality & firmware integration that lets these Chinese 'clone' manufacturers down. Eventually a few will develop brand images in the west (like Asus & HTC have).
still waiting on the i-bidet
Siri ? Did you get all my dingleberries ?
Watch out below, Isaac!
Spreadsheets ... lol
does a keyboard come with this model?
No, but it ships with a genius to assist you with Excel macros.
I could fix the world with Excel, as long as I have my vintage February 1982 IBM Model M keyboard and not some nancypants touchscreen bullshit.
redpill said:
Here you go, then:
http://hackaday.com/2011/08/09/gods-own-keyboard-now-with-bluetooth/
Every Apple release it's the same story on here - AAPL sucks, people that buy their products / stock are morons etc.
I don't get it, if you like gadgets AAPL makes good ones. I've tried the others and haven't found solid replacements for my macbooks, ipads iphones, so stick with what works? I don't like the iPhone 5 that much so am looking elsewhere but the iPad mini looks good to me.
Don't like their products don't buy them, whats the big deal? People on here whine so much about AAPL you'd think Steve Jobs personally f---d their wives.
Who's whining? ZH readers just enjoy watching a bubble inflate when they know it will eventually pop. Consider it financial rubbernecking.
Apple is not in a bubble. If it is, your definition of a bubble is a stock that trades at an average PE ratio, which would mean that just about every single stock in the S&P is or has been in a bubble.
you forgot the /sarc
Apple is a bubble today not because of the current P/E ratio, Apple is a bubble today because their success has been based on two inherently unsustainable trends: an image of being a small quirky computer company that is trendy, youth-oriented, and lib-friendly (an image which is rapidly tarnishing as their product development transitions from revolutionary to evolutionary, as their target demographic expands to attempt to capture older consumers, as as their trendy consumer base increasingly reads about the horrors of working Apple sweatshops in China), and the maintaining of market share in the phone and tablet space (which is impossible with the growing competition in both of these areas). Combine that with a macro-economic debt bubble that will inevitably impact peoples' ability to borrow&spend hundreds of dollars on electronic trinkets, and you have a set up for a massive future decline in revenue, earnings, and stock price. If you don't want to call that a bubble, fine, you can call it whatever you like.
Additionally, Apple products are not a very good value and are miserable for lock-in.
I was an avid Apple user from about 1993-2008. I got pissed in '08 when I tried to move my music library off of iTunes onto a Linux box. It was a bitch, but their DRM lost and I've never looked back. My kids have even ditched their iPods for Sansa Clips - no cachet there, let me tell ya.
Apple's brand (and value) is all about it's products are about creating a better UX (user experience)...the iphone was absolutely innovative and the ipad was close. People will pay for quality, but it has to be demonstrable and unique. Now they are just producing new versions of old ideas and competitors are catching them and in some cases out appling Apple. Apple needs some new breakthrough stuff to keep its market share and continue growing over the long haul. Otherwise it could go the way of GM.
Apple vision died with Jobs. They were circling the drain until he came back to them, he somehow innovated for a while, now he died and they are directionless.
Also iTunes sucks balls.
Amen Brotha
The SANSA Clip and Clip+ were great products. About a year ago I picked up 4 on a woot of the day for $10 each. I will never need a new mp3 player in this lifetime.
Yeah, I have a Sansa Clip that cost me $50 in 2009 still going strong. I realised I have spent about $100 every other year since 1980 for a WalkMan or its modern equivalent, but that all seems to have stopped in 2009. That plus at least $50k in annual spending on discretionary shit I no longer need signals where a consumption-based economy might be headed.
Investment tip for the next 10 years: 3 g's ... guns, gold, and ground.
We're all PhDs in financial rubbernecking. I got mine from ITT Tech, and now I have a brighter future.
ITT Tech? Good school. I saw a commercial for it once, but I was drunk.
I got my degree in Womens Criminal Social Care Studies from University of Phoenix online.
I just wanted to make a difference. Now I can.
