Gates really is a complete and utter tosser.
Perhaps they will make him King of Zimbabwe or something and then shoot him in the palace courtyard. We can but hope.
There is a chemical fire extinguisher built in to the MBA - if temps get above safety levels, the machine activates a dry powder that sucks all the oxygen out of the surrounding area.
Actually we, the people, hate YOU, Adrian.
Leave the kid alone. He did what all smart kids do, he got bored and explored. No-one was killed and now they can fix the frickin crappy system. Hire the kid, I say.
If you arent a M$ employee/astroturfer, I am King Kong.
You managed to mention every single part of the 'zune ecosystem' in your post.
'The wireless system works quite well. What the HELL does that mean? 'quite well'?
But it doesnt actually CONNECT to anything useful, does it?
'useful zunepass subscription'. Only if you want a subscription - and no-one actually in the real world does.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
I am slowly becoming a millionaire - by the time I am 97 I will have made it!
I worked out that if M$ go on losing 8 billion a year on all their little projects (zune, Xbox etc.) and growing at 5% per year
and Apple keep profits rising by 35% a quarter, in ten years Apple will be worth $1.2 Trillion and M$ will be worth $10 billion and be owned by Steve Jobs cleaning lady.
RD is an excellent well-researched site that is Pro-Apple and Pro-Linux/open source to some extent.
The guy just doesnt think much of Micro$hit - that makes him a normal human, IMHO.
with memories. Thats nice. But he was running a computer company, not a political movement. What did he expect?
Che Guevara was a revolutionary; Woz aint.
Woz got a billion bucks and gets to shag horrible weird actress types - Che got shot by the CIA-backed killers in Bolivia.
I think Che got a better deal......
The issue here is NOT the bloody warranty - its the notion that iPhone OWNERS can unlock their damn phones so they work on any network they choose.
All other phones are available unlocked, why not the iPhone?
Apple, unlock the bloody phone so we can all get on with our lives - you are ruining a damn good product with your frickin control-freakery, you idiots.
You buy the damn phone and then they tell you what you can do with it - if this were Condoms, presumably the CEO would be in your bedroom telling you how to make out with your wife, and if you dont do as he says, the condom breaks and she gets pregnant.
As some one else says, Corporate America do what they like and wait for the lawsuits. The law is never an issue for them.
Shame to see Apple doing this, with their market share going up and all.....
Apple can NOT just write an agreement and then do what they want.
IF the agreement violates the consumers rights, then it is simply garbage, and furthermore, you can NOT agree to a warranty or contract that removes your rights.
Apple's little 'warning' is hogwash - you can NOT say 'Oh that plane ticket you bought, if you get on the plane wearing a red shirt we are going to fly into a mountain' NO.
ALL phones MUST be able to be 'released' from the shackles of any cell service provider. What if you cancel with AT&T and want to take YOUR iPhone to T-mobile?
As long as you pay the cancellation charges etc., WHY cant you do that?
Apple are in seriously deep-dish legal crap on this one.....
The rights of a consumer may NOT be subverted by a company writing a EULA that subverts those rights for its own gain - thats simply illegal.
As someone else has said here, wrecking the phone with an 'upgrade' sent over the 'net is tantamount to a criminal act by Apple - criminal damage, in fact.
This one is just starting to heat up - look for some very interesting action in the next week or so!
I predict an unlocked iPhone by Apple in less than six weeks, with some recompense to AT&T for the loss of income.
Apple have been greedy and power-crazed here, and I suspect that Steve Jobs is really trying too hard - take it easy Steve, World Domination aint all its cracked up to be......
Unlocking is a normal event in the life of a phone and your long-winded post doesn't change the fact that after 90 days it is your RIGHT to have your phone unlocked.
The iPhone may be many things, but it also a PHONE and they can be unlocked legally.
The radio firmware isnt 'broken' because its unlocked - why do you say that? Its obviously BS because I have an unlocked iPhone and like all the other thousands of iPhones,it works really well.
Apple is heading for a storm of legal proportions that will be unprecedented - can you say Class-Action?
This will get nasty because the Consumer's right to play with his purchase in any way she/he chooses is being compromised - thats illegal.
Here is the scenario:
You can cancel your iPhone contract, legally, with AT&T.
So you do.
