So they are forced to recall their devices because of a GUI animation effect? How the hell is that proportionate? Was that a major advertised feature or something?
Actually, they aren't. The article is wrong. Yes, it misquotes FOSS Patents for page hits.
No, we would complain they were strangling third party developers if they did not allow anyone to compete with their own Apple branded app as they usually do.
Having just run on such a fixed-battery device as primary device, I really felt myself getting paranoid about always having it hooked up to the charger, be it in the car, at home, in the train, and so on. (And despite progress in this relation, there are quite a bit of trains that still have no power outlets, now explain me how you plan to use your iPhone for entertainment on your next 18 hours trip across Europe, I mean you'll be sleeping perhaps 6-8 hours of this, but 10-12 hours usage is still hard). And yes, I've been reading ebooks on my mobile devices years before ebooks become mainstream.
That's what external batteries are for - and they work on more than one device too.
Didn't Samsung have a design patent somewhere for 4" rectangles? I mean Apple monopolizes the 3.5"/9.7" rectangle space, but all the other sizes have been introduced before by somebody else?
You do know that design patents don't mention dimensions anywhere? Of course you don't. None of you does.
Rob Murray from EA got up on stage to show a racing game, claiming that the graphics "have been built to full console quality."
Apparently, Apple and EA don't think the small form factor lowers the bar for display capability.
Yeah, obviously Nintendo is right: same resolution, much bigger screen, that's the way to go. Samsung Galaxy IV will have an 6.5" screen and people will say "finally a phone I can hold with my obese hands". The same people that said the iPhone was too big to use when it came out.
yes, because the fact that a great number of people don't care at all what Apple does would never be allowed to surface in a properly moderated system.
Well, thanks for reminding us in any discussion about Apple. And most that are not, too.
I know it's a joke, but Current gen iOS devices already do this with AppleTV or AirPlay enabled devices.
Obligatory pedantism: he said HDTV, which means neither an AppleTV or an AirPlay enabled device. This is actually another thing that Apple does the proprietary way, no way they could just support DLNA like the rest of the electronics world. You have to buy yet another iDevice in order to stream content to your TV, which probably already has streaming support that you've payed for but can't use with Apple.
Convince someone else first, then convince Wikipedia.
Of curse it didn't actually work that way: The author's open letter is still the primary source. And yet the Wikipedia entry was changed because of it. Wikipedia didn't stick to its principles, it budged to bad press.
By the time I went to bed, I had identified nineteen different devices, each tied to BlueToad in some way. One, appearing four times, is twice named “Hutch” (their CIO), and twice named “Paul’s gift to Brad” (Paul being the first name of the CEO, and Brad being their Chief Creative Officer). I found iPhones and iPads belonging to their CEO, CIO, CCO, a customer service rep, the Director of Digital Services, the lead System Admin, and a Senior Developer.
And he did that by typing stuff like "cat data | cut -c 2-7 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r | head" IOW stuff all non-believers can do. Well, those that actually belong here.
You're absolutely right! The governement has no desire or plans to track every person in America. If they wanted to track every person in America, they'd just install/tap into a nationwide facial recognition network, which we know they'd never... oh wait...
If they wanted to track every person in America, they'd have a list of the UDIDs of iOS devices in America - and not just one of a tiny percentage of them.
You forgot one that I would consider among the most important:
FACT: The feds have been proven to have arrested, detained and tortured people who were, at the time of their abuse, known to be innocent of the crimes they were accused of. (Anyone who is not familiar with this, spend some time on Google. Khalid El-Masri is a good example, though hardly the only one)
Fact: you are mixing up the FBI with the CIA to "prove" that the FBI must have had a file that nobody has so far shown it would have a use for.
One person's paranoid delusion is another person's rational conclusion based on the facts and evidence available.
Fact, the Feds have build a huge database on every person in America.
Fact, the Feds want to build a National Facial recognition system to track every citzen in America.
Fact, the Feds have made wide indiscriminate tapping of inbound and outbound international phone calls in secret hidden and without reasonable suspicion.
Fact, the Feds have a long history of lying to and deception of the public. Some of which is necessary in order to do their job.
Need I go on?
Fact: the FBI is in desperate need of a list of UDIDs of a tiny percentage of iOS devices sold, because - well because.
No tin-foil hat needed. Even their Wikipedia page admits that one of their biggest publishing partners is the U.S. Department of State. Nothing fishy about that at all, of course.