The gold standards evidencing an education debt bubble that is sowing the seeds of pain, financial and otherwise (there are other examples, but thess really connect the viewer to the fact that the sheeple have been hooked, lined & will be sinked); if these are epicly good at demonstrating the point, the commercials from state universities and the other "respected" institutions aren't much better, even they're slightly less cheesy:
You should've majored in Criminal Justice ... seems to be one of the last growth industries in the Gulag Casino economy.
Of course that's true, but a lot of people here think that to be a good ZH'er you must hate Apple. Somehow they made that connection. I have no idea why. I like their products even at their premium price and I like them more than the competition. If you don't, that's fine by me. But the arguments against Apple and the arguments for a bubble are as unfounded as the ones against gold.
Wait what?
"The arguments for a bubble are as unfounded as the ones against gold."
So, what you're trying to say is that Apple = Gold?
Maybe GLD but not physical.
If you think Apple = Gold, you are infuckingsane.
(I realize his point is much finer, that those who argue Apple is a bubble are as unfounded as those who argue Gold is a bubble, but I wish to distill his argument into something simple. Gold will be around long after Apple ceases to exist and all their shitball products rot into the Earth)
"--- to be a good ZH'er you must hate Apple."
Apple has consistently given me good OOBE over the past decade, which has never been the case with a LIM- or successor-architecture machine for at least the last 30 years ... for that reason alone I find it hard to hate Apple despite its straight-jacket architecture.
Then again, Jobs was still alive when I bought my last iToy, so who knows whether or not they are resting on their laurels.
What did you hear about my wife?!?!? She's always had new APPL stuff until, hey, wait, WTF? That was Jobs doing her?
I thought the especially brilliant part is running it during most of the prime time NFL games I've seen this season...tons of lower-middle class, hipster-hating eyes are seeing it.
How about the Cardinals playing in the "University of Phoenix" stadium? A pro team in a university sponsored stadium, I love it. The student debt is just iike a phoenix too, you burn everything to the ground, and it reforms from the ashes to follow you to the grave.
easy to fake your death and pick up and go and become someone totally new.
Identity is a relative thing, anyway. It's not like you are who you are by some great universal law. You are who you are because you happened to be born in a particular place, at a particular time. No need to stay tethered to some social construction of an identity. Go on, disappear, Change, grow; don't let the world limit you.
Just don't be stupid and contact people from your former life. There's 7,000,000,000 people out there. I'm sure you're bound to find some really neat individuals out there to take your mind off of the familiarities of your past social construction of an identity.
The sad thing is that many view debt as a the result of a financial agreement; debt is a tool of control. Many have already given up their lives because of it. Next logical progression in the "debt" construction as a means of control is to manufacture a war.
If these people realized how seriously fucked the concept of debt is, and how it fuels pie-in-the-sky delusions of a credit-whoring-populace, they'd hang the money-changers already. And this is a life-or-death game. Either you get rid of the money-changers, or you and your loved ones will suffer and die.
The only issue is IF or WHEN will the proles wake up?
I don't think they will. Death is given to them by their handlers. For the lack of will and knowledge, the fools forfeit their lives.
lol
Buckle your seatbelts - I smell a ramp job
have to get to the apple store and wait in line rain or shine
too late! I am already in line; sucker.
</sarc>
I paid two professional line waiters to beat you both, so nanny nanny Honey Boo Boo. Redneckognize bitch!
No thanks i will keep my Galaxy Note.
And everything that goes with it.
iJoke is a rip off, Galaxy is where it's at.
Good for millions in un-insurable liabilities and billions (trillions) in lawsuits:
http://bcfreedom.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/death-lies-and-mutations-what-...
(note that courts in europe are now confirming what your military kept from you see above link)
who covers makers and telecoms for this NO ONE, because they know what is in the link above.... and people pay to do this to themselves.... health care stocks are the ticket then!
Accusing Apple of copying Samsung, funny.
