The watch could be a thin client for the smartphone, displaying notifications quickly and have a microphone for voice control relayed to the phone. Other than that I don't see the point.
iTunes can send crash reports to Apple and app developers (it's opt-in.) Since those crash reports collect data on the phone that might be what they refer to.
Yeah and that other browser might turn out to be a scammer, spammer or fraud who took someone else's work and loaded it with spyware too. Who knew that when Android users said that Android is going to be the "Windows" of smartphones that's what they meant: shitty interfaces, spyware and crap software.
iPhone:~ root# uname -a Darwin iPhone 9.4.1 Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.1: Mon Dec 8 20:59:30 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.7.37~4/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8900X iPhone1,2 arm N82AP Darwin
Hardware support support for ALAC in iPod and iOS devices, which leads to better battery life than pure software decoding. The first FLAC hardware decoder was only demoed a couple of years ago IIRC and I don't know if it has actually made it to market yet.
You use one data point and call it a graph. I work with hundreds of Apple peices of hardware and I can tell you that they fail in hardware all the time and are a lot of times harder to fix if not impossible.
Hardware fails all the time, ALL hardware. There will be a lot of macs that fail because there are a ot being sold. The question is does Apple hardware fail more than similar quality PC hardware. The answer is no. And when it does support is often better (they still lead in suport satisfaction surveys.)
Difficult to fix, as opposed to what ? Of course an iMac is going to be harder to repair than a beige box PC. Compare like with like, you think an iMac is more difficult to repair than an HP Omni (or a similar all-in-one "me too" pc) or a Mac Mini is more difficult to repair than an EeeBox ? There's a trade off there, just like there's one with a laptop vs a pc.
"What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." - Michael Dell on Apple in 1997.
Companies can be turned around. Of course the current leadership of RIM have proven they don't have the vision to do so so they should bring in someone who does.
It wasn't a question of not wanting to allow it, it just didn't work well enough. Even now you'll find some people discouraging the use of Time Machine with Airport Extreme attached disks, although I haven't had a problem myself.
Wow, the 3310. I had one of those, the voice dialing just didn't work unless you were alone in quiet room and even then it was sketchy. Didn't have to worry about dropping that phone though, those things were solid. But like I said my iPhone 4 does voice dialing without problems. The technology has just advanced so much, the phones now are basically dual core computers more powerful than anything we had in the 3310 days with noise canceling microphones built in and huge databases and processing power on the backend through "the cloud." So I'm optimistic, guess I'll see when I get my 4S.
Yes, I was talking about tablets and smartphones not voice search. In other words we were talking about products, not features. We remember the first (successful) car not the guy who invented power steering. And as said elsewhere the iPhone came with voice control, Google then upped the ante with voice search and other services (many of which they've been reluctant to add to iOS versions of their apps) and now Apple has come back with Siri.
It doesn't matter if you're the first to do it, what matters is if you're the first to do it well and are successful at it. Ford wasn't the first to make cars, and yet he's remembered as the father of the modern car industry. The dustbin of history is filled with failures who were there first ( and Apple nearly went in that dustbin once.)
Siri is a gimick. It doesn't make the phone any more useful.
I used to think this about voice control, then Apple made it work in the iPhone 4 and now I use it a lot. Everything is a gimmick until someone does it well enough.
I've been using computers since my good ol' Commodore 64.
"In 1981, the same year IBM introduced the model 5150 personal computer, Xerox introduced the Star office computing system as a commercial product." Release date of the Apple Lisa : January 19, 1983, the Mac was released in 1984.
So barely 2 years between the 2 in which Apple engineers had to reinvent all that technology for the low end, not exactly a decade. You should get off of your high horse and actually read up about the stuff these guys pulled to get all this working. Or are we not allowed to admire hackers that work for Apple now ?
