Sorry, why does that matter? We're talking about design here. It makes no sense to talk about other companies "stealing Apple's design" when it's obvious that Apple wasn't the first with that particular design.
Take a look at these three pre-iPad tablets: JooJoo, HP Slate and CrunchPad. They look like iPad "clones" to me. It's astonishing that they were displayed before the iPad was announced. They must have a time machine that can steal Apples designs from the future!
The ill-fated CrunchPad and JooJoo Pad look nearly identical, black rectangle, rounded corners, etc. Both long before the iPad.
Let's not forget the equally ill-fated HP Slate which looks like a CruchPad or JooJoo tablet -- which we saw at CES 2010 a couple weeks before the iPad made an appearance.
He's talking about "undocumented opcodes" (sometimes called "illegal opcodes" or "unofficial opcodes") which don't necessarily work across all 6502 variants.
Why not? RIM has been growing year-over-year, though if you listen to the tech-press and slashdot commenters you'd think they were on the verge of bankruptcy.
Many corporate customers said they had not lost service, suggesting that the problem was with Blackberry's BIS consumer systems, rather than its BES enterprise systems.
Want a bet? We'll discuss this again when resolutions greater than 2560x1600 become common due to apple introducing retina display laptops, and when 10 bit colour becomes common on high end monitors.
Both of those things are HILARIOUS -- The first because you believe it and inexplicably tie Apple to it. The second because a monitor that can only display 1,024 colors would have been a joke 10 years ago.
Well, if you want a better UI than Apple, look no further than the Playbook -- it makes the iPad look like a pocket calculator. I could also point you to the now defunct HP Touchpad, which also had an amazing UI.
On the User experience between the Transformer and the iPad2, I'm not sure where you think the iPad provides a better user experience. You can make vague statements like "it's more polished" but that's not exactly helpful, is it? If you want to make that claim, you'll need to provide more details.
To be fair, android doesn't support multiple users, and I doubt the playbook does either.
You can easily share a playbook between multiple users * IF * you already have Blackberry phones deployed to those users. This is one of the advantages of Blackberry Bridge, and one of the reasons that native email and calendar were left off the device. (It was intended to be used in tandem with a BB).
Forgive me for asking this, but why would you buy something like the Playbook when the iPad is a known good system?
Just off the top of my head, how about the more portable form-factor, blackberry bridge, true multi-tasking, better HTML 5 support, etc. That is to say, it probably meets his needs much better than the iPad.
The UI is also fantastic. You should check it out -- it's actually a really nice tablet.
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Hey, it's more than Apple users got for the constant outages to their $99/year MobileMe service.
There were two just recently, one Sept. 30, and another shortly after. But go ahead and bash RIM for offering free apps and free support.
The Blackberry Torch -- which I loath for many reasons -- is so gutless that it is barely usable for surfing the web let alone for running Apps.
Compare the "magical" web-browsing experience of the iPhone 3GS to the BB Torch 9800. Hey, look at that, the Torch beats the pants off of the 3GS!
Do the same with an iPhone 4 and the Torch is still competitive -- and does a superior job of handling HTML 5.
Their new phones are even better. Sorry, you're very clearly uninformed.
RIM can't give out keys for BES users because they don't have them
If you're on BES, you're secure. Neither RIM nor any government can access your data.
Sorry, why does that matter? We're talking about design here. It makes no sense to talk about other companies "stealing Apple's design" when it's obvious that Apple wasn't the first with that particular design.
They all copy from the iPhone, which is Apple's design.
Oh? Then how do you explain this design from 2006? (That's pre-iPhone. Thanks to user Solandri for finding that.)
And neither the JooJoo nor the HP Slate actually existed before the iPad.
Check your dates. The HP Slate was at CES 2010 -- at least two weeks before the Apple showed off the iPad for the first time.
If you took ANY pre-iPad tablet and tried to tell the difference, it would be simple.
Any pre-iPad tablet? Nonsense!
http://www.2imgs.com/6c941c36e5
Take a look at these three pre-iPad tablets: JooJoo, HP Slate and CrunchPad. They look like iPad "clones" to me. It's astonishing that they were displayed before the iPad was announced. They must have a time machine that can steal Apples designs from the future!
