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Quote: Originally Posted by sflocal Current users will simply eBay their 1st-gen iPads, or they will be eagerly taken by spouses, kids, etc. 2nd-gen iPad will certainly outsell the 1st-gen now that it hit the market and has brand recognition. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleStud AT&T pays Apple more per iPhone since they are the exclusive carrier. Yes, apple could sell more units on multiple carriers, but for the past few years they (Apple) felt the higher payments from AT&T …
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 Now, I can understand how that is concerning. Ex-British colonies of Malaysia and Singapore maintain British English as the standard. However the general level of English ability has gone down as local l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aaarrrgggh You have to be fscking kidding me! Some PTO examiners need to get fired. How do you fix this broken system?! If only the losers of patent trolling had to pay costs, they wouldn't lodge totally groundles…
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Quote: Originally Posted by huntercr So The Kindle is selling well. Good for Amazon. It's a really good ebook reader. Apple shouldn't really care though... right? I mean who would not buy an iPad because they have a Kindle? I can see not buy…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Solipcyst Good news: People will buy high-margin eBooks from us over and over again. Bad news: margins on e-books aren't that high
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Quote: Originally Posted by iStud The paragraph starts with "According to ... " That leads me to believe that the inference is in the report and AI is reporting it... Just my 2 cents The only reason I'm unsure is the last phrase, in which Dilg…
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But is it in the report that Apple's slowdown is in preparation for iPad2, or is that Dilger's inference? I would tend to agree with him if that's the case, but I just wanted to check whether the analysis on that matter was Kuo's or Dilger's.
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I assume that this is the Alcatel-Lucent spinoff, in which case they aren't precisely patent trolls of the ordinary sort. That said, I wonder about such old patents, and such a long wait between "informing" Apple and filing suit.
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning No they haven't, they get used a lot, people forget to put the U in words, they use Z instead of an S in other words and they pronounce Z incorrectly. It is getting worse, especially with the education syst…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning Simple, it was changed to distance yourselve from England, no other reason. And as I have said, I don't like that fact that the local education system has started accepting the American spelling as correct, a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning It doesn't really matter who likes what, and while you may think it is idle to claim something, I personally believe the British spelling is correct, and since I live in an ex-British colony I am entitled to f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning We are currently talking about the spelling of a word, not how to pronounce it, to which, the British English spelling is still correct. Orthography was settled for neither the US or the UK until after the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Speaking of which, can someone explain to me what happened where good old American English "niche", pronounced to rhyme with "witch", was suddenly switched up to the British/French "neesh"? I swear I never…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox I've come across that as well, although I concluded that grimly pronouncing it "fort" and then explaining the facts to inevitably bemused listeners was never going to get me anywhere. I briefly considered maki…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Flaneur I'm sure you mean 'ho. Here in the pedants' corner, fenced off from the normals, their is no regret for error. It gives your fellow pedants grist for there mills. Thar be noo cause fer that sort a' …
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incidentally I did make a sloppy mistake: I called 'there' an "ordinary adjective", which is a poor way of describing it. It can fill a number of roles including adjective, but the most common are adverbial.
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Quote: Originally Posted by TedK Not to feed artificialintel's neuroses too much, but since you ranted about it: "Their" is a possessive pronoun not a "possessive adjective." Adjectives describe nouns... And, yes, MacRulez, that "less" and "f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by djsherly You know what? You understood exactly what he was saying and language is about communicating a point, so spare us the English lessons. It's irritating to see words misused, but why the hang ups? Shakespear…
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Quote: Originally Posted by some internet dude Yea, the Galaxy tab sucks that's why it sold 1 million in a month and still going. Poor Apple fanboys there world is coming to an end. Hey Jobs "Android" LOL, I know that word scares him. I just …