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Moving WebObjects from Obj-C to Java was a stupid move. Of course, then, they were two languages that nobody uses and Java seemed to have more potential As of now, we still get a lot of Java programmers writing server code, but none of them ar…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mrochester Well let's put it this way - it sounds highly unlikely that Apple weren't able to put a better camera in there given that all other manufacturers had found ways to do it. I doubt that Apple were able to do …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross No. You're misunderstanding the numbers. The 6% is 6% of whatever number they end up with as a percentage. So it would be 12% +-6%, or 11.28% to 12.72%. In other words, a +-6% accuracy of the result. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell For one it's not my number. I told you saw it in a survey. The survey was only for iPhone's, not all touch devices. App Store apps are not the only option for screen icons. There are thousands of web a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism It will be, but Palm has been very open about their product and Apple, as usual, hasn?t said anything about the next iPhone HW and associated SW features. For this reason we can only compare it to the current…
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Quote: Originally Posted by teckstud Does one exist? Everyone I know is constantly charging their iPhone all day at work and using while it's charging! When I come to my office, I plug in my iPhone. Hooking up iPhone is not just for battery. I…
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Quote: Originally Posted by teckstud But if you are out all day - let's say on vacation, making calls , taking pics, makig videos, etc, etc, It's a hell of a lot easier to swap out a battery than look for a place to charge up your device. Or, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I like your prediction about Google buying WebOS and integrating it as an option part of the Android platform. Though I think that WinMo will live on simply because MS has the means to push it regardless of s…
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How many Smart Phone OS do we have now? iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, WebOS, Android, Symbian..... Six major brands. It will get down to two or three in 5 years. All markets go through this consolidation. Which three will survive? Blackb…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism No video capture, no Adobe Flash. If a 600GHz device with 256MB RAM from a company with a long history of smartphone and PDA knowledge can’t do it, it makes you wonder how Steve Jobs was able to keep that fro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iStink WebOS Please read up on WebOS. Essentially, it is a web server running on the phone, and all the apps (including the built-in Palm apps) are written with HTML/Javascript. They are web apps running on the p…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Adjei Oh so it also has an on screen keyboard? No, Pre does not have soft keyboard.
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Six months before the release of iPhone 1.0 (Macworld 2007), journalists had their hands on prototype iPhone to try out, and to write reviews about. So, now we are 1 months before the Pre release. Has anyone outside Palm tried Pre?
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Micro-payment is expensive. Generally, the credit card transaction charge a fixed amount (for example, 15 cents) and then a percentage (like 2%). Among the 20M to 45M, Apple probably get 10M to 25M after the credit card expense.
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross A Blackberry killer will be the toughest. They have very strong business expertise. In addition, their servers and backoffice is considered to be essential to many. The weaker OS's right now are Win Mobile,…
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To me, it is interesting why anyone would try to make an iPhone Killer. Among the five/six Smartphone platforms, iPhone is clearly ahead. All the other four have clear weakness. Before you want to be the "iPhone killer", you should try to be t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Expat Not for all of us. When I run, I have my shuffle clipped to the bottom of my shirt, with the headphone cables run up the inside of my shirt. Unless the controls on the new earphones are rather high up, they won't…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Expat You just contradicted yourself here - you want to change styles of music, but not songs? I don't think this is possible for the most part. When do you ever change songs when running? You may want some soft …
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People still don't get it. Shuffle is no longer positioned as "cheap iPod". Instead, it is an "exercise iPod" now. G1 iPod was the cheap iPod for kids. G2 iPod was already moving toward as the secondary iPod for exercising. G3 is solely focuse…
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Quote: Originally Posted by success But as far as the native Chinese population goes I figure it would be pretty much the same as in Japan since the Asian input is so slow and not practical. IMO "touch only" input is not the way to go for global …