I don't know why anyone is every surprised by this either, the earliest Macs were designed specifically to be unopenable because of a Steve Job's request because he didn't want people opening it and messing with the design.
They've done it twice I believe. Once where they failed to build it, then they did it again with a viewer submission attempt.
With that hotel in Vegas adding legitimacy back to the claim that you can build a mirror based death ray by nuking deck chairs and delivering some serious injuries to customers by the pool.
Why the President needs to be involved is beyond me.
And it's because 2010 was the year of the iPad, a new device that fills a niche we didn't know we needed filled at a price less than a new 3DTV. We all just finished buying up our brand new big screen TVs at a great price, no one is upgrading just yet. 3D TVs are currently 4-5 years too early.
VLC on the iPad is REALLY crippled, in fact I wouldn't have even called it VLC. You can't stream to it, you can only play stuff installed to the device and it struggles with some of the higher def stuff.
Uh... what accessories does your AppleTV need? Hell mine came with an accessory I DIDN'T need, the remote is useless between an iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad and Logitech Harmony Remote.
In fact, Handbrake just made my life grand by allowing me to rip my entire DVD collection to an AppleTV format.
Don't want (or can't because you're pirating AVIs) to use iTunes, wait for 4.2 next month and push your library from AirTunes.
In the meantime, I have to reset my Xbox360 and DLNA server every other show because of a hiccup in the network that completely stalls feeds and registers files incorrectly as unplayable. AppleTV made my life easier. I don't rent with it either, no point.
Google has 0 devices right now that are compatible with "Throw" and that will only change to our cell phones, assuming you have Android and assuming they push the tech to Android, and assuming your carrier is going to allow you to update your Android OS to include the technology.
I paid $80 new at Toys R Us for Civilization for the SNES. It was worth every penny, but the reality is that it shows you after nearly 20 years prices have actually gone down and production costs gone up (remember that we didn't need all the artists and level designers like we do today). On top of that, you look
Screw you, I used this heavily to sync bookmarks across 6 different systems. It was the only one that would sync Firefox for my linux desktop and work laptop, my work xp machine which needs to use IE and Chrome by standards and Safari on my personal macbook so that I could keep my book marks sync'd to my iPhone and iPad.
Actually most of the places on the Internet I go to seem to think it's probably closer to 4 or 8GB, with 8GB stretching the limit. The OS needs 1GB and the box doesn't cache much more than the iDevices do which is most definitely not plural GB. I would say 4 is reasonable and really enough to do many "Apps".
Expect to see next year's model to include some flash storage again once the App store is fully supported for the OS, right now I think it's more of an issue of securing the APIs so that you don't have people trying to access touch devices and input for a device that doesn't have it as well as making the Xcode tools work with it.
It fails for you, your opinion is not shared with everyone. At it's current size, I'm quite happy with the iPad, anything smaller and I would have been wondering why I didn't just wait for the iPhone4 or latest iPod touch. I don't have the weight issue you describe, maybe people having problems are a defect of the user's physique.
I suspect once we see market recognition of the iPad, the next model will cut out much of the around screen excess real estate and a slightly smaller screen with the same resolution (making it appear more crisp and clear).
Regardless, 7 hour battery life is a fail, the price is a fail, the content restrictions they're obviously trying to build is a fail, DLNA is a fail to anyone that's actually tried to use it (I have to consistently reboot my Xbox to view movies over DLNA because of small blips registering files unplayable). And no one cares if it outputs HDMI. No wifi only version, really? Why do we need to be tied to some service for this? Personally, MiFi's and Smartphones with built in access points are the wave for data only device connectivity. No one wants to pay $30-60 a month PER device to give it limited Internet capability.
What choice? Google has kill switches to kill apps as we've already seen. Most Android users I know have had to root their device to install many things on their device, an operation whose purpose is similar to jailbreaking an iPhone.
I'm tired of the Google soapbox, their pool is no better than the Apple pool.
So apparently you don't like people thinking for you, but you don't bother to think if they have the right idea.
No I don't like that he thinks for me, but I do think he's helped build the best phone experience EVER. It's protected me from poor developers and there are far too many of them out there.
Funny, I had no problem watching Bones on my iPhone... oh that's right because you forgot there is a hulu app that will do that. You probably just didn't want to pay for the subscription. Neither did I, I just watched a converted stream recorded on my TV, though I could watch the older episodes through the Netflix app.
Seems like there are options now, your argument doesn't hold water.
Apparently you haven't seen the html5 games that are coming out now that developers are actually learning to work with a standard.
Oh, and anything developed in html5 bypasses the app store entirely, something Google learned pretty quick apparently as they keep porting their services to html5.
