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Quote: Originally Posted by diddy That's about the only thing that can change the mentality - the government has to create an environment where it is much more financially viable for companies to produce locally than it is to import. That is ver…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mrstep Why do you assume the products would get more expensive? You don't think profit margins could be slightly reduced and that the company would be just fine? I'm not singling Apple out here, btw., if you're going …
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Quote: Originally Posted by techno Or they could manufacture their products in the US and create some jobs. It's a noble sentiment, but can you walk me through how that would work? Would Apple accept a loss on every product sold where now they…
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A pilot program, indeed.
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I use both iPad and iPhone outdoors quite a bit. Turns out the iPad is polarized so it works well in landscape and is invisible in portrait, while iPhone is the other way around. Neither is visible in direct sunlight, but both work fine in bright en…
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It's low probability, but it is possible that Apple snuck NFC into iPhone4 and will enable it with an iOS update. It would mean physically hiding the hardware and antenna, and keeping strings out of iOS. So I'm calling that 5%. Even in that case,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SailorPaul It's not magic. Apple innovates, executes and controls costs. Most oher major companies only focus on cost cutting It is magic. Pretty much every other company of Apple's size can barely stay out of its…
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Note that Kindle developers have to pay for any bandwidth their app uses, in perpetuity. So any internet-based apps aren't very attractive; you sell the app for $3 or whatever once, and the better and more useful your app is, the less money you make…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii Me too. This is not a scandal, as far as I know everyone just assumes the "real people" in these slickly produced things are not actually real people. As far as you know, should companies follow the FTC Guides…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland You have to laugh at the language usage in the title of this post. Seriously, "fail to use"? God forbid you ever blame Apple, for anything. How would you have phrased it? That seems fairly strong to me. The …
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Quote: Originally Posted by bongo A lot of people here forget that Motorola has already used the "magnets" idea in their Droid line for a while for different docking stations. This time, it was Apple that copied the idea I haven't seen the Dro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by _Hawkeye_ As for radiation issues, there's no way these phones can be benign. They transmit microwave energy. You wouldn't stick your head inside a microwave oven. Sure, it's lower power than an oven, but your head …
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 1. For those buys that think ARM processors will replace X86 hardware in the Macs - you are NUTS. Seriously these chips aren't even 64 bit and performance really sucks. This is a fast moving industry. Wha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Thanks. I assumed those dimensions were for the PoP. They surely have the width to do it, assuming they can make room for the chip for that extra 40mm^2, which I think they can. I agree, given that the wid…
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac I bet Apple uses TSMC to fab A5 chips at 40 nm that wind up in the iPhone 5. The slightly smaller fab process will help the iPhone's battery life. I think it's unlikely they'd produce chips on two differen…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sippincider Seriously, short of selling door-to-door, how many more outlets does Apple really need? People who want iPads know where to get them. The implication is that Apple should push to make them more impulse …
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Quote: Originally Posted by captbilly I am not sure what you mean by "kicking ass". In the past year Apple has gone from the #2 most prolific smartphone in the world to #4. Funny, I haven't seen a single smartphone made by "Android." All I se…
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Quote: Originally Posted by OC4Theo Apple is not that desperate. iPad does not belong in such a place. Office Depot & Office Max, may be. Not Khols or Bed & Bath. I don't understand the objection. Do you think Apple would sell fewer iP…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sheff 4 inch screen is an interesting proposition. Apple has been pretty clear that they want to commit themselves to a single display size for the iPhone, and not change it around from generation to generation. If…
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd When a screen keyboard appears the apps get a notification, they dont need if the keyboard doesn't appear. Sure. But the iPhone apps I've worked on have screens specifically designed to accomodate a keyboard.…