Here's what American Airlines VP Patrick O'Keeffe said: "We’ve reduced the single biggest source of pilot injuries, carrying those [40-pound] packs."
Oops. The article was correct on this point. Do you concede?
Oh, I know the article was just repeating one of the supposed reasons. I didn't say the article misquoted anybody.
I just don't buy it as a primary reason, since it would only "reduce" injuries for the few who hadn't bought wheelie bags yet. And reduce by how much? 1%? 100%? Obviously not.
If you've ever been part of a project like that, you know that you have to come up with as many reasons as possible to justify the expense, even if they're a bit of a stretch
Great observation...I've seen the photos of university classrooms where 90% of the laptops sport the apple logo...And anytime I spot one in a movie, I tell GF, "Apple!" I never really equated it with, Someone actually thought that thru! Silly me!
Just as humorous the lengths some directors and producers go to in disguising the logo in productions. Some clever, some not but of course in doing so...
Great observation...I've seen the photos of university classrooms where 90% of the laptops sport the apple logo...And anytime I spot one in a movie, I tell GF, "Apple!" I never really equated it with, Someone actually thought that thru! Silly me!
I've sat in many a classroom/lecture hall from the opposite vantage point and I can verify that 90% of the laptops are surfing Facebook.
I hate to say this but Apple is still considered a doomed company. Wall Street has given Apple a less than 50% chance of surviving as a successful business by 2015. Google's Android is just too powerful a mobile OS for iOS to remain relevant. It's amazing how many investors there are who are betting that consumers will stop buying Apple products to buy low-cost Android products. They claim that consumers have no reason to buy high-cost Apple products when most Android devices are just as good if not better and cost half the price. Cheap plastic is seen as just as good as metal and it's a lot lighter and doesn't dent.
you really haven't got a clue why consumers and businesses are buying iOS devices. I can give you a hint: it's certainly not because of aluminum unibody.
Wait till the new plastic iPhones start shipping with iOS 7.
They will crush the competition.
I think we will see more than just plastic variant. There will be a differentiator solutions as well that will make competitor devices obsolete and ridiculous. I expect same from larger screen iPhone, but sadly, this one will not come out this year.
If that's the case then I suspect Apple isn't too many iOS versions away from being allowed onto the DoD networks
???
Didn't read this article (or past reports)? IOS 6 was approved for gov/dDoD networks in May.
"Oppenheimer also noted that, "in just this past quarter, iOS 6 was granted FIPS [Federal Information Processing Standard] 140-2 validation by the U.S. Federal Government and approval by the U.S. Department of Defense to connect to their networks.""
I hate to say this but Apple is still considered a doomed company. Wall Street has given Apple a less than 50% chance of surviving as a successful business by 2015. Google's Android is just too powerful a mobile OS for iOS to remain relevant.
(blah, blah, blah)
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Funny (as in strange) that we don't hear about these kinds of adoptions, deployments, supporting with Android? It's a befuddlement. Head scratcher. Moment for pause. So many questions race through one's head in search of answers. I wonder if Android has an app to answer such queries. Of course it is not Apple's need to wonder why, so I doubt we'd find the answer in an app, from there.
Android is not meant for the Enterprise. Apple has some information on their site, but Apple doesn't publicize a lot of their wins as much as they win them. There is some publicity here and there. I think LA County School District just made a huge iPad purchase.
Some of the ones they list in this article have been publicized before, I guess you have to read the right publication as they might not be widely distributed articles. San Jose Mercury covers them once in a while, as does Apple's website.
Here's a list of the Top 100 as of Sept last year. I'm sure the numbers and customer list has changed since then.
I work in the Australian Parliament House (its like the White House of Australia).
I'm in the IT area, we are currently giving the bigwigs iPads & iPhones, for every 50 iPhones they get, maybe 2 requests for Galaxy S4s, maybe 2 for the BB Z10s. Support & setup time on the iPhone is less than 1/2 that of the other phones, at least!.
Meanwhile one of the more backward Aussie school systems just fell for the Microsoft Surface below-cost deal.
I hate to say this but Apple is still considered a doomed company. Wall Street has given Apple a less than 50% chance of surviving as a successful business by 2015. Google's Android is just too powerful a mobile OS for iOS to remain relevant. It's amazing how many investors there are who are betting that consumers will stop buying Apple products to buy low-cost Android products. They claim that consumers have no reason to buy high-cost Apple products when most Android devices are just as good if not better and cost half the price. Cheap plastic is seen as just as good as metal and it's a lot lighter and doesn't dent.
You are so melodramatic with this stuff. None of those points are verifiable.
