Groklaw is so biased that they predicted from the start that SCO had no case, they even went as far as writing, where everyone could read it, that SCO didn't own the Unix copyrights.
Just because every judge and jury agreed with them doesn't mean they were right, it was just bias you know.
On the other hand Microsoft wanted B&N to pay them for their use of Linux, B&N answered 'says who?' and now is actually Microsoft giving B&N 300 million.
"Banning the Amazon app would have immediately brought in charges of abuse of its tablet monopoly,"
Except that's what Apple did.
They couldn't make it that obvious so what they actually did was change the rules for everyone so that Amazon would have had to give them 30% of book revenue when read on the kindle app, all of Amazon's margin.
They probably weren't expecting Amazon to create their kindle cloud reader, so they could bypass Apple's app store.
Funny how Apple's lawyers didn't mention that in their filing.
"Why do they cost as much as the dead-tree versions?"
Mostly they don't, yes I know, there are exceptions, but 'mostly' ebooks are cheaper. Some of them, specially if the are only published as ebooks, are much cheaper.
Have you ever seen a car model that fitted everyone's needs?
If you haven't, and I bet you haven't, why are you expecting electric cars to be any different?
These cars will be bought by people who think they fit their needs/wants and they will not be bought by people who don't find them suitable, for example, those who don't have a place to charge them.
But, with any luck, the cars will be improved with time and more of them will be bought, and more charging places will be available and more people will buy them and ....
It won't happen automagically and it will definitely not happen by tomorrow but that doesn't mean it won't happen
After making the last trilogy he said he was not going to do the third one about the children of the skywalkers. Then he let novel writers continue the story, starting with Timothy Zhan 'Heir of the empire'
Like the mentioned 27" HP monster, PC makers seem bent on making bigger and bigger screens, doesn't anyone make an all-in-one smaller than 20"?
Reminds me of the way laptops got ever bigger screens until someone asked "Wouldn't it be nice if laptops were actually portable?" and netbooks were created.
So, if I understand you, Apple goes to advertisers and tells them: You see, we don't do any tracking on our users, we have no idea if the ad we serve has any relation to the user tastes, now pay us.
"For employers, employee car ownership gives them a much larger pool of potential employees"
Another way to look at it is that, thanks to roads and cars, people can look for a job beyond a 5 mile radius of where they live therefore being able to choose a better job instead of being slaved to the local ones or having to move every couple of years to the new company town.
And, obviously, you do know that the ones complaining about the lack of the external storage in the iPhone are the same ones saying that it doesn't really matter here, right?
They must be, otherwise the one-size-fits-all Apple motto would be wrong.
The other day I was having dinner with a few friends and at some time we wanted to check something in the net. We did it with the phone of a piano teacher.
It was an android phone.
Somehow she doesn't have a problem using it despite having no IT background.
(I am not even going to mention that the one in the dinner who does have a CS degree couldn't use his iPhone as it was in the repair shop. After all, Apple products never break down, so mentioning it would clearly mark me as a lying troll)
And by the way, Linux has nothing to do with the FSF but anyway, who cares about facts?
Like IBM had all the computer market to itself and everything else was too little and too late, like IE had the web navigator market for itself and everything else was too little too late., like ...
Real life is not like the 100 meter dash, it's not over in ten seconds. do you really think that two thousand years from now it will matter if Google+ came before or after Facebook?
Forking Android doesn't get Microsoft of their backs, and it would prevent Google from helping them in the patent battle, for example, Google just sold a patent(s) to HTC so it could countersue Apple.
Have you noticed how everyone seems to think that Amazon's tablet is going to be a contender despite the fact that noone has seen it yet? It has nothing to do with the tablet or the software, the big point is that Amazon, like Apple, easily have hundreds of millions of registered customers ordering from them is easy.
That's the reason why one of the first things I did with my galaxy tab, bought second hand but like new in eBay, was to download the kindle app and buy a couple of books.
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Definitely not.
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"Google has bet the company on Google+"
Are you seriously saying that, if Google+ fails, Google goes tits up?
Seriously?
I mean, you really mean that?
It was a joke, right?
