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In today's time, I don't believe anything without a grainy cell phone photo, especially from those "citizen journalists". Everyone has a phone. Even the cheapo phone has a camera. If anything happened anywhere about anybody, there will be photos.
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No! Nothing against Flash, but Flash is a platform for bad programmers to eat up CPU usage like crazy. My CPU (C2D) goes to close to 100% when I visit some websites. Even youtube.com requires about 800mhz to 1Ghz to play. And I have not missed…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dyp The point is that, as an iPhone developer, you have no choice but to depend on the AppStore You have the choice not being an iPhone developer.
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Description for Podcaster shows "Podcaster allows you to stream and listen to all your favorite audio podcasts without having to sync with iTunes." That's stupid. It is in the SDK license agreement that you cannot make something to get around iTu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by henrymonroe I disagree. Just because you're outsourcing your work and didn't assign someone to triple check that there is no metadata mentioning Mac anything doesn't mean your products aren't detail oriented. You're S…
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I have been testing the iPhone Wifi connection for some iPhone app ideas. Unfortunately, with the Wifi connection, the battery life is so bad that now I totally understand why Apple does not allow background apps and doesn't allow VOIP. Let me…
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Quote: Originally Posted by henrymonroe Yes I'm Bill. But no, I can't see the humor. The ads are not saying "PCs are better than Macs" (leave that pompous arrogance to Apple) or "PCs can do anything that Macs can do." All they're saying is "l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bitWrangler Was the content created by Microsoft themselves (and no, just because it was sourced from the Microsoft site doesn't mean that Microsoft actually created it) or by the ad agency that made the commercials to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism But is that segment profitable? The latest reports show that netbooks, despite their low price account for a very small percent of the PC marketshare. I know the category is new, but because of the low price …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Based on the evidence, I don't think Apple has any choice if it wishes to maintain its growth in the consumer sector. My question is, will it be for this holiday season with an out-of-the-gate $999 or lower M…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism There is also the burning as an Audio CD. Since HDD space is cheap if you re-encode back into iTunes as AAC and higher than 192kbps you aren't going to lose any content that is discernible. DRM Dumpster will …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mazda 3s Exactly, now maybe pressure from Microsoft can force Apple to implement wireless sync for the iPod touch and iPhone -- it can't be that hard to implement. I mean, the iPod touch/iPhone can already access your …
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Quote: Originally Posted by dyp I know this is about iPhone and Japan but here's my recent experience after showing off my iPhone to my niece in Korea. First of all, there's no GSM so I couldn't use the phone but they did have Wifi in the apar…
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If this is true, Microsoft should be kicking itself, and probably will have a corporate policy against leaks, similar to Apple's.
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Another thing I hope Apple will listen..please change the license agreement so people can run OSX in virtual machines. For developers, that's a big deal. Testing is way easier in VM's - if you mess up the system, you can easily roll back to a pr…
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Fusion has a nice trick that I don't think Parallel has - if you have Windows installed in Boot Camp, you can use Fusion to run the Boot Camp partition. Just for that, I use Fusion instead of Parallel.
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips Will MS ever have an original idea? On a unrelated note, Microsoft plans to open "Skymarket" for WM7 in 2009, which will integrate both Apple's App Store and United Airlines SkyMall (at least, it sounds…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Thomaspin Apple's disastrous planning will simply ramp their increasingly poor quality control issues, abundantly visible on their own discussion forum, to the iPhone. Just stand in line at the Genius Bar for yet an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lorre This probably means Apple will use hardware- accellerated god-knows what. Could be H264 en/decoding, special SSD controllers for max performance, 3G chips,... I remember once reading somewhere the original …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Timon I've got a better idea. Giving out the tickets is fine but how about letting them SMS you when they get close to your number. At that point as soon as you get there you go straight to the front of the line. OR…