Nah, just release it as iPhone 6, and claim the iPhone 1-5 were internal prototypes if asked.
I think the point is so unlike Apples market-share losing strategy of producing only one iphone at a time. I suspect they will create a product line...like every other company on the planet.
They've have gone to extraordinary lengths to make them resemble the iPhone
No they haven't. I personally find the iPhone design somewhat dated now, but it is distinctive. These phones look like mid-priced Huawei Android phones, It even has Android buttons on the front. The interface looks more like stock android...including widget layer...the iPhone needs to update their UI too....its not 2007 anymore.
Its an attractive phone...and personally love the striking [and decidedly not Apple like] two tone casing, at this price; a fraction of the Apple iphone...its a steal. Its a phone I could see myself owning.
Its just not worth his time, or my time, or the purchasing department's time to get the company to pay for software I use at home.
The rest of us who live in the real world. The cost of Office is $600 [$340 for the crippled version] in my country which is a significant part of my disposable income. As I said I find Libreoffice good enough [I personally find it better than Microsoft Office], and unlike you I use the product, but if it wasn't I would not be footing the bill. I would be kicking down the doors of the purchasing department.
See I'm a long time user of openoffice now libreoffice. We had to suffer these lies when firefox started to get popular. The reality is though. If my boss wants me to use the same office at home and at work, he pays for it. The truth is I doubt anyone would notice. I do like the part when you described the program as standard...not the file format...classic.
Do you tell kids at night that an Android is going to get them!!
Poor content? Compared to 90% of the bland shit that is produced by the other big commercial producers (Sky, HBO, ITV, etc) the BBC stuff is far better
I would disagree. In fact if I was legally allowed the option. I would cancel my TV license and subscribe to netflix which is less than half the price:)
Ignoring the odd random racist, homophobic etc etc or it being used to promote a mega-corporations agenda by spamming a forum, the most enlightened comments come from anonymous cowards.
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde"
On another point, the BBC mentions the revenue from selling DVD and audio recordings -- the profit from this is £182M. That compares to £3606M of income from license payers, at £145.50 each, thus about 25M licenses are sold. If every licence-payer paid an extra £7 we wouldn't need to protect that content. (Have I calculated that correctly?)
(Other broadcasters with different funding models might still want this system.)
More importantly those that *pay* for the content should simply get unrestricted access to it. The fact that the BBC make 5% profit on what is for all intended purposes a tax, simply shows how poor the content is. As for being taxed higher for the privileged something, how about they get paid a little less.
"However, the BBC is unlikely to be able to use any such mechanism unless we feel that it is sufficiently secure that there would be the possibility of legal action in the event of bypassing it."
Not sure why you would defend the BBC, but that is pretty much the definition of a sanction. In fact it states quite clearly that the BBC is less interested in about how good the DRM is [they expect it to be broken], but whether anti-circumvention provisions is protected by law e.g. DMCA. It is just focused on stopping the people forced to pay for service in the UK having unrestricted access to the content they paid for.
Minecraft is a boring game, and Pi is a overhyped Arduino. Slashdot only posted this article because they get paid to promote stupid shit.
Me...in a word, as a regular reader. Ignoring the fact its nice to not read another article with the constant pissing contests between various mega-corporations supporters *cough*. I own both, Minecraft and the Rasberry Pi, because they are popular, and deservedly so. One a hot [cross platform] inventive indie game, and the other a *THE* hot micro ARM motherboard. Its interesting news.
The Rasberry Pi receives just the right amount of hype, Its backed by a whole host of interesting parties from Google; to Cambridge University to David Braben [yes the elite guy] with the great goal of educating the yoof beyond that of Microsoft Office in computer science...and it is working. It even runs RiscOS:) Debian [hell there are three versions from running XBMC].
I'm sure that the raspberry Pi is not the best hardware; best price; cheapest or even the first..but it is the most supported and popular, not just capturing...but creating a market for small ARM motherboards for education, and achieving this goal driven by purely Altruistic reasoning.
No we understand people like you, That is why we have to have laws to protect ourselves from you. Your hate talk and it is that is the problem, You are the problem.
Ignoring the fact that almost every topic here, arguably is about promoting one companies products over another. Your Christian Bigotry is quite confusing. Every Christian I suspect wholeheartedly approves of the word devilish...in fact its a very Christian word:). Now if it had been "Mario takes Peach to the abortion clinic", maybe just maybe one or two would bother themselves to object.
