I propose that we switch this forum's language to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loglan . Unfortunately since it is totally predicate logic and fact based conversations do not last very long
The best way to envision predicates is using tree like structures. Once we all have learned loglan, you should make a parser for the language, and then have all conversations displayed as a tree like structure. Using the new html5 canvas this should be quite easy
You guys are thinking way to one dimensionally about what the real game is here.
That way it would eliminate the illusion that i am thinking like this. The problem with current language is that it is very 2 dimensional, and linear
. Human's need a new language
@nop and MS, IBM, Fail:
Here you are wrongly friend. Apple isn't doing at all what the others did. Where microsoft locked you into Microsoft and IBM locked you into their mainframe, apple is attempting to lock you into an ecosystem for the distribution of content. What's going to happen is that at some point, the proliferation of apple devices and the massive discontent with that ecosystem will converge and force apple to unlock it. Open will prevail.
Fail can be interpreted in many ways. I do not mean "fail" as in apple will go bankrupt in the next 2 years
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MS and IBM both attempted to get a monopoly, they failed in that objective, but both companies today are still pretty big players
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Like you said the things are all linked together. (or that is how i interpreted your remark about being 1 dimensional, see if we used loglan i would know
)
Monopolies are nothing new.
2 good examples of monopolies where the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company.
So in the example of the eat india company, they where granted a monopoly by the crown for all trade in the east indies including india. The big money maker was the opium-tea trade. Europe did not have any natural stimulants, caffine from tea satisfied this. On the other side of the coin, chinese are generally speaking allergic to alcohol a natural depressant, opium satisfied this need.
But to put it rather bluntly tea tastes like shit. Fortunately at the same time in the new world, sugar was discovered. Adding sugar to tea made it fun to drink and ofcourse sugar increases the buzz affect. One minor problem was that no one wanted to work on the plantations. Britain tried all sorts of things to encourage settlers into the new world to grow tobaco and sugar. But because of the harsh conditions, not even prisoners wanted to go there. Eventually they discovered that black slaves from from africa could work the plantations without dying from nasty shit like malaria etc. So we see a global economy even 300 years ago.
India and china supplying tea and opium, africa supplying slaves, america supplying sugar and tobacco.
Ofcourse Britain had to have a large navy to protect the merchant routes. Large navies cost money. Money comes from taxes. To make a long story short, American revolution can be directly attributed to East India company.
The american civil war can be also attributed to East India company. Without the demand for sugar and tobacco, no slaves would have been needed in the americas. Also as trade increased and the american became more prosperous, people no longer had to be forced to work in america, but actually wanted to go there.
After the revolution USA, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland where designing better and better ships. This allowed them to ship products back to europe cheaper etc. Also they where able to now export cheaper products.
Also after the revolution Yankee Traders with their better ships started to "illegally" trade with China and India. Even before USA militarily got involved in Asia, the "yankee" silver dollar was the prefered coin of trade.
So we see that world trade is nothing new, a monopoly is nothing new, and eventual opening up of markets is what happens.
So for this example apple has a monopoly for smart phones (or portable computing devices). For the discussion it does not have to be a "true" monopoly, it never is. Holland,France and Spain in the above senario had their own "East India" companies that where constantly fighting with Britain's East India company.
Better ships used to ship products could be likened to cellphone carriers. So apple (along with other smaller players) are creating a demand for mobile bandwidth. Because apple attracts the most attention to themselves, they are getting the most flak
. Holland had a huge amount of colonies, and made tons of $$$$, but for some reason they never where viewed as a imperialistic nation. So Holland could be viewed as M$'s sneaky windows ce. Market share wise almost as big as apple's, but no one ever talks about it
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Again nothing new, same old shit
. And a rather simplistic view on world trade history.
You could also show how tea/opium/sugar trade was responsible for invention of telegraph, railway etc etc.
And Hudson Bay Company still exists
It still is a pretty large company, not as big as when it controlled 1/2 of canada and northern USA and had a virtual monopoly on supplying beaver hats to europe
But it pales compared to it's former glory.
I do not hate apple per say. I just get fed up when people blow shit out of proportion. What apple has done is invented a "fork". The fork is a very interesting invention. Spoons and knives have been used by man kind for ages. And yet some smart guy got fed up of having to hold his meat with his hand while cutting it with his knife. He either burned his hands, or got grease all over them. So he got the bright idea of cutting slots into a spoon and sharpening them. So very simple, yet so ingenious
But tech wise nothing amazing
If you watch the old star treks, you see they had some sort of iphone/ipad. It some how communicated to the main computer, also it had hand writing recognition, since captain kirk often had to sign on his ipad. So I presume star fleet vessels had some sort of network on board, and when docked it would tie into a larger network. Probably star trek should sue apple etc for stealing thier ideas lol.
And like many invention's the time has to be right. If apple made the ipod 30 years ago it would have been a flop. From star trek, heinlien's novels etc, people became used to the idea of computers and portable computing devices.