No we were talking about Steve Jobs, his vision and impact on the company, not giving a comprehensive overview of Apple history. Yes, Apple released a lot of mediocre crap after he was ousted, then he came back and we got the iMac, iPod and iPhone. Now the iMac was already under development when he came back and yet Jobs clearly made his mark on it His name is on the patent for the iMac's iconic case along with that of Jonathan Ive, the man whom he promoted to head of design and who generated design after iconic design for Apple after that. Doesn't smell like "a giant fake" to me.
"But ultimately, if any single individual deserves the honor, I would have to cast my vote for the obvious choice, Steve Jobs, because the Macintosh never would have happened without him, in anything like the form it did. Other individuals are responsible for the actual creative work, but Steve's vision, passion for excellence and sheer strength of will, not to mention his awesome powers of persuasion, drove the team to meet or exceed the impossible standards that we set for ourselves. Steve already gets a lot of credit for being the driving force behind the Macintosh, but in my opinion, it's very well deserved. "
"There's no doubt that Jef was the creator of the Macintosh project at Apple, and that his articulate vision of an exceptionally easy to use, low cost, high volume appliance computer got the ball rolling, and remained near the heart of the project long after Jef left the company. He also deserves ample credit for putting together the extraordinary initial team that created the computer, recruiting former student Bill Atkinson to Apple and then hiring amazing individuals like Burrell Smith, Bud Tribble, Joanna Hoffman and Brian Howard for the Macintosh team. But there is also no escaping the fact that the Macintosh that we know and love is very different than the computer that Jef wanted to build, so much so that he is much more like an eccentric great uncle than the Macintosh's father.
Jef did not want to incorporate what became the two most definitive aspects of Macintosh technology - the Motorola 68000 microprocessor and the mouse pointing device. Jef preferred the 6809, a cheaper but weaker processor which only had 16 bits of address space and would have been obsolete in just a year or two, since it couldn't address more than 64Kbytes. He was dead set against the mouse as well, preferring dedicated meta-keys to do the pointing. He became increasingly alienated from the team, eventually leaving entirely in the summer of 1981, when we were still just getting started, and the final product utilitized very few of the ideas in the Book of Macintosh. In fact, if the name of the project had changed after Steve took over in January 1981, and it almost did (see Bicycle) , there wouldn't be much reason to correlate it with his ideas at all. "
No one disputes Raskin was a visionary and instrumental in getting the ball rolling but I think you're overstating his overall importance here.
It's bullshit, that's why they haven't used it. The whole thing of Apple having copied it rests on the allegation Apple could have seen a prototype which was allegedly presented at some Chinese trade fair. So for this to be true Apple, before their iPhone secret was out, would have to have been trolling a cellphone fair, have seen the LG protoype the Prada is based on and have been so blown away they incorporated the glimpses they had in their ongoing design. Highly doubtful.
I had the first Tablet PC, a Dauphin DTR-1 it ran windows 3.11 and acted just like a iPhone except for swipes and gestures. Honestly, you think tapping an icon is revolutionary?
That would be the reason why Apple has only patented multi-touch. And yet people keep having these ridiculous straw man arguments.
It's my idea. Don't you dare to use MY idea. No, I don't care if somebody just came up with it. It was MY idea.
No, it's not your idea. It's everybody's idea..
Sure, but Apple have been granted patents which means they have sole rights to the ideas for a couple of years. You want to take issue with that, call your congressman an tell them to do something about it. Until then maybe corporations should respect the law a little bit.
sssh, minor details like facts aren't welcome when the Apple fanboys are upset.
Perhaps you would like to give some examples of things Apple have stolen from Android ? Note: stolen implies ownership so please refer to the relevant patterns and/or trademarks while you're at it.
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The watch could be a thin client for the smartphone, displaying notifications quickly and have a microphone for voice control relayed to the phone. Other than that I don't see the point.
iTunes can send crash reports to Apple and app developers (it's opt-in.) Since those crash reports collect data on the phone that might be what they refer to.
