Technology Nerd Thread

Staples deal of the day has the Logitech Performance Mouse for 50 bucks. I was in need of replacing my mouse as mine is super old (8 years) and I wanted a slightly more gaming focused mouse.
 
Apple in talks to buy the ****tiest headphone company on Earth (Beats) for $3.2 billion.
 
Beats is ****ty but they have branding. Beats owns an insane piece of the "luxury" headphone market, something like 50%. Apple could market the **** out of beats and instead of seeing all the wannabe Dre's with beats, you'd see all the hipsters with beats. Would kind of be funny. And if anyone can get away with selling headphones for 50+ bucks it's Apple.
 
Luxury headphone market? There's a difference between expensive and luxury.

This deal is not about acquiring the beats headphones.
 
Krgrecw said:
Luxury headphone market? There's a difference between expensive and luxury.

This deal is not about acquiring the beats headphones.
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I threw it in quotes for a reason. Basically they dominate expensive headphones despite poor reviews. Because of brilliant marketing.

ANd if they're not taking the headphone market and just trying to get their streaming, they're stupid. And Apple isn't stupid.
 
A) I don't believe the rumor

B ) apples never paid more than $1 billion for anyone

C) beats isn't worth more than $1 billion

D) if this is true, apple knows something than we don't know. They don't buy anyone.

Record companies won't let Apple start a streaming service , so acquiring Beats Music gives them a streaming service.
 
Beats is worth more than a 1B. HP sold it's 25% stake for 260M over a year ago and Beats's profits and revenue have only gone up since then.
 
Krgrecw said:
Record companies won't let Apple start a streaming service , so acquiring Beats Music gives them a streaming service.
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Sorry I missed this line at the end. The problem with iTunes Radio isn't record companies, it's apple. People have been having horrible experiences with it. Including the people who pay 25 bucks a year for iTunes match had issues with it. Apple may be buying Beats and part of it is to fix their struggling iTunes radio, or maybe they want both services. One to compete with Pandora and one to compete with Spotify/GOogle Play. But you can bet your ass part of it is so when you get an iPhone down the line they can "justify" the jump in price because it comes with Beats headphones, or in the Apple Store they'll offer upgrade from the normal boring Apple Headphones to the Beats headphones. Apple will make Beats insanely marketable even more so than they are now.
 
zitothebrave said:
Sorry I missed this line at the end. The problem with iTunes Radio isn't record companies, it's apple. People have been having horrible experiences with it. Including the people who pay 25 bucks a year for iTunes match had issues with it. Apple may be buying Beats and part of it is to fix their struggling iTunes radio, or maybe they want both services. One to compete with Pandora and one to compete with Spotify/GOogle Play. But you can bet your ass part of it is so when you get an iPhone down the line they can "justify" the jump in price because it comes with Beats headphones, or in the Apple Store they'll offer upgrade from the normal boring Apple Headphones to the Beats headphones. Apple will make Beats insanely marketable even more so than they are now.
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Actually the record companies don't want to do a deal with apple. They wanted Apple to pay more than Pandora does and Apple wasn't going to do that. So Apple hired the most connected guy in the record industry and bought his company.

No one has any issues with iTunes Radio. it's not a streaming service anyways.
 
Dude no one is having issues with iTunes radio?

http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/16...o-listeners-still-use-pandora-says-new-report

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1621912

http://macdailynews.com/2013/11/11/apples-itunes-radio-is-broken-heres-how-to-fix-it-in-a-weekend/

For real that post made me lul.

https://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-radio/

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Yup not a streaming service.

Can you admit anything Apple does is wrong?
 
Motorola announced 2 new phones today, the Motorola E and the Motorola G with LTE and micro SD. The Price on them is stupid cheap at 129 for the E and 219 for the G.

The G is a stupid good value. To compare it to the iPhone 5S which retails at what 650?

4.5 inch vs 4 inch display, each with the same pixel density. I phone crushes it in camera, Processor though you're comparing a dual core 1.3 GHz on the iPhone vs quad core 1.2 GHz on the G. All other things considered, you have a better GPU on the iPhone I believe, and it's available for more wireless bands. But all in all if you have the choice between the 2. You can buy the G for 219 and for the price difference get a legit camera that crushes the iPhone. The G is an amazing value. And of course so is the E coming in at a lower price than most flip phones.
 
I already have a data cap with Comcast at home in Charleston (300GB). For some reason, we're one of the 'pilot' cities.
 
All broadband companies will be capping eventually. Can't really blame them though. Infrastructure wasn't set up to have people stream video all day long. Netflix and the cord cutters share some of the blame.
 
Krgrecw said:
All broadband companies will be capping eventually. Can't really blame them though. Infrastructure wasn't set up to have people stream video all day long. Netflix and the cord cutters share some of the blame.
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With the monopolies some of them have.... invest back into the infrastructure instead of milking it.
 
All the evidence you need cable companies are the worst is compare their own products in markets with competition vs markets without. I paid 30 bucks a month more than a friend for internet because he lived in an area with FIOS. Time Warner released faster internet in a market (think Austin) with Google fiber. Cable companies are the devil.
 
zitothebrave said:
All the evidence you need cable companies are the worst is compare their own products in markets with competition vs markets without. I paid 30 bucks a month more than a friend for internet because he lived in an area with FIOS. Time Warner released faster internet in a market (think Austin) with Google fiber. Cable companies are the devil.
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That's the 'free market' that Sav jokes about. Any retail company is more competitive with prices/goods when there's competition. You telling me that you have no other options for internet service?

With more options prices will go down but broadband isn't like opening a McDonald's on the corner to compete with Burger King. You're talking Billions with a B

ATT offered 50 billion for direct tv. $50,000,000,000. Technology isn't cheap
 
Krgrecw said:
That's the 'free market' that Sav jokes about. Any retail company is more competitive with prices/goods when there's competition. You telling me that you have no other options for internet service?

With more options prices will go down but broadband isn't like opening a McDonald's on the corner to compete with Burger King. You're talking Billions with a B

ATT offered 50 billion for direct tv. $50,000,000,000. Technology isn't cheap
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Honestly, no I don't. I can't get DSL where I'm at. i guess I could have DSL or Verizon Wireless (maybe) but that's a different racket.

And there isn't competition because the US Government for some reason doesn't force competition. There's no straight talk or T-mobile option for internet at home in most places. Most places have 1 cable provider in a town. I don't consider DSL a competitor to cable either. As I don't consider Cable a competitor to Fiber, especially Google.

There used to be options. There used to be MVNOs or something similar. Government killed that mandate and prices skyrocketed. Government has to step in one way or another.
 
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