WTF are Apple playing at? • Page 7
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tengu 10,294 posts
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What was wrong with yesterday's thread? ;p -
I don't see the phone as an Apple phone - it's just a phone that happens to integrate with the iTMS, which is the big selling point. For Apple, the Nano is clearly the big news and that's why the phone was rolled out halfway through the speech which is how they announce the boring stuff while the Nano was kept back for 'just one more thing' at the end.
The phone is indeed distinctly 'meh' (hence my thread yesterday), the Nano is more exciting though hardly a revolutionary leap forward from the current line-up.
edit - oh, and... he hasn't seen Airplane?!? WTF???
Edited by otto at 15:07:33 08-09-2005 -
Khanivor wrote:
This argument is a favourite resort of the Apple haterz. ;p Trouble is, it doesn't stand up. If Apple were all mouth and no trousers, they wouldn't have the die-hard fanboy support of so many true geeks. Yes they look nice. Yes this is important. No it's not everything. It really does boil down to the software. They're not perfect, far from it, but it's just a lame and ill-informed argument to suggest that their appeal has nothing to do with the software.
Let's just not pretend that for the majority of their products the only thing that stands out about Apple hardware is the looks (and price), often with inferior capabilites to the competiton. -
Khanivor wrote:
I'll certainly whack an old copy of Windows on there, just so I can play my old games. Wouldn't dream of using it for my normal working environment though. ;p
Of course, a number of style concious peeps will no doubt be slapping hacked version of Windows on Apple machines.gif)
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Yeah mouse but you're also a nerd (don't deny it! don't you dare!) and the fact is, if the software and performance had been as inferior as Khanivor suggests, you'd have quickly become disenchanted, right? -
You know I was moaning about the dullness of this last Stevenote, and yearning for some genuine blockbuster news?
Heheh, as usual, Bob Cringely and his overactive imagination come to the rescue:
[code]Microsoft is woefully late with its next Windows upgrade, while Apple is far ahead with even the current version of OS X. Apple is moving to Intel processors and hackers have already shown that OS X can run fine on non-Apple hardware. But Apple doesn't want to give up its profitable hardware business to compete head-to-head with Microsoft. And remember, Apple totally dominates the portable music player market and will probably sell 25 million iPods or more this year.
Every one of those iPods is a bootable drive. What if Apple introduces OS 10.5, its next super-duper operating system release, and at the same time starts loading FOR FREE the current operating system version -- OS 10.4 -- on every new iPod in a version that runs on generic Intel boxes? What if they also make 10.4 a free download through the iTunes Music Store?
It wouldn't kill Microsoft, but it would hurt the company, both emotionally and materially. And it wouldn't hurt Apple at all. Apple hardware sales would be driven by OS 10.5 and all giving away 10.4 would do is help sell more iPods and attract more customers to Apple's store.[/code]
Nice idea, isn't it? -
It ain't gonna happen. Lovely thought though. -
Khanivor wrote:
Your trademark trolling on this is becoming so boring. Saying it over and over again isn't going to make it true.
Old tech at twice the price because it's white and got an Apple logo on it. -
Khanivor wrote:
"Just to get a dig in" - right. You have an inflated idea of yourself. I apologise for the time difference - it means I read morning threads a few hours late - it's a thread I've been following - I comment on it. That's OK is it? Good.
Let the trhead die, eh otto, rahter then dig up a post of mine pages before the last one you replied to just to get a dig in. -
Evidence please that Apple prices are inflated. Most independent reports that I've read (side-by-side reviews in photography mags, generalist PC mags) say the opposite.
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