Originally posted by Ash Parajuli
the iPod led to the iPhone.
it's the iPod that kicked it off for Apple.
repeat yourself much?
srussell0018
I'd also be interested to see the total revenue generated by iTunes sales. I think I read somewhere that they had sold or were near selling over 10 billion tracks.
Lews
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Originally posted by srussell0018
That's a good point. I wasn't thinking about the influence that the iPod had in leading people to buy other Apple products.
Seandroid
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Originally posted by srussell0018
I'd also be interested to see the total revenue generated by iTunes sales. I think I read somewhere that they had sold or were near selling over 10 billion tracks.
Probably nothing. Apple makes hardly anything off of iTunes sales.
srussell0018
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Originally posted by Lews
You leave Yoda out of this :mad:
Sushipunk
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Originally posted by Seandroid
Probably nothing. Apple makes hardly anything off of iTunes sales.
That doesn't sound right to me. Source?
srussell0018
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Originally posted by Sushipunk
That doesn't sound right to me. Source?
I think he is right. I remember reading somewhere that Apple only gets about 5 cents per song. I believe they sell about 500,000 songs per week, so that's only $100,000 per month.
That's 4 year old article though. I found a lot of varying results, with some saying they barely break even, and others saying they're making $500 million per year. Apple still says the iTunes store operates at "just above break even" though.
Lunar Phase 7
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Originally posted by dj_alfi
Oh yeah, that's right you work in IT. :clown:
But for srsly, that QNX looks like there's no fancy , straight to business kinda thing.
Regarding training employees to use Linux, I think most people wouldn't need it, if they are used to Windows. I switched over to Ubuntu from XP, and it just... whats the word? Clicked.. Yeah that works, it was just install->use. easy as . And I am in no way a computer genius. While I have built several computers, and I can probably fix a BSoD, I consider myself more of a power user than an admin.
For companies that use mostly just Word, Excel and Outlook, training the employees would probably take less than a day. And while 1 day of loss of income, plus hireing someone to do the training could be pricey, it's sure as hell cheaper than buying licences for OS and software from MS.
I think many people are still under the impression that you need to know C++ to use Linux. Most newer distributions have buttons and menus and automated stuff, in addition to the possibility to pop up the terminal and type away till your fingers are blue.
Yes but how good is this actual stuff?
FOr basics Google docs or Open Office are fine, but try doing anything of merit on those things and it falls onit's ass and gets clunky and buggy as hell.
They are a nightmare.
dj_alfi
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Originally posted by Lunar Phase 7
Yes but how good is this actual stuff?
FOr basics Google docs or Open Office are fine, but try doing anything of merit on those things and it falls onit's ass and gets clunky and buggy as hell.
They are a nightmare.
Buggy office suite > Buggy (not to mention wide open) OS
:P
Fledz
Last time I checked, Win7 was more secure than Apples OS.
