Are AT&T still refusing to unlock iPhones? Here in the UK, after the O2 exclusive deal ended O2 announced a program that would unlock your iPhone so you could take it to a new network if you wanted. Is it still tied to AT&T in the US?
Well Apple can care. They can choose not to sell to you if you jailbreak your phone. Perhaps they are concerned with the way your jailbroken phone interacts with the store, perhaps they just choose arbitrarily.
The point is, it is entirely up to them. It's no different to a store requiring you to wear shirt and shoes when you come in. This is just virtually - they just want non-rooted (clothed) phones accessing the store.
The unveiling of the Android distribution on 5 November 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 47 hardware, software, and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. The first phone to run the Android operating system was the HTC Dream, released on 22 October 2008.
Apple announced the iPhone on January 9, 2007,[18] after months of rumors and speculation.[19] The (retroactively labelled) original iPhone was introduced in the United States on June 29, 2007 before being marketed in Europe.
Yeah, "several years" head start indeed, but don't let the facts get in the way.
Firstly, do you not think Obama has shown the relevant documents to the relevant people? He does not have to release them.
Secondly, all the GOP has to do is come out and say "these claims have no credence whatsoever", instead they have been saying things like "he has a lot of questions to answer". Proof has been provided, and claimed to be false, so the production of some other document, whatever it is, will be claimed to be false also.
The original article here: http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=503058 has had a "correction" posted where they state "Editor's Note: This version corrects the original editorial which implied that physicist Stephen Hawking, a professor at the University of Cambridge, did not live in the UK." - which is not quite fully accurate, they actually stated that the UK would have considered his life worthless and would be dead. The register's article contains the original quotes.
This is the sort of propaganda and unverified "news" that is used to torpedo healthcare debate and pretty much anything related to Obama. It's the same quality of grandstanding where speakers like to emphasise his middle name "Hussein" to make him seem a) less Christian (and thus, less American), and b) "not like you [audience of speech]".
Whether Obama releases his medical records or not will not make any difference. It certainly didn't help John Kerry - if the facts don't suit the cause, simply get people to make them up.
wiki, so ymmv, but it's relatively concise based on news reports I have seen and read from several sources:
Frequent arguments of those questioning Obama's eligibility are that he has not released a photocopy of his "original" birth certificate, and that the use of the term "certification of live birth" on the document means it is not equivalent to one's "birth certificate". These arguments have been debunked numerous times by media investigations, every judicial forum that has addressed the matter, and Hawaiian government officials. Every reliable source to date has concluded that the certificate released by the Obama campaign is Barack Obama's official birth certificate. [8] Asked about this, Hawaiian Department of Health spokeswoman Janice Okubo stated that Hawaii "does not have a short-form or long-form certificate."[9] Moreover, the director of her Department has confirmed that the state "has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures."[10][11] Nevertheless, some Republican elected officials have expressed skepticism about Obama's citizenship or have displayed a lack of willingness to acknowledge it,[12] while a few Republican members of the U.S. Congress have proposed legislation that they state would prevent future occurrences of such issues.
Hey, you started it with a big flamefest a few weeks ago, calling anyone who complained that you didn't even attempt to use proper grammar as beneath your contempt.
I'm amazed you even replied. My opinion on HTML5 clearly isn't important to you.
He doesn't have TIME to obey the rules of grammar; he's too busy making a low-budget HDV Filipino movie in NYC! Obviously that is far too time consuming to allow him to type like an adult. Strangely, his sig actually contains punctuation and capital letters - a concept that he called useless and unnecessary, unless you're trolling for distributors/viewers/publicity for your film I guess.
Other video sites can stream in H.264 too - and there are several very successful ones on the iPhone, like Sky Sports that have been using flash in the browser previously.
That would be the Zune, with all those competing music stores that had similar catalogs to the iTunes store. Not many of those around.
We also have no idea what the iPad app store is going to come up with - there have been some exceptional iPhone apps, so no doubt some third party app will amaze us.
