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Quote: Originally Posted by GTR Gatrorguy, KDarling, rjc999. Brace yourself, boys. You're going to have a HORRIBLE decade. Is that the same horrible decade you had when Microsoft ruled over Apple in the 90s…
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The way I look at it, every year, PC capabilities went up, and prices stayed the same or got lower. You can talk all you want about Microsoft's margins, but Microsoft was selling Windows for less than 10% of the cost of a PC. The massive progress…
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For 20 years people shipped PCs with razor thin margins and almost no one made money except for Dell/HP/IBM selling into the enterprise market. You can keep pushing the narrative that profit == success, but eventually computing platforms get commo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BigMac2 Which first appeared in Cyndia on iOS. Stop nagging the notification center has the only defence adnoids fans can pull agains iOS. It took up to version 4.2 for Google to speedup and sepa…
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Competition is good, but Google was putting huge amounts of work into improving maps far before iOS maps, as most of the improvements are not client specific, but on the backend. Google launched it's Ground Truth project in 2008 (http://www.youtub…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacBook Pro Excellent. Three more years and Google Android may catch up to where Apple iOS was three years ago. You mean like it took years for Apple to get a Notification Center and Control Center wh…
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Apple should stop censoring links period. They make enough money on HW margins and the 30% cut they're trying to take from others is pure greed.
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Someone has to fund these things, even if they are far off, especially if the government isn't doing it. "Trying to go in a direction" of future company plans is actually how companies fail to innovate because it's incrementalism. The greatest bre…
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Quote: Originally Posted by matrix07 Again. Why not value patents at $7 Billion then Google had got Moto for free. Whatever the math used, however you want to pat Google's back, the cold hard fact is that Google rushed to make a decis…
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Quote: Originally Posted by matrix07 Why $1.5 Billion? Why not zero? Heck, why not go all the way? With some strange math someone might be able to calculate that Google even get Motolora for free *plus* a billion from it. LOL. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by NoTown Does it recognize the owner's voice? For instance, what's stopping me from getting someone's phone to set an alarm for 3 am or some other mischievous thing? I know if I personally knew someone with th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Alfiejr yup, as several above note, Moto is competing with SS with the same approach - adding UI gimmicks to android to "differentiate" the X and the S4 from other commodity droid phones. so they are both g…
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Quote: Originally Posted by HeyBartender It'll be fun to mess with other's voice activated phones >:-) If done right, voice fingerprinting should work as well as fingerprint unlocking. Remember, most biometric sensors have been d…
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Funny, when the iPhone launched, and it was 2g only, and didn't support MMS, etc a lot of people were crowing that Apple's flagship lost on specs compared to other phones that were shipping with 3g. Apple has consistently lagged behind on things …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Damn_Its_Hot Your comments about photogrammetry are amusing. The paneling markers themselves would be a huge (and might I say expensive) job involving not only common plane surveying but taking into a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii But don't you think where maps are ultimately headed is a fully functional 3d model of a place, where you can flyover, or walk around the streets (even in to some buildings) or if you like simply posi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by matrix07 They beat Apple to the punch by childishly scrambled everything to held the presenatation just a week before Apple's. LOL. See, at least they were right because one fool was already fallen for thei…
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BTW, Google Maps beta with Earth is not limited to four directions. Hold down the Ctrl key while dragging with the left mouse and you can pan in 3D at any angle.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Slurpy This 1:1 comparison is pretty rock-solid evidence for how intellectually dishonest critisism against Apple tends to be, as well as the different standard they're held at, even by people who claim to …
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The 3D view is nice for showing off, but it really doesn't have the utility of street level photos. For example, often when I am taking a road trip, I will "drive" the route near the final destination inside of street view in order to visually me…