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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro Where do you get the no virtual memory thing from? You obviously have ZERO clue on this fact. It's OS X! Of course it has virtual memory, it's predominant difference is it has a different GUI structure. Yes, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Planet Blue I can't speak for Windows Mobile, but Android manages system resources great. If a new application needs memory, it smartly kills off ones that are unneeded. So that's 1 vote for it working well. As oppo…
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The iPod and iPhone have 128MB-256MB of RAM (and no virtual memory) and a CPU between 400MHz and 533MHz. Further, apps have been built for years assuming all of that is available to them. There is, in fact, a huge technical problem with running m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by physguy ignore
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Quote: Originally Posted by physguy I don't get what people think is missing from the UTI implementation. If you set the file's metatdata kMDItemContentType to a specific 'application', e.g. com.adobe.pdf, it can be associate with adobe reader (…
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Quote: Originally Posted by noirdesir You don't understand what I mean with theory. In theory, the UTIs could be used as file metadata, as an extended form of the type metadata. This would fit into the idea of UTIs. And that is what I mean with…
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Quote: Originally Posted by physguy Both of these don't quite hit the nail on the head. ...and then you don't address my point at all. How do I, as an application, save a document with a common file extension and a specific UTI, changing the U…
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Quote: Originally Posted by noirdesir The article suggest otherwise but I am wondering whether this is one of those in-theory-yes-in-practice-no situations. No, it's a no-always-no situation. The author of the article had a particular article …
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Quote: Originally Posted by physguy Actually, if used properly, they do replace creator codes. Note The part of the article you quoted is the incorrect part. UTIs can not be assigned by an application. There's no mechanism for saying "This…
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While the background information presented here is reasonable, the third page assume functionality that is neither present nor documented as in Mac OS X. Thus, every conclusion drawn is not just wrong, but dangerously wrong. Furthermore, even if …
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Quote: Originally Posted by PaulMJohnson You know it's easy to read too much into this. Had SL come out a month before Pre, nobody would have batted an eyelid. At it's heart, this is about Apple removing some legacy code from the OS. Given t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nikon133 So people can still use iTunes to purchase music and sync/copy it to Pre with alternative methods. What is Apple really achieving here, except pissing off some people with a move that feels very monopolistic? …
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Quote: Originally Posted by azcodemonkey It would be great if Apple exposed an API for iTunes synchronization. That's the point: THEY DO! It's XML, the file system and USB. Blackberry does this right. Palm doesn't.
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Quote: Originally Posted by bsenka This would be the smarter way to go, but you know that Apple would just do a software update to the iPod/iPhone software that breaks their ability to see that hypothetical Palm app. No, that would be a line t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ronbo But they seem to prefer hacks. And that?s pretty disappointing. I was hoping we were going to have genuine competition. All we actually got was leeches and ticks. Oh well. I really want Palm to succeed, too. I…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iPhone1982 I would think that since Apple allows RIM to sync the Blackberry and isn't allowing PALM to sync the PRE it's more a case of very bad for Apple's Image along with slave labor they use to manufacture the phon…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer They used to let 3rd party MP3 players sync with iTunes; now that there aren't any 3rd party MP3 players left on the market, what's the harm in letting the Palm Pre sync with iTunes? What would be the har…
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Palm needs to stop being such rank amateurs and write their own sync software. It was unprofessional of them the first time, when they weren't sure that Apple would stop iTunes from delivering music to them. But now it's almost criminally negligent.
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Quote: Originally Posted by teckstud Apple didn't create iTunes, Casady & Greene (SoundJam MP) did. And to be really technical, SoundJam was created by Bill Kincaid and Jeff Robbin via a company called SoundStep. It was *published* by C&am…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dreyfus2 Absolutely correct and that is what they should have done in the first place. Advertising a feature that relies on a competitor's IP without even talking to them was a sick idea. Let's wait for the first class…