Do you honestly think Apple's little dongle you must pay for is according to the spirit of that directive? They may have got a free pass with their old devices but I doubt they will get one with something they designed several years after the directive was published.
This is all irrelevant anyway. Apple's new Lightning connector does not have separate audio or HDMI pins. It's just a digital data stream which can be transmitted by any digital interface with enough bandwidth and that includes bog standard micro-USB which runs at USB 2.0 speeds.
Apple's Lightning to USB connector only provides USB 2.0 speeds. Being orientation independent does not seem that big of a deal to me. Oh and the lightning connector is larger than a micro-USB connector.
If they wanted to advance the state of the art they could have proposed their connector as a standard to the EU. Instead this shows Apple wants to bilk customers for buying their expensive adapters and accessories.
Even if it does fail at least it managed to put things in space and in orbit unlike the last round. An F-15 does not allow you to go to the edge of space or experience zero gravity.
That is one thing that Apple people foaming about RAND licenses for telecoms don't get. There is more than one way to implement a standard. Just because a company has patents on how to optimize specific parts of the standard it does not mean it is mandatory to use it. Yet Apple does it anyway. They use other people's patented features and expects to pay the same as other smartphone manufacturers which cross license their patent portfolio while not cross licensing their own patent portfolio.
No, we would complain they were strangling third party developers if they did not allow anyone to compete with their own Apple branded app as they usually do.
Cue in Apple developer stupidity here: But all the devices have the same resolution/But all the devices have the same aspect ratio/WTF with the black bars and nasty scaling?
Good thing Android actually adapts to the resolution of the device, whatever that is.
Ever heard of the Republic of Novgorod? It used to be a major trading power in the Hanseatic League back in the Middle Ages. Then the weather got colder and the ports got less and less useable. Then the Duchy of Muskovy invaded and it was toast.
It's the usual. Hitler started blaming the unions then he started blaming poor people, the old and the sick for the crisis. The same pattern seems to be repeating again.
Interesting considering the UK lost most of its industry back when Thatcher was in the government. The auto industry is just one example of many. The UK today has what? A banking sector and nearly no oil and gas reserves.
So Apple claims but that is not standard industry practice. There are people attempting to make patent pools around cellphone technologies but they are mostly unsuccessful. Qualcomm is actually one of the major offenders since they refuse to join any patent pools.
Yes please go read important non news about Apple's toilets in CNET. Arstechnica is usually a pretty reasonably site to read but they still suffer from the Apple disease where even the slightest boring rumor gets reported.
Yahoo used to be an internet directory. They had no search facility. I used Lycos, Hotbot, Altavista, Google. Never used Yahoo for searching. Yahoo was mostly used for the services they provided like discussion groups.
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You must pay for the adapter and it is not included with the device.
Do you honestly think Apple's little dongle you must pay for is according to the spirit of that directive? They may have got a free pass with their old devices but I doubt they will get one with something they designed several years after the directive was published.
This is all irrelevant anyway. Apple's new Lightning connector does not have separate audio or HDMI pins. It's just a digital data stream which can be transmitted by any digital interface with enough bandwidth and that includes bog standard micro-USB which runs at USB 2.0 speeds.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-wireless-display.html
That is very interesting considering I have heard about Intel having demoed working prototypes on streaming video using WiFi for many years now.
Apple's Lightning to USB connector only provides USB 2.0 speeds. Being orientation independent does not seem that big of a deal to me. Oh and the lightning connector is larger than a micro-USB connector.
If they wanted to advance the state of the art they could have proposed their connector as a standard to the EU. Instead this shows Apple wants to bilk customers for buying their expensive adapters and accessories.
Stopping to use nuclear power in Japan is one of the dumbest policy decisions ever. They have next to no energy resources they can exploit.
Even if it does fail at least it managed to put things in space and in orbit unlike the last round. An F-15 does not allow you to go to the edge of space or experience zero gravity.
That is one thing that Apple people foaming about RAND licenses for telecoms don't get. There is more than one way to implement a standard. Just because a company has patents on how to optimize specific parts of the standard it does not mean it is mandatory to use it. Yet Apple does it anyway. They use other people's patented features and expects to pay the same as other smartphone manufacturers which cross license their patent portfolio while not cross licensing their own patent portfolio.
No, we would complain they were strangling third party developers if they did not allow anyone to compete with their own Apple branded app as they usually do.
Good thing Android actually adapts to the resolution of the device, whatever that is.
Uh... no Apple religiously releases a new smartphone model like every year on a sort of tick-tock model.
Unity is less bad than Windows 8. It has been getting less annoying as it gets worked on. But I still miss GNOME 2
Pay an Indian to fix it in several hours then.
Ever heard of the Republic of Novgorod? It used to be a major trading power in the Hanseatic League back in the Middle Ages. Then the weather got colder and the ports got less and less useable. Then the Duchy of Muskovy invaded and it was toast.
The 3D printers are more like assemblers than replicators. The ST replicator can scan nearly anything you put into it and replicate it.
It's the usual. Hitler started blaming the unions then he started blaming poor people, the old and the sick for the crisis. The same pattern seems to be repeating again.
Interesting considering the UK lost most of its industry back when Thatcher was in the government. The auto industry is just one example of many. The UK today has what? A banking sector and nearly no oil and gas reserves.
I think there are laws against selling things with sharp corners. You know consumer lawsuits about dangerous products et all.
So Apple claims but that is not standard industry practice. There are people attempting to make patent pools around cellphone technologies but they are mostly unsuccessful. Qualcomm is actually one of the major offenders since they refuse to join any patent pools.
Yes please go read important non news about Apple's toilets in CNET. Arstechnica is usually a pretty reasonably site to read but they still suffer from the Apple disease where even the slightest boring rumor gets reported.
No I think it was Micey Mnemonic.
Yahoo used to be an internet directory. They had no search facility. I used Lycos, Hotbot, Altavista, Google. Never used Yahoo for searching. Yahoo was mostly used for the services they provided like discussion groups.
I usually just close the window and go somewhere else. You have more tolerance for this stuff than I do.