Yes, hilarious
Journalists don't do research or check facts or have timelines nowadays, they just get called up on 'crimelines' and print what they're told by the handlers ...MSN is a clearing house of spin and propaganda (garbage)
so.. what you're saying is that Ford should be the only company allowed to sell cars, because they invented them.
or Atari should be the only ones allowed to make a video game console.
cause everyone else is just a stupid copy cat loser guy.
Ford invented cars???
Does the name Karl Benz mean anything to you?
And Apple didn't invent most of the shit that goes into smart phones. First to market, yes, but smart phones are a combination of all sorts of technologies, most of which Apple buys from others.
sorry i appologize... didn't mean to offend you and your german lover.
Karl Benz?!?
WTF!...I was told Al Gore!
you have to forgive Microshite and GOOnbubble bloggers their repeated errors, because they're spending their lives living with devices that have continual software bugs and magnetised virus shutdowns
poor sods can't even mount a serious argument most times
Darwinian slection process... Apple users versus the stumbling flapping DoDo's
Extinction assured you clueless wingless turkeys
Neither Google (ChromeBook) nor Apple get my computer business until either gets an easy to use SQL database like MS Access. Three or four times I have been to the Apple Store's "Genius Bar" to inquire when they will have an easy (relatively speaking) SQL-compliant database.
All I get are blank vacant stares as if I am from another planet... Geniuses?!?! I think not.
Apple or Google makes a good database program, they win me from "Wintel"... There have to be more like me (Apple would probably grab another 1% - 3% of the PC market if they had a database in the PC market). But, do the arrogant young bucks do not pass the word up... Nor would the honchos, in their infinite wisdom bother listening, to a 56 yr old!?
A good statistics program would be nice too. Also, OLAP. If Apple would write some good data-analysis programs, they would gain even more share.
who would junk you for that? I guess anyone who thinks technology is simply for social networking and that data analysis is for losers? Apple's keycuts suck too for anyone who thinks keyboards are faster than a mouse.
Who would junk me? Probably an Apple Genius... Show thyself, Genius! LOL...
DoChen - RUN! I stupidly used access in my business, till I ran into some hard coded deliberate limits in it that would have cost me many many thousands from M$ or hundreds of my hours to reprogram around to make my existing data work in an *SQL COMPLIANT* db. Yeah, Access will do most of SQL, and a few things they encourage that work *nowhere else* - the old embrace, extend, extinguish thing. Well, rather than plop down a few K for SQL server (and still need reprogramming) from MS, I went to the free MYSQL on some machines, or the free Postgress SQL - both conform to the STANDARD and interoperate in the main.
At least you'll never fall for the MS trick of encouraging you do things that are only legal in Access...like punctuation in table names (not only do you need to rename all tables, but all querys after that one), Visual basic forms "behind" that look slick and idiots can do, but .... none of the other options do that - so sooner or later, you're going to find access locked up and out of records, and a big need to go from scratch with some "lesser" (Hah!) database. The only worse thing than MS on this would be Oracle....fees while on hold, great business model.
Run while you can, you're about to be screwed and don't know it yet.
And yes, this is from a (now) pro DB programmer.
I have to agree. I'll note that both PG and MySQL run on Intel/OSX as well as Windows, Linux, and other Unices. Additionally, open libs exist for both in most languages. It's hard not to see a winner here, for those technically inclined.
As a guy who makes his own tools, I try to stay as far away from M$ as possible.
Had a look at LibreOffice Base? Originally Linux, but I think the whole LibreOffice/OpenOffice suite's available for Windows & Mac There's a bunch of other database GUIs (& SQL backends) for Linux judging from a quick Google. Also for Android. All/mostly free.
Libre works on windows. Open Office was easier to use.
I totally agree... I use a MBP but need to use Parallels and install a copy of Win 7 just so I can work with Access. If you grind lots of data, you need a SQL-like database and Access is the best.
Access is for idiots, and so is Foxpro. How about MySQL, or any real SQL database for those of us in the 21st century. Do you have an 8-track, and complain about how hard a good fax and ditto machine these days? Hell, admit you use the ditto machine beacuse you like purple, and learn a real DB. LibreOffice connected via direct/ODBC access is a robust solution, Access is a sluggish piece of shit, wait until you starting having file corruption issues with your DB. Also, anyone at the Genius bar could have told you about Filemaker pro, the Access solution for the mac.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/doityourself-it-guy/diy-connect-libreof...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator
Thank you, guys, for your suggestions!
