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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer The claim that Google contributes more to WebKit than Apple is a bunch of bulls***. Google contributes it's Chromium/GTK+ port work and what it needs to work within the WebCore, JavaScriptCore branches. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by rhyde If they've distributed code, does not the GPL disallow this? The kernel has been released, this is licensed under GPL. The rest of android is licensed under apache license which is more flexible about open…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Psych_guy Wow, that didn't take long. I mean to turn this into another childish DED bashing thread. It wouldn't happen if DED didn't warp the facts so much that he verges on political al spin. He fails to mention b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Granmastak Uh no! not at all. Europeans are very gadget oriented and when I took my ipad1 there last spring, everyone knew about it even if it wasn't available in any market there, except the gray market! They actually…
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I think people are forgetting here that the average consumer, especially in Europe, I can't speak for the US, does not know anything about the huge advantages that an iPad has over the competition at the moment. Many consumers in Europe are goin…
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Same old apple...... Beautiful hardware.... Shame about the ios software. Still just a glorified app launcher. Still you can't blame them for playing to their strengths. Oh and I expect you still have to plug it into itunes all the bloody time…
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Same old apple...... Beautiful hardware.... Shame about the ios software. Still just a glorified app launcher. Still you can't blame them for playing to their strengths
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Quote: Originally Posted by macarena If Apple wants to charge Amazon 30% of all the sales from the Kindle App, why cant Amazon charge Apple 30% of all iBooks read/purchased from the Kindle device. That is fair game right? But wait a minute - A…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta That's total bull. First, your example is wrong. I use Safari - which is based on webkit. Safari is proprietary. Just like all the other browsers based on Webkit. Second, we were talking about user sp…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Realistic ??? I have no idea what you are trying to say here. I didn't even mention or discuss the history of the internet or computer hardware or software and yet you claim I revised it. Please explain. You mention…
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apple have a patent with the iphone which states that when a phone rings you answer it by touching the screen. How the fuck is that useful for stimulating innovation?
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Quote: Originally Posted by lightknight Anyway, the turh of the matter is, patents may be protecting innovation or harming it depending on the case. Thats why there are lawyers and judges. However, currently, the pace of innovation in software (a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Google is full of it. Open Source software makes up only a tiny fraction of the software in use out there. Windows? Mac OS X? Microsoft Office? Photoshop? Any of the 10,000 games in use? Quickbooks? And so …
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 I'll leave that to Oracle (Java), the world's writers (Google scanning books project), people with unprotected wifi (streetview privacy invasion) and of course MPEG-LA (among others) to sort out, seeing as I am …
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 Imagine if Google accused Bing of copying their search results derived using mathematical formulae known as algorithms... ...oh, hang on they did, then whined about it all over the Internet. Bunch of hypoc…
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Do it SONY. Teach the machine a lesson. No SONY movies and music on iTunes is a massive blow to apple's
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And totally cannabalizing their high end sales. Bye bye profit margins
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Can someone please explain why this on appleinsider? Oh yes just noticed it was written by that poorest excuse for a tech journalist DED.Move on from this sensationalist crap people, nothing to see here
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Apple would ruin gaming. Imagine the ridiculous guidelines games would have to follow. No grand theft auto I imagine. Also do you really think apple can compete with the big boys? Xbox kinect is the fastest selling gadget of all time, taking that ho…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AsianBob Think of it this way. You're browsing your favorite tech blog and it mentions a cool app you'd love to have. iOS (option 1): Open iTunes; search for app; purchase/download; find iPhone and sync iOS (o…