I hate to say this but Apple is still considered a doomed company. Wall Street has given Apple a less than 50% chance of surviving as a successful business by 2015. Google's Android is just too powerful a mobile OS for iOS to remain relevant. It's amazing how many investors there are who are betting that consumers will stop buying Apple products to buy low-cost Android products. They claim that consumers have no reason to buy high-cost Apple products when most Android devices are just as good if not better and cost half the price. Cheap plastic is seen as just as good as metal and it's a lot lighter and doesn't dent.
Good is a very subjective term that is difficult to verify.
How do you define better? Simply because a phone allows you to swap batteries and insert micro-sd cards? Never mind that the hardware has a bug which may just void your sd-card?
I have 2 colleagues whose Note2s sported huge, unsightly cracks across their screens within weeks of purchasing them. Both still have no idea how they came about. They just took the phone out of their bag and were like "Hey!"
I have personally had my fair share of experiences where I tried to save a few dollars by getting a cheaper alternative, only to be burned when that item stopped working after a while, and I ended up buying the original version instead. To me, you get what you pay for, and I willing bought Apple products because I believed that a simplified, smooth and hassle-free computing experience was well worth the higher initial outlay. And I have yet to be proven wrong.
I hate to say this but Apple is still considered a doomed company. Wall Street has given Apple a less than 50% chance of surviving as a successful business by 2015.
That's a very specific claim, and very different from what I've been reading. I've seen a few article questioning whether it's possible for Apple to maintain the sort of growth they've had in recent years going forward into a future approaching saturation on the high-end, but none of them have questioned the very survival of the company.
Just as humorous the lengths some directors and producers go to in disguising the logo in productions. Some clever, some not but of course in doing so...
That's because they had to. Rules for using real life products demanded it. Those rules have gotten more relaxed in recent years. They used to be crazy strict which is why you didn't see real software, even real web browsers. And of course the stupid fake and impossible IP addresses.
Heh. That one always gets me. Most airline pilots seem to use rolling bags, instead of carrying them.
It gets me too that you just don't get it.
For your information, ignorance is not an excuse. The bag with the wheels is his personal suitcase. The 'flight bag' that the iPad is replacing is the one on top of it with the CREW tag. That's a lot of dead weight to have to lug around.
Remember, there are 3 to 5 cockpit crew members on every commercial flight.
That's because they had to. Rules for using real life products demanded it. Those rules have gotten more relaxed in recent years. They used to be crazy strict which is why you didn't see real software, even real web browsers. And of course the stupid fake and impossible IP addresses.
The rules do seem to have been relaxed recently, I'm sure the logo has appeared on the 'small screen' and that Apple didn't pay for product placement lol. Many screen shots were quite creative, others not so.
I see Android 7" Tablets have plunged to $49 in the USA at MicroCenters. Previously Frys had the best price at $74 for an Android Tablet.
Even at those absurd low fire sale prices, they still do not interest us because critical apps we can find for the iPad simply do not exist on the Android tablets.
I hate to say this but Apple is still considered a doomed company. Wall Street has given Apple a less than 50% chance of surviving as a successful business by 2015. Google's Android is just too powerful a mobile OS for iOS to remain relevant. It's amazing how many investors there are who are betting that consumers will stop buying Apple products to buy low-cost Android products. They claim that consumers have no reason to buy high-cost Apple products when most Android devices are just as good if not better and cost half the price. Cheap plastic is seen as just as good as metal and it's a lot lighter and doesn't dent.
And the troll returns. You should go back to demanding Cook's head, because these kinds of posts are even more brainless. You pretend as if "cheap" is a new phenomenon. It isn't. It's always been there. Apple has managed to thrive and become insanely successful while still avoiding the "release cheap shit" strategy. There have always been much cheaper alternatives for ALL of Apple's products. Apple wisely chooses not to play the "bottom of the barrel" game, and it's served them well. There's nothing different now. Apple was supposedly "doomed" when netbooks came on the scene. Yeah, that worked out. You also seem to give "investors" God-like status, as if their "bets" mean anything. They never have, and never will.
And if you actually buy the 2015 figure you spouted, that's delusion on another level.God forbid your prospects for every other company on earth if the company with the most money in the bank (more than many countries), most revenues, most profits, most mindshare, most sales for critical product categories (ie. tablets), highest customer satisfaction ratings by far, largest adoption in education and enterprise, highest developer support, highest user engagement, etc might suddenly cease to exist as a "successful business" within a year or so. Because "wallstreet said so", or something. Go walk into any random Apple store sometime to gauge your level of insanity, to see what actual consumers think, instead of constantly and unquestioningly worshiping the whims and emotions of wallstreet to determine a company's fate.
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Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton
Here's what American Airlines VP Patrick O'Keeffe said: "We’ve reduced the single biggest source of pilot injuries, carrying those [40-pound] packs."
