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Quote: Originally Posted by waterrockets Your point is valid if you prefer to retain all of your media on personal storage of some sort. I'm moving away from that type of media consumption though, and finding fewer movies I'd like to watch agai…
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Quote: Originally Posted by waterrockets Some help on Play and offline movies: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2851696?hl=en I agree wholeheartedly that DRM hurts the honest consumer. Nothing new there though. Everything above…
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Quote: Originally Posted by waterrockets I've developed high performance Android apps to enterprise customers (augmented reality and custom mapping solutions with dynamically updated tiles). They were written in Java. You can go on about …
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Quote: Originally Posted by zerobim08 I thought we are talking about OS similarity (not design). Anyway, if you take a look at this filing by samsung, it was a completely different story. Samsung released F700 6 months before iphone. The …
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Quote: Originally Posted by waterrockets It's not "my" desktop apps, and I'm not claiming the Chromebook as a PC or MacBook replacement. I'm just clarifying some misconceptions about what's going on. My point was that if you want to look at pa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by "waterrockets" Well, there actually is an app desktop in Chrome ([URL=]chrome://apps/[/URL]), so that's not an issue. Killer apps would be pretty subjective. What's a killer iPad app? Outside of regular web sites, Chr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Smallwheels Guess what? Chrome OS apps are improving all of the time. Eventually they'll do things as good as native programs. Some already do. Chrome OS is based on Linux. There are numerous free programs for the L…
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Quote: Originally Posted by waterrockets Is the "iOS" just a misspelling of "OS X" then? Surely Apple wouldn't also make this mistake for the last 6 years. Touchscreen Chromebooks are essentially a ChromeOS tablet with a keyboard and trackpad,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by marubeni I am sorry, you are just too clueless to have a discussion with. Sorry, but you are clueless one here since you don't have any sane response. I'll gladly debate with you if you comes with good argues…
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Quote: Originally Posted by marubeni The Chromebook is much cheaper, the OS and the apps are always up to date, most of the processing is done in the cloud so you can carry around a much cheaper and lighter device. Some people don't find this …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Smallwheels Movies can be made on Chrombooks using cloud editors. Files and photos can be stored in the cloud. They can be edited there too. Office productivity can be done in the cloud. This puts the needed horsepow…
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Quote: Originally Posted by marubeni Why do you care how much money MSFT is making? If you do, though, my guess is: A LOT, since SkyDrive is an integral part of Office 365, and Dropbox has a market value in several billion dollar range righ…
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Quote: Originally Posted by waterrockets There is a lot of trouble around the term "cloud," with different definitions. Netflix and Spotify are cloud services, by any definition. I agree, the term "Cloud" is another buzz word for Internet. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by marubeni I disagree completely. I have multiple servers, and it is MUCH more convenient to use dropbox/google drive/SkyDrive to have the data instantly accessible from everwhere, backed-up automatically, easily share…
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Quote: Originally Posted by marubeni Yes, dear. Cloud storage (and the surrounding services stack) is only useful for people who have what they call "a clue". I am glad your setup makes you happy. I was already doing "Cloud storage" with …
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Quote: Originally Posted by waterrockets So, Netflix sucks, and you just have Blue Rays of all the Breaking Bad and Dexter seasons? Sounds awesome. Huh? How do you stretch your mind to compare a personal cloud storage like Dropbox or Google …
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Quote: Originally Posted by marubeni You also get $1500 worth of google drive storage, which some people care about. A lot. So, don't be so quick to judge. Since when a cloud storage is a valuable assets? Local storage will be forever more …
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Quote: Originally Posted by DarkLite Potentially? Software or design patents would be my guess, since as you've said, off-shelf parts are dealt with by the manufacturer. I guess the only other possibility would be if some element of the A7 or th…
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There is something I failed to understand what patent Samsung own that Apple could infringe since all radios technology used in the iPhone comes from of the shelves parts made by third party suppliers like Qualcomm and Broadcom. All patent and licen…
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Quote: Originally Posted by zerobim08 Show me where android stole anything from ios? Android as copied the original iPhone OS design and concept, just look at the pre-iPhone Android 1.0 to see how much they took the iPhone as an inspiration…