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Nice review. I can't wait for the Fitbit Force review (next week?) and then the iWatch review (next year?). I would have really hated that wrist design but it's that battery life that made me not consider the Nike+ FuelBand SE even though I'd char…
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badika wrote: » "we'll take our plant somewhere else if you don't give us tax breaks." "we'll not repatriate our profits if you don't give us tax breaks." Despite all the long term infrastructure, from education of its employees to the milit…
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slurpy wrote: » I'm excited to see photos of the progress of this building as it comes along. Should be quite a spectacle. I expect (hope) we'll get plenty of updates from DED as he makes routine trips from SF to document the construction.
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dminnici wrote: » We should be able to have our cake and eat it too... Users should be able to pick the theme... Whether it's 3D, Flat or something entirely different... Why does Apple need to control the look and feel of MY devise. Apple should…
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tallest skil wrote: » That looks more like a 15”. If you measure the diagonal it seems like it's double, if not a little more, and I don't think a 20" tablet is practical.
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zoetmb wrote: » Every company puts money into the local economy. Does that mean that no companies should pay real-estate taxes? And if that's a server farm that Apple is building there, they may be employing fewer than 10 employees. So it mi…
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rogifan wrote: » How can something be gaudy, ostentatious and mediocre at the same time? Also, what exactly is ostentatious? To me that doesn't go with "meh". Quite easily, IMO. Pretty much anything that I would describe as gaudy and ostentat…
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zoetmb wrote: » Good business for Apple? Yes. Legal? Yes. Ethical? No. It's real estate taxes that pay for schools in most communities. By substantially reducing what they pay, Apple hurts the future education of the kids in that comm…
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1) I want to know what the specs of the Mac Pro are? IOWs, did they skimp out on the internals by not putting in the highest 12-core chip, GPUs, and RAM that will be available to users? 2) That Space Shuttle art is really appealing. 3) I would lov…
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gtr wrote: » Vomit-yellow text? What HAVE you been eating lately? That's BileMaker yellow.
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slurpy wrote: » Am I the only one that find the vomit-yellow text horrendous looking, not to mention not very readable? Yellow text over a semi transparent background? Really? Not a fan of that font color but overall this is an improvement so I…
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stephanjobs wrote: » Yeah but it's a bit sad. It wasn't all Forestall's doing. Steve was a big part of the apps looks and feel and although the leather wasn't completely appreciated by all, much of the bold words, shading, and easy to read segment…
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This had always been the worst looking app since it first launched during the height of skeupmorphism era. I'm just glad it's Forest-all gone.
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flaneur wrote: » Let me rephrase that appraisal of your grasp of reality: You are detached from the basic facts because you seem to be ignoring your native cause-and-effect reasoning powers. Example: The reason that the Kindle Fire or the Nexus…
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bolbolize wrote: » This will be a bulky iPad, I dont think Apple will be serious about it. This size cannot be held by one hand and it needs a proper suuport to be placed on a table. Is it possible that Apple will make a hybrid? I think it's p…
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rich gregory wrote: » I was speculating an induction charging stand of some kind so you could put the iPad on it in any direction (portrait vs landscape) and it would charge. If that takes up too much real estate on the device then a charging stan…
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I hope the Yahoo Screen channel offers full episodes of The Daily Show and Colbert. saarek wrote: » More US only centric icons on my Apple TV, come on Apple. Either release local content or don't bother clogging up my screen with shit I can't …
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Such a large tablet or a touchscreen Mac don't appeal to me but I can see the former appealing to some that don't use any other traditional style computer, providing the size and weight is low enough.
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zozman wrote: » Interesting youtube clip i just saw http://youtu.be/2oDBB_omV0c?t=2m30s It's hard to take someone seriously who looks like the love child of Barrack Obama and Patton Oswalt.
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harry wild wrote: » I find it difficult to believe that Apple's screen producers could not do the job of producing HD+ displays with higher color gamut, when you see in the marketplace Nexus 7 -2013 and Amazon Kindle HDX -7 with same resolution di…