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50% of the market?! That is so absurd even he must have known it was BS when he said it.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Tallest Skil My logic? It's their logic. And yes, they established patterns early on to which they've kept. 1st gen: iPhone. Highlights generation. Self-explanatory.2nd gen: iPhone 3G. Highlights telephony.3rd gen: iPhon…
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Que Tallest Skil head explosion over the thought of the next phone being called iPhone 5.
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Do we really need an entire AI posting about the result of a question to Siri, who greenlighted this?
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Quote: Originally Posted by I am a Zither Zather Zuzz In y opinion, apple needs to do MUCH better at protecting iOS users. They are not sophisticated, and so are the perfect candidates for falling prey to these maliciousl…
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bryand wrote: » I'm as big an Apple fan as anyone, but there's no way that I'm going to a movie theatre to watch VHS footage of old interviews. I don't even think I would pay for the DVD for this, unless its released really cheap. This is material…
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jragosta wrote: » OK. The merits of the rule: 1. Apple created a great app store - the best in the world. 2. As part of the requirements for creating this great App store, Apple insisted on a walled garden to provide security and minimal sta…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil You can say this, and you can say "going the way of the redesign" with equal weight to both arguments. It's an interesting time. Apple better not blow it. And both "discontinuation" and "update on th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone I know everyone wants to blame Java for this vulnerability and they should, however, allowing an application to auto install by visiting a website? Give me a break. That is something that neither the browser nor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by adamw I was initially infected by this Flashback trojan on my Mac, and even the manual removal instructions did not get all of the trojan's files, which still tried to send info out over the Internet, but thanks to the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac Eliminating the Mac Pro would also be somewhat of a blow to OS X server as the Mac Pro was also configured as server model. That would leave the Mac Mini as the only dedicated hardware to run OS X server. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by easy288 Hire more people. Don't need an MBA to figure this out. Duh! With Apple's global market share, it should not be difficult to find people who are already somewhat familiar with Apple's products. Some train…
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac I guess I'm going to be in the minority but I think Apple's approach on this is perfect. If you want to download anything then click that box. But defaulting to MAS and trusted developers will enhance secu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Apple won't ever do this with iOS. What they WILL do is continue to add APIs until you can SAFELY do with apps in the App Store everything safe that you can do with apps via jailbreaking. And THAT is ho…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacDevil Agreed. I also think that if Apple were to implement this feature in iOS, it would pretty much kill jailbreaking for good. At that point, the only reason to jailbreak would be to pirate apps, and I doubt any o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody It's arguable that any app developer that isn't signing their work actually *is* "illegitimate or questionable." All this means is that if the developer is an amateur or worse, actually out to do har…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Pendergast Actually, this should work in the reverse. As 10.8 will feature Reminders and Notification Center all tied to your Apple ID via iCloud, if you ask Siri to create a reminder for you on your iPhone, it should …
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Quote: Originally Posted by IanRid So that's a load of features I don't need. But is it going to work faster and more reliably? Eh, I'm a bit underwhelmed too. Nothing here really enhances my daily use cases. It would be nice if they spent t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Curmudgeon I'm not a developer, so I have no first hand knowledge of Apple's app approval process. And as a lazy bum, I've not tried to find any second hand knowledge either. So, perhaps someone more industrious ca…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy Getting ever closer to Android's permission-based app model. . . Yeah, Apple needs to figure out what can be vetted during the app approval process and what needs to be enforced at runtime. Some other abus…