Far better to let Apple screw you over, instead, hey? A much better idea to pay a premium for yesterday's technology - after all, all those lawyers protecting Apple's rectangle aren't cheap to pay for, you know.
Guy at work sitting less than 2m away from. iPhone 3GS. Can he get iOS6? No, he can't.
Anyway, iOS6 is essentially iOS1 + a few features stolen from Android Cupcake, so of course you can run it on old hardware. The iPhone 1 and the iPhone 4S are fundamentally the same hardware with the same software, so of course you can use the latest iteration of the 5 year old OS. It basically hasn't changed since initial release. Now compare JellyBean to Android 1.0 and let's see how much innovation has occurred on this side of the fence.
I can't think of a better organisation to solve things. After all, how could the organisation that just yesterday voted Iran to the head of the UN arms trade committee (http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/47911) and is about to vote Syria in to the UNHCR (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4252020,00.html) possibly go wrong!
Oh no! You caught me out! My master plan has failed. I signed up to slashdot almost a decade ago, posted consistently throughout that that entire time with good karma and then wham! When I finally pull out my single, masterly Astro-Turf-Master comment, this AC foils me!
Or to put it another way, you have 2 lemonade stands. One is selling only about 1/4 of the lemonade but making more money because the girl selling lemonade there has bigger tits, so she can make a bigger margin. The other 75% of customers just want high quality lemonade at a reasonable price.
Now, Apple Fanbois, answer me this. If *you* don't work for Apple, why the fuck are you happy that they're making so much money of *YOU*?? They're selling inferior technology - and less of it - yet making more money?
There's *only one way* that can happen and that's if the idiots buying it are willing to be over charged for it. AND YOU'RE PROUD OF THIS?!?!
American judge awards American company an injunction against an overseas competitor. Again. We (the rest of the world) never saw that coming...
And yes, I know to Americans this comment is going to seem trolly but I am willing to risk karma over it because this is precisely how these cases are viewed, outside your borders. For right or wrong, we see it that the US controlled ITC and US court system are used to prop up US companies against competition.
It's free (mostly) and it's really good. Easy to administer and they will find it very, very hard to work around.
Blocks protocols, porn, bittorrent, msn, etc and you can chose what to block by protocol, by type, filter email, view logs of what people are doing, the works.
In the case of Google vs Oracle, you had an American judge with 2 American companies, so the case was judged on its merits.
In the case of Apple vs Samsung you had an American judge with Apple (American) and Samsung (Korean). The case does not appear to have been judged on its merits (as I am fairly sure Apple didn't really invent the rectangle).
Call me a troll if you wish but this is how we (the rest of the World) understands these cases to be judged.
A lot of the other comments here about contracts are on the money however you also need to understand Samsung. Samsung are not at all like Apple. Apple is one big monolithic company who make Apple Things. Samsung are another big company who are made up of various divisions who have nothing at all to do with one another. They make things like heavy machinery, to RAM, to semiconductors, to Galaxy devices, to who knows what else. A lot like Sony or Hitachi or Hyundai, etc. So the division that makes the components that sells to Apple probably has 0 interaction (other than selling to) the division that makes Galaxy Tablets. And you can bet they do sell to the tablet division, too.
How are they copying Apple, exactly? By having rounded corners?? I can tell you, there is an enormous difference between a Galaxy S2 and an iPhone or even between Android (which Samsung do not make) and iOS.
Besides - look at the iOS 5 launch video and then look at Android from about 2 years earlier and tell me who is copying who, now? Notifications?!? Apps pushed from the cloud to all your devices?!? Android did those things in 2009 - and it did (and still does) them a lot better. iCloud?
I don't see Google screaming that Apple stole the ideas from them but I do see Apple claiming originality on those very ideas in that launch video, despite the fact Android has done them for a much longer time.
I see a company who has been thoroughly routed on the technology once again and is desperately trying to sue their way clear, rather than innovate their way clear.
