In one of the article's more telling parts, it described a job interview that Jobs conducted. Reportedly, the Apple co-founder became bored with the candidate and began asking him questions about when he lost his virginity and how many times he's taken LSD. Finally, the multi-billionaire allegedly began gobbling like a turkey at the candidate before the job-seeker acknowledged he was not the right person for the position.
"The loss of Jobs's genius for products would mean Google's innovation and Apple?s design and market sense would be a very good fit," he wrote, "although antitrust regulators might disagree."
Google and Apple would make a terrible fit. Totally different corporate personalities. You would think someone writing this type of in-depth article would see that...
if dell hadn't screwed up and killed off the Axim things would be a lot different today. even for all its problems the Axim and the iPaq were very well received and used by a lot of people until blackberries started to become more popular.
Apple copied a lot of features from the Axim and iPaq on the iPhone
how many people does Apple have who regularly publish research papers? Apple is a systems integrator that makes polished products from available technology. Kind of like Dell
Are you kidding!?!
Apple is no way like Dell. Does Dell make software? No. Does Dell do research and development? No. Does Dell design new hardware? No. They copy everyone else. Dell is a systems integrator. Apple is not only a systems integrator, but a software developer, a research and designer (for computers and consumer electronics), etc.
And it's kind of hard to publish research papers when they involve trade secrets of your company. I mean what else would you be writing research papers on? If your not writing research papers on your work, your wasting time.
I take it as racist because every time a latin-american person is portrayed in US media they are bogged down. I bet that if Che had been canadian they would not have used "ruthless dictator".
BTW Che was never a dictator, maybe they are confusing him with his pal Fidel. And if overthrowing a US imposed real dictator (which is what Batista was) and standing up for the oppressed made him ruthless than I am ruthless as well? at least in thought, anyway.
Greetings from ruthless México where a REAL dictatorship is being held by the party in power (not that any of you gringos would be aware of or would actually care about).
El es muy loca en el cabasa.
Yeah, I watched "The Motorcycle Diaries" too. It's a shame that Che went from a compassionate individual to a ruthless killer, capable of the same atrocities that he once denounced.
there is a wifi password bug. back in March when i first bought a 3G for my wife i brought it in to work for a quick test and it took me 5 minutes to add it to our wifi network with a password that's close to 20 characters. on my 3GS it won't take the password and i've read about similar complaints. good thing we have a DSL for the IT department that is outside the official corporate wifi network.
The wifi seems to cut in and out sometimes, which people on a lot of Apple forums complained about on OS 3 and the 3GS
there is a duplicate contacts bug which i've seen people complain about. in my case i'm grabbing email from MS Exchange and told ITunes to sync my Outlook contacts which are my Exhchange contacts as well since it's all on the Exchange server. For the last 2 months i've had double and quadruple contacts of the same person. This morning when i restored my phone i told it not to sync contacts in itunes and it's OK now. all my contacts came in just fine via active sync. and if you read the Apple Support forums, people have had this issue with MobileMe as well.
if you enable push for email it will eat up the battery like it's a store brand AA. my blackberry can receive email for days without running down the battery. only time i ran my BB battery down was when i left ubertwitter run in the background.
The backing up iphone bug which was fixed in 3.0.1 where it would take a long time to back up your phone when you sync.
You remind me of that poor guy in the old "Lil Abner" comic strip. You know, the guy that always walked around with a rain cloud directly over his head? It must really suck to be you.
You remind me of that poor guy in the old "Lil Abner" comic strip. You know, the guy that always walked around with a rain cloud directly over his head? It must really suck to be you.
apparently i'm not the only one
a lot of the same complaints on the apple support forums, macrumors forums and others
... there is a duplicate contacts bug which i've seen people complain about. in my case i'm grabbing email from MS Exchange and told ITunes to sync my Outlook contacts which are my Exhchange contacts as well since it's all on the Exchange server. For the last 2 months i've had double and quadruple contacts of the same person. This morning when i restored my phone i told it not to sync contacts in itunes and it's OK now. all my contacts came in just fine via active sync. and if you read the Apple Support forums, people have had this issue with MobileMe as well. ..
This sounds like a "user error" kind of bug to me.
It's not totally clear from your description, but if you are syncing from an Exchange server, then you should be already syncing your contacts. If you then also checked off the box in iTunes to sync to your contacts from your local Outlook account, your online Google account, or the same Exchange account, then for sure you will get multiple copies of contacts.
The same happens even if you use MobileMe, because Mobileme (like exchange) syncs all of your contacts, email etc. automatically as one. Once you have a service like MobileMe or Exchange handling all that for you, those check boxes in iTunes should all be left clear. Otherwise, you are pointedly asking the thing to "double-sync" with multiple sources.