Going to disagree. If you look at what graphics cards have done to desktops and gaming, all it's done is inflate power requirements both electrically and CPU with developers prominently developing for a technology level that does not yet exist in mainstream (Crysis anyone?).
We need the hardware to stay more at the specs and speeds it currently is and focus on efficiency of programming and making the hardware work more efficiently with more battery life. You can see Apple is actively doing this with their devices, every new one has a longer battery life between charges. They're not concerned with the clock race.
Sorry he doesn't speak alone. When I can't even browse for information for the latest Droid phone on Verizon's website because the flash demo is so horribly broken, that's a crappy Flash based interface. They're all over too.
So what? Microsoft doesn't stop them from putting it on their crappy OS.
You don't really have an argument here. If anything, it's a good example of why Apple is succeeding, they are protecting the user experience of their OS and device, meanwhile all the crappy experiences of Windows users has soured Microsoft and Windows for years.
1. Flash doesn't support Windows. Flash is COMPATIBLE with Windows.
Flash is currently not compatable with a number of other OSes. This is Adobe's fault. Adobe can cry to Apple all it wants, but the truth is that there is no Flash10 for my Windows 95 box, there isn't one for my AIX host, there isn't one for my HP/UX host, there isn't one for my Windows Mobile phone either.
2. Adobe doesn't support Flash on Android, it makes it available. Good luck trying to actually get Flash Support, I dare you to call Adobe's Help support line and let me know how that goes. I'm willing to bet if you did get someone that was willing to even talk to you, they would push it off to Google or your carrier for support.
We may not have the choice, but I don't think it's much of a decision. Flash sucks, plain and simple, I hate it, I wish it would go away and I use Linux.
So wow, surprise surprise, the flash fanboys still don't get it that now that it's out there, people are going to see flash on the droid and cry that it sucks. Now the WHOLE PLATFORM LOOKS LIKE CRAP. In the meantime, you can hate Steve Jobs for not allowing Flash, but guess what, the iPhone still delivers THE BEST phone experience available.
Hell, my iPhone 3G runs like a turtle with iOS 4 on it, but it still behaves better than any other hacky OS on a phone I've had the (dis)pleasure to experience.
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My wife would beg to disagree with you.... she's on Facebook all the time reading what crap her friends have to spew.
I on the other hand wish you were correct.
I don't know why anyone is every surprised by this either, the earliest Macs were designed specifically to be unopenable because of a Steve Job's request because he didn't want people opening it and messing with the design.
Jobs' is still Jobs.
They've done it twice I believe. Once where they failed to build it, then they did it again with a viewer submission attempt.
With that hotel in Vegas adding legitimacy back to the claim that you can build a mirror based death ray by nuking deck chairs and delivering some serious injuries to customers by the pool.
Why the President needs to be involved is beyond me.
And it's because 2010 was the year of the iPad, a new device that fills a niche we didn't know we needed filled at a price less than a new 3DTV. We all just finished buying up our brand new big screen TVs at a great price, no one is upgrading just yet. 3D TVs are currently 4-5 years too early.
Here... let me fix that for you,
4G (as Clear and Sprint want you to believe) does not meet LTE.
VLC on the iPad is REALLY crippled, in fact I wouldn't have even called it VLC. You can't stream to it, you can only play stuff installed to the device and it struggles with some of the higher def stuff.
Uh... what accessories does your AppleTV need? Hell mine came with an accessory I DIDN'T need, the remote is useless between an iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad and Logitech Harmony Remote.
What is so difficult about running iTunes?
In fact, Handbrake just made my life grand by allowing me to rip my entire DVD collection to an AppleTV format.
Don't want (or can't because you're pirating AVIs) to use iTunes, wait for 4.2 next month and push your library from AirTunes.
In the meantime, I have to reset my Xbox360 and DLNA server every other show because of a hiccup in the network that completely stalls feeds and registers files incorrectly as unplayable. AppleTV made my life easier. I don't rent with it either, no point.
Google has 0 devices right now that are compatible with "Throw" and that will only change to our cell phones, assuming you have Android and assuming they push the tech to Android, and assuming your carrier is going to allow you to update your Android OS to include the technology.
I paid $80 new at Toys R Us for Civilization for the SNES. It was worth every penny, but the reality is that it shows you after nearly 20 years prices have actually gone down and production costs gone up (remember that we didn't need all the artists and level designers like we do today). On top of that, you look
"They don't know how to get thousands of spectators to an event, they don't know how to organize an event."
You don't quite understand Blizzcon do you....
Screw you, I used this heavily to sync bookmarks across 6 different systems. It was the only one that would sync Firefox for my linux desktop and work laptop, my work xp machine which needs to use IE and Chrome by standards and Safari on my personal macbook so that I could keep my book marks sync'd to my iPhone and iPad.
Actually according to the DMCA it was illegal.
