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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Except that of course the post you were responding to never said people who are indifferent to release schedules of CE products are idiots, stupid or inferior, merely that they were clueless and uniformed about…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sflocal I'm curious how the Flash-fanboys will spin this story. Probably like this...
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox You're describing a distinction without a difference, and the only thing keeping you off that horse is a minor variation in tone (indifference over ignorance, without admitting the former proceeds from the latt…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Slurpy Finally, a voice of reason in all the stupidity. I once was showing someone the differences between the original iPhone and the iPhone 4, and their reaction was 'they look pretty much the same, and I won't use a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Obi-Wan Kubrick The general public is clueless as to when Apple will release new hardware, I.E. they don't check Apple rumors sites like we do. I know people who bought the iPad back in February right before the iPad 2…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer OS X has always been UNIX. NeXTStep is BSD 4.3 Unix. Openstep is BSD 4.3 Unix. I think where you two are not seeing eye-to-eye is the fact that OS X wasn't "officially" registered as Unix until Leopard (…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism 2) What was your point in posting that? Probably to derail a discussion of bad news for Google and Android. I suggest we all ignore it and continue talking about a news story that portends the most glaring…
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I've read before that a significant number of very wealthy people prefer not to be public about their charitable giving out of desire not to draw unnecessary media attention and/or be flooded with requests from other charities and organizations--man…
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Quote: Originally Posted by OriginalG I bought a touchpad for $99 just because it was so cheap, possibly can run Android in the future, and because I expect to use it for nothing more than a photo album, web browser and email client. There is thi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nagromme I would think a logical outcome (for all involved) would be that other companies CAN mention WebKit, but if they choose to do so, there must be a footnote that it’s an Apple trademark. Seems fair to me! Tha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil GOOD! I love this. Hope it happens. Palm: "Oh, we'll use WebOS to? crap, we're out of business." HP: "Oh, we'll use WebOS to? crap, we're out of business." Samsung: "Oh, we'll use WebOS to? crap, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody Also, if I have to hear his droning voice with the phoney uper-crust accent on one of those "passionate" product videos where he goes through the same set of adjectives about every single thing he's made,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Orangeoutsider Written like a true pinko, commie, socialist. You forgot "gay," "godless" and "pot-smoking."
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Yet another bit of evidence to tear down that long-standing myth that viruses only emerge for the platform with the most market share--a frequently used albeit totally flawed argument in defense of Windows' security shortcomings. iOS is bigger (in t…
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I sort of agree and sort of disagree. It's more nuanced than that, not an either-or. I think we're most definitely in the post-PC era that everyone has been predicting for the last 10+ years, but I think the desktop PC and laptops will continue to h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross You can't properly describe it as something that Apple can't touch, when Apple has no interest in doing it at all. Saying that they can't touch it implies that they've been working hard at it, but are not doin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Apple ][ Michael Dell made a really dumb comment about Apple many years ago. Apple should buy Dell and then shut them down, fire everybody and call it a day. Liquidate the entire company. Apple would end up getting …
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Quote: When asked about the Google-Motorola combination during this week's conference call, Oppenheimer said Apple strongly believes in competition, but that companies must invent their own technology rather than take the ideas of others. Couldn…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Haggar Nobody cares about a projector on a phone. Nobody cares about a camera on an iPad. Nobody cares about copy and paste on the iPhone. Nobody cares about multitasking on the iPhone. Nobody cares about a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by airnerd Perhaps using the dummy bodies is prudent, but maybe the antenna issue would have been found before the iPhone 4 was released? Do you think Apple didn't do internal testing without the dummy body? Doubtful, …