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Quote: Originally Posted by Red Oak Here is the list of significant launches under Cook's leadership. I find it very impressive My one concern is the iPhone product line. I expect we will see that addressed very shortly. …
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Truth must be said, Apple hasn't been innovating a lot lately. There hasn't been anything innovative since the iPad in 2010 yet, and no signs of anything new in the pipeline either. An Apple TV console could be quite disruptive, yet for some rea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rossistboss Question: do you need to be a member of the Mac developer program and/or the iOS developer program? For Xcode 5 DP, yes; for Xcode 4, no. Even if someone downloads Xcode 5 DP for you, you'll …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carthusia If you think the ONLY possible reason Apple isn't enabling or supporting these other protocols simply is vendor lock-in, you must have unprecedented access to Apple's corporate strategy and far gr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gazoobee Sending files over bluetooth has always been a buggy mess that simply didn't work on 90% of the hardware that it was supposed to work on. As a result, almost no one uses bluetooth to send fi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carthusia I don't take the cynical view that Apple merely wants to lock people into their ecosystem out of greed. Another take is that Apple creates software and services to benefit their own users, you kno…
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FaceTime and iMessages both need more platform agnosticism, and the latter also needs to stop arbitrarily reordering messages and making sure they're not delayed 24 hours. There isn't a lot of advantage, if any at all, to using these services whe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Well, with tablets on the go and around the house, what purpose is there to a laptop? Having said that, people will still need something with more power than their tablet, and so since it wouldn…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil I wonder (as though it's not obvious) which Macs are being cannibalized the most. I said it seven years ago: desktops and tablets are the future. I doubt you said that 7 years ago, con…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jguther Right you are. Google is for people who think that privacy is worthless. So cute, you think you can enjoy privacy online... I exercise my privacy rights by not sharing what is private to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by irnchriz Googles apps and services are free? Of a monetary charge to the user, yes. But what about your data and metrics??? What about it? Could you monetize it yourself? I can't. So, as far as I'm…
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Quote: Originally Posted by twosee I've always wondered why there's so much news and "outrage" when apple does something far from perfect. That's quite easy to explain: Apple tries to stand for quality (and charges premium for th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bullhead the xbox and xbox 360 have lost billions. And both finished in third place in the console wars. So yeah, there are failures No, that's how you interpreted my sarcasm. Another way you could …
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Quote: Originally Posted by MikeJones It's a well-known distortion of history that Apple "stole" from Xerox PARC. They gave Xerox PARC options for 100,000 shares at a $10 pre-IPO price in exchange for being able to see their work and …
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Quote: Originally Posted by dav Wrong. Read this, including the letters from Bruce Horn and Jef Raskin. Thanks for that, it contradicts the idea that I have, I'll have to didgest that information.
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Quote: Originally Posted by PhilBoogie Sad news, actually. I sure hope this doesn't mean the ouster of Ballmer. Man, I like that guy, running ruining MS! Company's value slashed in half over the past decade with him at the helm. Coo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips All correct but don't forget Microsoft stole everything they are famous for. Window was simply reversed engineered Mac OS and Office was Steve's concept for the Mac Plus. That git Gates was …
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This makes me wonder whether the Pro model is actually generating a positive net income. Previous numbers mentioned the RT only, these mention both, so perhaps the reason why the entire Surface line isn't doing as poorly as the Surface RT may imp…
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This will never happen. Someone else may try it, but they'll fail. There are lots of theoretical issues to resolve, ranging from properly computing the location of reflections, reconstructing color information lost due to them, and the solution …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Slurpy Is every single one of your iDevices disposable? Do you not actively use a single one of those for anything important? I don't get downloading beta software on every single device you own. …