I don't know, everywhere you look, Apple pays homage to the New York Times and there is NO BIGGER CROOK then them!
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I don't know, everywhere you look, Apple pays homage to the New York Times and there is NO BIGGER CROOK then them!
Q: How will you sell the iPad?
A: We'll start with Apple's direct channels, such as online, retail, education, etc. We'll also pursue indirect sales channels like Best Buy's store-in-a-store concepts. Internationally, we have a very good premium reseller program that we'll also use. Over time, sales channels will expand.
So will we be seeing an education discount on the iPad? If so, I think my interest in it just went up. It would be interesting if this would happen from day 1... One can hope I guess...
A: We'll start with Apple's direct channels, such as online, retail, education, etc. We'll also pursue indirect sales channels like Best Buy's store-in-a-store concepts. Internationally, we have a very good premium reseller program that we'll also use. Over time, sales channels will expand.
So will we be seeing an education discount on the iPad? If so, I think my interest in it just went up. It would be interesting if this would happen from day 1... One can hope I guess...
Really? you were using personal, micro computers in the 1970's? Even before they were invented?
Ask what you want, but it IS getting a little tiring having every thread being taken over by those of us mourning another Tuesday without an MBP update.
MBPs aren't new product for Apple, investors at this level could care less about Arrandale processors (most probably do not know what that even means). It would have been amazing if they would've asked about the MBP update. It's a little ridiculous to assume that your level of discomfort about the long wait for an MBP update even registers with a bunch of investors.
As well as the SD card adapter the camera connection kit also includes a USB port adapter. I imagine that you'll be able to connect your camera directly to the USB port or maybe use a card reader.
Using the iPad with an SLR should work fine if you are using JPEGs. Whether you'll be able to transfer RAW images is a different question though.
Really? you were using personal, micro computers in the 1970's? Even before they were invented?
I assume the 70s were before your time(?)
In the 70s, some of us were building microcomputers, hand wiring and soldering the components (8008/8080, etc.) to printed circuit boards, and mounting it all on pieces of plywood before Apple introduced the Apple I in '76. Then, it was the only way to conduct "weird electronic experiments" such as controlling analog synthesizers via homebrew D/As and entering data via makeshift keyboards made by soldering wires to bong screens glued on plywood. The bong-screen keyboards were used primarily for playing music -- all you really needed to program was a hex-keyboard, since any serious work was done in machine language or assembly language.
Ever hear of the Altair 8800... Apple I... Tandy TRS80... Commodore PET...RCA Cosmac ELF... or various systems by Ohio Scientific?
They all came from the '70s...
check your math
Since the "third decade" starts at 20 years plus 1 day, the
original claim is certainly possible.
Really? you were using personal, micro computers in the 1970's? Even before they were invented?
Since the "third decade" starts at 20 years plus 1 day, the
original claim is certainly possible.
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Isn't the current hardware incapable of 1080?
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Isn't the current hardware incapable of 1080?
Really? You call slapping in a crippled GPU in an effort to stifle competition a good thing? Awesome.
Q: Are these questions scripted, boring and far from those which should/could be asked?
A: AT&T's pricing is truly revolut... wait, what?
A: AT&T's pricing is truly revolut... wait, what?
This long diatribe of 'well back in my heyday' and you still struggle to see how the discontinued Powerbook and current Macbook Pro lines parallel one another? Really? Mind if I blow your mind and tell you that Macbooks were rebranded from the iBook in the same year? Too late, I already did. But seriously, no need to be teachin us youngins a lesson... we Macheads respect anyone who hand solders their computers together.
Really? you were using personal, micro computers in the 1970's? Even before they were invented?
Yep, some of us old heads were using micro computers in the mid seventies. Same stuff, different day. Back then, it wasn't Mac vs PC; it was Altair vs SWTP.
In the sixties, we had one of the first personal computers in our high school. It wasn't a PC; it wasn't even a mini computer. It was an LGP-21 (http://wps.com/projects/LGP-21/). Before that they had an LGP-30. The LGP-30 was more powerful, but it used vacuum tubes. The LGP-21 was transistorized, and cost one third as much. (Does anyone use the word "transistorized" any more? LOL! I see that the spell checker still recognizes it!)
