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• Quote: Originally Posted by Quadra 610 Yes. And? Apple fansites don't conduct the surveys, write the reports, and do the analyses that comprise Apple news. They merely report it. And any way you slice it, there is a distinct preponderance of p…

  in No. 1 planned use for Apple iPad: working on the go Comment by mrochester March 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by Quadra 610 There are a lot of people on these boards waiting for just that! Hehe yeah, it'll happen someday. That's why I think investing ENTIRELY in Apple's ecosystem is a bad move - putting all your eggs into one…

  in A third of Apple iPad buyers plan to read books, newspapers Comment by mrochester March 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by Quadra 610 We're way past the whole "pad" naming humour. The jokes aren't really funny anymore, and besides, it seems to be having little impact on the device's popularity. iPad competitors are living in mortal terror…

  in A third of Apple iPad buyers plan to read books, newspapers Comment by mrochester March 2010
• It's no different to Apple fans saying they could live without copy & paste, video recording and an auto-focus camera. Double standards are rife on both sides of the fence.

  in iPhone's Microsoft competition will lack some features Comment by mrochester March 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by tawilson You are missing the point. Apple is banning apps that are nothing more than a verbaitum regurgataion of a web page (i.e. an app that has a single UIWebView and nothing else). They should go as it's just …

  in Apple axes iPhone apps that simply reproduce Web content Comment by mrochester March 2010
• This is what the motherboard on the 27" iMac looks like. http://s1.guide-images.ifixit.com/ig...yGmyPPQJ.large

  in Possible upgrade... Comment by mrochester February 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 No, not really. This is a US centric web site and Apple is a US centric company - you can think me an arrogant American but to me it's common sense that such statements on a board such as this would be in the …

  in Apple says 27-inch iMac display issues have been addressed Comment by mrochester February 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 While it was no doubt inconvenient, what do you expect? it never ceases to amaze me at our expectations these days. We are indeed a fast-food, instant-microwave society (globally, not just in the US) - 10 yea…

  in Apple says 27-inch iMac display issues have been addressed Comment by mrochester February 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by mplaisance To all the people complaining about how apple's quality is going down: please! All companies suffer from this. It's the price of business. In a perfect world none of this would happen, but "reality check", i…

  in Apple says 27-inch iMac display issues have been addressed Comment by mrochester February 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland I have 7 on my iMac, I wish it was easier to like. Startup and shutdown in comparison to the Mac side is slow. Viruses, Archaic menus. Heck--you need to use a cmd prompt to bring up a "secret window" to enable …

  in Improving the iMac Comment by mrochester February 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by Kevin Winsness Hopefully within a year all titles will be at $4.99 and the sales will be off the charts!!! How much does it cost to digitize a book? No shipping, printing or material costs to the publisher. Maybe …

  in Apple iPad bestselling e-book prices could still be $10 or less Comment by mrochester February 2010
• Why are people quite happy to drop £x for an ipad, but then want to pay peanuts for their content? It's the content that adds value to an ipad, so it should be that the one off cost for the ipad is less, and the content more. However, I doubt that …

  in NYT execs struggle over iPad edition subscription pricing - rumor Comment by mrochester February 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by Dbossmon How writes this crap. AT&T is not and will not be the "sole" provider for 3g. The GSM SIM is unlocked and can be used by any Provider that provides 3g service using GSM. This comes right from the keynote t…

  in iPhone, iPad bandwidth strains could lead FCC to pay for airwaves Comment by mrochester February 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I'd like to find the citation I knw exists because I've got it bookmarked somewhere. The way it developed is that Nokia developed what became Symbian S60 and S40. The S40 was a simpler version, without mult…

  in Apple's share of U.S. smartphone market grows to 25% - study Comment by mrochester February 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I didn't have to say it Nokia says it, and they know better than some Wikipedia posting. http://www.forum.nokia.com/Technolog...ice_Platforms/ Show me where it says S40 is Symbian...

  in Apple's share of U.S. smartphone market grows to 25% - study Comment by mrochester February 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Do you actually know anything about Symbian? Why didn't you look it up first? http://forum2.mobile-review.com/showthread.php?t=80343 Clearly more than you do! S40 is NOT Symbian. http://en.wikipedia.…

  in Apple's share of U.S. smartphone market grows to 25% - study Comment by mrochester February 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by melgross The Symbian S40 OS. Would you rather I called it the Series 40 Symbian OS? It's not considered to be a smartphone OS. It's not Symbian though so cut out the name Symbian from the name and you've got it righ…

  in Apple's share of U.S. smartphone market grows to 25% - study Comment by mrochester February 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Meamo is a smartphone. But many Symbian phones are not. The S40 isn't considered to be a smartphone OS, but a feature phone OS. So counting smartphone sales depends on how one is counting the phones. But S4…

  in Apple's share of U.S. smartphone market grows to 25% - study Comment by mrochester February 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by Gazoobee My point stands regardless of what Balmer was referring to, the fact that he seemed to be talking about smartphones is just icing on the cake. In any case, the statement he made, at the time he made it, m…

  in Apple's share of U.S. smartphone market grows to 25% - study Comment by mrochester February 2010
• Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Consider that Jobs stated they want 1% of the handset market. That would mean Ballmer was making fun of the iPhone by claiming it would get 2 to 3 times as much sales, meaning 30M in the first year. It seems …

  in Apple's share of U.S. smartphone market grows to 25% - study Comment by mrochester February 2010
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