bewirenomali

i guarantee you that if for some reason the HP veer (and variants) became the best selling phone next year (or something like it in size and scope) apple would contend that steve had a hand in developing the phone that follows that trend. because that’s what apple is doing ; they aren’t a market leader – they’re following a trend set by a competitor (s) – and they’re using an anassailable name to obfuscate that issue. It’s like republicans using Reagan’s name all the time – inferring his posthumous support for current perhaps otherwise ill-advised strategies.

I absolutely trust no one who speaks for dead men. But then I don’t look to ANY man as an unassailable source (so speaking for dead men has no value to me – but it does to most people, including you, apparently). Steve Jobs having input in this phone infers no added value to me. It doesn’t require rocket science or magic to make a phone screen a half-inch bigger (especially considering it’s a no risk proposition since a lot of surveys indicate people prefer larger phones).

speaking on the behalf of dead men is an insidious thing; it’s the cause of religious wars, etc. it’s inherently obfuscatory in almost all modern implementations.

so good luck with that – see how it works for you.

so instead of focusing on the crux of the the analogy: which is enterprise using a dead man to sell something that might not really be of his provenance – you chose to focus on the details (you sure you didn’t want to touch on race and business sector too?). after all, jobs in his own words decried larger phones; this mysterious posthumous record of less than two years later infers the opposite? interesting.

this of course makes you brilliant – I’m sure it’s otherwise reflected in your life’s work.

no, it means that a lot of artists went and recorded music in an attempt to vaguely sound like tupac. this music was marketed as such and then sold.

Agreed. The courier concept was overengineered and overspecialized.

much of what it could do (infinity journal plus cloud storage plus creation/aggregation tools) can be replicated on any 10 inch tablet now.

the fact that there isn’t a popular courier-type app speaks for itself and justifies microsoft’s decision not to go ahead and develop.

Exactly. the leap 3d and kinect as currently configured are not competing devices.

Ah, so Jobs was involved in this, right?

It was kinda like how Tupac released “newly discovered” music for a decade after his death.

In other words, dead men tell no tales – so beware with great scorn the men who seek to manipulate you with ghosts.

a removable battery makes this a superphone with no holes. alas.

this is going to be huge for microsoft.

1. this is likely a beta.
2. it will reinvigorate the sales of the aging console.
3. they’ll likely bring in tons of new users into the fold JUST in time to re: up that contract for the next console…
4… at which point they’ll go wide with the tiered pricing scheme – if they haven’t already between points 2 and 3.

it’s smart man. and it puts consoles within reach of college students, etc… who can afford an amortized console but cannot afford relatively expensive purchases.

that definitely wasn’t a troll. it was a joke – not particularly funny.

wait, it was pretty funny. shrugs

you gotta lighten up man.

yes, because things change. if your response to growing change is to stay the same, then you’ve grown stale and are no longer innovating.

it’s the catch 22 – in order to remain innovative you have to keep changing – but you can change too much and alienate your base. or you can resist change (which apple has been doing by moving slowly and measuring out added “improvements”) but then you risk changing too slowly and also alienating a base.

“Not true.” -Xbox

“I agree.” -Sony Playstation

waiting for the evangelical counterargument.

yes they care. infection is a numbers game. of course they’d care.

it’s the same reason legitimate programmers make applications for one platform and not another. the question is whether the cost and effort is worth the return.

and the windows installed user base is well over 1 billion. hitting 1% of the windows user base, if you’re pfishing for CC data is more than enough data.

why go fishing in a pond when you can fish in the ocean – if you needed to make a choice of one?

so in short, it’s not utter BS. It’s the same reason companies have offices in cities rather than in small towns. it’s far more likely that you’ll find qualified candidates in New York than in Corey, Oklahoma.

it’s amazing; the way people evangelize corporations is an astute study of psychology that years of undergrad could never provide. they are truly the new religions.