Then you say 'Hmmm, I think I will get a contract with T-Mobile and , of course, I want to use my iPhone that I LEGALLY OWN'.
So you walk into T-Mobile, after paying the contract cancellation fee with AT&T, and you sign up.
Then you say - 'Please put my new SIM into my iPhone please.'
And then what? The iPhone dont work - so you go BACK to AT&T and say 'Please unlock my iPhone'.
AT&T may charge you $500, but they MUST unlock that sucker.
THATS where the legal challenge will arise, if it isn't already written up on some class-action lawyers desk......
(1) It enrages the ubuntu crowd - no itunes! LOL!
(2) It enrages the Windows crowd - too easy to operate and it actually works - they hate that!
(3) Its free publicity for Apple - how that makes people angry - maybe we should tax Apple for getting free publicity.
(4) Paris Hilton will get one and have sex with it.
(5) some are complaining about DRM on Itunes - wow thats a stretch, seeing as how there is NO drm on your own CDs ripped into iTunes....
(6) It definitely will improve your love life - and that might be a reason for the Linux crowd to buy two or three each.
(7) It WILL work with M$ Exchange server - how annoying that must be to Bill Gates and his legions of idiot followers - yes, thats you, Dwayne.....
(8) it will force other cell phone makers to STOP SELLING CRAP like they have been for the last decade - and thats worth a lot.
(9) it wont be in Canada soon, and when it does it will be horribly expensive - but I will still buy one.
(10) It WILL be UNLOCKED and then we can all have fun - so relax Geeks, you'll soon be seeing teardowns and hacks and all the rest.
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I am F***ing sick of stupid posts like this one.
"Dump MP3's on an SD card..." WTF? Thats NOT what we all want to do - we want our data to be ORGANISED, not 'dumped'.
How do you find them on an sd card? Just take a guess that this one - 3765478.mp3 is the track you want? Nice.
And for crying out loud - there is NO drm on cd tracks you burn into itunes. NONE. NADA. So stop with the drm, like Apple is some monster forcing you to take DRM up the jacksy. It isnt. Burn your own CD's = NO DRM.
The point of the iphone is organised data, music, dvd's etc. And its a good phone.
"Better camera" Its a PHONE - 2 mp camera is how much worse than 3 mp on a PHONE!
It has WIFI - thats actually very useful on a phone with music and a browser and email.....
Buy a zune - its perfect for you.
probably needed two Pratt and Whitney JT9D's to get it to fly. I believe this was the first wide-bodied chicken and was put into service by various airlines in China.
When it crashed, there was always enough food until rescuers arrived.....
In any society you have your thieves.
The number of thieves is set by the level of happiness in that society; the more happiness the less thieves, and vice versa.
England is a miserable place, especially if you are poor, therefore more thieves in England.
Making it MORE difficult for thieves will make the thieves LESS happy, so even MORE thieves.
Eventually England will be a place where EVERYONE is a thief of lesser or greater degree, because the IDIOT Brits believe that they can eradicate thieves by INSANE and Draconian laws, instead of simply making people HAPPY.
Oh wait....thats already happened.......
and BTW this 'issue' has sweet frick all to do with iPods or any other innocent electronic device.
This is too stupid to comment on.
ipods have won the battle 2 years ago - they will be the dominant music player for the next 20 years. Thats all.
By next year the total will be 150 million, maybe more.
if Macs grow at 30 percent for 10 years, Apple will be bigger than Microtrash. Watch it happen.
They will then sell at least 60 million macs a year - thats 15 billion profit - more than M$ have ever made in a year.
plus the iphone and the ipod - try 20 billion profit per year.
Its called change - get used to it.
will be out of business in 10 years from now - no company can continue to screw up as often as they do and survive.
The zune is so awful that giving it away wouldnt help. Its a dog (apologies to dogs)
Music subscription just doesnt appeal - we build our music collections over 5 - 25 years and we keep them. Thats the nature of music buying, and it wont change.
Most people now have all their cd's on their iPod, plus a chunk of illegal mp3's plus a few purchased tracks. Thats the deal.
The Zune and M$ are so screwed its not worth talking about. They wont even get the new DRM free stuff right.
on you believing that '911' was a 'terrorist' attack.
If, as the overwhelming evidence shows, it wasnt, then whats the point?
