The iPad will go the way of the Mac, with a minuscule market share

Wait until the [Kindle] Fire becomes available worldwide. In today's economy, hype notwithstanding, $200 for a device to surf the web and keep ones
mind occupied with silly games, is all most people will pay for.

Expect that market segment of keyboard dockable tablets to grow in size even more once Win 8(ARM) hits, silly.

Even RIM scored big with its heavy discounts on Playbooks. Anything more than $300 is a rip off for a mass produced device such as the iPad. Like
all fads it will become a niche player if history repeats itself and it usually does.

So much for Macs in business.

LOL

Playbook doing just fine. Right now, all I do on it is billing and play games.

Excuse me if I live on a 4 acre lot.

You are a fanboi, therefore you are biased, therefore whatever you post that puts Apple is a positive light should be scrutinized.

You have no proof. If you do, post it or accept that what you wrote is nothing but biased propaganda and probably a lie.

No pics/proof = lies from a fanboi.

Hard to tell, maybe 1-2 product life cycles, 2-3 years?

Posting from a 17 inch Macbook Pro. At home, I have a Cube (fileserver), 3 15 inch iMacs and an i7 iMac. I own 2 iPhones, one 3GS another 4G. Until recently I had a great Xserve G3 chugging along for years. Still use my Pismo on occasion.

It renders it useless. It's a paid advertisement at worst and the ramblings of a fanboi, much like yourself, at best.

The answer: you cannot tie apps to a specific space. The concept of spaces / virtual desktops has been redefined.

Can this be a harbinger of great things to comes, in terms of sales and general market success? You bet.

at least you're right on this one. :D this *is* one game i enjoy- it *seriously* amuses me how you have such a difficult time admitting it when you're wrong.

I trust RIM a lot more than Apple to not EOL a product without notice.

Tablets are a fad and will fade to nothing within a couple of years

Yes they will. Amazon doesn't put just anything on pre-order, only the stuff they know will fly off their shelves.

Taken as the killer of the netbook and the Kindle, as a revolutionary new computing device, [the iPad] is a complete dud, an overpriced, over-hyped POS that can't multitask or play Flash.

Why don't you try checking your facts for once before you post? Those remarks are on this group. What am I supposed to do, read the group for you and email you a synopsis every day?

I do not make unsupported accusations.

You're thinking more of Hyundai. Built in some slave labor camp with cheap components to build a few base models.

Also true of Porsche and Rolodex. :)

For whatever reason, his CSS not validating set him off. Really wounded his ego to have it pointed out in public that he had - gasp! - invalid CSS

Soon my semester starts again and I will not be responding to Steve Carroll, Sandman, HPT, Wally, or Tim Adams

do not just keep repeating yourself.

Sandman insists that the CS4 suite is for beginners.

I have no obligation to quote your trolling.

Seriously: I would love to see the back and forth BS just stop.

Can we both agree to just let the CSS issue *go* and to not lash out based on it?

starting now I shall not mention it again unless you do.

You are what you eat!

God damned cancer. Why we research any other disease is beyond me. Seems like half the planet has some form of cancer. Either find a fucking cure or find out what the fuck is causing it.

My condolences as well.

> It won't kill the Mini. Apple might, but the Eee Box won't.

Sure it will.

> So -- by your own definition -- Windows PCs have been "mere peripherals
> of an MS Exchange Server" for many years now...

Sure, why not?

I've been booted off by past providers before because people complain about me and all my bullshit. I don't want to lose my ISP *again* but I still need my army of sock puppets so I continually search usenet for whatever servers I haven't yet been booted from.

I did post as sigmond and create that sex webpage starring elizabot... what of it?

My computer would only boot into safe mode after I installed SP3.

This is like demanding proof that the sky is blue.

In 2004 as a reply to Mackay's lies about an email he claimed to get from me I noted the company the *IP* address of his post came from and noted that it might make sense to alert that company

If I did make such a post I will apologize.

My Zune 30 is most definitely NOT a brick.

Leopord is two years late. It was announced in June of 2005.

He said them indirectly.

Let's see Apple sell a million iPhones next quarter...

Seeing how Zune has 11%, and rising, of the market

this will take iPod sales away.

Buying a used Mac with software on its HD, and no original software disks, and using that installed software, is piracy.

You're a software pirate. Many Mac owners are.

Apple makes the highest profits in the industry.

IOW, you're yet another Apple Fan Boy who only pays Apple lip service.

IOW, it is Intel technology. Thanks for clearing that up.

What is mind-numbing is the thought of the billions of man-hours lost thanks to the billions of reboots every month just to install security updates.

If these lost man-hours had been put to productive use, most of the planet's basic problems would be solved.

Activations have not increased over the initial 146,000.

