Posts by cvaldes1831

AppleInsider screwed up the graphic.   The article describes the Gartner analysis (and the original graphic that SolipsismX quoted reflect those numbers), but they have bungled their updated graphic and replaced it with...

Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX  I also wonder what vendor(s) are raising so fast in the Other category.   According to Gartner, Lenovo and Asus are the primary contributors to the Other...

Quote: Originally Posted by IsmOfAm  I like the idea behind Passbook. I hope it will replace my wallet and that more businesses get behind it. My local Public Library book checkout however does not work with bar codes...

Quote: Originally Posted by Stagrepa  @waybacmac.   Do you not realize that Brazil is part of America?   Most people confuse America with the United States, when in reality there is...

Quote:Originally Posted by ktappe Overall this doesn't smell like we have the whole story. I'll be interested to hear when more leaks out about this.   Meanwhile I have to go see if my employer requries EPEAT for new hardware...

Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX  It's odd that glue is now being cast as some impenetrable barrier.    Amusingly, if you search for "remove glue" on Google, it returns 19.6 million...

My guess is that Apple considers the EPEAT criteria to be woefully out of date and thus, no longer worth supporting in 2012. There are possibly other behind-the-scenes political motivations behind the status change.   It is...

Quote: Originally Posted by mike54  Apple better not wait too long. Do they want to be a leader or follower? Microsoft phones will have NFC later this year. However, I believe it should a world...

I have used OpenOffice (or StarOffice) on Macs for many, many years and you do not have to figure out which version of Java to use. Just load the latest version of Java and OpenOffice will run fine.   OpenOffice's finickiness...

Not surprising.   Apple has typically been relatively conservative in picking cellular technologies for its handsets, typically waiting for a given cellular network technology to be well deployed on a worldwide basis before...