This is not so much a bug as merely a less than crystal-clear set of instructions in the "info" page in the iTunes/iPhone syncing GUI.
Apple is no way like Dell. Does Dell make software? No. Does Dell do research and development? No. Does Dell design new hardware? No. They copy everyone else. Dell is a systems integrator. ...
In defense of al_bundy, who seems to be getting it from all sides today, Dell is in fact very much like Apple in all the ways that we generally use to define and pigeon-hole companies. Dell is a lot more like Apple than Apple is like Microsoft for instance and no one balks at those sorts of comparisons.
Apple makes software, but they only make minimal, low-level software and they only do it *just* enough to add value to the hardware, which is what they "really" sell in a way. Apple sells computers; integrated systems actually, and they write their own custom software to make that integration work better than anyone else.
They are both similar companies with the same goals, even though Dell is on the extreme low-end of that scale and Apple is on the extreme *upper* end. Dell does less actual industrial design and more simple integration of off-the-shelf parts, and Apple does rather *more* industrial design and rather *less* basic integration of off-the-shelf parts.
This sounds like a "user error" kind of bug to me...
Just to add a couple I've noticed.
Selecting links in Safari will occasionally not go to the link. All the little things happen, such as the link being highlighted, etc, but nothing else. No page load.
Page Loading simply stopped for me in safari one day. I was getting email and could use other internet applications but no page loading at all. A reset of the iPhone 'cured' that.
The iPhone does not have a bug-free halo about it. It's a wonderful piece of kit but it's subject to QA problems as well.
because microsoft poured millions (billions?) of dollars into getting a piece of the console market at any price. it's how they do business. if the xbox 360 (or the ps3 for that matter) had been priced to actually make a profit, it would cost at least twice that and would gather dust in distributor's warehouses. (millions shipped! woohoo!).
that's why.
I recall reading that microsoft set aside a billion (with a dollars just to deal with the red ring of death issue. they don't break out the profitability of the xbox and zune for the same reason apple doesn't release the sales number on the apple tv: bad numbers don't make investors happy.
More precisely, the 360 is subsidised by games sales. However, although MS has a shoddy business model, there is no real reason why iTunes cannot up the bit-rate of their HD content. Xbox Marketplace content is far higher quality, and this has nothing to do with the capability of Apple TV. I've encoded stuff at 7,000kbps, that looks great and it works fine on ATV.
The Times used to be a respectable newspaper. Rupert Murdoch managed to stop that once he bought it though.
No kidding. Time was, they wouldn't run an article so full of rehashed facts and quotes, and laden with pop psychology. And the merger with Google thing was inserted randomly, as if the writer wanted to squeeze their own wild theories in somehow, no matter what the article was about.
And all that talk about Apple the Cult? Good grief, the companies sells hundreds of millions of products and they're still a cult? Boring. Banal. Cliched.
In one of the article's more telling parts, it described a job interview that Jobs conducted. Reportedly, the Apple co-founder became bored with the candidate and began asking him questions about when he lost his virginity and how many times he's taken LSD. Finally, the multi-billionaire allegedly began gobbling like a turkey at the candidate before the job-seeker acknowledged he was not the right person for the position.
Funny, someone I used to work with told me an old boss of ours started asking him questions like that, minus the LSD part.
if dell hadn't screwed up and killed off the Axim things would be a lot different today. even for all its problems the Axim and the iPaq were very well received and used by a lot of people until blackberries started to become more popular.
This sounds like a "user error" kind of bug to me.
It's not totally clear from your description, but if you are syncing from an Exchange server, then you should be already syncing your contacts. If you then also checked off the box in iTunes to sync to your contacts from your local Outlook account, your online Google account, or the same Exchange account, then for sure you will get multiple copies of contacts.
The same happens even if you use MobileMe, because Mobileme (like exchange) syncs all of your contacts, email etc. automatically as one. Once you have a service like MobileMe or Exchange handling all that for you, those check boxes in iTunes should all be left clear. Otherwise, you are pointedly asking the thing to "double-sync" with multiple sources.
This is not so much a bug as merely a less than crystal-clear set of instructions in the "info" page in the iTunes/iPhone syncing GUI.
We all remember what a Jobs-less Apple looked like, something called beleaguered and dying.
that was what 10-12 years ago. Steve came back, cleaned house and has hand picked, trained and supervised a good 90% if not 100% of the top staff. you can bet that those folks know exactly what he's thinking and planning and are in the game. very much unlike when he left the first time.
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In one of the article's more telling parts, it described a job interview that Jobs conducted. Reportedly, the Apple co-founder became bored with the candidate and began asking him questions about when he lost his virginity and how many times he's taken LSD. Finally, the multi-billionaire allegedly began gobbling like a turkey at the candidate before the job-seeker acknowledged he was not the right person for the position.
