So now nerds have a display specifically for those occasional moments in the sun. Nobody else knows or cares about these devices.
iPad works great in sunlight. Sorry that Apple's super bright IPS screens are fucking up people's OLED, eInk, and Qi reviews, but lying about iPad to give these other devices some marginal utility is truly lame. Try to have an iPad in front of you before mentioning it in your review you starfucker. A good tip is to review tablets and readers without saying "iPad" and see if there is anything to say. It's like every Android phone review should above all else not say "iPhone." For example, tell me why a 4-5 inch screen is advantageous on a phone, don't tell me "it has a bigger screen than iPhone." I can see from the fucking marketing materials that 5 is bigger than 3.5. Does it provide any advantage that is worth it not fitting in my jeans pocket?
The servers weren't even hacked. 400 accounts with guessable passwords were accessed. That is why the users were asked to change their passwords, and everybody got their money back.
How much hysteria does there have to be around Apple before it's enough?
Is that a kind of iPhone? I have to have an iPhone because it runs apps and has the most gee bees. That is where consumers are at.
Nerds call all the advanced phones "smartphones" but that is irrelevant to consumers, same as "MP3 player" is a nerd term. Everyone else calls them iPods. iPhone and Nokia phones have nothing in common. Nokia might as well be a kitchen appliance. They don't have an iTunes competitor, App Store competitor, Apple Store competitor, OS X competitor, iPod competitor, Safari competitor, and so on. Having a device that looks kind of like an iPhone is not enough. These things sell on word-of-mouth and because you see your friend's phone in action. Spec sheets are as irrelevant as they are in the iPod market. Having endless feature phones is not enough. Having email on a feature phone and calling it a smartphone and pointing to 40% market share means nothing. iOS is just getting started. iPhone 4 is in many ways just the second iPhone, after iPhone 3G/3GS. The original was US-only, had no 3G, no native 3rd party apps... it was like a beta test.
If you want people to talk about your phone, give them something to talk about by delivering a phone that is better than iPhone. Or get out of the game. Nokia has become the Finnish word for "nostalgia."
> It does this via carrier lockin - no facial recognition needed.
Bullshit. iPhone is an open standard phone. There just happens to only be one open standard network is no-infrastructure USA. iPhone runs on over 100 carriers worldwide, including many in countries where it's not even sold, and on multiple carriers in many countries. Look at fucking Canada: iPhone is on 2 carriers. You can buy unlocked iPhones, even in the US, it's just that nobody wants them, because you only have the one open standard carrier who is giving a subsidy. You can buy used iPhones that have been carrier unlocked. I sold my first iPhone to a guy in fucking Italy that's how hard it is to run iPhones wherever you want to run them.
You should blame Verizon and Sprint for building closed, proprietary networks. You should blame T-Mobile for using non-standard frequencies. You should blame yourself for being so anxious to Apple bash that you spewed ignorant bullshit. Apple is under exactly no fucking obligation to make you a bullshit proprietary Verizon phone.
The myth that computers all have viruses is a sad joke. This is Microsoft's fault, plain and simple. The people who set up these kiosks have a right to expect that a computer can run virus-free. There ought to be a class action against Microsoft. Their products ought to be removed from the market for how dangerous they are. Windows is a fucking Pinto.
Are you telling me that this is the first tech product with bugs? At least Apple can patch 100% of iPhones through iTunes, the users won't have to wait 6 months for their carrier to release a patch, as on all other phones. For example, Sprint EVO can't last 9 hours on standby, and there is no patch yet.
Apple sold almost 2 million in just a few days. If the product was a dud, there should be lineups at Apple Stores of people waiting to return their phones.
What is really happening is iPhone 4 is a great product with so little to criticize that the realities of cell networking and minor software bugs are being hysterically cast as unique iPhone problems. Demand for iPhone has gone up 10 times with this rev and it's put fear into the entire industry, who are taking any opportunity to Apple bash. Truth is, there is no better phone. Users love their iPhones because they're designed for users, not designed for carriers or advertisers, and they come with software and support that makes other devices look empty and orphaned. The iPhone 4's launch bugs are minuscule compared to the typical Android or Nokia phone. Totally miniscule. iPhone 4 sold more on its first day than Nexus One has sold in its whole life, that is the only thing that makes these issues seem widespread at all, but they are not.
> Actually, since Video playback is hardware-accelerated (as with Canvas), it turns out that IE9 handles video streams > better than the released browsers that implement it, such as Chrome.