"they would stop manufacturers making cars that go over the speed limits in the first place"
Actually they do that, they don't allow manufactures to make cars that go over the speed limit of German highways.
No that they have any problem enforcing it, after all, going past the speed of light is kind of hard.
Re: If they really knew...
"Since when a price of a service is tied to the cost of the service provider?"
Did you mean to say that?
Re: I is for Initial
Don't worry, we will have all the access we could possibly want one earnings release after the IPO at less than half the IPO price.
Re: Making Nokia's implosion looks like a bad hair day...
On the other hand Sony has a Spiderman movie coming up
Re: Groklaw Bias?
I can't be the only one who is pissed at 'Anonymous cowards' who argue among themselves with no way to tell who says what.
Will you please stop that moronic meme?
Re: Misleading
Of course there are other views, for example, when the veredict was announced, Oracle stock went down while Google's went up.
Despite most headlines claiming a mayor win for Oracle.
bias
Groklaw is so biased that they predicted from the start that SCO had no case, they even went as far as writing, where everyone could read it, that SCO didn't own the Unix copyrights.
Just because every judge and jury agreed with them doesn't mean they were right, it was just bias you know.
Re: Part of the deal...
On the other hand Microsoft wanted B&N to pay them for their use of Linux, B&N answered 'says who?' and now is actually Microsoft giving B&N 300 million.
Couldn't happen to a nice people.
Re: Antitrust goals
Actually Amazon is a publisher, look up 'Kindle singles' if you don't believe me.
Something, that must be giving the traditional publishers no end of nightmares.
Re: Nope..
"Banning the Amazon app would have immediately brought in charges of abuse of its tablet monopoly,"
Except that's what Apple did.
They couldn't make it that obvious so what they actually did was change the rules for everyone so that Amazon would have had to give them 30% of book revenue when read on the kindle app, all of Amazon's margin.
They probably weren't expecting Amazon to create their kindle cloud reader, so they could bypass Apple's app store.
Funny how Apple's lawyers didn't mention that in their filing.
Re: Internet delivered, ebook prices are crazy
"Why do they cost as much as the dead-tree versions?"
Mostly they don't, yes I know, there are exceptions, but 'mostly' ebooks are cheaper. Some of them, specially if the are only published as ebooks, are much cheaper.
Re: FSF
You mean, like when they enforce the GPL?
Yes, of course, they have won every single one of those.
Re: The Phantom Menace Haters
"No idea what either was doing in a film made for men in the 30-40 bracket"
George Lucas repeatedly said that the movies were made for kids.
Re: Time flies!
That's the way fiscal years work
Re: Err
"Currently about 25% of them are back in the server room, gathering dust."
That's whay eBay was born for
Another movie that never was
Star Trek V, they went straight from IV to VI.
That was irony, wasn't it?
"Thanks Apple - other companies please take note, your profit margins don't need to be obscene, you just need to make a profit."
Most companies would love to get the reduced margins Apple is getting on the new iPad.
It is hard to tell from a single post but you were kidding, right?
Re: Like the story goes...
"they laughed at how foolish they had been'"
That's the point where you can tell that the story is a hoax, in real life nobody would have listened to the little boy.
Another CBS series
They also have a little known series called "Star trek"
At least some people seem to like it, for whatever the reason
Re: Hey, where did all the fandroids go?
Apple did indeed lay the rules early on, it is not like they suddenly told Amazon to give them 30% of sales made through their Kindle app.
Re: But...
Have you ever seen a car model that fitted everyone's needs?
If you haven't, and I bet you haven't, why are you expecting electric cars to be any different?
These cars will be bought by people who think they fit their needs/wants and they will not be bought by people who don't find them suitable, for example, those who don't have a place to charge them.
But, with any luck, the cars will be improved with time and more of them will be bought, and more charging places will be available and more people will buy them and ....
It won't happen automagically and it will definitely not happen by tomorrow but that doesn't mean it won't happen
Re: Maybe it's all for the best
Don't forget to put yourself in the list
"and instead just ask people what they wanted to have, and produce that."
Mostly, we would still be living in caves.
