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Wouldn't it be great if a company like Google were to write a competing app for the iPhone? Don't they have some kind of map service thing? Of course, they'd have to put turn-by-turn directions into the app to make it competitive.
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Quote: Originally Posted by majortom1981 Apple is allowed to copy braun but nobody is allowed to copy apple? That does not make sense. There's certainly a number of similarities in some Apple designs to some of Dieter Rams designs f…
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Siri is not a speech recognition technology. The speech-to-text part of the interface is a licensed bit of software from Nuance.
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EU law (Directive 1999/44/EC) states that manufacturers are obliged to provide a two year warranty on all new goods. The Directive applies to · any defective movable consumer product · any seller, that is to say any perso…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dasanman69 The networks are the content owners and their deals with the cable companies are pretty sweet. Are they going to gamble selling a show for $.99 that gets 2 million viewers when shown with adve…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone If that were the case do you suppose U-verse and Fios would be able to build out their infrastructure quickly enough to replace the cable providers who provide the bulk of all broadband Internet to h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dasanman69 Any content agreements here in the US would not be valid on the UK. Apple would need content agreements in every country, much much different than releasing a iPhone or iPad. You say that..…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mrtotes Some Apps which exist for iOS that would make the AppleTV useful: - BBC iPlayer - 4OD - itvPlayer - Catchup TV - Crackle - LoveFilm et cetra... All …
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The assumption behind the article is that the primary unique-selling-point of the iTV is 3rd party apps. This assumption is, I think, completely wrong. I strongly suspect that the iTV will be a platform for selling (channel-based) TV c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX In CPU performance? In GPU performance? In drive performance? The only one that is likely is in drive performance because a 7200 RPM HDD is slow. In terms of raw numbers, you are right. In terms of usab…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vandil but I prefer having a hard disk drive over the flash module thing the Airs have. USB optical drives are fine. I recently upgraded my 15" MBP by ripping out the optical drive and adding a 128GB SSD as the ma…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ghostface147 No thanks. I despise carrying external anything for a device. I really quite dislike carrying useless stuff that is welded to the inside of my computer (if I never use it). C.
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX We've had the 13" MB, MBA. and MBP all at the same time but we're suppose to believe that by introducing a 15" MBA that the 15" MBP would be killed off? That's an excessive leap. As I understand it, the A…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ghostface147 I'm not. My line of work requires transfer of information between various departments, auditors and 3rd party vendors. I can see your need, but in my opinion, optical drives have moved from necessity t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ghostface147 Screw that. I want my optical drive and ethernet port. Really? I am over optical media. When I last cleared out my office, I threw out the blank DVDs. C.
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It has to be the iPad2K Doesn't it?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum As to the STBs... At our home there are the following boxes where the u-vers cable enters the family room: 1) Cable Modem 2) Cable STB The current balkanised TV hardware mess has multiple ser…
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I don't buy this story. Apple have known since forever that content holders would oppose any attempt to push them out. I think Apple's plan is to bring them in. The Apple TV should be as attractive to content providers and the iPhone is to develop…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Regardless of where the bottleneck occurs, in the end, user experience suffers and that is something that the average TV watcher is not going to understand. They will just assume Apple's TV sucks because they ca…