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Quote: Originally Posted by TBell Words evolve. Typically, censorship refers to government action. It can, however, refer to a company suppressing speech negative to it's interests. It seems a stretch to call Apple's actions censorship. Apple mer…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss Arbitrarily. Apple cannot "censor" anything, since they have no authority to censor. Unfortunately, few understand it.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mister Snitch Once censorship begins, it never knows where to stop. Apple should RATE apps, not remove them. How do you define censorship? Certainly not as the Supreme Court or the founding fathers would.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Naboozle This is silly. If you charged a million dollars, you'd only have to sell one copy, but that never seems to work. The reality of e-books that is being overlooked is that you can sell many more copies without …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Woohoo! So now those who bought the wifi less versions are feeling cheated. Interesting. Last fall I was in Beijing and ran into a number of folks at The University who had iPhones. They were very interested in mine…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage This implies that the costs of typesetting and marketing are incurred on a per-sale basis. Which suggests the more copies of book that are sold, the higher the marketing and typesetting cost. What no…
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Quote: Originally Posted by g3pro "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." - Steve Jobs, 1996 Very true. And Jobs and Apple have continued to do so and openly.*,? However, the ideas are not what is being adjudicated. I…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tulkas It is about time that Apple made some moves to defend their patents. It is funny though, how some people here take such a holier than thou attitude about Apple against HTC. Almost as though they don't realize…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sranger Actually I own two macs...... My point is that the suit is more about Apply not wanting to have to compete with a phone like the Nexus One which seem to operate significantly different than the iPhone... …
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Quote: Originally Posted by iVlad This is a great example of why Monetary and Capitalist systems don't work and eventually will fail. Future civilization is gonna look at us and laugh of how dumb we are, fighting each other for Money instead of …
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Quote: Originally Posted by gin_tonic WTF? The virtual keyboard had been known long time before iPhone was introduced. It it not the fact that it is a virtual keyboard. It is the way they did it that Apple contends that it violates their paten…
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Why do we have to take advice from guys, like sranger, that don't have a Mac or an iPhone?
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Quote: ?the industry is based on the understanding that as much as 70 percent of the books published will make little or no money at all for the publisher once costs are paid. Quote: Some of these books are by writers who are experimenting with…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich If a well known author really wanted to make some money, they'd hire their own editor, PR team, typesetter, graphic designer, etc. and simply sell direct to the public via iTunes. I got the impression that…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider This week, The New York Times provided a breakdown on the economics of producing a book from the publisher's perspective. It noted that while printing costs go away when a book is reproduced in an electron…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Icesnake What's the problem? Is there a shortage of child labor in the Apple factories? Or did the fact that the number of people who "definitely want" the iPad dropped after they found out what the product is make Job…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gazoobee This is turning out to be just like the 3Gs launch. It's almost guaranteed that no one outside of the USA will hold one of these things in their hands until Xmas 2010-11. What happened to all those awa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wonder MacBook / MacBook Pro - semantics! Perhaps you should get a dictionary. BTW, there is a saying that the more choices you have, the longer it takes to make a decision. And if you don't know the difference, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Woohoo! I'm willing to bet there is some sort of EFI reading SSD, phoning home like DRM scheme embedded into the processor too. The iPad is to be a content delivering device, but what's scary is the fact that Apple …
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Quote: Originally Posted by svesan03 He found a report, was too lazy to do any comparative studies with similar companies or any investigation of his own on child labor practices. He sat at home with a beer and made things easy on himself by bang…