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  • Apple Music update lets Android users save songs to SD cards

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    cnocbui said:
    Of course.  Apple wont let you have cards.  They have to make money somehow.
    Do all Android phones have SD cards? I thought the Galaxy line got rid of them.
    Yes, Samsung got rid of cards in the S6 because they equipped it with a new very fast memory system - like putting an SSD in a phone.  The memory controller they used could only do a single bus.  The bus would have been limited to the speed of the slowest memory connected.  Samsung didn't want their snazzy new feature nobbled by users sticking comparatively slow cards in.  It is rumoured the S7 - but not the Edge :-( - will have a card slot again.  They almost certainly are now using a memory controller that can handle two buses at different speed or maybe they have come up with new cards that are a lot quicker.

    Most Android phones appear to take cards, there seem to be a few more cropping up that don't, but I suspect that isn't for the reason Samsung dropped them.
    sirlance99[Deleted User]

  • Apple ordered to pay $625M in revived VirnetX patent trial

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    e39dinan said:
    Guys, to set the record straight here are a few facts.

    - VHC originally won $368 Million from Apple. Apple appealed on 3 levels (1. the patents are invalid. 2. we did not infringe 3. we don't think we owe that much). The court of appeals (CAFC) struck down Apple on #1 and #2 (the patents are valid, and Apple does infringe) and they kicked the monetary award (#3) back to court. Today's outcome was the result.

    - VHC is comprised of the inventors of the patents while they worked at SAIC. This isn't some NPE that just bought someone else's patents that were lying around. The guys suing AAPL have their names on the actual patents. 

    - Apple was found to wilfully infringe today. In other words, they knew they infringed and they kept doing it. 

    Please educate yourselves before painting VirnetX as your typical money grubbing NPE. 

    And remember: "Good artists copy, great artists steal" -Steve Jobs
    Look, the way it works around here is Apple is the good guy and everyone else is a bad guy.  Remember, Apple never infringes on anyone elses IP.  It's always the other way around - Apple is the perpetual victim that has it's IP infringed on.  Ignore anything courts or juries or trade bodies say to the contrary, they are just bad guys too.
    e39dinandasanman69gatorguyJobsian_Funksingularityzimmermannlord amhran

  • Apple Music update lets Android users save songs to SD cards

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    msantti said:
    Wow.

    A feature Apple denies us.
    Of course.  Apple wont let you have cards.  They have to make money somehow.
    jdwsingularity

  • Man sues Apple, wins case over Apple Watch Sport impact resistance

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    tenly said:
    dave marsh said:
    AppleCare will replace the watch twice for accidental damage over two years.  Factory defects will also get replaced, without AppleCare incidents.  Sounds like he didn't purchase AppleCare, and was rude when he interacted with the Apple Store.  They have a lot of flexibility to resolve issues when they believe the case calls for it, just as they can impose the fine print whenever the customer goes ballistic.
    That's not much of a speculation.  It's obvious that he didn't have Apple Care because if he had, there wouldn't have been a story!  I don't know what evidence you are using to determine that the customer was rude.  Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't - but there's noting in the story to indicate one way or another.  He may have started our very polite until he found out that they weren't going to honor their warranty!

    But as far as stories go, this one leaves a lot to be desired.  They don't explain why Apple refused to cover it under warranty or any detail as to how the damage occurred or what escalations the customer attempted before going to court - or what defenses Apple presented in court (or if they even showed up!). I wouldn't be surprised if Apple just ignored the summons and had a guilty verdict entered in their absence.

    I think those speculating a factory defect are wrong based on the small evidence that was reported.  He won the case because he proved a sort of false advertising with regards to the impact resistant claim.
    So, I'm guessing that the customer must have claimed that something struck it or that it struck something - else why would the fact that Apple advertised "impact resistant" come into play at all?  And again - if the case wasn't about an impact of some sort, why would this case result in Apple removing that particular claim from its advertising...?
    Applecare is a waste of money in the EU.
    singularity

  • Apple has become a regular at Stanford University's VR lab

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    "As for Apple, the company is widely rumored to be working on its own consumer VR solution to rival hardware from the likes of Facebook's Oculus. The VR space is heating up with Oculus Rift and HTC Vive set to ship this year, to be followed by Sony's PlayStation VR and Microsoft's Hololens projects."

    I like the way you avoided mentioning that Samsung have had the only real VR system actually on the market and that it's been there for almost a year.  Oh I know, you forgot.
    cornchip