cnocbui

volcan said:

cnocbui said:

For some time I have thought Apple could do a fleet of Satellites for broadcast TV and data and cut out the middlemen.

Are you joking? Do you think Apple can build a better satellite than the companies that are already building them? There is plenty of satellite bandwidth for lease right now. Tons of satellite TV companies all around the world are leasing bandwidth from satellite owners like ViaSat.

It would take Apple at least a decade to acquire the engineering expertise to build and launch their own system and even if they pulled it off they wouldn't recoup their investment for another couple decades if ever. I suppose you think they should reinvent the rocket ship as well, just to cut out the middle man.

I didn't say Apple should build their own - that would be stupid - get Hughes or whoever to make them to their specs.  The middlemen I was referring to are the cable companies.

larrya said:

josu said:

Better Subaru, is cheaper, well positioned to grow into a premium competitor if it wasn't for the derivative styling. With Ive leading the design team Subaru could go really for the premium market. Style wise it resembles the pre-Jobs Apple, but with record profits, sales and bulletproof reliability.

I have doubts about whether skills making glass slabs thinner is applicable to car design. That's an unfair characterization, I know, but the point is probably still valid. Automobile design is a pretty specialized field, requiring years of apprenticeship. I wouldn't assume Ive can do it effectively on day one. 

I reckon Ive could do an excellent  car design with one hand tied behind his back during lunch.

I think this project just hit a patch of black ice, skidded off the road and plunged into a ravine.

Scratch that 'next big thing'

How about we do a TV guys?

digitalclips said:

tezgno said:

Unix and Linux, actually. The NFL uses Rackspace for much of their infrastructure. And, further, the NFL just reported that the issue was actually caused by the Patriot's network going down.

I wonder if that set up would work better with a Unix based tablet instead of a Microsoft POS

I suspect no POS is going to work if the network it is using goes down.  Of course we all know that had they been using iPads and the network went down, they wouldn't have had a problem.

rogifan_old said:

cnocbui said:

Well sales of the Surface overtook sales of iPads, for the first time, in Oct 2015.  I suspect the data collection method doesn't account for sales from The Apple Store, but it does refute DED's claim of "Surface has been an embarrassing commercial failure for Microsoft".  It's pretty clear the Surface is now selling well.

What the heck is 1010data? Sorry your source is laughable. Let Microsoft provide actual sales figures and then we can compare to iPad.

A company that Dun & Bradstreet saw fit to partner with.

" Dun & Bradstreet (DNB) and 1010data today announced a strategic partnership that aims to provide a solution to hedge funds and asset managers seeking insights and analytics that go beyond traditional analysis of financial statements and key financial ratios. Through the strategic partnership, Dun & Bradstreet's content, including key business performance data, will be made available through the 1010data platform, providing an enhanced solution to customers."

Obviously they are highly disreputable.  I believe their goal is to eventually work their way down to DEDs level.