No. In the first place, IE9 is a technology demo, not even a browser, not even a beta, it won't be out until more than a year from now at best. They can show you whatever little movie they want to show you. They don't have to support actual websites for actual users with actual batteries and so on.
Secondly, Safari has had hardware accelerated video forever, in actual shipping product, as well as hardware accelerated graphics. This is an ancient Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod feature. Safari for Windows just got limited hardware acceleration, but it is old elsewhere, but even so, it's shipping now, users are using it. The Mac is the majority of the high-end PC market. Microsoft is not leading the way here. Macs all have hardware H.264 video decoders for this specific reason. Most Macs are notebooks, running video on 10% of the power on the GPU is a key feature. It's great that Microsoft has discovered GPU's in 2010, and HTML5, but let's see some shipping product in the hands of users.
It really goes to show how impractical the nerd community is. The IE9 demo has apparently made a ton of nerds think Microsoft is pushing things ahead. It's a fucking PR campaign! Users are running POS IE6-IE8 and will get no HTML5 until the end of 2011! Look at what is actually out there! What matters is what features you've shipped in a functioning browser. Every browser vendor has next year's tech in the lab.
Because the high-end part of the PC market has been all Mac for many years now, well over 90%, leaving Windows as just a low-end commodity system where nobody pays for software so it has to run stuff that's 10 years old. Because there is no incentive for the authors of Java or QuickTime to fix Microsoft's problems for them. Most Windows users are still on XP and don't even have these features.
Two wrongs would be if you put a 1 kilo weight on one side of a scale and tipped it in favor of heterosexuals, and I put a 2 kilo weight on the other side and tipped it in favor of homosexuals. We would both be trying to tip the scale in that case and we would both be wrong.
But if you put a 1 kilo weight on one side of a scale and tipped it in favor of heterosexuals, and I put a 1 kilo weight on the other side and rebalanced the scale, then only you are wrong. Only you were trying to tip the scale. I merely undid your tipping and made the scale accurate again. That is what Google is doing here. They are not reducing the salaries of heterosexual employees that are benefiting from government discrimination against homosexuals, they are increasing the salaries of homosexual employees to compensate. They are rebalancing the scale, making it accurate again, not tipping it in favor of homosexuals.
> Unmarried hetro couples are now discriminated against
No they are not. Unmarried heterosexual couples are free to get married any time they like. Unmarried homosexual couples are forbidden from getting married. This is not about married-by-choice versus unmarried-by-choice, it's about married versus unmarried-because-they-are-forbidden-from-being-married.
> some people may not believe in marrage or may not want to get married for one reason or another
Others want to get married and are forbidden from getting married. That is what is being addressed here.
No, it's not. Somehow, Jesus of Nazareth managed not to say a single fucking thing about homosexuality even though HE LIVED IN FUCKING ANCIENT ROME.
And no, that one tired line from Leviticus is NOT IN THE FUCKING CHRISTIAN BIBLE YOU MORON.
So grow up.
And to the other moron who wrote the parent post: anti-discrimination measures are not discriminatory. Heterosexuals are not a fucking minority. The government is taking money from homosexuals and giving it to heterosexuals, including the heterosexuals who work at Google. That is an incontrovertible fact of accounting science. Taking steps to nullify that is not tipping the scales in favor of homosexuals, it is balancing the scales.
I have no idea why anyone is surprised that Dell makes bad computers. They are the ultimate commoditizer. Adding Linux to a Dell made it *more* expensive. Botnet-free? Costs extra.
Teenagers don't want teen phones, they want the adult phone that they think they will still want when they are adults. That's why they like iPhone and iPod touch so much. It's the phone from 5 years from now. KIN is the phone from 5 years ago.
> Of course we shouldn't be surprised that Sony backed a more expensive proprietary format,
HD-DVD was the proprietary format. It was a Microsoft video format in a Toshiba player. Blu-Ray is ISO standard video in players from many manufacturers, just like DVD. Only 150,000 HD-DVD players were sold, same as the first hour's worth of iPads. It's Apple who benefited most from HD-DVD's sabotage of the optical disc because iTunes is a disc-less Blu-Ray. Same video format.
Market share has nothing to do with Zune's success or failure, and same goes for iPhone. It's about innovation and influence.
