My 50+ year old Aunt purchased an Apple 2 in the mid-80s, somewhere around the same time I got my first computer, a 286 with MS-DOS 3.1. I was a kid, got taught DOS and picked it up pretty quick(an early adopter). Trying to teach DOS to my Aunt would have been about as effective as trying to teach DOS to my wall, she was decidedly mainstream, on the other side of the chasm.
The Apple2 had substantial penetration into non-geek, non-tech savvy markets. This is what's called mainstream. Perhaps you should read up on product adoption lifecycle.
The Apple 2 was the first PC with significant mainstream market traction, because of its ease of use. Within a few years, MS-DOS/Windows dominated. 2 reasons: effective business marketing strategy, and allowing anyone to develop (in fact bundling BASIC). In fact the latter fed into the former, as business would be able to roll their own programs. By comparison, writting any code for Apple required a dev license from them. A barrier to tinkering which lead to more innovation on the Windows platform. Windows won because it was a more open platform, and Apple computers became niche because it was a walled garden.
Fast forward: OSx took off because it abandoned the powerpc custom platform and built on top of a rock solid BSD kernel. Said kernel, plus an x86 architecture made ports and development easier. Apple, for the first time in over a decade had mainstream market traction.
The mobile world has been lead by Apple, and for good reason. They came up with a stunning form factor and brilliant product design. The walled garden worked because they leveraged their product's complete leapfrogging of any other phone available at the time. But the most sold phones these days are android. Others have caught up/copied the compelling aspects of the iphone and are providing a better value offering to consumers, and winning.
Windows phone 7 is a great OS. It does some very innovative things and steps away from the task/channel-specific approach of iPhones and Androids to a more integrated approach. It's lovely. But their market share is crap, their app "ecosystem" is minute, they're a distant third on everyone's list of phone OSes to support. They're the Opera of the phone OS world.
Creating a walled garden on top of that is silly. They lose out on innovation by limiting the API available for apps. Game changing apps everyone "has to have" are less likely with a limited API, as many of these evolve from tinkering. Limiting the API available to tinkerers means they'll go somewhere else. Apple has a huge market share to leverage, Android has a huge market share and more open platform. Windows has neither.
With windows it was an anti trust issue because Windows was dominant. With Windows RT, they aren't dominant, so all this is is dumb.
Right, but what about someone who is still actively involved in lobbying for the more restrictive construction? He's a registered lobbyist for a music collection society.
We keeps it reelz at TufAmerica, with an in yo face fresh attitude. Wez all abouts da musik and making phat beats that r dope n shiznit! We are all about da g thang, unless you have a successful album then we will money grab through copyright law in order to tax your success because that sounds an awful lot like a 4/4 beat on a bass drum which we invented in the early 80s.
I agree, there are in fact many things Mike did not consider.
He did not consider, for example, that the server was part of skynet, and was about to become self aware and launch missiles at Russia in an effort to wipe out humanity. Thank God we averted that disaster, and how dare Mike besmirch the names of our heroes!!!
A rouse is a ruse if you're enthused in a blouse, but a mouse in a ruse is a louse you can loose.
If you rouse out the mouse from your house in the mews then he'll spy your spouse who's your muse for the blues. Then the mouse as his dues will take your spouse on a cruise to Tolous while he spews vows of misuse, then the mouse is louse with nothing to loose. So why rouse a mouse who's done no abuse to your house in the mews, instead drink some booze!
Oh, they're trying. A for effort, Toronto Municipal Gov't!
I agree with AC here. We're too focused on results. The efforts of our city council are not properly rewarded. Who cares that the schools are underfunded, transit is massivley overburdened, and the council is wasting millions on unsourced contracts, so long as they're giving it the good ol' college try.
I look forward to the next municipal election season where campaigns espouse the virtues "Vote for me, I'll try!".
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Wolfram's Heart
Yeah, the senior partners are pretty sinister.
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Re: Re: This is a brilliant idea that will absolutely work!!!
