Transformer Infinity. Absolutely superior to the latest ipad in almost every way for a similar price. The ipad has an extra inch of screen on one side due to having a different aspect ratio, and a little more battery but no more endurance. That's its only advantage
Even taking your word on the technical stats - you are obviously forgetting about the thousands of iPad optimized apps.
You could draw parallells between the average german voting for Hitler pre-ww2 and the average western citizen buying Apple today, both stemming from a advanced marketing campaign in combination with a lack of deeper understanding among the end-users that get fucked over due to their own actions in the end.
Godwin aside - Hitler never won a direct election, and his party never even gained 40% in free elections.
I think we can all agree that iOS, while designed for a touch-only interface, hasn't held up well. Just take a look at how may functions are crammed in to the home button! Hardly the intuitive!
Wanna bring up Android's "Back" button for a comparison?
i'm shitting on the decisions of the guy who told me that the only reason I don't replace perfectly good hardware is just because i'm too poor.
how he got access to my financial records is beyond me.
Well, he merely asked you what your point was, after you yammered how Apple wouldn't let you test OS X. He never asked you to "replace perfectly good hardware". That's all in your head.
No, wait, that's not quite right: In your rant you steadfastly refused any option but to buy a Mac as not good enough, and buying a Mac as too expensive.
The "I'm a Mac" ads drove the high value customers to Apple. By the time Apple was at 8% by volume they represented almost 90 of the profits. I think the purpose of Apple ads is to reaffirm people's choices and their brand identity. Apple has had mostly the same ad for 30 years they hit one of these themes:
-- Apples are better
-- Apples are easier
-- The only reason people would choose a PC is because they are brainwashed lemmings
While the other manufacturers focused on their products being worse than others, hard to use, and all others are for the hip people. Don't make me laugh.
They are the first in a long time that don't lie. All the iPhone and iPad ads were sped up, the real devices not being as fast as they show them to be.
Yeah, and all those adds that show your phone enabling you to fill an empty railway station with people in 20 seconds, or switch from day to night are 100% truthful. While the Apple ads were lies because they were 30 seconds instead of 1 minute with 30 seconds of waiting time for an app to load over the net.
Those appearance patents are only meant to prevent another companies product being sold in the same guise as the patent holder's product. The point of protection being if people were buying the Samsung product in the mistaken belief it was an iPhone. That should be the only thing viewed by the judge
Samsung was told by Best Buy that Samsung tablets were being returned because customers thought they were getting iPads. Case closed, Samsung is guilty, we can all go home now. All but Samsung, they go to jail.
I would argue that apple's design patent is invalid.
Here is why, and it has nothing to do with opinion of apple:
A design patent can only be legally issued for "unique, new, and novel" shapes and design motifs.
Epic fail - you showed picture frames with the frame notably extruding from the picture level - the iPad is flat. Which is exactly one of the defining elements of the design patent.
Your sarcasm detector must be broken, clearly grandparent is insinuating that there aren't many ways to design a touch screen phone. Which there aren't. So it follows that all touch screen phones look more or less alike.
With the difference that the LG Prada is no touchscreen smartphone, its a feature phone with rudimetary touchscreen and a slide out keyboard.
Tablets and phones outnumber Apple's computer sales by something like 10:1.
If Apple is making "billions of dollars of profit" every quarter, then it is not because of the PC business. If Apple were still just a PC company they would be either dead or terribly obscure by this point.
You basically said the same thing about the iPod in 1996, and how Apple would abandon the Mac in favor of the iPod because that made them so much more money. Today Apple makes much more money on Macs than they did overall in 1996.
Let's face it, your reasoning can't be trusted. Which is a nice way of saying: you're a moron.
If you don't copy the market leader, you are dismissed out of hand.
Did Apple copy the market leader when they released the first iPod? Did they copy the market leader when they released the iPhone? Or the iPad? Or the MacBook Air?
Let's ignore that that article pretty much says the opposite - here's a nice quote: "Another set of documents show Best Buy alerting Samsung that a number of customers had returned their tablets because they incorrectly thought they had bought iPads."
The only difference here is that someone got old and became a hypocrite. What was fine for him to do to others in is youth suddenly became a crime when it was finally done to him.
One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
As for your fantasies about no other company ever suing because of designs, both Samsung and Motorola did long before Apple. Motorola is actually one of very few companies who got a preliminary injunction over a design patent.
