| In the news: | Adobe's new Creative Suite development and sales cycle adobe.ly/fWMCJ |
| Adobe PR: | This launch marks a major change to Adobe’s product release strategy for Creative Suite, the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow across print, video, mobile and online media. Adobe now plans to have milestone Creative Suite product introductions at 24-month intervals and – starting with Creative Suite 5.5 – significant mid-cycle releases designed to keep the worldwide creative community ahead of the latest advances in content authoring. |
| English: | This marks a major change in Adobe's revenue strategy for Creative Suite, the industry-leading lock-in product that designers have no viable alternative to using. Adobe now plans to charge upgrade fees every 12 months instead of every 18 months. These significant mid-cycle releases are designed to keep Adobe's revenue streams strong by exploiting their captive customer base. |
| Adobe PR: | Today also sees Adobe debut an affordable and flexible subscription-based pricing plan, attractive to customers that want to get current and stay current on Creative Suite products, have project-based needs, or try the software for the first time. |
| English: | Today also sees Adobe debut a new revenue scheme designed to provide steady, month-to-month cash flow into its coffers. Instead of lump-sum revenue that jumps every 12 to 18 months and then drops again, customers can pay every month. This is fantastic for our numbers and analysts will love it. |
| Adobe PR: | New Subscription Editions ensure customers are always working with the most up-to-date versions of the software, without the upfront cost of full pricing. |
| English: | If a customer stops paying, they lose access to their software. This is sweet for us and shareholders will love it. |
| Adobe PR: | With subscription pricing customers can use flagship products, such as Adobe Photoshop® for as little as US$35 per month, Adobe Design Premium CS5.5 for US$95 per month, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection for US$129 per month. |
| English: | For example, instead of paying $1900 for CS Design Premium, customers can use it for $129/month, which works out to $1548 for a year. And Adobe keeps every cent of it, instead of distributors and retailers taking a cut. This will bring as much revenue as just buying CS Design Premium outright for $1690 from Amazon. Adobe will encourage customers to lock-in yearly contracts for a discount to $95/month (or $1140/year). Plus, it makes this sound cheaper, and that's all the tech press will report anyways if they want to continue to get access to pre-release demos. |
In effective museum and gallery installations, visitors are usually invited to spend time simply being with art—or artifacts or other content. Curators and exhibition designers understand that people require certain things to have concentrated experiences: things like unobstructed access, good light, and freedom from distractions.
Now imagine going into a museum and trying to walk up to a Matisse, only to run into a glass wall ten feet away from the painting. To get past the wall—which is now frosted so you can’t see the painting at all—you have to write down your full name and address, and then show ID to prove that you are who you say you are. Once you’ve submitted to all this, you discover that the “painting” is only a small print—you have to go into another room full of billboards to see the original. Finally, you reach the painting. The descriptive label is written in miniature gray text on a slightly lighter gray background, so forget trying to read that, but here at last is the art.
That’s when the circus clowns pop out of the woodwork and start honking little horns and waving signs advertising tooth-whitening products and diet pills. This is content online.
via yourhead:
- A developer may not injure Apple or, through inaction, allow Apple to come to harm.
- A developer must obey any orders given to it by Apple, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- A developer must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
— I. Developer
| P: | I'm surprised you went back for another round - find some new motivation? |
| R: | Still convinced there must be something good in there somewhere if this many people are buying them. And I'm going to find it, dammit. admittedly, that reasoning would lead to buying a Yugo. |
| P: | And snorting cocaine. |
| R: | what's wrong with cocaine? |
| P: | Compared to a Yugo? Absolutely nothing. |
September 9, 2010 — Cupertino, CA — Apple today announced a workforce relocation project. Approximately 5,000 employees will move to a new White Paint Factory, located in the scenic tundra of Siberia.
“Our employees are thrilled to make this unique contribution to our bottom line,” said CEO Steve Jobs. “The white iPhone won’t be delayed much longer. Stay tuned.”
“Employee well-being is our highest priority,” said COO Tim Cook. “White Paint Factory employees will be fed healthy whole-grain bread and crystal-clear ice water twice a day, while hand-painting our premium, shatter-resistant oleophobic glass panels. Our employees are really excited about this opportunity. I’ve gotten tons of feedback. It’s really been overwhelming.”
Senior VP Hardware Engineering Bob Mansfield added “Maintaining Apple’s extraordinary quality standards is crucial, so mistakes will be corrected by administering oleophobic glass shards, or in extreme cases, volunteering for antenna design testing for our amazing and magical next-generation antenna.”
“We’ve carefully reviewed all applicable laws,” said Bruce Sewell, General Counsel. “Not only is this project generally far above the standards of Liberia and other rapidly developing regions, but Russia is excited at the economic development prospects. This will have a great effect on Apple’s stock value, so we’re back-dating senior executive stock options as we speak.”
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
From Murdoch’s new Wall Street Journal comes this gem sourced purely from anonymous sources, Hurd Deal Inflamed Board. The very first paragraph begins “according to a person familiar with the board’s thinking.” And then it happens over and over. Lets break it down paragraph-by-paragraph:
P1: according to a person familiar with the board’s thinking.
P2: this person said.
people familiar with the matter said.
P3: said the person familiar with the board’s thinking.
P4: an account given by someone familiar with Mr. Hurd’s thinking. This person stated
P5: this person said, adding
P6: The person familiar with the board’s thinking said
P7: According to the person familiar with the board’s thinking,
P8: A person close to Mr. Hurd said
P9: a different person familiar with the matter said
P10-13: [none, but paragraph 14 makes up for it]
P14: said a person close to it
this person said.
Someone familiar with Mr. Hurd’s thinking said
P15-16: none
P17: someone familiar with the matter said
a different person says.
P18: people familiar with the matter say
P19-20: none
P21: said a a person familiar with the matter
P21: this person added
P22: said a person familiar with the matter
another person added.
P23: according to a person familiar with the matter
said a person close to the situation
A person close to Mr. Hurd said
P24: none
P25: a person familiar with the situation said
P26: said the person familiar with the board’s thinking.
P27: the person said
P28: none.
P29: this person said
P30: none
And the award goes to…
By BEN WORTHEN And JOANN S. LUBLIN
—Alexandra Berzon, Don Clark and James Oberman contributed to this article.
Apple introduced a new “Magic Trackpad” today, a very nice trackpad to be used instead of a mouse. But I remember using it back in 1997 with my 20th Anniversary Macintosh. See this picture?
Right?
- Nokia E71: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amPG52DVQuk
- RIM BlackBerry Storm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHR4pkdlIjc
- Samsung I9000 Galaxy S: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LROTHrTR92k
- HTC Evo Signal Attenuation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pj2YBYTbag
- Samsung Galaxy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPCQdYtPihg
- Droid Incredible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaDE941PzQk
- Nexus One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEIA_lMwqJA
- Nexus One vs. iPhone (start at 1:29): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvMoV4_C4aA
- Nexus One (after Google’s update to correct): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2g5J4qPp54
- Nexus One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deCkjeHYT-g
- Android G1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CDaxhjUs9M