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makes it obvious that over 50% of the people on the Apple forums were and are blinded by only being able to "see the future" in terms of the past.

When I saw the iPod, I bought APPL stock at $20/share. It is now by far my biggest stock holding in terms of $$$.

Just had to check it: iPod was released Oct 23rd 2001 for $399. Assuming 8.25% sales tax that would be $431.92. That bought 23.8 AAPL shares at the closing prices of $18.14. There was a split, so you would have 47.6 shares worth $330.67 at close on March 18th, for a total of $15,740.

I conclude that all those people buying iPods had not the slightest clue how the Apple share price would develop :D

I guess i was wrong with said niche markets.
what i mean is that as they expand their market share, they'll need to expand their product line, in order to entice customers toward their products. basically, if they have a product for every corner of their market, they'll likely increase their market share.

Good point.

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If it's not the iFly, it's the iFart.

The feature is that it sounds like a farty Startup Chime sound.

the 12" PB had a full sized keyboard...and I'm holding on to my 1.33 version till a 12" MBP shows up.

me too. I got a 19" external screen and the BT Apple Keyboard and Mouse. When I'm @ Home I'm full featured, if I'm on the road my PB is small and light.

12" PB 1GHz
1,256 GB Ram
100gig HD

I just love my little fella :D

The current 5MP camera on the iPhone is fantastic for such a small sensor. video recording at 720p is pretty crappy IMO. They need a better quality lens and Sony offers that opportunity.

The single most important factor that determines the quality of a lens is the size. There are some camera phones that have a huge lens on the back that the back is not flat. The reason is the bigger lens will let more light shine on the sensor pixels.

I let Wal Mart know that I don't approve of their practices by avoiding their stores. My money goes to other retailers.

I arrived at a hard to get to RadioShack 5 mins after opening time. The friendly sales guy said "Oh Man, we had four. Our manager came and and took them all 10 minutes ago".

Enough said.

No, this is incorrect.

Apple sold it's OS's for Mac hardware only, long before people started running OS X on PC's.

Mac OS's sold without hardware are sold as upgrades. End of story.
You're missing the point. If you have a Mac that meets the hardware requirements, you can purchase any version of OS X, there is no other software prerequisite. The fact that it is an "upgrade" is irrelevant, because you don't already to have any other software, other that what the computer originally shipped with.

For the people who thinks that Vista is too expensive:

Mac users: Spend more $ on hardware. Spend less $ on software.

Windows users: Spend more $ on software. Spend less $ on hardware.

What a shock the computing industry works both ways. :eek:
Think again...

Robert Weston (Associated Press) (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060823/ap_on_hi_te/tech_test_mac_pro_3) and Yuval Kossovsky (ComputerWorld) (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9002545&source=NLT_MAC&nlid=62) both found the Mac Pro to be hundreds of dollars less than an equivalent Dell...

I reduced military spending to $90B and increased Vets' aftercare, too. Major gain came from removing the cap on SS contributions completely.

Why such a great camera on the iphone and such loser ones on the ipad?

Here we go again with the pixel complaints.

The ipad or for that matter iphone is NOT a camera.
If you want to take pictures of professional quality, buy a stand alone camera that does that.

Higher quality of anything initially costs more, until what was once high becomes the standard due to mass production.

It initially costs more, because production output is less, flaws needs to be ironed out, the production process refined etc.

How difficult is that to understand?.

Maybe it had nothing to do with money at all. Maybe "wife said no" because hubby is obsessed with gadgets and the Internet, and therefore pays no attention to wife, kids, dog or fish.

That said, Apple may not have necessarily helped with family by sending it back to hubby for free. All they did was undermine the wife's better judgment.

Are you the wife? :p

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Presumably '3D' means '3D without glasses'.

I'd much prefer a PPI bump as reading PDF files in portrait orientation could use it. Would like to see it doubled from 132 PPI to 264 PPI (double resolution to 2048x1536).

Sad part is, as adoption increases...so will viruses/malware/trojans/etc.

Best analogy Ive heard is:

Windows 7 is a house with bars on the windows, and industrial locks on the doors...in Baltimore.

OSX is a house with no locks, in the middle of nowhere.

The security-through-obscurity myth of OS X has long been debunked. Do you know what the most used computer OS in the world is? Linux. And there are very, very few viruses for linux.

The rampant virus ecosystem is a flaw in Windows, not an inherent fact of all operating systems.

Macs have a decent market share and a very large mindshare, but yet are still virus free (though there have been a couple trojans that fizzled out).

Did you just insult me and then agree with what I said?

Nope, he said the opposite of what you said.

You said the once the software is easy everyone will be able to edit well.
He said that editing well has nothing to do with how well you know the software.

I realize it's unlikely Apple will release a Conroe minitower, but I definitely still see a place for it, and hey, one can always dream. :D :cool:

I asked a while back if Apple were likely to release a mini tower type machine and was quite surprised with the agreessivley negative replies some people gave all but calling me an idiot for asking for one. Some people just dont seem to get the fact there could quite easily be a machine that sits inbetween the mac mini and the mac pro even though the imac exists.

Yes!!!

Burning --> Include CD Text!!

ugh if that phone in movie is real I might die... SO ugly

I think that this is as likely as the idea of an iRod...

Got to see this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmhBv-KwtBY&feature=player_embedded)

auto album art fetch isn't working for me, even on manual try. Anyone else having that issue?

Update 2: Apple appears to have updated the battery model numbers listed on its site. The new models affected are as follows:



12-inch iBook G4 A1061
ZZ338 - ZZ427
3K429 - 3K611
6C519 - 6C552

12-inch PowerBook G4 A1079
ZZ411 - ZZ427
3K428 - 3K611

15-inch PowerBook G4 A1078 and A1148
3K425 - 3K601
6N530 - 6N551
6N601

more MP's ≠ better photos.

Yes, and that's why Apple is going to increase MPs from 5 to 8 but, obviously, it's "not about the specs".

The amount of crap in this thread is amazing:

1) Flash could never be a normal 'App' because it has to operate as a plugin for Safari since it's not a stand alone product on its own. For this reason, it would at the very least HAVE to be co-developed by Apple and included in a software update.

2) The primary reason Apple don't want to allow Flash, Java or any other runtime environment on the iPhone is because it would mean that developers would be able to bypass the App Store and Apple's own development tools. This would weaken the entire platform because there would be less incentive to develop native iPhone applications. It would also have the consequence of handing control over part of the entire platform to a third party - imagine if Adobe decided to stop producing Flash for the iPhone. Where would that leave Apple?

3) The Mac and PC versions of Flash differ because the underlying operating systems are fundamentally different particularly in how they handle hardware graphics acceleration. Blame for the poor performance of Flash on Mac OS X has to lie primarily with Adobe because they produce the software and Mac OS X includes very solid, highly optimised 2D and 3D graphics APIs.

4) Flash video using the older Sorenson and On2 codecs will not play properly on any current mobile device because there is no hardware optimisation for those codecs. Only video based on H.264 has broad hardware acceleration support (including the iPhone) so even if Adobe and Apple did bring Flash to the iPhone, it still wouldn't solve all the video problems.