Yeah and that other browser might turn out to be a scammer, spammer or fraud who took someone else's work and loaded it with spyware too. Who knew that when Android users said that Android is going to be the "Windows" of smartphones that's what they meant: shitty interfaces, spyware and crap software.
I doubt you'll ever even see Darwin for ARM.
What ?
iPhone:~ root# uname -a
Darwin iPhone 9.4.1 Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.1: Mon Dec 8 20:59:30 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.7.37~4/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8900X iPhone1,2 arm N82AP Darwin
Hardware support support for ALAC in iPod and iOS devices, which leads to better battery life than pure software decoding. The first FLAC hardware decoder was only demoed a couple of years ago IIRC and I don't know if it has actually made it to market yet.
So you like to key cars and brag about it huh ? Sounds like Jobs isn't the only asshole here.
You use one data point and call it a graph. I work with hundreds of Apple peices of hardware and I can tell you that they fail in hardware all the time and are a lot of times harder to fix if not impossible.
Hardware fails all the time, ALL hardware. There will be a lot of macs that fail because there are a ot being sold. The question is does Apple hardware fail more than similar quality PC hardware. The answer is no. And when it does support is often better (they still lead in suport satisfaction surveys.)
Difficult to fix, as opposed to what ? Of course an iMac is going to be harder to repair than a beige box PC. Compare like with like, you think an iMac is more difficult to repair than an HP Omni (or a similar all-in-one "me too" pc) or a Mac Mini is more difficult to repair than an EeeBox ? There's a trade off there, just like there's one with a laptop vs a pc.
End user license != OEM license
"What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." - Michael Dell on Apple in 1997.
Companies can be turned around. Of course the current leadership of RIM have proven they don't have the vision to do so so they should bring in someone who does.
It wasn't a question of not wanting to allow it, it just didn't work well enough. Even now you'll find some people discouraging the use of Time Machine with Airport Extreme attached disks, although I haven't had a problem myself.
So US Siri is a secretary and UK Siri is a gentleman's gentleman ?
Wow, the 3310. I had one of those, the voice dialing just didn't work unless you were alone in quiet room and even then it was sketchy. Didn't have to worry about dropping that phone though, those things were solid. But like I said my iPhone 4 does voice dialing without problems. The technology has just advanced so much, the phones now are basically dual core computers more powerful than anything we had in the 3310 days with noise canceling microphones built in and huge databases and processing power on the backend through "the cloud." So I'm optimistic, guess I'll see when I get my 4S.
Yes, I was talking about tablets and smartphones not voice search. In other words we were talking about products, not features. We remember the first (successful) car not the guy who invented power steering. And as said elsewhere the iPhone came with voice control, Google then upped the ante with voice search and other services (many of which they've been reluctant to add to iOS versions of their apps) and now Apple has come back with Siri.
It doesn't matter if you're the first to do it, what matters is if you're the first to do it well and are successful at it. Ford wasn't the first to make cars, and yet he's remembered as the father of the modern car industry. The dustbin of history is filled with failures who were there first ( and Apple nearly went in that dustbin once.)
Siri is a gimick. It doesn't make the phone any more useful.
I used to think this about voice control, then Apple made it work in the iPhone 4 and now I use it a lot. Everything is a gimmick until someone does it well enough.
I've been using computers since my good ol' Commodore 64.
"In 1981, the same year IBM introduced the model 5150 personal computer, Xerox introduced the Star office computing system as a commercial product."
Release date of the Apple Lisa : January 19, 1983, the Mac was released in 1984.
So barely 2 years between the 2 in which Apple engineers had to reinvent all that technology for the low end, not exactly a decade. You should get off of your high horse and actually read up about the stuff these guys pulled to get all this working. Or are we not allowed to admire hackers that work for Apple now ?
A complete rewrite ? Don't these guys read Joel On Software ? They're going to ruin their ... oh, um carry on.
