And nor will the Xbox One, which is entirely understandable because they used a completely different processor architecture, hence the reason there are no X360 or PS3 emulators on PCs or Macs. The PS4 and XO are essentially PCs now.
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Wifi expandable storage - I skipped to last post but have people talked about this?
Forgive me if this has already been covered, but I read the first few pages of posts then skipped to the last. Popular thread! I find SD card expansion irrelevant - I only use SD cards for my camera but would rather have an Eye-Fi SD card even for that.
Why have one SD card in a device when you can get an external wireless SD card reader, wireless flash drive, wireless hard drive, or wireless SD card/hard drive/flash drive enabler? All of these devices allow you to stream to multiple devices - Macs, PCs, Android phones, iPhones, iPads, tablets of any sort, etc. They all have WiFi, and only some of those devices have SD card readers. If 2 people want to watch the same movie on an SD card they have to move the SD card from one device to another, if the device has an SD card slot that is. With all these wireless devices multiple people can stream from one device.
These all seem like superior solutions to an SD card slot. They create their own Wifi hotspot and are fast enough for my needs, so who cares about an SD card slot? Never use em in my Mac, have only ever used them for a camera.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416607,00.asp
http://www.airstash.com
http://www.hypershop.com/iUSBport-p/iusb-black.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Wi-Drive-Pocket-sized-WID-32GBZ/dp/B00576APEI
Forgive me if this has already been covered, but I read the first few pages of posts then skipped to the last. Popular thread! I find SD card expansion irrelevant - I only use SD cards for my camera but would rather have an Eye-Fi SD card even for that.
Why have one SD card in a device when you can get an external wireless SD card reader, wireless flash drive, wireless hard drive, or wireless SD card/hard drive/flash drive enabler? All of these devices allow you to stream to multiple devices - Macs, PCs, Android phones, iPhones, iPads, tablets of any sort, etc. They all have WiFi, and only some of those devices have SD card readers. If 2 people want to watch the same movie on an SD card they have to move the SD card from one device to another, if the device has an SD card slot that is. With all these wireless devices multiple people can stream from one device.
These all seem like superior solutions to an SD card slot. They create their own Wifi hotspot and are fast enough for my needs, so who cares about an SD card slot? Never use em in my Mac, have only ever used them for a camera.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416607,00.asp
http://www.airstash.com
http://www.hypershop.com/iUSBport-p/iusb-black.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Wi-Drive-Pocket-sized-WID-32GBZ/dp/B00576APEI
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In a few months Windows 8 has sold more copies than Apple has sold copies of MacOS and OSX combined, over the course of decades.
Is that really your definition of a "failing product"? If so, what label do you ascribe to Apple's OS efforts?
I'm sure you can get windows 8 tabs for under $329.
The storage might've been 32gig, not 16gig...
Maybe you want more stuff on the home screen rather than wasted space for big icons?
Volume switches are useless for most people, yet you don't complain about them...
It isn't true multitasking still...
One again, Apple fans need to obfuscate and misrepresent. How about what you can DO on the Windows Pads, aside from Microsoft office out of the box? Like, what helps people be productive or entertained aside from Netflix, files, etc.?
It was a good advert from a humor point of view and the fact it upset people. Don't like these types of ads? Switch to PC.
Multitasking: see iOS7, announced this week, and the Side by Side app
ios7 multitasking:
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/
Side by Side app like Samsung's multi-window view, available for years on the App Store and perhaps where Samsung got the idea:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/side-by-side-dropbox-support/id386528623?mt=8
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Windows 8 sales: supposedly 100 million? But those are "sell-in" numbers meaning Microsoft managed to convince resellers to buy lots of their stuff. Are they selling? Some are, some aren't.
Mac computer sales: 50 million since Q4 FY'10 then I got tired of counting but the graph will show you what I mean. This is a sell-through number. This doesn't count upgrades to Lion or Mountain Lion either, just new Macs.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/13/apple-macs-analysts-estimates/
Your claim, which includes the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and includes Macs sold with new OSes, full installs of Mac OS from the same timeframe, and upgrade copies sold, is therefore false.
ios7 multitasking:
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/
Side by Side app like Samsung's multi-window view, available for years on the App Store and perhaps where Samsung got the idea:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/side-by-side-dropbox-support/id386528623?mt=8
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Windows 8 sales: supposedly 100 million? But those are "sell-in" numbers meaning Microsoft managed to convince resellers to buy lots of their stuff. Are they selling? Some are, some aren't.
