>> with a number of Apple's iPhone manufacturers now underreporting their licensing fees at Apple's behest
More details please. How and why?
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Seems to be a case of 'it depends'. It's a methodology, problem is when people think it should apply to all projects. Always seems odd to me that a company would lead their sales effort for consultancy based upon the project methodology rather than successfuly outcomes.
It's very good if you have a budget to use up before the year end, but haven't decided what you need to achieve with the budget - I guess that's why it's so popular in public sector.
How well do other mobile OS behave in the same situtation? I really hate using Android (spent a weekend with my Mum's Samsung), but not sure any of them manage well in-car. My Windows Phone has great sat-nav, but an incoming call takes over the screen hiding the directions.
It's not free, just early. Those on the Fast ring also find their computers breaking quite frequently. They have to be very keen to go through a fresh install every few months.
Greater concern is that the Insider Program becomes a Microsoft Echo Chamber - they just listen to the people who consider themselves fans rather than a wider user base. That said, not sure how you reach the wider population - most of them just want to get on with using a computer.
I don't think anything grates more than phone a UK company and the call being answered by someone with an Indian accent. Feel sorry for any Indian nationals who work in the UK - must get a hard time.
I refused an insurance quote once because the claims handlers were based overseas. I was told that my account could be marked to only talk to people in the UK. Still refused out of principle, but wonder if any of the banks are offering something similar? Maybe on their fee paying accounts?
A friend of mine is a cardiologist. He did a paper a few years ago following up on the french paradox. My contribution was to hold a wine tasting at Brighton hospital (I worked in the wine trade at the time).
Stats at the time showed that morbidity of drinkers only exceeded that of abstainers once above 30 units per week. That is 30 units per week is just as good as not drinking at all.
I thought the only reason Chromebooks were successful in the US was the way that Google have gamed the system providing IT to schools.
Elsewhere, they just don't exist (to my knowledge).
Apple have just run out of ideas. They dominate 2 markets, but small player elsewhere. In 10 years they'll be an interesting comparison to Microsofts drop since 2000ish.
Let me boil the writer's argument down to one sentence: running Windows on ARM means that all servers will run Linux on ARM with non-Microsoft SERVER applications because Microsoft made such a mess of CLIENT applications Windows 8 for ARM?
MS are in a mess over all sorts of things, but I think they have a clearer view of what's going on than this author.