I should have bolded the "easy to use" part of my original reply, as I am a non-tech kind of guy. I know how to get MySQL (I actually have an old version I downloaded), know a little bit of how to use it (but, can I just paste in lines that I copied off of MS Excel, hmmmmm......? Ease of use is really important...), but it is an order of magnitude harder for me to use than Access.
I am NOT a pro at databases, nor can I con anyone here at ZH into thinking that! Although, I should make a back-up copy or two each month of what I have w/ MySQL. And I will look into LibreOffice, thanks again! I appreciate your suggestions.
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Anyone here ever used "Pentaho"? It is a free (I think) OLAP program that supposedly works easily w/ MySQL. If it's HARD to use, well, I don't know ANYONE where I live who could help me if it's hard...
I thought the chinese invented everything first?
Benz? He didn't build that. Someone else did! Germans. Always claiming they built things.
Karl Benz? Nein, es macht nicht.
Jetzt, HJ Heinz? Dais ich Weiss.
Ford didn't invent the car. Atari didn't invent the games console.
really? that's shocking.
jesus..
It is shocking to someone who's ignorant.
my point that obviously morons like you didn't get.. is that Apple didn't invent anything...
yet Apple fans keep trying to claim they are being copied.
They didn't invent phones or smart phones... they just made a blackberry that's used differently.
Blackberry copied Nokia.
You didn't build that iPad Mini.
(For those low flow days.)
That's what Steve Jobs said to Eddie Cue until his dying day. No, nein, non, nyet!
No, that's not what I said and that is not what I am saying or trying to say.
No Jobs, no jobs. Fuck you Jobs. In the greed gone wild section, they'll have a pic of you. The rats are heading for the exits.
As of the time of this comment, haven't heard a price for it yet.
$329 lame
Lame indeed. Canabilizing existing sales...more lame.
This is why there is no Pontiac, barely a Buick... GM did it, IH did it, now Apple.
Thought experiment, how many Apple devices have overlapping functionality?
Fighting yourself for market share = losing
http://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Tragedy-International-Harvester-Company/dp/0385192096
But that was back when companies were allowed to go bankrupt.
High design destined for the same junkyard in rather short order like a gilded lily. It's the technology that's the Hero, not the Toy, Fisher-Price.
Sweet, an overpriced Kindle Fire. I'll pay $700 for it.
the logo alone is $300 worth of consumer ecstacy
CrAppleChino is kind of like Islam - it's all about submission. Submit to the might apple - BUY CRAPPY OVERPRICED SWAG and touch yourself at night!
Very true ...the brand reflects consumer satisfaction
GOOnbubble and Microshit are toxic brands as a result with all the pull of an 18 stone one-eyed pole dancer
but no worries, Reggie has found another journalist (paid shill) that's written a(nother) report on GOO satisfying customers in a Dakota laboratory (no mention the consumers were being stimulated with dopamine, ecstacy and pure 100% Columbian coke to enduce a state of false enjoyment of their copy-cat products)
MS Surface has a version with actual Windows on it, and it comes with MS Office...
Far more useful than this POS toy.
sheeple won't like you if you don't have a screen with THE LOGO.
Then I will take that and use it for processing credit cards at my coffee shop. Yeah its a hefty 2.75% merchant rate but its so cool.
Go ahead and buy the fire too. Its a pain in the ass to have to fire up the laptop when trying to view flash.
Fools and their money...
...buy Microshit
...the village idiots meanwhile are on Android, given away free in your cornflakes
Village Idiot reporting in for duty, sir!