Do you mean to compare a subsidized HTC Evo 4G to an unsubsidized iPhone 4S without even talking about the rest of the cost? It looks to me as if the EVO 4G is $599.99 instead of your $300 which makes it a heck of a lot closer to the Apple 4 that is only only 519€ unlocked in France (couldn't find a price unlocked in the US).
As of right now your price for the Apple phone is UER 519 which is $639 USD versus $297 for the Samsung just as GP said. Moral of the story: never accept any claim by an Apple fan at face value. Second moral of the story: a Best Buy link is always a red flag.
No, the moral of the story is that Fandroids will stoop as low as to link to some shady site just to prove how damn cheap they could get their phone - not that they would actually buy them there themselves.
The best reviews for zwee.com say you get your money back after they can't ship for a couple of weeks.
It's like you don't even understand how life works or something.
You are correct that I don't understand how life works. If not Slashdot, then where should I go to learn to understand how life works, including how to find the money to start a business?
Your problem is that you go to Slashdot to tell others how life works even though you are aware that you don't know. Unless you make that fact clear in every post, it is also our problem.
What the hell gave you the idea that Apple or BMW make luxury products? Luxury != you can't afford it. Vertu makes luxury phones (and low and of luxury I might add), you know, with gold plating and diamonds. Rolls Royce is a luxury car. Bugatti.
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Transformer Infinity. Absolutely superior to the latest ipad in almost every way for a similar price. The ipad has an extra inch of screen on one side due to having a different aspect ratio, and a little more battery but no more endurance. That's its only advantage
Even taking your word on the technical stats - you are obviously forgetting about the thousands of iPad optimized apps.
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You could draw parallells between the average german voting for Hitler pre-ww2 and the average western citizen buying Apple today, both stemming from a advanced marketing campaign in combination with a lack of deeper understanding among the end-users that get fucked over due to their own actions in the end.
Godwin aside - Hitler never won a direct election, and his party never even gained 40% in free elections.
Troll score: 1/10. You can do better.
Point is: I doubt that.
I think we can all agree that iOS, while designed for a touch-only interface, hasn't held up well. Just take a look at how may functions are crammed in to the home button! Hardly the intuitive!
Wanna bring up Android's "Back" button for a comparison?
Who'll be first to get it to run on an x86 Surface tablet?
At $99 fire sale prices, those would be pretty decent with Lion added. Zoom the menus for touch with the magnify routines the dock uses?
A little (well, a lot) more expensive, but already done: http://www.modbook.com/modbookpro
But consider this: even if all of what you say were true, It would still be right.
Fixed that typo for you.
i'm shitting on the decisions of the guy who told me that the only reason I don't replace perfectly good hardware is just because i'm too poor.
how he got access to my financial records is beyond me.
Well, he merely asked you what your point was, after you yammered how Apple wouldn't let you test OS X. He never asked you to "replace perfectly good hardware". That's all in your head.
No, wait, that's not quite right: In your rant you steadfastly refused any option but to buy a Mac as not good enough, and buying a Mac as too expensive.
Now I notice it everywhere in show biz with stereotypes, but also online with people insulting strangers just based off their accents.
Must be quite a strong accent if it gets noticed online ...
The "I'm a Mac" ads drove the high value customers to Apple. By the time Apple was at 8% by volume they represented almost 90 of the profits. I think the purpose of Apple ads is to reaffirm people's choices and their brand identity. Apple has had mostly the same ad for 30 years they hit one of these themes:
-- Apples are better -- Apples are easier -- The only reason people would choose a PC is because they are brainwashed lemmings
While the other manufacturers focused on their products being worse than others, hard to use, and all others are for the hip people. Don't make me laugh.
They are the first in a long time that don't lie. All the iPhone and iPad ads were sped up, the real devices not being as fast as they show them to be.
Yeah, and all those adds that show your phone enabling you to fill an empty railway station with people in 20 seconds, or switch from day to night are 100% truthful. While the Apple ads were lies because they were 30 seconds instead of 1 minute with 30 seconds of waiting time for an app to load over the net.
The Sony device Samsung claims inspired Apple's iPhone Yet the myth will be dragged to light for years by the fandroids.
Those appearance patents are only meant to prevent another companies product being sold in the same guise as the patent holder's product. The point of protection being if people were buying the Samsung product in the mistaken belief it was an iPhone. That should be the only thing viewed by the judge
Samsung was told by Best Buy that Samsung tablets were being returned because customers thought they were getting iPads. Case closed, Samsung is guilty, we can all go home now. All but Samsung, they go to jail.
