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Quote: Originally Posted by Mac-sochist Why do the professional Apple-bashers continue to put words in our mouths, claiming we think "Apple invented ___."? It doesn't matter if Apple invented ___ or not; if there were no shipping products using _…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pk22901 Unlike Google's rip off of Sun's Java and Apple's multitouch, Steve Jobs actually licensed Xerox's inventions AND improved upon them. (BTW, Microsoft never paid Xerox for their UI and it stole Apple's QuickT…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy Google doesn't charge the consumer for anything does it? Google Navigation, Google Voice, etc, etc. . . All free. It's a very odd business plan that I really don't understand. Ads. If you like Google * then…
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It's actually safe to write off anything Gartner says. At least in this case DED is correct, and there is no empirical evidence to suggest anything Gartner says about Win7 will change.
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Quote: Originally Posted by caelitus This is not news, is it? I saw this in the Bloomberg game changers many months ago. The book is obviously new with it being released this week. The content in it quoted isn't. Steve Jobs was angry when s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Apple ][ That is just my highly educated guess, based on the fact that Android phones are being given away for free along with cheap data plans. This appeals to poor people. No, I don't mean just like the iPho…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Owen Meaney Seriously, I don't understand why it's so hard for DED to get basic facts right. Can he please explain why accuracy in his "journalism" is so challenging? Read his blog sometime. He thinks a Google emplo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mac-sochist 2540 dpi would equal 100 lines/mm?about the best photographic film can do?and fine rotogravure printing can reproduce that exactly (they quote 2400, though). But of course, that's a small part of the publis…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Oh, so now you are saying they will make a new tablet that doesn?t use eInk, but will drop the popular and ubiquitous Kindle branding while at the same time artificially disallow it from being an eBook reader…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mac-sochist And 300 or 600 dpi is much lower resolution than a real book?they range from 1200 for regular novel-type books to over 2400 for slick color-illustrated books. I was trying to give them a break. A normal oct…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Psych_guy Yeah. Right. Apple is so stupid they've sold millions of iPads. How do you figure? Then why not sell more at Costco? They let lame ass Sams do it, and that place is a shit hole. Quote: As to the comm…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Your claims that Amazon will not make an device that varies from a simple eInk eReader has been marked. Then it wouldn't be a kindle/ereader
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Wow, apple patents a two display phone. Why not just put the picture of the Nook in the application while you are at it? What next, patenting the magnetic connector of deep fryers that UL came up with in 2001? Oh wait, they already did that.
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They'll sell it next to the gaming consoles. Of course, if they can sell ipads at a toy store, but not Costco, which is a nice place, what gives? Stupid apple.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland The latest hardare is the Kindle 3. It's poorly built and poorly designed. Even the most important part of the product, besides the display - the page buttons, are terrible. Like REALLY terrible! Steve Jobs wou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by fjpoblam Does that mean, any and all iPad cases must be the ones made by Apple? No one may sell "iPad cases"? Or does it mean, simply, one may not describe it as an "iPad case" but rather as "a case made for thin compu…
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Quote: Apple sued accessory maker EForCity and several other related companies in July 2010, with the complaint that many of the products from the companies "are of inferior quality and reliability, raising significant concerns over compatibility w…
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Morons. Willing to bet they could have settled out of court for a few million. Seriously doubt that patent cost more than a few 100k to "invent."
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Quote: Originally Posted by c4rlob I saw the same thing on my site stats and it made me wonder are Android phone users downloading Safari as their web browser instead of their phone's native browser? That would be hilarious! No wacky weird stu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NasserAE You will appreciate iTunes when your iDevice gets lost, stolen, or when you upgrade. My nephew dropped his iPhone at sea and when he got new one the next day the device restored to where the old one last synce…