You can track down the village idiot in the recent article (propaganda) piece Microshit ran in the WSJ last week on Gates & Bulmer wanting to be seen as a "cool brand" ...cough, splutter, choke
that follows GOOnbubbles own Steve Schneider last year writing a 'real hip and cool' piece which went down like Beyonce Knowles always trying too hard and CoCo the Clown at a Paris fashon show trying to look trendy ....trip, fall, crash
These 2 global dinsoaurs need an asteroid attack, it's time to move on from their ever more tiring desperation to be Apple
I am guessing you're "all in" on the Cloud too.
I'm no fan of any corporates Cloud offerings, it's the centralisation mistake like dinosaur IBM's mistake plumping for mainframe over PC's all over again
but if anyone is going to make best of Cloud it'll be Apple ..it's never going to be a big hit though
The cloud is far more insidious than many are aware. "Private" clouds are not always so.
My android phone makes my iphone look stupid and yes I saved $300 by not having a f'ing apple logo. Plus, I forever rid myself of itunes....f$%k yes
"My Android phone makes my iPhone look stupid"
No, your Android phone makes you look stupid.. fixed.
Nowt wrong with iTunes... I have 2,500 free downloads on it and not one paid track.
it's brilliant and working fantastic thanks, like all Apples ultra-reliable software.
Looking forward to new versions of Android? ...the platform is a turkey, you'll be gobbling soon enough
Ahh, gotcha now, you're a fanboy douchebag. Looks like we have a live one here, Brand loyalty and all.
I'm an Apple-user responding to Apple-haters swimming in red mist
my loyalty to Apple is hard won, their software is ultra reliable, their products cool and cutting edge and i respect immensely their record of achievement ...a true class apart in the tek space
similarly my dis-loyalty to Micorshit is well-earned, having suffered their garbage software for 20 years both personally and in my businesses. GOOfball search is crappy, the rest of what they do is even worse, swimming in red ink. So i have no respect for MS or GOO from a biz prespective
call me "douchebag" or worse but my experience is solid as a rock nd is a fact. I'll defend Apple because they're a class act and the rest are also-rans, the market cap demonstrates it
so where are you comin from shit-for-brains-douche, GOOfball or Microshite?
You're delusional.
Nope, utterly real world experiences only mate
if you want delusional just round-up Micorshite and GOOnbubbles share price charts, market caps and brand values and compare to Apples
2 stagnant turkeys and 1 class act ...go suck garbage, oh, you're doing that already
When does the iPad Kinda Mini with the 8.1" display come out? Or the iPad XL with the 10.3" display?
Dunno ...really fascinating questions though (yawn)
Amazon are doing crap, GOOnbubble are doing shit, just waiting on Microshit to try and step out of the shadow of cool King of Tek, Apple and show us how it's done
I'm not holding my breath, Micorshite are so used to following, and copying, everything Apple does they'd probably burn like a vampire in the light
I smell an apple long.
If you're hoping to make good on your losses, you may need to go so long on Apple that we start calling you Granny Smith. I predict you will be green again once they find a way to wake Jobs from his cryo-sleep.
Pixar is working on it.
They've just gotta one-up Tupac first.
I'm not Apple long, I stay out the tek sector
...so should Reggie and his long suffering subscribers (who must be chewing a wasp at his bias and ineptness). They've been sitting in the station waiting for Reggie's promised heavily trumpeted GOOfball Express to take off for 2 years while the Apple juggernaut has left and gone past again lapping them
I'b be surprised if the GOOfball Express isn't empty by now, only Reggie and his trumpet
Robot Trader, is that you?
Can you read alright?
Zero Govt
the MS crowd are blind as well as stupid
iDon'tgiveashit4
I'm saving for a iDishwasher, can't wait for it to come out!
iDishwasher?? Is that the name of a new operating system? Like, iDishwasher will take care of your melted Ice Cream Sandwich?
when do they invent the i vagina..now that would be something..lol
More iShitz for the mentally constipated
only 3 more minutes blogging on your Microshit PC mate, then blue screen of death
Bye Bye Twat
Are you trolling, or are these feelings real? Unless you are Steve Jobs' ghost, why are you so worked up about people having different product preferences than yourself?