No we were talking about Steve Jobs, his vision and impact on the company, not giving a comprehensive overview of Apple history. Yes, Apple released a lot of mediocre crap after he was ousted, then he came back and we got the iMac, iPod and iPhone. Now the iMac was already under development when he came back and yet Jobs clearly made his mark on it His name is on the patent for the iMac's iconic case along with that of Jonathan Ive, the man whom he promoted to head of design and who generated design after iconic design for Apple after that. Doesn't smell like "a giant fake" to me.
Forgot the most important bit :
"But ultimately, if any single individual deserves the honor, I would have to cast my vote for the obvious choice, Steve Jobs, because the Macintosh never would have happened without him, in anything like the form it did. Other individuals are responsible for the actual creative work, but Steve's vision, passion for excellence and sheer strength of will, not to mention his awesome powers of persuasion, drove the team to meet or exceed the impossible standards that we set for ourselves. Steve already gets a lot of credit for being the driving force behind the Macintosh, but in my opinion, it's very well deserved. "
You know what, just go read the entire site.
Let's see what the people actually involved in the project say :
"There's no doubt that Jef was the creator of the Macintosh project at Apple, and that his articulate vision of an exceptionally easy to use, low cost, high volume appliance computer got the ball rolling, and remained near the heart of the project long after Jef left the company. He also deserves ample credit for putting together the extraordinary initial team that created the computer, recruiting former student Bill Atkinson to Apple and then hiring amazing individuals like Burrell Smith, Bud Tribble, Joanna Hoffman and Brian Howard for the Macintosh team. But there is also no escaping the fact that the Macintosh that we know and love is very different than the computer that Jef wanted to build, so much so that he is much more like an eccentric great uncle than the Macintosh's father.
Jef did not want to incorporate what became the two most definitive aspects of Macintosh technology - the Motorola 68000 microprocessor and the mouse pointing device. Jef preferred the 6809, a cheaper but weaker processor which only had 16 bits of address space and would have been obsolete in just a year or two, since it couldn't address more than 64Kbytes. He was dead set against the mouse as well, preferring dedicated meta-keys to do the pointing. He became increasingly alienated from the team, eventually leaving entirely in the summer of 1981, when we were still just getting started, and the final product utilitized very few of the ideas in the Book of Macintosh. In fact, if the name of the project had changed after Steve took over in January 1981, and it almost did (see Bicycle) , there wouldn't be much reason to correlate it with his ideas at all. "
No one disputes Raskin was a visionary and instrumental in getting the ball rolling but I think you're overstating his overall importance here.
It's bullshit, that's why they haven't used it. The whole thing of Apple having copied it rests on the allegation Apple could have seen a prototype which was allegedly presented at some Chinese trade fair. So for this to be true Apple, before their iPhone secret was out, would have to have been trolling a cellphone fair, have seen the LG protoype the Prada is based on and have been so blown away they incorporated the glimpses they had in their ongoing design. Highly doubtful.
I had the first Tablet PC, a Dauphin DTR-1 it ran windows 3.11 and acted just like a iPhone except for swipes and gestures.
Honestly, you think tapping an icon is revolutionary?
That would be the reason why Apple has only patented multi-touch. And yet people keep having these ridiculous straw man arguments.
Can't steal something that's free.
It's my idea. Don't you dare to use MY idea. No, I don't care if somebody just came up with it. It was MY idea.
No, it's not your idea. It's everybody's idea..
Sure, but Apple have been granted patents which means they have sole rights to the ideas for a couple of years. You want to take issue with that, call your congressman an tell them to do something about it. Until then maybe corporations should respect the law a little bit.
sssh, minor details like facts aren't welcome when the Apple fanboys are upset.
Perhaps you would like to give some examples of things Apple have stolen from Android ? Note: stolen implies ownership so please refer to the relevant patterns and/or trademarks while you're at it.