I thought FairPlay was alive and well on video files sold through iTunes?
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The number of potential customers always dwarfs the actual, that doesn't mean you're going to get them.
Enable authentication via Active Directory and Wave can be a SharePoint killer, not to mention how it could cut the volume of internal email in the corporate world. One big thing I would like to see is how hard a company-hosted Wave becomes to manage once you get a lot of content which is a big pain with systems like SharePoint.
As Wave is/will be open-source I see an opportunity for those who want to bring it inside corporate environments. I don't think Google can do that, the model needed to sell to and support the corporate world is not in its DNA.
Over the past 30 years people have come to accept that computers do not work at times, whether it is due to hardware failures, software bugs, or viruses. There is no such history of acceptable failure with the telephone, it has always just worked - even in a power outage!
I can see why Apple is being paranoid with making sure the phone just works, it would be a product-killing public relations nightmare to have a bug or virus break a phone's core functionality.
I sympathize that it is very difficult to produce a proper response to an RFP, however as one who evaluates those responses let me tell you it is quickly evident which vendors spend the time to do so. It is also painful on the client side to prepare the criteria on which to fairly evaluate the responses.
It is an imperfect process and definitely more of an art than a science but the good news is that a well-defined RFP will often signal a client who understands their requirements.
When you read a story in a newspaper, you almost automatically consume other content in that paper, including ads. Why pick up another paper to read more news when it's already in your hands? To a lesser extent the same is true for cable news, you watch a brief segment and you are bombarded with "coming up next" teasers and flashy graphics, pretty anchors, etc., all designed to keep you on that channel (watching ads).
The web is way less sticky than even television, sure you could flip channels but you lose context, and you might have to keep flipping to find something interesting, broadcast is a push medium. Contrast this with the web page: what is the easiest thing to do after reading the linked story? Search around the new site (that you may not be familiar with) or hit the back button and resume what you were doing: Pulling down stories you want to read, instead of waiting to see if something interesting comes up.
I think Murdoch gets the power of the aggregator, I don't think he understands that he has always pushed content to consumers. (Yes a lot of work goes into creating a brand that attracts these consumers to the paper/network but once they are there they have content pushed to them.) The web is a pull medium.
Billions were spent on the "portal wars" of the 90's, and everyone who participated lost to a page with a text box and 2 buttons.
Using some of these tactics could backfire depending on how educated or savvy your target market is. Think of spam messages, those over the top tactics used to work on more people, now for most educated people that type of hard sell doesn't work.
Of course it all depends on the target market, if you're selling blankets with arms the bar is a little lower.
I tried a OneNote on a tablet PC for a while but having to wake/boot a sketchpad before capturing your thought just doesn't flow. I also tried OneNote (great program) on my main machine but the mouse and keyboard just isn't conducive to sketching.
What do you guys do?
Please! I switched over to the Mac platform about 4 years ago but I knew what I was getting. I was buying a product from a company that for years shipped a one-button mouse, that killed off its clone line to control the hardware, and that deprecates its platforms so it could advance in the directions it wanted without the baggage of legacy support.
I knew iTunes would only synch with iPods, for me that was part of the cost of switching. Yes I think Apple should get on with it but I don't expect they will and I can see their point. Apple is fanatical about controlling the user experience, it knows how iTunes will work its hardware but cannot know about hundreds of Taiwanese models. Can the white box mp3 player phone play video? Yes? Great. Can it decode h.264? Pictures? Great. Does it understand "Synch most recent (iPhoto) Events?" What does it expect for Calendars? Contacts? Notes?
Jason is forgetting that the reason he moved to OS X is that he was sick of the "incompatibilities and other assorted quirks of Microsoft’s wildly open ecosystem." You joined the wrong church my friend.
Could you see a company hosting it internally and manage permissions via Active Directory or LDAP groups to allow collaboration on documents or discussion groups?
Does it have potential to help the information overload that plagues corporate email (or maybe it will make it worse).
Calendaring? Does it even exist in the Wave universe?
I disagree with your argument that people should have known this was too good to be true. Orwell has been dead for almost 60 years, 1984 will be public domain soon enough.
The restrictions are along the "meta" parts (voting to indicate the quality of an answer), I think it is entirely sensible to restrict these actions to users who have built up a currency of trust within the SO community.
That being said, I think you are onto to something around the user experience. Perhaps an option shouldn't be shown to someone if they cannot perform it.
If spamxyz.org violated the cc terms would that be enough to complain to Google?
This means that employees and junior managers get a chance to evaluate their bosses as much as the bosses evaluate them. I don't think Bezo's action shows a lack a faith in lower management but rather a "trust but verify" approach.
Of course it might be a more strategic approach to finding out how stuff really works on the front line. Given a big enough management structure the "on the floor" reality might not filter up to the board room correctly. Remember the game of gossip? That effect plagues large organizations.
I've never heard of the "money available per square kilometer" indicator, though I'm sure it exists. Of course that would be low, Canada is the 2nd largest country land-wise and has half the population of California.
You are correct on the state of rural infrastructure although are things much different than in rural Alaska or Appalachia? Things are at their worst on Native reservations, but again I don't know if that is any different from the American experience.
On the banking front, I bank for free, although it is not with one of the "big six" banks mentioned in the article (you are correct - they operate as an oligopoly) but there is choice in the Canadian market.