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Android 5.0? What about helping your current user base? There's still a lot of users stuck with lower versions of Android.

It's been over 300 days since the release of Kit Kat but only 25% of the devices run it.

China is the reason that laws like these exist, knock-offs are a huge business for them.

Wait, you mean to tell me these aren't actual Apple peripherals?

Way to full of shit. Dumbass.

http://modmyi.com/
http://www.ifans.com/

Apple's definition of FRAND is (in typical Apple fasion) vastly distorted.

Apple's claim: Samsung wanted more for their patents than any other company has asked Apple in licensing fees. Note: This is NOT a violation of FRAND. Licensing fees for patents are proportional to the value of those patents. Apple said the fees were too much and chose not to pay.

Samsung's claim: Samsung asked Apple for the same amount of money they have asked from other licensees. This is the very definition of the "Non-Discriminatory" part of FRAND.

"In his cross-examination, Teece was presented with a letter from Samsung dated July 25, 2011 where the company proposed Apple pay a 2.4% royalty rate to license technology from any of 86 patents. Since the patents in question are deemed standards-essential, they should be licensed under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms, but the 2.4% rate was never before levied to a licensee."

And: The lawyer showed Teece a July 2011 letter from Samsung to Apple proposing the iPhone maker pay the 2.4 percent rate to license any of 86 patents. Samsung had never published the rate, and “you have no evidence that Samsung has ever asked any other company for such a rate,” Mueller said.

So, do you have a citation for your claim that "Samsung asked Apple for the same amount of money they have asked from other licensees"?

More browser competition on the iPhone is fantastic, but it'd be even better if iOS allowed you to change the default browser so that when you tapped a link in an email it would open in that browser.

Browser Changer will do that.

>>>Are you willing to pay 2-3 times as much for the same product? Are you living in some fantasy world where if Apple's production costs double or triple (actually- they would go up substantially more than that)- they will still charge the same amount of money?

Labor is a small piece of the whole.

According to this: http://modmyi.com/content/5634-how-much-does-cost-build-iphone-4s.html (their facts are debatable but in the absence of real data let's pretend it is accurate) the manufacturing cost is $8 for an iPhone 4s. Pretending that's just labor, yes I would pay MORE than triple for an iPhone that can be built with fair labor.

Challenge accepted. Weather app designs that don't look like Apple's:

Here's one unique design.

And another unique design.

And another unique design.

Yet another unique design.

Another unique one.

And another unique one.

And yet another unique one.

Even more unique designs.

And even more unique designs.

And it keeps going with the unique designs.

Yet another unique design.

Another unique design.

And the final unique design.

All of these look just fine and aren't inconvenient.

Darwin != iOS. Please point me to build instructions so I can make a new ROM for an iDevice which does NOT contain the iCal application. Hm?

This isn't endorsed by Apple, so your original point about not being as open still stands, however rebuilding a custom ROM without iCal or any other built in app is fairly trivial to do.

Go get one of the ROM modifying jailbreak tools (Such as RedSn0w)
It reads in an original firmware image from Apple, lets you muck about with it, and writes out a modified version.
The modified version includes the jailbreak, Cydia app, and optionally can include a baseband unlock as well as be pre-loaded with any other 3rd party apps, and built in apps removed.

All of this is under the Options / 'Custom Bundle' section of RedSn0w.
http://modmyi.com/forums/general/763330-so-many-options-redsnow.html

Posting anon to avoid the inevitable Troll mods on a purely informative post after speaking any other than poorly of Apple.

I have an iPhone - wait for it - without a contract.

I have been reading up on this and have been contemplating doing this to my phone when my contract is up. This is a sample article similar to the ones I have read:

http://modmyi.com/forums/t/754109-iphone-gophone.html

Does this work well? Did you run into any issues?

If you bought your iPhone between Jul 11, 2008 and Jun 7, 2009 (and perhaps after that date) you have an iPhone 3G and you're going to have this bug as long you own the phone.