Also, conveniently, Apple has some cracking deals with video content providers - sort of ideal for a 10" screen, wouldn't you say?
I *love* the fact that I can drop my 20" iMac (white intel, late 2006) into its box, which has a handle so you can carry it like a suitcase. The whole operation takes about 2 minutes, including pulling the plug.
I have travelled with it transatlantic on several occasions (as checked baggage) and love it.
My next machine with definitely be a 27" iMac, for the same reasons as you, plus the portability.
That's a limitation of the old QT framework - I believe this has changed in QT X, although I don't use it to play mkv, so I am not certain. They rewrote X from scratch.
The iPod was very popular long before the iTMS came along. Do you remember Rip. Mix. Burn. on the (boat anchor) iMac? The store really helped, especially with the release of the iPod Mini, but it was just extra gravy really.
I'm not sure the iPad will be quite as much of a success, but it has potential.
You are making my point. I am not saying one way or the other whether there is or isn't a market - I am not qualified to make that call, and cannot possibly guess. Just as Taco wasn't when he dismissed the iPod out of hand with a casual comment right before it became wildly popular.
I cannot say "there is a market" (it might fail, it might not), but I can call you out on saying that there definitely *isn't* a market - you just cannot predict that with any accuracy.
You certainly can't justify the inclusion of the iPad on a "worst product" list when it hasn't even been available for sale yet.
Apple's official, actual, plastered-all-over-their-website name is the iPad.
You can't possibly "lose track" of what they are calling it, you just wanted to call it by a derogatory name to get some cheap +1 from people who also hate it, is all.
And my opinion is slightly different: his was "there is no market for it, it should be on the worst product list (as a direct challenge to the question why it shouldn't be on there - he is clearly stating that it should be). My opinion is that it is far too early to tell, but that including it on a list even before it has been released for sale is far too premature.
It may fail utterly, but no one can actually predict that accurately. Taco's comment about the iPod wouldn't have even been remembered if it had failed, as he clearly expected it to based on the specs along and never having used one. It clearly did not, suggesting that the success or failure of products is not solely based on their raw on-paper merits. I am not claiming to suggest the iPad will be a success (perhaps one day it will be on the worst product list) just that it cannot, in good faith, be put on there yet.
I have no idea if there is a market or not. I'm not going to state definitively that there *isn't* though, just because you can never see yourself buying one.
I can't see the point of spending $500 on uncomfortable designer shoes - no one in their right mind would wear such uncomfortable shoes that aren't even comfortable for a night out, but there is clearly a market there.
Still, lots of positive response, mixed with negative response. You know, the usual when you talk to a large number of people about a product - not everyone will like it, not everyone will hate it, some will be nonplussed.
And my sexuality and the extramarital affairs of the CEO of Apple really have nothing to do with this, other than lowering the tone. Grow up.
Right, so my initial point stands - one opinion from a guy on/. who doesn't like the iPad (and real mature on the name there, I see what you did there. Should I just go back to writing M$ for instant mod points?) doesn't qualify it for a place on this list.
The list itself is pretty stupid - listing PowerPC as one of the entries. I don't whoever wrote it really understood what they were writing, since PPC was by no means a failure or a "worst product" by any stretch of the imagination.
I personally have no idea if the iPad will succeed or fail. It will probably do better than anything based on LameDroid though. oooooh I went there.
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Are AT&T still refusing to unlock iPhones? Here in the UK, after the O2 exclusive deal ended O2 announced a program that would unlock your iPhone so you could take it to a new network if you wanted. Is it still tied to AT&T in the US?
Well Apple can care. They can choose not to sell to you if you jailbreak your phone. Perhaps they are concerned with the way your jailbroken phone interacts with the store, perhaps they just choose arbitrarily.
The point is, it is entirely up to them. It's no different to a store requiring you to wear shirt and shoes when you come in. This is just virtually - they just want non-rooted (clothed) phones accessing the store.
The unveiling of the Android distribution on 5 November 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 47 hardware, software, and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. The first phone to run the Android operating system was the HTC Dream, released on 22 October 2008.