Or is this just the emotional impact of cognitive dissonance, as a small unfettered portion of your subconscious awakens to the possibility you overpaid for a logo and a fancy veneer?
I paid for the same logo on my Costco TP and just found out to my disgust it's no longer perforated. Bummer! Wish they'd quit substituting for me.
iTards are always like this - they feel superior 'cuz the paid triple the retail value for a pile of shit made in China. But crApple products do have a higher product failure rate than most other imported electronics, so they have that going for them.
Ms. Erable - you're another blinkered twit on the real price of a sticker.
Add up the costs of staff downtime, plus IT staff required to fix and re-boot your Microshit systems on an annual basis.
I estimate, from 15 years of biz experience, that Microshit cost me upward of £30,000 per annum running their bug-ridden, virus-magnetised garbage software ...of course it depends on the size of the company and number of staff suffering the shit
similarly my own personal computer usage. Microshit was fucking garbage, Apple has been a cool very satisfying breeze
you can do your own maths, but i'm guessing you're going to need help with that
If you spent that much on system maintenance, you're an idiot; you should have canned your IT staff and hired some competent folks to work for you (you know, ones that won't sabotage the system to justify their paychecks). I can tell you that I saw more Mac system bombs in three years of network operation than I've seen BSOD from '95 through the present. crApple makes unstable, unreliable, overpriced toys - always have, always will.
And my condolences on the loss of your brain. I'd send flowers, but it's obvous nobody notices the difference.
Save the flowers, you're digging a hole so much faster
Our Micoshite systems, network PC's to laptops were no dfferent to my own personal computer experience (nightmare)
my Apple experience is as smooth as candy. Fact. My GF's too with MS and Apple, she wouldn't turn back either, nor would anyone I know on Apple. All happy campers whereas my friends on Microshit all having porblems
Regrds your Apple experience I can only say you must be like Reggie, totally inept.
70% of businesses (still) running on decade old MS XP because Win5, 6 and 7 are so unstable. This is a total fucking farce, a global farce. Google any MS platform, you'll get rammed with "Fix Problems" links ..it's the most common search on Microshit, fixing and patching the f'ing turkey
Gates & Bulmer couldn't open MS shops because their product is shit.. It's a lemon out of the box and a total lemon in use. It's such a lemon you have to buy other lemon products that don't work, like McFee, to protect it while it fruther gums up your already tragic pile of junk.
You're the only person in the known universe that isn't pulling their hair out, you must live in LaLa land, are you on too many pills that the reality the globe is suffering from this monopolist junk is passing you by?
Whatever, iTard - not my fault you can't find competent IT staff. As for crApple, lots of us can see that the dude with the crown is totally naked.
Injuredthales, "Are you trolling, or are these feelings real?"
You're not paying attention mate. The Apple-haters stir up a hornets nest and out come the cool Apple-luvers and mince the turkeys
"..why are you so worked up about people having different product preferences than yourself?"
No problem with the also-rans choosing Microshit and GOOfball, I'm happy for them choosing crap, realy I am. As i said (still paying attention?) it's the Apple-haters that start the fight, the ultra-reliable cool running software Apple users finish it
"Or is this just the emotional impact of cognitive dissonance.."
I've only suffered that during my 20+ years running Microshit personal and biz computers... about twice a day as it craps out
"...awaken to the possibility you overpaid for a logo and a fancy veneer?"
How good are you with one, paying attention, and two, doing proper maths??
The cost of downtime from Microshite i'd estimate costs 12 times more than my ultra-reliable Apple sticker price
Any business does the maths of the downtime (bugs, viruses, adding carthretic additional security protection etc) costs of running Microshite would swap to Linux or Apple for 1/10th the costs. Similarly anyone that values stress-free personal computing knows Apple is the bees knees, Microshit simply pull-your-hair-out doggy doo
You been paying attention? How's the maths coming along on the price paid for a logo??
3 junks but no replies
the Microshit users crashed in software bugs or had seizures of web viruses before they could fully reply yes?
