LOL! Really? You would that Mike is biased no matter what the facts or the law or the fire or the chain because you work backwards. Every single thing you say about Mike is dripping with lies, bias, and prejudice, and superfluous commas. You couldn't be honest about Mike if your life depended on it. But, yeah, keep dead agenting for your paymasters. As long as there's the appearance of real debate...
My 50+ year old Aunt purchased an Apple 2 in the mid-80s, somewhere around the same time I got my first computer, a 286 with MS-DOS 3.1. I was a kid, got taught DOS and picked it up pretty quick(an early adopter). Trying to teach DOS to my Aunt would have been about as effective as trying to teach DOS to my wall, she was decidedly mainstream, on the other side of the chasm.
The Apple2 had substantial penetration into non-geek, non-tech savvy markets. This is what's called mainstream. Perhaps you should read up on product adoption lifecycle.
The Apple 2 was the first PC with significant mainstream market traction, because of its ease of use. Within a few years, MS-DOS/Windows dominated. 2 reasons: effective business marketing strategy, and allowing anyone to develop (in fact bundling BASIC). In fact the latter fed into the former, as business would be able to roll their own programs. By comparison, writting any code for Apple required a dev license from them. A barrier to tinkering which lead to more innovation on the Windows platform. Windows won because it was a more open platform, and Apple computers became niche because it was a walled garden.
Fast forward: OSx took off because it abandoned the powerpc custom platform and built on top of a rock solid BSD kernel. Said kernel, plus an x86 architecture made ports and development easier. Apple, for the first time in over a decade had mainstream market traction.
The mobile world has been lead by Apple, and for good reason. They came up with a stunning form factor and brilliant product design. The walled garden worked because they leveraged their product's complete leapfrogging of any other phone available at the time. But the most sold phones these days are android. Others have caught up/copied the compelling aspects of the iphone and are providing a better value offering to consumers, and winning.
Windows phone 7 is a great OS. It does some very innovative things and steps away from the task/channel-specific approach of iPhones and Androids to a more integrated approach. It's lovely. But their market share is crap, their app "ecosystem" is minute, they're a distant third on everyone's list of phone OSes to support. They're the Opera of the phone OS world.
Creating a walled garden on top of that is silly. They lose out on innovation by limiting the API available for apps. Game changing apps everyone "has to have" are less likely with a limited API, as many of these evolve from tinkering. Limiting the API available to tinkerers means they'll go somewhere else. Apple has a huge market share to leverage, Android has a huge market share and more open platform. Windows has neither.
With windows it was an anti trust issue because Windows was dominant. With Windows RT, they aren't dominant, so all this is is dumb.
Right, but what about someone who is still actively involved in lobbying for the more restrictive construction? He's a registered lobbyist for a music collection society.
We keeps it reelz at TufAmerica, with an in yo face fresh attitude. Wez all abouts da musik and making phat beats that r dope n shiznit! We are all about da g thang, unless you have a successful album then we will money grab through copyright law in order to tax your success because that sounds an awful lot like a 4/4 beat on a bass drum which we invented in the early 80s.
I agree, there are in fact many things Mike did not consider.
He did not consider, for example, that the server was part of skynet, and was about to become self aware and launch missiles at Russia in an effort to wipe out humanity. Thank God we averted that disaster, and how dare Mike besmirch the names of our heroes!!!
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LOL! Really? You would that Mike is biased no matter what the facts or the law or the fire or the chain because you work backwards. Every single thing you say about Mike is dripping with lies, bias, and prejudice, and superfluous commas. You couldn't be honest about Mike if your life depended on it. But, yeah, keep dead agenting for your paymasters. As long as there's the appearance of real debate...
Great Article and all, but.. Malarkey?
What are you, a 1920 itinerant farm hand?
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Yup, would you invest in a film whose script might get yanked because its ownership was extorted from someone?
People will invest in Transformers 8: The Passion of the Optimus before this.
Re: exactly = where are the countersuits?
Countersuits are one thing, why isn't the government going after criminals? (i.e. cops who perjure themselves) Perjury is a CRIME, not a civil thing.
Wolfram's Heart
Yeah, the senior partners are pretty sinister.
Re: Re: This is a brilliant idea that will absolutely work!!!
