ciTiger
Apr 29, 11:11 AM
..and as a result of shipping heavy industry overseas, the U.S. is now bankrupt.
I'd say most of the countries are bankrupt... They just don't want to admit it...
I'd say most of the countries are bankrupt... They just don't want to admit it...
BC2009
Apr 29, 11:57 AM
It's funny, but wherever I go, I always see people with iPhones. My train, on plane trips between Chicago and NYC, during meetings, etc. I am amazed the number is only 5% - but I guess it's the circles that I am in.
The people with dumb-phones probably keep them in their pockets until they ring. Smart-phone people have their phone out more so it is more visible. Dumb-phones still make up over half of the global market (I think).
The staggering thing is the share of the premium customers that Apple has. By "premium", I mean those who actually buy a smartphone for the smartphone features like music, video, apps and such as opposed to those who just got whatever phone was the best free/ultra-cheap phone available (e.g.: last year's Android models for free with 2-year contract).
The iPhone customers actually fork over hundreds of dollars in music, video, and app purchases after they buy the phone. Those are the "premium" customers and right now Apple has the majority of them.
The customers who just got whatever free phone was available rarely buy more stuff after they get the phone. My father falls into this category, he just wants the thing to ring when somebody calls. He recently got excited to show me that he could change ring tones on his new phone. I was happy for him, but realized he would never ever use apps. I may get him an iPhone one day just so he can access he favorite sports information on the go.
The people with dumb-phones probably keep them in their pockets until they ring. Smart-phone people have their phone out more so it is more visible. Dumb-phones still make up over half of the global market (I think).
The staggering thing is the share of the premium customers that Apple has. By "premium", I mean those who actually buy a smartphone for the smartphone features like music, video, apps and such as opposed to those who just got whatever phone was the best free/ultra-cheap phone available (e.g.: last year's Android models for free with 2-year contract).
The iPhone customers actually fork over hundreds of dollars in music, video, and app purchases after they buy the phone. Those are the "premium" customers and right now Apple has the majority of them.
The customers who just got whatever free phone was available rarely buy more stuff after they get the phone. My father falls into this category, he just wants the thing to ring when somebody calls. He recently got excited to show me that he could change ring tones on his new phone. I was happy for him, but realized he would never ever use apps. I may get him an iPhone one day just so he can access he favorite sports information on the go.
canderton
Apr 27, 03:53 PM
It will be only useful to me if it doesn't require a constant Internet connection (as is the case with Google's solution).
Roaming costs are ludicrous, and I need navigation most often when I'm abroad.
The only downside would be that an offline navigation system requiring only a GPS signal would require GB's of maps data to be stored on the phone. A sacrifice that a lot of people aren't willing to make. Especially people with the 16GB models. Otherwise, without an internet connection, you will just appear as a dot on a map full of gray squares. That's the reason Apple chose google maps in the first place. When they first introduced the iPhone, there would be no plausible way to store maps on a phone with only 4/8GB of storage.
Roaming costs are ludicrous, and I need navigation most often when I'm abroad.
The only downside would be that an offline navigation system requiring only a GPS signal would require GB's of maps data to be stored on the phone. A sacrifice that a lot of people aren't willing to make. Especially people with the 16GB models. Otherwise, without an internet connection, you will just appear as a dot on a map full of gray squares. That's the reason Apple chose google maps in the first place. When they first introduced the iPhone, there would be no plausible way to store maps on a phone with only 4/8GB of storage.
ivladster
Apr 13, 02:41 PM
I just love how consistent Apple is with all of their software. It brings the ease of editing from Logic and iMovie. This is gonna be such a deal breaker!
Super excited!
Super excited!
diamond.g
Jul 30, 10:19 AM
Don't even get me started on Natty Light. I went to Notre Dame for my MBA and lived in what was probably the No. 1 Party Complex off campus. You had apartments with Mercedes, Hummer and BMW cars parked out front and what was in the kegs of these cheap bastards? Natty Light. Are you friggin serious?! Not even Bud or Miller Light, or maybe even Coors, but noooo... Natty..... unbelievable. It was no surprise that we had people hang out at our place to the point where we had to kick people out if they weren't willing to contribute to the beer fund because we had Blue Moon in ours.
Mind you, Blue Moon isn't the greatest but it does the job for a Keg Party and is tons better than Natty or any of the big 3 for that matter. For our own drinking desires of the selected few, we always had a second Keg stowed in one of our rooms with Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen. It still shocks me to this day that I was able to get a hold of it in the middle of Indiana of all places and even more shocking was able to get it on tab in two bars, one on campus and the other in an Irish Pub in South Bend. To give you some perspective, Weihenstephan is a brewery outside of Munich and you can't even get their beer in quite a number of bars and restaurants in Munich. To find it in this hole in the world that is South Bend was a delightful surprise for me, and made the experience so much more bearable... (if you go to ND, go as an Undergrad, because as a Grad, the girls in the Grad programs are either nerds in a bad way or husband shopping and the Undergrad girls think you are a dirty old man....)
Cheers,
Ahmed
A lot of my friends love Natty Light because it is cheap... I don't get it. But then again I was a Guinness Man myself. Very very few of my friends liked it, which meant more for me!
