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I doubt this will be available to users outside the U.S. Canadians have been waiting for Hulu and cbs.com content to be made available and keep getting the same empty promises. Seriously, with the exception of iTunes removing DRM from music in …
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Quote: Originally Posted by netnothing After doing a little searching, this post seems to answer the question: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/...1#733003010041 -Kevin I wonder how thoroughly this has been tested. Apple is very …
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Quote: Originally Posted by lkrupp If Apple had to wait for every single developer to get on board before releasing new technology they'd never move forward. Hell, Quicken is still not a universal binary years after Macs went Intel. Windows is ba…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dagamer34 Except for that little app called iTunes... Well, the first question of mind is how does one track which apps are Carbon and which are Cocoa, since I doubt you can do "About" to find out what framework one…
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I believe that 10.7 will only run on 64-bit Intel chips. Also, I wouldn't put it past Apple to start deprecating Carbon, since by 10.6 they will be eating their own dog food (no more Carbon apps distributed by Apple). Exciting times!
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One thing I realized while Googling is that Objective-C does not have closures, and will only be getting them along with Snow Leopard. They'll be called "blocks": http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/2009/0...Phone.20090703 Yeah, I know that Java do…
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I'm not sure why Microsoft thinks that it now owns the netbook market, when it doesn't even offer a version of Windows for ARM. What's more, Intel is planning to sell the entire widget with netbooks running Atom and Mobiln, and Google will come out…
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Thanks for the detailed post. I'm still digesting it and will have to read it several times to process it. Still, this is the thing I love about mature discussion. There's the opportunity to learn a lot from people with different perspectives. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Shrike In hindsight, I think this was one of Apple's best ever technical decisions (not to go all Java). There's definitely a certain amount of vindication for all of the NeXT fanbois who have persevered with Objective…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Crankenstein I'm glad to see Apple carrying on it's tradition of re-releasing the same ole' product over and over and just slapping a new name on it. Snow Leopard is a far cry from Windows 7.... Even though they wan…
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Remember back in 2005 when the CEO of Intel complemented Apple on their Macs and advised new computer buyer to choose Macs just weeks before the announcement that Apple was moving from PowerPC to Intel? Perhaps this is yet another such indication…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macFanDave I love Objective-C. I did a lot of C programming, and C++ just seemed like a big mess. ObjC makes the concepts of OOP so much easier to grasp. I subsequently got into some Java and C# and found that what …
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Here's my take on the state of Apple development tools: 1) Objective-C: To the layman, Objective-C has all the features that make it easy to sell to the higher-ups: superset of C, low-level resource management (pointers), object-oriented, rich …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Messiah If only Spotlight worked. It never finds anything on my drives... and yes, I have tried reindexing the drives in question. Many times! It works, but I still find it kind of slow at times. I also get the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gwydion And the answer is a lesser functional device to work with? How does the lack of a physical keyboard make it a "lesser functional device" ?
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Quote: Originally Posted by al_bundy there is also cost people buy acer's because you can get a decent one for $299 with no contract. and it's cheap enough that if it breaks you won't care and just get another one. A $500 tablet that requires …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gwydion I highly doubt Apple will launch a 10" multitouch device. Why? -A 10" inch capacitive multitouch screen of 1024x600 moreless resolution in expensive. Why does it have to be 1024x600? Quote: -To last …
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Quote: Originally Posted by FastEddy 3) Touch pad? I suppose some use it. I carry a mini optical mouse in my bag. I just can't get used to the touch pad as primary controller. Upgrading this should be a piece of cake in any case. Of interest: "Ne…
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Quote: Originally Posted by zunx The lighter, the better. 300 g or less would be great. The smaller, the better. Pocketable would be great. It'll definitely be light, but it won't be pocketable . From the large order of 10 inch screens, th…
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One of Microsoft's non-core businesses will be axed in the next year: 1) Zune + online media store 2) Windows Mobile 3) MSN 4) Bing/search/advertising Still, I doubt that Bing will get the axe because it's a new front in their war with Goog…