Actually the virtual keyboards are pretty useful, and specially in the case of the iOS versions of Pages, Keynote and Numbers,(mostly in Numbers) are a godsend, since the keyboards change according to context, and in case of multilingual imput, in my case, Spanish, English and Japanese I can use the proper spell checker even word by word if I liked just by changing the virtual keyboard. For all the non alphabetical writing systems the virtual keyboard is so superior to the usual imput methods that the use of a "real" keyboard is a hindrance.
It's hard to believe that they managed to screw up this way. A significant percentage of americans believe that most problems in the world can be fixed by dropping bombs and/or murdering leftists. Sadly, that is not true, but this stupid method has created a easy way in many places in the world to become a popular politician, regardless of the overall quality of these guys. While the current Prime Minister of Pakistan can only appear to his people that he is powerless at best, kissing Obama's ass at worst, they gave to Khan a much needed helping hand after his blunders in regards to Afghanistan and his almost lukewarm condemnation of the attack against Malala Yousafzai. If Khan ever becomes Prime Minister he does have a very easy way to stop drone attacks: stopping all the traffic of supplies trough Pakistan to Afghanistan, even to deny access to pakistani airspace to NATO's supply airplanes. Without fuel or spare parts these drones cannot fly.
The New Yorker article should be the one posted, not the stupid crap of "The Diplomat". I think that the problem with chinese corruption from american POV is that they are not getting their share of it. For the corruption that Walmart or Halliburton promoted in Mexico that are in significant ways the cause of our security crisis they are only getting a slap in the wrist.
I use a last gen Apple TV when I need to put video on the big screen, and to send audio from any of my macs or portable devices to my home theater. No need for a dedicated tablet when a $100 device does the task very well. For better network performance and sanity, instead of using Apple TV's built in wireless I use it hooked to a Gigabit Ethernet switch that provides connectivity to all the networked devices in the entertainment rack.
If the people, specifically americans, that claim to care about human rights violations were really honest they would care more about the mess is Mexico. Here they earn around an half of what the equivalent chinese worker earns, and they have to face not only corrupt authorities but also the gang lords. They don't have unions and when they need to demand their rights they need to go in their demonstrations with their faces covered to avoid being blacklisted by the outsoursing agencies.
And before that Jobs was the first to see the true value of the GUI that we take for granted now. People in this discussion appear to have an extremely short attention span. It wasn't only the iPhone; it was how he strong armed the music industry into a digital delivery system, the innovations at Pixar, the popularization of USB thanks to the original iMac, the technology and design choices behind the NeXT cube, that enabled the development of the WWW, the GUI and at the start of his career, the development of the Apple I and Apple II. Wozniak designed them, but Steve Jobs had a significant say in the final product.
He was a human being with many faults, but at leadership he was second to none.
Oh, we don't have a helmet law, either. I don't think there should be one. That doesn't make you any less of an idiot if you don't wear a helmet.
This, you may ride safely your bike and be the best cyclist ever, but that doesn't mean that you would never cross path with a stupid pedestrian, driver or cyclist, or a damaged road or garbage.
The first computer store in my city in Mexico was Hall Microcomputadoras, that since 1979-1982 to this day is an Apple seller. I remember staring at their sales windows since I was a poor child only dreaming of ever own an computer made by Apple while waiting my bus to go to school, and remember you in a episode of "That's Incredible" in which you get lost into a maze. The story of how you and Steve Jobs created Apple is one of the reasons I work in IT today, have a well paid job and got married.
Because the penalty is absolutely not proportional to the crime. If you make every crime punishable by death then every criminal will try to kill any witness. And if you face a very stiff penalty for "stealing" a pair of songs, you could equally end stealing a shop or a bank since the penalties are similar. In Japan's case, the price of music, DVD's and Bluray disks are insane even for the high purchasing power of the japanese. Also, the big labels face stiff competition from the doujinshi circles -small teams of musicians, fans, semi and professionals- that do better music than the ones at big labels and sell their stuff at much better prices.
