Posts by Conner_36

Re: Frackin MORON JUDGE!

Thanks for your vote of support man :)

"Objective-C is kludge"... really?

"Objective-C is kludge which is only relevant to Apple platforms, thus irrelevant to most application developers. Apple is part of an expensive lifestyle fad and has a limited lifespan, so beware about investing much of your life with them."

Them's mighty strong fightin words.

Just a look by the numbers, ios is more popular than every current game console by the numbers. But being nice I added all of the original numbers to make it a 'fair' fight.

We have the nintendo brand at 602.42 million since 1974; the sony playstation brand at 369.8 million since 1994; the xbox brand at 79 million consoles sold since 2001; then we have apple's ios brand at 193.62 million since 2007!

Or nintendo at 16 million per year; sony at 21 million per year; microsoft at 7.9 million per year; apple at 48 million per year.

So by your logic microsoft shouldn't even be trying with the kinect! They should just shut down their games division because no one likes… um wait exactly how do you judge relevant?

-----(how I came by my numbers)-----

xbox at 24 million

http://web.archive.org/web/20080621155352/http://www.xbox.com/zh-SG/community/news/2006/20060510.htm

xbox 360 at 55 million

http://majornelson.com/2011/06/03/a-few-stats-before-we-head-into-e3/

ps3 at 50 million

http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/110415_e.html

ps2 at 150 million (includes sell in)

http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/110214_e.html

playstation and ps one at 102 million

http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/data/bizdataps_e.html

psp at 67.8 million

http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/110228_e.html

wii at 86.01 million

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii#cite_note-earnings_release_Q4_2010-42

3ds at 3.61 million

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2011/110425e.pdf

ds at 146.42 million

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2011/110425e.pdf#page=16

game cube at 21.7 million

http://www.webcitation.org/5nXieXX2B

N64 at 32.9 million

http://www.webcitation.org/5nXieXX2B

super nintendo at 49.1 million

http://www.webcitation.org/5nXieXX2B

nes at 61.91 million

http://www.webcitation.org/5nXieXX2B

entire gameboy line at 200 million

http://digital.asiaone.com/Digital/News/Story/A1Story20090423-137056.html

virtual boy at 0.77 million

http://www.gamepro.com/gamepro/domestic/games/features/111823.shtml

all iphone versions 108.62 million

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPhone_sales_per_quarter_simple.svg

all ipod touch 60 million

http://thisismynext.com/2011/04/19/apple-sues-samsung-analysis/

all ipad 25 million

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/06/06/businessinsider-new-expectation-for-ipad-sales-8-million-this-quarter-2011-6.DTL

the truth is

in this day and age you have to use the patent system or you will lose out.

what I took from Wos's opinion is that the system is easy to abuse and people who do and are only about the money suck.

Nice

I enjoyed this post more than the article.

repeat a lie...

250 million ipods sold since 2001 means I guess nobody really gives a crap about open or closed, as long as you can get your device to do what ever it is you need it to do.

Sorry to rain on your parade, but being "OPEN" won't save the world or make a product instantly awesome.

the design process.

You would be correct if they kept the same physical specs, but Im pretty sure everything in the new ipad is different from ipad one. This isn't just swapping a cpu and gpu. it redesigning the logic board and processor to fit in faster specs while using less battery (the ipad 2 has a physically smaller battery). If you dont see that redesigning the shell to decrease weight and still fit 10 hours of battery life is a technical challenge than I dont know how to convince you otherwise.

The hype I agree with you is a bit out of proportion, but theres nothing anyone can do about it. Apples a big company and financial reporters have to report on it or they loose big bucks. This isn't a spectacular release, but its an entirely new inside out design.