Posts by Philip Lewis 991 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Aug 2009
How low?
US$2.13 at the moment.
Next quarter will be even more dire than this past quarter, so expect the market to factor that in the price soon. NOK will then be a delisting candidate, and will be forced to go OTC, which probably means MS steps in gets them for nothing, which was always Plan A IMHO.
Samsung cannot win, in the long run. Samsung's solution to "missing the boat" in the phone and tablet market was to copy the mindshare leader and darling of the MSM, blatantly and attack the market. They deserve everything they get.
And what they will get is this, and pointed out on these forums by more than one over the past year or more. APPL will simply source their hardware components from alternative sources. Samsung is not the only capable supplier of electronic componentry. APPL has plety of alternatives and they will exercise that option. Personally I doubt whether Samsung can sell enough tablets or phones to compensate for the revenue (and perhaps profit) generated by supplying to APPL. I wonder what iSuppli has to say?
At last, the other other operation!
I have hit upon a new technique for generating down votes I never before realised.
0: State the blindingly and provably obvious (contradict the that tablets MUST look like an iPad - aka. demonstrate contradiction using proof by existence)
1: Say rather nice things about a great Sony product (the cute little wedgy tablet thingy)
2: Express a preference for an Apple iOS over Android.
These 3 in combination will attract the insane fandroids and Apple haters with an attraction similar to that exerted by shit on flies.
p
"Tablet computing devices pretty much have to be rectangles a bit larger than the screen they contain, and the only sensible way to build them is with rounded corners."
No they don't, and no it isn't, actually.
Did anyone measure the radius of the curve of the corners on iPad v. Galaxy Tab?
Given that there are an infinite number of choices, I am wondering how close Samsung's choice was to Apple's?
Really? I collect a salary, I don't donate my time to FOSS projects because they don't pay the bills. The fact that Oracle, HP and the rest actively support and pay people to code for FOSS projects is completely fucking irrelevant for an unemployed electronics engineer specialising in low power electronic circuitry. No FOSS project is going to feed his family.
Your comment is illogical and moronic. In fact I cannot see that it contains any content whatsoever other then the sandard "FOSS will take over the world, give and get rich" bullshit which bears no relation to reality, or the point made in my post.
Reality check: Food costs money. Money must be (a) earned, (b) won, (c) borrowed, (d) otherwise acquired. Therefore in order to eat, it is unlikely giving away the one resource an individual has to sell (his time, energy and skill) is likely to be a viable strategy.
Moron = you.
My Veep at a former client once noted that he "joined Mensa" while in High School, in order to improve his chances with a female classmate, whom he had discovered was also a member. Sadly, she still wouldn't go out (read: sleep) with him, so he quit Mensa.
Disclaimer: I have never tried to join Mensa
Somewhere on theis or the main REG site it was postulated by me or someone else, that the end result of the SAMSUNG V APPLE lawsuits would be that APPL would simply wind down their use of Samsung hardware in their devices, and that Samsung would suffer massively for it. APPL is a MASSIVE buyer of Samsung hardware.
I expect this move away from Samsung has already started, and as contracts expire, other suppliers than Samsung will get the business. Samsung has shot itself in the foot, and they are going to bleed. I doubt Galaxy sales will make up the shortfall.
Wrong. They don't expect that at all.
APPL expect that those who bought one 3-4 years ago (or more) might be enticed to buy a new portable, for performance reasons, or because it's been dropped and the lid is loose (see unlike so many people here I can spell and know the difference between lose and loose) or one of a hundred other reasons that people might want to replace. A small percentage for whom money is no object "might" upgrade yearly, but they are a very small minority.
APPL also hope that lots of people in the replace/upgrade/first time buyer market will be enticed to buy their offerings. In my own family, we now have 4 APPL laptops. 3 years ago it was zero. My profession puts me in front of WindowsServer2008R2 all day every day, but I chose APPL for my laptop. I am not alone, and it would appear that APPL is generally growing their sales volume and market share for laptops. APPL must be doing something right.
This bizarre idea that nerds on this site have that APPL lives from selling useless shiny toys to morons is exceedingly tiring to read.
Paris: Because she is doing something right too!
