Lies, android has problems that are hardware related.
More to the point - many Android phones didn't have proximity sensors (why else would you need apps to simulate one), and some that do seem to have problems - the Droid being the most obvious.
Now all they have to do is reverse engenier the actual correspondence between bars displayed and signal strength on each and every Android phone model just to be sure nobody changed the actual deployed code.
Why would you have to do that?
(you fucking idiot)
Nice of you to sign your post, AC. And how fitting your name is.
Now all they have to do is reverse engenier the actual correspondence between bars displayed and signal strength on each and every Android phone model just to be sure nobody changed the actual deployed code.
From what I've gathered by reading posts here over the years, the main complaint is that Apple takes open products, modifies them to work with their proprietary products such as OS X, then submits their code changes, but the changes are so tied to their proprietary products such as their OS, that it does not benefit any of the other people working on the open product for their own purposes. Therefore, those people who can see but have no use for Apple's code changes feel that Apple is obeying the letter of the law but not the spirit, so to speak because those changes do not benefit them or the product outside of Apple's use of it.
And of course the same arguments could be made against a fork.
Sure - and the evidence is that over 40% think that there is no problem, and that a further 40% + think that it's a minor problem. And a further few percent have no opinion. IOW it's not a big deal for the vast majority of those surveyed.
Actually, every phone will short out. It's not a hard concept bro, they are all the same hardware.
So tell the guys at Engadget they are idiots. They could only reproduce the fault on one of 3 phones - did you even bother to check the link, or did you think the concept was so easy any evidence of it being wrong shouldn't be checked?
Because it limits what apps an end user might want to use. For example, an ad blocking plugin for safari. It exists for jailbroken ipads/iphones and should exist in the app store but Apple will never allow it, thus it's a problem with the approval process for end users.
Bullshit. As people like to point out, all the browsers on the app store are just Safari in disguise - and yet several of them have add blockers. IOW you are wrong.
Most iP* users are like the GP. They like the fact that there is a safe, one-stop shop for all apps.
Proof? considering TFA states the exact opposite and all.
Considering TFA discusses the results of an online survey done by the source of TFA, there is a certain chance it may not be fully representative in all aspects.
But of course he had actually been working on and gradually improving it since 1905, and he even made a crucial mistake in his first publication. Hardly proof that he was at his prime at 36.
I'd like to see the text of the agreement. I suspect they could break it very easily by not calling the new phone an "iPhone", or by offering it indirectly through another company, or by simply licensing the iPhone technology to other Cellular companies to manufacture their own phone, or...
Errm, I doubt Apple would let go any control over their phone to get out of a contract with AT&T - I'm sure they have a clause in the contract that makes it much easier.
Yes, but its Apple, look at Motorola which pretty much shipped 4 versions of the Razor phone for each of the major carriers, just add some drivers to iOS and divide manufacturing between CDMA and GSM iPhones, for a company as large as Apple, its not too huge of a feat. For a tiny community driven company, yes, for a major hardware vendor like Apple? Its easy.
Why do something as easy as ship 4 different phones for the 4 major US carriers, when they can do something as complicated as ship one phone that works with at least one provider in just about every place on earth.
What exactly have they transformed? The HTC touch and LG Prada phones were out at the same time or before the iPhone.
The LG Prada was a pretty basic feature phone more expensive than the iPhone, with Adobe Flash, but no way to look at web pages. The HTC Touch was rushed to the market a month before the release of the iPhone (but months after the announcement), a Windows Mobile phone with a few applications changed to allow touch gesture operation.
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Is there anything actually incorrect about my post or do you just not like it.
The first. You sure didn't provide any examples of Apple ads saying "Our products are "always working" and "never flawed"".
Extra, Extra - Apple is evil because CEO answers emails!
Lies, android has problems that are hardware related.
More to the point - many Android phones didn't have proximity sensors (why else would you need apps to simulate one), and some that do seem to have problems - the Droid being the most obvious.
An espresso machine on the dash may void any promises Honda made on their airbags, but it might not void any on Honda's engines.
But it may void your permission to operate the vehicle in public.
Now all they have to do is reverse engenier the actual correspondence between bars displayed and signal strength on each and every Android phone model just to be sure nobody changed the actual deployed code.
Why would you have to do that?
(you fucking idiot)
Nice of you to sign your post, AC. And how fitting your name is.
I'd like to pick that one apart.
If they couldn't write an accurate report the size of IPCC report, they should have written a smaller one.
Gee, by that standard, the deniers should shut the fuck up.
