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As long as this agreement somehow allows me to get HBO Go without cable TV, then maybe I don't care. Personally I think local municipalities should provide internet service or at least run the fibre and lease it to ISPs. This market is naturally a…
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maestro64 - This isn't the first time. I'm sure other companies do this too, but it helps to have a lot of cash. It is great to see Apple is using their capital to push new areas forward. This seems to be lacking in much of the industry. Probabl…
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dgnr8 - It is more work for developers to support older platforms. Usually when a developer wants to support a new OS feature, they think seriously about dropping support for older platforms. If the OS is free, more people will upgrade and more pe…
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I'm sure this mindless rant will convince people to buy a Surface to type all of their documents. I think we are on a trend where common software is subsidized by hardware and/or services. Microsoft may be based on a failing software-centric busi…
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64-bit is more ideal for the Objective-C runtime. It also means they can use the same runtime between OS X and iOS. Specifically, 64-bits allows for a technique called tagged pointers that can speed up dynamic programming languages that use boxed …
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Feels like iPhone activations right after a new model comes out. They said on the news that they were getting millions of hits in the first 90 minutes in single states.
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Sounds like a good idea to me.
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Sounds like a good idea to me.
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Is this Wi-Fi or bluetooth? Wi-Fi feels like too much of a hassle. Bluetooth would be great.
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I think the success of a business model largely depends on how well it is executed and how nimble it is to change under competition. The fact is, broadly licensed platforms are hard to get right and are not as nimble to change under competition as …
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mcarling - Apple (via Steve Jobs, not the company that stays politically neutral) was a big supporter of Obama. Either way, that has little to do with the DOJ.
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inkling - You obviously are not from Chicago. Citizens put up with Chicago-style politics because most of it is done in the common interests of both the people and businesses of Chicago. In this case with obvious pandering to Amazon with nothing g…
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Intel may not compete with AMD and Nvidia on the Desktop, but for mobile the Iris 5200 is more optimized for professional work (since it has more compute then fill rate) then the gaming oriented chips made by AMD and Nvidia. Intel's drivers have be…
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64-bit would be nice. It is a nice width for dynamic languages like Objective-C that use pointer tagging for efficiency. Normally the execution units are also utilized for better SIMD support. I'd hate to see a delayed move to 64-bit support hold…
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So now it is OK to sell the exact same thing to one company at one price and to another company at another price? If companies were people I would call that discrimination. Got to love the legal system.
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cash907 - Other vendors have not released any machines with this chip either. Nothing beyond 2-core, Iris 5100 and lower chips so far. It is not clear if they are waiting for Mavericks or if the machine and suppliers just are not ready.
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deansolecki - They will definitely drop the discrete GPU. The Iris 5200 can almost match the 650M and can beat it in OpenCL tests. It also has the advantage of ECC memory unlike the 650M and far lower battery drain. The discrete chip is definitel…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ash471 I don't know if BU is trolling. However, pulling out a 20 year old patent just before its about to expire is a classic technique used by "trolls." Just to clarify, when I was saying tolli…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ash471 Why should Apple treat BU any differently than anyone else? This looks like trolling to me. This patent is from 1997. Its no coincidence the lawsuit just fired up now. The patent expires in …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Soloman It's not the same thing. Just like the lawsuit against Ford by the guy that invented intermittent windshield wipers. Ford probably contracted out the production of the windshield wipers assembly …