Zune is a me-too product that has always been years behind iPod, yet at the same price point. They did hard drive based players after iPod nano dominated the market and popular culture. They did an iPod touch clone with no apps that showed just how bad Microsoft is at software. No matter how many they sell, there is no news there.
iPhone is a highly innovative product that changed the mobile phone industry. Every smartphone now has copied the multitouch interface, full-face screen, soft keyboard, GPU-accelerated graphics, desktop class HTML5 browser, app store, and other key features. Whether you use an iPhone or competing phone, you have felt iPhone's influence.
Keep in mind also that Microsoft has been making media players for a decade (PlaysForSure and then Zune), yet Zune is US-only and unprofitable. Apple has been making phones for 3 years, the first of which was a limited US-only release with no apps, yet iPhone is in 100 countries and is the most profitable phone per unit. Zune is in danger of being killed at any time, while iPhone is the envy of the industry.
So your market share numbers don't even tell a tiny piece of the story.
> Does it really take that much space to include a SD card slot
It's not needed. There is a 64GB model which is double the biggest SD card, and there are apps like Air Sharing that turn iPad into a Bonjour file server you can upload and download files to from any machine on the network. If your iPad is named "iPad" you just go to "ipad.local" and you can mount the iPad as a WebDAV disk or work through a browser. And if after that you do need SD, you can hook on a card reader with USB.
> a USB jack
It has USB, same as all iPods. USB keyboards, audio devices, hubs, card readers, cameras, and camcorders all work.
> or a webcam
Too expensive.
> (even my cell phone has all those).
iPad is cheaper than a smartphone. A $199 smartphone is actually a $599 device. iPad at $499 has a bigger screen and 2-4x the battery.
> Is it really going to hurt the user experience to allow Flash
Definitely. The reason all the Web video is now available outside Flash is because iOS does not have Flash. What you're seeing in Flash on a Windows PC is showing on iPad in HTML5. Mobiles don't have the CPU or battery for Flash, they have dedicated video decoding hardware. iPad plays 10 hours of video easy, even over Wi-Fi, on one charge. With Flash it would get half that or less. And FlashPlayer for mobiles is 3-5 years behind.
> or my own applications?
You can write and install your own native or HTML5 apps. You can install any HTML5 app from any source.
iOS is the only mobile with a native C API (deep access) and simultaneously has no malware. App Store is a feature. It's a virus scanner preventer. Get used to it, it's coming to every consumer platform, even Windows.
So, yes, Jobs has an agenda: great products. And he's getting it done. Too bad more tech companies don't have a great products agenda. Microsoft has a monopolize markets agenda, Linux has a political agenda. More great products would be good.
Businesses are moving to giving employees their own I-T budgets and letting them choose from approved lists, so they can buy Blackberry or iPhone, or Mac or Windows. The smartphone I-T is replacing the PC I-T.
If you work for Kodak you can buy your own Mac or an equivalent Intel Core 2 Duo Windows Ultimate PC.
Genentech is 100% Apple and Google is over 50% Apple and no longer deploying Windows. iPhone is in 70% of Fortune 500. The US military has the world's largest collection of iPod touch.
iPad at $499 is cheap enough to be disposable at most places. It pays for itself very easily at just one task, just running one app, for many businesses. Just for showing presentations, or just for WebEx, or just to show training videos.
You can deploy any native app you want to your own machines, even wirelessly now. You just can't deploy to machines you don't control. Apple's Xcode tools have been used to make enterprise apps for 20 years now, including NSA, DOD, and WWW.
But if you're collecting data with forms, you can also do HTML5, where the app installs to the device from any URL.
Where I'm working, I-T does not know what to do with iPads but the users are showing them by bringing them in from home, logging in to Exchange, and then refusing to use their XP boxes anymore.
> 'It's hard to ignore the quality issues that AT&T has faced.'"
Even harder to ignore that Verizon's closed network only runs Verizon phones.
If Verizon is building LTE then that can run iPhone 4G. Can't see a CDMA iPhone at this late stage. It's been end-of-lifed for quite some time. An iPhone 4G launch on Verizon is an event. Verizon and AT&T competing for iPhone users with the same handsets is an event.
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So now nerds have a display specifically for those occasional moments in the sun. Nobody else knows or cares about these devices.
iPad works great in sunlight. Sorry that Apple's super bright IPS screens are fucking up people's OLED, eInk, and Qi reviews, but lying about iPad to give these other devices some marginal utility is truly lame. Try to have an iPad in front of you before mentioning it in your review you starfucker. A good tip is to review tablets and readers without saying "iPad" and see if there is anything to say. It's like every Android phone review should above all else not say "iPhone." For example, tell me why a 4-5 inch screen is advantageous on a phone, don't tell me "it has a bigger screen than iPhone." I can see from the fucking marketing materials that 5 is bigger than 3.5. Does it provide any advantage that is worth it not fitting in my jeans pocket?