"'untrackerd' Cydia Tweak stops iOS Location Data Storing."

I run it, and after a couple launch daemon removals and some other tweaks, it actually started being more responsive than my previous jailbroken (and launchd-customized) 3.x... There's also a tad more RAM available now than before at about 54MB. Much to my own surprise.

I run it, and after a couple launch daemon removals and some other tweaks, it actually started being more responsive than my previous jailbroken (and launchd-customized) 3.x... There's also a tad more RAM available now than before at about 54MB. Much to my own surprise.

No, it's actually more. I just ran the analyzer and it shows my trip to the SF Bay Area in January. I'm sure, like many other are saying, that it's just a cell-tower-location-caching system. But it'd be nice if stuff like this were auto-purged after a few days.

There's already an App for that in Cydia

- manage a firewall as powerful as iptables/pf

You can try using pfctl on a jailbroken iPad today.

But isn't it better that a system have zero open ports by default and not NEED iPtables until you start doing things that require it? Remember running any app can only corrupt the dataspace for that app.

- have full control over encryption on all filesystems

The whole filesystem is hardware encrypted, and has been since the 3Gs I believe.

- write an interpreter aka scripting environment

Did you even READ the part where I said the 1% of people who need something more technical can jailbreak? Then you can run local python, perl, bash shells, or whatever.

Or if you don't like to jailbreak for some odd reason you can simply use whatever scripting language pleases you after you buy a $99/year developer license and write any scripting you like into your own apps which you deploy to your own device. But that was what you said you wanted.

So I guess it's time for you to start re-thinking your assumptions.

It sounds more like AT&T is targeting users who are using too much data. It seems to me that if you are staying within reasonable data limits and not using up crazy bandwidth you should be fine.

But the tray is just four apps wide - how can you have clutter in only four items?

My iPhone's tray is six icons wide, you insensitive clod!

This was actually a fairly well documented fact. I remember they walked the line of people lined up outside the Apple stores and a good number of them really didn't know what they were going to use it for. They just wanted it. There were articles published about this phenomenon at the time (here's the best I can google right now: http://modmyi.com/forums/ipad-news/704633-surveys-100-dont-know-what-ipads.html )

Good overview of the two technologies.

One point of correction the iPhone has successful run Apache so it can be used as a web server (for what it's worth). Here's a related article -

http://www.modmyi.com/forums/native-iphone-ipod-touch-app-launches/2665-apache-iphone-how-cool.html

Oh well, Nokia offers a full feature mobile web server for free, without hacks, weird urls... Full working with a dynamic host name.

http://mymobilesite.net/

That is why Nokia and other Symbian vendors are still being chosen by people like me. Freedom... Evil Apple shows Nokia as some freedom fighter.

Good overview of the two technologies.

One point of correction the iPhone has successful run Apache so it can be used as a web server (for what it's worth). Here's a related article -

http://www.modmyi.com/forums/native-iphone-ipod-touch-app-launches/2665-apache-iphone-how-cool.html

This has never been a limitation, there isn't any mobile company I can find that doesn't have an email to mms gateway

examples:
http://www.modmyi.com/wiki/index.php/MMS_Email_Addresses
http://basicstate.com/htm/page.htm

and they can turn right around and MMS your email address

The shareware version is also available via Cydia for people with jailbroken phones.
Exact same code, it just only has the first mission instead of all six, but no cost...
Details: http://www.modmyi.com/forums/iphone-news/542821-wolfenstein-3d-5-app-store-0-cydia-exact-same-game-legal.html

This is wrong. It is there in the hardware, but Apple has chosen not to interface with that functionality, so yes, it is crippled. Go read some of the back stories on modmyi.com. If you have a jailbroken iPhone.
Using apple keyboard -
http://www.modmyi.com/index.php?pageid=home&news_page=2

video showing iphone to iphone gaming
http://www.flickr.com/photos/56083335@N00/3288725388/

Now, like the man said, its crippled.

http://www.turbominivan.com/
http://modmyi.com/