Posts by ascii

Quote: Originally Posted by iHasBeen  Looks like Microsoft beat Apple to the punch with the new XBOX. Whatever Apple eventually will show with iTV will be a yawner as a result. Maybe iTV will just be a longer...

Google's App suite, even though they are all web-based, can be intimidating when you see them start to put them all together and add dedicated launchers to OSes. Apple should update iWork if for nothing else than to keep these guys at...

It will be interesting to see how it's graphics power compares to the iPad.

It's an excellent point of Tim's. There's no point having tough IP laws if it takes two years to enforce them, and by then he has a toehold in the market.

Reminds me of that movie "The Aviator."

If Android has memory problems on low-end smartphones, it doesn't bode well for the future, for it's use on even smaller wearable devices.

Quote: Originally Posted by Gazoobee  I wouldn't think it was such a purposeful, nefarious act or that such a calculus was done. Samsung's 'copying' behaviour was kind of standard business operandi in the Windows...

I wonder if Samsung execs thought it would be impossible for Apple to move away from them, just too big and too complex a task? If so, they underestimated what Tim Cook (with his background in operations) was capable of.

Mate, however well designed, a bumper can't be awesome because at the end of the day it's just a bumper, and there are minimum complexity requirements for a thing to be impressive.

Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69  Screw humans. Any rational manufacture will strive to minimize the number of humans on a manufacturing line. We can't go back to the days of the Univac and assemble machines by...