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  • Apple says not to use hydrogen peroxide to clean its products

    mr lizardmr lizard
    “Apple also recommends that users avoid getting any moisture in device openings”

    So much for that IP68 rating. 
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  • Apple attorneys threaten UK market exit if court orders 'unacceptable' patent fees

    mr lizardmr lizard
    Let’s not get carried away folks. This was a single lawyer, and hardly one who reports directly to Apple’s SVP for Legal Counsel, responding to a quip from a judge that it’s unlikely Apple will leave the UK market if forced to pay this royalty. Of course their lawyer is going to argue the opposite. 

    This wasn’t some big showdown nor was it a credible threat to leave any markets. 
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  • UK Apple TV viewers blocked from seeing key football match

    mr lizardmr lizard
    notwichred said:
    No.

    ITV is not funded by the TV Licence.  That’s the BBC.  No need to have a TV licence to watch ITV.

    and in the original article….Penalty time?  Really? 
    I’m afraid you’re wrong. Go to the tv licensing website, it explains it all. 
    watto_cobra

  • UK Apple TV viewers blocked from seeing key football match

    mr lizardmr lizard
    England & Wales, you mean. ITV is not the national broadcaster for the UK, and in NI and Scotland we don’t use its app. 
    watto_cobra

  • Rapper Soulja Boy claims Steve Jobs gave him the first iPhone

    mr lizardmr lizard
    Steve and I invented the iPhone back in 1997, shortly after his return to Apple. We sat down for muffins and a cola, and he had a bag of wires and metal with him. I had a pocket full of microcontrollers. We started goofing around with the components, and after a few hours had a working phone with WiFi, which we couldn't test because WiFi wasn't that popular back then. 

    We got as far as agreeing pricing before Steve had a sudden change of heart. "The world's not ready for this" he said, or something similar, so we didn't release it.

    Imagine how peeved I was to see Jobs on stage in 2007 pulling the same damn phone out of his pocket that I built with him back in that muffin café. 

    I sent him a few text messages asking him what the hell he was playing at, but he didn't respond. I heard rumours shortly after that he was busy following the announcement visiting barely known rappers on their music video sets, dishing out free phones. Whatever. By that point I was over it. 
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