Posts by macslut

Quote:Originally Posted by Euphonious 1) is piracy.  Even if you stop pirating by later buying the app, the initial use is still piracy. (I agree with the need for some try-before-buy feature, though, or at least a way to get an...

Quote:Originally Posted by Euphonious Yeah, that would be interesting. This wiki page suggests Installous has been installed on 'nearly 13 million different devices'. That might be a good place to start in figuring out the number...

Quote:Originally Posted by ExceptionHandler Ho hum... this might be good news for some, bad news for some developers, but meh for me.  I have no desire to jailbreak. For many people like me, this is great news for developers. Until...

I would *love* something like this. I think there are a lot of programing snobs who have the same attitudes that iMovie sucks because you need to go to film school to create anything worthwhile. If nothing else, this could be a...

Quote: Originally Posted by SockRolid So let's do some quick math here. $150 million on the launch, which should last a few months at most. 140,000 sales per quarter, presumably including the launch quarter. $150,000,000 / 140,000...

I think the short version of the call will be: They've passed the 100 Billion mark, and they're going to start issuing dividends. Stock buy back doesn't make sense with the stock so high. A stock split may happen, but doesn't...

Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy It's not "better than CD quality" according to this technician who "proves a “vanilla” iTunes AAC encoding with default settings sounds closer to the original CD than songs that were...

I'd love it if Preview allowed simple crop, resize, and image processing, along with suitable export for web development, so that Photoshop was only needed for the heavy lifting. Looks like I'm going to get my wish!

Quote: Originally Posted by JONOROM I agree and disagree. I've listened to the last few of these and today there seemed to be a lot more energy and emphasis on the use of Apple's cash "being actively discussed." Listen to the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton Oh, Intel. All your eggs in one basket: Windows PCs. And iMacs, and Power Macs, and MacBook Pros, and MacBook Airs, and several components (other than CPUs) in iPods, iPhones and iPads. And...