The price for a new single in Japan is around 1,200 yens at least. an album from big labels can be anywhere from 2,500 to 12,000 yens. A new release DVD? From 3,000 yens upward. Double that for the Bluray version. That, versus a set of 3 CD's from a famous circle like IOSYS that provides a wide range of music genres for 2,200 yens at Toranohana or Animate. Similar or lower prices for small studio videogames or animations. Which ones do you think that young consumers with diminishing wages will try to buy? Actually, the prices of label music have plummeted, they used to be 3 times more expensive, but still, Japan have a very good market for used cd's and movies; piracy is by far the least important problem that japanese society faces, I'm not japanese but for what I saw there piracy is still at a very low level. The best recipe against piracy and crime are living wages.
People need meaningful work. Not all your work is meaningful. Cycle people in and out of the shit jobs. By the way, some folks definition of a shit job doesn't match others. I'm perfectly happy to bring the shred bin out to the shred truck for $40/hr. Some of my guys, however, are absolutely offended when I ask them if they'd take the shred out.
Flex time is the other "thing". We're pretty generous. I don't really care when you work, as long as your work gets done. As long as it doesn't screw up the team, we'll give you a roughly arbitrary amount of unpaid time off, and going to the doctor's office or picking up a sick kid is not a problem. Still need to hit deadlines and what, but I really don't want you at work if you're angry or sick.
Short-term cashflow problems are much easier to take care of with the sabatical, too. Right now, work is hard to find, and people are scared. Given the option of staying on at 5 hours/week of telecommuting + health care, versus getting laid off, we do pretty well. It's also helped our unemployment insurance, since folks who see the writing on the wall can get a new job while still technically employed, and we don't have to deal with firing them.
C'mon! If you don't do that, then how you will enjoy the sight of finding a beheaded corpse half a block from your home, or seeing how gunmen put 11 bullets in the guy that is drinking a latte in the next table at a Starbucks. The second thing I only missed it because I was at work instead at one of my favorite Starbucks. But the insane policies that have made Mexico from a country like South Korea in 1980 to the mess is today are the ones you are describing. But then, I don't blame the rich for being such bastards, I blame the suckers that accept to being screwed by them. I suppose they don't like to live in a civilized way.
Like what? Easy women? Nuclear accidents? High speed rail transport?
Right, those are things you can find anywhere. It took Japan to bring the world anime.
Certainly, High speed rail transport is something that originally had only to be found in Japan. I enjoy anime, my nickname is based in a now obscure anime character, but Japan is full of very interesting things and its history is full of amazing characters. The Japan Tourist Organization's slogan:"Japan, endless discovery" is almost an understatement.
With men like Ballmer and Myhrvold at helm, only the previous enormous size of the company is what keeps it relevant and not becoming another RIM or Sun.
I despise many of the things that the Chinese government does, but US'ians or europeans outside Scandinavian countries don't have enough moral authority to criticize; their governments have a long stablished pattern of supporting the worst kind of murderous scum around the world as long they are subservient to their interests, and their citizens turned a blind eye at best. For its many ills, the Chinese government is managing to improve the standard of living of the Chinese population in significants ways; meanwhile, the western "democratic" governments are so busy licking the boots of the rich that they are unable to raise their eyes and see that they are destroying their nations.
Or most of the world at this time, sadly. The idea of workers rights is too communist to many people that grew praying to God to be protected from atheistic communism to understand the real value that a fair share of wealth brings to a modern, service based economy.
What's wrong with mods today!!!!???? The modding privilege granting algorithms really need tweaking, or slashdot will go down like the comments at Yahoo.
I stand corrected. I just checked it. Oddly enough, this is the fist time I use street view in my iPhone. If my pattern of usage is similar to most people then losing street view will not be such a big deal. Still, if Apple wants to provide similar functionality on its own this is the best time to start building their data set, and provide a much needed leg up to Open Maps.
Or submitting a story that will pass the pro-troll-fest filter that editors have in effect in the last months. The quality of many stories and the comments are below what you see in Facebook and getting closer to the comments in Yahoo.
