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Quote: Originally Posted by Blackintosh And another apologist rears his ugly head. I love you Apple fanbois. The antenna issue was so bad it was world headlines for weeks, surpassing the BP oil spill. A US senator got involved, satire cartoons…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Blackintosh And now the Apple apologists come out of the woodwork. Time to put down the Kool Aid and face facts. The external antenna with the gap right near the users palm is a failure. It is probably the greate…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MH01 Sorry guys, the jokes on you. Nokia are taking the piss out of the whole iphone death grip situation. If you think that finding nokia phones that suffers the same issues is going to backfire on this blog.... you h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by radiospace I wish they'd done one last ad to say goodbye to those great characters. I always thought it should end with the PC (John Hodgman) saying, "I'm a Mac"... Justin Long: "No, you're a PC." Hodgman: "No,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Robin Huber Let me get this straight. A company (Google) that already dominates the ad market buys up a competitor to become even more dominant. This is okay because there is a newbie start-up ad company (Apple). Looks…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cadillac88 When was the last time Apple didn't deliver an announced product on time or within reasonable timeframe. Put another way, is there anything that was promised from Apple that is so late we are left wondering …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism But Google started their search as free and all the popular searches at the time were free. Google was just better at it and won a legal monopoly. What MS did with IE to crush Netscape wasn't legal. I'm no…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism There is nothing wrong with being a monopoly. There is something wrong with using that position to illegally hurt competition. So far, Google doesn't look to be going down the same road MS did which led to th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AsianBob Didn't Google show off working concepts of the AdMob ads at the keynote? I think he was referring to the vaporware of iAds. Google was able to convince to FTC that Apple was already a credible competitor be…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Exactly. So far, to counter they call him spreading FUD, instead of dissecting the Assembly code of H.264 and it's many algorithms and comparing them to V8. Let's see them. As a mechanical engineer an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Yeah, the H.264 codec is really only a problem for big companies who have to pay millions to integrate it and don't want to pay up. Like Mozilla. Mozilla dev can simply forward the decoding on to a system dec…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bullhead I could "dissect" x264 and make it sound like crap too. If you do not have a detailed understanding of it, you would never know the difference. If a "neutral" party does the dissection it is worth a look, bu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by stonefree "X264 developer says Google's new VP8 WebM codec is a mess"..... And in other news, Flash developer says HTML5 is a mess. Within hours of the announcement. everyone is rushing to spread FUD about VP8 and c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JavaCowboy You're totally wrong. If Mozilla includes H.264 support in Firefox, then they can't distribute the source code. That means they can no longer operate as an open-source project. So why couldn't they si…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bullhead A developer of a competing technology says VP8 is a mess. LOL. In other news, Microsoft says Windows is better than OSX. Well, he may have a bias but he is an expert in a technology that is pretty opaque t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Asherian Don't think you understand -- I'm not talking about making money from the patent pool/MPEG-LA. That money is chump change to Apple and MS (and Google). There are other benefits, such as patent indemnity. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Asherian Just found this on my way out: http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010...-with-webm.ars Broadcom's chipset for mobile video acceleration (which the vast majority of phones use) will support WebM acceleration …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta There's also a chance that WebM will fall under h264 patents, so IT may be impossible to put into the spec. The reality is that Apple doesn't really care which codec is used. As long as the codec works well…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning Actually how much of a major member of the MPEG-LA is Apple, have a look the AVC/H.264 AVC Patent Portfolio license, Apple has one patent listed, even Microsoft has over 40 in there. Yes, that's Apple 1, Mi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Asherian Keep in mind the bias of the source. The guy has spent years of his life working on an h264 encoder. I think that that's readily apparent, and doesn't dismiss his article. More interesting is that he h…