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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta If you think it's expensive, don't buy one. That simple. Go ahead and buy your POS cheap box which has a 40% failure rate out of the box and which requires you to talk to someone in Swahili to get support. …
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Meh. I'll keep my original fingerworks multi-touch pad thank you very much.
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich There is a slight chance that at&t is reacting to Apple's plans and announcements tomorrow... namely, Apple could finally move the iPhone to ALL major US carriers (like I said, this is a wild shot in t…
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I'm sorry. But with all that has happened.... Product leaks (as in pictures and freakin video) of the new iphone from gizmodo, vietnam, portugal....... AT&T screwing everyone (including Apple) by going back on their deal with the ipad pri…
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Quote: Originally Posted by slapppy About a dozen Windows Fanatics screamed in despair. A dozen? Try several million.
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Woz = more affable and higher character than Jobs. Jobs = more charismatic and driven than Woz If Woz ran Apple there'd be cool hardware and software but I'm not wholly convinced Apple would be …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody Fair enough, but I'd argue that Gizmodo is hardly deserving of loveable monikers like "scrappy." Anyone who knows them, knows that they have no integrity and few brains between them. Their entire "c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram But there's a major part of me -- indeed, the shareholder part -- that is also getting tried of these types of SJ annoyances and control-freakishness. Apple has become too big and important to be subject…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rot'nApple Does it really matter? I'm sure he is in the witness protection program by now... I'm just curious as to the bounty Apple will place on their Wanted: Dead or Alive posters... Haha. Some low life b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Small. As I (vaguely) recall, ThinkSecret was some Harvard undergrad dorm type of outfit. Gawker/Gizmodo are much larger, and more serious business. (For instance, Katie Couric does not simply ref…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Gizmodo has made a strategic decision to play in the big leagues. Seriously big. If Apple chooses to play the game of secrecy, along will come upstarts to push the envelope. This is all, of course, s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Quadra 610 This isn't an iPhone news story. It's the guy's obituary. Unless it was intentional. In which case it sets an odd example for other Apple employees. I'll bet you all a half a penny that another re…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Quadra 610 It's still Windows. Why use the interface of an unsuccessful product (Zune)? No, no it's not. It only got the windows branding but it's Zune. And that is made by a totally different team. They fina…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hobBIT They probably couldn't as the software is not ready. Jobs said many times that nowadays it's the software which makes new hardware a 'breakthrough' item. And by the looks of it, the iPad just doesn't seem 'f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hobBIT Nice job mello! Re Letterbox: While great for movies, it seems this version is a bit too small to read books/magazines comfortably. The ideal aspect ratio would probably be more like A4 paper (roughly 7:5).…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox If I might just add, with all due respect, getting sort of hysterical in your internet demands that a large multinational corporation cede to your will and remove the bezel from their computing device is not a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland I agree. I don't. I don't like compromise. I don't like backward, retro thinking when it comes to tech. I don't like the status quo when it comes to tech. Lord, I wished I had went for an engineering deg…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss On the contrary. A design that tries to "hide" things, to make them look like something they are not, is poor design. Do you remember the bezel on the G4 iMac? It was a very prominent design feature, which …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland 1. It's not a huge as you think. 2. You can't get away with a much smaller bezel as it's the thing that stops you pressing the screen when holding iPad. Which is why they should have done something innovativ…
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Dislikes: Bezel is too big No specialized OS (it's just the iphone OS oversized) No Multitasking Not very innovative LCD might not be good enough for reading aspect ratio sucks for movies No Flash Likes: Price Custom apps should be n…