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Glad these are announced. I close on my new house in a month. May just wait for the DIY option. Love the geofencing option.
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Quote: Originally Posted by blackbook Agreed. For those that feel iOS 8 was a minor release on the feature side, they simply don't see the limitless potential apple has given developers to make iOS 8 the most powerful usable iOS yet. Th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ezhik So basically they ripped off a whole lot of Android features. Quote: Originally Posted by Ezhik My point still stands; these features were on Android first. Considering how passionate Apple fans are …
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Here is what I would like to see happen. iTunes Match stays as it is for $25/year. But pay $100/year? You get beats streaming + iTunes Match.
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digitalclips wrote: » I can vouch for the fact that that the SSD is the most effective upgrade (assuming 'enough' RAM to start with which IMHO is 8 GIGs for Mavericks but then I use CS6 and FCPro X so for office work 4 GIGs may well suffice). I …
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I have a MBPr with 4GB and it is plenty fast. Granted, I would like more, but 4 is likely plenty fast for most people. Most people on AI? No. Most people in the population? Yes. The fact that there is no lag in accessing data is the biggest key. The…
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smallwheels wrote: » From the man himself: http://youtu.be/j0L3LDabve8?t=1h36m40s Starbird73 the story you mentioned was years after this presentation. It didn't stop Apple from releasing that information back in 2010. That's the point. T…
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smallwheels wrote: » Apple promised to make Facetime an open standard/open source program so that everybody could adopt it. I'm still waiting for it. Not really relevant or anything. But I am with you. Of course, there are also reasons why they…
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512ke wrote: » In other news, Samsung saw sales decline by 6 Million units as Verizon was forced to offer fire sales on the S5 only a week after it was announced. Samsung/Google were unavailable for comment. I got quite the chuckle out if t…
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I'm still a bit confused as to who approached who. I have a feeling, if Google truly has this "indemnification" clause with its licensees, that they directed this whole show so that they would not appear to be directly involved, and would not appear…
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bryan tianao wrote: » No, I think people here are trying to find anyway possible to take a jab at Samsung and are over blowing this. What did he state? That Job's passing is getting people to look at Apple more during that time, which is unfor…
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"Samsung's final witness for the day was Daniel Wigdor, a computer science professor from the University of Toronto. Wigdor offered testimony on Apple's '172 patent covering predictive text entry by saying a number of other tech firms developed "aut…
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"We liked to have our own identity, we liked to have our own ideas," Lockheimer said. "We were very passionate about what we were doing, and it was important that we have our own ideas." Meaning BlackBerry/Windows in 2006, and iOS in 2007? Great "…
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dysamoria wrote: » It's still a lousy GUI and I'm still staying with iOS 6 and not buying a new iOS device until Apple undoes it's GUI destruction disaster, if it ever does. Enjoy what you go to. Plenty of good options out there.
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AppleInsider wrote: » Google's Android 4.4 KitKat, also unveiled last year, still hasn't even officially rolled out to many owners of a variety of quite popular Android phones. Overall, Google reports that just 5.3 percent of its active Google Pla…
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johnnyb0731 wrote: » I agree. A fascinating company. Excited to learn more. I'm excited for the book. Less for the info on Jobs but more on how Pixar works. There was an excerpt a few weeks ago that talked about how the meetings run when the …
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Just preordered on iBooks... Looks like a good read.
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igroucho wrote: » If Office 2011 is any indication of the quality of the webbversion for iOS it will be a catastrophy. Office 2011 so chockfull of bugs and after all these updates still no relief in sight. It's still beta... This is all new fro…
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therfman wrote: » But how many of those are actually paying Microsoft to really use the apps vs. "just tryin' it out cause it's free"? Well, the thing is that you have to take all the sales from word, plus all the sales from excel, then all fro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by j1h15233 I don't know about Munster, but I can play any game in the app store on my Apple TV That is my biggest beef with the amazon comparison chart. They list Games as NONE. They should list it as NATIVE games. Ad…