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Quote: Originally Posted by Red Oak So, Motorola refuses to license a FRAND patent.. and they get an injunction? Un.. fucking... believable Let's see what happens when Apple products are actually banned in Germany/Europe. The public uproar…
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Quote: Originally Posted by zindako Macs use an EFI firmware for their boot process, not a PC bios, your response is accurate. The references were based on windows PC technology, which Apple computers running BSD kernel have nothing to do with. T…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Damn_Its_Hot I can't wait to see monkey boy do the mango dance. Mango, Mango,Mango,Mango,Mango,Mango,Mango,Mango,Mango.,M ango, Mango,Mango,Mango,Mango,Mango,Mango,Mango,Mango,Ma ngo, Mango,Mango,Mango,Mango,Mango…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cloudgazer The patent in question is http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...S=PN/6,343,263 perhaps I'm over-estimating how broad it is in its implication for a smartphone OS. I don't have time to read through the en…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cloudgazer Well they're hardly likely to say anything else are they? I would take that with a big pinch of salt. The DSP patent particularly seemed to be hard to wriggle out of. There is no such thing as a general…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Sierrajeff Yup. When the proles can buy a 15" Windows-based laptop with optical drive and built-in WiFi for under $700, Apple's foregoing a huge potential market (and, more importantly, entry point for people to get i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht You certainly do disagree...with significant resistance. Still can't get a straightforward "Yeah, the data doesn't really support my contention" out of you. Why would you readily agree? It's based on the s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht No, I'm not denying anything. Do you understand the meaning of the word AND in that statement? They compared phones to phones AND threw in iPod data because they had it. The iPod section apparently confuses …
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Quote: Originally Posted by patent litigation The recent Intellectual Ventures suits provide just one example showing that the NPE business model is fast becoming dominant in the world of IP. Thomas Edison held over 1,000 patents, but practiced n…
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd All ad mob surveys have a bias, as iOS apps will more commonly use iAds. That is a reasonable conjecture. The survey likely overestimates the number of android users over that time period (Feb 2010 was befor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht The two "devices" are iPhones and Android phones. Both are in the same category. Why is this hard to understand? Ignore the column that says iPod Touch. It is irrelevant to this comparison. So you are denyin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht No, you just don't like data that doesn't agree with you. Here's a another source of the same data. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/02/...-users-differ/ Incorrect. The data gathered is for each…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Try reading the quote vs skimming it. Here, let me try again: "while only 24-25% of iPhone, Android, and webOS users are similarly below age 25" Therefore your age demographic assertion is not supported by t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NasserAE There are no blocks. The first video chat over 3G for the iPhone/iPod came few weeks after the iPhone 4 release (I believe it was Tango Video Calls). The problem with video over 3G is quality. My brother uses …
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Available via Skype. However: "The guys at 9 to 5 Mac ran a quick experiment, and found that video calls over 3G eat up roughly 3.4 MB of data per minute, something to keep in mind with AT&T's new capped da…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NasserAE Except for FaceTime, you can video chat over 3G using many third party apps including Skype. Interestingly Skype calls on Android only works over WiFi! I do use facetime, that one of the reasons why I found…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht "In looking at demographics of users, AdMob's survey found that iPhone, iPod touch, and webOS user bases are all in the range of 54-58% male, while Android skews much more strongly to 73% male. iPod touch users are…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Good list, but with exception with the SD card all that can be done with a jailbroken iPhone, some thing that is made far too simple. I agree, but jailbreaking an iPhone would negate some of the advantage …
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Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 And what would that be, specifically? Many of them for me to mention, but I will stick to a few that I can't live without. Just the most important to me personally: video chat over cellular network. install…
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Quote: Originally Posted by poke The number of people who even know what 'jail breaking' is or care about 'open vs. closed' ideological nonsense or could appreciate what on Earth it means to say iOS feel 'restrictive' or want to download a task k…