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Quote: Originally Posted by pondosinatra No one was buying them because hardly anyone knew about them. What was the Enterprise Group's advertising budget? $5? I think you'd find plenty of people knew about them. It was the support that wa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DimMok Who needs servers when the Cloud thingy is coming. How is the cloud formed again? This is just verifying that Apple wants no part of 24x7 immediate support contracts. They want to sell simple hardware w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit ... and who is calling who names... You're dismissed...
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit Who the hell inferred anything about success in the enterprise. I guess you're inferring that Jobs and his team make their decisions by throwing darts at a board. No, you just dismiss the failures b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit Yes... and because of it they are doing so poorly. Best you give them a call to make them aware of their failures. It wasn't long ago Apple was touting the infinite scalability of OS X server and how i…
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Steve went back to Apple, but really "Apple" was going to morph into NeXT, and Steve's ideas of a new Walkman. Which is exactly what happened. He would never have let Apple die, if they didn't invite him back he would have bought it when it was de…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Microsoft just delivered what most critics have described as the best version of Office ever released for Mac OS X, and has also launched new software intended to sync Windows Phones with iPhoto and iTunes…
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Quote: Originally Posted by WelshDog I know this isn't exactly the same, but the DeLorean comes to mind here. Sales of the car were not meeting expectations and one reason was that consumers had only one color choice - stainless. Researchers at…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Quadra 610 Confirms Apple's decision to remove Java. Seriously Quadra? This Trojan runs perfectly fine, it's not exploiting a hole in Java, nor a hole in OS X. The decision to remove Java from OS X install…
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Quote: Originally Posted by fishstick_kitty You sound like an idiot...removing java from the OS X install has NOTHING to do with the security of Java. If there is a security hole here, it's the fault of the OS, not the plug-in. It is spec…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tulkas One of the dumbest Apple rumours ever. It would make no sense at all for Apple to buy Sony. They would gain nothing. There is little Sony does that Apple does not do better or would do better if they wanted into…
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You can get back to the lock screen using voice control, just say contacts or something else...it brings you back. Just FYI, so you don't have to place a call.
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider ?There are all sorts of layers you have to put into it to make sure nobody can tap into it,? Zapfel said. ?We?ve put a lot of heavyweight engineering into securing the device, which, frankly, no one else h…
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Page layouts, font sizes, and various other formatting does not carry over from Office '11 to Office '10 or '07 for that matter. I can understand if a font isn't available it will be substituted, but when they are both available everything should l…
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I was hoping News Corp would just shrivel up and die. For the bs they are putting us Cablevision subscribers through at the moment, anyway. I don't miss them at all, although Family Guy maybe a little. But they blocked the website over the weeken…
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Quote: Originally Posted by djames4242 I believe Sun/Oracle has always developed the platform, and think that having Oracle responsible for the releases means we will finally be getting timely updates. I agree. Now if we could get our grap…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody Flash is a lost cause, but I find myself agreeing about the 7" tablet. I would love to ditch the too small iPhone and the too big iPad and just use one mid-sized device. It would suit my needs better th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips Off topic but it is linked to your comments ... Not my area of expertise ... but one has to wonder had Ford and GM not been bailed out with our tax dollars was there ever a risk of a Chinese take over? …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ChiA Other companies are free to repeat the Newton mistake with their 7 inch tablets. Are you insinuating the Newton had the resolution and clarity of today's screens? Surely not. If the ability to show a full p…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 Please. The only people really interested in a 7" table are manufacturers who know they will get clobbered if the offer a 10" tablet matching the size of the iPad. If they get any sales they can claim "see!…