Even if - the FBI belongs to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Had you or anyone you know heard of Blue Toad before this? Exactly.
Nobody apart from their hundreds of customers - and that would not be the millions of people who downloaded their products (let alone those who get them mailed), who still don't know their name. And why would they? Subscribers of the "Florida Baptist Witness" don't know who made the Android app anymore than they know who prints the paper version.
FBI could just have paid Blue Toad to take the blame
That's assuming that Blue Toad isn't just a front-company for the FBI to start with. No payment necessary and is possibly how the FBI got the list in the first place. i.e. The normal way, through an undercover operation, disguised as an iPhone developer company.
Good thing they don't make Android apps then. Ooops
the same company who they are contracting with in regards to Public Relations
... to distribute digital versions of their publications. Blue Toad is not a PR firm.
Wait, what does Blue Toad do for the FBI again? Did you get that from the 3 TB of FBI data? It sure isn't mentioned in the Wikipedia page you linked to.
You have to root and upgrade yourself, but the devices can handle it just fine. So back to lazy phone carriers not working with device manufacturers on year old handsets.
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Yeah, my dad was really happy with his cyanogenmoded Samsung - until that one version that bricked his phone. Now he's back to stock.
Last Christmas it was only 700,000 units per day - and it was the holidays. June was but 3 months ago, and it was only 900,000 then. Now it's the off season and 1.3 million per day.
So what happened between June and now? Oh, yeah, Jelly Bean. And because people can't simply upgrade their phones (which wouldn't count as an activation), people buy a new phone (which does count as an activation).
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So they are forced to recall their devices because of a GUI animation effect? How the hell is that proportionate? Was that a major advertised feature or something?
Actually, they aren't. The article is wrong. Yes, it misquotes FOSS Patents for page hits.
It's for the best. Android phones are full of malware. So this will make germany a little safer.
Well, since nobody buys Motorola device in Germany either - not really.
http://www.monstertechblog.com/2012/05/12/this-is-androids-fragmentation-and-it-is-still-a-feature-opinion/ - no, really, its a feature. Believe me.
No, we would complain they were strangling third party developers if they did not allow anyone to compete with their own Apple branded app as they usually do.
Like what? Browsers? Email clients? Camera apps? What exactly?
Having just run on such a fixed-battery device as primary device, I really felt myself getting paranoid about always having it hooked up to the charger, be it in the car, at home, in the train, and so on. (And despite progress in this relation, there are quite a bit of trains that still have no power outlets, now explain me how you plan to use your iPhone for entertainment on your next 18 hours trip across Europe, I mean you'll be sleeping perhaps 6-8 hours of this, but 10-12 hours usage is still hard). And yes, I've been reading ebooks on my mobile devices years before ebooks become mainstream.
That's what external batteries are for - and they work on more than one device too.
Didn't Samsung have a design patent somewhere for 4" rectangles? I mean Apple monopolizes the 3.5"/9.7" rectangle space, but all the other sizes have been introduced before by somebody else?
You do know that design patents don't mention dimensions anywhere? Of course you don't. None of you does.
An HD screen you mean like something the Zune already had years ago.
Broken Link aside, yeah, a 480 x 272 pixel HD screen, that's what he was talking about.
Rob Murray from EA got up on stage to show a racing game, claiming that the graphics "have been built to full console quality."
Apparently, Apple and EA don't think the small form factor lowers the bar for display capability.
Yeah, obviously Nintendo is right: same resolution, much bigger screen, that's the way to go. Samsung Galaxy IV will have an 6.5" screen and people will say "finally a phone I can hold with my obese hands". The same people that said the iPhone was too big to use when it came out.
For a company that wants to be seen as being on the leading edge they could have at least tried competing with the GS3.
HD on a 4 inch screen is like expecting Klipsch loudspeaker performance from a pair of ear buds.
So get an iPad.
yes, because the fact that a great number of people don't care at all what Apple does would never be allowed to surface in a properly moderated system.
Well, thanks for reminding us in any discussion about Apple. And most that are not, too.
I know it's a joke, but Current gen iOS devices already do this with AppleTV or AirPlay enabled devices.
Obligatory pedantism: he said HDTV, which means neither an AppleTV or an AirPlay enabled device. This is actually another thing that Apple does the proprietary way, no way they could just support DLNA like the rest of the electronics world. You have to buy yet another iDevice in order to stream content to your TV, which probably already has streaming support that you've payed for but can't use with Apple.
http://arkmc.com/ - Available on the App Store
If Apple would include the functionality into iOS, people here would complain that they were strangling third party developers.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/27/1911223/using-led-ceiling-lights-for-digital-communication
Convince someone else first, then convince Wikipedia.
