My best friends dad still has his second-hand Nokia 3310 back when it was in it's first year of release. When asked why he doesn't upgrade, he counters with his own question: "Why should I?" - nobody has yet to respond with a good answer to that.
General / Off-Topic I REFUSE to Buy Microsoft, BUT I will buy anything you make for Mac or expecially PS4
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Yes, as much as it pains me to admit, given I cannot stand Jobs, the company's arrogance and pretension (and those same traits displayed by many apple owners), they are fairly well suited to people with little or no technical ability.
Oh, I understand ! Here is mine. Bought in 2005, and I do not intend to change before long
Thank you for the answers. I will see good, the production costs, equal to the missing part in the Apple logo. And all the rest is the benefit to the firm
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Probably one of the most unoriginal logo of the 21st century just like the products they release, no innovation just copy/pasta every new line of iphone.
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<nods> Bah! I prefered Apple Corps! Mind you, they eventually bought them off - as usual.
That concerns me as well.
We all recall the arrogance of Apple when it only had 5% of the market. Now that its share is increasing, will it use its power to further impose its questionable value on Apple users.
These OS suppliers have enormous power. Potentially they could seek to send almost anything, from questionable demands for payment to opinions.
But PCs have become a necessity in a way that few other innovations have. There are only two companies. Linux is just a silly joke and considerably more questionable than Apple, (so far).
Such enormous power hasn't been seen before. Companies so wealthy that few can hope to see any sort of justice in court. Someone mentioned Apple Corps. Essentially brought down, not by law, but lack of financial muscle.
One way out of this is for M$ to sell off XP so another company can sell it as a home computing solution. That would allow it to concentrate on the commercial market, which it seems to have always preferred. I can't see that happening without some strong pressure from governments, the US government especially,
The monopoly is a bad thing, never more so than here.
I don't know why this has gotten to 150 posts either.
The Elite community is like that. You know well. No worries
Kudos for the great thread.
Nothing beats a good chat.
Now, where were we?
Oh yes, Uncle Bill is long gone. the wicked step-mother has taken over.
Apple's Jobs did nasty things to our own dear Beatles, John, (sniff), Paul, (sniff), George, (sniff) and not forgetting, homely nice Ringo, (sniff, sniff). He took their company name and their wonderful logo and used it to create a publicity monster.
What you are saying is wrong. The Apple logo doesn't look at all like the Apple Records logo.
The Windows Music Corp.
(Absolutely noting to do with a software company of a vaguely similar name
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nice attitude, very inclusive towards all us Mac ED gamers - we'll all scuttle off and stop being so awkward shall we...
By the way, your figure is just for the raw components. You're forgetting a lot of other stuff, all the R&D required to put those components together and make them work, all the infrastructure needed to support each single phone through iCloud, etc. So, it's NOT a 69% margin profit.