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Quote: Originally Posted by Quadra 610 Sometimes it just isn't worth it. You're right!
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Quote: Originally Posted by BenRoethig Did they ever stop and think that the reliance on all in ones and small form factor machines might be a major reason desktop sales are sagging. The general users are moving to laptops and desktop users just…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Apple also doesn?t compete in the cheap computer market segments, where the most units are sold, so unless we discount all of those machines too then I don?t see how it is misleading. They are saturated in th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox The 50/50 marked was passed late last year. Given the accelerating trend, and the explosion of netbooks, I think it's conservative to figure 60/40 laptops at this point. So if Apple were to mirror the PC ma…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox So what would be everybody else's excuse? PC desktop sales have been dropping steadily across the board, with laptops having outpaced them as of last year. I haven't seen numbers for the most recent quarter…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kresh The problem is that it is a self-fulfilling prophecy type scenario for Apple. Look at their notebooks, they are extremely similar to what other manufacturers offer. They have the same general shape, size, weigh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by LuisDias Yeah, because hey, what's better than patenting an algorithm? Don't know? Why hell, to announce to the world the friggin' algorithm! Sorry, what do you mean?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum I disagree. You could "advertise" within an app (free or paid) before today-- you just could not purchase from within a free app. If a developer abuses this feature, word will get out, and buyers…
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I think it's great - there's no need for the 'Lite' version of every app any more - just make the basic version free, and have In-app purchases to enable all the features - makes perfect sense to me Also e-books, it's ideal - the reader is f…
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Sounds like a rubbish patent - certainly from the information presented here, there's no actual algorithm, so it's impossible to say what it does, or how it does it - saying 'add some noise to make the artefact go away' isn't enough for a patent..…
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Quote: Originally Posted by houseley None of those issues have affected me but I love to update so...I did. I've certainly had the first two, but maybe not the third - anyway, nice to get the fixes!
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Well then we'll have to assume that PC buyers also find the available desktop offerings "pretty weak", because laptop sales have overtaken desktop sales in that market as well, a trend that appears to be accele…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Yeah. Like that. What part of "Apple doesn't put desktop parts into their iMacs" are you not getting? Personally, I'm not advocating Desktop parts in iMacs, I'm advocating current Intel Desktop parts in a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by wolfneuralnet Yup... I cannot crossgrade from a tower to an iMac until they have more than 2 cores... Shame I cannot afford the towers anymore either. What a pain... I really they hope they have some quad-cores…
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MS have been keen on the Tablet PC for ages - Gates himself has said he believes it is a good thing, which is probably why MS have put so much effort into it already - they're not common in the real-world, but Sky News seem to use them all the tim…
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One of these days Steve Balmer will wake up & realise just how much money J Allard has cost him!!
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Shame they can't sell Word anymore!
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ted13 Bullshit. Where would they be getting *real* iPhones at that price? Look a like fakes, maybe, but the real deal, coming from HK, etc. cost 5X to 10X that on the black market. Yeah - I'd say those black marke…
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Would be nice to be the guy that picks up the commission on *that* deal!
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Can they come up with a fix for the bothersome, extra-loud clicking noise from the Touchpad?