Because the case was brought aboutbefore this text was added later and has been added as a direct result of this case. Prior to the case, the text said something to the effect of (some paraphrasing included) "iPad3: Now with moar Gs!"
MacBook Air running Chrome. Entry level specs. Game runs perfectly.
I mean it sucks as a game (now - back in the day I loved it) but it runs on this platform far faster than it ever did back on my 1992 PC, which was probably an 80386DX40, from memory.
Yeah it's very much a case of "who you listen to" - although I would discount out of hand any WikiMedia stats outright, as they massively over-inflate iOS stats to the point of lunacy, being about 2.5 times higher than every other source.
None the less, if Ubuntu makes good on its claim of 5%, my point is it's comparable to reasonable estimates of OSX, which are around 6-9% (probably 7% is a good estimate). 5% and 7% market share are not too different in my opinion, so it would be the first true sign of life for Linux on the Desktop.
My personal belief is, given the enormous popularity of Android (61% of US market, announced today, almost 75% of China and about 55% of Australia), the upcoming Ubuntu for Android (http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android) options will make Linux on the desktop a reality; although in a way no one expected when/. first started that meme. Motorola is already working something basically the same and once people can easily dock their smartphone to a keyboard / mouse / monitor and have a windowed desktop environment instantly appear, I think it will really start to take off. I know for my work, I could probably do about 75% of my daily things like this - 100% if I include Remote Desktop.
It's not ridiculously far off OSX, either. Many sources put this at between 6% to 10%. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
I guess in a way, if this happens, it pretty much will be the year of the Linux Desktop - or at least any Mac users (myself included) would be hard pressed to argue otherwise.
It's not a typo - it's a Dilbert-o. The creator of Dilbert, Scott Adams, recommends people refer to their co-workers as cow-orkers as a surreptitious form of insulting them, which you can back out of if needs be.:-) Same thing with in-duh-viduals.
I used to think that every time someone posted "shill", etc they were just being paranoid but seriously, this is just now getting beyond a joke.
You have 6 posts - all of them anti Google, on a brand new account. Honestly; how dumb do you astroturfers think people are?? If you're getting paid to do this, you're wasting your client's money. At least try and be vaguely opaque about what you're doing. Posts like this are an insult to our collective intelligence and a complete waste of your time and resources.
It also lowers the general opinion of the likely candidates for cliency (i.e. Microsoft), so it's not only failed in the primary purpose of making people question Google - it's also made us more likely to automatically defend Google simply to shut you down and it's also made people even more distrustful of Microsoft (because it's easy to put 1 and 1 together and notice the plethora of anti-Google posts coupled with the pro Windows phone posts from similar accounts).
Please stop this crap because you're wasting everyone's time and damaging your own client in the process.
Although I agree China isn't going to invade the US and neither is anyone else, what history shows about local populations can do against a "proper military" is utterly irrelevant. The reason the US army isn't doing well in Afghanistan or did well in Iraq isn't because the local populace could resist - it's because the US allowed them to resist. The court of public opinion, ethics and morals, etc meant that the US didn't just drop daisy cutters on entire villages and adopt the "scorched Earth" policy because if they had, there'd be no resistance left in either country. History is also pretty clear on what happens to local populations when a scorched earth policy is adopted by a "proper military", too (even pre firearm or WMD ones) - there's an awful lot of civilisations that aren't around any more.
Now, if hypothetical China did somehow successfully invade the mainland US, I can't imagine they'd show the same level of restraint that the US has.
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Far better to let Apple screw you over, instead, hey? A much better idea to pay a premium for yesterday's technology - after all, all those lawyers protecting Apple's rectangle aren't cheap to pay for, you know.
Guy at work sitting less than 2m away from. iPhone 3GS. Can he get iOS6? No, he can't.