Now all they have to do is reverse engenier the actual correspondence between bars displayed and signal strength on each and every Android phone model just to be sure nobody changed the actual deployed code.
From what I've gathered by reading posts here over the years, the main complaint is that Apple takes open products, modifies them to work with their proprietary products such as OS X, then submits their code changes, but the changes are so tied to their proprietary products such as their OS, that it does not benefit any of the other people working on the open product for their own purposes. Therefore, those people who can see but have no use for Apple's code changes feel that Apple is obeying the letter of the law but not the spirit, so to speak because those changes do not benefit them or the product outside of Apple's use of it.
And of course the same arguments could be made against a fork.
Mod parent up, 5) is especially important!
How can they even *think* of promoting iOS4 as multitasking capable
As this is about the iPad - how did you get iOS 4 into the picture?
1) I keep an electronic printout for my personal records.
What kind of oxymoron is that? Are you one of the inventors of the "paperless office" by chance?
Some evidence is better than no evidence at all.
Sure - and the evidence is that over 40% think that there is no problem, and that a further 40% + think that it's a minor problem. And a further few percent have no opinion. IOW it's not a big deal for the vast majority of those surveyed.
Actually, every phone will short out. It's not a hard concept bro, they are all the same hardware.
So tell the guys at Engadget they are idiots. They could only reproduce the fault on one of 3 phones - did you even bother to check the link, or did you think the concept was so easy any evidence of it being wrong shouldn't be checked?
Ya the archos is definitely cool but why spend $200 on a video player when I can spend a little more for a mini5 :)
Don't forget you need to spend extra $ to actually play more than a few formats.
Because it limits what apps an end user might want to use. For example, an ad blocking plugin for safari. It exists for jailbroken ipads/iphones and should exist in the app store but Apple will never allow it, thus it's a problem with the approval process for end users.
Bullshit. As people like to point out, all the browsers on the app store are just Safari in disguise - and yet several of them have add blockers. IOW you are wrong.
Most iP* users are like the GP. They like the fact that there is a safe, one-stop shop for all apps.
Proof? considering TFA states the exact opposite and all.
Considering TFA discusses the results of an online survey done by the source of TFA, there is a certain chance it may not be fully representative in all aspects.
You sound like a really bad case of Helsinki Syndrome.
Except that one of Einstein's most lasting and relevant contribution to modern Physics is in fact general relativity, in the form of the Einstein field equations. Which he published (correctly) in November 1915, when he was 36.
But of course he had actually been working on and gradually improving it since 1905, and he even made a crucial mistake in his first publication. Hardly proof that he was at his prime at 36.
Nice sidestep there, buddy.
I'd like to see the text of the agreement. I suspect they could break it very easily by not calling the new phone an "iPhone", or by offering it indirectly through another company, or by simply licensing the iPhone technology to other Cellular companies to manufacture their own phone, or...
Errm, I doubt Apple would let go any control over their phone to get out of a contract with AT&T - I'm sure they have a clause in the contract that makes it much easier.
Yes, but its Apple, look at Motorola which pretty much shipped 4 versions of the Razor phone for each of the major carriers, just add some drivers to iOS and divide manufacturing between CDMA and GSM iPhones, for a company as large as Apple, its not too huge of a feat. For a tiny community driven company, yes, for a major hardware vendor like Apple? Its easy.
Why do something as easy as ship 4 different phones for the 4 major US carriers, when they can do something as complicated as ship one phone that works with at least one provider in just about every place on earth.
What exactly have they transformed? The HTC touch and LG Prada phones were out at the same time or before the iPhone.
The LG Prada was a pretty basic feature phone more expensive than the iPhone, with Adobe Flash, but no way to look at web pages. The HTC Touch was rushed to the market a month before the release of the iPhone (but months after the announcement), a Windows Mobile phone with a few applications changed to allow touch gesture operation.
Did I mention both were MONO-touch?
Why would dell? they don't make electronics. They build computers byu assembling other peoples electronics.
Why would they the hire (among other jobs):
if they just buy stuff from others?
You simply have to bridge that little gap in the antenna and it no longer functions. There are no iPhones4's which don't have this antenna setup.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/some-iphone-4-models-see-signals-drop-to-0-when-held-left-handed/ And yet, 2 out of 3 iPhones didn't have the problem.
This guy is an expert in antenna design from Aalborg University, and predicted this two weeks ago.
Very interesting - but if the design is fundamentally flawed, why couldn't Engadget replicate the problem on 2 from 3 iPhones? http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/some-iphone-4-models-see-signals-drop-to-0-when-held-left-handed/