JimmyIsTheOne

I agree. For limited functionality users, like older folks who just web browse, look at pictures of their grandkids on Facebook and such, they don’t need much more than an iPad.

And actually a lot of these ultra small business, without in house IT, like lawyers, construction contractors and such are the targets that Apple is aiming for.

Personally, I know a an exterior design and landscaping contractor, who have their top people wooing customers with presentations on iPads.

One of my female friends saw her baby’s sonogram mirrored on an iPad in her doctor’s office, which she said, had giant iMac screens in the reception area, for appointments and stuff.

Really small business mostly just use IT contractors that are on-call, as needed. Very few keep anyone in house, unless they’re a tech-related company.

A small business, like a doctor’s office, or a partnered law firm or a restaurant, very rarely have in-house IT.

I can’t square this with that interview I saw with Meg Whitman recently. On one hand, it looks like HP is getting out of the consumer gadget space, outside of laptops.

On the other hand, Whitman said that they’ll still be involved in the ‘devices’ segment of the market.

Was she only just saying what Wall Street wanted to hear, I wonder?

It’ll be interesting to see how SGS3 on AT&T fares. I’ve read it’ll have the same dual core processor as the One X, due to the LTE radio.

So, no quad core processing power in the States for the SGS line, I guess.

I agree. Due to the screen and uninspired design (to say the least) and apparently chintzy build of materials, it deserved a full point lower on it’s overall score.

It’s a 7.

polycarbonate=plastic

They’re just different types/grades of plastic.

Those factors will likely often tip it into the ‘win’ column, for most consumers.

The downside is that, initial impressions of the exterior design will probably be ’it’s kind of fugly’ and ’it’s way too big for a phone’.

Also, if you want expandable storage for your media library, and don’t want to rely on ‘the cloud’ that’ll run up your data plan, the SGS3 also offers a microSD slot.

Unfortunately, HTC’s One series, does not.

It seems nice, certainly state of the art, but as a day to day phone, the SGS3 is still too large for me. It’s essentially an updated Note.

I would actually love an HTC One S if it were on AT&T, but I’m not willing to change carriers and go to T-Mo for it. I still, you know, actually need to make phone calls on occasion.

Of all the mobile versions, iOS has the best Facebook app, IMO of course.

They’re not, but I don’t think they want to be.

The ‘traditional’ computer industry is in decline ; look at the latest results from both Dell and HP.

The wild growth is in the consumer gadget and devices area, where Apple and Samsung leads everybody else by a country mile.

Whew! (Dodges moving goal posts)

Well, hasn’t execution with all these grand plans always been the problem at Microsoft?

Can you tap to save FB photos from the app, into the phone’s native Photos file, like you can on iOS?

Agreed.

If you want to pay Mcdonald’s level wages, you’ll get Mcdonald’s level of employees. I’m not sure what people are expecting here.

Maybe, maybe not.

I think they still have a lot of value, just not the crazy valuations that some in the media were giving Facebook.

Really? It’s worth $104 Billion, larger than some of the biggest media and oil companies? And it’s trading at 25-times earnings? That right there was a huge red flag for the stock.

Most people, ie. retail investors still don’t understand how Facebook makes money, and so long as that’s true, it defies the investing golden rule: don’t invest in companies that you don’t understand. It’s served Warren Buffett well for a long while.

Well, yeah, you won’t get the best efforts out of high school and college kids, working for beer money.

Sure, feel free to pay somebody $8-10/hr, but I wouldn’t expect them to be go-go-sales dynamoes. At that pay scale, employees are mostly marking time, clock watching between meal and smoking breaks.

One obvious clue that Best Buy needs to shrink most of their store sizes and re-focus their inventory, and of course, sales strategy:
walking in and seeing a full aisle dedicated to stationary office supplies, like a little mini-Staples or OfficeMax, then walking down another aisle, and seeing, a magazine rack, and a rack for the latest NY Times Bestselling hardcover novels. At Best Buy.

Yep, which explains the rise of Vizio.

Just watching a blur of financial news shows, and none of the tech analysts, who were on to discuss the Dell story, thought that Win8 would boost PC sales.

PC sales seems to be an emerging markets story only; in developed markets like the U.S. and Europe, it’s about gadgets and software services.

Fun fact: the DellDJ was actually a re-badged player that was built by Creative, maker of the Zen Vision products.

Some big-deal tech analysts were on the financial news shows (CNBC? Bloomberg?) just this morning, saying Dell is in trouble long term, and that they’re a potential acquisition target. Reason seemed to be that in a declining PC market, Dell more than others, is still over reliant on PC sales, while others like HP are moving quickly into servers, software and services.

Also, the collapse in sales due to a cratering economy/Depression in Europe doesn’t help matters.

Yeah, I can’t see why Apple would redesign the dock connector. It instantly makes a whole market of third party manufacturer i-Products, obsolete/last gen.

And it would be a terrible idea.