If only I could get away with this!
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"The loss of Jobs's genius for products would mean Google's innovation and Apple?s design and market sense would be a very good fit," he wrote, "although antitrust regulators might disagree."
Google and Apple would make a terrible fit. Totally different corporate personalities. You would think someone writing this type of in-depth article would see that...
Apple is a systems integrator that makes polished products from available technology. Kind of like Dell
Is this a joke? This has to be a joke, right?
Another example of Apple paranoia and heavy handed tatics.
Another example of the musings of a troll..
Is this a joke? This has to be a joke, right?
if dell hadn't screwed up and killed off the Axim things would be a lot different today. even for all its problems the Axim and the iPaq were very well received and used by a lot of people until blackberries started to become more popular.
Apple copied a lot of features from the Axim and iPaq on the iPhone
how many people does Apple have who regularly publish research papers? Apple is a systems integrator that makes polished products from available technology. Kind of like Dell
Are you kidding!?!
Apple is no way like Dell. Does Dell make software? No. Does Dell do research and development? No. Does Dell design new hardware? No. They copy everyone else. Dell is a systems integrator. Apple is not only a systems integrator, but a software developer, a research and designer (for computers and consumer electronics), etc.
And it's kind of hard to publish research papers when they involve trade secrets of your company. I mean what else would you be writing research papers on? If your not writing research papers on your work, your wasting time.
I take it as racist because every time a latin-american person is portrayed in US media they are bogged down. I bet that if Che had been canadian they would not have used "ruthless dictator".
BTW Che was never a dictator, maybe they are confusing him with his pal Fidel. And if overthrowing a US imposed real dictator (which is what Batista was) and standing up for the oppressed made him ruthless than I am ruthless as well? at least in thought, anyway.
Greetings from ruthless México where a REAL dictatorship is being held by the party in power (not that any of you gringos would be aware of or would actually care about).
El es muy loca en el cabasa.
Yeah, I watched "The Motorcycle Diaries" too. It's a shame that Che went from a compassionate individual to a ruthless killer, capable of the same atrocities that he once denounced.
Why don't you find a nice, sharp stick and sit on it. What an a-hole.
It could well be that you've discovered exactly what their problem is!
there is a wifi password bug. back in March when i first bought a 3G for my wife i brought it in to work for a quick test and it took me 5 minutes to add it to our wifi network with a password that's close to 20 characters. on my 3GS it won't take the password and i've read about similar complaints. good thing we have a DSL for the IT department that is outside the official corporate wifi network.
The wifi seems to cut in and out sometimes, which people on a lot of Apple forums complained about on OS 3 and the 3GS
there is a duplicate contacts bug which i've seen people complain about. in my case i'm grabbing email from MS Exchange and told ITunes to sync my Outlook contacts which are my Exhchange contacts as well since it's all on the Exchange server. For the last 2 months i've had double and quadruple contacts of the same person. This morning when i restored my phone i told it not to sync contacts in itunes and it's OK now. all my contacts came in just fine via active sync. and if you read the Apple Support forums, people have had this issue with MobileMe as well.
if you enable push for email it will eat up the battery like it's a store brand AA. my blackberry can receive email for days without running down the battery. only time i ran my BB battery down was when i left ubertwitter run in the background.
The backing up iphone bug which was fixed in 3.0.1 where it would take a long time to back up your phone when you sync.
You remind me of that poor guy in the old "Lil Abner" comic strip. You know, the guy that always walked around with a rain cloud directly over his head? It must really suck to be you.
You remind me of that poor guy in the old "Lil Abner" comic strip. You know, the guy that always walked around with a rain cloud directly over his head? It must really suck to be you.
apparently i'm not the only one
a lot of the same complaints on the apple support forums, macrumors forums and others
... there is a duplicate contacts bug which i've seen people complain about. in my case i'm grabbing email from MS Exchange and told ITunes to sync my Outlook contacts which are my Exhchange contacts as well since it's all on the Exchange server. For the last 2 months i've had double and quadruple contacts of the same person. This morning when i restored my phone i told it not to sync contacts in itunes and it's OK now. all my contacts came in just fine via active sync. and if you read the Apple Support forums, people have had this issue with MobileMe as well. ..
This sounds like a "user error" kind of bug to me.
It's not totally clear from your description, but if you are syncing from an Exchange server, then you should be already syncing your contacts. If you then also checked off the box in iTunes to sync to your contacts from your local Outlook account, your online Google account, or the same Exchange account, then for sure you will get multiple copies of contacts.
