It would have more sense to get Chuck Berry… or maybe not because that's what BB users have been doing for the past 6 years, chucking their blackberries.
Pogue's review in the New York Times sings the Z10's praises, especially its predictive text capabilities.
I do have to say that iOS's predictive text capabilities suck. Big time. I can't believe that after six years of iPhone use, the darn thing still types in 'gave' when I mean to type 'have' and 'live' when mean to type 'love.' And many more like that. Moreover, it has a serious bias against -- and does not seem to have the capability to remember -- non-US proper names.
Seriously improving the quality of its predictive texting capabilities would be, for me, the BIGGEST fix that iOS7 could make.
No, that's right. CERN* invented the web, the microcomputer comes from Lannion, "we"** built the fastest commercial liner, the biggest one, the fastest passenger train, the smallest nuclear aircraft carrier (which may, or may not, be a good thing, but a cool one nonetheless), and single handedly built satellite launchers back when the space race was on. It does make France slightly relevant, if clearly not the center of the universe.
You're anyway missing the point, which is that "standard" keyboard is relevant to a given market. In the US, standard is QWERTY. In Paris, it's AZERTY. In Japan, it's complicated (I know, I saw one, it has ???? all over it. I did not let it approach me, of course, I destroyed it with a flame thrower and survived the onslaught of alien characters...).
*CERN actually means Centre Européen de Recherche Nucléaire, and the name is French mainly because France has the atom bomb, to make it simple. It's a very european endeavor, and the main actors (Berners-Lee/Cailliau) of the invention of the web actually are British and Belgian. Europe is a complex beast, which is why I live in Amsterdam. Maar ik ben geen gekke Frans...
** It is a bit ludicrous to attribute to myself using "we" the merits of much more intelligent people, but it's one of the issues with nationalism.
1. The corpses of Palm / Handspring / Windows Mobile nods in agreement.
2. You mean "original", not "revolutionary." The iPhone did spark a revolution in what the public expected from their smartphones, and that in turn put companies that adapted quickly (Samsung) ahead of companies that did not (Nokia, RIM). Since 2007, the marketshare numbers for smartphones flipped from the old guard (Palm, Nokia, RIM) to the new (Apple, Samsung).
1- And rightly so. Having been forced to work with these as a programmer, and to be honest STILL being forced to maintain existing systems, I'd revive them just for the opportunity of killing them again.
2- That's a very true definition of "revolutionary", but I'm afraid it's not the one that most people use when they say "Apple's revolutionary". It would, after all, make Microsoft a much more revolutionary company than Apple, since they pretty much redefined the PC world. Still, very right.
No, that's right. CERN* invented the web, the microcomputer comes from Lannion, "we"** built the fastest commercial liner, the biggest one, the fastest passenger train, the smallest nuclear aircraft carrier (which may, or may not, be a good thing, but a cool one nonetheless), and single handedly built satellite launchers back when the space race was on. It does make France slightly relevant, if clearly not the center of the universe.
You're anyway missing the point, which is that "standard" keyboard is relevant to a given market. In the US, standard is QWERTY. In Paris, it's AZERTY. In Japan, it's complicated (I know, I saw one, it has ???? all over it. I did not let it approach me, of course, I destroyed it with a flame thrower and survived the onslaught of alien characters...).
*CERN actually means Centre Européen de Recherche Nucléaire, and the name is French mainly because France has the atom bomb, to make it simple. It's a very european endeavor, and the main actors (Berners-Lee/Cailliau) of the invention of the web actually are British and Belgian. Europe is a complex beast, which is why I live in Amsterdam. Maar ik ben geen gekke Frans...
** It is a bit ludicrous to attribute to myself using "we" the merits of much more intelligent people, but it's one of the issues with nationalism.
Thanks for that lesson. You could have added many many more things, like diplomacy, the novel as an art form, ballet, great cuisine, fashion, champagne, braille, photography, pasteurization..... but I digress.
I apologize on behalf of the far-right in my country. They can, more often than not, come through as a bunch of uninformed asses. In fact, one of their own leaders recently had to admonish them, telling them (I am quoting) "...Stop being the stupid party."
