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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Honest question: As I understand it state of the art Intel chips cost around $100-$120 in quantity. State of the art ARM chips cost $20-$25 in quantity. Aside, for now, the differences in archit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mrstep As someone said, these clone makers just aren't set up to design and innovate. It's definitely a joke considering the 'Apple tax' stuff people still spout off about. Whether it's the iPad, the Air, the iMac (an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer I'm so sick of Intel's BS. They are leagues behind AMD and Nvidia in GPGPU performance for accelerated OpenGL environments and OpenCL scalability. The first GPUs to pump out 4k won't come from Intel. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacRulez And when they did, such as using Toshiba for MBA SSDs, Apple got such poor results that they later went exclusively with Samsung: http://gigaom.com/apple/macbook-air-...d-state-drive/ Moreover, AppleInside…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy None of us know what all the contracts entail, how long they're good for, nor what penalty clauses are involved. Heck, most could be year to year for all we know. As for avoiding Samsung altogether, where h…
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Edit: removed duplicate post :-/
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Quote: Originally Posted by airnerd That right there is why iFans expect more. Apple isn't "like every other manufacturer" and we don't want the company to start down that path. We expect more from Apple than we do from the imitators. Agreed…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacDevil I've said it before and I'll say it again now: if the best Apple can come up with after almost a year and a half is the same iPhone 4 with some upgraded components, they are going to have a ton of disappointed…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Michael Scrip Quote: Originally Posted by Cash907 I think it's hysterical that Ford and GM both have made cars and trucks that look nearly identical for decades, and yet both have been successful without suing each o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by neiltc13 GMail's security features (specifically their two step mobile authentication) are second to none. Unless Apple can match this, I won't even bother trying MobileMe or iCloud. Apple needs to learn that it is …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Digital_Guy Wow .. seriously. Does M$ really, really need to copy almost everything that Apple does? In this case, I'd say yes. I can only speak for myself, but I think a lot of Apple users will agree with me that…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ricardo Dawkins oh...a Core i5 requires active cooling in a tablet. Guess what? It requires active cooling in a desktop, too. We understand that much, thanks. Point is that no-one wants active cooling on a tablet, a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Menno Microsoft actually approached the companies and worked out a settlement deal. To our knowledge, ALL apple has done is sue companies to get them to STOP using allegedly infringed IP. So: Microsoft: Pay us becau…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jacksons That's the difference between partnering and not partnering. No. It's the different between being the biggest supplier of OS software for third-party hardware but failing to get a foothold in mobile, and a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Menno Suspend/resume is the norm. If something keeps running in the background (since 2.0) it MUST put an icon in the notification tray. Kinda like Navigation shows that it's always on on iOS. For MOST apps, when yo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Menno Apple's Multi-tasking is basically a modified version of what Android does (it follows the same basic policies as Android's implementation but with stricter rules about WHAT can run in the background (certain typ…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Was that the A4 or A5? I was thinking it was the A5 but I think that each could be 9x faster than before. The graphics part in the A4 is most definitely not 9x faster than the one in the 3GS, in fact, it …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy I'm not saying that one is better (or worse) than the other. The question was meant to spark discussion. Curious if your Android version is easier to find, and how it's been received compared to the iOS one…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy But IMHO it's no more of an issue for the developers and users than the inability to even find good apps in Apple's Appstore. Not offering categories, or even an easy way to find highly rated applications, mak…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Menno An overwhelming majority of apps can run across multiple devices. And by that I mean approaching 90% or more (at least of the popular ones) Not to mention that even cheaper devices are running off of snapdragon/…