The same happens even if you use MobileMe, because Mobileme (like exchange) syncs all of your contacts, email etc. automatically as one. Once you have a service like MobileMe or Exchange handling all that for you, those check boxes in iTunes should all be left clear. Otherwise, you are pointedly asking the thing to "double-sync" with multiple sources.
This is not so much a bug as merely a less than crystal-clear set of instructions in the "info" page in the iTunes/iPhone syncing GUI.
Are you kidding!?!
Apple is no way like Dell. Does Dell make software? No. Does Dell do research and development? No. Does Dell design new hardware? No. They copy everyone else. Dell is a systems integrator. ...
In defense of al_bundy, who seems to be getting it from all sides today, Dell is in fact very much like Apple in all the ways that we generally use to define and pigeon-hole companies. Dell is a lot more like Apple than Apple is like Microsoft for instance and no one balks at those sorts of comparisons.
Apple makes software, but they only make minimal, low-level software and they only do it *just* enough to add value to the hardware, which is what they "really" sell in a way. Apple sells computers; integrated systems actually, and they write their own custom software to make that integration work better than anyone else.
They are both similar companies with the same goals, even though Dell is on the extreme low-end of that scale and Apple is on the extreme *upper* end. Dell does less actual industrial design and more simple integration of off-the-shelf parts, and Apple does rather *more* industrial design and rather *less* basic integration of off-the-shelf parts.
This sounds like a "user error" kind of bug to me...
Just to add a couple I've noticed.
Selecting links in Safari will occasionally not go to the link. All the little things happen, such as the link being highlighted, etc, but nothing else. No page load.
Page Loading simply stopped for me in safari one day. I was getting email and could use other internet applications but no page loading at all. A reset of the iPhone 'cured' that.
The iPhone does not have a bug-free halo about it. It's a wonderful piece of kit but it's subject to QA problems as well.
because microsoft poured millions (billions?) of dollars into getting a piece of the console market at any price. it's how they do business. if the xbox 360 (or the ps3 for that matter) had been priced to actually make a profit, it would cost at least twice that and would gather dust in distributor's warehouses. (millions shipped! woohoo!).
that's why.
I recall reading that microsoft set aside a billion (with a
More precisely, the 360 is subsidised by games sales. However, although MS has a shoddy business model, there is no real reason why iTunes cannot up the bit-rate of their HD content. Xbox Marketplace content is far higher quality, and this has nothing to do with the capability of Apple TV. I've encoded stuff at 7,000kbps, that looks great and it works fine on ATV.
The Times used to be a respectable newspaper. Rupert Murdoch managed to stop that once he bought it though.
No kidding. Time was, they wouldn't run an article so full of rehashed facts and quotes, and laden with pop psychology. And the merger with Google thing was inserted randomly, as if the writer wanted to squeeze their own wild theories in somehow, no matter what the article was about.
And all that talk about Apple the Cult? Good grief, the companies sells hundreds of millions of products and they're still a cult? Boring. Banal. Cliched.
So sad for the Times.
In one of the article's more telling parts, it described a job interview that Jobs conducted. Reportedly, the Apple co-founder became bored with the candidate and began asking him questions about when he lost his virginity and how many times he's taken LSD. Finally, the multi-billionaire allegedly began gobbling like a turkey at the candidate before the job-seeker acknowledged he was not the right person for the position.
Funny, someone I used to work with told me an old boss of ours started asking him questions like that, minus the LSD part.
if dell hadn't screwed up and killed off the Axim things would be a lot different today. even for all its problems the Axim and the iPaq were very well received and used by a lot of people until blackberries started to become more popular.
"If only" describes a lot of Apple's competition.
This sounds like a "user error" kind of bug to me.
It's not totally clear from your description, but if you are syncing from an Exchange server, then you should be already syncing your contacts. If you then also checked off the box in iTunes to sync to your contacts from your local Outlook account, your online Google account, or the same Exchange account, then for sure you will get multiple copies of contacts.
The same happens even if you use MobileMe, because Mobileme (like exchange) syncs all of your contacts, email etc. automatically as one. Once you have a service like MobileMe or Exchange handling all that for you, those check boxes in iTunes should all be left clear. Otherwise, you are pointedly asking the thing to "double-sync" with multiple sources.
This is not so much a bug as merely a less than crystal-clear set of instructions in the "info" page in the iTunes/iPhone syncing GUI.
Exactly
We all remember what a Jobs-less Apple looked like, something called beleaguered and dying.
that was what 10-12 years ago. Steve came back, cleaned house and has hand picked, trained and supervised a good 90% if not 100% of the top staff. you can bet that those folks know exactly what he's thinking and planning and are in the game. very much unlike when he left the first time.