Mind you, Blue Moon isn't the greatest but it does the job for a Keg Party and is tons better than Natty or any of the big 3 for that matter. For our own drinking desires of the selected few, we always had a second Keg stowed in one of our rooms with Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen. It still shocks me to this day that I was able to get a hold of it in the middle of Indiana of all places and even more shocking was able to get it on tab in two bars, one on campus and the other in an Irish Pub in South Bend. To give you some perspective, Weihenstephan is a brewery outside of Munich and you can't even get their beer in quite a number of bars and restaurants in Munich. To find it in this hole in the world that is South Bend was a delightful surprise for me, and made the experience so much more bearable... (if you go to ND, go as an Undergrad, because as a Grad, the girls in the Grad programs are either nerds in a bad way or husband shopping and the Undergrad girls think you are a dirty old man....)
Cheers,
Ahmed
A lot of my friends love Natty Light because it is cheap... I don't get it. But then again I was a Guinness Man myself. Very very few of my friends liked it, which meant more for me!
Doctor Q
Jan 10, 04:57 PM
Pretty good photo for a 2-megapixel iPhone! ;)
iTalkappleosx
May 5, 08:38 AM
TBH the 27" IMac is sounding very tempting with the double TB and SB
why on earth is the HDD not sata-3
i was planning on copping an IMac for my family home, as my parent and sisters love my MBP - but i really do not care if the IMac CPU is 10-15% faster, when the hdd only links to sata3 - as i would of put an owc ssd in!
Guess i will wait for a 2012 re-fresh when apple finally recognises sata-6
i hope, rather than giving us TB - which i love, but at this point in time is a little redundant as there is no TB equipped peripherals available - hopefully a next gen apple cinema display with OLED and TB would also get my cash!
I love my iMac, but i think next year, i will have to get the new Macbook pro to go along with it.
why on earth is the HDD not sata-3
i was planning on copping an IMac for my family home, as my parent and sisters love my MBP - but i really do not care if the IMac CPU is 10-15% faster, when the hdd only links to sata3 - as i would of put an owc ssd in!
Guess i will wait for a 2012 re-fresh when apple finally recognises sata-6
i hope, rather than giving us TB - which i love, but at this point in time is a little redundant as there is no TB equipped peripherals available - hopefully a next gen apple cinema display with OLED and TB would also get my cash!
I love my iMac, but i think next year, i will have to get the new Macbook pro to go along with it.
ezekielrage_99
Aug 2, 07:33 PM
I hope we see iPod updates but I doubt it.....
I want my new iPod :D
I want my new iPod :D
talkingfuture
Apr 19, 06:32 AM
Sounds great so far. Will probably get the x360 version but good to see new games releasing on day one for the Mac.
FasterQuieter
Apr 12, 10:06 AM
No one in his right mind thought that there would be two releases in one year.
I thought/think it conceivable they would release a higher-priced Retina version of the iPad 2 just prior to the holidays to keep ahead of the competition. This is assuming the A5 SOC has the horsepower for it, and that the screens are available in high enough quantities.
I thought/think it conceivable they would release a higher-priced Retina version of the iPad 2 just prior to the holidays to keep ahead of the competition. This is assuming the A5 SOC has the horsepower for it, and that the screens are available in high enough quantities.
citizenzen
Apr 13, 10:18 AM
Could someone Please point out where in any of my posts I said we should do the same thing? I was simply pointing out that another poster who seemed to think that this kind of behavior didn't exsist in other countries wAs wrong.
Likewise, can you please point out where in any of my posts I said it didn't exist? I was simply pointing out that another poster needed to source their assertions.
Seems like I'm not the only one jumping to conclusions here.
And Kavika? If we removed every condescending, curt or rhetorical post in PRSI we'd be left with only iJohnHenry's cornball jokes. I've taken part in political forums that make PRSI look like a sewing circle (and left because I'm not into simply slamming people).
Sorry if I'm playing too rough for you. :(
Likewise, can you please point out where in any of my posts I said it didn't exist? I was simply pointing out that another poster needed to source their assertions.
Seems like I'm not the only one jumping to conclusions here.
And Kavika? If we removed every condescending, curt or rhetorical post in PRSI we'd be left with only iJohnHenry's cornball jokes. I've taken part in political forums that make PRSI look like a sewing circle (and left because I'm not into simply slamming people).
Sorry if I'm playing too rough for you. :(
JAT
Apr 28, 01:18 PM
This is why every article turns into a fight. Why fling mud for no reason.
Just trying to get it off me. Watch out where it lands!
Just trying to get it off me. Watch out where it lands!
Multimedia
Sep 13, 08:28 AM
Wow! Talk about amazing innovation. I think the ability to have 38 characters engraved on the back of every iPod Shuffle ordered from the Apple Online Store FOR FREE is amazing. Imagine being able to engrave your name and phone number for example:
Return Reward Tom Jones 555.555.4093
36 characters
Lot of incentive to buy online to get that free engraving to personalize every one of them. I love it. :)
Also find it amazing and innovative that the audio out headphone jack triples as a recharge and data port as well. Never seen a headphone jack do so much all in one before now.
