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Yeah, 10x the processing power for 1/10th the price.
I'll believe it when I see it. Meanwhile, a Mac will always be a Mac and an X-box will never be a Mac no matter how many G5 CPUs they put in it and that's the difference.
Can I run Photoshop, MS Office, surf the web, manage my e-mail and contact list, and print documents from an X-Box. If I can do all that and more as easily and efficiently as my desktop, then the X-box is not a toy. MSFT is marketing the X-box as a gaming platform and it's going to be just that to 99.99% of the population.
KC: Apple will not charge your credit card
if you only purchase one or two songs. They'll keep your account open until you have purchased enough songs before they will settle with CC company. So this minimum thing is not really an issue.
KCMW: 16% surcharge is not possible.
Small merchants pay around 2 - 2.5%. Firms like Apple would be paying something well under 2%.
"Eek, MSFT threatening to sink below $27 again?"
Sinking? With the dual core 3.5Ghz G5 X-box that's going to kick SJ in the butt? You gotta be kidding! Must be a major buying op for those who missed the AAPL run.
OT: reminds me of the movie
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood). How he became a legend because he had a steady shot under stress and most other gun slingers don't.
Thanks tfigs:
It's going to be another late nighter.
I can see them introducing a revised
Airport Express with AV streaming capabilities. Like I said before, enrich the computing experience not rebuild the computer.
WLD: For one thing, I am glad Apple is not competing
in that market. I don't think Apple has that many billions to lose. Yeah, I can see many consumers wanting to build computer clusters out of those things.
WLD: Am I missing something?
Please give me some examples of "living room computer" and how well they are selling. Don't give X-box as a successful example.
WLD: I don't see why this should worry you.
I also recall Steve Jobs saying that the computer is more for work and TV is for entertainment and he thinks it is better to keep them separate. I don't think his vision is always right but I think he has a point there. Imagine yourself surfing the web on your 70" Sony Wega and your wife demands to watch Jepordy and then your teenage son come home with the latest Spider Man flick and your five year old want to watch Sponge Bob. Wow what a mess.
Steve Jobs' vision is Apple's vision and if you read into the tea leaves you can see where Apple is heading or not heading. Any investor in AAPL should take his vision seriously.
We should see in the next few years whether the living room computer will take off. At this point in time, I think unlikely.
WLD: As far as Apple is concerned,
the digital hub is the PC itself and I don't think they are going to reinvent the computer to fit beside your VCR. They might, however, make it easier to integrate the PC with your television entertainment center as what the iPod Photo is attempting now.
Steve Jobs had somewhere along the line said that they will not make a stripped down PC and his vision of the digital hub centers around the computer itself.
So while the big players are scrambling to put computers on the fridge and computers in your TV and DVD player, Apple is working on products that will compliment and enrich the PC experience, vs bringing the PC experience to every corner of the house.
While there is no doubt that there are tastier fish down the stream, I personally don't think the big players really have a strategy nor a vison of how they want to play this game as Apple does.
roni: I get your point now.
Being cool and hip, you mean the way it works really rocks.
Lango: You can twist the time frame
any way you like. I stick to the three years since the iPod was first introduced. Either the competition has been asleep at the wheel, or they just can't integrate software with hardware properly. I am convinced it is the latter. Software / hardware integration is where Apple shines. That's why we are using a Mac.
It's only a matter of time. By this time next year, you'll be proved wrong.
Ron: If what you are saying is true,
then iPod is just a passing fad or simply a fashion statement. For a few it may be true but for most, I think the iPod fulfills a need (edited) and Apple has fulfilled that need with its simplicity and elegant design.
Heywood:
Without iTunes, iPod would be like coffee without cream, toast without jam, cake without icing, beans without gas... ; )
I got one simple question.
It's been three years, why haven't we seen an iPod clone or any serious competiton?
The walkman is all hardware.
The iPod's success factor is not hardware but (proprietary) software. So comparison with the walkman is a little tricky.
Same here, still waiting : (
tfigs: I wouldn't put too much into
the exchange difference. You'd have to wait at least a year to let the exchange appreciation work its way into product prices. Meanwhile it might be a good idea to buy your Mac stuff in the US.
As for the music store, I've waited a year and a half, I can wait another four days. I am hoping, however, that we'd get 99 cents per song.
No Herb, you ask your mommy nicely ; )
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
dilleet: Google commit to Mac?
It's more like returning a favor. Notice the Google search window on the right corner of Safari?
Yofal: SJ said iTMS is coming to Canada next month.
Woo Hoo! BTW, you think they'll let you keep the songs you bought when you become Canadian again? Think they'll accept dual citizenships?
Blue: While we are on the subject of FLA voting machines.
You gotta see this:
http://www.boomchicago.nl/images/Voting_Machine.mov
more here:
http://www.boomchicago.nl/Section/Videos
OT: The Unauthorized Bio of Dick Cheney.
Something you can't watch in the US but you can at least read it here:
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/dickcheney/
A little homework prior to election.
OT: da'cat, move to Canada?
Didn't you see the movie "Day After Tomorrow"? Everybody in Canada died.
Looks to me like one of those high tech Jails.
OT: Scratch my tummy please.
FWIW: Kenny Rogers has a cute baseball song. em
dilleet: From that article:
"Apple has signed a deal with Hewlett-Packard (HP) allowing it to produce an iPod (marketed as "the Apple iPod from HP"), in return for iTunes being installed on its PCs at the time of manufacture.
I didn't know HP are producing the hPods.
Put an order in today for 500 shares @ $38.80.
It didn't get filled. Missed it by a heartbeat. Will probably be regretting it next week.
Blue: I put my vote in for a PC.
You can't play Doom3 on Xbox/GameCube/PS2 nor a mac. Now, that's a game and a half. If this kid's got money to burn, he can always get a mac when he finally decides to do some real work.
I'd point him to http://www.apple.com/games/ but I am afraid it's county fair vs Six Flags.
roni: $38 does seem kinda pricey but
when you are looking back from 42, it'll look kind of cheap. I am contemplating a quick purchase, one that I'll unload a day before earnings. I'll just let the shares I purchased at 30.80 ride past earnings though. IMO, There could be a positive surprise from the following factors:
1. iPod sales
2. iMac sales
3. improved interest income from cash hord
4. improved gain from exchange (result of weaker USD)
roni: From now until earnings,
I think $38 or thereabouts would be a good entry point.
spitsong: I have CD Stompter too.
bought it way back when. You are right, their software stinks. What I did was scan their template onto Illustrator and traced that template into an Illustrator file. I simply drag photos on to the template for CD label printing. I print in Classic though because OSX is still kinda off in WYSIWYG.
Anyone noticed that there are fewer spams
in their dotmac account? I think Apple has finally put some well needed filters in place.
OT:"--Something else I haven't listed"
Howbout, GW getting caught with in pants down... uh... in public... uh... again?
OT: Roni
I don't think Bush has any other meaningful attacks on Kerry. But then maybe they'll think of something. We'll see, won't we?
OT: Blue:
"No doubt he'll do better at the 2nd and 3rd debates (I can't fathom him doing too much worse), but that's where things stand at the moment anyway."
I can't see Bush changing his message nor strategy in his upcoming debates. It'll probably be the sameole **smirk** "Kerry is flip flop" routine.
WLD: Did you mean lose them as gone from the iTunes Library?
or disappeared completely from your HD? I've had them disappear from my iTunes Library a few times usually after a major OS update. Another thing I noticed was that the songs and folders brought over from the days of OS9 and possibly OS10.1 all had permission assigned to system. You cannot edit those songs from recent versions of iTunes unless you reassign permission.