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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody This whole debacle shows off Apple's achilles heel. They make superior products because they are a superior company full of superior human beings, but as a result, they just don't get how regular folks t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone There is a certain presupposition in these ads that facetme is ubiquitous and that people are using it daily as the actors don't seem at all amazed by the new technology. That is the main message. People have …
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Quote: Originally Posted by 8CoreWhore I really don't want my device becoming a corporate marketing dagger in my pocket. Presuming it will be app-based like everything else on the iPhone, you won't have any problem avoiding it. I guess the …
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I can see a lot of good point-of-sale applications for this: * paying at Starbucks with a pop-up bar code (which Starbucks is already testing), * scanning a book's bar code and automatically purchasing it through iBooks or Amazon, * paying …
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 I'm sure Apple is internally gearing up for about 15 million by the end of 2010, should there be no major production issues. The holiday quarter (Q1 FY2011, Oct-Dec 2010) will be blowout for iPad and iPhone4…
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Quote: Originally Posted by spudit Facetime looks cool, but until you have some serious market penetration, it's pretty useless. They should open up at least audio calls for 3G/3GS users...doesn't seem any different than using Skype, etc. On…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cvaldes1831 A Retina display for the iPad would be too expensive at this time. On a more fundamental level, it's doubtful that the display manufacturers could provide enough parts for Apple's iPad production quantities…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Kibitzer $1 billion? A short pile of chips in today's marketplace. I thought the same thing. $1B won't get you an Adobe ($14B), Intuit ($11B), Direct TV ($31B), etc. Quote: Originally Posted by Kibitzer Apple …
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Quote: Originally Posted by GregoriusM iOS 4 + iPad = iPad 2 ? I wondered the same, but November would be an unusual release date for a holiday-targeted refresh. Apple does its launches/refreshes at the beginning of a quarter and usually refr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism It can already be done. I won't detail it here but Kindle books are AZW files that are based on MOBI. You remove the DRM (which you can Google) and then convert to EPUB or PDF. I think EPUB will probably be m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MarcZero I'm a developer and I've had this GM seed on my 2nd gen Touch for a while. I have never seen or have been prompted for the iBooks application. I thought it would be available when 4.0 was released to the pub…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta They'll eventually have 512 MB of RAM - and probably go to multiple cores at the same time. The only question is whether they'll do it before the Holidays or wait until the 1 year anniversary. I'd guess the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by benice Also does anyone know how you can do long distance sort of home sharing between family members across the net? Would be great to do without having to install another application. I use Dropbox to share files…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody September is the earliest date rumoured. The last I heard is that iPad won't get 4.0 at all, but they will all come together with 4.0.1 around September/October this year. I assume Apple will stick wi…
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Coca-Cola CEO says Coke tastes better than Pepsi.
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Has anyone seek a technical explanation yet for how iBooks will sync your content, current page, notes, etc., across platforms? I could certainly see Apple expanding that to wireless syncing of changes to iTunes playlists across your computer, iP…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Nees Why are they talking about set-top boxes? Every TV manufacturer is already integrating all that stuff into their TV's. If Apple wants a TV hobby, they should consider building an Apple TV, which is an actual TV, n…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone People keep saying this but where are you going to get your Internet from without cable? Then they say "I'll just drop the TV part and keep the Internet part." Have you called your cable provider to see how much…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mark2005 Content providers can't get enough revenue via sales of downloaded content so that they are willing to upset the cable providers or hurt the DVD revenue stream. That's why they aren't eager to make their conte…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jetz Google TV is not a box. It's an operating system that will sooner or later be on a vast majority of cable boxes out there. The boxes that people rent from the cable/satellite service provider will have Google TV…