Posts by John F.

Oh, so there are other ways of implementing things? They just didn't want to do it earlier because Android is freeeeee! Everything implemented in Android is open and freeeeeee! Come everybody, repeat, Android is freeeeee!...

Quote: Originally Posted by Rokrad  I have one of these because of Google I/O and I have got to say for a low end tablet it is very good. Not good enough where its better than the iPad but still very good. I bet...

I do like the new Microsoft. It's like they are saying, the PC makers are stupid. They are not able to make a good Windows tablet and give consumers the experience we want. Up theirs and we do our own. That's Apple-like.   Of...

So Microsoft is more and more becoming like Apple in business strategy. Next they buy Nokia. Google is becoming more and more like Apple, buying Motorola Mobile for their own hardware, leaving the crumbs to the "Open" platform...

Quote: Originally Posted by supercalifragil  why not push in the extra pixels, and make it a 1280x720? Because then no app would run. iOS app layout are pixel precise. Android is not pixel precise, it simply...

Why all the negativity? This always happens before it comes out, then it's all OOh and Aahh afterwards.   To me it makes sense. Apple has only one form factor to please the whole crowd, the whole world of small and large...

Starck is no Dieter Rams! Why would Jobs meet with him? Dieter Rams I would believe.

Quote: Originally Posted by caliminius Fallacy #2: Raising prices isn't Amazon's modus operandi. It never has been. Amazon works on a high volume, low profit system versus Apple's low volume, high profit model. I wouldn't say Apple...

Funny stuff. Here in the Netherlands publishers set the prices of books by law. Thing is, our law doesn't include eBooks. Law is always far behind new technology. The only problem I see in the agreements is the clause that price in...

The problem with Nokia is defection. People who used Nokia now leave because they don't want a Windows Phone. They either go Android or Apple now. That's why OS share of Windows Phone stays low, even now Nokia sells them. Nokia should...