The servers weren't even hacked. 400 accounts with guessable passwords were accessed. That is why the users were asked to change their passwords, and everybody got their money back.
How much hysteria does there have to be around Apple before it's enough?
Is that a kind of iPhone? I have to have an iPhone because it runs apps and has the most gee bees. That is where consumers are at.
Nerds call all the advanced phones "smartphones" but that is irrelevant to consumers, same as "MP3 player" is a nerd term. Everyone else calls them iPods. iPhone and Nokia phones have nothing in common. Nokia might as well be a kitchen appliance. They don't have an iTunes competitor, App Store competitor, Apple Store competitor, OS X competitor, iPod competitor, Safari competitor, and so on. Having a device that looks kind of like an iPhone is not enough. These things sell on word-of-mouth and because you see your friend's phone in action. Spec sheets are as irrelevant as they are in the iPod market. Having endless feature phones is not enough. Having email on a feature phone and calling it a smartphone and pointing to 40% market share means nothing. iOS is just getting started. iPhone 4 is in many ways just the second iPhone, after iPhone 3G/3GS. The original was US-only, had no 3G, no native 3rd party apps ... it was like a beta test.
If you want people to talk about your phone, give them something to talk about by delivering a phone that is better than iPhone. Or get out of the game. Nokia has become the Finnish word for "nostalgia."
> It does this via carrier lockin - no facial recognition needed.
Bullshit. iPhone is an open standard phone. There just happens to only be one open standard network is no-infrastructure USA. iPhone runs on over 100 carriers worldwide, including many in countries where it's not even sold, and on multiple carriers in many countries. Look at fucking Canada: iPhone is on 2 carriers. You can buy unlocked iPhones, even in the US, it's just that nobody wants them, because you only have the one open standard carrier who is giving a subsidy. You can buy used iPhones that have been carrier unlocked. I sold my first iPhone to a guy in fucking Italy that's how hard it is to run iPhones wherever you want to run them.
You should blame Verizon and Sprint for building closed, proprietary networks. You should blame T-Mobile for using non-standard frequencies. You should blame yourself for being so anxious to Apple bash that you spewed ignorant bullshit. Apple is under exactly no fucking obligation to make you a bullshit proprietary Verizon phone.
The myth that computers all have viruses is a sad joke. This is Microsoft's fault, plain and simple. The people who set up these kiosks have a right to expect that a computer can run virus-free. There ought to be a class action against Microsoft. Their products ought to be removed from the market for how dangerous they are. Windows is a fucking Pinto.
Are you telling me that this is the first tech product with bugs? At least Apple can patch 100% of iPhones through iTunes, the users won't have to wait 6 months for their carrier to release a patch, as on all other phones. For example, Sprint EVO can't last 9 hours on standby, and there is no patch yet.
Apple sold almost 2 million in just a few days. If the product was a dud, there should be lineups at Apple Stores of people waiting to return their phones.
What is really happening is iPhone 4 is a great product with so little to criticize that the realities of cell networking and minor software bugs are being hysterically cast as unique iPhone problems. Demand for iPhone has gone up 10 times with this rev and it's put fear into the entire industry, who are taking any opportunity to Apple bash. Truth is, there is no better phone. Users love their iPhones because they're designed for users, not designed for carriers or advertisers, and they come with software and support that makes other devices look empty and orphaned. The iPhone 4's launch bugs are minuscule compared to the typical Android or Nokia phone. Totally miniscule. iPhone 4 sold more on its first day than Nexus One has sold in its whole life, that is the only thing that makes these issues seem widespread at all, but they are not.
> Actually, since Video playback is hardware-accelerated (as with Canvas), it turns out that IE9 handles video streams
> better than the released browsers that implement it, such as Chrome.
No. In the first place, IE9 is a technology demo, not even a browser, not even a beta, it won't be out until more than a year from now at best. They can show you whatever little movie they want to show you. They don't have to support actual websites for actual users with actual batteries and so on.
