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I love how people are trying to spin this as negative/not impressive. Surely with Microsoft's huge market share (and Apple's figures, which let's face it, are a rounding error), even a weeks worth of sales of the new Windows 7 PCs would have beat…
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Quote: RogueSheep used the name of a private API method for its own method name, which caused the rejection If Apple's tool checked the type of the object the method is being called on, then surely problem solved? Integrating the private API …
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They should give up and give it to Charlie Miller.
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Quote: Originally Posted by B747 Not to mention the UK. Signatures aren't even allowed here anymore (I suppose the exception would be international cards with no chip or whatever) but certainly all the UK cards has only chip and pin now. Corre…
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I'm spotting one major flaw if Apple plans this for international use, like their new store in Paris. I see no chip reader. The magnetic stripe reader and a signature is all well and good, but many people are now used to chip and pin.
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Quote: Originally Posted by DanaCameron Every one of those Microsoft spots, especially the promotional videos, was painful to watch. Simply terrible. Which is why I didn't watch them.
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The fact Apple never wants to talk roadmaps and what products are planned for the future (which works so well for their consumer orientated business) is terrible for Businesses who need to make long term decisions and plan properly.
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Mmm… Intriguing. Hadn't come across those sorts of panels before.
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21.5" is an unusual size.
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And the funniest thing is the posters on tech sites who say "what a fool" Tim Cook is because the iPhone doesn't have a higher resolution or a filesystem exposed to the users or multi-tasking or "open" development and it took years for copy and past…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Quadra 610 I have a love-hate relationship with the in-window controls. I can understand why Apple put them there, but it seems odd sometimes. You can't pause the video and take a screenshot because the controls get…
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Quote: Originally Posted by experiencemusic That is better than having no option to upgrade at all. Quote: Originally Posted by experiencemusic It is about having an upgrade path verse none at all. Quote: Originally Posted by experiencem…
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I didn't think I was being that abstract and thought my points were fairly clear. But clearly not clear enough. I don't think I made cheap shots, not do I think my points are unrelated.
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Quote: Originally Posted by experiencemusic But this is a different topic. Executives at Apple cannot come out and mock Microsoft for their upgrade path for users who bought XP in 2001-2006, when Apple themselves has NO upgrade path. Again, I agr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TiAdiMundo Yes? And why can't you upgrade a 4 year old Mac then? A four year old Mac would have been released in 2005. This would have meant that (if it was purchased at the beginning of 2005) it would have been eli…
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Hopefully they've fixed the problems with the four finger multi-touch gestures and Expose. EDIT: Looks probable it has been. From World of Apple release notes: Quote: "an issue with the 4-finger swipe gesture" You can use the zoom (spacebar)…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wakashizuma When you have a next to nothing worldwide marketshare and no corporate support, it's easier to do bigger upgrades and changing architectures than when you have %90+ marketshare Yes, but it still has to b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TiAdiMundo BTW how was the update experience from Mac OS 9 to OS X? Apple took a computer running a proprietary operating system and upgraded it to a UNIX based system with an IN PLACE upgrade using a single CD. …
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Could the fact that iPod and iPhone work better with the Macintosh be something to do with the fact that iTunes for Windows almost universally loathed?
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Quote: Originally Posted by AWH Hi Dan, really appreciate the work you do on these stories. Had to reference your article in a recent complaint I made to the BBC about persistent anti-Apple / pro-MS bias. The lead tech story this afternoon on t…