Posts by RBR

Quote: Originally Posted by Nathillien  You both are correct in a sense with slightly different viewing position. "Retina Display" is just a brand name Apple is using (probably patent too ) and true it is...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil  Yep. They give us the fastest tablet ever made with the best screen on a tablet and the most versatile port on a tablet…    And all people can do is...

I hope the new head of the iOS team actually uses the product. It has been obvious that iOS has been designed by people who never used it. There are many crude implementations in iOS and things left out that anyone who has ever used OS X...

Quote: Originally Posted by SockRolid    Why don't you buy an iPhone 5, use it for a month, then give us a full report?   You know, just so you'll have something to contribute. Are...

Didn't anyone at Apple actually look at whether the design could actually be mass produced? It looks like somebody slept through that class.   If the back is getting dinged and scratched up in assembly, what is it going to...

Marvin,   Thanks for the clarification.   Nevertheless, I hope Apple sticks with x86 and other off-the-shelf hardware, or at least hardware co-developed with someone like Thunderbolt, and sticks to refining the system...

Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin  The Parallella hardware is interesting: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2012/09/28/adapteva-parallella/1 They claim quite a lot of performance from a really cheap CPU....

AT&T, indeed most of the carriers, gouge you for the privilege of tethering a device to your phone just to use data for which you have already paid. It is too bad that the regulatory agencies have not stepped in to rectify the situation.

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil    That hasn't been confirmed. If they were, they'd be shouting it from the rooftops, trying to make the reaction to Apple's Maps even worse. They haven't...

Google are reportedly working on a separate app to be submitted to the app store. It should be interesting to watch Apple's reaction to this.