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• The media wanted a bigger iphone a lot more than their customers did.

  in Rumor: Apple considering return to 4-inch form factor in 2015 with 'iPhone 6s mini' Comment by mcarroll December 2014
• I'm all wired with advertisement-free video and audio (hopefully like everyone else)....just the product description made me think...admittedly on a tangent.     No, people do not listen to radio anymore....and why is that?  Because real radio has b…

  in Bose enters the streaming territory owned by Sonos Comment by mcarroll October 2013
• From the product description: "[...]It makes listening to your favorite music easier. All around your home. Wirelessly."   You mean like real radio?   I'm sure it's a nice product, but if real radio weren't such a vapid, corporate-controlled wastela…

  in Bose enters the streaming territory owned by Sonos Comment by mcarroll October 2013
• The posting/story is nothing but Kickstarter promo and fodder for the apple-whiners/FUD-peddlers (click generators to be sure). gazoobee wrote: » The position they originally took wasn't unreasonable either though.  This appeasement will quiet th…

  in Apple updates MFi guidelines after Kickstarter project flap Comment by mcarroll December 2012
• quadra 610 wrote: » It's very easy to whore out your OS to anyone that can slam together a box and not give a damn about the experience. The lazy-man's way to market share. Keep puffing up share numbers by spreading around garbage - much of whic…

  in Launch of Google Maps for iPhone viewed as a 'mixed blessing' for Apple Comment by mcarroll December 2012
• Quote: Originally Posted by macarena  [...] Android is costing Google tremendous amounts of money (whether or not you consider the bottomless pit that is Motorola!). It is costing Google a lot in terms of credibility and goodwill w…

  in Launch of Google Maps for iPhone viewed as a 'mixed blessing' for Apple Comment by mcarroll December 2012
• Quote: Originally Posted by Frood  One common thing I see on Apple sites is people bashing Google for anonymously tracking user behaviors and using that data so advertisers can target people that might actually want their products.  Ev…

  in Launch of Google Maps for iPhone viewed as a 'mixed blessing' for Apple Comment by mcarroll December 2012
• Another **itbag analyst...simultaneously spouting and citing irrelevant analyst opinion. "Not only did *Google win*, but *Apple lost*." Seriously? Didn't we learn to ignore these idiots after the last recession? Users are the big winners - Googl…

  in Launch of Google Maps for iPhone viewed as a 'mixed blessing' for Apple Comment by mcarroll December 2012
• 2/3 of software anywhere is "zombie" then I guess.  Was this article just a ploy to use the word zombie??   In the old days (and today too, except for those guys ref'd in TFA) we called that 2/3 of the software made something like "business so…

  in 2/3 of Apple's iOS App Store populated by 'zombie' apps, estimate finds Comment by mcarroll August 2012
• Quote: Originally Posted by sabuga  [....]private FaceBook account[....]   Being an oxymoron, was that stated for irony?

  in Apple tech support 'socially engineered' in hack of journalist's iCloud account Comment by mcarroll August 2012
• "Zombie apps"....puuu-lease!   How about zombie "mobile analytics and ad firms"?  Is there no "proper search" for "mobile analytics and ad firms" so we have this article to help them out?   LOL.   Zombie apps....funny concept, nice try, bu…

  in 2/3 of Apple's iOS App Store populated by 'zombie' apps, estimate finds Comment by mcarroll August 2012
• Facebook is the modern AOL.   (How?  In more bad ways than one actually, but for now....   One conglomeration of rubes ruined the beginning of the internet experience, the other is ruining the end.)   Only this fact could make me "thankful" th…

  in Tighter iTunes Twitter integration rumored to take place of Ping Comment by mcarroll August 2012