Posted on 07/03/2010 9:38:54 PM PDT by stripes1776
The first generation of what Apple is calling the iPad was the Apple Newton Message Pad 100, developed by Apple and Sharp Electronics, and SOLD by Apple before anyone else, in March of 1993. After a five year run, and mediocre sales, the Newton line of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs, a term coined by Apple) was discontinued in 1997-98.
Microsoft and o group of PC makers were Johnny-come-latelys to the competition with tablet PDAs that also did not sell well.
So....for all these reasons and more, I think the run is done.
Cold, you haven't got a clue.
Your reason are all WRONG and are based in myth. I'm not even going to bother spending the time to refute them aside from stating that there are now 60 million OSX Macs in use. They can't ALL have been sold to previous Mac users. And, exactly where are these mythical "proprietary add ons" that Apple forces us to buy?
Before you criticize products, you might want to learn their names. It would tend to show you might know more about what you are talking about. Why don't you put your money where your mouth is and short Apple stock. In the meantime, you post is an excellent example of misguided FUD.
Sheesh!
Are you truly this ignorant? Or is making up "facts" just your normal mode of debate?
The iPhone 3GS, the previous version iPhone was released at $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model. The version immediately prior to that, the iPhone 3G was released at $199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB. These prices all reflect the AT&T subsidized two year rate plan pricing.
liar
You know, Puget, THIS is another reason why I have NO respect at all for you. You toss out these factoids tweaking Apple, implying pecuniary motives for various things, and there is NOT ONE SHREAD OF TRUTH IN IT!
Although I seldom use Wikipedia as a source, I'll make an exception:
H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 or AVC (Advanced Video Coding) is a standard for video compression. The final drafting work on the first version of the standard was completed in May 2003. H.264/MPEG-4 AVC is a block-oriented motion-compensation-based codec standard developed by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). It was the product of a partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT). The ITU-T H.264 standard and the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 AVC standard (formally, ISO/IEC 14496-10 - MPEG-4 Part 10, Advanced Video Coding) are jointly maintained so that they have identical technical content. H.264 is used in such applications as Blu-ray Disc, videos from YouTube and the iTunes Store, DVB broadcast, direct-broadcast satellite television service, cable television services, and real-time videoconferencing.
Good grief! Apple is backing H.264 because it IS a standard that is freely available to anyone and is highly efficient at compressing large amount of video data with little loss. They do not own it.
How many people telling you you're wrong is it going to take before you admit you're wrong? We bought them. Not you.
“How many people telling you you’re wrong is it going to take before you admit you’re wrong? We bought them. Not you.”
Yeah and you never ever tell a lie, right? Or parse words? Or deflect? right?
When first released the phones were not $199, they were $400 because apple thought they could sell enough of them at that price.
Please provide me with a link to the in-the-wild exploit where a Mac has been compromised by this "arbitrary code execution" vulnerability you are trumpeting. I'm not interested in reading about a show demonstration to win a contest, nor a laboratory proof-of-concept experiment. I want you to show me a report of an in the real world exploit of an OSX Mac being used normally.
“Please provide me with a link to the in-the-wild exploit where a Mac has been compromised by this “arbitrary code execution” vulnerability you are trumpeting.”
Would a patch release notice from apple suffice? bozo I could care less what you are interested in. Apple says it exists and yet you parse words and claim there is no problem.
Is that up or down? How are you doing that at the same time as talking? That's 1megabit per second, Puget, and I really don't think you have ANYWHERE near enough upload bandwidth at that rate for any decent two way video conferencing. Remember those pesky start and stop data bits and effective rates of through-put we talked about the other day when you were claiming a 16GB iPhone could be copied in 40 seconds over a USB2.0 cable? You have the same problem here. Only worse.
As for video tech know how, Apple's been doing it for years with iChat at far higher quality than any of them have been able to achieve.
I'm typically NOT an Apple defender, but you're clearly operating without a base set of facts.
First, the iPad is a slate, not a 'tablet' with a reversible screen, keyboard and spinning HDD.
Second, tablet PC's (which never took off 10 years ago, they were pieces of crap) never found an operating system that could exploit the tablet's "capabilities." XP Professional never ran right on it, device drivers were always buggy forcing "bugchecks" and hard reboots, and today's Tablet PC's aren't much better with Windows 7 Professional on them. I'm doing a usability test for the company I work for between a HP Elite Tablet PC and a Apple iPad. I'll tell you this, the HP Tablet PC locks up several times a day and loses it's pen input constantly, while the iPad keeps humming away successfully running one webapp after another. The difference here is Apple didn't try and jam a square peg into a round hole making the iPad work with an OS, the same way HP did with their tablet pc.