Now maybe you should take your troll comments and maybe go attack Muslims, Buddhists next. Hell pop on a Jewish forum and tell them the Holocaust was what they deserved, like the good people(sic) you are.
I loved my DS, but for a long time, The cheap hardware / expensive software had looked an increasingly shaky strategy. in the light of the growing indie game market and cheap mobile games [and no I am not talking freemium]. I can buy literally 30 games for my phone and 2-6 quality [20+ hour gameplay] PC games at this price.
Slashdot is not an education site, and this is still news, because nothing has changed. You simply don't hear about it that often, because your right, most people know about this marketing[decimal] vs real[binary] measured value, and the whole lies/justifications around it. This is simply a new spin on things...[I quite like the way the heading has chosen to show marketed:real] Microsoft [perhaps unfairly; everyone else does it] because they represent the real values within the OS, and lie about the real values on the packaging...something that is magnified [and fairly] that their OS occupies so damn much of these limited storage on their[not your] portable devices...including its own surface brand...and "No", external storage does not replace internal storage, like having USB slots does not replace internal storage on a Desktop PC; its a feature [a good one].
In context of this article today I am moving an OS from 100GB failing drive onto a 40GB Good one, and did not remove enough data [because I guesstimated wrongly] before cloning it, so after removing more data [I used bleachbit] I'm now re-cloning it; its set to finish tomorrow!?
Because Amazon destroying all other publishers means they make very little money. But do you think that's better, or worse for readers?
Amazon charging less so they can lock the whole market into the Kindle platform for eBooks is not exactly an altruistic move either you know.
You mean instead of *middle men* bleeding artists dry, and electronic store fronts taking massive mark-ups on Authors Books. That sounds wonderful.
As for the whole kindle thing. I'm pro a move to open devices and formats, and look forward to Apple relinquishing its patents on its closed formats [and it embracing open ones flac and webm being good starts] , and opening its devices to Alternative store-fronts *including* kindles who currently use a web-app:)
I Agree with you I think boycott Apple until they open their [not your] platform.
To take your analogy and run with it, your copies of Notepad and Paint have been updated, but not your OS or any 3rd party applications.
Not really unlike Windows...Android comes with some serious first party Applications [we won't talk about Internet Explorer], and unlike Windows *automagically* updates this party applications too...oh and Android has been releasing security patches too:)
It was about the publishers (and Apple) trying to keep the market more open to competition - an excerpt:
Bless you sweetness, you do know that this is nothing to do with *competition*...its the opposite of competition its a cartel. As for Apple...because you don't really care about the publishers is in it for "most favored nation", that means *nobody* can compete on price with Apple.
In fact this is anticompetitive....its why the DoJ is breathing down Apples Neck
Its surprising that we have now entered a world were scum like this get hired instead or competing on innovation and quality. How much further can Microsoft Sink.
it doesn't look tacky like android. I might be upset over flac if most of my music was flac but it's not and I can convert it to the open apple lossless format but in most cases
Sorry, Unlike Apples *police state* products, almost every part of Android is replaceable, you clearly have never used it. The fact that Apple does not support flac the industry standard, and again has gone off on its own standard says it all really...do you have to pay again to update to your DRM mp3's to this format?
I'm sorry in context of this article itunes is simply an extra security vector on my computer, and at best is bloat. It offers a poor service, and poor value [where are the free upgrades to flac]. On its own without the i*** its simply a poor product, my favorite music player at the moment is clemetine http://www.clementine-player.org/ I'll probably replace it with something else soon.
Some of us didn't give the poor experience a pass and moved away from Android. More people need to do that and let google know we think it's shit.
Some of us didn't like being treated like a criminal, and locked out of its hardware, forced to use proprietary [and I locked to ituned] software, and hardware, with it being stuck in incremental versions of both, found the loving arms of Android with offered arguably better hardware; software; standards and value.
one big problem wp8 and ios are too locked in and comes from two companies i do not trust
I think windows phone 8 as bigger problems...starting with its not very good, and ending nobody wants it. iOs on the other hand is failing because it has failed to fragment:).
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The only thing newsworthy is the fact that he can use the name iPhone for what looks like is a completely mediocre china phone.
The irony of this post hurts my brain.
Nah, just release it as iPhone 6, and claim the iPhone 1-5 were internal prototypes if asked.
I think the point is so unlike Apples market-share losing strategy of producing only one iphone at a time. I suspect they will create a product line...like every other company on the planet.
