IDC counts shipments, not sales. The original galaxy tab was estimated by the IDC at over 2 million shipments, but later we learned it sold more like 50k.
Web browsing numbers show the ipad at around 88% of marketshare, which counts actual purchased devices.
Not at all. The next Nexus will be smaller than the current one and have a nearly 5" display.
Have you seen a Galaxy Note? That is a great device size for a lot of people.
You have to remember that for a lot of people these devices are becoming their primary computing device. So a 5" device is easily pocketable and gives a lot of display to use.
What pants are people wearing that a Galaxy Note is easily pocketable? Fat Pants? The iPhone 5 is almost getting too large to fit in reasonable pockets.
Inferno wasn't broken. It was intentionally made impossible unless you bought RMAH gear.
With the removal of RMAH, I assume Inferno difficulty will be adjusted as well.
It was meant to take months to clear inferno, regardless of how you received the gear. You don't see end-game dungeons in MMOs being cleared within a few weeks of a game being launched.
Problem was Diablo players are used to mindless fun, not excruciating difficulty. The other problem was some classes were based on avoidance, while others mitigation. Better mitigation comes from better gear, meaning these players were behind the curve. Players who played the avoidance classes well were able to clear Inferno very quickly. A game that can be completed solo should not favor one type of class over another.
So, since the Gold Shop and the Real Money Auction House were the primary reasons they were giving for requiring the always online, does this mean that they'll be patching that "functionality" out as well?
The integrity of the economy was the reason more so than the auction houses themselves.
However it would not be trivial to rearchitect a client-server game to be client only. Lot of code to move for relatively little reward. I doubt adding the offline capability would cause a rush of new PC purchases, especially after the Xbox/PS versions are out.
Apple was the first company to incorporate BLE into their devices, a competing standard that is now incorporated into Android 4.3. Don't ever plan on seeing NFC in an iDevice. BLE takes less power, connects faster, has a higher bandwidth, and a longer range.
I think the benefit of this is that it would prevent small children from buying stuff.... if the parent is smart enough to set up the finger print authentication before giving the phone to the kid.
Yes, iTunes purchases can be configured to use the fingerprint.
We'll have to wait to find out exactly what they're referring to, but if implemented well this should be resistant to fingerprint lifting. Only the outer layers of your finger's skin touch objects. You'd have to have somebody else touch a sensor like this one and then try to recreate the capacitive map.
You are correct, this is immune to fingerprint lifting. "Sub-epidermal skin layers" means it reads living tissue under the skin.
Did someone just imply that fingerprint scanners are a new technology? I was under the impression that it was not a secure technology and thus not used widely. Maybe new for Apple but I've got a couple old junk notebooks with fingerprint scanners here somewhere...
Two big differences. 1) This reads living tissue under the skin, which is more secure than a simple fingerprint that can be found anywhere. 2) This is integrated into something you touch already, the home button. It doesn't add any additional steps for the user.
Another example of Apple taking an old idea and applying it in a very elegant fashion.
"But, honestly, if some bad guy has your iPhone and your fingerprint, you've probably got bigger problems to worry about."
Surely if they have your iPhone, they already have lots of copies of you fingerprints smeared all over it?
This technology doesn't use a fingerprint, it actually reads living tissue under the skin. The technology seems very similar because of how you use it (put your thumb here), however it is drastically different.
So no, your fingerprints on the screen won't work. They don't match the living tissue this reads.
This technology reads the living tissue under the skin. You can't just take an outer-skin fingerprint from the screen and authenticate with it. You also can't "chop off someone's hand", as this reads living tissue under the skin.
I was told today that nothing someone saw "wowed" them. I asked what has "wowed" them since 2007 when the first iPhone was announced. No reply.
Smartphones will continue to get faster, better battery life, and more usability features (Touch ID). This isn't a bad thing, just the reality of a use case that has been played out.
So the iPhone 5S is the incremental upgrade any objective observer would have predicted.