Third, the thing most people miss about the iPad is the USER EXPERIENCE has it all over a Netbook/Notebook/Tablet or Desktop PC. The iPad exploits natural human behavior in its user interface, there is little to actually "learn" to use it. I've been a PC/Microsoft guy for 25 years, I picked up an iPad and was able to use it to do 80% or more of what I wanted it to do in a matter of minutes. Usability of the iPad just cannot be overstated here.
Finally, Apple sold 1.7 million iPads in 3 days. You didn't see those types of numbers in Netbooks and Netbook sales started waning after 5-6 months as buyers learned they were not a substitute for a fully-functioning laptop. They just don't have the power or screen real-estate to be a laptop replacement.
Neither do iPads by the way. There are things I still must do on my desktop/laptop that the iPad won't do. Heavy number crunching, collaborate using MS Office documents (the iPad will read only, and not always well) are but two of the things I've found thus far. But the iPads do have a place, they're great for casual and casual business use. They'll never be a "daily driver" and I can't see anyone using one full time, 8 hours a day productively because the on screen keyboard and video format are too small to do that. The same can be said for Netbooks (video too small, keyboards suck.)
I don't view the iPad/Netbook/Tablet comparison to be fair either. That's like comparing my summer car, which I'd never drive during the winter or on rainy days, to the car I drive to work every day and take on my errands. One's a sexy-cool chick magnet and the other just gets the job done.
Uh no, I just got my iphone4, and I just downloaded and installed WiFi finder yesterday. From the App Store. Free. You are WRONG again. And i updated it on my iPad. Relying on blogs for your information is not a good practice. The apps were pulled because they were using undocumented APIs and Apple had just provided a new Documented API using Apple's own sniffer that it uses when the iPhone itself finds WIFI signals. As soon as the apps were rewritten using the approved hooks they were re-admitted to the app store. The apps in the wild were then updated.
LOL
Driftdiver. I can document every one of those release day prices. I suggest you retract your libel.
Do it, provide a source for everyone as well. Not some made up numbers like you normally do.
Would a listing of the amount of money in your checking account be proof that I stole it? No! A patch release notice from Apple would NOT SUFFICE, you idiot! Apple did not say an EXPLOIT existed, they said a vulnerability existed.
If you go to the doctor and he tells you that he has detected a potential problem (a vulnerability) that has the almost certain potential to kill you (an exploit) in two weeks, but if the doctor does XY&Z, it won't happen, and you let him do XY&Z, are you dead two weeks later??? No, he fixed the vulnerability... The exploit never has the chance to happen!
Got tired of waiting for you
http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/apple_slashes_iphone_prices_4gb_iphone_is_history.php
Apple Sets iPhone Price at $399 for this Holiday Season
SAN FRANCISCO—September 5, 2007—Apple® today announced that it is on track to sell its one millionth iPhone™ before the end of September, and to make iPhone affordable for even more customers this holiday season, it is lowering the price of the most popular iPhone model with 8GB of storage from $599 to just $399.
Parsing words and deflection. Arbitrary code execution.
For all you know that is what IS being used to steal these peoples credit cards on iTunes.
I work in an industry where I have one computer on my desk, and 3 monitors. It sits behind a firewall and runs a good AV software. I haven't had any viruses. I manage about 200 servers remotely, so I use them but they don't sit on my desk. They're generally butt ugly aluminum boxes with a few flashing lights on the front, and they sit in big racks in a glass house with their own AC and power. They haven't had any viruses either. When they were bought, the only only questions asked were whether they would run the software we wanted to run at the speed we needed to run it, and was the hardware reliable. I've never heard anyone ask if a server is fun or pretty, ever.
love coming home to my Apple. I’m on my fifth one. I have every computer I’ve ever owned. All work, but I don’t use them.
You use what works for you, and I'll use what works for me.
What's a better computer for you will depend on what's important to you, but what's important to you isn't necessarily important to everyone else.
“Microsoft and o group of PC makers were Johnny-come-latelys to the competition”
Thats because they were too busy putting computers on 98% of the desktop market.
HELL NO! This is common knowledge on here. I do not respect you enough to bother proving you are a liar again. Every one who knows me from my postings knows I am not the liar you keep implying and say I am. I'm damn tired of it. If I give numbers, I can back them. If I give estimates, I give my reasoning of how I came to that estimate. I NEVER make things up. Look it up yourself. It's easy to find. Get an education.
Too bad sword, I already posted a link for you. Proving you are incorrect. Gosh you have to be getting tired of eating crow.
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