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Accept that Push Notifications were announced and delivered in the time frame we've been waiting for resolution independence. In 2006 WWDC Peter Graffagnino (Senior Director, Interactive Media Group) said Apple ?expect to be ready? in 2008.
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism The new SL seed is quite nice, indeed. While I think the overall system performance has improved I can’t be certain, but I can tell that Exposé has gotten a lot more useful... and I don’t mean just the in-app…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Virgil-TB2 I guess none of you people have heard of "The Internet"????? (of which the web is just one tiny small part) Hence ?most regular folk?. See most regular folk don't know about Gopher, Telnet, ssh etc.…
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If you don't have a browser, how are most regular folk supposed to get another browser?
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This is very, very cool and must have been fun to work on. I wonder how long the engineers actually had to build it once someone had thought on the idea? Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Must be fun, though, if you have something on the app…
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I disagree that Apple will place pressure on Micrsoft's pricing, as the only computers they will allow Snow Leopard to run on are their own. All other machines have to run Windows 7. For Mac users Snow Leopard is a steal.
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Apple leveraged the GPU with Quartz Extreme - Microsoft leveraged it with Aero Five years later. Except even then the performance was terrible, even though they (MS) had far, far faster hardware to play …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TiAdiMundo New Taskbar, new window controls (Aero Snap and Aero Peek), full multi touch support, virtual folders (libraries) for user files, complete new network connection ui, complete new ui standard for apps (called…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cubert So, with the new Dock Expose, will the traditional action menu be no more? In the demo they said you active Dock Expose by clicking on an icon in the Dock and holding the click. Currently, that does the same a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bdkennedy1 I don't see 10.6 competing with or stealing Windows 7's thunder. Windows 7 is being marketed as a major new OS and OS X 10.6 doesn't offer anything new or exciting for the consumer that you can see on the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland If Twitteriffic is buggy I don't blame Twitter. Provide an API, use it themselves, and let the iPod be the example, and proof it can work seamlessly This is because you are probably smarter and more aware on…
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The video was a bit blurry. The response to the accelerometer looks better than on an iPhone, but there were a few times the screen just didn't respond to input. I think the hardware looks good - I don't mind the screws, they fit the design nicel…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland If Apple stop this then shame on them. I for one welcome this. Apple should provide an API for all music player makers, so they can have the iTunes experience, just like the iPod. Apple should compete by making…
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Quote: Originally Posted by timgriff84 Er so what, its not Microsoft's fault they have been ordered that they have to provide versions of their OS that don't include the software that could be considered to gain an advantage over competition. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by DoughBoy I know that Apple does dabble in open-source projects, like WebKit, but do you think that Apple would consider open-sourcing a few of its apps and/or technologies, like maybe Preview/PDFKit? Maybe Apple could …
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This is no doubt to avoid: Quote: I upgraded and all my apps broke, bad Apple syndrome and all the associated negative publicity. Which is smart. Like it or not, hardly anyone blamed driver manufacturers when stuff didn't work with Vista,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii I didn't realize Linux was so small. We (Mac) are the same size relative to them as Windows is to us. I think it is good to highlight this. Part of this is because it was OS X, not Linux which made UNIX user f…
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Could they not get a Champs Elysee property?
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Quote: Originally Posted by lakorai The M70 does kick the crap out of the MBP for the money. Better video card, same resolution screen etc. It's not thin, it's not "sexy", no aluminum, no mag safe and no backlit keyboard. Big deal. Hardware is ha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism There are some changes but nothing that acutely noticeable. There are a few slight visual tweaks but it doesn't seem any less or more responsive at this point. As for stability, I haven't had any issues wi…