Anyway, iOS6 is essentially iOS1 + a few features stolen from Android Cupcake, so of course you can run it on old hardware. The iPhone 1 and the iPhone 4S are fundamentally the same hardware with the same software, so of course you can use the latest iteration of the 5 year old OS. It basically hasn't changed since initial release. Now compare JellyBean to Android 1.0 and let's see how much innovation has occurred on this side of the fence.
Absolutely :-)
I can't think of a better organisation to solve things. After all, how could the organisation that just yesterday voted Iran to the head of the UN arms trade committee (http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/47911) and is about to vote Syria in to the UNHCR (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4252020,00.html) possibly go wrong!
"...Microsoft was never bothered by sybian selling 10's of millions of phones even though it could do various office and web browsing task...".
Hilarious typo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybian
Ummm, yes. Yes it was.
Oh no! You caught me out! My master plan has failed. I signed up to slashdot almost a decade ago, posted consistently throughout that that entire time with good karma and then wham! When I finally pull out my single, masterly Astro-Turf-Master comment, this AC foils me!
Oh the irony!
It wasn't hard at all - My Galaxy S3 with Google Goggles solved it in under 3 seconds.
:-P
Of course, I personally, don't even know the rules of Sudoku.
Except those pictures are photo shopped and this is well documented...
Or to put it another way, you have 2 lemonade stands. One is selling only about 1/4 of the lemonade but making more money because the girl selling lemonade there has bigger tits, so she can make a bigger margin. The other 75% of customers just want high quality lemonade at a reasonable price.
Now, Apple Fanbois, answer me this. If *you* don't work for Apple, why the fuck are you happy that they're making so much money of *YOU*?? They're selling inferior technology - and less of it - yet making more money?
There's *only one way* that can happen and that's if the idiots buying it are willing to be over charged for it. AND YOU'RE PROUD OF THIS?!?!
WHY?!?!?
Wow, big surprise!
American judge awards American company an injunction against an overseas competitor. Again. We (the rest of the world) never saw that coming...
And yes, I know to Americans this comment is going to seem trolly but I am willing to risk karma over it because this is precisely how these cases are viewed, outside your borders. For right or wrong, we see it that the US controlled ITC and US court system are used to prop up US companies against competition.
It's free (mostly) and it's really good. Easy to administer and they will find it very, very hard to work around.
Blocks protocols, porn, bittorrent, msn, etc and you can chose what to block by protocol, by type, filter email, view logs of what people are doing, the works.
There's a marked difference in those cases.
In the case of Google vs Oracle, you had an American judge with 2 American companies, so the case was judged on its merits.
In the case of Apple vs Samsung you had an American judge with Apple (American) and Samsung (Korean). The case does not appear to have been judged on its merits (as I am fairly sure Apple didn't really invent the rectangle).
Call me a troll if you wish but this is how we (the rest of the World) understands these cases to be judged.
...they're doing far better than any single competitor in the smartphone arena...
Except Samsung.
http://gigaom.com/apple/samsung-probably-sold-the-most-smartphones-in-2011/
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/samsung-beats-apple-smartphone-sales-20120427-1xq29.html
A lot of the other comments here about contracts are on the money however you also need to understand Samsung. Samsung are not at all like Apple. Apple is one big monolithic company who make Apple Things. Samsung are another big company who are made up of various divisions who have nothing at all to do with one another. They make things like heavy machinery, to RAM, to semiconductors, to Galaxy devices, to who knows what else. A lot like Sony or Hitachi or Hyundai, etc. So the division that makes the components that sells to Apple probably has 0 interaction (other than selling to) the division that makes Galaxy Tablets. And you can bet they do sell to the tablet division, too.
How are they copying Apple, exactly? By having rounded corners?? I can tell you, there is an enormous difference between a Galaxy S2 and an iPhone or even between Android (which Samsung do not make) and iOS.
Besides - look at the iOS 5 launch video and then look at Android from about 2 years earlier and tell me who is copying who, now? Notifications?!? Apps pushed from the cloud to all your devices?!? Android did those things in 2009 - and it did (and still does) them a lot better. iCloud?
