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Quote: Originally Posted by derekmorr So now that the Galaxy Nexus is shipping (at least in the UK), I wonder if AppleInsider will recant this hit piece? Almost every review has raved about the screen. Consider: Let's consider the very firs…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AbsoluteDesignz Genius concept...not so great execution. I wouldn't call the concept genius. It's not only common to combine technologies as they evolve, but natural. The problem, as you say, is the execution. If an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit ... and, eventually, Apple might buy ARM. That strikes me as potentially being anti-competitive or at least appearing that way to those with an ax to grind, especially in these early days of Apple chip…
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Off topic, but I'd love for Apple to perfect the iGPU and dGPU switching. The idea that it's apps based makes perfect sense for a system running Windows, but for a company that controls both the HW and SW they should be able to switch them as resour…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Apple ][ Well, good luck with your next iPad. At least all of the apps and stuff that was on your iPad is backed up, so it'll be real easy for you to be up and running in no time with your new iPad. I had to re-buy …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mknopp In further news, Apple is already in progress on making the Kindle Fire mostly irrelevant. Come on. Does anyone here not see the clues? The iPod Touch hasn't been updated for over 14 months. I think you…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Apparently it is easier to make a counterfeit Rolex than to copy a MacBook Air. That's food for thought.
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Quote: Originally Posted by zindako Apples competitors lack the monetary funds to secure the machines and raw materials to compete. They need government bailouts.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Apple ][ It sucks that you lost your iPad, but you can make it send you an email alert as soon as somebody else finds it and they try to connect to a WIFI network. That's the thing, unless they try up to 10,000 poss…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ThePixelDoc Seriously? My experience with multiple people is that they're ditching everything but a phone and the iPad. Some are "trying" to get me to "repair" their broken PCs... I should say, broken WinXP. Thi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by techguy911 Oh really, most PCs?. I dare you to name a SINGLE thing an iPad can do that most PCs cannot. And not something stupid like "run iOS" or something iPad specific like Angry Birds. Because I can name hundred…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AbsoluteDesignz If the iPad is now in the PC category why isn't the iPhone? Quote: Originally Posted by extremeskater I would say in many ways not only could someone say the iPad is a personal computer but on man…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy As far as other companies working on voice control, I thought I read that Amazon, like Apple, recently made a similar tech purchase and Google was already rumored months ago to be finalizing their extended voi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sranger You can get as many CNC machines as you want right now. The down economy has cause a lot of shops to shut down. There is actually a glut of CNC mills on the market right now.... I suspect that it is a prob…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JONOROM It is possible that Apple does in fact control the machines, by owning most of them or at least funding their purchases. But if Apple is solely dependent upon suppliers who own their own machines, then they mig…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy Another developer has figured out how to port Siri to any device, fooling it into thinking it's communicated thru Apple servers when instead it's a proxy. Good stuff. http://9to5mac.com/2011/11/21/develo...…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ThePixelDoc To paraphrase a good comment made somewhere the other day: "Why is an iPad considered a toy, when the most computational power needed by the PC crowd is for playing games?" I forget which forum member…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Apple's continued control unibody aluminum chassis supply... Perhaps I'm being pedantic, Katie, but wouldn't the control be of the CNC machines, not of the aluminium nor the oddly worded "chassis supply…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DGNR8 The article said nothing about how the iPad is classified, it was users on this forum started the classification argument. I thought the article had a way to clear this argument up nicely... "mobile PC" 1) …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Unicron Wouldn't that "un-Retina" the Retina Display? It depends on two factors. The PPI and what you say is the average distance from the eyes/face in which you use the device. For instance, a 4" iPhone with the sa…