Re:Third party software, Phone locked tight
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If the system were open to third-party developers, in the traditional way, how long would it be before phone-spyware, phone-adware, phone-rootkits and other nastiness appeared? Because we're all suffering from the plethora of Treo and Blackberry malware!
I'd be willing to bet that Apple already has a replacement or three for Jobs incubating in the warmth of Jobs' RDF. Apple has likely learned from their mistakes in the past what it takes to lead Apple, and Jobs' recent bout with cancer may likely have prompted some sort of replacements to be formed just in case for the future. Remember that younger guy who co-presented the 10 (well, sort-of) features in Leopard back in WWDC? I say that's not because Jobs couldn't do it all himself, it's because he needs to teach someone else how to conjure up a halfway-decent RDF.
The problem is that the article is talking about prices for merely cell phones and not smartphones. Most people who want just a phone don't want to spend the extra cash on features they don't need. I'd like to know how many people spend more than $400 on a smartphone specifically, not just on phones in general. $500 is not an abnormally high price for a smartphone.
I don't know why everyone calls the 5200fx "crap". I can run Halo (w/o shaders, but everything else cranked) just fine with my Radeon 9000 Pro w/64 MB VRAM on my G4/1.2GHz tower. America's Army and UT2K3 are quite smooth as well. And I'd assume that the 5200fx is significantly better than what I have. I'll admit, the iMac still isn't a "gaming" computer, but come on people! Quit being framerate snobs!
I think it looks fantastic, but what about that patent Apple filed for the LED lights in the display housing? Now *that* is what I really wanted to see in the new new iMac. Make the whole bottom lip colored fading into white at the top, or something. It's not like that would be too hard to engineer.
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I'd be willing to bet that Apple already has a replacement or three for Jobs incubating in the warmth of Jobs' RDF. Apple has likely learned from their mistakes in the past what it takes to lead Apple, and Jobs' recent bout with cancer may likely have prompted some sort of replacements to be formed just in case for the future. Remember that younger guy who co-presented the 10 (well, sort-of) features in Leopard back in WWDC? I say that's not because Jobs couldn't do it all himself, it's because he needs to teach someone else how to conjure up a halfway-decent RDF.
The problem is that the article is talking about prices for merely cell phones and not smartphones. Most people who want just a phone don't want to spend the extra cash on features they don't need. I'd like to know how many people spend more than $400 on a smartphone specifically, not just on phones in general. $500 is not an abnormally high price for a smartphone.
Just delete any iWork installer receipts in the directory /Library/Receipts. That's how OSX keeps track of install packages. Easy enough.
I don't know why everyone calls the 5200fx "crap". I can run Halo (w/o shaders, but everything else cranked) just fine with my Radeon 9000 Pro w/64 MB VRAM on my G4/1.2GHz tower. America's Army and UT2K3 are quite smooth as well. And I'd assume that the 5200fx is significantly better than what I have. I'll admit, the iMac still isn't a "gaming" computer, but come on people! Quit being framerate snobs!
I think it looks fantastic, but what about that patent Apple filed for the LED lights in the display housing? Now *that* is what I really wanted to see in the new new iMac. Make the whole bottom lip colored fading into white at the top, or something. It's not like that would be too hard to engineer.