Darwinian selection even happening at blogger level, can't even mount a debate your choice of software is such crap it nobbles you
Should've bought an Apple
My Win 7 box has been up since launch date barring specific reboots for updates. So much for your loyalties and reasoning.
This. Idiot users suffer the results of their idiocy.
I hear kids still drown wearing water wings.
Irony.
Everyone I know on Apple, 1. love it, 2. have no problems
Everyone I know on Microshit, 1. are dizzy, 2. always having problems
the Microshit monopolists are costing the biz world $$$Billions is downtime, wasted staff hours and add-on lemon products to patch-up this stinking hobbling turkey
i'd tell you both to go fuck yourself but the real irony is you're on Microshit, you're doing a grand job already. Live with your bug-ridden, virus-magnetised "we want to be cool like Apple" Gates & Balmer garbage every day, enjoy
Darwin did not select you, you consciously chose to be one of lifes losers
yawwwwwwwwwn, just another piece of iCrap I refuse to buy
Lets not forget the iStove:
http://mashable.com/2012/02/27/china-istove-seize/
Reggie will love this heading and WB7 not so much!
Lol, I love the great debate about Apple and Google...
About cannibalisation : As WB7 has so correctly stated, and Yahoo CEO, the blondie cutie, has also confirmed : the world is moving to hand held mobiles away from laptops and semi laptops; aka tablets.
In this Homeric battle of support platforms, if the move to mobile becomes massive, the Apple strategy will collapse; based on protecting its Ipad from iphone, by never putting a telephone function on the Ipad. In such a market stampede, Apple will have to follow suit and make its Ipad telephone linked. In which case it will cannibalise bigtime iphone.
Google's strategy is different : it has the best search engine, the best media publicity platfrom and the best mobile OS with Chrome that it opens to star product makers like Samsung. It isn't scared by prodcut cannibalisation as its not its core business.
Its core business is digital multimedia systems control thru cloud ether, search engine and money winner publicity.
Apple vs Google its a battle ot Titans for the decades to come.
Reggie is still trying to pull up his iShorts
Could you imagine how good the combination of BOTH Samsung and Apple would be in one product.
As the world advances from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Age, we can likely expect more OPEN SOURCE development.
In the mean time, Apple is milking FoxConn, FoxConn is milking its workers, while everyone is milking a bankrupt financial system and trying to milk each other.
As singularity progress, soon we will be milking technology and not each other in the http://www.udderworld.com
You mean like a MacBook Air with a Samsung LCD display?
You jest of course.An age of knowledge in a world of mental pygmy's.
Lipstick on a pig is the only analogy I can think of.
$400 buys a nice lil' handfull of silver.
fuck you aapl.
... whereas in the top photo above, the 'more than a handful' iPad mini barely fits in a big guy's hand.
Google's Nexus 7 is 0.58" narrower -- a case of 'less is more' ergonomically.
Nexus 7's classic Golden Ratio proportions make the iPad mini look short, squat and fat.
The only reason stocks ever go down:
"If you have an erection lasting more than 4 hours, please consult a physician".
I'm not consulting a physician - I'm going out and bragging !!
$330, what a joke.
let's see, Iphone, Ipad mini, Ipad maxi yeah, Im covered
$329? Are these guys serious?
For the apple worshippers, next up- Icame
I wonder if they'll sell any.
iThink they know about the earnings report.
I'll bet people at the coffee shop'll think I'm important if I have one.
... at least the gray-haired crowd will.
The kids will just cover their mouths and snicker at the uncool geezer.
ican't wait to see who supplies all AAPL "LCDs", after Samsung dumped thier asses. BTW AAPL down $17.00 as we speak.
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I'd rather be holding a 10 oz gold bar. Even a 10 oz gold plated tungsten bar.
The mini-Pad for light days seems to be a bust
They're gonna have a lot of channels to stuff come Christmas.
FYI the new Nexus 7 is 32 GB of memory and about $230. This gizmo of Apple's is an inferior way to put an extra $100 in their pockets.
But...but...but...the cpu was DESIGNED by APPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I mean!!!! Come on!!!!!!