Posts by esummers

I've had a hard time understanding why a phone needs to pay royalties for wireless patents that apply at the chipset level. Wouldn't the chipset manufacturer have to be the sole payer in a reasonable world? If they wanted to take it to...

"and used the company's accelerator in its 6th generation iPod nano later that same year." I didn't realize the iPod had an accelerator.... Grand Central Dispatch could be considered programmer-driven parallelism or...

I don't understand why this gets the red breaking news color. Big companies move to iPhones and iPads all the time. Maybe a company moving 100,000 devices would be slightly newsworthy, but this doesn't seem like that big of a deal.

Quote: Originally Posted by lkrupp Competition? What planet are you from anyway? Is KIA competing with BMW? Two completely different markets. I really don't grok posts like yours. There may be a little competition. It is more like a...

Apple could probably provide a lower end iPad that performs reasonably well sometime in the next year without usability sacrifices to add competition on the (previously nonexistent) low-end of the market. I think it may be more...

Quote: Originally Posted by Aizmov The foreign devil thing is a bit harsh \ either a mistranslation or we are missing some context. Maybe it was tongue-in-cheek? I think it was meant to be funny. I've read a few books that take place...

Quote: Originally Posted by zoetmb Yes because when any publication reports a story that doesn't fit your way of thinking or is "inconvenient", it's best to put your head in the sand rather than dealing with the fact that the...

It is too bad to see the NY Times go the way of Fox News. Giving up integrity to make a quick headline...

Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips Ever considered they care about reducing the need for tech support and improving user productivity. Macs are not status symbols, they are simply better computers with a superior OS that people...

Quote: Originally Posted by VinitaBoy It has been a long time since I've seen the likes of the high-horsed, self-righteous, pseudo-pious indignation evinced in these posts. It is the verbal equivalent of hair shirts and...