Besides, the windows phone UI is ugly as hell. You basically have to be a Microsoft fan to actually want to use it.
I disagree. I wasn't a Microsoft fan when I switched to Windows Phone in late 2012 (hated Windows XP, skipped Vista, was forced to use 7). But the somewhat denser UI allowed me to break out of the tap in, tap in, tap in, back, back, back cycle that I was seemingly stuck in on iOS.
Plus I liked the tiles: resizable, repositionable, and they contained information.
Your phone doesn't store local maps and it has a low grade GPS receiver. A dedicated GPS unit has the maps stored on it and has a better GPS receiver, so there is much less delay.
My phone has locally stored maps. At least for the places I am in. But I agree the GPS could be a bit faster. Or I guess I could drive a bit slower.
Beware what model year your 27" iMac is. anything mid-2011 and later only supports input from Thunderbolt originated signals. Found out the hard way with my mini-displayport enabled device.
You must be short. Any discussion with said Air Marshall would quickly and visually indicate that there is no room between your seatback and my knee in any position. Short legged people just don't understand that.
When you're agreeing on a cell phone + contract, the contract has a subsidy in it. So, Obama is actually forcing a seperation of both parts.
I don't follow your reasoning. Unlocking is orthogonal to the 2 year contract. If you unlock a phone, yes, you can move to a different carrier but you are still responsible for the contract.
I'll bite, I searched for ios virus on Google and Bing. Same results. Nothing really current (something from the ios 4 days) other than the malware infecting charger. So if you have citations, I would love to see them.
The turn by turn may be better because it actually exists in iOS6 but the routing that the turn by turn uses is not better. This is anecdotal but it chooses a route from my house to a given destination which requires a 140 degree left turn (with no stoplights). While not illegal, it is dangerous. Other routing choices seem almost random (again, anecdotal, but I did two routes from two locations that where separated on a given rural road by about 10 miles and it gave me two different river crossings to take when the road to the river crossings was common for about 40 miles for both routes).
Another minor downgrade is the missing bookmarks option. A personal rant, 3D mode is too easy to enable (via button or two fingered swipe).
Maps 6 does do a beautiful job of animating the street names in and out appropriate to the zoom level and hence keeps them legible more often.
And I miss Street View but that's mostly from virtually visiting places, not really navigating.
No, the Apple cut was initially only for Apps, not for purchases within Apps before Apple changed the rules in February.
I don't think that is true. In-App-Purchases always had the 30% cut. What did change was that if you as an app vendor allowed customers to purchase content from within the app (using your own store front), then you needed to offer that same content for purchase using In-App-Purchase.
forgot who it was, but someone blogged that RA was told by Apple that their app was rejected because the iphone API doesn't allow Apple copyrighted content to be used. the Mac API does. instead of fixing it, RA sat on it for months, whined on the blogs and then decided to stop developing for the iphone.
This is interesting and indicates to me that RA was not making enough money on their iPhone apps. This public storming away is a way to exit the market and save face.
AT&T's lock on Apple will be over, and I'll be able to go back to T-Mobile with my iPhone.
I'm afraid that's not entirely true, based on my understanding. AT&T and T-Mobile use different 3G Frequency bands. So you can bring your iPhone to T-Mobile and get EDGE connectivity, but you'll lose 3G functionality.
And beyond that, to use the iPhone on a non-ATT network means you need to unlock it. And to do that you need to jailbreak it. And to do that you need to be running a jailbreakable+unlockable release which at this point in time, means not OS 3.1. Altogether much hassle that the original poster didn't want.
All this new touch screen mumbo jumbo is slick and all, but I have a feeling it's going to follow suit for exactly the same reasons. Touch screen is great when you're using a stylus; however, when you're using a device that has a small handful of simple functions (on/off, play, ff/rw, pause/stop, vol up/down), simple tactile feedback is critical.
Agreed in many places touch technology is misplaced. But on a small device, being able to remap the controls (or keys) to suit the specific task is a huge benefit.
Here is Roger's Early Cancellation Fee for the IPhone:
"The ECF is the greater of (ii) $100 or (iii) $20 per month remaining in the service agreement, to a maximum of $400 (plus applicable taxes), and applies on each line in the plan that is terminated."
So waiting a month and then canceling will cost you $700 vs $175 with AT&T
I think that it will be a max of $400, not $700. The line you quote caps the max ECF at $400.
What I find more appalling is that it is a 3 year contract. That is a long time to be tied to one carrier.
I think you are missing the parent post's point: the os x purchased in the store is by definition an upgrade since you can install it on a mac only: A mac that came with a version of OS X.
The parent's post was saying, and you are echoing, that because all os x upgrades are for already licensed copies, then you don't need to worry about any crazy license keys, can support clean installs, etc.. But they are still upgrades (to the machine's original OS).
It's a legal issue as opposed to a technical one).
Hehe. In a similar vein, Microsoft's OS X Remote Desktop application Beta 2 expired on March 31 2008. You can still use it but you get a great nag screen to download the latest beta (whcih links you to, you guess it, beta 2).
Oh, and that probably affected more users than the iphone beta expiration.
