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From: salgud on 29 Jan 2010 13:02 On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:03:27 -0500, JF Mezei wrote: > Davoud wrote: > >> Further to my earlier comment on AT&T: Apple's results for Q1 2010 show >> iPhone unit sales up 19 percent over the previous quarter and 100% over >> Q1 2009. > > Just a reminder: the USA market may be large, but the rest of the world > is much larger market, especially in terms of mobile phones. > > You'd need to get Apple number for iphone sales in USA versus iphone > sales outside the USA to compare growth. > > Furthermore, Apple is probably seeing market saturation approaching with > the current "exlcusive" deals, and this is why I am hoping that this is > the year Apple unleashes unlocked and affordably priced iphones to reach > new markets. > > If apple does nothing, it will see iphone sales stop growing pretty > soon. Once everyone who has wanted an iphone got an iphone, then there > is nobody left to buy one. Obviously, there is some point at which this will occur. The question is, "How close are they to saturation?" To which absolutely no one has the answers. The Apple haters will say very soon, the fanbois will say not for years. So my question is, on what do you base your opinion that it will be "very soon"? I waited for the 3GS before I got one, partly because of my contract, and partly because I thought the iPhone 3G wasn't quite ready for prime time. I imagine there are others waiting in the wings for multi-tasking or a better camera or whatever. My guess is that iPhone OS 4.0 will have multi-tasking, and the next phone will have a better camera and a flash. So more will jump in. Will it be as many as jumped in on the 3GS? Who knows? And there's still the issue of Verizon. I think they'll probably reach some kind of terms with Apple later this year, and a Verizon iPhone will be a reality. Then how many phones will Apple sell? Millions, all over again. I love those who predict a bleak future for Apple. Sure, someday, they'll take a fall, just like all big corporations. But if I had to money to buy stock right now, I'd put a third of it (never more than a third in any one organization) into APPL in a New York second. And sleep well at night for a long time.
From: Ed H. on 29 Jan 2010 17:05 In article <tom_stiller-02CCDA.06413728012010(a)news.individual.net>, Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote: -- snip -- > > Touch screens are great for tablet devices, not so great for laptops, > and very arm fatiguing for desktops. Just try pointing your finger at > everyplace you position the cursor for a day and see how it feels. Additionally, I was thinking along the lines of the materials LCD screens are made of. All ATMs I've seen are made of glass and are not easily scratched, but I would think plastic monitor screens would end up with a lot of scratches if poked at all day long. -- Ed H.
From: William Clark on 30 Jan 2010 09:38 In article <000ce5a6$0$2147$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > Davoud wrote: > > Coming in 2014 or so, available in brown, which Apple's iPad is not, > > and will include trial subscriptions to _four_ anti-virus apps. Take > > that, Apple! > > Actually, Microsoft based tablets were launched before Apple's. Both HP > and Dell have one, supposedly. HP has a category called "Tablet" > somewhere it its web site, but clicking on it shows only laptops. > Couldn't find "tablet" on Dell. But the media said that both had them > (they were demoed at CES in las vegas a couple weeks ago). > > > One difference here is that Apple has slit its OS in two. The "walled > garden" version for the iphone/ipad, and the real OS-X. Only the walled > garden supports touch screen. > > Microsoft supports touch screen on Windows 7. So Apple is behind MS for > touch screen on real computers. Actually, I have to point out, much as it pains me, one area in which the PC tablets lead Apple's. I use Powerpoint/Keynote for classroom teaching, and I have used the IBM ThinkPad to do so in the past. It has the advantage that, when you run a PowerPoint screenshow with the lecture material (and slide builds, etc.), you can write directly onto the slide. If you then save the lecture as a recording, the students can review the podcast of it, complete with live annotations. I will not, however, go into the nightmare that is trying to use the Windows-based software to get the movie of the lecture, but that is another story. I cannot do the same with either the Axiontonic ModBook (huge disappointment, this is for teaching), nor, I believe, the new iPad. All you can do with the ModBook is use PowerPoint/Keynote's feeble pen function, that you have to switch out of to change slide, or bring up the next animation. It is simply unworkable. If anyone knows of a driver out there that gets around this, I'd love to know. Oh yes, I have tried PowerDraw for PowerPoint, but I don't like the control buttons being visible on every slide, and we also use SmartDraw with a PowerBook and Wacom Grafire tablet, and this is way too cumbersome for everyday use. Suggestions?
From: Walter Bushell on 31 Jan 2010 08:47 In article <paul.nospam-8BE861.18540328012010(a)pbook.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul.nospam(a)sture.ch> wrote: > The big bolluxup came when only touch screens became available, and you > now have to go through something like 11 (I've counted) screens to get a > simple ticket. Add to that 30 second response times which I experienced > that day last summer and it's ridiculous. Ah, I was trying to spend a > couple of hours at an exhibition, and this fiasco with the ticket > machines meant I missed my train and would only get one hour there, so > it wasn't worth the trip. > > Really, the development guys should have had to use one of these systems > every time they walked out of the office to get a coffee or visit the > rest room* or have a management meeting. Yes, but during development they would have had <2 second response time and they wouldn't notice that part of the problem. -- A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
From: Walter Bushell on 31 Jan 2010 08:59
In article <280120101523333490%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > running an existing universal binary does not mean it's os x or not os > x. however, a lot of mac & iphone apps share code because it's the same > os underneath. High level code, I assume. -- A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard. |