Analyst believes iPads outselling Macs

There are ants in my workplace bathroom. By any measure, this is news.

If those ants replaced, say, bears, that would indeed be news.

Ooh ooh! Gummi Bears, please?

i remember when people used to say the same thing about instant messaging and text messaging. you need to pull your head out of your ass and realize that video chatting is an inevitable part of future technology that will take over, just as email, text messaging, and instant messaging did.

I don’t know. It seems like video chat has been about to take over since the 80s but never has become all that mainstream. I know people do it but for some reason it just hasn’t measured up to the predictions.

The 80s? Are you high? I hope you’re being sarcastic.
In case you didn’t know, video chat requires MUCH better bandwidth than what they had in the 80s (aka dial up). Come to think of it, did any of us even know what dial up was in the 80s, or even what the internet was? And even if you did, did the majority of the population have computers/internet or even know what the internet was or how to even use a computer?

Yeah, didn’t think so.

@jdubbz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videophone
Video phones were first introduced in the 1930s. I hope you were being sarcastic.

It’s not an inevitable part of future technology at all. It just isn’t.

People have been able to video chat from their phones for years yet it hasn’t been adopted in a big way.

You’re a bit dim really.

What does email, text messaging and instant messaging all have in common? They are private.

People generally don’t like seeing themselves on camera, that is, unless you’re into two way porn.

Guess you just like seeing yourself jacking off huh?

maybe an ugly fuck like yourself doesn’t like seeing yourself on camera, but the other millions of other people video chat already don’t. and i’m sure they’d love to do it on their phone too, without having to boot up a computer and sit in one spot.

I think what you say has a lot of merit, but on another note I don’t feel your grasping the whole picture. Instant messaging and texting have one enormous advantage over video chat, and thats privacy. Although I feel video chat will have its place, I don’t think it will be as big as texting and/or messaging.
Yes, …… I know head phones will create some privacy, but I can’t see a halo effect in the mobile market as much as I would in the home sector. Replacing the common house phone with a video with choice of video or non video feature could blow out, but on the other hand how many people have done away with land lines in place of mobile. No doubt it is going to be very interesting to see the out come.

so what if hardware came out in the 1930s. there wasn’t a large spectrum wireless boradband network to support it. now that wireless boradband is here and is continuing to grow, (as well as smartphones being more mainstream and more ubiquitous with average users) and with 4G and LTE already here and on the way, video chatting will be on the rise too. yeah, i agree I might’ve exaggerated a bit saying that it will take over like email/texting, but it will be undoubtedly be more popular than ever because it will have the support it needs.

Yeah, gotta love Foxxco-, I mean Apple.

Wow, I get down ranked for rooting for my country? What has the world come to…

@American Patriot
What about Foxcon? Or how about all the other factories in China? They’re all the same. You can thank our people in big corporations, “we need to make as much profit as possible, how can we do that? Oh, lets have China make everything, use them as cheap labor, and we can still charge the same. Great idea!”. Even if I had to pay more to have a product made here, I would.

Yes, you’re exactly right. This is why our ‘American Corporations’ that you are praising shouldn’t be praised until they keep our jobs and manufacturing here. They’re the ones that want a 3000% mark up as opposed to a 300% mark up. You got down-ranked for praising Apple as an American company, that does business the way they do outside of the country. Let’s praise the 100% made in america or union made companies and merchandies instead, no?

signed,
AMERICAN PATRIOT

Owned.

3000%? You remind me of the guys that used to complain about the internet, saying that the internet would destroy their stores and their business and that the internet was bad. They didn’t realize that business changes, conditions change and you have to adapt to survive.

I don’t know what the right answer is right now, but the fact that companies are manufacturing abroad is just a reality you will have to deal with. It’s NOT 3000% mark-up, that’s ridiculous. Aside from Software developers I don’t know a lot of companies that can do that exaggerated level of mark-up.

@ernielm Yes, 3000%. I am an AT&T CSR and we are HURTING because we (as CSRs) compete with AT&T.com, Amazon.com and the Wal-marts and CostCos. We get paid $50/day on salary for 9 hour shifts + commission. If I spend an hour with a customer doing bill reviews, demo-ing phones, going over features and educating the customers and then that customer thanks me just to buy it online or at Wal-mart to save money, I make NOTHING. This happens daily. We sell accessories that cost us .30, yet cost the customer $80 – you do the math. One of the few things I sell made 100% in America are Wilson Electronics boosters which we buy for $73 and sell for $130. Made in China or Thailand or Taiwan is on 99% of our accessories. Yes, we need to adapt to the current technology, but that would mean companies actually paying me for the service I perform as opposed to the amount of retail I sell. It is a reality that I deal with. Communism/Socialism is also a reality we have to deal with. Those of us that accept it are seperated by those of us that notice it as a problem and try to change it for the better. I put my 2 week notice in a few days ago, after 5 years of working for AT&T/Cingular BECAUSE of the policy changes and beaurocracy involved with their ever-changing, money-hungry decisions that take advantage of the customers from the backs of their lower level employees.

It also included the best picture of an Apple fanboy ever. The guy took a picture of a guy that is using his Ibook to prop up his Ipad while he listens to his Iphone. It’s reall funny. Talk about a worthless piece of crap. Thats what the Ipad is. Worthless

I don’t understand your personal definition of “worth.”

Would you give us a couple of examples of companies that you admire?

Wilson Electronics, Harley-Davidson, New Balance, Hershey, Bose Speakers, Corvette, Honda Civic (all the Civics’ parts are manufactured and assembled 100% in Marysville, Ohio)

Did you know that within 3 months after September 11th we as a country IMPORTED over 100 million FOREIGN-made American Flags? Disgusting.