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Quote: Originally Posted by azjay Every application on Windows is ALWAYS referred to as a "Program" Windows Explorer refers to them as applications.
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Quote: Originally Posted by pvtjoker I am a computer programmer and have heard the term "App" used as shorthand for application many many times, long before the iPhone, iPod, etc. In fact, many programmers wrote Applets, a nickname for a small ap…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Seankill Also, I feel like I've said Amazon more than App Store in my life. How can Amazon be trademarked then? Because the "Amazon" is a rain forest and not an online book store.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Firefly7475 I could potentially even consider choosing it over the iPhone if it wasn't missing some critical features (like combined email.... I used to think the same thing on the unified inbox, but if you use li…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Milford These two clauses are not equivalent. Amazon reserves the right to examine and use your files "as we determine is necessary to provide the Service". Apple's reserves the right to look at your stuff only for m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by replicant In Canada we have The Beer Store. If Apple can prove precedence, they may have case (I think) Is it Trademarked? Doesn't matter because where the Beer Store is used (in Ontario) no one is allowed to open …
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Quote: Originally Posted by tjwal Not quite. The Apple clause restricts their access unless they are required by law or if they believe you are violating the TOS. The Amazon clause allows them to access your files to investigate compliance with…
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Quote: Originally Posted by PhilBoogie Wish Apple would license their dock invention to Microsoft as I am using Windows 7 at work and their implementation of a 'dock' is quite infuriating (sp?) with the position of icons being changed and all. Bu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macologist I just looked at other News Sources and this story is nowhere to be found, except http://bit.ly/fQEAAm repeating Apple Insider.... I hope this is NOT a Hoax, because from the threat to people getting hurt, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips Perhaps Xoom, Playbook and Galaxy sales departments should try that, it might help . Apple on the other hand really sells everything they can make. Hard to take for Apple haters I know, my heart goes out…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AdonisSMU People should be reading the story and not just the headline. And the FTC should be investigating apple or it's in app purchases program that forces companies to offer up the same price to ios users that they…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bullhead Apple and Android as so far ahead at this point there is no catching up. And Yahoo is far ahead, why bother creating Google. The PS3 and Wii are so far ahead, why bother creating XBox. GM is so far ahead,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ohcomeon Because Kindle opens up your web browser and takes you to an external web site to purchase the ebook. I understand that Sony wanted the customer to purchase their content from within the app itself. And as …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody Why do you care? It strongly suggests you come to the stories with your own set of biases, yet the point of your post seems to be to imply that the writers are hopelessly biased. IME "Kasper's Autom…
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I often try to guess at who wrote the article by the title. DED?s titles are usually a dead give away. But not this time. And the article stayed pretty much to the facts also. Well done.
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Quote: Originally Posted by djames4242 I think herein another implied statement of logic is made. Many people give Microsoft a lot of credit for releasing a winner with Windows 7. I agree, it's a good operating system. They've finally released a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Yes, cars sitting on dealer?s lots already include sales. Not only that, for the car manufacturer, the car is SOLD to the dealer the second it leaves the door of the factory. Even when it sits in the lot o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Okay, but you can pull any random number out of thin air and say that it has never been done. A $798 billion market cap company has never become a $957 billion market cap company. See? Random numbers…
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Not that it can't be done, but it is very difficult to double a company from $300 billion in market cap to $600 billion. So hard in fact, that to date, it has never been done.
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They will start entertaining developing the HTML5 version of the reader. No app required.