Posts by SockRolid

Another Samsung patent infringement suit -> more cash for Apple.   "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking real money."   - Senator Everett Dirksen (on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson)

Originally Posted by AppleInsider  In practice, that speed would allow wireless users to download a full HD movie in seconds.    And only then will the movie and TV studios really feel pressure to allow...

... a promotion that will see all Kindle Fire owners gifted with 500 Coins, a $5 value.   The "last resort" marketing tactic: pay people to use your device and/or service. I seem to recall Microsoft paying...

Originally Posted by OllieWallieWhiskers  france has cultural products? Champagne?

Originally Posted by v5v    Is that the extra stage -- the security questions? If so, Canada had this weeks (months?) ago because I set those up so long ago I couldn't remember the answers...

"You shouldn't expect an iTunes app on Windows 8 any time soon," the chief financial officer of Microsoft's Windows division said.   "F*** that Metro s***.  Give us back our damn XP," millions of Windows users...

I can imagine the cell carriers asking themselves this question: "... how on earth can history get past people like me?" - Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner, "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country," 1991)

Such a device, the argument goes, will cannibalize the flagship iPhone's market share and pull down overall gross margin, as the handset is a major profit driver for Apple.   Apple gets most of its revenue from...

Originally Posted by AppleInsider  Pegatron CFO Charles Lin said 60 percent of the firm's 2013 revenue would come from the six months after June ...   What Mr. Lin didn't say: "And that revenue ain't coming from...

Scroogled.