Pogue's review in the New York Times sings the Z10's praises, especially its predictive text capabilities.
I do have to say that iOS's predictive text capabilities suck. Big time. I can't believe that after six years of iPhone use, the darn thing still types in 'gave' when I mean to type 'have' and 'live' when mean to type 'love.' And many more like that. Moreover, it has a serious bias against -- and does not seem to have the capability to remember -- non-US proper names.
Seriously improving the quality of its predictive texting capabilities would be, for me, the BIGGEST fix that iOS7 could make.
Apple might be prevented by patents from adopting better predictive typing.
They have changed their company name, but how many people knew that Blackberry was RIM? So they are just calling their company by how people really knew them, Blackberry. If they really wanted to get out from under the bad Blackberry karma, they should have come up with a completely new name. A Blackberry is a Blackberry is a Blackberry... it will always be a Blackberry. Even though it is trying to change its spots. As the Apple ad says "If you don't have an iPhone, you don't have an iPhone."
I see the letters q, w, e, r, t, and y in succession. Pretty dang sure that's what it is. No one knows what a Remington keyboard is.
You're just being a jerk as usual. You know exactly what I mean.
Almost all keyboards (Dvorak ones being the major exception) are QWERTY keyboards.
The article attempts to differentiate between the iPhone keyboard and the Blackberry keyboard, or the Blackberry Z10 keyboard and the Blackberry Q10 keyboard, by referring to the one with the physical keys as "QWERTY" when in fact they are all QWERTY. It just perpetuates the Stupidity that physical keyboards are QWERTY and others are not.
It's just sloppy thinking and writing and all it does is energise the veritable army of ignoramuses who believe that virtual keyboards are not also QWERTY keyboards.
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Originally Posted by SolipsismX
It would have more sense to get Chuck Berry… or maybe not because that's what BB users have been doing for the past 6 years, chucking their blackberries.
Fred Berry would be my pick.
Rerun.....get it?
Or Ken Berry.
Then they can name it the new Mayberry10 RFD
Pogue's review in the New York Times sings the Z10's praises, especially its predictive text capabilities.
I do have to say that iOS's predictive text capabilities suck. Big time. I can't believe that after six years of iPhone use, the darn thing still types in 'gave' when I mean to type 'have' and 'live' when mean to type 'love.' And many more like that. Moreover, it has a serious bias against -- and does not seem to have the capability to remember -- non-US proper names.
Seriously improving the quality of its predictive texting capabilities would be, for me, the BIGGEST fix that iOS7 could make.
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Originally Posted by dasanman69
There was a article in Yahoo yesterday where there's a markedly switch from the iPhone in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Yeah, since an article in Yahoo! said so, it must be true.
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Originally Posted by Quadra 610
Priceless:
http://macdailynews.com/2013/01/30/how-to-dodge-interview-questions-about-apples-iphone-rim-style/
Priceless, indeed. And pathetic too, I might add......
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France is not exactly the center of the universe.
No, that's right. CERN* invented the web, the microcomputer comes from Lannion, "we"** built the fastest commercial liner, the biggest one, the fastest passenger train, the smallest nuclear aircraft carrier (which may, or may not, be a good thing, but a cool one nonetheless), and single handedly built satellite launchers back when the space race was on. It does make France slightly relevant, if clearly not the center of the universe.
You're anyway missing the point, which is that "standard" keyboard is relevant to a given market. In the US, standard is QWERTY. In Paris, it's AZERTY. In Japan, it's complicated (I know, I saw one, it has ???? all over it. I did not let it approach me, of course, I destroyed it with a flame thrower and survived the onslaught of alien characters...).
*CERN actually means Centre Européen de Recherche Nucléaire, and the name is French mainly because France has the atom bomb, to make it simple. It's a very european endeavor, and the main actors (Berners-Lee/Cailliau) of the invention of the web actually are British and Belgian. Europe is a complex beast, which is why I live in Amsterdam. Maar ik ben geen gekke Frans...
** It is a bit ludicrous to attribute to myself using "we" the merits of much more intelligent people, but it's one of the issues with nationalism.
