Posts by studentrights 58 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jul 2007
I've notice very little talk about BD-RE vs. BD-R. I purchased a Blu-Ray drive for data storage, specifically as a replacement for DVD-RAM. I notice someone quoted a price of $17 for a 25GB BD-R disk (coaster), but I've purchased BD-RE disks for $15 each. Hard to find at that price but worth every penny for an optical format that functions just like a hard drive. Sure it's more expensive but far a far more secure way to archive data dynamically.
HD-DVD was an inferior standard. To be honest I never had any interest in movies, rather I'm interested in data storage as a format to retire my venerable DVD-RAM disks. Thankfully I backed the right horse and my Blu-Ray burner will live a long and fruitful life.
This time Beta-Max beat VHS!
"I don't know why most everyone thinks that only the largest seller of something is the one that can do no wrong." @ elder norm
Yes, I see this kind of crap thinking all the time. If a company moves lot of product and makes lots of money, then they must be the best at what they do. Bulls**t! Just look at Microsoft. Do they make the best products or did their monopolists and and unethical business practices keep them at the top? The later is closer to the truth.
It also makes no sense to compare Nokia to Apple, when Apple is only competing in one small segment of the market, "smart-phones", not "all phones". In this light Nokia has a lot to fear from Apple since those high margins don't come from cheap throw-away phones that make up the bulk of that 100 million, rather the margins come from premium gear like the iPhone.
Apple can do a lot of damage to Nokia and other cell phone makers bottom line, if they can walk away with a lion's share of the of the high margin market in "smart-phones".
Who cares if Nokia goes bottom feeding in the razor thin throw-away commodity phone market, just like Dell and HP do on the PC side with their sub-$500 PCs.
I guess Eminem isn't doing so well these days, since his boys need to pull a stunt like this to get some free publicity.
I don't see how this is Apple's problem. It's Universal Music Group that botched this up. If UMG didn't have the rights and sold them to Apple , they are to blame. Plain and simple.
To refer to the iPhone as expensive is nonsense. The iPhone plus a two year contract makes it cheaper than other "smart phones". The iPhone only seems expensive since Apple wants its money upfront, instead of through misdirection by hiding the cost of the in the service contract, like other phone makers; which is illegal in some countries.
Anyone who says otherwise is just ignorant of the facts.
Moblie Price Comparisons with Service Plans
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q3.07/28CE05EF-2E0F-4912-A62A-CBAB41E0D305.html
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