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Comment by lonegroover posted on iPad or iPad Which One? at 01/02/2010 - 22:24
robbie_d wrote:
The problem seems to be that people who don't see a need for it in their lives cannot imagine that there are people on the planet who do, and also that any gadget that doesn't appeal to them will obviously be a commercial failure.
It will sell millions of units. Of this I have no doubt.
I wouldn't for a moment suggest that it will be a commercial failure; just the opposite I'm sure. But an awful lot of those people who do buy it will be buying it because it's the latest status symbol. Or perhaps, in many cases, because they don't realise that a small laptop or even a netbook would provide them with the functionality they need at considerably less expense, and indeed might prove to be more generally useful to them.The problem seems to be that people who don't see a need for it in their lives cannot imagine that there are people on the planet who do, and also that any gadget that doesn't appeal to them will obviously be a commercial failure.
It will sell millions of units. Of this I have no doubt.
Comment by lonegroover posted on iPad or iPad Which One? at 01/02/2010 - 13:09
thoughton wrote:
I see we've come to the end of thoughtful discussion I particularly despise the way incompetent IT "specialists" bleat on internet forums and blame Apple when it turns out they don't know how to support OS X.
You'll struggle, I think, to demonstrate that I'm incompetent, or indeed that matters have "turned out" in the way you've described here - but please do go ahead, I'll enjoy laughing at you.I see we've come to the end of thoughtful discussion I particularly despise the way incompetent IT "specialists" bleat on internet forums and blame Apple when it turns out they don't know how to support OS X.
Otherwise, I think we can safely disregard what you've typed, I'm afraid.
Comment by lonegroover posted on iPad or iPad Which One? at 01/02/2010 - 13:02
thoughton wrote:
I think analogies are often suspect, but Don's one's weren't too bad. I don't know about other cases, but one of the reasons Sony can afford to sell the PS3 at a loss is that they make the money back on licensing fees from developers. Those licenses explicitly state what is and isn't allowed on the PS3 (no pornographic games, for instance).
So that's an instance of alicence providing one advantage to the buyer of the hardware; ie it's cheaper. I'm not sure the same principle is in effect to the buyer of the iPhone or iPad, but in any case it's outweighed by the restrictive nature of the licence, in my view.I think analogies are often suspect, but Don's one's weren't too bad. I don't know about other cases, but one of the reasons Sony can afford to sell the PS3 at a loss is that they make the money back on licensing fees from developers. Those licenses explicitly state what is and isn't allowed on the PS3 (no pornographic games, for instance).
I was fairly ambivalent about Apple and their products, but after working with iMacs as an IT specialist at a research lab for 2 years, I've come to loathe them. Fortunately a remarkable number of said iMacs have died, and I've been able to upgrade their users to (considerably cheaper and better-behaved) Linux machines.
I particularly despise the way Apple victims bleat about every new product as if Apple had invented (for example) the 3G mobile phone, or the Internet tablet.
Comment by lonegroover posted on iPad or iPad Which One? at 31/01/2010 - 16:30
Don wrote:
by that logic BMW needs to be shut down 'cause you can't put ford engine modules into them and vice versa...
my dvd player should be banned because sony playstation games won't run on it, same with the wii...
No, these are very poor analogies indeed. It's a huge advantage in (eg) the Open Source world to be able to use a huge range of software that hasn't been approved by a single body with commercial interests.by that logic BMW needs to be shut down 'cause you can't put ford engine modules into them and vice versa...
my dvd player should be banned because sony playstation games won't run on it, same with the wii...
Comment by lonegroover posted on iPad or iPad Which One? at 31/01/2010 - 16:17
thoughton wrote:
In the precise way you specified in your post - that is, I didn't need one.lonegroover wrote:
In what way were you right?thoughton wrote:
You might not think you need one, but on the other hand about a billion people said the same thing about the iPhone when it launched.
I was one of the billion you refer to, and I was right - so not sure what your point is there. Certainly more than a billion people have declined to buy one You might not think you need one, but on the other hand about a billion people said the same thing about the iPhone when it launched.
Comment by lonegroover posted on iPad or iPad Which One? at 31/01/2010 - 16:14
thoughton wrote:
You might not think you need one, but on the other hand about a billion people said the same thing about the iPhone when it launched.
I was one of the billion you refer to, and I was right - so not sure what your point is there. Certainly more than a billion people have declined to buy one You might not think you need one, but on the other hand about a billion people said the same thing about the iPhone when it launched.
Comment by lonegroover posted on iPad or iPad Which One? at 29/01/2010 - 15:18
Two more efforts in a similar vein. Quite happy with these.
Comment by lonegroover posted on Leicestershire at 27/01/2010 - 14:23
technoidiot wrote:
My husband had one SD card fail though I suspect that was a problem more with his Laptop than the card - I was able to extract [ using my card reader and my MacBook ] about 75% of the JPEGS on his card - the others we did lose . So I'm not 100% sure this was the card.
Yes, I was about to post that, although the SD card hardware itself is reliable (until it starts to reach the write cycle limit), the filesystem and the devices that write to them can fail. So it's still a good idea to back them up. I don't leave camera images on a card too long; once uploaded to my PC they live there and are backed up with the rest of my files.My husband had one SD card fail though I suspect that was a problem more with his Laptop than the card - I was able to extract [ using my card reader and my MacBook ] about 75% of the JPEGS on his card - the others we did lose . So I'm not 100% sure this was the card.
Never had an SD card fail personally, and I use them as general purpose storage in my Nokia Internet tablet.
I have lost images from an old 32MB smartmedia card. That was due to filesystem corruption incurred by attempting to write to the card from an (Olympus) camera with a nearly-dead battery. The card itself was fine once reformatted.
Comment by lonegroover posted on SD card failure at 26/01/2010 - 18:47
Don wrote:
The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved."
9 days later, in real life ..The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8476238.stm
Comment by lonegroover posted on Terrorist threat assessment by country. at 23/01/2010 - 11:35
I see.
So it's okay for you to casually insult all the Mac users on this forum, but you get the hump if I turn the tables on you?