As an example, Ford once tried your approach, that got them the Edsel.
That was for financial related stocks
Third trilogie
After making the last trilogy he said he was not going to do the third one about the children of the skywalkers. Then he let novel writers continue the story, starting with Timothy Zhan 'Heir of the empire'
Screen
Since it is intended to be used as an e-book. Is the screen reflective? I
Screen size
Like the mentioned 27" HP monster, PC makers seem bent on making bigger and bigger screens, doesn't anyone make an all-in-one smaller than 20"?
Reminds me of the way laptops got ever bigger screens until someone asked "Wouldn't it be nice if laptops were actually portable?" and netbooks were created.
Or ....
.. the rumours about a 7" iPad are true
"Android is ignoring the bulk of the market. "
I guess that's why it only has 53% of the smarphone market
So, if I understand you, Apple goes to advertisers and tells them: You see, we don't do any tracking on our users, we have no idea if the ad we serve has any relation to the user tastes, now pay us.
Is that it?
"For employers, employee car ownership gives them a much larger pool of potential employees"
Another way to look at it is that, thanks to roads and cars, people can look for a job beyond a 5 mile radius of where they live therefore being able to choose a better job instead of being slaved to the local ones or having to move every couple of years to the new company town.
Based on reality (what else is there?)
I guess you haven't heard about Apple's ad network for servings ads in ios:
http://advertising.apple.com/
And, obviously, you do know that the ones complaining about the lack of the external storage in the iPhone are the same ones saying that it doesn't really matter here, right?
They must be, otherwise the one-size-fits-all Apple motto would be wrong.
Do you really think that MS with refrain to license Windows phone to these guys?
Come on! they make tens of millions of iphones
Literally it means "I'm missing a screw' but it is also a expression that translates to 'I lost my marbles'
"darker than charcoal at optical wavelengths"
That's a pity, it would have been quite a show if it were visible.
The other day I was having dinner with a few friends and at some time we wanted to check something in the net. We did it with the phone of a piano teacher.
It was an android phone.
Somehow she doesn't have a problem using it despite having no IT background.
(I am not even going to mention that the one in the dinner who does have a CS degree couldn't use his iPhone as it was in the repair shop. After all, Apple products never break down, so mentioning it would clearly mark me as a lying troll)
And by the way, Linux has nothing to do with the FSF but anyway, who cares about facts?
Suuuuure
Like IBM had all the computer market to itself and everything else was too little and too late, like IE had the web navigator market for itself and everything else was too little too late., like ...
Real life is not like the 100 meter dash, it's not over in ten seconds. do you really think that two thousand years from now it will matter if Google+ came before or after Facebook?
When he is done
I remember watching in YouTube a vid where someone put together all the times Larry said 'Red Hat' in a conference.
Kind of funny, he was going to sink Red Hat, and yet Red Hat keeps reporting record quarters just about every quarter.
Another memo that got lost I guess.
Paris as she also seems to get a lot media attention for no real reason.
TomTom
It wan't Android but MS did sue TomTom for their use of Linux
3g?
Why would I want to pay another monthly fee for a 3G subscription when my smartphone, which is always with me, already has one?
Sure
I wonder how much MS reduced their patent royalties in exchange for that statement
I don't
Yet, I have always taken for granted they could track me online due to all the 'I like it' buttons in web pages I do visit.
Don't bother to call me paranoid, I actually don't care if they do.
On the other hand
Forking Android doesn't get Microsoft of their backs, and it would prevent Google from helping them in the patent battle, for example, Google just sold a patent(s) to HTC so it could countersue Apple.
Have you noticed how everyone seems to think that Amazon's tablet is going to be a contender despite the fact that noone has seen it yet? It has nothing to do with the tablet or the software, the big point is that Amazon, like Apple, easily have hundreds of millions of registered customers ordering from them is easy.
That's the reason why one of the first things I did with my galaxy tab, bought second hand but like new in eBay, was to download the kindle app and buy a couple of books.
2030?
They seriously think they can predict technology twenty years from now?
They're mental.
loss of a billion
Somehow, I am pretty certain HP would have preferred to get Apple like profits on those TouchPads.
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