I don't see Google screaming that Apple stole the ideas from them but I do see Apple claiming originality on those very ideas in that launch video, despite the fact Android has done them for a much longer time.
I see a company who has been thoroughly routed on the technology once again and is desperately trying to sue their way clear, rather than innovate their way clear.
Then you're a perfect customer for whatever Apple is selling! :-P
Because the case was brought aboutbefore this text was added later and has been added as a direct result of this case. Prior to the case, the text said something to the effect of (some paraphrasing included) "iPad3: Now with moar Gs!"
MacBook Air running Chrome. Entry level specs. Game runs perfectly.
I mean it sucks as a game (now - back in the day I loved it) but it runs on this platform far faster than it ever did back on my 1992 PC, which was probably an 80386DX40, from memory.
Yeah it's very much a case of "who you listen to" - although I would discount out of hand any WikiMedia stats outright, as they massively over-inflate iOS stats to the point of lunacy, being about 2.5 times higher than every other source.
/. first started that meme. Motorola is already working something basically the same and once people can easily dock their smartphone to a keyboard / mouse / monitor and have a windowed desktop environment instantly appear, I think it will really start to take off. I know for my work, I could probably do about 75% of my daily things like this - 100% if I include Remote Desktop.
None the less, if Ubuntu makes good on its claim of 5%, my point is it's comparable to reasonable estimates of OSX, which are around 6-9% (probably 7% is a good estimate). 5% and 7% market share are not too different in my opinion, so it would be the first true sign of life for Linux on the Desktop.
My personal belief is, given the enormous popularity of Android (61% of US market, announced today, almost 75% of China and about 55% of Australia), the upcoming Ubuntu for Android (http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android) options will make Linux on the desktop a reality; although in a way no one expected when
It's not ridiculously far off OSX, either. Many sources put this at between 6% to 10%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
I guess in a way, if this happens, it pretty much will be the year of the Linux Desktop - or at least any Mac users (myself included) would be hard pressed to argue otherwise.
It's not a typo - it's a Dilbert-o. The creator of Dilbert, Scott Adams, recommends people refer to their co-workers as cow-orkers as a surreptitious form of insulting them, which you can back out of if needs be. :-) Same thing with in-duh-viduals.
I used to think that every time someone posted "shill", etc they were just being paranoid but seriously, this is just now getting beyond a joke.
You have 6 posts - all of them anti Google, on a brand new account. Honestly; how dumb do you astroturfers think people are?? If you're getting paid to do this, you're wasting your client's money. At least try and be vaguely opaque about what you're doing. Posts like this are an insult to our collective intelligence and a complete waste of your time and resources.
It also lowers the general opinion of the likely candidates for cliency (i.e. Microsoft), so it's not only failed in the primary purpose of making people question Google - it's also made us more likely to automatically defend Google simply to shut you down and it's also made people even more distrustful of Microsoft (because it's easy to put 1 and 1 together and notice the plethora of anti-Google posts coupled with the pro Windows phone posts from similar accounts).
Please stop this crap because you're wasting everyone's time and damaging your own client in the process.
Although I agree China isn't going to invade the US and neither is anyone else, what history shows about local populations can do against a "proper military" is utterly irrelevant. The reason the US army isn't doing well in Afghanistan or did well in Iraq isn't because the local populace could resist - it's because the US allowed them to resist. The court of public opinion, ethics and morals, etc meant that the US didn't just drop daisy cutters on entire villages and adopt the "scorched Earth" policy because if they had, there'd be no resistance left in either country. History is also pretty clear on what happens to local populations when a scorched earth policy is adopted by a "proper military", too (even pre firearm or WMD ones) - there's an awful lot of civilisations that aren't around any more.
Now, if hypothetical China did somehow successfully invade the mainland US, I can't imagine they'd show the same level of restraint that the US has.
... you're just holding it wrong.
Microsoft exec: "More people are going to be trying to attack Macs... and we've got the receipts to prove it!"
No