The Google based Maps app for iOS 5 doesn't have traffic, public transportation or Street View here in Mexico, unless it works very different for the users at Mexico City Metropolitan area, but in Japan it does have the Public transportation features, even if it's time estimates are normally very off the mark. For Public Transportation I use the Metro app. Despite being free is one of the best apps that I have used, it justified in large part the purchase of an iPod Touch and my wife's and my own smartphones. More than the lack of many of these advanced options by Apple, is necessary that in many countries, including Mexico, the information about traffic and public transportation routes becomes more easily available. The public transport information in my state, for example, does a heavy use of Google Maps, but in a very disorganized way.
There is a small town in western Mexico called "Nueva Jerusalén" (New Jerusalem) that had their state built school destroyed by christian extremists 3 weeks ago. The town currently is under the care of a very strong detachment of Federal Police to keep the extremists at bay. The non extremist inhabitants only want their children to go to the school like every other child that goes to the school in Mexico.
Latin America is the proper name for all the former spanish and portuguese colonies. We have a shared language and 500 hundred years of shared history. A chilean from Rosario have more in common with a mexican from Tijuana than a catalonian from Barcelona with a spanish from Madrid. We are not a single country due the meddling of foreign powers and the short sightedness of most of our leadership since the XIX century. It makes sense that Googlee builds a datacenter tailored to the needs of the geopolitical, economic subcontinent.
Well, I think that grandparent was trollish, but, in a short of way, it is really sad that buying better built or better specs equipment from Apple or from other brands has become not a matter of choice, but a matter of affordability even in first world countries for most people. On the plus side, here in Mexico Apple gear is now very affordable because their prices are matched now with the US price, and they keep a lower price for the exchange rate from USD to MX peso than the one in the financial markets or the open market. Apple stuff up to 12 years ago was sold here at least 2 times more expensive in USD than the US price. Adding to that the high VAT, at 15% 12 years ago or 16% now, and you can understand why the mexicans that can afford it do their shopping in the US.
Now, back on topic, the initial investment in Apple hardware is higher than in other brands, but the equipment is built to last, and the things the user interact most like the screen, keyboards and mice/trackpad are better than the common offers from their competitors. The Magsafe connector alone in their laptops helps to make them last far longer than other brands. Personally, I liked more the old style connector than the one used up to the new Retina Macbook pro because it detached more easily from the laptop than the straight angled one, and a discharged battery is less of a disaster than breaking an expensive laptop because you tripped with the power cord. I hope that when Apple's patent runs out in the Magsafe connector all the PC makers copy it. The OS is cheaper than any commercial OS, you can get Mountain Lion for all your machines your house for USD$ 20, how is that expensive? It is less than 3 hours at minimum wage in the USA, and the development tools are free. Now almost all Apple's software is under similar license terms. For the price of the last 3 updates of OS X for all my machines I bought a single license of Windows 7 pro 64 bit. On the performance side, unless you are running the latest games at the highest settings, BOINC, encoding full HD video with a low end video card or being part of a botnet you will not tax enough under common usage any x86 machine built in the last 2 years.
I can't comment about Android because the phone was bricked and the last time I used an Android phone was 3 years ago; my opinion about that phone is irrelevant now.
At least I post under my name and stand by my word. You can mod or you can post, but modding and then posting like an AC is childish. This history really happened. She took of from her phone the SIM, the memory card and the battery, cleaned the battery contacts in case they were dirty by humid clog. I did the same things again and the phone still didn't worked. Their house was attacked by burglars recently, I hope that the burglars didn't take away or destroyed the receipt of their phone because then they will end buying a new phone again instead of getting their current phone fixed under warranty.
I have a Samsung HD CRT tv that I swear by. I have also a Samsung laser printer, a CLP-510 that sadly was the last of their kind and was EOL too soon because Samsung developed a much better laser color printing technology and put it on the market at the same year I bought that printer. The printer feels cheap compared to the offers of Canon or HP at the time, but it have double side printing and supports a more wide range of printing media than every printer in their price range at the time, in this aspect is even better than most current offers. So I know first hand that Samsung can develop and build very nice equipment, but at least in that particular phone model, they choose to sell a cheap knock off.