Why not just impeach Cheney and his pet monkey Bush? Save some cash and return the Government of the USA to the people of the USA. Novel concept, I know.
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Gates really is a complete and utter tosser. Perhaps they will make him King of Zimbabwe or something and then shoot him in the palace courtyard. We can but hope.
...are targeted at sub-humans, of course.
There is a chemical fire extinguisher built in to the MBA - if temps get above safety levels, the machine activates a dry powder that sucks all the oxygen out of the surrounding area.
you seem to have missed your calling in life - I would suggest you will find it in the nearest Public Toilet. Goodbye.
Actually we, the people, hate YOU, Adrian. Leave the kid alone. He did what all smart kids do, he got bored and explored. No-one was killed and now they can fix the frickin crappy system. Hire the kid, I say.
If you arent a M$ employee/astroturfer, I am King Kong. You managed to mention every single part of the 'zune ecosystem' in your post. 'The wireless system works quite well. What the HELL does that mean? 'quite well'? But it doesnt actually CONNECT to anything useful, does it? 'useful zunepass subscription'. Only if you want a subscription - and no-one actually in the real world does.
Shaddup. ya whiner.
'Alludes', not eludes, please. You can elude a pursuer, and you can allude to something by suggesting it in an indirect way.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I am slowly becoming a millionaire - by the time I am 97 I will have made it! I worked out that if M$ go on losing 8 billion a year on all their little projects (zune, Xbox etc.) and growing at 5% per year and Apple keep profits rising by 35% a quarter, in ten years Apple will be worth $1.2 Trillion and M$ will be worth $10 billion and be owned by Steve Jobs cleaning lady.
RD is an excellent well-researched site that is Pro-Apple and Pro-Linux/open source to some extent. The guy just doesnt think much of Micro$hit - that makes him a normal human, IMHO.
Since News became mostly idle speculation, thats when.
with memories. Thats nice. But he was running a computer company, not a political movement. What did he expect? Che Guevara was a revolutionary; Woz aint. Woz got a billion bucks and gets to shag horrible weird actress types - Che got shot by the CIA-backed killers in Bolivia. I think Che got a better deal......
The issue here is NOT the bloody warranty - its the notion that iPhone OWNERS can unlock their damn phones so they work on any network they choose. All other phones are available unlocked, why not the iPhone?
Apple, unlock the bloody phone so we can all get on with our lives - you are ruining a damn good product with your frickin control-freakery, you idiots.
You buy the damn phone and then they tell you what you can do with it - if this were Condoms, presumably the CEO would be in your bedroom telling you how to make out with your wife, and if you dont do as he says, the condom breaks and she gets pregnant.
As some one else says, Corporate America do what they like and wait for the lawsuits. The law is never an issue for them.
Shame to see Apple doing this, with their market share going up and all.....
IF the agreement violates the consumers rights, then it is simply garbage, and furthermore, you can NOT agree to a warranty or contract that removes your rights.
Apple's little 'warning' is hogwash - you can NOT say 'Oh that plane ticket you bought, if you get on the plane wearing a red shirt we are going to fly into a mountain' NO.
ALL phones MUST be able to be 'released' from the shackles of any cell service provider. What if you cancel with AT&T and want to take YOUR iPhone to T-mobile?
As long as you pay the cancellation charges etc., WHY cant you do that?
Apple are in seriously deep-dish legal crap on this one.....
The rights of a consumer may NOT be subverted by a company writing a EULA that subverts those rights for its own gain - thats simply illegal.
As someone else has said here, wrecking the phone with an 'upgrade' sent over the 'net is tantamount to a criminal act by Apple - criminal damage, in fact.
This one is just starting to heat up - look for some very interesting action in the next week or so!
I predict an unlocked iPhone by Apple in less than six weeks, with some recompense to AT&T for the loss of income.
Apple have been greedy and power-crazed here, and I suspect that Steve Jobs is really trying too hard - take it easy Steve, World Domination aint all its cracked up to be......
Here is the scenario:
You can cancel your iPhone contract, legally, with AT&T.
So you do.
Then you say 'Hmmm, I think I will get a contract with T-Mobile and , of course, I want to use my iPhone that I LEGALLY OWN'.
So you walk into T-Mobile, after paying the contract cancellation fee with AT&T, and you sign up.
Then you say - 'Please put my new SIM into my iPhone please.'
