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Apple working to import & sell pre-owned iPhones in India, report says
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Oculus founder says no Mac support coming until Apple builds 'good' system with better graphics
9secondkox2 said:Wow.
My estimation of Oculus folks has gone down.
To make a statement that Apple, who builds the best computers money can buy, is somehow not providing "good" computers is simply a ploy to attack Apple.
And to say they don't add high end video cards is a play on the TYPE of video card.
Apple uses video cards in the Mac Pro that are meant for WORK and not GAMES.
So they could have stated the truth and still had the intended effect of both providing an excuse for not developing for Mac as well as compelling anyone who cared at Apple to take another look at the video cards they put in their systems.
While they are "good" cards generally, you'd think that what you pay for a Mac would score you a high end consumer level chip CAPABLE of high end gaming at the very least.
Still doesn't excuse irresponsible and factually incorrect statements like that. Oculus is treating their potential fanbase as idiots who don't know the real situation.
EA did that in the past. It hasn't done much for their reputation (though they keep making money).
I am having a real laugh reading all these bruised ego comments criticising him for being blunt and insensitive. I'm trying to remember the last time Steve Job's ever made a diplomatically negative comment about someone else's tech ...... no, can't recall him ever doing that.
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Apple participated in search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
davidw said:singularity said:Malaysia Airlines doesn't appear on that list and a quick search implies that m370 didn't have in flight wifi either
I wasn't referring specifically to this Malaysia flight, but that Apple could in fact help where the telecoms (and maybe Android devices) couldn't because it is a possibility to get a network connection in flight, even if a cellular connection is not available. And even if Malaysia had WiFi, I'm sure the pilot would have turned it off, like he did the all the other electronic devices that could have tracked this plane, way before he took it off course.
As for WiFi, once again, it is the providers and operators of the infrastructure who would be in the front seat and best placed to provide assistance, but that is a pure fantasy-land scenario anyway. The primary mechanism for locating an Aircraft is it's transponders. If those aren't working, I doubt anyone's surfing the internet at 12 k meters as I doubt the WiFi would be working either.
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Apple participated in search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
sflocal said:AppleInsider said:
"When the Malaysia Airline[s] went down -- within one hour of that plane being declared missing -- we had Apple operators cooperating with telephone providers all over the world, with the airlines and with the FBI to try to find a ping, to try to find some way we could locate where that plane was," Sewell said.
My guess is that it is actually the network operators who could be helpful, not Apple, but if you know of a network of secret Apple satellites in obit that can get a signal from an iPhone directly without going through a network operator, do tell, as that would be fascinating.
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Rumor: Apple's 'iPhone 7' to retain 6s dimensions, thinner Lightning port, lack waterproofing
sog35 said:msantti said:Man, the Apple apologists here are amaing.
I like Apple but I can call them out sometimes.
So I'm an apologist for not wanted a feature that very few want?
You seem like the apologist for Samsung. What next? A water proof laptop?
Waterproofing does not add bulk.
Rain, steam, humidity, dust, dirt, fog, drizzle, snow, sleet, spilled drinks, pools, sinks, toilets, children. Given that water damage is the second largest single reason (24%) for iPhone damage, I would say that 99.9 % of the population could do with a waterproof phone.