Of curse it didn't actually work that way: The author's open letter is still the primary source. And yet the Wikipedia entry was changed because of it. Wikipedia didn't stick to its principles, it budged to bad press.
Or maybe that you just can't trust Blue Toad, who got paid behind the scenes to take the fall for this.
Considering they had to be dragged out to admit they were responsible...
Tracking Down the UDID Breach Source
By the time I went to bed, I had identified nineteen different devices, each tied to BlueToad in some way. One, appearing four times, is twice named “Hutch” (their CIO), and twice named “Paul’s gift to Brad” (Paul being the first name of the CEO, and Brad being their Chief Creative Officer). I found iPhones and iPads belonging to their CEO, CIO, CCO, a customer service rep, the Director of Digital Services, the lead System Admin, and a Senior Developer.
And he did that by typing stuff like "cat data | cut -c 2-7 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r | head" IOW stuff all non-believers can do. Well, those that actually belong here.
You're absolutely right! The governement has no desire or plans to track every person in America. If they wanted to track every person in America, they'd just install/tap into a nationwide facial recognition network, which we know they'd never ... oh wait ...
If they wanted to track every person in America, they'd have a list of the UDIDs of iOS devices in America - and not just one of a tiny percentage of them.
You forgot one that I would consider among the most important:
FACT: The feds have been proven to have arrested, detained and tortured people who were, at the time of their abuse, known to be innocent of the crimes they were accused of. (Anyone who is not familiar with this, spend some time on Google. Khalid El-Masri is a good example, though hardly the only one)
Fact: you are mixing up the FBI with the CIA to "prove" that the FBI must have had a file that nobody has so far shown it would have a use for.
One person's paranoid delusion is another person's rational conclusion based on the facts and evidence available. Fact, the Feds have build a huge database on every person in America. Fact, the Feds want to build a National Facial recognition system to track every citzen in America. Fact, the Feds have made wide indiscriminate tapping of inbound and outbound international phone calls in secret hidden and without reasonable suspicion. Fact, the Feds have a long history of lying to and deception of the public. Some of which is necessary in order to do their job. Need I go on?
Fact: the FBI is in desperate need of a list of UDIDs of a tiny percentage of iOS devices sold, because - well because.
No tin-foil hat needed. Even their Wikipedia page admits that one of their biggest publishing partners is the U.S. Department of State. Nothing fishy about that at all, of course.
Even if - the FBI belongs to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Had you or anyone you know heard of Blue Toad before this? Exactly.
Nobody apart from their hundreds of customers - and that would not be the millions of people who downloaded their products (let alone those who get them mailed), who still don't know their name. And why would they? Subscribers of the "Florida Baptist Witness" don't know who made the Android app anymore than they know who prints the paper version.
FBI could just have paid Blue Toad to take the blame
That's assuming that Blue Toad isn't just a front-company for the FBI to start with. No payment necessary and is possibly how the FBI got the list in the first place. i.e. The normal way, through an undercover operation, disguised as an iPhone developer company.
Good thing they don't make Android apps then. Ooops
the same company who they are contracting with in regards to Public Relations
... to distribute digital versions of their publications. Blue Toad is not a PR firm.
Wait, what does Blue Toad do for the FBI again? Did you get that from the 3 TB of FBI data? It sure isn't mentioned in the Wikipedia page you linked to.
"I feel like some Mexican food." - 10 minutes later: "40% of us say that there should be a Taco Bell somewhere around. Just look for the bell sign"
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices
You have to root and upgrade yourself, but the devices can handle it just fine. So back to lazy phone carriers not working with device manufacturers on year old handsets.
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Yeah, my dad was really happy with his cyanogenmoded Samsung - until that one version that bricked his phone. Now he's back to stock.
Last Christmas it was only 700,000 units per day - and it was the holidays. June was but 3 months ago, and it was only 900,000 then. Now it's the off season and 1.3 million per day.
So what happened between June and now? Oh, yeah, Jelly Bean. And because people can't simply upgrade their phones (which wouldn't count as an activation), people buy a new phone (which does count as an activation).
Sorry, I'm not qualified to deal with your level of stupidity..
That's a good one, coming from you, given the utter level of cluelessness you've shown. FU.