Apple announced the iPhone on January 9, 2007,[18] after months of rumors and speculation.[19] The (retroactively labelled) original iPhone was introduced in the United States on June 29, 2007 before being marketed in Europe.
Yeah, "several years" head start indeed, but don't let the facts get in the way.
And your "debate" tone really doesn't do you any favours.
If your argument has no merit, just resort to name calling. It's a tried an tested method, but it is getting dull.
Better to be safe than sorry. Anti Apple posts with blatantly false information and mindless fear mongering tend to be taken quite seriously.
So since no one really buys Linux, it can't be very good.
So those Windows programs that just run on Linux (without Wine) are so numerous, right?
Firstly, do you not think Obama has shown the relevant documents to the relevant people? He does not have to release them.
Secondly, all the GOP has to do is come out and say "these claims have no credence whatsoever", instead they have been saying things like "he has a lot of questions to answer". Proof has been provided, and claimed to be false, so the production of some other document, whatever it is, will be claimed to be false also.
The Stephen Hawking story:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/hawking_british_and_alive/
The original article here:
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=503058
has had a "correction" posted where they state "Editor's Note: This version corrects the original editorial which implied that physicist Stephen Hawking, a professor at the University of Cambridge, did not live in the UK." - which is not quite fully accurate, they actually stated that the UK would have considered his life worthless and would be dead. The register's article contains the original quotes.
This is the sort of propaganda and unverified "news" that is used to torpedo healthcare debate and pretty much anything related to Obama. It's the same quality of grandstanding where speakers like to emphasise his middle name "Hussein" to make him seem a) less Christian (and thus, less American), and b) "not like you [audience of speech]".
Whether Obama releases his medical records or not will not make any difference. It certainly didn't help John Kerry - if the facts don't suit the cause, simply get people to make them up.
wiki, so ymmv, but it's relatively concise based on news reports I have seen and read from several sources:
Frequent arguments of those questioning Obama's eligibility are that he has not released a photocopy of his "original" birth certificate, and that the use of the term "certification of live birth" on the document means it is not equivalent to one's "birth certificate". These arguments have been debunked numerous times by media investigations, every judicial forum that has addressed the matter, and Hawaiian government officials. Every reliable source to date has concluded that the certificate released by the Obama campaign is Barack Obama's official birth certificate. [8] Asked about this, Hawaiian Department of Health spokeswoman Janice Okubo stated that Hawaii "does not have a short-form or long-form certificate."[9] Moreover, the director of her Department has confirmed that the state "has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures."[10][11]
Nevertheless, some Republican elected officials have expressed skepticism about Obama's citizenship or have displayed a lack of willingness to acknowledge it,[12] while a few Republican members of the U.S. Congress have proposed legislation that they state would prevent future occurrences of such issues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_birth_certificate
Even if they release another document, they'll just swap to the "he has dual citizenship so is also disqualified" angle, which I have also heard.
Come on - if you go to apple.com you can see it in gigantic letters on the front page. There really is absolutely no doubt about what the name is.
You didn't say "iSlate" you said "iStale" - if that is a genuine typo, then I apologise. I did not read it as such though.
Hey, you started it with a big flamefest a few weeks ago, calling anyone who complained that you didn't even attempt to use proper grammar as beneath your contempt.
I'm amazed you even replied. My opinion on HTML5 clearly isn't important to you.
He doesn't have TIME to obey the rules of grammar; he's too busy making a low-budget HDV Filipino movie in NYC! Obviously that is far too time consuming to allow him to type like an adult. Strangely, his sig actually contains punctuation and capital letters - a concept that he called useless and unnecessary, unless you're trolling for distributors/viewers/publicity for your film I guess.
Or you can write an app for the iPhone, like Bejeweled. Play it in flash on the browser, or on the iPhone as an app.
"special deal" being "serves up video in H.264"
Other video sites can stream in H.264 too - and there are several very successful ones on the iPhone, like Sky Sports that have been using flash in the browser previously.
