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What sucks for Apple is that by taking up the censor's pen, they have taken responsibility for both everything they allow through, and everything they don't. I can see it backfiring on them big time when someone submits e.g. a game on an hot button …
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Quote: Originally Posted by parky I would much rather have the Apple approach where some level of quality control and monitoring of applications is done before people can start to download them. Ah, but Apple isn't content doing just that. The…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prince Those high stakes make it all the more disappointing to find that the Android Market fails to answer the tough issues correctly. That article is a horrible failure. Let me sum up its key points: - the sign…
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Good to see Google is making progress, and excellent that they aren't going down the bullshit path Apple took with arbitrary "community standards". I'd still like to hear that Android apps can be loaded directly on the phone, without Android Mark…
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It's a pretty safe assumption that the Macbook with its integrated graphics is not enough for gaming. Neither is the mini. (Not enough for WoW, anyway, which is four years old now and had low requirements even when it came out.) This is a weak point…
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Wow, that's a pretty horrible job from Apple. I gather they still think of the iPhone as an entertainment device, not a productivity one.
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Many older folks will flat out not use a computer with a smaller screen than 15", because they can't see what's going on. The cheapest laptops tend to come with a 15" screen. I have also bought a 17" that cost 2/3 as much as the cheapest Macbook.…
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Not having larger screen options in the lower price class, and not having a smaller machine with decent graphics, definitely puts Apple at a disadvantage. Unified MB and MBP lines would fix that. Engineering and production-wise, I think unified line…
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Apple has made more than one kind of keyboard. Is this the new flat one, or perhaps the previous all-white model? Also, how does it not work? Can't you get the keycaps in place, or does the keyboard not register the keypresses? Does it register …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell How does it maintain a singular vision if you don't somehow lock it down? Modification or extension by the user only affects their copy. Allowing that takes nothing away from your control over what the prod…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell I don't know if I agree. Both open and closed systems have equal positives and negatives. The negative of the closed system is obviously the limitation of ideas to improve software. But equally the negativ…
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Quote: Originally Posted by PG4G Its the same old war: quality v openness. How are those opposed to each other? I generally find open software and systems better quality on several counts. Both an open and a closed system can be improved immea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Booga None of that is applicable here. In fact, considering the installed base of existing iPhones, the new subsidized price, and the applicability to both business and home users (who are spending a lot more than the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mjtomlin They haven't gotten away with anything. This is just a mechanism put in place to protect users from malicious applications that get through the screening process. Please tell me what is wrong with that? Wouldn…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H Wait, you're saying you should just compare to the "second" PC that I suggest, and leave it at that? That's simply not realistic. Of course not. I already wrote what I think would be a neutral comparison. Star…
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Quote: Originally Posted by amerist Right now I'm using a Macbook Pro 17" which has the Geforce 8600M GT GPU. I can play games with it if I want. Probably not Crysis at 60FPS, but I'm 30 years old and probably not what you'd consider the averag…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Slewis If you bought and paid for malware that Apple didn't realize was Malware until later, would you still want it or would you want this kill switch? That's an either-or fallacy. The phone could just as easily in…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H You missed the bit where I said the comparison should be made to two PCs. The first being a direct match for the Mac, the second being a more mainstream machine. As you say, the second machine would probably dem…