A simple google image search for "digital picture frame rounded corners" yeilded this product on page one.
oh look. A digital picture frame.
Yeah, and only 1 year after the iPad - amazing. Yeah, obviously prior art. Case closed.
PS: the design patent is also for an "Electronic device" - how are your picture frames electronic?
I would argue that apple's design patent is invalid.
Here is why, and it has nothing to do with opinion of apple:
A design patent can only be legally issued for "unique, new, and novel" shapes and design motifs.
Epic fail - you showed picture frames with the frame notably extruding from the picture level - the iPad is flat. Which is exactly one of the defining elements of the design patent.
Wait, you mean a judge previously issued a legal ruling?
Yep, the very same judge Lucy Koh, ruling against Samsung, on the a case which is very very close to this one
Errm, no it was this very case (11-CV-01846-LHK). Way to misunderstand how the legal system works you criticize.
Your sarcasm detector must be broken, clearly grandparent is insinuating that there aren't many ways to design a touch screen phone. Which there aren't. So it follows that all touch screen phones look more or less alike.
With the difference that the LG Prada is no touchscreen smartphone, its a feature phone with rudimetary touchscreen and a slide out keyboard.
I wish slashdot had a button for sharing comments, I'd tweet yours :)
Errm, click on "Share" below the comment?
Tablets and phones outnumber Apple's computer sales by something like 10:1.
If Apple is making "billions of dollars of profit" every quarter, then it is not because of the PC business. If Apple were still just a PC company they would be either dead or terribly obscure by this point.
You basically said the same thing about the iPod in 1996, and how Apple would abandon the Mac in favor of the iPod because that made them so much more money. Today Apple makes much more money on Macs than they did overall in 1996.
Let's face it, your reasoning can't be trusted. Which is a nice way of saying: you're a moron.
If you don't copy the market leader, you are dismissed out of hand.
Did Apple copy the market leader when they released the first iPod? Did they copy the market leader when they released the iPhone? Or the iPad? Or the MacBook Air?
http://forums.macnn.com/t/490589/court-docs-show-apple-took-design-inspiration-from-sony
Yes...they did.
Let's ignore that that article pretty much says the opposite - here's a nice quote: "Another set of documents show Best Buy alerting Samsung that a number of customers had returned their tablets because they incorrectly thought they had bought iPads."
...which matters not one bit.
The only difference here is that someone got old and became a hypocrite. What was fine for him to do to others in is youth suddenly became a crime when it was finally done to him.
Nope. The issue here is that you don't understand what the quote means because you don't know the background, while Jobs did. http://nancyprager.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/good-poets-borrow-great-poets-steal/
One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
As for your fantasies about no other company ever suing because of designs, both Samsung and Motorola did long before Apple. Motorola is actually one of very few companies who got a preliminary injunction over a design patent.
Do you mean to compare a subsidized HTC Evo 4G to an unsubsidized iPhone 4S without even talking about the rest of the cost? It looks to me as if the EVO 4G is $599.99 instead of your $300 which makes it a heck of a lot closer to the Apple 4 that is only only 519€ unlocked in France (couldn't find a price unlocked in the US).
Unlocked HTC Evo 4G... Our Price: $297.
As of right now your price for the Apple phone is UER 519 which is $639 USD versus $297 for the Samsung just as GP said. Moral of the story: never accept any claim by an Apple fan at face value. Second moral of the story: a Best Buy link is always a red flag.
No, the moral of the story is that Fandroids will stoop as low as to link to some shady site just to prove how damn cheap they could get their phone - not that they would actually buy them there themselves.
The best reviews for zwee.com say you get your money back after they can't ship for a couple of weeks.
Not if you save to iCloud, which, apparently, is the default for Apple's own apps now.
So you are actually complaining that documents saved to "the cloud" aren't on your computer?
It's like you don't even understand how life works or something.
You are correct that I don't understand how life works. If not Slashdot, then where should I go to learn to understand how life works, including how to find the money to start a business?
Your problem is that you go to Slashdot to tell others how life works even though you are aware that you don't know. Unless you make that fact clear in every post, it is also our problem.
What the hell gave you the idea that Apple or BMW make luxury products? Luxury != you can't afford it. Vertu makes luxury phones (and low and of luxury I might add), you know, with gold plating and diamonds. Rolls Royce is a luxury car. Bugatti.