While the newton, geoport modem, scanners and displays come to mind, I am thinking of Apple's larger skill set here in producing electronic devices. Such as laptops, chips and at a more basic level many electronic standards. They have a very wide tool set of experience to call upon.
Apple have many years of experience in making small electronic devices that users run with, drop, hit, sweat into, cover in dirt, dust and sand, sit on and so on. They've learnt and studied reliability significantly from and for all those iPods.
Combining this with apple's experience in electronics and software and I'm not surprised that the iPhone is failing less than a company who only have experience in producing one kind of product for a significantly shorter amount of time with a much smaller research & development budget.
actually, the apple consumers are usually very pedantic about their product and rightly so, the product is usually marketed as a premium item and costs a little more than the competitor.
So far even minor issues found in the iphone have been turned into a maelstrom of users, fanboys and haters all cashing in their feedback. There are people actively petitioning the iPhone for the following: Canadian pricing, the autocorrection feature having a disable switch, iphone unlocking/drm, 3rd party application NDAs, iphone in china & other providers, chrome for iphone, mms, 802.1x NACS, etc etc.
The blackberry is not getting anywhere near this much attention, petitions for the blackberry are aimed at the service providers disablement of a particular BB feature.
However all this vocal activity is a good thing for apple, as it gives them ways they can improve their product.
apple release a laptop with 2 gpus, carved enclosure and buttonless track pad and slashdot spend all day talking about the glossy screen.
I'm more interesting in finding out how apple are going to utilise all those extra gpus, how they're going to make it easy for developers to use this hardware in 10.6 and what sort of speed ups we might be able to extract from having basically 4 processing cores available in a laptop.
Also they've been addressing touchable buttons with on-microphone remote controlling earphones. the more recent model allowing play/pause, last track/next track and volume control. So that will override having to take the unit out of your pocket to flick through music while on the move. as a little extra the nano can be set to shuffle by shaking it.
That's the interesting part: apple -had- a 160Gb iPod, but they dropped it last update and now only sell the 120Gb.
I think it's also on part because it won't be long until the touch is around that 120Gb mark, which will allow them to drop the HD players entirely for flash ones. However if apple were to keep ratcheting up supply/demand for larger mini-hdd's then manufacturers will keep pouring r&d into making bigger small form hdds, and flash won't ever overtake HDDs on the small form market. With that in mind I can see why they stopped producing the 160gb model (that and at it's cost people simply weren't buying it.)
as much as i like woz. the guy left apple long before it began reaching it's current-day successes. he's always got something to say about apple products, and the thing is, he's rarely correct.
This is another example, certainly one of the iPod skus will be removed (probably those large HD based ones.) but small music players will always be a hot item. The iPhone & Touch are designed to cannibalize the high end iPod sales, and it has done so effectively.
So now apple are selling a more expensive device to the same audience who bought all those big ipods years ago.
I wouldn't think a satellite would get the required resolution for a crowd of people standing around in yellow capes.
That sounds more like the google aerial photography. For which Google, as they did in Australia, specifically issues a press release and an online tool to track the location of the plane so the general population could form interesting assemblies to be later viewed on google maps.
It appears you're looking for the higgs-bison particle, do you want to:
- Create stranglets
- Create a small, non evaporating black hole
- Join a religious cult and do gods bidding, aka Contact the movie.
- Assume you know more than physicists who have been working on the LHC for the past 14 years.
I remember watching a cartoon of teenage mutant ninja turtles when I was young.
There was a nuclear reactor ready to explode.. fortunately April saved the day by unplugging it from the wall.
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you can just turn on TOR/similar services and the iTunes Store block is no more, the Chinese firewall is a joke and more a serving suggestion for the Chinese mainstream.
To make serial numbers more language friendly I usually read them with verbs inbetween..
E.g. 0C 88 65 36 5C 65 14 8D B5 3E 47 D9 20 11 9F 90 would be zero-C did an 88 to 36, over 5C while 65 watched with 14 and 8D, B5 joined in on the fun while 3E took 47 to D9, and 20 did 11 with 9F inbetween 90.
It's because McDonalds doesn't sell fennel or parsnip.. meanwhile after looking at the image, the recognition might not be much more than comparing the average hue against the known blue weighing platform..
I think apple are just a little pissy about say.. someone taking their software product, altering it, and reselling it as the bonafide article...and say that window of time where pystar were selling "mac" computers.
And who'd guess that american trademark law requires trademark holders to act defensively of their trademarks or risk losing them?
what a funny little world we live in, although it's been nice to see the number of people who think this is about selling hardware that is compatible with running a boxed copy of OSX (which, for interest sake isn't what pystar is doing anyway - the added bonus is that the pystart units barely function for what they are said to do and have some interesting hacks to a burn copy of the install disc to get osx running on the machines at all.)
heck even windows phones home when you do a search.
Also this approach is slightly different from phoning home, it's checking a list which is on the internet, it doesn't actually provide apple with any data about your phone/application list/who you are (which is what phoning home is about.)
Also, maintaining a blacklist is no different from a virus scanner downloading updates on the latest malware.
when you run a virus scanner, you let symantec et. al. decide what is dangerous - I love the fuss people are making about this, as if it's a new idea to disable programs on your computer.
