The 16 GB iPhone 4 is €659 with €15 per month for 12 months plan on Vodafone in Greece. I understand that the size of the respective markets is vastly different and that strategically sacrificing margins for market share is more justified for the Indian market, but my point is that higher prices than the US is not unique to India situation.
Well, the iPhone is 600-700 euro in Europe, too, but carrier plans are also cheaper than those in the states, as I would guess are in India. Things indeed look very unfair if you don't factor in subsidies and factor out taxes and duties.
As is every technological and scientific achievement humankind has ever reached and is relying upon. Replace nuclear reactions with, say, human flight and your statement remains just as valid. I don't see many people crying out for abolishment of planes, though.
I know I'm probably nitpicking, but there is a lot of difference between regulators probing the company and Apple being concerned about it. A lot of poking an probing is business as usual for companies as big as Apple.
The physics and physiology of radiation exposure seem to be quite complicated. I can't really answer your question, I'm very far from qualified to do so, but again _according to Wikipedia_ the short term effect of 0.2 Sv per day, let alone a year, seems to fall into the "no effect" category[1]. And according to this[2] post on Boingboing, the long term effect may not be as bad as one might think either.
I guess you are right, but it's just as dishonest to present the situation as completely out of control and use Fukushima as an excuse to paint nuclear power as completely unsafe and dangerous. Which is what mainstream media has been mostly doing.
Yeah, he does that on the day he is shipping the device that represents the direction in which the entire industry is heading, the device that is the harbinger of the post-what era in question.
Yeah, don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen. Remember the iPhone parodies from 3 years ago ("it's a shaver, it's a cheese grater", "introducing iRack", etc)? None of those managed to hurt Apple's brand or the sales of Apple products. In fact they probably had the opposite effect - they made people, who would otherwise not have known of the existence of an Apple phone, aware of the iPhone.
But that was not because the iPod had no wireless, neither because it had less space than Nomad. I hope we can all agree, with the benefit of hindsight, that the reason for the slow uptake of the iPod was a combination of it being Firewire only, it being Mac only, Apple not being the brand they are now, and the fact that people were not really familiar with and didn't quite understand the concept of digital music.
Considering it had been in development for at least, what, two years, there is very little chance, and absolutely no excuse, for this next version of FCP to not be Cocoa. And if it is Cocoa it certainly is going to be 64 bit.
Oh come on, no sane person is arguing that Elop went the Microsoft route _because_ he's a big shareholder. The reason people bring up the issue of the stock he owns is to point out that not only his decisions at Nokia are mostly consequence free for him personally, but he also stands to benefit handsomely form this decision that many argue is very bad for Nokia and very good for Microsoft.
The scrutiny in this case comes directly from the fact that Elop's actions at Nokia are very much Microsoft centric, and arguably Microsoft serving.
More importantly, regardless of whether they said small or smooth, the fact that they didn't give a number or at least a ballpark number (e.g. 'more than 1.5 mil") for the sell-out is indicative of sales not being all that good.
The article mostly talks about a supposed confirmation by some analyst person that Apple will add NFC support to the next batch of iOS devices. The payment service seems to be basically conjecture. If the part about NFC is true, and especially if it is a 3rd party accessible, programmable NFC system, it could actually be very, very good news for Square - that would make things like phone to phone payments possible, it would make it possible to read those new Visa and Mastercard contactless credit cards, and so on.
But we are not talking about the Cold war era Soviet block. Bulgaria is an EU member and I'd like to believe that in the EU sane people cannot be thrown in the loony bin for political reasons.
Based on this and his barely coherent ramblings in the published email of his, I'd say he does indeed have some sort of mental problem.
I'm almost like you - I haven't been exclusively a Mac user, but I've always had and used one Mac or another ever since the Mac SE. And I'm fairly confident that Apple will continue delivering products we'll enjoy. I'm confident because of one of Jobs' most overlooked qualities - his ability to find and attract to his company people that can create great stuff.
Enough with the "Oh gosh, Steve Jobs is not going to live forever! Run for the hills!" quiet (and sometimes not so quiet) hysteria.
