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Quote: Originally Posted by Malligator For such rugged individualists that hate Apples walled garden Android users certainly do LOVE being inside Flash's walled garden. Sadly this makes no sense at all. The Android browser supports more HTM…
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Quote: Originally Posted by LuisDias Soooo we won't have 3d apps for the xoom no time soon, huh? Let me hit the snooze button then... What? There are already 3D apps on the Xoom. I've seen great looking 3D games demoed on the Xoom and on the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by poke It's insane. Here we have a major corporation that just unceremoniously dumped its existing plans and went back to the drawing board after merely seeing the competition (which has been out for all of a week). We d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by LuisDias Given the multi-billion dollar business happening in the app store, I wouldn't merely qualify it as "taste". So the presence of a market eliminates it from being taste? So I presume you don't think liking …
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Quote: Originally Posted by LuisDias That I've been hearing since 2007. Then you've been listening to remarkably stupid people. It isn't even quite here yet, until web sockets is finally finalized this year.
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Quote: Originally Posted by LuisDias Shit, I've been hearing this since 2004. Technology did not exist in 2004. It does now. Listen to Apple -- HTML5 is ridiculously powerful. You can even do full out 3D.
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Quote: Originally Posted by LuisDias It's not. Period. And even if it were, of if we are redefining "silliness" for the sake of argument, then I'd say that "non-silliness" is way overrated. It's clearly a personal judgement. Quote: Flash …
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox There hasn't been a great way to move media off the iPad onto projector/monitors till now. We're talking about what the future holds. If tablets supplant laptops, do you reckon people will just stop doing pre…
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Quote: Originally Posted by LuisDias Good luck for you. I think you are *wildly* mistaken, but if you aren't a google paid hack or a blind apologist, and a serious thinking person that reached said conclusion, well then have a shot at it. At leas…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Bizarre. You're actually championing the mechanics of the OS over what you can do with it. This seems to be a trend in Android circles-- using and Android is its own reward, as you admire your widgets and not…
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Quote: Originally Posted by LuisDias No it won't. iPad will still largely beat android's tablets this year, if Apple doesn't commit major mistakes in their distributive channells. And given the different market styles, where piracy is rampant on …
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox So GarageBand is "kind of silly"? I don't think legions of musicians will fell that way. What else is kind of silly? Keynote? Pages? iMovie? In my opinion, yes. I've never seen anyone use Keynote to do…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Sure, but at some point this becomes untenable. You're actually endorsing the "big phone" theory of tablets, whereas the smart money is on tablets supplanting laptops for a lot of people. So does that mea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox And, again, who, exactly, is going to write GarageBand quality apps for these Android tablets? Not Samsung, clearly. Not Google. Are independent developers supposed to pour millions of dollars of development…
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Quote: Originally Posted by LuisDias Please show me where are the tablet apps out there that can compare with the iPad apps currently in existence. KTHNKSBYE. "KTHNKSBYE"? The kind of maturity one should expect here, I guess. Obviously Hon…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Apple ][ As of now, it's vaporware. I saw a dumb video on engadget and they were showing both tablets, but they couldn't even be powered on. What's the use of showing a video of two blank screens with nothing on the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mr O WTF How did they do that? So fast! And how did they get it that thin? Without the unibody structure? They don't have the magnets though … and the smart cover. And the Apps. And the integrated user interf…
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This article is genuinely defensive and terribly written. The shots at the Android app market are particularly perplexing, because the market has been growing very rapidly and almost all of the top iPhone apps have or will shortly have Android vari…
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No, it's not. Safari 4+ is HW accelerated in the same way Firefox 3+ was -- it used some HW acceleration for things like text and image decompression. It is not at all the same kind of acceleration (GPU compositing) in Firefox 4, Chrome 10+, and…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse You're really grasping at straws here. What you are essentially claiming is that anyone who seeks to protect their patents is a patent troll. The alternative to seeking civil damages for infringement would b…