Oops. The article was correct on this point. Do you concede?
Oh, I know the article was just repeating one of the supposed reasons. I didn't say the article misquoted anybody.
I just don't buy it as a primary reason, since it would only "reduce" injuries for the few who hadn't bought wheelie bags yet. And reduce by how much? 1%? 100%? Obviously not.
If you've ever been part of a project like that, you know that you have to come up with as many reasons as possible to justify the expense, even if they're a bit of a stretch
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Originally Posted by christopher126
Great observation...I've seen the photos of university classrooms where 90% of the laptops sport the apple logo...And anytime I spot one in a movie, I tell GF, "Apple!" I never really equated it with, Someone actually thought that thru! Silly me!
Just as humorous the lengths some directors and producers go to in disguising the logo in productions. Some clever, some not but of course in doing so...
Wait till the new plastic iPhones start shipping with iOS 7.
They will crush the competition.
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Originally Posted by christopher126
Great observation...I've seen the photos of university classrooms where 90% of the laptops sport the apple logo...And anytime I spot one in a movie, I tell GF, "Apple!" I never really equated it with, Someone actually thought that thru! Silly me!
I've sat in many a classroom/lecture hall from the opposite vantage point and I can verify that 90% of the laptops are surfing Facebook.
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Originally Posted by Constable Odo
I hate to say this but Apple is still considered a doomed company. Wall Street has given Apple a less than 50% chance of surviving as a successful business by 2015. Google's Android is just too powerful a mobile OS for iOS to remain relevant. It's amazing how many investors there are who are betting that consumers will stop buying Apple products to buy low-cost Android products. They claim that consumers have no reason to buy high-cost Apple products when most Android devices are just as good if not better and cost half the price. Cheap plastic is seen as just as good as metal and it's a lot lighter and doesn't dent.
you really haven't got a clue why consumers and businesses are buying iOS devices. I can give you a hint: it's certainly not because of aluminum unibody.
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Originally Posted by AppleSauce007
Wait till the new plastic iPhones start shipping with iOS 7.
They will crush the competition.
I think we will see more than just plastic variant. There will be a differentiator solutions as well that will make competitor devices obsolete and ridiculous. I expect same from larger screen iPhone, but sadly, this one will not come out this year.
Didn't read this article (or past reports)? IOS 6 was approved for gov/dDoD networks in May.
"Oppenheimer also noted that, "in just this past quarter, iOS 6 was granted FIPS [Federal Information Processing Standard] 140-2 validation by the U.S. Federal Government and approval by the U.S. Department of Defense to connect to their networks.""
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Originally Posted by mhikl
Funny (as in strange) that we don't hear about these kinds of adoptions, deployments, supporting with Android? It's a befuddlement. Head scratcher. Moment for pause. So many questions race through one's head in search of answers. I wonder if Android has an app to answer such queries. Of course it is not Apple's need to wonder why, so I doubt we'd find the answer in an app, from there.
Android is not meant for the Enterprise. Apple has some information on their site, but Apple doesn't publicize a lot of their wins as much as they win them. There is some publicity here and there. I think LA County School District just made a huge iPad purchase.
Some of the ones they list in this article have been publicized before, I guess you have to read the right publication as they might not be widely distributed articles. San Jose Mercury covers them once in a while, as does Apple's website.
Here's a list of the Top 100 as of Sept last year. I'm sure the numbers and customer list has changed since then.
http://news.hult.edu/hult-in-the-news/top-100-ipad-rollouts-by-enterprises-schools-forbes/
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I work in the Australian Parliament House (its like the White House of Australia).
I'm in the IT area, we are currently giving the bigwigs iPads & iPhones, for every 50 iPhones they get, maybe 2 requests for Galaxy S4s, maybe 2 for the BB Z10s. Support & setup time on the iPhone is less than 1/2 that of the other phones, at least!.
Meanwhile one of the more backward Aussie school systems just fell for the Microsoft Surface below-cost deal.
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Originally Posted by Constable Odo
I hate to say this but Apple is still considered a doomed company. Wall Street has given Apple a less than 50% chance of surviving as a successful business by 2015. Google's Android is just too powerful a mobile OS for iOS to remain relevant. It's amazing how many investors there are who are betting that consumers will stop buying Apple products to buy low-cost Android products. They claim that consumers have no reason to buy high-cost Apple products when most Android devices are just as good if not better and cost half the price. Cheap plastic is seen as just as good as metal and it's a lot lighter and doesn't dent.
You are so melodramatic with this stuff. None of those points are verifiable.
