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Quote: Originally Posted by sportyguy209 The article mentioned that eBay bought Skype for $2.6 billion. What did they sell it for? Quote: Originally Posted by Sevenfeet I'm still trying to figure this deal out. eBay unloads Skype for a mer…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ezduzit the only way to stop this crap is to make the loser pay. force the parties to the law suit to show adequate assets in the event they lose. Quote: Originally Posted by Masteric ...and this will continue…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland RAM is the number one reason to update to iPad 2. That and speed. The weight drop isn't significant enough to spend 500+ on, but it's nice to have it. The thinness is nice also. Quote: Originally Posted by g…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Logisticaldron It sure sounds like it, but they have an out since they did it before they had a monopoly in the mobile OS market. What MS did was use their actual monopoly in Windows to force down competition with inte…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rare comment This is unfortunate. As much as Apple's product-centered strategy is responsible for their success, their iconic and distinctive advertising and marketing hasn't hurt either. To the extent she oversaw …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Firefly7475 Well that's the point isn't it! Nobody said tablets were a "fad". I know that's in the title of the article, but no one actually said it. Mundie said... I don't know whether the big screen tablet p…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ameldrum1 wow. you should all take a step back and listen to yourselves. a guy who works for the baddies posits an alternative future to the one where you all lovingly carry your iPads around for all eternity and h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by alienzed Reference: Some really wide eyed hipster told me. LOL, or was it "research for a book" that lead you to discover these terms?
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Quote: Originally Posted by shao another day of troll messages by the ever faithful, and equally ever blind here at AI. people expect any company (that's not apple) to give away their vault keys to each and every one of their competitors simpl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by saarek I'd hardly call them a little company, also at this moment in time we do not actually know what the outcome of this action will be. It is quite possible that Apple has infringed on their patents. Nokia has…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Apple ][ That's true, I forgot all about cutting out that little notch in the disks. Not to mention the scotch or masking tape that we kept handy for making them writable again!
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Quote: Originally Posted by Asst. Prof. Nobody needs 64 Gigs. If they did, the iPhone would already have it. Apple skates to where the puck is GOING TO be. Tsk - between my very large music collection, space to record photos/video, and stori…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Parkettpolitur Ah yes, the fabled "majority of users". I know a ton of Mac users, and no one ever uses the Superdrive. Why should they, anyway? Burning DVDs is slow, there are thumbdrives for that. And no one I know wa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jd_in_sb Any company can do fine without their CEO when things are booming. Apple did fine after Jobs launched the Mac and was then fired. 12 years later Apple was near bankruptcy. Jobs then came back and rescued the c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse compelling features != Flash Sure, I agree - my comments weren't advocating their position. However, all these competitors (Motorola/Samsung/RIM) claim their wares are better because they will run Flash …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chocoloco I don't care what margin apple decides it wants to charge. BUT when it says suscriptions outside their ecosystem cannot be cheaper THAT is called price fixing. They are using their market share to bully dev…
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Quote: Originally Posted by razorpit Oh no, the Xoom is doomed! Doomed I say! How dare Motorolla release a product that doesn't meet the established web standards. Who do they think they are telling us the consumer what does and doesn't work…
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This whole brouhaha is fascinating to watch, and as expected, playing out much like the iTMS situation. The music business was livid that Apple imposed a 30% split with music publishers and they threw a fit that Apple shouldn't be able to dictate t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Damn_Its_Hot I think the real issue though is battery life and performance. There is no such thing as a free lunch! Rendering that many more pixels comes at a pretty big cost in performance and therefore battery life -…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nkhm Colour's are beautiful, text is crisp and legible, games look amazing. The display is nice for graphics but I can't concur about the text. It's certainly not crisp until you zoom in on it, which I find I do le…