Actually most of the places on the Internet I go to seem to think it's probably closer to 4 or 8GB, with 8GB stretching the limit. The OS needs 1GB and the box doesn't cache much more than the iDevices do which is most definitely not plural GB. I would say 4 is reasonable and really enough to do many "Apps".
Expect to see next year's model to include some flash storage again once the App store is fully supported for the OS, right now I think it's more of an issue of securing the APIs so that you don't have people trying to access touch devices and input for a device that doesn't have it as well as making the Xcode tools work with it.
And conveniently these days you can borrow movies from most local libraries.... free.
It fails for you, your opinion is not shared with everyone. At it's current size, I'm quite happy with the iPad, anything smaller and I would have been wondering why I didn't just wait for the iPhone4 or latest iPod touch. I don't have the weight issue you describe, maybe people having problems are a defect of the user's physique.
I suspect once we see market recognition of the iPad, the next model will cut out much of the around screen excess real estate and a slightly smaller screen with the same resolution (making it appear more crisp and clear).
Regardless, 7 hour battery life is a fail, the price is a fail, the content restrictions they're obviously trying to build is a fail, DLNA is a fail to anyone that's actually tried to use it (I have to consistently reboot my Xbox to view movies over DLNA because of small blips registering files unplayable). And no one cares if it outputs HDMI. No wifi only version, really? Why do we need to be tied to some service for this? Personally, MiFi's and Smartphones with built in access points are the wave for data only device connectivity. No one wants to pay $30-60 a month PER device to give it limited Internet capability.
What choice? Google has kill switches to kill apps as we've already seen. Most Android users I know have had to root their device to install many things on their device, an operation whose purpose is similar to jailbreaking an iPhone.
I'm tired of the Google soapbox, their pool is no better than the Apple pool.
So apparently you don't like people thinking for you, but you don't bother to think if they have the right idea.
No I don't like that he thinks for me, but I do think he's helped build the best phone experience EVER. It's protected me from poor developers and there are far too many of them out there.
Funny, I had no problem watching Bones on my iPhone... oh that's right because you forgot there is a hulu app that will do that. You probably just didn't want to pay for the subscription. Neither did I, I just watched a converted stream recorded on my TV, though I could watch the older episodes through the Netflix app.
Seems like there are options now, your argument doesn't hold water.
Apparently you haven't seen the html5 games that are coming out now that developers are actually learning to work with a standard.
Oh, and anything developed in html5 bypasses the app store entirely, something Google learned pretty quick apparently as they keep porting their services to html5.
Going to disagree. If you look at what graphics cards have done to desktops and gaming, all it's done is inflate power requirements both electrically and CPU with developers prominently developing for a technology level that does not yet exist in mainstream (Crysis anyone?).
We need the hardware to stay more at the specs and speeds it currently is and focus on efficiency of programming and making the hardware work more efficiently with more battery life. You can see Apple is actively doing this with their devices, every new one has a longer battery life between charges. They're not concerned with the clock race.
Sorry he doesn't speak alone. When I can't even browse for information for the latest Droid phone on Verizon's website because the flash demo is so horribly broken, that's a crappy Flash based interface. They're all over too.
So what? Microsoft doesn't stop them from putting it on their crappy OS.
You don't really have an argument here. If anything, it's a good example of why Apple is succeeding, they are protecting the user experience of their OS and device, meanwhile all the crappy experiences of Windows users has soured Microsoft and Windows for years.
1. Flash doesn't support Windows. Flash is COMPATIBLE with Windows.
Flash is currently not compatable with a number of other OSes. This is Adobe's fault. Adobe can cry to Apple all it wants, but the truth is that there is no Flash10 for my Windows 95 box, there isn't one for my AIX host, there isn't one for my HP/UX host, there isn't one for my Windows Mobile phone either.
2. Adobe doesn't support Flash on Android, it makes it available. Good luck trying to actually get Flash Support, I dare you to call Adobe's Help support line and let me know how that goes. I'm willing to bet if you did get someone that was willing to even talk to you, they would push it off to Google or your carrier for support.
We may not have the choice, but I don't think it's much of a decision. Flash sucks, plain and simple, I hate it, I wish it would go away and I use Linux.
So wow, surprise surprise, the flash fanboys still don't get it that now that it's out there, people are going to see flash on the droid and cry that it sucks. Now the WHOLE PLATFORM LOOKS LIKE CRAP. In the meantime, you can hate Steve Jobs for not allowing Flash, but guess what, the iPhone still delivers THE BEST phone experience available.
Hell, my iPhone 3G runs like a turtle with iOS 4 on it, but it still behaves better than any other hacky OS on a phone I've had the (dis)pleasure to experience.
I believe Ned (Ryerson? I think) responds to Phil with "BING!".