To be serious though, one cannot expect Apple to offer huge discounts as they don't want to undercut the retailers who carry their products.
By essentially matching their prices, they aren't really competing against their retailers yet Apple gets all of the additional profit which would be shared with the distributors and retailers.
Buying directly from Apple is a win for Apple, but a loss for the distributors, retailers, and especially consumers.
That 4-in-the-morning delirium had set in when you posted this, huh?
S'cool. This one time, I bought something online at like 3 in the morning, and I thought, "Hey! Extended warranty! 3 extra months? For JUST $80? Bring it on!"
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For the purposes of constructing a 16:9 screen, we'll turn the devices landscape and ignore the area surrounding the screen. Then, we want a perfect 16:9 ratio, so we get an array of 7698 (horizontal) by 6495 (vertical) devices. The screens are 480px horizontally and 320px vertically, for a net resolution of 3695040 by 2078400 (which you can check is slightly wider than 16:9 widescreen).
That's around 7.68 terapixels, and it represents the total number of pixels shipped in the 50,000,000+ Apple iPod touch/iPhone devices.
The physical size of this display is not 16:9 due to the extra border: it's around 34641 by 15588 inches (assuming that all devices are 2.4 by 4.5 inches), or about 962 by 433 yards. The diagonal measurement is nearly 38000 inches, or 1055 yards. #ipodcluster
if you stack the iphones in portrait like they have there, a 16:9 screen of 50 million iPhones would be a 3490 ft screen measured diagonally allowing ~.5in in between each phone #ipodcluster
This reminds me of an installation I saw in London a couple of years ago - big glass box, lots of mobile phones hanging inside it (they were still exciting back then) You dial a number, watch it ring one phone, then another, each one lights up differently, same with text messages. I forget the point now but ...aaah you had to be there I guess. #ipodcluster
but, what they aren't telling you is, of those 100,000 apps:
18, 762 are fart apps
27,984 are repackaged facebook and myspace games
52,136 are generic match-3 clones of bejeweled or collapse
1,115 are educational and designed for students
3 are actually used more than 5 days after download/purchase #appstore
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To be serious though, one cannot expect Apple to offer huge discounts as they don't want to undercut the retailers who carry their products.
By essentially matching their prices, they aren't really competing against their retailers yet Apple gets all of the additional profit which would be shared with the distributors and retailers.
Buying directly from Apple is a win for Apple, but a loss for the distributors, retailers, and especially consumers.
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S'cool. This one time, I bought something online at like 3 in the morning, and I thought, "Hey! Extended warranty! 3 extra months? For JUST $80? Bring it on!"
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That's around 7.68 terapixels, and it represents the total number of pixels shipped in the 50,000,000+ Apple iPod touch/iPhone devices.
The physical size of this display is not 16:9 due to the extra border: it's around 34641 by 15588 inches (assuming that all devices are 2.4 by 4.5 inches), or about 962 by 433 yards. The diagonal measurement is nearly 38000 inches, or 1055 yards. #ipodcluster
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18, 762 are fart apps
27,984 are repackaged facebook and myspace games
52,136 are generic match-3 clones of bejeweled or collapse
1,115 are educational and designed for students
3 are actually used more than 5 days after download/purchase #appstore
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I have about 30 on my phone and am constantly looking for more, just can't seem to find any good ones #appstore