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Originally Posted by Constable Odo
I hate to say this but Apple is still considered a doomed company. Wall Street has given Apple a less than 50% chance of surviving as a successful business by 2015. Google's Android is just too powerful a mobile OS for iOS to remain relevant. It's amazing how many investors there are who are betting that consumers will stop buying Apple products to buy low-cost Android products. They claim that consumers have no reason to buy high-cost Apple products when most Android devices are just as good if not better and cost half the price. Cheap plastic is seen as just as good as metal and it's a lot lighter and doesn't dent.
Good is a very subjective term that is difficult to verify.
How do you define better? Simply because a phone allows you to swap batteries and insert micro-sd cards? Never mind that the hardware has a bug which may just void your sd-card?
I have 2 colleagues whose Note2s sported huge, unsightly cracks across their screens within weeks of purchasing them. Both still have no idea how they came about. They just took the phone out of their bag and were like "Hey!"
I have personally had my fair share of experiences where I tried to save a few dollars by getting a cheaper alternative, only to be burned when that item stopped working after a while, and I ended up buying the original version instead. To me, you get what you pay for, and I willing bought Apple products because I believed that a simplified, smooth and hassle-free computing experience was well worth the higher initial outlay. And I have yet to be proven wrong.
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Originally Posted by Constable Odo
I hate to say this but Apple is still considered a doomed company. Wall Street has given Apple a less than 50% chance of surviving as a successful business by 2015.
That's a very specific claim, and very different from what I've been reading. I've seen a few article questioning whether it's possible for Apple to maintain the sort of growth they've had in recent years going forward into a future approaching saturation on the high-end, but none of them have questioned the very survival of the company.
URL?
That's because they had to. Rules for using real life products demanded it. Those rules have gotten more relaxed in recent years. They used to be crazy strict which is why you didn't see real software, even real web browsers. And of course the stupid fake and impossible IP addresses.
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Originally Posted by KDarling
Heh. That one always gets me. Most airline pilots seem to use rolling bags, instead of carrying them.
It gets me too that you just don't get it.
For your information, ignorance is not an excuse. The bag with the wheels is his personal suitcase. The 'flight bag' that the iPad is replacing is the one on top of it with the CREW tag. That's a lot of dead weight to have to lug around.
Remember, there are 3 to 5 cockpit crew members on every commercial flight.
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Originally Posted by charlituna
That's because they had to. Rules for using real life products demanded it. Those rules have gotten more relaxed in recent years. They used to be crazy strict which is why you didn't see real software, even real web browsers. And of course the stupid fake and impossible IP addresses.
The rules do seem to have been relaxed recently, I'm sure the logo has appeared on the 'small screen' and that Apple didn't pay for product placement lol. Many screen shots were quite creative, others not so.
All the best.
Even at those absurd low fire sale prices, they still do not interest us because critical apps we can find for the iPad simply do not exist on the Android tablets.
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Originally Posted by Constable Odo
I hate to say this but Apple is still considered a doomed company. Wall Street has given Apple a less than 50% chance of surviving as a successful business by 2015. Google's Android is just too powerful a mobile OS for iOS to remain relevant. It's amazing how many investors there are who are betting that consumers will stop buying Apple products to buy low-cost Android products. They claim that consumers have no reason to buy high-cost Apple products when most Android devices are just as good if not better and cost half the price. Cheap plastic is seen as just as good as metal and it's a lot lighter and doesn't dent.
And the troll returns. You should go back to demanding Cook's head, because these kinds of posts are even more brainless. You pretend as if "cheap" is a new phenomenon. It isn't. It's always been there. Apple has managed to thrive and become insanely successful while still avoiding the "release cheap shit" strategy. There have always been much cheaper alternatives for ALL of Apple's products. Apple wisely chooses not to play the "bottom of the barrel" game, and it's served them well. There's nothing different now. Apple was supposedly "doomed" when netbooks came on the scene. Yeah, that worked out. You also seem to give "investors" God-like status, as if their "bets" mean anything. They never have, and never will.
And if you actually buy the 2015 figure you spouted, that's delusion on another level.God forbid your prospects for every other company on earth if the company with the most money in the bank (more than many countries), most revenues, most profits, most mindshare, most sales for critical product categories (ie. tablets), highest customer satisfaction ratings by far, largest adoption in education and enterprise, highest developer support, highest user engagement, etc might suddenly cease to exist as a "successful business" within a year or so. Because "wallstreet said so", or something. Go walk into any random Apple store sometime to gauge your level of insanity, to see what actual consumers think, instead of constantly and unquestioningly worshiping the whims and emotions of wallstreet to determine a company's fate.
Yes, because when your bag has wheels, you never need to lift it, even when you're walking through a plane and maneuvering in a cockpit.
Breathtaking intellect mr darling.
Can you please link me to where you got this statement from