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red oak wrote: » So I am clear - a total shi* show. A total screw-up, Surface-like debacle Any questions on my prediction or where I stand? Who are you and what are you doing here?
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soloman wrote: » As a whole? No but I have noticed quite a bit of tech upstarts are located in Brooklyn. No not as a whole.
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dick applebaum wrote: » Obviously, you've never attended a Hooker's Ball (or any street parade in San Francisco) I live in New York City. I don't know if I'd make hipster neighborhoods synonymous with innovators and creatives. Those areas are …
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Corrections wrote: » False equivalency. NFC was a major deployment effort paired with cost-associated mobile hardware built into a generation of Android devices. Passbook is a 1.0 app. One that had gotten tons of support. You can dismiss b…
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patpatpat wrote: » Googles only in-house smartphone to date is the MotoX which has NFC. Not sure what you are talking about. Can't we all just agree that Passbook and NFC have not lived up to their promises?
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abazigal wrote: » Having a feature, and getting it to work properly are two different things. That said, I am noticing a consistent, and dismaying pattern in the editorials here. They start off with an interesting premise, then proceed to veer …
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pmz wrote: » Siri is not functional improvements? Maybe you need to see a Siri commercial to remind of what function it offers. There is a lot of common sense involved here: Telling Siri to Turn on Bluetooth or Open Facebook = Pointless. Tell S…
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nexusphan wrote: » The top box 'notifications' you see there is the top and the build is the bottom. What world do you live in where 6 options and 2 'about' details is not user friendly? Edit: Apple has almost all of these options too but you…
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I also don't understand the article's reference to "advanced battery technology" in the iPhone 5. iPhone 5's battery is pretty lousy. It gets 3-4 hours playing games, and only about 6.5 hours with regular usage. And that's on less than 50% brightnes…
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It'll be copied in no time. I think iOS 7 is a bigger differentiator. I don't understand the premise of a "ultra high resolution display technology". Is the sensor a display technology? I hope this isn't a new Siri, created just to more easily marke…
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constable odo wrote: » If these numbers are really true, it paints a pretty ugly picture about how Apple has been just coasting along. How long has Apple been in the smartphone business? It's been doing relatively well by any standards. Yet for…
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What smartphone industry? This is a Samsung, Apple world. Chrome OS is going to swallow the world one day though.
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Definitely want the hardware button. It definitely has a psychological effect on the user. It conveys a sense of security.
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anantksundaram wrote: » Are you Ming-Chi Kuo? You pop up singing his praises every time AI writes a story mentioning him. Every time? I've posted in 2 or 3 AI threads in my entire life. And I didn't bring him up at all, that mike jones chara…
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mikejones wrote: » He's not accurate. He simply shifts the product and/or release date until eventually he might be right about a rumor. And in this case he simply used hindsight to change the previous rumor from 5 to 5S. That's about it. He's no …
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slurpy wrote: » There's no reason it would take 5 seconds. Why is that?
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The usefulness of this depends a lot on how quickly the scanning happens. Nobody wants to hold down for 5 seconds waiting for their phone to open.
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mikejones wrote: » So basically he just simply adjusted the previous rumors about how this very thing was going to be in the iPhone 5 and changed it to the 5S after the previous rumors were shown to be wrong. What is the amazing revelation in that…
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anantksundaram wrote: » Hey, here are some questions for you, since appear to know him well, and you are willing to go back two years to dig up four predictions of his (well, 3.5, but let's round it up): 1a) How many such predictions did he mak…