Whenever Steve Jobs stops working for Apple, for whatever reason, there will certainly be a drop in Apple's stock. And then after a couple of quarters people will see that the company is performing just as greatly as it has been before Jobs' leave, and things will get back to normal. If you don't feel like weathering such turbulence sell your Apple stock right now and enjoy the ROI.
I do think that there probably isn't anther Steve Jobs out there, but I disagree that there aren't people, who can be great next CEO of Apple. In fact I think there are plenty such people at Apple.
I can tell you one thing for sure, you'd be hard-pressed to find a Theora or WebM capturing equipment, if there is any at all. Most consumer grade cameras record to h264 or h262 and pro cameras generally work with proprietary uncompressed or losslessly compressed formats.
I don't think anyone can give you a clear answer, given that the effects of coffee depend on complex mix of factors, like caffeine metabolism, metabolism in general, brain chemistry, and so on. However, it is known that stimulants generally shorten the attention span, so a good guess would be that you indeed are in or close to the "normal" zone.
Google are not removing video tag support, they are removing the h264 codec. h264 is pretty damn well established and is actually a standard without the quotation marks, and an open one at that.
Well, great for you. It does not invalidate the article conclusion, and I quote: "The Nexus S feels half-baked. It's not an iPhone-killer, and in my opinion it's not a must-have phone..."
OK, how representative do you think is a survey in which " 43% percent [of the respondents expect from iPad 2] a CD/DVD drive". To me it seems that either the methodology of the survey is wrong (loaded questions, etc.), or the sample is slanted towards people unfamiliar with the iPad.
On the other hand all the content on the apple.com homepage has been replaced by the announcement. This is something that Apple do only for big launches.
This book is an awesome introduction to OS X programming for rubists. There is one additional thing I'd like to see (in this book or in another) and that is a good demonstration of hotcocoa, which hopefully will reinvigorate the interest in and the development of it.
Well, it looked plenty for very small values of plenty, from where I stand. There were some very well reasoned arguments against the restriction - arguments like the fact that many libraries and game engines require the flexibility that scripting allows; or like the fact that there are languages and environments that are more conducive of tackling certain types of problems. Those, however were drowned in a sea of petty complaints like "I know language XYZ and now Apple are making me learn their sucky ObjC" or "Apple just want to prevent you from porting your app to a competing platform, them Nazis", or dramatic pronouncements that Apple have turned their back on the hacker crowd and thus are stifling innovation.
And I'm not saying we shouldn't believe Apple when they say they've listened to the developer community. I am saying that such decisions usually factor in a broader spectrum of reasons. At the very least, there are may examples of Apple not budging on issues, regardless of the huge ruckus.
I'm also not saying we shouldn't complain. I am saying we should cut on the drama, try to understand Apple's rationale for their decisions, and figure out a way to meet them midway. Or as Apple say in the intro to the App Store Review Guidelines - "If it sounds like we're control freaks, well, maybe it's because we're so committed to our users and making sure they have a quality experience with our products. Just like almost all of you are too."
The thing is most of the complaining about this was not the constructive "hey, Apple have you considered so-and-so", but rather the whiny "waaaa... Apple are Nazis" kind.
And as you point out there is no evidence that it is the complaining that made Apple reconsider. It could very well be something entirely different, e.g. the FTC probe.
OK, I stand corrected. I'm stuck with a 3G. Probably my example of downgrading from a beta to the current release is no good either - it will likely still work with the system you described, but it is not indicative of the ability to arbitrarily downgrade the OS>
edit: my experience seems to be irrelevant - things have changed; see ben1040's post bellow. My statement that Apple haven't done all they could have done still stands though.
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That has not been my experience, although I admit I haven't jailbroken an iPhone in quite a while. But this used to be how PwnageTool worked - it unzips a stock iOS image, modifies it, packages it back up, and lets you install it on your phone through iTunes.
I'm absolutely certain that this is something Apple can detect and could have prevented if they wanted to.
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Also, e-fuses and trusted computing thingamajigs can be used to constantly keep the integrity of the core OS components (bootloader, kernel, launchd, etc.) in check and either brick the device or, more likely, to refuse to boot or continue running the OS until it has been restored. So, no, I disagree that Apple are using all the effective technical measures available to them. Apple are using all the measures that they think is worth investing resources in, given the magnitude of the problem (which seems to be right now tiny to nonexistent).