I also have built 2 BOINC nodes using AMD processors and Gigabyte middle to top range motherboards, that up to a month ago were the fastest machines in all Mexico running BOINC. One of them is liquid cooled, with dual video cards. I know how to assemble my own PC's, not that it is particularly difficult now, and use AIX6 and 7, Solaris 9 and 10 and RHEL 5 at the datacenter were I work, but for my personal use I buy Apple gear because even for Windows they work better than other brands, ok?
Actually, an iPad, any model is way better to type in any of east asian languages like japanese or chinese than a standard PC/laptop with keyboard thanks to the bar of predictive text that appears at the top of the virtual keyboard. I suppose that the Android virtual keyboard does the same. When I need to show or look at graphs I use the iPad, the displays at work have such a low resolution that the graphs become noise otherwise. Certainly is not "the device to rule them all" but in a work environment it is actually useful. More than what i expected.
Well, I am a friend of a family of doctors, they are Mac users, and for the first time in 3 years, at least, they need help with one of they computers and I helped them. After giving back their computer yesterday we went to a party and the doctor's wife wanted to take a picture with their smartphone but it didn't work, she asked me to see if I could help her, and I said "yes, sure" thinking that her phone was a iPhone inside a black rubber case but no, it was a Samsung phone almost identical to an iPhone 4(s) and she already tried all the obvious things to do when a phone doesn't turn on. I was surprised that she didn't had an iPhone like her usband. The answer to that is that she had an iPhone 4s but it was stolen in their Christmas vacations in Paris, and she bought the Samsung phone thinking that it was so physically similar that it would work as good as her stolen iPhone. Of course it didn't.
I don't doubt that Samsung manufactures competing or better phones than Apple, but their cheap knock offs aren't good for consumers or for the company itself. Apple is stretching too much their court victory asking to ban so many products of Samsung, but Samsung should make itself a favor and stop doing such copycat products when they are able to do better. Copies of other companies products is what you expect from ZTE, Huawei or any no name brand from mainland China, but for a company with the technical prowes of Samsung is pathetic.
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Actually the virtual keyboards are pretty useful, and specially in the case of the iOS versions of Pages, Keynote and Numbers,(mostly in Numbers) are a godsend, since the keyboards change according to context, and in case of multilingual imput, in my case, Spanish, English and Japanese I can use the proper spell checker even word by word if I liked just by changing the virtual keyboard. For all the non alphabetical writing systems the virtual keyboard is so superior to the usual imput methods that the use of a "real" keyboard is a hindrance.
It's hard to believe that they managed to screw up this way. A significant percentage of americans believe that most problems in the world can be fixed by dropping bombs and/or murdering leftists. Sadly, that is not true, but this stupid method has created a easy way in many places in the world to become a popular politician, regardless of the overall quality of these guys. While the current Prime Minister of Pakistan can only appear to his people that he is powerless at best, kissing Obama's ass at worst, they gave to Khan a much needed helping hand after his blunders in regards to Afghanistan and his almost lukewarm condemnation of the attack against Malala Yousafzai. If Khan ever becomes Prime Minister he does have a very easy way to stop drone attacks: stopping all the traffic of supplies trough Pakistan to Afghanistan, even to deny access to pakistani airspace to NATO's supply airplanes. Without fuel or spare parts these drones cannot fly.
The New Yorker article should be the one posted, not the stupid crap of "The Diplomat". I think that the problem with chinese corruption from american POV is that they are not getting their share of it. For the corruption that Walmart or Halliburton promoted in Mexico that are in significant ways the cause of our security crisis they are only getting a slap in the wrist.
I use a last gen Apple TV when I need to put video on the big screen, and to send audio from any of my macs or portable devices to my home theater. No need for a dedicated tablet when a $100 device does the task very well. For better network performance and sanity, instead of using Apple TV's built in wireless I use it hooked to a Gigabit Ethernet switch that provides connectivity to all the networked devices in the entertainment rack.
If the people, specifically americans, that claim to care about human rights violations were really honest they would care more about the mess is Mexico. Here they earn around an half of what the equivalent chinese worker earns, and they have to face not only corrupt authorities but also the gang lords. They don't have unions and when they need to demand their rights they need to go in their demonstrations with their faces covered to avoid being blacklisted by the outsoursing agencies.
