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Quote: Originally Posted by johnmcboston That's a bigger question - will they release new imacs just a few months before Snow leopard, making you update your brand new imac right after you get it? (and of course, pay for the new OS) I'm sure …
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I know this is going to sound ironic, but if Snow Leopard is 64-bit only, then I'm going to buy one of these. I currently have a Rev A Intel iMac, that is, 32-bit Core Duo. If the only way for me to get Snow Leopard is to upgrade my hardware, th…
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The regular cell phone market is cutthroat. The margins are simply too small. The market is too mature and there are too many competitors. It would be like Apple selling a $200 PC. It's just not going to happen. The only arguments I've heard…
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Why would Apple do this? The smartphone market is lucrative, but the regular cellphone market is cutthroat and low-margin.
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I think this is one of those rumours that's part true and part false. Apple has a habit of gradually introducing new technologies across their product line. They'll start with something like iSight in the iMac, and move it to all Macs that have …
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM The way I've seen that explained is that several programs use the frameworks behind Safari (and I think Quicktime too) such that it makes a reboot necessary. Maybe the underpinnings of the GUI depend on some pa…
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't CentOS an RPM distro? I don't remember being required to do any reboot when I installed Firefox 3 on Ubuntu. Quote: Originally Posted by JCE10 That's an over-simplification. I have a CentOS 4 installati…
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How much of this is due to the legacy crud that is the Carbon libraries that OS X is still using for many of its apps? Updates to Safari and Quicktime still require reboots, which is ludicrous considering that the Linux software updates that don't…
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I see the Microsoft-sponsored trolls are out in full force nowadays. DON'T QUOTE TROLLS IF YOU ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT THEM. IT'S EXTRA WORK FOR ME.
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Still, Apple's QA department has been strained before. Despite the delay until October, Leopard (10.5) took a while to stabilize. As a programmer, I understand the difference between coding a particular feature and testing it to make sure tha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland Showcase ≠ shipping. Still, I can't see them having something even remotely presentable by then.
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I can't see how Snow Leopard will ship early. Despite the aforementioned "lack of features", it's actually quite an undertaking. Consider the to do list: 1) All Apple apps 64-bit: Right now, only a couple of Apple's own apps are 64-bit. 2) A…
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It's interesting how many trolls have decided to log into AppleInsider to tout the oft-repeated myth that Macs are directly comparable to PCs and are more expensive, thus, they're automatically overpriced and that Apple only survives through superio…
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EMI saw their sales go up by 350 percent for some albums when they dropped DRM: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=18342 Quote: Berkowitz said that initial success with DRM-free songs seems set to boost sales of digital albums, a…
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Why can't Apple bring in the labels piecemeal instead of all at once? That way, if they can bring in, say, Warner on more favourable terms. Once Warner sees their iTunes downloads take off (and they will, if they're DRM-free), then the other label…
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Pystar will lose because: 1) They can't support OS X as is directly from the CD. 2) They modified OS X, violating Apple's copyright and the DMCA in the process. They needed to do. 3) They installed OS X on their systems, distributing that inf…
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You make a lot of assumptions. I have *never* paid for cable or satellite *ever*. I had it for free in an apartment building that split the cable, but that's it. So when I complain about the state of television, I complain about the way *it's alw…
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BAH! The reason I don't have cable or satellite is because I refuse to abide by somebody else's schedule when watching content (PVR notwithstanding). My XBox doesn't tell me I can only play Fable 2 at exactly 8pm on Tuesday. My Matrix DVD doesn't…
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Does anybody know if this is U.S. only?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Abster2core It is up to Amazon to make the deal with each company individually, not the association. Just like Apple has with EMI. If the Canadian equivalent of the RIAA (the CRIA) is serious about protecting copyr…