Posts by elroth

Quote: Originally Posted by Constable Odo  Everyone says that Apple was just lucky to get a couple of successful products and most of that luck relied on Steve Jobs. Now that Steve Jobs is long gone, never to return,...

Maybe the point of this is the word "all". If Jobs means Apple and all the publishers agreeing to this together, the DOJ may have a point. There better be other evidence to support that, however, because if this is all they've got, they...

Quote: Originally Posted by september11th  I miss version 10's browser. Artist browser column on the left, songs on the right. I honestly can't imagine how anyone uses the other views productively. I'm still using...

Quote: Originally Posted by Applelunatic  I'm pretty sure the phrase would be latest bid not latest bit. Being as one use of the word "bit" is for a comedy skit, I think it could be appropriate.

If Browett were still in charge of Retail, you'd bring in an iPhone needing repairs and you'd get back a Samsung fished out of a garbage can.

Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland  ...The bigger picture, though, is 13,000 Apple employees seeing all of those big trees as soon as the campus is open, and having a mature looking pasture to inspire them. This may...

You'd think Samsung would at least give him a phone to use, and show him how to use it. Maybe he gave it away to his poorer relatives.

Quote: Originally Posted by Fithian  I heard it was 23 million units returned (from an anonymous source). I heard it was 40 million, and they were returned because nobody wanted to buy them. And they were full of...

Oops, redundant (and repetitious). And duplicative as well.

It's funny that this story comes on the same day as a story about Apple totally revamping iOS for iOS7, and another one about how Jony Ive is changing the interface in a major way.   And I'm sure the same people who are...