And before that Jobs was the first to see the true value of the GUI that we take for granted now. People in this discussion appear to have an extremely short attention span. It wasn't only the iPhone; it was how he strong armed the music industry into a digital delivery system, the innovations at Pixar, the popularization of USB thanks to the original iMac, the technology and design choices behind the NeXT cube, that enabled the development of the WWW, the GUI and at the start of his career, the development of the Apple I and Apple II. Wozniak designed them, but Steve Jobs had a significant say in the final product.
He was a human being with many faults, but at leadership he was second to none.
Oh, we don't have a helmet law, either. I don't think there should be one. That doesn't make you any less of an idiot if you don't wear a helmet.
This, you may ride safely your bike and be the best cyclist ever, but that doesn't mean that you would never cross path with a stupid pedestrian, driver or cyclist, or a damaged road or garbage.
The first computer store in my city in Mexico was Hall Microcomputadoras, that since 1979-1982 to this day is an Apple seller. I remember staring at their sales windows since I was a poor child only dreaming of ever own an computer made by Apple while waiting my bus to go to school, and remember you in a episode of "That's Incredible" in which you get lost into a maze. The story of how you and Steve Jobs created Apple is one of the reasons I work in IT today, have a well paid job and got married.
A really big thank you.
Because the penalty is absolutely not proportional to the crime. If you make every crime punishable by death then every criminal will try to kill any witness. And if you face a very stiff penalty for "stealing" a pair of songs, you could equally end stealing a shop or a bank since the penalties are similar. In Japan's case, the price of music, DVD's and Bluray disks are insane even for the high purchasing power of the japanese. Also, the big labels face stiff competition from the doujinshi circles -small teams of musicians, fans, semi and professionals- that do better music than the ones at big labels and sell their stuff at much better prices.
The price for a new single in Japan is around 1,200 yens at least. an album from big labels can be anywhere from 2,500 to 12,000 yens. A new release DVD? From 3,000 yens upward. Double that for the Bluray version. That, versus a set of 3 CD's from a famous circle like IOSYS that provides a wide range of music genres for 2,200 yens at Toranohana or Animate. Similar or lower prices for small studio videogames or animations. Which ones do you think that young consumers with diminishing wages will try to buy? Actually, the prices of label music have plummeted, they used to be 3 times more expensive, but still, Japan have a very good market for used cd's and movies; piracy is by far the least important problem that japanese society faces, I'm not japanese but for what I saw there piracy is still at a very low level. The best recipe against piracy and crime are living wages.
People need meaningful work. Not all your work is meaningful. Cycle people in and out of the shit jobs. By the way, some folks definition of a shit job doesn't match others. I'm perfectly happy to bring the shred bin out to the shred truck for $40/hr. Some of my guys, however, are absolutely offended when I ask them if they'd take the shred out.
Flex time is the other "thing". We're pretty generous. I don't really care when you work, as long as your work gets done. As long as it doesn't screw up the team, we'll give you a roughly arbitrary amount of unpaid time off, and going to the doctor's office or picking up a sick kid is not a problem. Still need to hit deadlines and what, but I really don't want you at work if you're angry or sick.
Short-term cashflow problems are much easier to take care of with the sabatical, too. Right now, work is hard to find, and people are scared. Given the option of staying on at 5 hours/week of telecommuting + health care, versus getting laid off, we do pretty well. It's also helped our unemployment insurance, since folks who see the writing on the wall can get a new job while still technically employed, and we don't have to deal with firing them.
More of this, please.
C'mon! If you don't do that, then how you will enjoy the sight of finding a beheaded corpse half a block from your home, or seeing how gunmen put 11 bullets in the guy that is drinking a latte in the next table at a Starbucks. The second thing I only missed it because I was at work instead at one of my favorite Starbucks. But the insane policies that have made Mexico from a country like South Korea in 1980 to the mess is today are the ones you are describing. But then, I don't blame the rich for being such bastards, I blame the suckers that accept to being screwed by them. I suppose they don't like to live in a civilized way.
