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I don't think it is worse than last year. I remember the early original iphone buyers also had activation problems for almost a week.
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There is a small (tiny) AT&T store downstairs from my office. I was quite surprised to see the line this morning. Probably 60 to 70 people. This is a small store, and normally they have less than five employees working. It's going to be a lon…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Besides the prior art there are aspects of this patent that make it the least plausible lawsuit that we have ever seen. The patent diagram specifically states the kind of battery and the power outage. Why wou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider in one instance, a patent refers to storage over floppy and SCSI drives, neither of which are used by the named devices. Again, it shows how little AI knows about patents. Patents are not about descr…
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I would love to see the Cube coming back...it is a little larger than Mini, so Apple can put in some expansion options with PCIe slots.
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The meat of the patent is in the claims, not the description. The description may match the store but it has no legal meaning. We don't know what the claims are. It is hard to imagine that Apple's and HP's store infringe on their claims, but not …
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Sometimes, some comments on AI sound pretty clueless. Floppy is used to install drivers and update firmware. For example, you bought a new RAID card, hook up 6 super fast SAS drives, and want to install Windows on it, but Windows installer doesn'…
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To those who want to upgrade from the original to iPhone 3G....it is quite possible that you can sell your original iPhone for higher than than $200 for the new phone. There are a lot of wanna-be iPhone developers out there. Getting the used iPho…
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When this news first came out on AI, I already said it was a valid patent and most likely it would be settled. The problem with most AI readers is that most don't even know what a patent is. The value of the patent is NOT the description. It is i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by internetworld7 Very good point. We all know Apple makes their own hardware obsolete pretty quick. What are we talking about? Leopard works on 800mhz G4. How old are those? 7, 8 years old? Tiger....works on G3.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ouragan It's time for another leader, this time with a university education, to emerge and do so much better than Steve Jobs could ever do: The only problem is that you should realize, universities educate employees…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kim kap sol The real question is this: is QuickTime X a total rewrite or still building on the ancient QuickTime foundation? If it's the latter, I'm totally disappointed. We don't just need new codecs...we need new plu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tjp091 Since ATT just anounced that Apple will no longer have revenue sharing with ATT, and will be just like any other equipment providor, I don't see how ATT can keep Apple from selling the iPhone to other carriers. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Virgil-TB2 This whole scenario is so "un-Apple," so greedy, and so totally, totally lame I am speechless. My last ace-in-the hole position was that I could buy the thing and not use the phone part and still be h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TBaggins To a point. The Nokia N82, for example, is not a huge, heavy phone, yet it manages to take quite a bit better pics than the iPhone. It's 5 megapixel too. . It is not about the size, it is about the dep…
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Quote: Originally Posted by merdhead Well you have to be a bit more attentive if you're not going to be duped. The price went UP not down. Old price $399, new price $199, $10 extra per month over the life of the contract, $240 + $199 = $439. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by winterspan First, turn of the caps, it makes you look like a complete jackass. Secondly, do you have any concept of the open source community and what has been contributed from programmers for free for decades. You are…
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This is not a iPhone patent. It is a multi-touch patent. It is pretty obvious when you read the claims. It does not protect any software or hardware Apple adds to iPhone, which is reasonable. All the software and hardware have appeared in other d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Yes but we're "skating to the puck here" I'm not concerned about who's using it today I'm looking at future potential for input modalities and voice recognition is more probable as a game changer than mult…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison My emphasis added. I disagree. I think the average males says something like 10 thousand words a day. I doubt most people type that many words in a day so I'm of the belief that speech is the most natural…