Ha! Even better!
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Now with more Antisemitism™!!!
This is a brilliant idea that will absolutely work!!!
..for two weeks, max, until some nerd develops a filter/workaround, and life goes back to normal.
At worst, a month until some more resilient protocol emerges.
In the meantime, have fun DDoS'ing legitimate bittorrent users (e.g. Blizzard) and getting their legal attack teams all frothy.
*golfclap* for MAFIAA.
Re: Who are you trying to kid?
wow, really?
My 50+ year old Aunt purchased an Apple 2 in the mid-80s, somewhere around the same time I got my first computer, a 286 with MS-DOS 3.1. I was a kid, got taught DOS and picked it up pretty quick(an early adopter). Trying to teach DOS to my Aunt would have been about as effective as trying to teach DOS to my wall, she was decidedly mainstream, on the other side of the chasm.
The Apple2 had substantial penetration into non-geek, non-tech savvy markets. This is what's called mainstream. Perhaps you should read up on product adoption lifecycle.
Re: Awesome
Agreed, not sure the intended audience is really Kirk...
La plus ça change...
The Apple 2 was the first PC with significant mainstream market traction, because of its ease of use. Within a few years, MS-DOS/Windows dominated. 2 reasons: effective business marketing strategy, and allowing anyone to develop (in fact bundling BASIC). In fact the latter fed into the former, as business would be able to roll their own programs. By comparison, writting any code for Apple required a dev license from them. A barrier to tinkering which lead to more innovation on the Windows platform. Windows won because it was a more open platform, and Apple computers became niche because it was a walled garden.
Fast forward: OSx took off because it abandoned the powerpc custom platform and built on top of a rock solid BSD kernel. Said kernel, plus an x86 architecture made ports and development easier. Apple, for the first time in over a decade had mainstream market traction.
The mobile world has been lead by Apple, and for good reason. They came up with a stunning form factor and brilliant product design. The walled garden worked because they leveraged their product's complete leapfrogging of any other phone available at the time. But the most sold phones these days are android. Others have caught up/copied the compelling aspects of the iphone and are providing a better value offering to consumers, and winning.
Windows phone 7 is a great OS. It does some very innovative things and steps away from the task/channel-specific approach of iPhones and Androids to a more integrated approach. It's lovely. But their market share is crap, their app "ecosystem" is minute, they're a distant third on everyone's list of phone OSes to support. They're the Opera of the phone OS world.
Creating a walled garden on top of that is silly. They lose out on innovation by limiting the API available for apps. Game changing apps everyone "has to have" are less likely with a limited API, as many of these evolve from tinkering. Limiting the API available to tinkerers means they'll go somewhere else. Apple has a huge market share to leverage, Android has a huge market share and more open platform. Windows has neither.
With windows it was an anti trust issue because Windows was dominant. With Windows RT, they aren't dominant, so all this is is dumb.
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Right, but what about someone who is still actively involved in lobbying for the more restrictive construction? He's a registered lobbyist for a music collection society.
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All of us have been calling you a homonym behind your back for ages now. Glad it's all out in the open.
Re: And the TSA asks Congress
It would probably go along these lines, although instead of sharks there would be colon exams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIPSvIz9NDs
We R Thug 4 Life
We keeps it reelz at TufAmerica, with an in yo face fresh attitude. Wez all abouts da musik and making phat beats that r dope n shiznit! We are all about da g thang, unless you have a successful album then we will money grab through copyright law in order to tax your success because that sounds an awful lot like a 4/4 beat on a bass drum which we invented in the early 80s.
Tuf!!!!
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I agree, there are in fact many things Mike did not consider.
He did not consider, for example, that the server was part of skynet, and was about to become self aware and launch missiles at Russia in an effort to wipe out humanity. Thank God we averted that disaster, and how dare Mike besmirch the names of our heroes!!!
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You probably also think all poodles are dogs.
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It's like if I just make ad oms and scream wrong, maybe my paymaster can extend their gov't assisted life support a little longer!
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" I guess this means you would deny Sony the right to proceed in an action against this user of excerpts from its music portfolio."
Yes, but so would fair use doctrine. We're both wacky that way.
Re: Re: typo
What the hell was I drinking last night?