Humorous imitation of Microsoft misleading “Do the Math” advertising campaign. In this you can see Steve Ballmer compare to a spider.
Do the Math: Steve Ballmer vs. Spider
Here is an example of random comparison between Microsoft CEO Steve Baloney Ballmer versus a spider.
With a careful selection or omission of features and facts it’s easy to make one thing look better than another. For example:
Steve Ballmer vs. a spider
Legs: 2, 8
Hair: No*, Yes
*Sold separately
Early grasp of the significance of the web:
No, Yes
By using Microsoft math, spider beats Ballmer.
[ Via obamapacman ]
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- microsoft vs apple humour
- steve bullmer do the math
Sooner iPad will be the fastest selling consumer electronics product in history, with initial sales running at three times that of the current record holder: the DVD player. According to reports, Apple has sold three million units in the first 80 days after the iPad’s April release. Currently Apple is selling about 4.5 million units per quarter, Bernstein Research estimates. By comparison, the previous fastest-selling CE device that wasn’t a phone but a DVD player which was sold 350,000 units.
“The iPad did not seem destined to be a runaway product success straight out of the box,” retail analyst Colin McGranahan of Bernstein Research wrote in an investors’ note. “By any account, the iPad is a runaway success of unprecedented proportion.”
As going with the current speed, iPad will become the 4th biggest consumer electronics category by the end of next year, with estimated sales of more than $9 billion in the U.S. It is also possible that iPad can be bigger than game hardware and cell phones, trailing only TVs, smartphones and notebook PCs and these are the current three biggest categories.
Bernstein notes that the iPad is not only cannibalizing sales of netbooks and notebooks, it may also be hurting sales of TVs and digital cameras.
[Via]
http://www.ipadnewsupdates.com
When people visit the App Store to download themselves a nice iPhone App you should assume that quality free apps get high ratings, well…euhm, because they are free. But this isn’t true. Apparently Free apps are less likely to be rated more than 2.5 stars out of 5 than paid apps. A free notepad will get ratings which are approximately 30-50% worse than a paid notepad app with exactly the same features.
If we take a look at the Photography category of the App Store, we come to the following results. The minimum rating for a free App in the Top 100 is 1,5/5, for a paid App this is 2,5/5. When we take a look at the maximum rating we see that for free apps we have a 3,5/5 maximum rating which nearly no free App reaches, most of them are between 1,5/5 and 2,5/5. When we take a look at the top 100 paid photography apps we see that the maximum rating is 4,5/5 which many apps reach.
Do you think this is odd? Well, the explanation is simple. People have a certain limit on their App Store buying behavior. When an App is free they have no limit. They will not read the description and will often just download it when they like the name or icon. When an App is cheap the limit starts to take shape as the user will start to take a look at the screenshots and will start considering the need for the App. With expensive Apps people really consider buying the App for a while and read the review, read the full description, check every screenshot, etc.
When the people in the first category (free App downloaders) discover the App to be useless, because they didn’t read the description, they just delete it and quickly rate it 1/5.
This brings a very poor rating to free Apps. ?People who belong to the other categories (paid App dowloaders) are often more likely to keep the App even if it’s useless and are also more likely to give it a 3-5 stars rating when they delete it. Paid apps will have a higher chance of getting a review as well.
This is also partially the fault of Apple. When do they ask people to rate an App? Right, when the user deletes it. When you delete it in 90% of all cases you don’t like it.
So when you are browsing the App Store, don’t just download apps for the sake of downloading. But take a look at the description. It can save you the pain of deleting it again and it saves developers the pain of seeing 1 out of 5 stars ratings for a perfectly fine App.
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- appstore paid app rate
- % of people that rate apps
- free to paid download rate app store
- ios app paid free ratio