Secondly, Safari has had hardware accelerated video forever, in actual shipping product, as well as hardware accelerated graphics. This is an ancient Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod feature. Safari for Windows just got limited hardware acceleration, but it is old elsewhere, but even so, it's shipping now, users are using it. The Mac is the majority of the high-end PC market. Microsoft is not leading the way here. Macs all have hardware H.264 video decoders for this specific reason. Most Macs are notebooks, running video on 10% of the power on the GPU is a key feature. It's great that Microsoft has discovered GPU's in 2010, and HTML5, but let's see some shipping product in the hands of users.
It really goes to show how impractical the nerd community is. The IE9 demo has apparently made a ton of nerds think Microsoft is pushing things ahead. It's a fucking PR campaign! Users are running POS IE6-IE8 and will get no HTML5 until the end of 2011! Look at what is actually out there! What matters is what features you've shipped in a functioning browser. Every browser vendor has next year's tech in the lab.
> Why doesn't Windows enforce it's security?
Because the high-end part of the PC market has been all Mac for many years now, well over 90%, leaving Windows as just a low-end commodity system where nobody pays for software so it has to run stuff that's 10 years old. Because there is no incentive for the authors of Java or QuickTime to fix Microsoft's problems for them. Most Windows users are still on XP and don't even have these features.
> Sorry,two wrongs don't make a right
This is *not* 2 wrongs.
Two wrongs would be if you put a 1 kilo weight on one side of a scale and tipped it in favor of heterosexuals, and I put a 2 kilo weight on the other side and tipped it in favor of homosexuals. We would both be trying to tip the scale in that case and we would both be wrong.
But if you put a 1 kilo weight on one side of a scale and tipped it in favor of heterosexuals, and I put a 1 kilo weight on the other side and rebalanced the scale, then only you are wrong. Only you were trying to tip the scale. I merely undid your tipping and made the scale accurate again. That is what Google is doing here. They are not reducing the salaries of heterosexual employees that are benefiting from government discrimination against homosexuals, they are increasing the salaries of homosexual employees to compensate. They are rebalancing the scale, making it accurate again, not tipping it in favor of homosexuals.
> Unmarried hetro couples are now discriminated against
No they are not. Unmarried heterosexual couples are free to get married any time they like. Unmarried homosexual couples are forbidden from getting married. This is not about married-by-choice versus unmarried-by-choice, it's about married versus unmarried-because-they-are-forbidden-from-being-married.
> some people may not believe in marrage or may not want to get married for one reason or another
Others want to get married and are forbidden from getting married. That is what is being addressed here.
> seeing as the bible is clearly anti-asspounding
No, it's not. Somehow, Jesus of Nazareth managed not to say a single fucking thing about homosexuality even though HE LIVED IN FUCKING ANCIENT ROME.
And no, that one tired line from Leviticus is NOT IN THE FUCKING CHRISTIAN BIBLE YOU MORON.
So grow up.
And to the other moron who wrote the parent post: anti-discrimination measures are not discriminatory. Heterosexuals are not a fucking minority. The government is taking money from homosexuals and giving it to heterosexuals, including the heterosexuals who work at Google. That is an incontrovertible fact of accounting science. Taking steps to nullify that is not tipping the scales in favor of homosexuals, it is balancing the scales.
I have no idea why anyone is surprised that Dell makes bad computers. They are the ultimate commoditizer. Adding Linux to a Dell made it *more* expensive. Botnet-free? Costs extra.
A year in 1995 is 48 days now. But I don't think BOB lasted a year, did it?
KIN's 48 days also featured almost no iPhones. The older ones were retired at the beginning and the new one sold out in 3 days at the end.
Teenagers don't want teen phones, they want the adult phone that they think they will still want when they are adults. That's why they like iPhone and iPod touch so much. It's the phone from 5 years from now. KIN is the phone from 5 years ago.
> Of course we shouldn't be surprised that Sony backed a more expensive proprietary format,
HD-DVD was the proprietary format. It was a Microsoft video format in a Toshiba player. Blu-Ray is ISO standard video in players from many manufacturers, just like DVD. Only 150,000 HD-DVD players were sold, same as the first hour's worth of iPads. It's Apple who benefited most from HD-DVD's sabotage of the optical disc because iTunes is a disc-less Blu-Ray. Same video format.
Surface was finally released 18 months after it was first shown.
It was like an iPhone without all the stuff people like about iPhone, but for basically the same price. How could it possibly have failed?
Market share has nothing to do with Zune's success or failure, and same goes for iPhone. It's about innovation and influence.