Return Reward Tom Jones 555.555.4093
36 characters
Lot of incentive to buy online to get that free engraving to personalize every one of them. I love it. :)
Also find it amazing and innovative that the audio out headphone jack triples as a recharge and data port as well. Never seen a headphone jack do so much all in one before now.
NT1440
Jul 15, 06:22 PM
I really don't know whats going to happen tomorrow, all I know, its going to be interesting. :)
diablojota
Jul 12, 04:34 PM
The Mac mini and iMac are in dire need of an update. The Mini doesn't really need a speed boost either. Just drop the price to $499 Solo and $599 Duo.
What would you do to update them, then? What is there to update? Add another USB 2.0 slot? Dire need for nothing. As long as they are selling, there won't be a change, not until the new processors start rolling out come september - december.
What would you do to update them, then? What is there to update? Add another USB 2.0 slot? Dire need for nothing. As long as they are selling, there won't be a change, not until the new processors start rolling out come september - december.
zen.state
Mar 24, 11:20 PM
Your argument would be valid for the G4, but doesn't really hold much water considering that G5s were the PowerPC equivalent to a Pentium 4 - they have 16 stage integer pipelines and can go as many as 25 stages depending on the instruction.
OTOH, they could hold twice as many simultaneous instructions as a P4 could.
The G5 also had a 800MHz-1.1GHz bus.. the exact point I was trying to make. Many stages = the need for a fast bus. My Sawtooth with a 7448 1.8GHz G4 with 7 stages on the logic board gets by fine with the 100MHz bus.
OTOH, they could hold twice as many simultaneous instructions as a P4 could.
The G5 also had a 800MHz-1.1GHz bus.. the exact point I was trying to make. Many stages = the need for a fast bus. My Sawtooth with a 7448 1.8GHz G4 with 7 stages on the logic board gets by fine with the 100MHz bus.
EvolutionXGSR
Apr 5, 09:49 AM
I never understood why people give a "Negative" to articles like these. What can be Negative about them announcing a new product. It's not like you are on DroidRumors or a general phone website where other users can show their dislike towards the iPhone.
Maybe some of you who recently just purchased an iPhone 4 are just having a bit of buyer's remorse? Don't be such losers.
Maybe some of you who recently just purchased an iPhone 4 are just having a bit of buyer's remorse? Don't be such losers.
alec
Oct 18, 01:40 PM
December is a little late... considering a fair amount of the consuming proleteriat does their shopping on Thanksgiving weekend for Christmas
daneoni
Sep 12, 11:50 AM
Whew!, just re-organised/tweaked & enhanced my entire iTunes library out of boredom. So we have live streaming? that'll be awesome. Again thanks to MR for the live update. You guys rock.
rrl
Apr 28, 09:12 AM
I think that's not correct. Some people need more than 128GB you know. Yes, you can carry an external drive but then why not carry a larger machine with more internal storage?
The 1366x768 resolution can be limiting. For example, Apple's own Server Admin software will barely show the summary page at 768 pixels tall. The bottom row of graphs are tiny squished things at the bottom. It's clearly not meant to run on this small a display. And it's a perfect example of something you would want on a small carry it anywhere Mac.
Like I was saying...
The 1366x768 resolution can be limiting. For example, Apple's own Server Admin software will barely show the summary page at 768 pixels tall. The bottom row of graphs are tiny squished things at the bottom. It's clearly not meant to run on this small a display. And it's a perfect example of something you would want on a small carry it anywhere Mac.
Like I was saying...
BillyBobBongo
Apr 6, 03:04 AM
I love these ads...nice blending action Mr Dickson! :D
SteveKnobs
Apr 17, 09:59 AM
OMG the telephone is white! OK, can MACrumors focus on macs now and leave iOS devices for a while??
Haha. I don't know where you've been for the last 1-2 years, but iOS dominates 95% of MacRumors. It's what sells (page views) man!
Haha. I don't know where you've been for the last 1-2 years, but iOS dominates 95% of MacRumors. It's what sells (page views) man!
mikes70mustang
Apr 6, 12:14 AM
That guy was so stupid. He blended like 3 iPhones, iPad, some iPods. He wasted a grand already. Better use the money to improve his business or something IMO.
Hes made tons more money off of blending that stuff than the total cost. Someone buying an ipad and playing around on it, buying apps, etc., are wasting.
Hes made tons more money off of blending that stuff than the total cost. Someone buying an ipad and playing around on it, buying apps, etc., are wasting.
toddybody
Apr 12, 11:22 AM
Ya. Just like Apple went pro-consumer with $.99 songs instead of buying the entire CD. Apple is not good for the consumer. Nopes. Trust me, its not.
Totally, cause Apple's video content pricing mirrors it's song's. Oh wait?! Apples and Oranges dude...lets make a really simple example
Netflix: 7.99 Unlimited Streaming*
Totally, cause Apple's video content pricing mirrors it's song's. Oh wait?! Apples and Oranges dude...lets make a really simple example
Netflix: 7.99 Unlimited Streaming*
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