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Re: Apple releases Ipad 3

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Post by anonymoushn »

dangrossman wrote: post #266
beedogs wrote: post #265

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Not really. Depends how badly you need credit, I guess. It'd actually be amusing to see how long they'd pursue a couple hundred dollars.

There are three possible explanations for your comments: 1) You're a multimillionaire without aspiration, and shouldn't be giving financial advice to the rest of us non-millionaires. 2) You're a troll, or are acting like one to get yourself hellbanned for some reason. 3) Your recent spat of negative karma comments are the result of some kind of new mental health issue, and you need to see a doctor.

I can think of many other explanations. For instance, someone who does not plan on living in the U.S. for the rest of his or her life could say something like that. Someone who makes what every engineer in SV makes and therefor does not need credit at all could say something like that.

Personally, I think it's a terrible idea. It's a much better plan to work together a couple decades of good borrowing history without paying much interest and then get unsecured loans totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars and cash out.

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Post by jaredsohn »

joejohnson wrote: post #106
Xuzz wrote: post #3

Although the HN title (currently) says "Ipad 3", Apple seems to actually be calling it the new "iPad" (edit: "new iPad", not "New iPad"). It's a bit confusing: next year, is it then the "old iPad"? But, we don't really have that issue with many other Apple products (iPod nano, all Macs, etc) that use the same naming scheme. So we'll see how bad it actually ends up.

I think it's just called the iPad. Right now it's new, so they're referring to it as the "new iPad". This naming convention is simpler that appending a hardware version number to the name at each refresh. Also, it's what Apple currently does with most of their other product lines. It's the MacBook Pro, not the MacBook Pro 3. The iPods were always called just that, an iPod. People referred to them as the nth generatio…

>I wouldn't be surprised if this naming convention spreads the iPhone.

This naming convention would be especially convenient for the iPhone. The next one would be the sixth generation but it could confuse people if they call it 'iPhone 6' since there was never an iPhone with a '5' in its name.

For reference, here are the previous iPhone names:

1. iPhone

2. iPhone 3G

3. iPhone 3GS

4. iPhone 4

5. iPhone 4S

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Post by paulbunn »

dedward wrote: post #288
Gabler wrote: post #138

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When I see people complaining about being capped at 50kb/s speeds it makes me sad to live in New Zealand where our capped speeds are about 15kb/s at best.

im always amazed that the developing nation i live in (we used to call it third world....) has no hidden caps or nonsenseontheir mobile, or non-mobileinternet plans, you get exactlywhat you pay for,spelled out clearly, andits steongly enforced by thecourts. and no, there is no censorship or anything either. i dont have quite the same speeds as theus does, buti get ehat ipay for, andits cheap.

what developing nation is that? (I ask because I also live in a "developing" nation which has some of the highest per capita broadband charges in the world)

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Post by lparry »

beedogs wrote: post #265
dangrossman wrote: post #254

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Having collections hound you daily and damaging your credit rating for the next 7 years doesn't sound bad to you?

Not really. Depends how badly you need credit, I guess. It'd actually be amusing to see how long they'd pursue a couple hundred dollars.

You sound like someone who's never dealt with a blackspot on their credit history (as an aside, never leave bills in your name when you move out, trusting your ex-housemates not to be douchebags).

It's not about not being able to borrow, it's about companies refusing to accept your business because you're a "risk", even when you offer to pay out the entire contract up front to show you're good for the money. It's a fucking pain in the ass

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Post by lparry »

beedogs wrote: post #265
dangrossman wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having collections hound you daily and damaging your credit rating for the next 7 years doesn't sound bad to you?

Not really. Depends how badly you need credit, I guess. It'd actually be amusing to see how long they'd pursue a couple hundred dollars.

You sound like someone who's never dealt with a blackspot on their credit history (as an aside, never leave bills in your name when you move out, trusting your ex-housemates not to be douchebags).

It's not about not being able to borrow, it's about companies refusing to accept your business because you're a "risk", even when you offer to pay out the entire contract up front to show you're good for the money. It's a fucking pain in the ass

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Post by hef19898 »

philwelch wrote: post #178
guelo wrote: post #60

The world of LCD panels baffles me. For some reason Apple can sell an iPad with a 2048x1536 IPS screen for $500 but your average $1,000 laptop comes with a crappy 1366x768 TFT screen or maybe 1920x1080 if you're lucky.

Apple can commit to shipping millions of iPads and makes procurement decisions based on that fact. You're talking about the company that buys a significant proportion of the world's NAND flash production preordered a year ahead of time. iPad has enough economy of scale that as soon as Apple found a display manufacturer able and willing to manufacture the screen they wanted, they immediately promised a large enough pr…

If it's true that apple preorders one year in advance, it really gives them a big advantage in terms of procurement. And here I'm talking about better prices, prefered customer status and guaranteed material availability. Add to that the huge quantities, and you get a really nice position for Apple. What really impresses me, beyond the near-perfect marketing they have, is the way they clearly are managing their supply chain, down to the very end-costumer. For, Apple may easily become the SCM benchmark Toyota used to be a decade ago.

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Post by dagw »

mgkimsal wrote: post #277
bunderbunder wrote: post #204

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Heck, for me 3G is the fastest data available to me. However, 3G (and 4G) are much more expensive, in terms of the price it costs to transmit a given quantity of data. And compared to glass and copper, the total number of bits available within a given geographic area at any given moment is a fraction as large. Unfortunately, cellular companies failed to realize that offering "unlimited" data plans would set up poor e…

"They (apparently) didn't anticipate seeing a significant percentage of their customers try to use the cellular networks for transferring large quantities of data, and thought that for most people "unlimited" would just be a marketing-friendly euphemism for "a couple hundred megabytes."" I wonder if many execs and marketing people at large mobile companies really didn't see this coming, as we had years of 'unlimited…

many mobile execs don't seem to 'get it' with respect to mobile data.

I'm pretty sure they 'get it' just fine, but did the math and carefully worked out exactly how shitty service they can offer at what price without making too many people cancel.

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Post by galadriel »

TillE wrote: post #235
ugh wrote: post #159

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Depends. I don’t care about it if it’s clearly stated just how much bandwidth you get. I’m not in the US but in Germany carriers will often tell you they have unlimited flatrate plans but also state that if you go above a certain bandwidth use you will be throttled to GPRS speeds. I have no problem with that. It depends on how clearly it’s communicated. I can see how others may be misled by that marketing, though, so…

Data is much, much cheaper in Germany. I can get 5GB on e-plus for €15/month (~$20). I'm pretty sure no carrier in the US offers a better deal than $10/GB.

Well, T-Mobile prepaid has 5 GB data for $30 at their 4G speed. Also includes unlimited SMS and 100 minutes of talk. Pretty decent deal for me.
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