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I'm sure they'll use their monopoly to get quite a few people to buy it. Having ads for it popup in Windows Media Player (which is installed on all Windows machines) is bound to achieve that. But it is unlikely to have much street cred. It'll b…
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Quote: Originally posted by JackSYi Does this mean the MacBook kernel panics will go away? What MacBook kernel panics? You speak like it's a known issue? Never seen one on my BlackBook. And in the forums, I've seen the usual isolated s…
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The headline may say "steps down" but I say "steps away from the flying chairs." The monkey man (aka CEO Ballmer) is a little tetchy these days. But anyway, as the new Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie will do a much better job. For a start…
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Quote: Originally posted by MacTel All I want from the 6G iPod is bluetooth for wireless headphones, WiFi for wireless iTunes purchases, a 4" LCD for playing video and games, and of course the video games. Good news, it's now available! Th…
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Quote: Originally posted by melgross Maybe not, but there is always a "successor" that will then own whatever IP Creative had. They could choose to continue the suits. Very true. And I'm sure, as in the SCO vs Linux affair, that through va…
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Quote: Originally posted by Johnny Mozzarella nagromme is right. The real issue is who invented(or who pantented) the column view first. NeXT is earliest implementation of this that I am aware of. There were designs for it far earlier tha…
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Am I the only who saw the headline in NetNewsWire and thought: "Here is a rumor on the SIZE of the next generation iPod, and it's going to be big!" Something like the 8-pounder with a 10-inch screen that Super Secret Apple Rumors reported.
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Quote: Originally posted by rinnin Here's a vid to prove how the video lacks behind and stutters while loading a simple iMovie theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnO5uJIvZG8 The user also performs an Xbench test and shows that the video card…
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Given the absurd way the NTP vs RIM patent tussle turned out, who knows what will happen. However, I'm pretty sure Apple Legal would have been preparing for this from when the "Zen Patent" was (erroneously?) issued last year, as there must be a m…
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Quote: Originally posted by JeffDM My concern is that Mr. Mossberg really doesn't appear to be unbiased, his reviews seem a bit too glowing for a journalist. He likes Apple stuff when it is done right, but I don't think he is biased. Did you…
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Quote: Originally posted by melgross And, Mach has been disparaged in almost every technical article ever written about OS X. Perhaps now that it is on Intel, a direct comparison in performance can be made that shows it to be inferior. It has …
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Quote: Originally posted by radiospace I hope this doesn't have anything to do with the Apple vs. Apple decision expected to be handed down Monday.... (did she oversee the drafting of the original Apple Records settlement?) If she came to Ap…
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Is it true that Steve Jobs never shakes people's hands? Getting more like Howard Hughes every day! Mind you, after seeing the proportion of male bathroom visitors who fail to use the washbasin (the Seinfeld episode sums this up nicely), I'm incl…
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It will probably come down to a technical matter of contract interpretation. As This Register article suggests, the original contract is self-contradictory. It was drafted in an era when current technology wasn't foreseen and can potentially be …
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1. Exciting patents. 2. Steve Jobs to shareholders: ?The new products in the pipeline are the best I?ve ever seen in my life.? 3. Me happy!
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Does anyone have a link to the spec sheet of this chip? I remember reading some of the PortalPlayer ones when they were announced, and predicting the capabilities of the next gen iPods based on them. (Though Apple doesn't always use all of the…
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It's psychological - you feel you're getting something for your money with a big box. Technically, there's no reason software can't be shipped in razor thin CD jewel cases, stacked flat against each other on the shelf. But they just wouldn't s…
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I think Rebel has a point. The Mac market is 4%. Windows is ~95%. If people were really choosing out of personal preference, would the numbers be skewed so heavily in favor of one OS?
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I admire the Woz as much as the next geek, but let's keep things in perspective. My take: Woz wanted to design a cool computer. That's as far as his ambition went. Jobs, the hippie visionary, wanted to change the world. If Woz hadn't agre…
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Quote: Originally posted by Anders Actually it would make good business sense for MS to kill MBU and deliver a copy of Windows with every mac. A couple of points against this: 1) the margin on the Mac Office 2004 product is higher than th…