Posts by FjordPrefect

Pandora's OK, but it has its limits unless you pay for a subscription; same with Spotify (and while it has no bearing on the function of the service, the meaningless name "Spotify" annoys me). I think Apple could easily provide the...

Yikes, I wonder how having an OS running on top of another OS will affect battery life, and data usage for that matter? I do a WHOLE lot of other things with my phone besides check facebook, i suspect many others do as well.

Well I'm excited. He seems to be taking this pretty seriously and it shows. Can't wait!

I've used a Surface for a day or two and while the hardware is beautifully designed, overall it's a big fail on many, many counts. Had Microsoft avoided the idea of including RT and just gone with the Metro part on a tablet without all...

We heart Tim.

Just couldn't bring yourself to schlep burgers at a McJob like the rest of us, could you Equonne? Now you're in jail, which is marginally worse.

I agree. I've used Android and iOS and Android is worse than Windows 3.1. Slow, buggy, seemingly cobbled together in an inconsistent way and just plain hard to use. My worry is that the masses will once again glom onto the non-Apple...

PC stands for "personal computer." Which is kind of a silly name since no one I know has mainframe lurking in their basement. I think PCs should really be called by their form-factors: desktop computer, laptop computer, tablet...

Pure crap. The Ozlolin? Never heard of it and neither has the internet, apparently. The Knight Ridder? It was never built or sold so customers can't really confuse it with an iPad since it's not a real product. And the TC1000? Well it...

So the level of "coolness" is now an acceptable means by which to differentiate one product from another but the "look and feel" is not? (referring to how Apple lost its battle against MS over Windows vs. Mac).