I admire Bill Gates

> [Apples] stock is already back up.

But iPhone activations are not.

If the iPod is compared against any and all music players its share is abysmal.

Once someone clarifies their views it should be accepted

Do your best to show where I have been shown to be wrong and have not admitted to it.

When I make mistakes I am happy to admit to them

Upon rereading your original post, I see that I have been mistaken in what I wrote. I apologize for my mistaken accuastions and insults.

I just want the BS to stop. Please. Sandman, will you join me in that?

You snipped my sentences to pieces and then pretended the second part of a
sentence did not exist as you responded to the first.

I have *never* said one is obligated to respond to every point in a post or every question.

What is 2+2?
What is 1+3?
What is 4-2?
What is 3-1?

And for someone to answer: all the answers are 2.

Prove nobody has said that, Sandman... either in CSMA or in my email.

This, really, is the reason I come to CSMA...

"...for a total of 119.5 million portable MP3 players. Apple's market share of devices sold in 2005 is not 78%, it is 18.8%. "

"First, devices. So Apple sold 22.5 million iPods. In 2005, the mobile phone industry sold more musicplayer phones. How many? The telecoms industry analyst Informa reported that the total number of MP3 player equipped phones sold in 2005 were... 90 Million. Adding to the existing musicphones, the world's musicphone sales in 2005 were: "

"22.5 million iPods
7 million other stand-alone MP3 players
90 million musicphones "

"...for a total of 119.5 million portable MP3 players. Apple's market
share of devices sold in 2005 is not 78%, it is 18.8%. "

They know once the MS bulldog sinks its teeth in it never lets go.
It's only a matter of time before Zune kills the iPod.

It's advertisement of commercial products, regardless of your spin or
your denials.

When the smoke clears, the last Troll standing is... The Mighty EdWIN.

You should take one of my IT classes some day.

None of you can be honest... you are all pathetic.

You do not think it is excessive that Sandman comments about me on over 100
pages on his site!

Happy Birthday to my Dell!

We already own 96% of the world's computers, now we are going after the rest.

His lack of argument means he accepts the idea as true

Any attempt to reason with Mac Advocates is doomed to end in frustration.

The author is vague and obviously a fanatical Apple lackey that would try anything to
discredit MS.

A claim based on ignorance is a lie.

I spent 215 $ on three great ipods

Very interesting first-hand account:

www.drizzle.com...

You gave what you assumed contained what the poster wanted. You had
no idea if any 0S 9 software was really on that site or not.

What good looking GUI does Darwin have? Not Mac OS X.

It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it.

You found two of my websites... one of which I often post links to.
How about my pro ones you keep running to?

During the time span between 2006-06-18 and 2006-06-22 Snit flooded
www.sandman.net with no less than 270 977 requests! That's almost
three hundred THOUSAND times!

It's a moot point. There are no more Macs. Apple builds Wintel PCs
now, and installs BSD Unix on them.

The Mac is DEAD! Long live the PC!

> UNIX WORKSTATIONS WERE NOT FOR THE MASSES,

Neither was the 1984 Mac.

Derek has admitted 1991 was the last time he had a PC. So he's not qualified to say what has been true "since" then.

One paragraph, four lies. Done. What do I win?

Mark my words, history will record that if Apple had co-operated with Real, and with other hardware makers, they would have sold less iPods, but kept their dominance of the portable music online sales. Now Apple is on its way to becoming just as small a niche player in portable music as it is in GUI computers.

"As a WYSIWYG editor, Dreamweaver can hide the details of pages' HTML
code from the user, making it possible for non-experts to easily create
web pages and sites. Some web developers criticize this approach as
producing HTML pages that are much larger than they should be, which
can cause web browsers to perform poorly. This can be particularly true
because the application makes it very easy to create table-based
layouts. In addition, some web site developers have criticized
Dreamweaver in the past for producing code that often does not comply
with W3Cstandards. However, Macromedia has increased the support for
CSS and other ways to layout a page without tables in later versions of
the application."

I showed my kids this info and are now going to sell their iPods on ebay. I tried to explain that Apple is no different than any other company, putting profit before anything else and that it would resort to anything to make a buck, but they were extremely disappointed and are going to stay with products made either in the EU or North America.

I think we all should do that, before each and every one of our jobs is exported to central Asia.

Boycott Asian products if you want your kids to have a prosperous life.

your CSS does not validate correctly

They're playing games with statistics. They treat all variations of iPod as if it were the same model, and all models of competing players as if they were different things.

I use Avast AV, the Yahoo anti-spy toolbar, the MS anti-spy software, Windows SP2 with its firewall, AdAware, Spybot Search and Destroy, and SpywareBlaster. All free, all excellent, none of them any bother to set up or use.

Spotlight is a database application.