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bruce wrote: » chabig wrote: » No. That page tells you which phone you get if you are a subscriber with those carriers. Phones require specific frequency bands to support each carrier. Older phones (and iPhones) had to be built specifically f…
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So much back-and-forth blah blah...and no-one mentions the superb and hysterically funny Mitchell & Webb surreal take on the US "I'm a Mac and I'm a..." ad campaign. Not to take anything away from the original series - they were great, but to us…
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revenant wrote: » this is not surprising coming from the oligarchical USA. the rich have always been able to get more money. even after the bank debacle that crippled the country and shook the world bank heads still made impressive bonuses. And…
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I once worked at a nuclear power facility and the checks there were interminable. The sensible ones used forethought, offering little or no excuse for detailed search, never loaded their pockets with random stuff that wasn't necessary anyway, got th…
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boredumb wrote: » mikesmoke wrote: » I think Apple was wise to stay away from the controversy. That is what I think was their strategy is. North Korea and China are tight, Apple and China are tight. It's a stupid, moronic, if not scandalous movi…
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SpamSandwich wrote: » So...they're an insurance service protection racket. Oh well done for equating gangster style protection where they control both the insurance 'and' the retribution, with 'insurance' services in an area where RPX have no…
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gatorguy wrote: » SpamSandwich wrote: » Here's a direct quote from that page: "RPX provides a purely defensive service. Our goal is to acquire and clear high-risk patents so that NPEs cannot assert them against our clients." They don't OFF…
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While the BBC has its faults, I don't see much difference to The NYT getting a Pullitzer for similarly 'picking on' Apple for the same thing. I know this is not going to be popular, but this will only get worse. Last year the NYT, last week antitrus…
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tallest skil wrote: » British laws are militaristically oppressive... Care to explain that statement - enough to justify making it?
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bugsnw wrote: » It seems like Apple is constantly being sued for something or another. We really should have standards in place that make it much harder to let these attorneys run around wreaking havoc on capitalism. We all know a good case from a…
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darren mccoy wrote: » When's it coming to the UK? For a lark, I tried to use it in Waitrose. My phone was instantly recognised but returned an error for the payment. It's all there - someone just needs to press the switch. C'mon Apple...just d…
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rogifan wrote: » I see the meme now is that ?Pay won't work because Apple is using one way technology that doesn't allow retailers to push (aka spam) customers with ads and coupons. Shame on Apple for for focusing on great consumer UX above all el…
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benjamin frost wrote: » Bah humbug. Grumble over. So. Humbug followed by More Humbug. Now you're just puncturing my balloon... that only true Brits get 'irony'. Today's face palm moment. Myself included.
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Munster "...[B]hoped[/B] that Apple would reach 100% in-stock before the end of the month" Yes...because then he could say that iPhone 6 sales had peaked and posit a negative outlook for the rest of the year. Transparent 'Bear' shit.
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Xiaomi is hardly a business...it's a state sponsored employment scheme about to implode on rising dollar value and import bans for stolen IP.
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brakken wrote: » I watched a Xiaomi Keynote, as I was thinking it was great a new company was trying hard. But then the guy running the show is wearing a blue t-shirt, and I thought, 'Oh'. And then they even copied Apple's fonts and graphics f…
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chasm wrote: » Without meaning to sound like an Apple apologist, I think this story (and particularly the headline) is written upside down. Shultz *actually* testified that (quoting your own article) his project and others "were designed to protec…
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toukale wrote: » People are getting pissed at this, but when I look at it from Apple's perspective it makes perfect sense. This is a slippery slope, they are just guarding against people uploading copyrighted materials on icloud drive. We are in…
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boredumb wrote: » I don't much care how they try to spin it - that's just what they do... But I've been thinking since this "testimony" was first mentioned in an article here that I'd very much like to hear what he had to say. I don't think th…
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noivad wrote: » The most important aspect of this device was never talked about: accuracy. The only statement about its accuracy is a claim from the manufacturer, which isn’t evaluated against a professional unit. Without a test against profession…