Posts by chadbag

Quote:Originally Posted by BigMac2  FYI: PDF is a encapsuled Postscript format.  Apple surprised everyone including Adobe when they abandoned the pure Postscript Display because of high royalty, and switched to the more open model...

Quote:Originally Posted by BigMac2  MacOS X is a certified Unix'03 OS, OSX use FreeBSD and NetBSD for its user land which is called Darwin and is fully open source.  The UI is a 100% Apple-NeXT closed source creation of a Postscript...

Quote:Originally Posted by canoeberry  My iPhone 4 is slow as thick shit. Lag is a polite word to describe what ALL my applications that used to work very well now do on a regular basis. So Apple better get their act together,...

Quote:Originally Posted by Curmudgeon  Whored out?    Climb down from the ledge.   You're getting dizzy.   MacOS X itself, is based on FreeBSD - an open source version of Unix/Linux.  And yet Apple has been able to make something...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil    They kept it for sale the last time there was a case update. This isn't happening. Don't expect it. Don't make purchasing decisions based on it. Maybe they...

Hopefully the rumors that pointed to a Fall changeover for the 17" to the next gen will come true.    A 17" is about the only portable that interests me, personally, as I need screen real estate more than anything and a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy  Also related, Android activations now averaging 900K per day, up 50K/day since February. Yes related, but not that relevant.   A huge number of those activations are...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mac.World  Trust me, Bing sucks no matter where you are. And I have never heard anyone say something like, "Hey, find out about the new S3. Just Bing it." Google and search have...

My prediction, which I have been making since last year, is that on upper end Smartphones in 2016 or thereabouts, iOS will be #1 and Windows Phone (WP) will be #2.  Android will be a small percentage.  On low end Smartphones,...

Quote: Originally Posted by reverie  So basically in 2011 their market share went up 3.3 %points even though KDDI had the iPhone just for the last quarter of the year. Back of the envelope says iPhone had over 40 % in...