They've have gone to extraordinary lengths to make them resemble the iPhone
No they haven't. I personally find the iPhone design somewhat dated now, but it is distinctive. These phones look like mid-priced Huawei Android phones, It even has Android buttons on the front. The interface looks more like stock android...including widget layer...the iPhone needs to update their UI too....its not 2007 anymore.
Its an attractive phone...and personally love the striking [and decidedly not Apple like] two tone casing, at this price; a fraction of the Apple iphone...its a steal. Its a phone I could see myself owning.
Its just not worth his time, or my time, or the purchasing department's time to get the company to pay for software I use at home.
The rest of us who live in the real world. The cost of Office is $600 [$340 for the crippled version] in my country which is a significant part of my disposable income. As I said I find Libreoffice good enough [I personally find it better than Microsoft Office], and unlike you I use the product, but if it wasn't I would not be footing the bill. I would be kicking down the doors of the purchasing department.
I wish it did, but it doesn't
See I'm a long time user of openoffice now libreoffice. We had to suffer these lies when firefox started to get popular. The reality is though. If my boss wants me to use the same office at home and at work, he pays for it. The truth is I doubt anyone would notice. I do like the part when you described the program as standard...not the file format...classic.
Do you tell kids at night that an Android is going to get them!!
..with live results of Apples shares prices dropping.
Poor content? Compared to 90% of the bland shit that is produced by the other big commercial producers (Sky, HBO, ITV, etc) the BBC stuff is far better
I would disagree. In fact if I was legally allowed the option. I would cancel my TV license and subscribe to netflix which is less than half the price :)
Ignoring the odd random racist, homophobic etc etc or it being used to promote a mega-corporations agenda by spamming a forum, the most enlightened comments come from anonymous cowards.
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde"
On another point, the BBC mentions the revenue from selling DVD and audio recordings -- the profit from this is £182M. That compares to £3606M of income from license payers, at £145.50 each, thus about 25M licenses are sold. If every licence-payer paid an extra £7 we wouldn't need to protect that content. (Have I calculated that correctly?)
(Other broadcasters with different funding models might still want this system.)
More importantly those that *pay* for the content should simply get unrestricted access to it. The fact that the BBC make 5% profit on what is for all intended purposes a tax, simply shows how poor the content is. As for being taxed higher for the privileged something, how about they get paid a little less.
"However, the BBC is unlikely to be able to use any such mechanism unless we feel that it is sufficiently secure that there would be the possibility of legal action in the event of bypassing it."
Not sure why you would defend the BBC, but that is pretty much the definition of a sanction. In fact it states quite clearly that the BBC is less interested in about how good the DRM is [they expect it to be broken], but whether anti-circumvention provisions is protected by law e.g. DMCA. It is just focused on stopping the people forced to pay for service in the UK having unrestricted access to the content they paid for.
Minecraft is a boring game, and Pi is a overhyped Arduino. Slashdot only posted this article because they get paid to promote stupid shit.
Me...in a word, as a regular reader. Ignoring the fact its nice to not read another article with the constant pissing contests between various mega-corporations supporters *cough*. I own both, Minecraft and the Rasberry Pi, because they are popular, and deservedly so. One a hot [cross platform] inventive indie game, and the other a *THE* hot micro ARM motherboard. Its interesting news.
The Rasberry Pi receives just the right amount of hype, Its backed by a whole host of interesting parties from Google; to Cambridge University to David Braben [yes the elite guy] with the great goal of educating the yoof beyond that of Microsoft Office in computer science...and it is working. It even runs RiscOS :) Debian [hell there are three versions from running XBMC].
I'm sure that the raspberry Pi is not the best hardware; best price; cheapest or even the first..but it is the most supported and popular, not just capturing...but creating a market for small ARM motherboards for education, and achieving this goal driven by purely Altruistic reasoning.
I don't think you are or understand Christians
No we understand people like you, That is why we have to have laws to protect ourselves from you. Your hate talk and it is that is the problem, You are the problem.
Ignoring the fact that almost every topic here, arguably is about promoting one companies products over another. Your Christian Bigotry is quite confusing. Every Christian I suspect wholeheartedly approves of the word devilish...in fact its a very Christian word :). Now if it had been "Mario takes Peach to the abortion clinic", maybe just maybe one or two would bother themselves to object.
Now maybe you should take your troll comments and maybe go attack Muslims, Buddhists next. Hell pop on a Jewish forum and tell them the Holocaust was what they deserved, like the good people(sic) you are.