The iPhone reads PDF files natively. You do not need an App.
That would be the Zune, with all those competing music stores that had similar catalogs to the iTunes store. Not many of those around.
We also have no idea what the iPad app store is going to come up with - there have been some exceptional iPhone apps, so no doubt some third party app will amaze us.
Also, conveniently, Apple has some cracking deals with video content providers - sort of ideal for a 10" screen, wouldn't you say?
I *love* the fact that I can drop my 20" iMac (white intel, late 2006) into its box, which has a handle so you can carry it like a suitcase. The whole operation takes about 2 minutes, including pulling the plug.
I have travelled with it transatlantic on several occasions (as checked baggage) and love it.
My next machine with definitely be a 27" iMac, for the same reasons as you, plus the portability.
That's a limitation of the old QT framework - I believe this has changed in QT X, although I don't use it to play mkv, so I am not certain. They rewrote X from scratch.
The iPod was very popular long before the iTMS came along. Do you remember Rip. Mix. Burn. on the (boat anchor) iMac? The store really helped, especially with the release of the iPod Mini, but it was just extra gravy really.
I'm not sure the iPad will be quite as much of a success, but it has potential.
You are making my point. I am not saying one way or the other whether there is or isn't a market - I am not qualified to make that call, and cannot possibly guess. Just as Taco wasn't when he dismissed the iPod out of hand with a casual comment right before it became wildly popular.
I cannot say "there is a market" (it might fail, it might not), but I can call you out on saying that there definitely *isn't* a market - you just cannot predict that with any accuracy.
You certainly can't justify the inclusion of the iPad on a "worst product" list when it hasn't even been available for sale yet.
Apple's official, actual, plastered-all-over-their-website name is the iPad.
You can't possibly "lose track" of what they are calling it, you just wanted to call it by a derogatory name to get some cheap +1 from people who also hate it, is all.
And my opinion is slightly different: his was "there is no market for it, it should be on the worst product list (as a direct challenge to the question why it shouldn't be on there - he is clearly stating that it should be). My opinion is that it is far too early to tell, but that including it on a list even before it has been released for sale is far too premature.
It may fail utterly, but no one can actually predict that accurately. Taco's comment about the iPod wouldn't have even been remembered if it had failed, as he clearly expected it to based on the specs along and never having used one. It clearly did not, suggesting that the success or failure of products is not solely based on their raw on-paper merits. I am not claiming to suggest the iPad will be a success (perhaps one day it will be on the worst product list) just that it cannot, in good faith, be put on there yet.
I have no idea if there is a market or not. I'm not going to state definitively that there *isn't* though, just because you can never see yourself buying one.
I can't see the point of spending $500 on uncomfortable designer shoes - no one in their right mind would wear such uncomfortable shoes that aren't even comfortable for a night out, but there is clearly a market there.
I wish. I am surrounded by Windows-lovers.
Still, lots of positive response, mixed with negative response. You know, the usual when you talk to a large number of people about a product - not everyone will like it, not everyone will hate it, some will be nonplussed.
And my sexuality and the extramarital affairs of the CEO of Apple really have nothing to do with this, other than lowering the tone. Grow up.
So, when did they add wireless to it? The iPod Touch?
When did it overtake the Nomad in space terms?
The design didn't change much at all before it became available for Windows - they just enabled the software to run on HFS+ or Fat32 formatted drives.
It still had fewer features, less space than a Nomad and no wireless when it was available to Windows users.
Right, so my initial point stands - one opinion from a guy on /. who doesn't like the iPad (and real mature on the name there, I see what you did there. Should I just go back to writing M$ for instant mod points?) doesn't qualify it for a place on this list.
The list itself is pretty stupid - listing PowerPC as one of the entries. I don't whoever wrote it really understood what they were writing, since PPC was by no means a failure or a "worst product" by any stretch of the imagination.
I personally have no idea if the iPad will succeed or fail. It will probably do better than anything based on LameDroid though. oooooh I went there.
What's wrong with it on OS X?