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Quote: Originally Posted by Joe hs so 7% of iPhone owners want their next phone to be an Android based device, wereas 14% of Android users want an iPhone as their next phone. This is significant for me, as there has been a lot of high profile…
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My favourite bit was this: Quote: Apple has requested memory module suppliers to provide both 256MB (used in iPhone 3GS) and 512MB RAM for compatibility tests. According to our internal tests, iPhone 4.0 Beta is quite memory hungry compared to i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DJinTX Speaking of iPhone OS 4...what do you all think the chances are of it not being ready for prime time? So do we think Apple has learned some valuable lessons on this front? I need and want the functionality pro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jetz Apple announces that it's making MobileMe free and launching its own internet search engine. Great shout. I also wouldn't be surprised if we didn't get an early preview of 4.1, which will be dropping on iPho…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ltcommander.data Little room for surprise doesn't necessary make WWDC a non-event or the supposed iPhone HD unimportant since many of the new features are significant. The hardware may be set, but Apple could still do …
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I think there will be two things of interest not mentioned: [1] The screen will be a major selling point and Apple will make a big deal about it. Despite all the leaks we've yet to see how the OS and apps will look on that high dpi (possibly IPS) s…
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Apple spent so much time messing around with Classic and Carbon precisely because Adobe (and to a lesser extent Microsoft) not wanting to back an ?unproven? OS. Adobe: Last major developer to deliver Mac OS X version Last major developer to del…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jerseymac "All the worlds websites in your hands." Is that entirely honest? Yes, A webpage whose entire content is a binary file which a plugin is needed to display isn't really a website is it? There's no ?web…
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My theory (completely plucked from the sky!) is that when Apple signed it's contract to sell the iPhone with Softbank they didn't read it carefully/think about it carefully (enough). So it could be Softbank's period of exclusivity in Japan covers…
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Obviously lots of beta testers needed.
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I'm impressed by the coining of the phrase "shovelware", at least I haven't heard it used before.
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Quote: Originally Posted by blursd You think Steve would have learned his lesson after the way Microsoft burned Apple in the 80's ... I think that is not so relevant for two reasons: [1] When Microsoft really burned Apple, Steve wasn't even a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by reliason Apple lost, eventually, due to prior art at Xerox-PARC From my understanding it was more to do with John Sculley's signing a contract which licensed key parts of the Mac OS to Microsoft for Office developme…
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Hopefully they don't decide to too anything controversial like defend it.
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[QUOTE=DarkVader;1582473]XP SP2, which seems to be what she managed, wasn't exactly even remotely secure./QUOTE] Service Pack 2 was the one that went a long way to fixing Windows XP. Although revisionists like to write down XP as a great OS and Vis…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kresh Would you really want WebTV featured prominently in your CV? Would you want any of it on your CV? It's unfortunate, but both MobileMe and Danger have hit the headlines for massive failures. A new face in c…
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Turning the Notebooks and Mac Minis into stealth Apple TV units to play iTunes content. I'm kind of hoping ALL miniDPs can output video and sound one day through an adaptor (I have a '08 MacBook Pro), but this doesn't sound too hopeful from the a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iGenius They don't? I had no idea. Why not? Is OSX not capable of doing a good job outputting through HDMI? Apple TV runs OS X. Apple TV outputs through HDMI.
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Quote: Originally Posted by ghostface147 Who wants to bet that they're developing a secret OS X that runs on ARM? HINT: They have, it's not a secret. Quote: Originally Posted by kotatsu Curious how Apple seem almost completely uninterest…
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Quote: Originally Posted by PaulSorensen This is not exactly on topic, other than it being my prediction of how Apple's focus on simplicity will play out for "multi-tasking" (aka background Applications that weren't written by Apple). In middl…