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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I don't recall which ones, but posters seem to talk them up every year when the new iPhone gets released. Whether they are lying or not, I like the idea of a minimum TCO disclosure. Well, there are none.
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Quote: Originally Posted by lewchenko Dabs.com price it at £1128. You are paying full retail at Sony. Also... Ive never bought a virus killer ever. So stop with the unnecessary hype. You can buy Virus killers for Macs too you know (but are als…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Yeah, I was segueing into a different area of marketing that countries do enforce. Namely, the minimum TCO of subsidized handsets. Can you direct me to such countries that enforce Mandatory Ownership Discl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I've been hoping the US laws change to explain that on or marketing signage like other countries, but it's not even being discussed yet. I'm all for it, but there will likely have to be a huge problem arise t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lewchenko You are in denial about your points, and seriously need to get out more to see what the competition is doing.. I guess the one thing that most PC manufacturers have is the newest i3/i5/i7 processors comb…
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Interesting. All these claims how AT&T, the U.S. and Apple is ripping everyone off, i.e., with unlimited data, tethering, higher speed, etc. And yet, when challenged, no response. Well, according to this site at http://wiki.maemo.org/Data_pla…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Povilas Lithuania. According to this source you don't get unlimited data. http://wiki.maemo.org/Data_plans#Lithuania
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Quote: Originally Posted by Povilas In my country I get to choose where, how, when and on how many devices i Wish to use it. And I get true unlimited, so it doesn't make difference for carriers. And where exactly would that be?
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Quote: Originally Posted by ajmas Nice. Here in Canada we pay that for 500MB! Like hell we do
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Quote: Originally Posted by VTrain How is a one-word reply without an exclamation point "tersely worded"? There was a point in my life that I did. Then I got children, and when they too became teenagers they also thought the same thing when…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rain Steve Jobs to loyal customers: ******* 266 similar posts. Getting boring AH.[/quote] Please directly don't quote foul language.
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Quote: Originally Posted by ronster With the WiFi+3G hardware being released in Canada, which Canadian network will support it? Does Rogers or Bell / Telus support the Micro SIM hardware? I haven't seen any announcements from them on supportin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by al_bundy nice idea but the days of a lone coder in the garage are long gone. even on the iphone i see more professional apps that require a team of people and development tools other than what Apple gives you coming ou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by icyfog If true those are good points about the APIs and what not. I don't really understand it all, but if those are Apple's rules then the developers should abide by them. To the lay person, like myself it seems lik…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tumme-totte Didn't really help much to get a quote. But if the thing isn't operator locked (is it?) I can go to any of the mentioned countries and purchase a Wifi or later on a Wifi + 3G and carry home to Sweden. Or…
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Right from the horses mouth:Quote: CUPERTINO, California—March 5, 2010—Apple® today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In add…
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Quote: Originally Posted by str1f3 It's almost always a question of right and wrong in anything. Maybe there are issues at play like the API may change for 4.0. Even still, Apple never even told these devs that their apps were being removed. Tak…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage Have you seen how bad the typesetting is on the Kindle? If anyone got paid more than $200 to typeset such a thing, I would be astonished. To create such a layout is trivially easy. And to take a whole wo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Woohoo! Just a note: censorship |ˈsensərˌ sh ip| noun the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts As in government
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage OK.. let's tear this apart a little. Typesetting is a fixed cost. The cost of typesetting an e-book is certainly no more than a single person day. As a non-expert, I am pretty sure I could typeset a nov…