And then what? The iPhone dont work - so you go BACK to AT&T and say 'Please unlock my iPhone'.
AT&T may charge you $500, but they MUST unlock that sucker.
THATS where the legal challenge will arise, if it isn't already written up on some class-action lawyers desk......
which proves that Windows machines have finally reached the level of huge piles of throwaway trash.
(1) It enrages the ubuntu crowd - no itunes! LOL!
(2) It enrages the Windows crowd - too easy to operate and it actually works - they hate that!
(3) Its free publicity for Apple - how that makes people angry - maybe we should tax Apple for getting free publicity.
(4) Paris Hilton will get one and have sex with it.
(5) some are complaining about DRM on Itunes - wow thats a stretch, seeing as how there is NO drm on your own CDs ripped into iTunes....
(6) It definitely will improve your love life - and that might be a reason for the Linux crowd to buy two or three each.
(7) It WILL work with M$ Exchange server - how annoying that must be to Bill Gates and his legions of idiot followers - yes, thats you, Dwayne.....
(8) it will force other cell phone makers to STOP SELLING CRAP like they have been for the last decade - and thats worth a lot.
(9) it wont be in Canada soon, and when it does it will be horribly expensive - but I will still buy one.
(10) It WILL be UNLOCKED and then we can all have fun - so relax Geeks, you'll soon be seeing teardowns and hacks and all the rest.
I am F***ing sick of stupid posts like this one. "Dump MP3's on an SD card..." WTF? Thats NOT what we all want to do - we want our data to be ORGANISED, not 'dumped'. How do you find them on an sd card? Just take a guess that this one - 3765478.mp3 is the track you want? Nice. And for crying out loud - there is NO drm on cd tracks you burn into itunes. NONE. NADA. So stop with the drm, like Apple is some monster forcing you to take DRM up the jacksy. It isnt. Burn your own CD's = NO DRM. The point of the iphone is organised data, music, dvd's etc. And its a good phone. "Better camera" Its a PHONE - 2 mp camera is how much worse than 3 mp on a PHONE! It has WIFI - thats actually very useful on a phone with music and a browser and email..... Buy a zune - its perfect for you.
probably needed two Pratt and Whitney JT9D's to get it to fly. I believe this was the first wide-bodied chicken and was put into service by various airlines in China. When it crashed, there was always enough food until rescuers arrived.....
In any society you have your thieves.
The number of thieves is set by the level of happiness in that society; the more happiness the less thieves, and vice versa.
England is a miserable place, especially if you are poor, therefore more thieves in England.
Making it MORE difficult for thieves will make the thieves LESS happy, so even MORE thieves.
Eventually England will be a place where EVERYONE is a thief of lesser or greater degree, because the IDIOT Brits believe that they can eradicate thieves by INSANE and Draconian laws, instead of simply making people HAPPY.
Oh wait....thats already happened.......
and BTW this 'issue' has sweet frick all to do with iPods or any other innocent electronic device.
Microsh*t delayed Vista for more than 2 YEARS - this is a 3 month delay. Get over yourself, Ballmer Bois.
This is too stupid to comment on. ipods have won the battle 2 years ago - they will be the dominant music player for the next 20 years. Thats all. By next year the total will be 150 million, maybe more. if Macs grow at 30 percent for 10 years, Apple will be bigger than Microtrash. Watch it happen. They will then sell at least 60 million macs a year - thats 15 billion profit - more than M$ have ever made in a year. plus the iphone and the ipod - try 20 billion profit per year. Its called change - get used to it.
will be out of business in 10 years from now - no company can continue to screw up as often as they do and survive. The zune is so awful that giving it away wouldnt help. Its a dog (apologies to dogs) Music subscription just doesnt appeal - we build our music collections over 5 - 25 years and we keep them. Thats the nature of music buying, and it wont change. Most people now have all their cd's on their iPod, plus a chunk of illegal mp3's plus a few purchased tracks. Thats the deal. The Zune and M$ are so screwed its not worth talking about. They wont even get the new DRM free stuff right.
on you believing that '911' was a 'terrorist' attack. If, as the overwhelming evidence shows, it wasnt, then whats the point? Why not just impeach Cheney and his pet monkey Bush? Save some cash and return the Government of the USA to the people of the USA. Novel concept, I know.