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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse You can't design by committee, and you can't design with competing camps at war. No offense, but you can. Design by committee happens all the time, both in software and hardware. There i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Flaneur Right-brain guys like Ive and Jobs, don't know about Forstall, are highly tolerant of tactile eye-candy. Left-brain types find it distracting or even painful. Microsoft is dedicated to left-brainism,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram I doubt that people who use GameCenter a lot really care all that much. Indeed. As it stands, when you are using GameCenter, you don't really see any "skeuomorphic" motifs (man, are …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SixPenceRicher Thank God. I doubt that they'll completely eliminate them. Simply offering a choice of skeumorphic or clean presentation would go far. Quote: Originally Posted b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cpsro I never heard a word out of Forstall's mouth that didn't sound like it originated from Jobs. When one is going through what Jobs went through, it helps to have an energetic surrogate, but now that Job…
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Quote: Originally Posted by malax " To keep Mansfield at Apple, Cook was said to have offered him around $2 million per month in cash and stock." I hope most of that is in stock, or he'll need a lot of help just getting that…
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I don't think it is productive to compare R&D expenditures at different companies. What each company defines as R&D varies dramatically. The definition is dictated by the nature of a business as well as by accounting practices. For sure, R…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ifij775 Only one of these two companies makes a product with built-in ads. You tell me which one wants to please their customers? Ummm, don't all smartphones have built-in ads?
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Quote: Originally Posted by tcasey I think it could work out for google - Well as long as apple sells 12.5 billion iphones then there collect 12.5 billion in royalties...and im sure that will happen as soon as we can find a planet wit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GTR Well, that was entertaining. I'd like to thank everybody for coming to the WardC roasting... I think we have been had. Surely no one still thinks that way.
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Quote: Originally Posted by WardC Who cares about all this stuff? Apple should get out of phones altogether and put their focus back into the industry that made them...the PERSONAL COMPUTER. Telephony is not a business Apple should be…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Splinemodel Whatever standard this is, the FRAND terms of standards just stipulate that licensing (a) must be available and (b) must have the same pricing for everyone. With due respect, neithe…
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The root issue, I guess, is whether the license fee should be an absolute amount or a percentage. There are arguments for both. Although I am not familiar with history of FRAND patents and whether their license fees are percentage based or not, I …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Napoleon_PhoneApart I used to have a 1991 Ford Prostitution; it had over 375,000 miles when I bought another car. Meh ...
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy I don't think the iPad Mini will have much negative effect on the Nexus7, nor will sales of that device have much effect on iPad Mini sales. There's lots of potential market for both. IMO the over…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ifij775 I always have to laugh about the web statistics of Android devices. Either they are complete junk and no one uses them or their users are too dumb to use a web browser. That continues to puz…
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Quote: Originally Posted by paxman If IOS tablets are selling like hot cakes do we care? I'm not sure that world domination is an interesting goal. Agree. Not long ago, there was this debate about what activation means and …
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Quote: Originally Posted by estolinski iPhone 5 gets Chinese regulatory approval ahead of launch That would be a good time to get it. Yeah, the Chinese government really likes it the other way around.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Snowdog65 I remember people saying after the announcement, "Reviewers will kill it for (Not retina/Price/A5/etc...)". Well it turns out reviewers aren't immature nerds who still think the biggest…
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Is it me or are we learning about the names of Apple spokespeople more often than in the past?