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Quote: Originally Posted by ruel24 It'll be a slug and a battery waster. Linux is not optimized to run on battery powered devices and such low resources. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag..._regress&num=1 There will have to be signif…
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I noted that they have the half-speed processor in there for regular duty -which is probably why "in average use" they can claim 10 hours of battery life in the Asus tabbie. It will be interesting to see what the wattage is for the quad-core in actu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SSquirrel They will have to sell nearly 17M copies at $60 each to make a billion, unless there is downloadable pay content being sold as well. Oh gee, you mean like reading Steve's biography? Here's an article …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SSquirrel ...Except when he does compromise, like when he caved and allowed for apps on iOS. Sometimes it pays to listen to people Do you have some support for such a silly comment? Do you really believe that they…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Blastdoor I wonder how much of this might be explained by a distorted worldview on the part of Samsung leadership. My impression is that Samsung is HUGE in Korea, and that Korea is the kind of place where the law appli…
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How about you guys take the Libertarian discussion over to the Apple Outsider forum, and let this thread return to it's regularly scheduled topic? here's the link, feel free to use it: http://forums.appleinsider.com/forumdisplay.php?f=24 Yo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips Well said. On a side note I was glad to see Ron go to JCP and not the likes of Microsoft. I wonder if that was a non compete, loyalty or what? Microsoft's culture is antithetical to someone like Ron Jo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Firefly7475 Apple has proven no such thing. Success based on a 9.7" screen is correlation not causation, i.e., Apple have shown that they can successfully sell the iPad which has a 9.7" screen, that doesn't mean th…
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let's remember also that as Jobs matured into his role as CEO he drove pulling in the best executives he could find and invite to fall in love with Apple. This was inportant because he seemed to recognize where he needed expertise he did not have, o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cnocbui Typical AI article. Apple is just so awesome no one comes close. Samsung executives must be reading this article wondering how they could possibly compete. Unless Samsung are selling parts to Apple at be…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmm There are actually more issues in pricing than you recognize. You mentioned two imacs adding up to a similar number of processors. Say you are using them in some kind of grid formation or using one as a server for …
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Quote: Originally Posted by linkgx1 Apple CAN'T compete. They just run ahead of the pack. They get scared when competition comes (weird, as it's capitalism that got them to where they are). Don't people get that Apple has been more irreleveant in…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Blastdoor I suspect that the first 5 years with Cook as CEO will be better than those 5 years would have been with Jobs, just because Cook can go after the low hanging fruit of correcting Jobs' mistakes. As an outsider…
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All the trolls were out last night and are now wired on sugar today. Nice. BOT: The reasons for Ron Johnson leaving are best known by Ron himself, but some of the speculation here rings true. If, as Jobs has indicated in the past, he has sough…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bloodline Having just finished reading the official biography (spoiler alert), the doctors were delighted to have found the cancer so early, much earlier than normal, a usually you wait until you have symptoms before b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hellacool Funny how everyone on this thread are making excuses for him. Sure maybe he knew no one worked there was handicapped (Not sure how he would know no visitors would not be handicapped) or maybe he was just a p…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ShaolinDave i hate to speak badly of the recently deceased, but parking sideways in a handicap spot? what a total shitbag. You can speak anyway you want of the deceased. They aren't going to waste time in oblivion …
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OK - the large majority of the article is speculation by an anonymous source about perceived difficulties around producing these screens in quantity. Lest we forget, Apple works with specific vendors, partnering with them to create higher level comp…
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Just like an average human conversation, the device could be developed to blend a combination of controls from touch, gesture and voice control, which could provide much finer combinations of commands for the device to interpret and respond to. For …
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...is to bring these into the market top and bottom. To reclaim marketshare from the Android erosion, bring a series of semi-smart phones in below Android phones. This will accelerate the conversion of feature phones out from under Android and effec…