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This is a brilliant idea that will absolutely work!!!
At worst, a month until some more resilient protocol emerges.
In the meantime, have fun DDoS'ing legitimate bittorrent users (e.g. Blizzard) and getting their legal attack teams all frothy.
*golfclap* for MAFIAA.
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Re: Who are you trying to kid?
My 50+ year old Aunt purchased an Apple 2 in the mid-80s, somewhere around the same time I got my first computer, a 286 with MS-DOS 3.1. I was a kid, got taught DOS and picked it up pretty quick(an early adopter). Trying to teach DOS to my Aunt would have been about as effective as trying to teach DOS to my wall, she was decidedly mainstream, on the other side of the chasm.
The Apple2 had substantial penetration into non-geek, non-tech savvy markets. This is what's called mainstream. Perhaps you should read up on product adoption lifecycle.
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Re: Awesome
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La plus ça change...
Fast forward: OSx took off because it abandoned the powerpc custom platform and built on top of a rock solid BSD kernel. Said kernel, plus an x86 architecture made ports and development easier. Apple, for the first time in over a decade had mainstream market traction.
The mobile world has been lead by Apple, and for good reason. They came up with a stunning form factor and brilliant product design. The walled garden worked because they leveraged their product's complete leapfrogging of any other phone available at the time. But the most sold phones these days are android. Others have caught up/copied the compelling aspects of the iphone and are providing a better value offering to consumers, and winning.
Windows phone 7 is a great OS. It does some very innovative things and steps away from the task/channel-specific approach of iPhones and Androids to a more integrated approach. It's lovely. But their market share is crap, their app "ecosystem" is minute, they're a distant third on everyone's list of phone OSes to support. They're the Opera of the phone OS world.
Creating a walled garden on top of that is silly. They lose out on innovation by limiting the API available for apps. Game changing apps everyone "has to have" are less likely with a limited API, as many of these evolve from tinkering. Limiting the API available to tinkerers means they'll go somewhere else. Apple has a huge market share to leverage, Android has a huge market share and more open platform. Windows has neither.
With windows it was an anti trust issue because Windows was dominant. With Windows RT, they aren't dominant, so all this is is dumb.
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Re: And the TSA asks Congress
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIPSvIz9NDs
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We R Thug 4 Life
Tuf!!!!
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He did not consider, for example, that the server was part of skynet, and was about to become self aware and launch missiles at Russia in an effort to wipe out humanity. Thank God we averted that disaster, and how dare Mike besmirch the names of our heroes!!!
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Yes, but so would fair use doctrine. We're both wacky that way.
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If you rouse out the mouse from your house in the mews then he'll spy your spouse who's your muse for the blues. Then the mouse as his dues will take your spouse on a cruise to Tolous while he spews vows of misuse, then the mouse is louse with nothing to loose. So why rouse a mouse who's done no abuse to your house in the mews, instead drink some booze!
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Still nothing, but now with italics!!! Bag of wind, you.
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Literally nothing.
"This article sucks. It missed some points."
Such as? Please, oh fount of wisdom and insight, enlighten us intellectual plebs.
"This shows through failure to address [something] that Mike didn't understand"
Still nothing, just whining that the article missed some incredible point. No indication of what that is.
"Mike shouldn't criticize the article because he didn't understand it."
What points did he miss?
Criticizing can either be, as you've done, substanceless whinging or an actual engagement on points.
Here, I'll start you off:
"Mike, Sherry Tuckle made the following points which you missed:"
or
"Mike, your criticism of Tuckle's article is wrong because..."
That should set you on the right path. You're welcome.
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I agree with AC here. We're too focused on results. The efforts of our city council are not properly rewarded. Who cares that the schools are underfunded, transit is massivley overburdened, and the council is wasting millions on unsourced contracts, so long as they're giving it the good ol' college try.
I look forward to the next municipal election season where campaigns espouse the virtues "Vote for me, I'll try!".
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