Inflammatory comments? You mean I shouldn't have used the word "OggWank" the "insightful" poster used before me? Or was it inflammatory to say that the MP3 player makers are an incompetent bunch of losers who wouldn't work together for the good of the consumer even if they could gain an advantage over Apple? Guilty as charged. Thanks for bringing up the topic, WMF.
Alright. You have to admit, though, it would look pretty silly: one cord, spilts into two, only to join back together to connect to another set of headphones (which split again). It might even make the combined cord a bit too long for convenience (which would be paramount in a tiny player).
Which pretty much is the reason why Apple doesn't bring out a universal remote for all phones - because people would whine endlessly how stupid Apple was for bringing out such an inconvenient solution.
OTOH, I was talking about something the "there is no way to plug in any non-Apple phones" crowd could to for just a few cents themselves - fully knowing they want to whine and no solution.
Okay, you turn in TWO cards. Obviously one can not solder two separate wires from two cords onto a plug, only two wires from inside one cord, the former would be physically impossible.
Sorry, putting a third update on a page (with the first update claiming "more proof"), and not putting a mention of the update on the front page is hardly an apology. Not to mention that the front page instead under "EFF in the News" links to a PC World article still claiming the phones have DRM.
A lack of evidence is not in-and-of-itself evidence of deception. It just means that a claim has no evidence, and therefore shouldn't be taken seriously.
So how many times would BongBong claim something without evidence before they can be accused of lying. Or at least before they can safely not be taken seriously?
What irks me is that the EFF also bought into it. If they use Greenpeace's anti-Apple campaign booklet, next should be a press release from the EFF that they forced Apple to remove the DRM.
That's because your shitty OggWank player doesn't have a standardized remote control. Maybe if the makers of shitty OggWank players could get their collective heads out of their collective asses...
If you want to use other ear-/head-phones, take the Apple supplied buds, cut them off above the remote control, solder a 3.5mm female on the cords and plug in your other pair. Turn in your geek cards now, all of you.
He was talking about the old ones that would be sold out (the ones that are left as he put it). "The old model could be had"he said, not "can still be bought". He was clearly assuming that the old model would no longer be available from Apple, only from shops that still had them on store or from the refurb store.
If they sold a short extension cord with the in-line buttons on it so that you could use any headphones you wanted,
The problem is, the in-line buttons on the Apple earphones are "close to the heart" so to speak, on a short extension cord they would be close to wherever the iPhone is - what do you think is more ergonomic?
You could try to learn to read. Or you could just shove it. He said the old ones aren't available anymore at the old price, he was wrong. But we "Apple apologists" aren't supposed to say that others are wrong, especially when they obviously aren't, is that right. Ooops, did it again.
When somebody says two things are the same size and they aren't, it's obviously my fault for pointing it out, because that makes them feel bad. Is that your point?
Jesus fucking Christ, when you want to know the name of the track you're listening to is - you press a button, and the Shuffle tells you - how fucking hard is that? You don't have to stop or wait for a red traffic light, you don't have to dig out your player, and you don't have to focus on a tiny screen.
You're an angry man. You also appear to be unable to distinguish between your personal preferences (including an apparently strong preference for 'whatever Apple just did' over 'other') and reasoned argument.
Listen, when some fuckwit tells me a tiny screen is the way to go when you want to know the name of the track that's playing specifically when he is jogging - it has nothing to do with Apple not including a tiny screen when I tell him he is clinically insane.
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Inflammatory comments? You mean I shouldn't have used the word "OggWank" the "insightful" poster used before me? Or was it inflammatory to say that the MP3 player makers are an incompetent bunch of losers who wouldn't work together for the good of the consumer even if they could gain an advantage over Apple? Guilty as charged. Thanks for bringing up the topic, WMF.
Alright. You have to admit, though, it would look pretty silly: one cord, spilts into two, only to join back together to connect to another set of headphones (which split again). It might even make the combined cord a bit too long for convenience (which would be paramount in a tiny player).