Try this: http://www.2imgs.com/6c941c36e5
JooJoo, HP Slate, CrunchPad -- All of them look like an iPad, and all of them were shown before the iPad.
Apple: Think different, history.
Copied Apple's design?
The ill-fated CrunchPad and JooJoo Pad look nearly identical, black rectangle, rounded corners, etc. Both long before the iPad.
Let's not forget the equally ill-fated HP Slate which looks like a CruchPad or JooJoo tablet -- which we saw at CES 2010 a couple weeks before the iPad made an appearance.
Here's a picture for you: http://www.2imgs.com/6c941c36e5
Are you still sure that they copied Apple? Did they steal a time-machine as well?
He's talking about "undocumented opcodes" (sometimes called "illegal opcodes" or "unofficial opcodes") which don't necessarily work across all 6502 variants.
There is a difference in text-to-speech which has been around forever and natural speech recognition
Yes, text-to-speech and speech recognition are very different technologies. So different, in fact, that they're virtually exact opposites.
It is very much like speech input for an infocom game.
I'm sure apple is just the first to do this
Not by a long shot:
Speektoit
Eliza (especially cool & dates back to 2006)
AppEliza (done in one day)
The more sophisticated natural language processing is what's new here.
I don"t buy this for a minute. From what we've seen so far, it would appear that Siri is significantly less sophisticated that Alice.
"Losing ground" = higher sales year-over-year?
Why not? RIM has been growing year-over-year, though if you listen to the tech-press and slashdot commenters you'd think they were on the verge of bankruptcy.
WP5.1? Insanity. PFSWrite put it to shame until WP6 came out and took the world by storm.
As for WP7, you're spot on. I still have a boxed copy of that steaming pile on the shelf above my desk at work.
You missed the part where I said that many of those features are "already available on iOS"
The rest? Well, it was unnecessary to point out that iOS was just playing catch-up with this release. You got me there.
Looks like most (all?) of the items there were either already available on iOS or already on other platforms.
A few examples:
iCloud is yet-another-competing-service. I just found out about one called SugarSync today that looks like it does all that iCloud does.
Notifications have been a massive problem with iOS for years. iOS 5 appears to make them competitive with Android, though they're still behind RIM.
OTA updates - again, catching up to Android and Blackberry
iMessage - We'll need to see more details to see if it's feature-competitive with BBM. I doubt it'll be half as secure.
I could go on.
Spiffy. I will definitely check it out, it sounds great.
Shhh... That's supposed to be the "one more thing" at the iPhone 5 launch. Don't spoil it!
No, just BIS. From the article:
Many corporate customers said they had not lost service, suggesting that the problem was with Blackberry's BIS consumer systems, rather than its BES enterprise systems.
Want a bet? We'll discuss this again when resolutions greater than 2560x1600 become common due to apple introducing retina display laptops, and when 10 bit colour becomes common on high end monitors.
Both of those things are HILARIOUS -- The first because you believe it and inexplicably tie Apple to it. The second because a monitor that can only display 1,024 colors would have been a joke 10 years ago.
Well, if you want a better UI than Apple, look no further than the Playbook -- it makes the iPad look like a pocket calculator. I could also point you to the now defunct HP Touchpad, which also had an amazing UI.
On the User experience between the Transformer and the iPad2, I'm not sure where you think the iPad provides a better user experience. You can make vague statements like "it's more polished" but that's not exactly helpful, is it? If you want to make that claim, you'll need to provide more details.
I did check it out. It is a total mess, and the form factor is too small.
How is it a "total mess"? The OS is rock-solid, and the UI is ahead of the curve.
As for being too small, Amazon seems to disagree :)
To be fair, android doesn't support multiple users, and I doubt the playbook does either.
You can easily share a playbook between multiple users * IF * you already have Blackberry phones deployed to those users. This is one of the advantages of Blackberry Bridge, and one of the reasons that native email and calendar were left off the device. (It was intended to be used in tandem with a BB).
Forgive me for asking this, but why would you buy something like the Playbook when the iPad is a known good system?
Just off the top of my head, how about the more portable form-factor, blackberry bridge, true multi-tasking, better HTML 5 support, etc. That is to say, it probably meets his needs much better than the iPad.
The UI is also fantastic. You should check it out -- it's actually a really nice tablet.