iPad Contracts....

Dolby said:
So wait - let me get this straight - you agree with Apple on every single standard that they've either chosen to follow or discard?
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Dolby, there have been plenty of occasions that Apple adopted a technology that didn't catch on. FireWire, for one, looked promising, but turned out to be a dud. Apple can and do make mistakes in judging what will be the next hot thing. But every time Apple discards a technology, they turn out to be right.

1998 - Apple introduces the iMac. It has no floppy disk drive, and no serial or parallel ports, only the newfangled USB thingie. Uproar. Pundits proclaim that this hobbled contraption will never sell. Apple sells millions of iMacs. It takes PC's 10 years to catch up, but they do manage to ditch their obsolete drives and ports.

2007 - Apple launches the iPhone. It has no physical keyboard and no user-replaceable battery. Pundits proclaim that this hobbled contraption will never sell. Apple sells millions of iPhones. Every phone designed since take its inpiration from it. Case in point: Nokia has just introduced its first windows Phone, the Lumia 800. No physical keyboard. No user-replaceable battery (unless you are very techie, but that's equally true of the iPhone). No SD Card slot. 16 GB capacity, and if the Nokia N9 on which it is based is anything to go by, a 64 GB version is on its way. Does any of this sound familiar?

2008 - Apple launches the Macbook air, it has no user-replaceable battery and no optical drive. A later version does not even have a hard drive, using SSD instead. Uproar. Pundits proclaim that this hobbled contraption will never sell. Apple sells millions of MacBook Airs. Competitors are still trying to catch up even while Intel is subsidising them.

Do I need to go on? When Apple decides that a technology is obsolete, trust them. History indicates that Apple will be right and the pundits will be wrong. The rest of the world will follow in a few years' time. And sell your shares in SD Card manufacturers. :)
 
You don't really believe any of your post - do you? ;)
 
clasqm said:
Dolby, there have been plenty of occasions that Apple adopted a technology that didn't catch on. FireWire, for one, looked promising, but turned out to be a dud. Apple can and do make mistakes in judging what will be the next hot thing. But every time Apple discards a technology, they turn out to be right.

1998 - Apple introduces the iMac. It has no floppy disk drive, and no serial or parallel ports, only the newfangled USB thingie. Uproar. Pundits proclaim that this hobbled contraption will never sell. Apple sells millions of iMacs. It takes PC's 10 years to catch up, but they do manage to ditch their obsolete drives and ports.

2007 - Apple launches the iPhone. It has no physical keyboard and no user-replaceable battery. Pundits proclaim that this hobbled contraption will never sell. Apple sells millions of iPhones. Every phone designed since take its inpiration from it. Case in point: Nokia has just introduced its first windows Phone, the Lumia 800. No physical keyboard. No user-replaceable battery (unless you are very techie, but that's equally true of the iPhone). No SD Card slot. 16 GB capacity, and if the Nokia N9 on which it is based is anything to go by, a 64 GB version is on its way. Does any of this sound familiar?

2008 - Apple launches the Macbook air, it has no user-replaceable battery and no optical drive. A later version does not even have a hard drive, using SSD instead. Uproar. Pundits proclaim that this hobbled contraption will never sell. Apple sells millions of MacBook Airs. Competitors are still trying to catch up even while Intel is subsidising them.

Do I need to go on? When Apple decides that a technology is obsolete, trust them. History indicates that Apple will be right and the pundits will be wrong. The rest of the world will follow in a few years' time. And sell your shares in SD Card manufacturers. :)
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You said it brother ;-) HIGH 5!!!!!
 
He said it wrong, though ;)

I mean - why not adopt SD, Flash or Blu Ray?

Blu Ray has been out for around 5 years and sell in excess of 500 million discs in the US and Canada alone. SD has been around for about a decade in some form or another and considered the de-facto storage standard being on pretty much any electronic device and has been for many, many years. 400 brand and 8000 models ....

Flash is well, 70% of the video over the internet.

In my eyes neither of the 3 technologies are anywhere near dying and we're entering 2012 - 3 years after Apple started working on the iPad. Yes - one can predict most technologies will die eventually, but it hardly takes a genius to see that. Everything dies eventually

Steve Jobs is possibly quite correct - maybe we won't be using Blu Ray in 2020, but then again - maybe we won't be using Apple Inc in 2020 either.

As for the USB argument - do you really think that having USB on the iMac in the late 90's has any effect on the technology at all? Apple was a near dead company back then and only continued past bankruptcy because they were bailed out by Microsoft. iMac has ZERO to do with USB. Microsoft, Intel and Compaq - amoungst others - were the companies that developed USB.

I find it ironic that the company that were proud to have 'offered options for their users' are the same company that today limits, restricts and control every aspect - deciding what standard their users will and will not use.

By the way - you guys know of the glaring iOS5 security bug?
 
Just because something is popular doesn't mean it is the best option available.

Do some research, and have a look at which is faster. The internal memory or MicroSD? Then get back to me on that.
I don't want to have to save all my apps, etc, onto a microSD card. I want the fast internal memory. It comes down to more than just transferring content, etc.

Could you also please show me where you get your stats regarding 70% of video on the net is flash.
Here's an article from TechCrunch that is over a year old, so I'm sure the numbers are even lower for flash and higher for h.264
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/01/h-264-66-percent-web-video/

Q1 of 2010, 26% of the web's videos are flash. 26% and 70% is a bit of a big difference.

And for the 10th time, just go and do a bit of research about HTML5 and CSS3. Flash is really gonna become niche because HTML5 and CSS3 will allow so many possibilities that were not possible before, that people had to rely on Flash for.

BluRays are for movies and games. You pop a bluray disc into your PS3 or BluRay player. Not your Notebook.
When software companies adopt it, then it'll most likely appear in more notebooks and PCs. Cause come on, show me a standard of the shelf PC or Notebook that has BluRay as standard? Alienware and high end R20 000 notebooks yes. The market is just so niche, it is not even worth it. Do you want a MacBook to cost an extra grand or 2? Hell no in my opinion.
 
You don't really believe that - do you? :/
Or are you only pulling my leg?

EDIT :

This from your master .... http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

Adobe has repeatedly said that Apple mobile devices cannot access “the full web” because 75% of video on the web is in Flash. What they don’t say is that almost all this video is also available in a more modern format, H.264, and viewable on iPhones, iPods and iPads. YouTube, with an estimated 40% of the web’s video

He doesn't deny the fact and Adobe knows pretty much what is out there - so we can say between 70-75% ... ? I mean 40% alone is on YouTube

Many PCs offer Blu Ray - not only the high end. I've seen mid line Sonys, Dells etc that offer. A reader can be had for under R1,000.00 and a writer not a horrendously more than that.

Great for backing up without an iHDD, via the iCloud, synced with the iTunes into iWi Fi through the copy protection into your fake USA account. Maybe we see things differently - but it's cheaper and easier to simply burn 40GB worth of my photo's and locked into a cupboard. I also know a thief won't steal ...

I'm not even going to reply to the your 'popular doesn't mean it's better'. I think most know in consumer electronics, it IS better to be popular. A media player that plays only WMV/WMA won't sell compared to something that does all.

Same with just about every bit of consumer electronic
 
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