Japan offers so, so much more.
Like what? Easy women? Nuclear accidents? High speed rail transport?
Right, those are things you can find anywhere. It took Japan to bring the world anime.
Certainly, High speed rail transport is something that originally had only to be found in Japan. I enjoy anime, my nickname is based in a now obscure anime character, but Japan is full of very interesting things and its history is full of amazing characters. The Japan Tourist Organization's slogan:"Japan, endless discovery" is almost an understatement.
With men like Ballmer and Myhrvold at helm, only the previous enormous size of the company is what keeps it relevant and not becoming another RIM or Sun.
I despise many of the things that the Chinese government does, but US'ians or europeans outside Scandinavian countries don't have enough moral authority to criticize; their governments have a long stablished pattern of supporting the worst kind of murderous scum around the world as long they are subservient to their interests, and their citizens turned a blind eye at best. For its many ills, the Chinese government is managing to improve the standard of living of the Chinese population in significants ways; meanwhile, the western "democratic" governments are so busy licking the boots of the rich that they are unable to raise their eyes and see that they are destroying their nations.
Or most of the world at this time, sadly. The idea of workers rights is too communist to many people that grew praying to God to be protected from atheistic communism to understand the real value that a fair share of wealth brings to a modern, service based economy.
What's wrong with mods today!!!!???? The modding privilege granting algorithms really need tweaking, or slashdot will go down like the comments at Yahoo.
I stand corrected. I just checked it. Oddly enough, this is the fist time I use street view in my iPhone. If my pattern of usage is similar to most people then losing street view will not be such a big deal. Still, if Apple wants to provide similar functionality on its own this is the best time to start building their data set, and provide a much needed leg up to Open Maps.
Or submitting a story that will pass the pro-troll-fest filter that editors have in effect in the last months. The quality of many stories and the comments are below what you see in Facebook and getting closer to the comments in Yahoo.
The Google based Maps app for iOS 5 doesn't have traffic, public transportation or Street View here in Mexico, unless it works very different for the users at Mexico City Metropolitan area, but in Japan it does have the Public transportation features, even if it's time estimates are normally very off the mark. For Public Transportation I use the Metro app. Despite being free is one of the best apps that I have used, it justified in large part the purchase of an iPod Touch and my wife's and my own smartphones. More than the lack of many of these advanced options by Apple, is necessary that in many countries, including Mexico, the information about traffic and public transportation routes becomes more easily available. The public transport information in my state, for example, does a heavy use of Google Maps, but in a very disorganized way.
There is a small town in western Mexico called "Nueva Jerusalén" (New Jerusalem) that had their state built school destroyed by christian extremists 3 weeks ago. The town currently is under the care of a very strong detachment of Federal Police to keep the extremists at bay. The non extremist inhabitants only want their children to go to the school like every other child that goes to the school in Mexico.
Latin America is the proper name for all the former spanish and portuguese colonies. We have a shared language and 500 hundred years of shared history. A chilean from Rosario have more in common with a mexican from Tijuana than a catalonian from Barcelona with a spanish from Madrid. We are not a single country due the meddling of foreign powers and the short sightedness of most of our leadership since the XIX century. It makes sense that Googlee builds a datacenter tailored to the needs of the geopolitical, economic subcontinent.
Well, I think that grandparent was trollish, but, in a short of way, it is really sad that buying better built or better specs equipment from Apple or from other brands has become not a matter of choice, but a matter of affordability even in first world countries for most people. On the plus side, here in Mexico Apple gear is now very affordable because their prices are matched now with the US price, and they keep a lower price for the exchange rate from USD to MX peso than the one in the financial markets or the open market. Apple stuff up to 12 years ago was sold here at least 2 times more expensive in USD than the US price. Adding to that the high VAT, at 15% 12 years ago or 16% now, and you can understand why the mexicans that can afford it do their shopping in the US.