Mac computer sales: 50 million since Q4 FY'10 then I got tired of counting but the graph will show you what I mean. This is a sell-through number. This doesn't count upgrades to Lion or Mountain Lion either, just new Macs.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/13/apple-macs-analysts-estimates/
Your claim, which includes the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and includes Macs sold with new OSes, full installs of Mac OS from the same timeframe, and upgrade copies sold, is therefore false.
The saddest part of all is that Windows has sold more than Apple will ever think about selling. You just can't compete with Microsoft.
But you already knew that.
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http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/16/apple-sold-more-iphones-than-macs-ever/
This times a thousand. I swear, I've never seen such blind and borderline religious devotion to anything in my entire life. You folks at the MacRumors forums really take the cake.
Compared to the rabid illogic of AppleInsider, this place seems rational and balanced.
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By that rationale, I should get into the ball bearing business.
So the ultimate measure of success of a company is number of units sold? I submit to you, then, that Microsoft should stop making software and get into the ball bearing or hamburger business. Surely Microsoft could grow its unit shares that way. I know McDonald's is over 100 billion served, and who knows how many ball bearings they could sell - Unit sales FTW!
So the ultimate measure of success of a company is number of units sold? I submit to you, then, that Microsoft should stop making software and get into the ball bearing or hamburger business. Surely Microsoft could grow its unit shares that way. I know McDonald's is over 100 billion served, and who knows how many ball bearings they could sell - Unit sales FTW!
LOL, maybe so. This is the only Mac forum that I frequent, however, so I wouldn't know.
Interesting points. Not many people agree with them. I don't think the zoomability of the home page on Windows 8 is anything but a design choice. Microsoft's problem is they don't make any.
Someone tell Microsoft's Advertising department to actually talk to each other to send a clear message...
When samsung has ads like this for Galaxy where they say it's better than iPhone and having the Windows phone ont eh sidelines not taking part in a fight of who's phone is better because they "know theirs is"
But then when it comes to tablets, they do the very same thing? Personally, ads like this are embarrassing for the companies that create them. It shows that they know they aren't as good and instead of fixing the product or making it better, they try to find gimmicky features that are crap and point that it's better with slimeball marketing.
When samsung has ads like this for Galaxy where they say it's better than iPhone and having the Windows phone ont eh sidelines not taking part in a fight of who's phone is better because they "know theirs is"
But then when it comes to tablets, they do the very same thing? Personally, ads like this are embarrassing for the companies that create them. It shows that they know they aren't as good and instead of fixing the product or making it better, they try to find gimmicky features that are crap and point that it's better with slimeball marketing.
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Yes but apple greed at wanting to charge $$$$ for storage has pushed away the gullable trend-followers: the iPhone crowd that came to apple simply because it was the new hip cool thing. Apple became conceited and as purse string ballooned, gluttony ensued! The only main reason they wont allow sd storage nor usb is they want you to pay more $$ for larger storage - where on certain android devices, you can opt to have a lower storage device, with the luxury of popping in a SD card if one is travelling away from home. PS streaming large chunks of data, especially abroad is really not feasible in the real world!
I own everything apple - however, the only way i find my ipad useful is beacuse it is JB; thinking of getting the note 3 next; love the macbooks and imacs though!
Last I checked, they were making fun of Apple-Android fanboy warism. That was making fun of Apple (and Google), as is this. I don't think anyone defends Microsoft like fanboys of the other two OSes. I might be wrong but I haven't seen it.
hahaha....awesome ad.
funny and effective at the same time, good to see the apple-microsoft rivalry in TV ads.
funny and effective at the same time, good to see the apple-microsoft rivalry in TV ads.
You're talking nonsense! There are millions and millions of DSLR cameras on the market, millions sold every year, to millions of photographers, and all utilise SD cards. There are also numerous photo apps and many people that use iPads to load images from cameras via the SD card adaptor ... but more likely MANY more if it had a slot built in like 99% of all other tablets (because as I said above, Apple don't include one PURELY because they can make more money 'forcing' people to pay more for iPads with more memory and/or buy their adapter ... It's NOTHING to do with lack of demand, as proved by every other manufacturer including them!!!)
Your post is just another of those 'I don't use it so no one else does (or should!) so it shouldnt be included' ... In other words, selfish and thoughtless and without merit because not all are like you!!!
You mean you chose to not spend a $1000 to upgrade to a computer with a better OS with fewer viruses, better build quality, better customer support with a larger accessory base and more consistent day to day operation.
That's fine. Those improvements aren't worth $1000 to everyone.
I personally would rather have a football field made of AstroTurf than have the lawn mower with the biggest engine