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Quote: Most of estimated 21M iOS devices in China concentrated in urban areas Yes. That is where the people are. Or do the herds of iPhones roam freely across the vast emptiness of the plains on your planet?
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips This is getting very exciting. Imagine what Apple will be doing with chips in a few years... I can see Intel and AMD getting out of 'the unprofitable consumer market' soon and joining HP and IBM, special…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Thefinaleofseem That's it? With ARM chips in just about every smartphone out there (and a truckload of other mobile/embedded devices), I would have expected bigger profits. That's partly because ARM only designs the…
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As a purchaser of the current app, I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand, I'm not best pleased about the as-yet-unspecified discontinuation of a service that I believed I'd paid to access through the current app. On the other, the app…
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Quote: Originally Posted by superbenk Why is this news? Zinio has been around for years... https://www.zinio.com/account/download-reader-page.jsp Maybe you're in a position to influence this, but Zino Delivery Manager needs to update or st…
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Quote: Originally Posted by esummers I'm not sure that Apple buying ARM would be that big of a deal to competitors though. Apple is pretty much the only company with significant interest in the instruction set. It would be a huge deal to App…
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I've noticed that the UK newspaper the Guardian's website is capable of bringing my 4GB 2008 MacBook to its knees even with ClickToFlash blocking the site's plentiful Flash elements. I get the usual symptoms - a pegged CPU, stuttering system and…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone I have never experienced it in a working production app, but I'm not saying it doesn't occur as I can easily imagine scenarios that could cause that to happen, I just avoid those issues before publishing my appl…
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This is what you said earlier: Quote: Originally Posted by mstone I have never experienced any problems whatsoever This is what you said just now: Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Flash can be problematic This is why I'm confu…
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The situation is obviously complex. The Flash programmer has to do the right thing, but so does the plugin, the web browser, the OS and the graphics driver. The more that stack is based on open standards, the less often, one would hope, that a web p…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Flash can be problematic for CPU and memory usage. You've changed your tune To be fair, so can Javascript. I just looked at a Spectrum (80s home computer) emulator - extraordinary that you can do this s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I wish people would include some evidence to support the posts. Something, anything at all that helps back up their statement. Allow me "In Flash Player 10.1, H.264 hardware acceleration is not support…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tundraBuggy The Flash development tools are incredible, but the plug-in is just a burden. It's well-known that the plug-in sucks, particularly on Safari where it uses the Netscape API. As a non-Flash developer, why…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone I really don't get this. I have 3 macs. iMac core solo, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro and Flash runs fine on all of them. I have never experienced any problems whatsoever. I don't know anything about battery life when vi…
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I don't see Apple necessarily designing super high-performing chipsets. Instead, they will use their (very expensive) IP, design team and ARM/PowerVR licenses to design parts that run their software within a desired performance/watt envelope at a pr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AllenKids Apple's nonexistent corporate service is a big problem though, driving down to an Apple Store is neither professional nor pleasant enough. If they want Apple products, corporate customers can wait in lin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Corporations buy in blocks, you and I do not. So that part makes perfect sense, of course. Quote: They buy support contracts to get patches to OS X that will never become public. Wow! Really? I …
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Can someone who (unlike me) is actually involved in corporate IT purchasing tell me how a roadmap works? Does biz get word of what's coming up before consumers? 'Cause if so, why can't I? Sorry of this is a naive question: I do remember that Appl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii (IMHO) their game consoles [..] are quite decent.. Have to disagree, my near-namesake. I've bought xboxes off ebay to run xbmc on, as media centres. The hardware is beefy, sure, but what kind of MORON product…
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Clearly, an album can be a coherent body of work. However, the industry (including some artists) have only themselves to blame for the devaluation of the album, having encouraged the public to repurchase allegedly classic albums with 'Bonus' trac…