Now, back on topic, the initial investment in Apple hardware is higher than in other brands, but the equipment is built to last, and the things the user interact most like the screen, keyboards and mice/trackpad are better than the common offers from their competitors. The Magsafe connector alone in their laptops helps to make them last far longer than other brands. Personally, I liked more the old style connector than the one used up to the new Retina Macbook pro because it detached more easily from the laptop than the straight angled one, and a discharged battery is less of a disaster than breaking an expensive laptop because you tripped with the power cord. I hope that when Apple's patent runs out in the Magsafe connector all the PC makers copy it. The OS is cheaper than any commercial OS, you can get Mountain Lion for all your machines your house for USD$ 20, how is that expensive? It is less than 3 hours at minimum wage in the USA, and the development tools are free. Now almost all Apple's software is under similar license terms. For the price of the last 3 updates of OS X for all my machines I bought a single license of Windows 7 pro 64 bit. On the performance side, unless you are running the latest games at the highest settings, BOINC, encoding full HD video with a low end video card or being part of a botnet you will not tax enough under common usage any x86 machine built in the last 2 years.
I can't comment about Android because the phone was bricked and the last time I used an Android phone was 3 years ago; my opinion about that phone is irrelevant now.
At least I post under my name and stand by my word. You can mod or you can post, but modding and then posting like an AC is childish. This history really happened. She took of from her phone the SIM, the memory card and the battery, cleaned the battery contacts in case they were dirty by humid clog. I did the same things again and the phone still didn't worked. Their house was attacked by burglars recently, I hope that the burglars didn't take away or destroyed the receipt of their phone because then they will end buying a new phone again instead of getting their current phone fixed under warranty.
I have a Samsung HD CRT tv that I swear by. I have also a Samsung laser printer, a CLP-510 that sadly was the last of their kind and was EOL too soon because Samsung developed a much better laser color printing technology and put it on the market at the same year I bought that printer. The printer feels cheap compared to the offers of Canon or HP at the time, but it have double side printing and supports a more wide range of printing media than every printer in their price range at the time, in this aspect is even better than most current offers. So I know first hand that Samsung can develop and build very nice equipment, but at least in that particular phone model, they choose to sell a cheap knock off.
I also have built 2 BOINC nodes using AMD processors and Gigabyte middle to top range motherboards, that up to a month ago were the fastest machines in all Mexico running BOINC. One of them is liquid cooled, with dual video cards. I know how to assemble my own PC's, not that it is particularly difficult now, and use AIX6 and 7, Solaris 9 and 10 and RHEL 5 at the datacenter were I work, but for my personal use I buy Apple gear because even for Windows they work better than other brands, ok?
Actually, an iPad, any model is way better to type in any of east asian languages like japanese or chinese than a standard PC/laptop with keyboard thanks to the bar of predictive text that appears at the top of the virtual keyboard. I suppose that the Android virtual keyboard does the same. When I need to show or look at graphs I use the iPad, the displays at work have such a low resolution that the graphs become noise otherwise. Certainly is not "the device to rule them all" but in a work environment it is actually useful. More than what i expected.
Well, I am a friend of a family of doctors, they are Mac users, and for the first time in 3 years, at least, they need help with one of they computers and I helped them. After giving back their computer yesterday we went to a party and the doctor's wife wanted to take a picture with their smartphone but it didn't work, she asked me to see if I could help her, and I said "yes, sure" thinking that her phone was a iPhone inside a black rubber case but no, it was a Samsung phone almost identical to an iPhone 4(s) and she already tried all the obvious things to do when a phone doesn't turn on. I was surprised that she didn't had an iPhone like her usband. The answer to that is that she had an iPhone 4s but it was stolen in their Christmas vacations in Paris, and she bought the Samsung phone thinking that it was so physically similar that it would work as good as her stolen iPhone. Of course it didn't.
I don't doubt that Samsung manufactures competing or better phones than Apple, but their cheap knock offs aren't good for consumers or for the company itself. Apple is stretching too much their court victory asking to ban so many products of Samsung, but Samsung should make itself a favor and stop doing such copycat products when they are able to do better. Copies of other companies products is what you expect from ZTE, Huawei or any no name brand from mainland China, but for a company with the technical prowes of Samsung is pathetic.