I loved my DS, but for a long time, The cheap hardware / expensive software had looked an increasingly shaky strategy. in the light of the growing indie game market and cheap mobile games [and no I am not talking freemium]. I can buy literally 30 games for my phone and 2-6 quality [20+ hour gameplay] PC games at this price.
Slashdot is not an education site, and this is still news, because nothing has changed. You simply don't hear about it that often, because your right, most people know about this marketing[decimal] vs real[binary] measured value, and the whole lies/justifications around it. This is simply a new spin on things...[I quite like the way the heading has chosen to show marketed:real] Microsoft [perhaps unfairly; everyone else does it] because they represent the real values within the OS, and lie about the real values on the packaging...something that is magnified [and fairly] that their OS occupies so damn much of these limited storage on their[not your] portable devices...including its own surface brand...and "No", external storage does not replace internal storage, like having USB slots does not replace internal storage on a Desktop PC; its a feature [a good one].
In context of this article today I am moving an OS from 100GB failing drive onto a 40GB Good one, and did not remove enough data [because I guesstimated wrongly] before cloning it, so after removing more data [I used bleachbit] I'm now re-cloning it; its set to finish tomorrow!?
Apple and the publishers did this to make money
Of course they did.
Because Amazon destroying all other publishers means they make very little money. But do you think that's better, or worse for readers?
Amazon charging less so they can lock the whole market into the Kindle platform for eBooks is not exactly an altruistic move either you know.
You mean instead of *middle men* bleeding artists dry, and electronic store fronts taking massive mark-ups on Authors Books. That sounds wonderful.
As for the whole kindle thing. I'm pro a move to open devices and formats, and look forward to Apple relinquishing its patents on its closed formats [and it embracing open ones flac and webm being good starts] , and opening its devices to Alternative store-fronts *including* kindles who currently use a web-app :)
I Agree with you I think boycott Apple until they open their [not your] platform.
To take your analogy and run with it, your copies of Notepad and Paint have been updated, but not your OS or any 3rd party applications.
Not really unlike Windows...Android comes with some serious first party Applications [we won't talk about Internet Explorer], and unlike Windows *automagically* updates this party applications too...oh and Android has been releasing security patches too :)
MP3's are so 90s.
You hipsters can move back to Vinyl if you want, but the rest of will live with the [almost] patent free format.
It was about the publishers (and Apple) trying to keep the market more open to competition - an excerpt:
Bless you sweetness, you do know that this is nothing to do with *competition*...its the opposite of competition its a cartel. As for Apple...because you don't really care about the publishers is in it for "most favored nation", that means *nobody* can compete on price with Apple.
In fact this is anticompetitive....its why the DoJ is breathing down Apples Neck
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/technology/microsoft-battles-google-by-hiring-political-brawler-mark-penn.html?_r=1&
If you want to know more details about Microsoft's Head of the pleasant "Strategic and special projects"
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/02/08/1516238/ms-targets-google-with-another-smear-campaign
Its surprising that we have now entered a world were scum like this get hired instead or competing on innovation and quality. How much further can Microsoft Sink.
it doesn't look tacky like android. I might be upset over flac if most of my music was flac but it's not and I can convert it to the open apple lossless format but in most cases
Sorry, Unlike Apples *police state* products, almost every part of Android is replaceable, you clearly have never used it. The fact that Apple does not support flac the industry standard, and again has gone off on its own standard says it all really...do you have to pay again to update to your DRM mp3's to this format?
I'm sorry in context of this article itunes is simply an extra security vector on my computer, and at best is bloat. It offers a poor service, and poor value [where are the free upgrades to flac]. On its own without the i*** its simply a poor product, my favorite music player at the moment is clemetine http://www.clementine-player.org/ I'll probably replace it with something else soon.
As for iOS...its simply looking tired.
Some of us didn't give the poor experience a pass and moved away from Android. More people need to do that and let google know we think it's shit.
Some of us didn't like being treated like a criminal, and locked out of its hardware, forced to use proprietary [and I locked to ituned] software, and hardware, with it being stuck in incremental versions of both, found the loving arms of Android with offered arguably better hardware; software; standards and value.
Want to buy my broken iPhone :)
one big problem wp8 and ios are too locked in and comes from two companies i do not trust
I think windows phone 8 as bigger problems...starting with its not very good, and ending nobody wants it. iOs on the other hand is failing because it has failed to fragment :).