I'm not sure that you are looking at the entire potential set of iphone customers.
Executives make up a small portion of that. Especially multi-billionaires!
My counter point would be I know *two* people who have to carry around a blackberry for the push email and respond with (barely) one sentence replies!
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Besides, the windows phone UI is ugly as hell. You basically have to be a Microsoft fan to actually want to use it.
I disagree. I wasn't a Microsoft fan when I switched to Windows Phone in late 2012 (hated Windows XP, skipped Vista, was forced to use 7). But the somewhat denser UI allowed me to break out of the tap in, tap in, tap in, back, back, back cycle that I was seemingly stuck in on iOS.
Plus I liked the tiles: resizable, repositionable, and they contained information.
Thank you. I did not know about this. Makes tablet mode usable with Firefox.
Sounds like a hardware problem. Have you tried getting it fixed?
Why would you even bother reinstalling the OS multiple times to fix the WiFi connection? Life is too short.
Why would someone advertise prescription medication?
Ask your doctor if $name_brand_drug is right for you!
No. Just no.
why not? It seems quite novel. Might end up with a different form of reading entertainment.
Your phone doesn't store local maps and it has a low grade GPS receiver. A dedicated GPS unit has the maps stored on it and has a better GPS receiver, so there is much less delay.
My phone has locally stored maps. At least for the places I am in. But I agree the GPS could be a bit faster. Or I guess I could drive a bit slower.
Beware what model year your 27" iMac is. anything mid-2011 and later only supports input from Thunderbolt originated signals. Found out the hard way with my mini-displayport enabled device.
Ah. That's interesting. Hood sitting is not a primary use case. Carrying a mobile phone is.
You must be short. Any discussion with said Air Marshall would quickly and visually indicate that there is no room between your seatback and my knee in any position. Short legged people just don't understand that.
You should probably plan on being unemployable after you're 52 or so
What makes you say that?
When you're agreeing on a cell phone + contract, the contract has a subsidy in it. So, Obama is actually forcing a seperation of both parts.
I don't follow your reasoning. Unlocking is orthogonal to the 2 year contract. If you unlock a phone, yes, you can move to a different carrier but you are still responsible for the contract.
I'll bite, I searched for ios virus on Google and Bing. Same results. Nothing really current (something from the ios 4 days) other than the malware infecting charger. So if you have citations, I would love to see them.
Tell me about it! And the TI-57 manual Making Tracks into Programming was phenomenal.
I just wish I knew about the constant memory trick with the infinite loop blanking the display back then. Where *was* the internet!
Ahh. It's harder because I don't have a "Windows Key" on my keyboard.
Doesn't the "Command" key behave like the "Windows" key when you are running on a mac in some sort of windows mode (VM, bootcamp)?
Eh, in Maps 6, some things are nicer, some not.
The turn by turn may be better because it actually exists in iOS6 but the routing that the turn by turn uses is not better. This is anecdotal but it chooses a route from my house to a given destination which requires a 140 degree left turn (with no stoplights). While not illegal, it is dangerous. Other routing choices seem almost random (again, anecdotal, but I did two routes from two locations that where separated on a given rural road by about 10 miles and it gave me two different river crossings to take when the road to the river crossings was common for about 40 miles for both routes).
Another minor downgrade is the missing bookmarks option. A personal rant, 3D mode is too easy to enable (via button or two fingered swipe).
Maps 6 does do a beautiful job of animating the street names in and out appropriate to the zoom level and hence keeps them legible more often.
And I miss Street View but that's mostly from virtually visiting places, not really navigating.
The Apple cut has been pretty well known
No, the Apple cut was initially only for Apps, not for purchases within Apps before Apple changed the rules in February.
I don't think that is true. In-App-Purchases always had the 30% cut. What did change was that if you as an app vendor allowed customers to purchase content from within the app (using your own store front), then you needed to offer that same content for purchase using In-App-Purchase.
This is interesting and indicates to me that RA was not making enough money on their iPhone apps. This public storming away is a way to exit the market and save face.
And beyond that, to use the iPhone on a non-ATT network means you need to unlock it. And to do that you need to jailbreak it. And to do that you need to be running a jailbreakable+unlockable release which at this point in time, means not OS 3.1. Altogether much hassle that the original poster didn't want.
Agreed in many places touch technology is misplaced. But on a small device, being able to remap the controls (or keys) to suit the specific task is a huge benefit.
I think that it will be a max of $400, not $700. The line you quote caps the max ECF at $400.
What I find more appalling is that it is a 3 year contract. That is a long time to be tied to one carrier.
The parent's post was saying, and you are echoing, that because all os x upgrades are for already licensed copies, then you don't need to worry about any crazy license keys, can support clean installs, etc.. But they are still upgrades (to the machine's original OS).
It's a legal issue as opposed to a technical one).
Oh, and that probably affected more users than the iphone beta expiration.
I'm not sure that you are looking at the entire potential set of iphone customers. Executives make up a small portion of that. Especially multi-billionaires! My counter point would be I know *two* people who have to carry around a blackberry for the push email and respond with (barely) one sentence replies!