I have this VeeBeam thingy. www.weebeam.com
Ok, it is line of sight, but for mr that is not a deal breaker. It works very well.
Sadly, Apple have removed technology from OSX 10.7 & 10.8 which means it con no longer be supported on the OSX platform. Win7 works fine as does OSX10.6
There is even a version of the hardware for composite input as well..
All-in-all an easy way to stream content from my laptop to my non-smart TV, until something generic and ubiquitous comes along. I.e. Quite a while
Actually, they seem to have blown their head off, and are now running like a headless chicken around the farmyard. A sad state of affairs for what was once an outstanding company.
The "Manchurian Candidate's" plan is on course for the complete destruction and the subsequent assimilation into the Microsoft corporation. I truly don't expect to see much of anything good from Nokia ever again, beyond the S40 low end. They have ceded the market to everyone else and bet the farm on a pig.
Steve B. must be just jizzing around the office at the success of his protege at knocking about 90% off the purchase price of Nokia. Too bad WP is going nowhere fast - it's half a plan with half a product and I can't see it ending well for MSFT either (it has already ended for NOK).
Paris: I need a happy Paris ending
"I suspect this is due to Active Directory accounts not being Live! accounts. It’s very odd that MS has opted for the Metro interface requiring a Live! account to be used. There are plenty of people I know who do not have and do not want a Windows Live! account.
As a colleague said to me: This is like those apps and websites requiring you to have a Facebook account. I couldn’t agree more, and it is rather disappointing. I never thought Microsoft would move in this direction and force people to use a certain service to access local applications."
I can conceive of no earthly reason for me to use Live! *ANYTHING* ever. Live! is so bad it cannot be described. I suspect this will (a) generate a lot of live accounts that will never be used and (b) hacks to disable Windows accessing it. Or perhaps MS will get the message that no one wants its web service crap - because it is all crap these days. Live! is crap, Hotmail is crap, etc.
We had a model-T ford when I was a kid - comes from having a "spanner" for a dad. But anyway, watching him drive it was bizarre. IIRC "spark" and "accelerator" on the column, gears (2) on the floor, floor brake applied to the gearbox and a hand brake. (Corrections from veteran car buffs allowed)
When Cadillac (yes, apparently it was Cadillac) settled on the, what is now the "standard", user interface for a car, they made some lasting and well thought out decisions.
I am confidently predicting that the Metro-UI will be gone long before the accelerator pedal or its location.
Banks can be relied upon, in all cases, to act in their own best interests and the interests of the "Capital" which they represent. This is the priciple purpose for the existence of banks. They are not charitable institutions, and they are peopled by individuals, rightly or wrongly, for whom social conscience is a cool name for a band.
I do not understand why people are so constantly surprised at these facts.
It seems every meltdown in the history of finance has been preceded by a round of deregulation..
I can commend this tome to those with the intellect and interest to plough threw it.
http://www.amazon.com/This-Time-Different-Centuries-Financial/dp/0691142165
Try it, you may learn something.
Paris: For no apparent reason
Actually, this has never been in question (whether he will pay capital gains tax), as his press release pointedly makes clear. The question is, having paid a squillion in tax, renounced citizenship and upped sticks ... does he have future tax liabilities to the US.
The answer is no, unless this funny law comes into effect, and I have no idea what bizarre consequences it will have.
philip
I randomly note that 3G is finally arriving in Thailand, after years and years of dithering/incompetence/corruption/rorting/etc. The adverts I saw today called it 3G+ which I gues to be the (I can never remember the acronymn but it's got HP in it) version.
This appears to be a remarkable case of honesty in a country defined by the level of systemic corruption that exists, expecially for the telecoms industry, formerly the private playground of the world's most individually corrupt elected politician.
Of course, it is unlikely to offer real internet speeds anywhere near the practical capabilities of the technology. As everyone who lives here can attest, "hi-speed" is a term that is meaningless. Download speeds is 32Kb on a supposedly 8Mb line are the norm, expecially if the site is hosted outside of Thailand.
There is just so much bandwidth available, and it is oversubscribed by the local operators here by about 10,000%
IIRC during my last visit to Australia, the internet seemed to be something generally unavailable to the traveller except at extortionate per minute rates, with speeds to match what I am used to here in Thailand.
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