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Quote: Originally Posted by Alfiejr RIM got flushed out by the Samsung Galaxy tab release and had to announce its 2011 tablet way early, even for them ... that's speculation. as i said, look at RIM's history of announcements and their associa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ejkrane They should try drawing people in by selling decent coffee. they do as evidenced by the millions of repeat customers they serve every month worldwide. anyways, this partnership seems quite promising.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Pooch aren't rumors inherently unverified? correct; that's why they're called rumours
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton Didn't Robbie Bach & J Allard have more to do with WP7 than Ray Ozzie? He was all about cloud computing, I thought. yes, Ray Ozzie was the force behind cloud computing and Web services at Microso…
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Quote: Originally Posted by halfyearsun but it's not too premature to hype it up and refer to it as an actual competitor when it doesn't even exist? RIM has always mentioned their future product plans (either hardware or software) months in ad…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 Microsoft didn't invest in Apple, they settled with them. Gates couldn't have "sat back and watch Apple die in 1997" - far from it since they had $1.2 billion cash on hand. the article you mentioned very cl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by christopher126 Yep, you're right I do remember that. Thanks for the reminder! - off-topic i suspect some people here forgot the $150 million investment made by Bill Gates. he could have very easily sat back and …
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software development is a challenge regardless of platform. both parties are exaggerating to make their point. it's understandable and expected.
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i never used webOS 1.x. hopefully i'll try it out, along with webOS 2.0, oneday because i'm quite interested to see different approaches in UI and UX.
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good looking numbers for 2010. although such a rate increase isn't sustainable, i suspect it'll be steady growth (with a few dips) in the long term.
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with that amount of cash and reserves, along with Jobs' business and technical savvy, i'm very keen to see what Apple delivers to market in the next five (5) years.
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Quote: Originally Posted by christopher126 Me too. If it was not for Apple we would all be working on dusty, creaky, plasticky, beige Windows computers ... a wireless mouse but with a receiver on your desk connected to the tower with a cable, IE …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Futuristic India please? i've been to India twice since 2008. Chennai and Bangalore were the cities i visited and can see an Apple Store opening in Bangalore (if the market conditions are right).
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it'll be interesting to see how the consumer market responds to 7" tables in the next eighteen months. we'll then have a better understanding of consumer desire.
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i admit i'm not in the retail sector and wonder if a 16% increase in retail outlets over the span of a year constitutes an aggressive move.
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i sometimes wonder if patents are filed for the sole purpose of hopefully extracting large sums of money from alleged patent violators.
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since 2000, Apple has done a pretty good job with their own advertising. i also like the late 1990s "Think Different" campaign created by the TBWA\\Chiat\\Day ad agency.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Noliving No they would not have survived if it wasn't for the ATi purchase ... i was trying to imagine what AMD would have done in it's weakened state in 2006 and without ATI under their wing. they could have left…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cykz Files are something of the past. a file is a block of information that's available to a computer program. so, yes, files are something of the past and currently in use.
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at the risk of raising politics here: hopefully some of that money will be used to improve the working conditions and salaries of the factory workers at Foxconn.