Which pretty much is the reason why Apple doesn't bring out a universal remote for all phones - because people would whine endlessly how stupid Apple was for bringing out such an inconvenient solution.
OTOH, I was talking about something the "there is no way to plug in any non-Apple phones" crowd could to for just a few cents themselves - fully knowing they want to whine and no solution.
And what new hardware features are being added to the touch? Copy/Paste isn't a hardware feature.
"Giving apps access to hardware via the dock connector or Bluetooth" is.
So I'm a troll for pointing out that the MP3 makers never ever bothered to create any form of standard for remote controlling their devices?
Are you alright? It seems there is brain matter coming from your ears.
Surface temperature of Venus is well over 500 Kelvin.
I was waiting for that. Yes they are. It's a joke, it doesn't need to be technically accurate.
Yeah, it only needs to be accurate to be a good joke. You may continue with fart jokes.
Tell that to the guys who use the exact same reasoning about the new Shuffle.
Okay, you turn in TWO cards. Obviously one can not solder two separate wires from two cords onto a plug, only two wires from inside one cord, the former would be physically impossible.
Sorry, putting a third update on a page (with the first update claiming "more proof"), and not putting a mention of the update on the front page is hardly an apology. Not to mention that the front page instead under "EFF in the News" links to a PC World article still claiming the phones have DRM.
All SanDisk has to do to get the same kind of press is to build up a huge base of irrational SanDisk haters.
You are silly.
A lack of evidence is not in-and-of-itself evidence of deception. It just means that a claim has no evidence, and therefore shouldn't be taken seriously.
So how many times would BongBong claim something without evidence before they can be accused of lying. Or at least before they can safely not be taken seriously?
What irks me is that the EFF also bought into it. If they use Greenpeace's anti-Apple campaign booklet, next should be a press release from the EFF that they forced Apple to remove the DRM.
That's because your shitty OggWank player doesn't have a standardized remote control. Maybe if the makers of shitty OggWank players could get their collective heads out of their collective asses...
So if you can't run iTunes on Linux, that means Linux is locking you in because you can't run all the software on it you want. Case closed.
If you want to use other ear-/head-phones, take the Apple supplied buds, cut them off above the remote control, solder a 3.5mm female on the cords and plug in your other pair. Turn in your geek cards now, all of you.
SDFBO. Apple will be heart broken all the way to the bank.
So you can't even make fire-proof books out of this material?
Surface temperature of Venus is well over 500 Kelvin.
I guess no SF writer ever came up with something like it, so there is no one to quote (badly) for speculation.
The iPhone "is a music player after all". Sure. And ergonomics is the opposite of RSI. Sure.
He was talking about the old ones that would be sold out (the ones that are left as he put it). "The old model could be had"he said, not "can still be bought". He was clearly assuming that the old model would no longer be available from Apple, only from shops that still had them on store or from the refurb store.
If they sold a short extension cord with the in-line buttons on it so that you could use any headphones you wanted,
The problem is, the in-line buttons on the Apple earphones are "close to the heart" so to speak, on a short extension cord they would be close to wherever the iPhone is - what do you think is more ergonomic?
You could try to learn to read. Or you could just shove it. He said the old ones aren't available anymore at the old price, he was wrong. But we "Apple apologists" aren't supposed to say that others are wrong, especially when they obviously aren't, is that right. Ooops, did it again.
When somebody says two things are the same size and they aren't, it's obviously my fault for pointing it out, because that makes them feel bad. Is that your point?
Jesus fucking Christ, when you want to know the name of the track you're listening to is - you press a button, and the Shuffle tells you - how fucking hard is that? You don't have to stop or wait for a red traffic light, you don't have to dig out your player, and you don't have to focus on a tiny screen.
You're an angry man. You also appear to be unable to distinguish between your personal preferences (including an apparently strong preference for 'whatever Apple just did' over 'other') and reasoned argument.
Listen, when some fuckwit tells me a tiny screen is the way to go when you want to know the name of the track that's playing specifically when he is jogging - it has nothing to do with Apple not including a tiny screen when I tell him he is clinically insane.