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What we’re seeing here are the tech savvy missing the general idea that spam was going for and posting technical details to show just how smart they are. Not to mention being down right insulting in the process. OMG I’m going to post how smart I am! Relax, a few are reading way too much into this.
I have a radio/mp3 dock thing in my work room that was $30. Two nice big speakers that sound great, name brand, remote, led lighting. Even has a stupid little motor that will automatically rotate the iPhone from landscape to portrait mode. I don’t know why, but it has it and for $30.
I haven’t bought shit from Apple but my free 5GB of iCloud works just fine. And like most things Apple does it just works. A couple clicks to create the free account, all right from the phone, and now every night when I plug the phone in to charge it automatically backs up. Every now and then I get a warning about being close to my 5GB and I delete a couple videos out of my photos folder.
Yeah, ipad should support mkv, but there are plenty of tools to convert any format to mp4.
whoa whoa whoa, slow down cowboy. this is like, lightyears past what anyone walking in my door can do. for anyone that knows how to type a question into google, sure, its fine, but trust me, general population has no fucking clue.
that said, again, once they are out the door, they generally cause me much less headaches (in comparison to android) in terms of customers coming back with problems. as of friday its no longer my concern, at which point i will no longer give any sort of a shit
Which is why Apple is a soon to be trillion dollar company. They’ve made the products work fine for anyone willing to spend 10 seconds learning how to use them, but have also found a way make the people not willing to do that more than happy to pay so they don’t have to.
I’ll give them credit too, they start the minute you drink the coolaid. I got my first iPhone at the Apple Store in the mall. It’s a douchey place that I don’t like, but I have to admit they were all as helpful as could be. “Step over here and we’ll help you activate it. Over here we’ll help you move your contacts. Over here we’ll show you how it works”. I just took my phone and ran away as fast as possible, but looking back over my shoulder I could see lots of people being sucked into the cult of Mac.
Electronic cash registers (ECRs) cost $110-$800 or more, but for $200-$300 you can get a basic model with a thermal printer, a built-in pole to display prices to the customer and a locking cash drawer. The more sophisticated registers are usually part of a computerized point of sales system, which can cost anywhere from $1,500-$20,000, depending on the level of sophistication
378 Apple Stores worldwide * at least 5 registers per store * $4000 for the type of real time updating computer register they’d need = 7.56 million dollars.
Or you could just do it on an iPad practically for free since you build them.
See earlier comment about why Apple is about to be a trillion dollar company…
When I bought my MacBook, I walked in and was like “I want this model, this memory, this screen size, and this hard drive size…” the girl was like dumbfounded. They got it for me and were amazed that I walked out and didn’t want it setup or anything for me.
Over all, Apple products are solid. If Microsoft build the software and hardware, their computers would be expensive as well and a lot more stable. There is a lot of power behind Apple computers. I never bought them in the past until I had a reason to. When the Air was out, I needed something that was powerful, solid state, and had a long battery life because I was sick of lugging my 17" gateway to meetings. My Air was bout $1,600 and worth every penny IMO. I can hook it up to my 24" monitor and work on it, I can build and compile OpenGL code in Xcode, and run photoshop great. Also have bootcamp installed so can boot directly into Windows 7 for Steam and some XNA/C# coding when I need to. If you have a need for the power, they are awesome machines and last. If you want just a normal PC, then don’t waste your money.
If your extent of computer use is posting on NYSpeed and Facebook, quit bitching about how over priced they are. When you use a computer to do real work, then you an interject your opinion into what hardware is good.