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Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton
1. The corpses of Palm / Handspring / Windows Mobile nods in agreement.
2. You mean "original", not "revolutionary." The iPhone did spark a revolution in what the public expected from their smartphones, and that in turn put companies that adapted quickly (Samsung) ahead of companies that did not (Nokia, RIM). Since 2007, the marketshare numbers for smartphones flipped from the old guard (Palm, Nokia, RIM) to the new (Apple, Samsung).
1- And rightly so. Having been forced to work with these as a programmer, and to be honest STILL being forced to maintain existing systems, I'd revive them just for the opportunity of killing them again.
2- That's a very true definition of "revolutionary", but I'm afraid it's not the one that most people use when they say "Apple's revolutionary". It would, after all, make Microsoft a much more revolutionary company than Apple, since they pretty much redefined the PC world. Still, very right.
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Originally Posted by lightknight
No, that's right. CERN* invented the web, the microcomputer comes from Lannion, "we"** built the fastest commercial liner, the biggest one, the fastest passenger train, the smallest nuclear aircraft carrier (which may, or may not, be a good thing, but a cool one nonetheless), and single handedly built satellite launchers back when the space race was on. It does make France slightly relevant, if clearly not the center of the universe.
You're anyway missing the point, which is that "standard" keyboard is relevant to a given market. In the US, standard is QWERTY. In Paris, it's AZERTY. In Japan, it's complicated (I know, I saw one, it has ???? all over it. I did not let it approach me, of course, I destroyed it with a flame thrower and survived the onslaught of alien characters...).
*CERN actually means Centre Européen de Recherche Nucléaire, and the name is French mainly because France has the atom bomb, to make it simple. It's a very european endeavor, and the main actors (Berners-Lee/Cailliau) of the invention of the web actually are British and Belgian. Europe is a complex beast, which is why I live in Amsterdam. Maar ik ben geen gekke Frans...
** It is a bit ludicrous to attribute to myself using "we" the merits of much more intelligent people, but it's one of the issues with nationalism.
Thanks for that lesson. You could have added many many more things, like diplomacy, the novel as an art form, ballet, great cuisine, fashion, champagne, braille, photography, pasteurization..... but I digress.
I apologize on behalf of the far-right in my country. They can, more often than not, come through as a bunch of uninformed asses. In fact, one of their own leaders recently had to admonish them, telling them (I am quoting) "...Stop being the stupid party."
And Zed Zed Top is still going
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And Zed Zed Top is still going
I thought Zed was from Zardoz.
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France is not exactly the center of the universe.
Indeed. We all know it's Botswana.
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Pogue's review in the New York Times sings the Z10's praises, especially its predictive text capabilities.
I do have to say that iOS's predictive text capabilities suck. Big time. I can't believe that after six years of iPhone use, the darn thing still types in 'gave' when I mean to type 'have' and 'live' when mean to type 'love.' And many more like that. Moreover, it has a serious bias against -- and does not seem to have the capability to remember -- non-US proper names.
Seriously improving the quality of its predictive texting capabilities would be, for me, the BIGGEST fix that iOS7 could make.
Apple might be prevented by patents from adopting better predictive typing.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
I see the letters q, w, e, r, t, and y in succession. Pretty dang sure that's what it is. No one knows what a Remington keyboard is.
You're just being a jerk as usual. You know exactly what I mean.
Almost all keyboards (Dvorak ones being the major exception) are QWERTY keyboards.
The article attempts to differentiate between the iPhone keyboard and the Blackberry keyboard, or the Blackberry Z10 keyboard and the Blackberry Q10 keyboard, by referring to the one with the physical keys as "QWERTY" when in fact they are all QWERTY. It just perpetuates the Stupidity that physical keyboards are QWERTY and others are not.
It's just sloppy thinking and writing and all it does is energise the veritable army of ignoramuses who believe that virtual keyboards are not also QWERTY keyboards.
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Originally Posted by stelligent
Apple might be prevented by patents from adopting better predictive typing.
Then they should pay for the damn IP.
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Originally Posted by anantksundaram
Then they should pay for the damn IP.
And buy BB.
And I thought Zed was dead
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Originally Posted by pedromartins
And buy BB.
If anyone should buy BB, it's probably HP.
Apple is doing fine on its own, as far as I can tell.