Zune is a me-too product that has always been years behind iPod, yet at the same price point. They did hard drive based players after iPod nano dominated the market and popular culture. They did an iPod touch clone with no apps that showed just how bad Microsoft is at software. No matter how many they sell, there is no news there.
iPhone is a highly innovative product that changed the mobile phone industry. Every smartphone now has copied the multitouch interface, full-face screen, soft keyboard, GPU-accelerated graphics, desktop class HTML5 browser, app store, and other key features. Whether you use an iPhone or competing phone, you have felt iPhone's influence.
Keep in mind also that Microsoft has been making media players for a decade (PlaysForSure and then Zune), yet Zune is US-only and unprofitable. Apple has been making phones for 3 years, the first of which was a limited US-only release with no apps, yet iPhone is in 100 countries and is the most profitable phone per unit. Zune is in danger of being killed at any time, while iPhone is the envy of the industry.
So your market share numbers don't even tell a tiny piece of the story.
> Does it really take that much space to include a SD card slot
It's not needed. There is a 64GB model which is double the biggest SD card, and there are apps like Air Sharing that turn iPad into a Bonjour file server you can upload and download files to from any machine on the network. If your iPad is named "iPad" you just go to "ipad.local" and you can mount the iPad as a WebDAV disk or work through a browser. And if after that you do need SD, you can hook on a card reader with USB.
> a USB jack
It has USB, same as all iPods. USB keyboards, audio devices, hubs, card readers, cameras, and camcorders all work.
> or a webcam
Too expensive.
> (even my cell phone has all those).
iPad is cheaper than a smartphone. A $199 smartphone is actually a $599 device. iPad at $499 has a bigger screen and 2-4x the battery.
> Is it really going to hurt the user experience to allow Flash
Definitely. The reason all the Web video is now available outside Flash is because iOS does not have Flash. What you're seeing in Flash on a Windows PC is showing on iPad in HTML5. Mobiles don't have the CPU or battery for Flash, they have dedicated video decoding hardware. iPad plays 10 hours of video easy, even over Wi-Fi, on one charge. With Flash it would get half that or less. And FlashPlayer for mobiles is 3-5 years behind.
> or my own applications?
You can write and install your own native or HTML5 apps. You can install any HTML5 app from any source.
iOS is the only mobile with a native C API (deep access) and simultaneously has no malware. App Store is a feature. It's a virus scanner preventer. Get used to it, it's coming to every consumer platform, even Windows.
So, yes, Jobs has an agenda: great products. And he's getting it done. Too bad more tech companies don't have a great products agenda. Microsoft has a monopolize markets agenda, Linux has a political agenda. More great products would be good.
Businesses are moving to giving employees their own I-T budgets and letting them choose from approved lists, so they can buy Blackberry or iPhone, or Mac or Windows. The smartphone I-T is replacing the PC I-T.
If you work for Kodak you can buy your own Mac or an equivalent Intel Core 2 Duo Windows Ultimate PC.
Genentech is 100% Apple and Google is over 50% Apple and no longer deploying Windows. iPhone is in 70% of Fortune 500. The US military has the world's largest collection of iPod touch.
iPad at $499 is cheap enough to be disposable at most places. It pays for itself very easily at just one task, just running one app, for many businesses. Just for showing presentations, or just for WebEx, or just to show training videos.
So it's not nearly as simple as you make it out.
You can deploy any native app you want to your own machines, even wirelessly now. You just can't deploy to machines you don't control. Apple's Xcode tools have been used to make enterprise apps for 20 years now, including NSA, DOD, and WWW.
But if you're collecting data with forms, you can also do HTML5, where the app installs to the device from any URL.
Linksys is not consumer grade. It's like a trap that people fall into and need a nerd to get them out.
Where I'm working, I-T does not know what to do with iPads but the users are showing them by bringing them in from home, logging in to Exchange, and then refusing to use their XP boxes anymore.
You can get $120 for an iPhone 3G 8GB from Gazelle with almost no work on your part and it would be sold to someone who would use it.
> 'It's hard to ignore the quality issues that AT&T has faced.'"
Even harder to ignore that Verizon's closed network only runs Verizon phones.
If Verizon is building LTE then that can run iPhone 4G. Can't see a CDMA iPhone at this late stage. It's been end-of-lifed for quite some time. An iPhone 4G launch on Verizon is an event. Verizon and AT&T competing for iPhone users with the same handsets is an event.