In college, in 1969, we had the PDP-8 and the Internet. You haven't experienced the internet until you experience it at 300 baud.
At Sperry, we used a Varian 620i mini-computer in our collision avoidance system. When Motorola came out with the 6800 microprocessor, it had the same CPU architecture and instruction set as the Varian, AND it only cost $100.00. Some Motorola engineers formed Mostek and produced the slightly less powerful 6502 and sold it for $25.00. That was the processor Steve Wozniak chose for the Apple Computer.
Skip to today, my daughter's iPhone is more powerful than the iBook my daughter used in college, and her MPB is more powerful than my five year old mini-tower.
You mean that company with that big ugly red check mark logo, and the one to rip you off at data plans, while their data service is pretty slow, let alone, they never stop their rumors of iPhone and how much they've desperately wanted to get their hands on? then yeah
that one.
Uninteresting...
This should have been a short summery with a link. It wasted my precious scrolling finger just to get past all of the answers that we knew anyway. Thanks a lot for the repetitive motion problems you have caused;-)
This should have been a short summery with a link. It wasted my precious scrolling finger just to get past all of the answers that we knew anyway. Thanks a lot for the repetitive motion problems you have caused;-)
Not one single word about real computers.
The writing on the wall is 10 foot high.......
It was a Q&A session, if no one in interested in the status quo (and why would they be) why would anyone bring it up?
Because it doesn't support FullHD ?
Because its CPU is too weak for MKVs ?
Because it consumes way too much power ?
Because the hard drive can't be big enough for some people?
Western Digital put out quite a good alternative with the WD TV Live. It even has a nice interface and they update its firmware regularly.
High time for Apple to up the ante.
This long diatribe of 'well back in my heyday' and you still struggle to see how the discontinued Powerbook and current Macbook Pro lines parallel one another? Really? Mind if I blow your mind and tell you that Macbooks were rebranded from the iBook in the same year? Too late, I already did. But seriously, no need to be teachin us youngins a lesson... we Macheads respect anyone who hand solders their computers together.
Three sentences constitutes a "diatribe" where you're from? Interesting...
Unfortunately, my brief history lesson was necessary since the question was raised concerning whether or not "personal computers" even existed in the 1970s. But of course, no one called them "personal computers" then -- they were either called "micro-computers" or "home computers". So I can see how some might get the idea that "personal computers" were a product "invented" in the 80s...
RE: a Powerbook is a MacBook Pro, and a iBook is a MacBook
I think I'll start referring to those two old PowerMacs I still own as "early MacPros"...
Well said!
It is more than legitimate to comment on the lack of questions concerning Apple's core business. Why are so many here getting upset by it.
Don't have to read the posts do you?
I don't complain about the incessant stories and posts about iPads and other toys...I just skip past them.
Not sure, but what does that matter if 1080 isn't even supported by the software?
If there's a more knowledgable person on this subject than our own Cave Man, then I don't know who it is. He said: The NVidia 7300 in the ATV is capable of 1080p, but you would really be pushing the hardware. A more serious limitation is the 256 mb of RAM in the ATV, which is pretty much bare minimum for 10.4 (the ATV's OS). The cpu cannot do the decoding, that's for sure. I tried it with a 9 mbps (not good quality) 1080p file resident on my ATV's hard drive with XBMC and it couldn't handle it.
So, 1080P could be beyond the capabilities of the hardware. However, I would think Apple could optimize the playback on AppleTV in a way that XBMC (hackers) have not yet been able to do. Native HD 720P content looks pretty darn good though.
Goldman Sachs: Can you give us some information when we will see refreshed Macbook (Pros)?
Phil Schiller: how is THAT a question about our strategic direction? You know that there is a yearly refresh cycle. We will also regularly update the hardware in design terms. Can we now get back to the important questions please that have something to do with why I'm here?
True, but that meeting at Goldman was not the time and the place to ask about a refresh for hardware. You don't ask the CEO of Ferrari when a new engine for the F40 comes out when he is invited to talk about the strategic direction of his company. It's about profit, and at the moment most potential for fast growth is mainly in Apple's product categories that are in the development stage. Hence the iPad, iPhone and ATV questions (although I was surprised at the ATV question myself).