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Quote: Originally Posted by isaidso Boy, I wish people would stop misusing the term "cannibalizing". Cannibalization is where one product cuts into a companies own similar product line. Not where a product surplants a completey different category…
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It's a little clickbait-y to pronouce this as though it is the first time it has happened. Surely the 2008 & 2009 figures also had wireless devices ahead of computers by semi-conductor value? PS 1st!
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Funny how Balls-mer is shouting about 350M new PCs per year when he just announced 400M Windows 7 licenses sold. Everyone thought that was so impressive yesterday. Now we see that it is really just over a year's new PC sales. Since I doubt that t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by robkowa As a regular reader of the usual Apple sites (being an Apple fanboy myself), one regularly gets to read gleeful stories about how "RIM CEOs didn't see X coming", "Ballmer didn't see Y coming", etc., and then so…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Joseph L That is an amazing claim. Never heard that one before. Got any evidence that Apple paid a premium for iPad parts? As in, more than normal market price? Hard to believe. No it isn't. As well as the n…
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Quote: Originally Posted by paxman That's impressive. If you were a dictionary author I'd be super impressed! As awesome and shambolic as English is, don't we all write the dictionary? It just takes a while for the new stuff to get published.
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Quote: Originally Posted by AdonisSMU Naturally Apple's Macs grew more than PCs. They have less market share. There is nothing natural about it. Being very sub scale enables you to have crazy growth rates like Android did in the early quarters…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Orlando Not necessarily anti-Apple but if you already own an Android phone (and apparently lots of people now do) would you buy an iPad or an Android tablet? Anecdotally, a fair number of the Android phone owners at…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Steven N. It will be an "Android device" but not supported byt he Google eco-system. 1) It will have its own map system. Bing or Map-Quest. BOth are better that Google Maps that is woefully out of date. 2) It w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Funny, but when the issue was whether MacBooks were too expensive, people like you were denying numbers like that. Now that it's convenient, you are suddenly sure that the numbers are real. You're using a b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Where did you come up with $200? At $28 per month, the crapbook is $1,008 over 3 years. That's far more than a much faster and much more capable Windows laptop. See the examples I gave above. Heck, for some of…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Shrike It has 16 GB of local storage. In my travels, and in my home, I can get network access through wireless cards or WiFi, but it's obviously not the same performance as the local network. In fact, most of the time,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Shrike I work in an MS Office and Exchange corporate environment. My email archive is hundreds of GBs. We basically email multi-MB PDF, Powerpoint and Excel files multiple times everyday. Just Joe Regular Engineer here…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Shrike The Acer and Samsung Chromebooks have 16 GB SSDs. After the disk format, OS install, you'll have what, 13 GB? We haven't lived with 16 GB drives in laptops in what 8 years? Yeah, I think a lot of people's dat…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism This is just nonsense. You complained about the size of the boot drives in these very specific machines and the limitations of data capacity and speed with the web. I pointed out that you can have SD cards, U…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Shrike The part where we left the data in the cloud with no way to access it when networking is off. Don't really care how a WebOS device is categorized. I'm just as skeptical that they can make a dent in the "e…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone It is not like they will turn over anything crucial. The corporate accounting and confidential communications are not leaving the security of the in-house data centers. These ChromeBooks are for the cubicle dron…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Just as I said. It's a crapbook that's more expensive than a netbook that does a LOT more. And more expensive than a MUCH more powerful desktop that would be more appropriate for the majority of educationa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit Boy, are you a dumb shit. Dick uses logic and experience. What do you use... just logic??!! ... and not that logical, actually. If Dick had made a mistake, which he didn't, he'd get several passes..…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Obviously including you. They're already leasing hardware. For the same $28 / mo, they're getting a decent desktop system that runs all their existing software and that doesn't require them to retrain t…