Let's translate this for the US consumer:
They squandered China money lent by China to spend on Chinese goods. Things kinda became tricky when they were going to default so US Fed printed more money so they could pay back the Chinese.
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Tim Cook: 'Android is Like Europe', Many Different Things Under One Name
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Let's translate this for the US consumer:
They squandered China money lent by China to spend on Chinese goods. Things kinda became tricky when they were going to default so US Fed printed more money so they could pay back the Chinese.
Well do you know what he means when he compares the Android Phone OS with Europe?
Not sure why you say this. First , it is a fact. Second, it indicates Apple's priorities. Third, Apple's lack of commitment to providing complete local services stands in stark contrast with the efforts of Google, which have managed to get things right in my corner of Scotland (even down to linking bus schedules to bus stops in Google Maps. Apple's Maps app doesn't even show bus stops where I live)....
Don't get me wrong - I have been a long time fan of Apple's products. However, if Apple does not start concentrating on markets other than the US, it will begin losing sales outside of the US.
I don't see any issue with the statement. Android is more diversified and thus harder to target by developers. Its not necessarily a bad thing, its just different.
This thread is like a herd of voracious cats diving on a bowl of canned cat food.
Windows must be the Roman Empire then - installs everywhere, yet reduces everything to rubble.
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What? You mean that technologically and culturally advanced society with a war machine unmatched in the ancient world that spawned a vast empire that lasted in some form for nearly 1500 years, united far flung cultures through tens of thousands of miles of roads, civil services and technologies, was remembered as the lost golden age of humanity for nearly a millennium after its fall, and founded concepts in governance and philosophy that are still followed even today?
Yeah. If you're trying to bash Microsoft, you used a poor analogy.
China would disagree with you there.
...in the western/mideastern world.
Though I think Rome probably had the better military tech and disipline, even without Sun Tzu.
I think being definitively in the top 2 worldwide is a pretty big achievement for Rome to be honest
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(Looks at the political situation in Washington DC,
looks at the various "states rights" arguments from the states and territories and related debates).
Hummmmmm
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The apps don't scale they just blow up the phone apps which if you've looked at any of them are pathetic for a tablet and that's being kind.
It's nothing to do with the "late comer" America : Read this from Wikipedia or get a copy of Norman Davies' Europe book. See this map also : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Herodotus_World_Map.jpg
The use of the term "Europe" has developed gradually throughout history.[9][10] In antiquity, the Greek historian Herodotus mentioned that the world had been divided by unknown persons into three parts, Europe, Asia, and Libya (Africa), with the Nile and the River Phasis forming their boundaries—though he also states that some considered the River Don, rather than the Phasis, as the boundary between Europe and Asia.[11] Europe's eastern frontier was defined in the 1st century by geographer Strabo at the River Don.[12] The Book of Jubilees described the continents as the lands given by Noah to his three sons; Europe was defined as stretching from the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar, separating it from North Africa, to the Don, separating it from Asia.[13]
A cultural definition of Europe as the lands of Latin Christendom coalesced in the 8th century, signifying the new cultural condominium created through the confluence of Germanic traditions and Christian-Latin culture, defined partly in contrast with Byzantium and Islam, and limited to northern Iberia, the British Isles, France, Christianized western Germany, the Alpine regions and northern and central Italy.[14] The concept is one of the lasting legacies of the Carolingian Renaissance: "Europa" often figures in the letters of Charlemagne's court scholar, Alcuin.[15] This division—as much cultural as geographical—was used until the Late Middle Ages, when it was challenged by the Age of Discovery.[16][17][why?] The problem of redefining Europe was finally resolved in 1730 when, instead of waterways, the Swedish geographer and cartographer von Strahlenberg proposed the Ural Mountains as the most significant eastern boundary, a suggestion that found favour in Russia and throughout Europe.[18]
