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Quote: Originally Posted by Elijahg Google has been copying Apple's (patented) touchscreen paradigms and ideas from the day the iPhone was unveiled. Samsung has copied Apple's (patented) designs, though they do say imitation is the sincerest form…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Elijahg No, I never claimed Apple should be the sole producer of touchscreen phones. You came up with that one up yourself. I simply said that before Apple popularized touchscreen phones (and actually made them useable…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Pendergast Apple's notification center is quite different than Android's or webOS', and many reviewers have noted this. See, this is what I don't understand. You believe the Notification Center is quite different, a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Pendergast No, they don't. If Samsung had released their Galaxy line of tablets and it looked like that, I doubt Apple would have had as much of a problem with it. But apparently now the only way to design a tablet …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Pendergast Alas, we've found the holy grail of Android apologists: the notification bar. If you're not familiar with it, it is worshipped in some circles because it is believed to have the magical effect of countering …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Pendergast The devices you listed look NOTHING like any iOS device ever released. Uh, yes they do. They look remarkably similar. They're both tablets of similar dimensions, and look remarkably close to both the iPad…
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Quote: Originally Posted by paxman What we don't like is that you blatantly copy us. It gives us the moral high ground and Apple the right to sue. So it's blatant copying when Google does it, but when Apple does it, it's OK? Some moral high…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Pendergast I'm sorry, but the Apple Newton has Palm beat. And here's a list of everything that has the Newton beat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_computing MS-DOS, and Windows, is also "grid based using ico…
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Quote: Originally Posted by halfyearsun I don't agree with the argument "if it was the other way around." That is simply a false comparison, and it doesn't change whether or not apple is justified. It just turns the argument toward the users (and…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Pendergast I owned many a device before the iPhone, and none utilized the slide-to-unlock method of unlocking the device. I'm sorry, I thought the tired argument is that slide-to-unlock is too obvious. Too obvious t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Oh, we missed one. "Apple suing is wrong, everyone else suing Apple is right." You just validated my point. You are so emotionally attached to Apple that you feel they're always right, and everyone else…
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The comical part of this forum is that if the reverse was in gear, and Google (or any of Android's manufacturers) were suing Apple, you would all cry foul. In fact, when those manufacturers do press litigation back at Apple, you all cry foul. …
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These IP lawsuits are such garbage. Really, if they "hold up", every tech. item in the US will be destroyed. These patents include nonsense such as network transmission of data structures (packets), things like holding data locally in permanent …
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For all the flak given to Android, there is no denying that this was taken directly from Android.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Neo42 Equally annoying is the "big empty space" you get when iOS tries to scroll into an area that the background process hasn't gotten around to rendering, then scroll back to an old area that has somehow been wiped o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ConradJoe Good stuff. Thanks. WRT your middle paragraph, I wonder whether your first alternative is possible on single-core processors? If not, is that why Android doesn't currently use that mode? Can it be insta…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ConradJoe So is it feasible to improve multi-core usage at the OS level, and if so, would that obviate the need for legacy apps to be rewritten? How is Android currently not as "multi-core-able" as possible? Anybod…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ConradJoe Multi-core processors? Isn't that a good reason to use them? Yep, multi-core CPUs are a good solution--as long as the underlying framework is designed to take advantage of them. Right now the framework be…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wakefinance ... +1. Educated discussions are much better than blinded passion.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Apple ][ The article basically confirms that those people (like me) who have been calling Android laggy and choppy all this time have been 100% correct, and anybody denying that was living in a perverse fantasy world a…