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Quote: Originally Posted by scades Missing the point of any Jobsian Apple TV. It won't be a cable device; it will be a network device, like any computer or smart phone, and its programming will come only through a new iTunes-like service. A new "…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Not at all. How many other employers (besides the Chinese government) employ nearly a million people - and pay above average wages? Exxon-Mobile has 83,000 employees in the U.S. - out of 300 M people. That'…
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips I also read Brazil just agreed to let Foxconn open with tax incentives. So Apple are diversifying their manufacturing more globally. Maybe here one day too! If you read the NYTimes article "Why Apple …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX But we're talking overseas profits. Profits that were not made in the US. Profits that will not come back to the US and therefore won't be used in the US so long as there is a 35% tax rate on them. Some US c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii That doesn't even make sense. You don't access things outside your sandbox, you define your sandbox such that it gives you everything you need and nothing more. Do you even know the difference between app sandbox…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DerekS This is one of the more absurd rumors I've heard. Apple always avoids entrusting their user experience to third parties when they can. Why build a data center if you're going to outsource it? Azure is way too ne…
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Quote: Originally Posted by xsu Wouldn't have to do that if everyone has a tablet. Let me correct that for you: Wouldn't have to do that if everyone has a tablet that can read all versions of Microsoft Office documents, PC and Mac, flawlessly…
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Not only is iTunes Carbon, but so are Photoshop and Office 2011. That means the ability to run Carbon applications will stay for the next several years.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Me You asked a much better question than you may have realized. There is the implication that you either need Office or you don't need power. Unfortunately, today's market equates power and Office. You may hate Mic…
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Quote: Originally Posted by shehan2 Disney owns ABC and ESPN (and a ton of other channels too) They'd never sell. Fox is too tied into NewsCorp. Didn't GE just sell NBC? Maybe CBS - the only holdout in all these rumors. CBS is now owned by…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Timon I don't have an iPad yet, waiting till the second generation later this year, but a simple test needs to be done. A measure needs to be made of the temperature an iPad reaches when turn off and exposed to direct …
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Quote: Originally Posted by kotatsu Not sure what BDs you've been watching but I watch a LOT of them and it's very rare to see the bit-rate ever drop below 35mbits (except when the screen is just displaying credits etc). A lot of BDs sustain 45mb…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JLL And 98% of the people just want to watch tv. Exactly. Which is why Google's solution makes a lot of sense to me. Three years ago DVRs were all the rage. Everybody watched shows on DVR. Now, the DVR is passe. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by 8CoreWhore Whatever. Hulu has no future. Really? That's news to the 3 major studios that support Hulu. It's also news to the number #2 video site on the Web aside from YouTube. This is an Apple Web site so a li…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody If we are talking about truth, then it needs to be pointed out that you are spinning it fairly hard here. Yes, it's technically true that Adobe is part of the team working very hard on HTML5, but you…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Patranus And..... Is there any other company that makes chips? Yes. Manufactures the chips? Yes. Create the underlying ISA? No. AMD and license have a cross-licensing deal, whereby both can use ISA advancements c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by saurik Seriously, though: this situation is /also/ no different than on a desktop PC. You can install all kinds of random software on that device, taking up as little or as much RAM as it wants, and you are even pluggi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody What are you even talking (trolling) about here? In the first case, the issue has nothing to do with "pinch to zoom" which isn't actually patentable. They are talking about the new gesture Apple int…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleStud yeah, what's shocking is that the developer was "shocked" by the rejection. The SDK terms of use do not have anything in there about "pinch to zoom" being only for Apple applications. Likely Apple rejec…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 Now about security. First Apple isn't a closed system in the way that MS is. Many of OS/Xs software packages are open sourced. I'm just rejecting the idea that Apple is not as open as MS. It is just t…