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Quote: Originally Posted by Constable Odo That's brilliant advice. The Apple stock bulls said the same thing at $350 and $360. Get in before it rockets up to $400. They'll be saying the same thing when Apple is at $300 later in the week. Wha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Chris said despite the fact that he was third in line, he was only given an option to reserve an iPad by purchasing a $100 gift card. Seriously? "Yes, customer #3: you may reserve your iPad... IF you sp…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lamewing Only one thing disturbs me, and this seems indicative of Apple's recent money-grubbing. WTF is Apple doing charging for FaceTime? This is just nickle-and-diming the customers. I am sorry, but this should be in…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bodypainter if they wrap this up in a nice price, they will have a great success with it, simply because once apple is too expensive. apple has now got all the early adopters, apple fans and loyal fanbase. but that's i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sprockkets Rather have flash and homestarrunner.com plus less battery life than nothing at all. Besides, it isn't as if video viewing drains the battery quick anyhow. Benchmarks have proved this time and time again.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sprockkets But if we are to be cynical with google, then that means to be fair, apple doesn't want flash on their iphone because it allows running games, apps and other stuff outside their walled garden, and they do no…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sprockkets How can it be anti-competitive when Google gives the codec away for free? That makes as much sense as apple being anti-competitive for snubbing flash. Flash is not open. Maybe you missed that part.
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Quote: Originally Posted by rec9140 Most of you are missing the point. Patents, trademarks, copyrights, IP, it ALL has to go... GO AWAY FOR GOOD! This is a GOOD MOVE! Partially. drop the HIGHLY ENCUMBERED h.264 standard. The only reason …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Quadra 610 Touting specs alone against Apple's device is usually recipe for failure. One day I will make the greatest album ever recorded. Beatles? Morons.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum You can see the Jan 2007 iPhone Announcement at: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf07/ Notable: -- live demo of working product -- comments Eric Schmidt: 0:55 -- announce battery life: 1:…
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Quote: Originally Posted by shapesNforms So, if ONE analyst asserts something about a competing product, it's taken by AI and the Apple community as pure fact. But if an analyst says something negative about an Apple product, AI will go all out …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism In all fairness Jobs said the iPhone was 5 years ahead of the competition, and that was 6 months before it was even released to the world. Of course, history proved once again that he was right. RiM is foc…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum You see a lot of PlayBook demos where the tablet is lying on a flat surface rather than being held. Also you see demos that seem not to sense many of the gestures. I think that some of this has to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider ... Research in Motion ... co-CEO Jim Balsillie asserted ... that the upcoming PlayBook 7-inch tablet is way ahead of Apple's iPad. "I think there's going to be a rapid desire for high performance. And …
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The iPad is dead. Long live the iPad! Or maybe it goes more like this: Bold predictions from an also-ran (Acer).
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Quote: Originally Posted by Eye Forget Good. The iPad's browsers (all of them) need some serious work. Whether it's true or not, the attention this brings to the iPad will cause Apple to improve things. That's a good point. I have a hunch an …
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Quote: Originally Posted by rhyde Actually, QNX is very well regarded with respect to stability. One form or another of it has been around since the very early 1980s. So I wouldn't hold that fact against RIM. BTW, I work on nuclear reactor con…
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And for those on here who've claimed they'd be happier if the iPad ran Flash, have you ever used Flash on a mobile device? Did the Flash in this demo impress you? It looked almost as bad as the HTML5 animation on the iPad. Let's face it: Flash…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacRulez Do you guys really believe there's only one good company in the world, and no one else can ever do anything right? Man, the Mac community ain't what it used to be.... Who said there's only "one good comp…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bitWrangler Really, is all this angst and tin foil hat'ism really necessary? The PlayBook looks like it's going to be a spunky system. It probably helps that they chose an OS like QNX to be it's foundation and I don'…