The concept of a virus scanner is exactly this: an application designed to stop malicious apps from running. Since virus scanners for your phone aren't an ideal application, apple had to step in and provide that extra layer of security.
Plus apple know the moment they start disabling applications for no reason at all, will be the same day their app store sales take a huge dive.
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It's a gift for the lawyers really... who is dumb enough to go against three litigiously-experienced heavy weights with a frivolous patent lawsuit.
While the newton, geoport modem, scanners and displays come to mind, I am thinking of Apple's larger skill set here in producing electronic devices. Such as laptops, chips and at a more basic level many electronic standards. They have a very wide tool set of experience to call upon.
Combining this with apple's experience in electronics and software and I'm not surprised that the iPhone is failing less than a company who only have experience in producing one kind of product for a significantly shorter amount of time with a much smaller research & development budget.
So far even minor issues found in the iphone have been turned into a maelstrom of users, fanboys and haters all cashing in their feedback. There are people actively petitioning the iPhone for the following: Canadian pricing, the autocorrection feature having a disable switch, iphone unlocking/drm, 3rd party application NDAs, iphone in china & other providers, chrome for iphone, mms, 802.1x NACS, etc etc.
The blackberry is not getting anywhere near this much attention, petitions for the blackberry are aimed at the service providers disablement of a particular BB feature.
However all this vocal activity is a good thing for apple, as it gives them ways they can improve their product.
If the settlement with Apple music is anything to go by, then I doubt Pystar are going to be in a better position after all of this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v._Apple_Computer
I'm more interesting in finding out how apple are going to utilise all those extra gpus, how they're going to make it easy for developers to use this hardware in 10.6 and what sort of speed ups we might be able to extract from having basically 4 processing cores available in a laptop.
Also they've been addressing touchable buttons with on-microphone remote controlling earphones. the more recent model allowing play/pause, last track/next track and volume control. So that will override having to take the unit out of your pocket to flick through music while on the move. as a little extra the nano can be set to shuffle by shaking it.
I think it's also on part because it won't be long until the touch is around that 120Gb mark, which will allow them to drop the HD players entirely for flash ones. However if apple were to keep ratcheting up supply/demand for larger mini-hdd's then manufacturers will keep pouring r&d into making bigger small form hdds, and flash won't ever overtake HDDs on the small form market. With that in mind I can see why they stopped producing the 160gb model (that and at it's cost people simply weren't buying it.)
This is another example, certainly one of the iPod skus will be removed (probably those large HD based ones.) but small music players will always be a hot item. The iPhone & Touch are designed to cannibalize the high end iPod sales, and it has done so effectively.
So now apple are selling a more expensive device to the same audience who bought all those big ipods years ago.
That sounds more like the google aerial photography. For which Google, as they did in Australia, specifically issues a press release and an online tool to track the location of the plane so the general population could form interesting assemblies to be later viewed on google maps.
- Create stranglets
- Create a small, non evaporating black hole
- Join a religious cult and do gods bidding, aka Contact the movie.
- Assume you know more than physicists who have been working on the LHC for the past 14 years.
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As it led me straight to snopes: http://www.snopes.com/photos/humor/rivalry.asp
There was a nuclear reactor ready to explode.. fortunately April saved the day by unplugging it from the wall.
you can just turn on TOR/similar services and the iTunes Store block is no more, the Chinese firewall is a joke and more a serving suggestion for the Chinese mainstream.
E.g. 0C 88 65 36 5C 65 14 8D B5 3E 47 D9 20 11 9F 90 would be zero-C did an 88 to 36, over 5C while 65 watched with 14 and 8D, B5 joined in on the fun while 3E took 47 to D9, and 20 did 11 with 9F inbetween 90.
It's because McDonalds doesn't sell fennel or parsnip.. meanwhile after looking at the image, the recognition might not be much more than comparing the average hue against the known blue weighing platform..
And who'd guess that american trademark law requires trademark holders to act defensively of their trademarks or risk losing them?
what a funny little world we live in, although it's been nice to see the number of people who think this is about selling hardware that is compatible with running a boxed copy of OSX (which, for interest sake isn't what pystar is doing anyway - the added bonus is that the pystart units barely function for what they are said to do and have some interesting hacks to a burn copy of the install disc to get osx running on the machines at all.)
heck even windows phones home when you do a search.
Also this approach is slightly different from phoning home, it's checking a list which is on the internet, it doesn't actually provide apple with any data about your phone/application list/who you are (which is what phoning home is about.)
Also, maintaining a blacklist is no different from a virus scanner downloading updates on the latest malware.
to redeem your points you must redirect all bank accesses to your personal phishing site.
Or say when McAfee update their malware list?
when you run a virus scanner, you let symantec et. al. decide what is dangerous - I love the fuss people are making about this, as if it's a new idea to disable programs on your computer.
The concept of a virus scanner is exactly this: an application designed to stop malicious apps from running. Since virus scanners for your phone aren't an ideal application, apple had to step in and provide that extra layer of security. Plus apple know the moment they start disabling applications for no reason at all, will be the same day their app store sales take a huge dive.
I second that, meanwhile there is a lot of distrust for apple - in spite of them having one of the most trusted operating systems... bizarre.
My broken Nokia has had this feature for years, APPLE NEVER INNOVATES.