Actually if the A6->A7 jump is anywhere near what they put in their graphs, it is much more than I predicted. The A6 is still #1 in terms of graphics performance and web browsing (glbenchmark and sunspider scores).
First, Apple releases a tiny 7" tablet, against Jobs recommendation when he was alive. Now they come up with a cheap iPhone, further eroding Aple's premium image.
What's next, sell iPhones at Walmart??
Jobs said they wouldn't make a 7" 16:9 tablet. They made a 7.9" 4:3 tablet that has 34% more screen area. I would expect Slashdot to understand basic geometry and know that these aren't equivalent form factors.
Samsung has a smoother path to the commoditization of the mobile market, because they are already span the entire market.
I have bought 4 of the Samsung S390G for my kids because, at $20 with no contract, they are a great value. Sorry if that sounds like an ad, but at that price, and with a MicroSD slot, it was the obvious choice for my kids' next music/video player, even if they never even activated the phone.
There is no money to be made in $20 no-contract devices. Apple has more profit from smartphones than every other manufacturer (including Samsung) on earth combined. They don't need to race to the bottom.
I probably won't ever purchase another android phone because they are all far too large for my taste.
Your argument falls apart when it becomes clear you have no idea what you are talking about. High end Android phones are available in every size, including the same weird aspect ratio as the iPhone 5.
Different form factor and replacing the glass back with a unibody aluminum shell was pretty dramatic. When you cherry pick one picture that only shows a portion of the device, yes it is harder to see.
Not sure why Innovation is tied to model numbers? But anyways the Apple 'S' releases have traditionally focused more on software (Siri, bio metrics) than major hardware redesigns. Not sure why Apple would want to do major 4S->5 redesigns every year.
Samsung panics and rushes out some thrown-together POS and the only thing it's going to accomplish is make whatever overpriced, walled-gardened bauble Apple finally rolls out look like the Second Coming in comparison. This is so bone-headed of them, it almost feels like 'sung and Cupertino are colluding.
When the iWatch does come out, best wear some wading boots if you'll be around fanbois, as the excretions will be record-setting.
There were dozens of MP3 players out before the iPod, dozens of tablets before the iPad, and dozens of smartphones before the iPhone. None of these companies were "colluding" with Apple.
Apple doesn't do things first, they do it *right* first. Then the Asian copycats come out.
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And unless those devices were stolen, they are actual purchased devices. More accurate than IDC shipments.
IDC counts shipments, not sales. The original galaxy tab was estimated by the IDC at over 2 million shipments, but later we learned it sold more like 50k. Web browsing numbers show the ipad at around 88% of marketshare, which counts actual purchased devices.
Not at all. The next Nexus will be smaller than the current one and have a nearly 5" display. Have you seen a Galaxy Note? That is a great device size for a lot of people.
You have to remember that for a lot of people these devices are becoming their primary computing device. So a 5" device is easily pocketable and gives a lot of display to use.
What pants are people wearing that a Galaxy Note is easily pocketable? Fat Pants? The iPhone 5 is almost getting too large to fit in reasonable pockets.
we measured innovation by how BIG we could make computers?
I don't either. 5" is outrageous for a phone.
Inferno wasn't broken. It was intentionally made impossible unless you bought RMAH gear. With the removal of RMAH, I assume Inferno difficulty will be adjusted as well.
It was meant to take months to clear inferno, regardless of how you received the gear. You don't see end-game dungeons in MMOs being cleared within a few weeks of a game being launched.
Problem was Diablo players are used to mindless fun, not excruciating difficulty. The other problem was some classes were based on avoidance, while others mitigation. Better mitigation comes from better gear, meaning these players were behind the curve. Players who played the avoidance classes well were able to clear Inferno very quickly. A game that can be completed solo should not favor one type of class over another.
So, since the Gold Shop and the Real Money Auction House were the primary reasons they were giving for requiring the always online, does this mean that they'll be patching that "functionality" out as well?
The integrity of the economy was the reason more so than the auction houses themselves.
However it would not be trivial to rearchitect a client-server game to be client only. Lot of code to move for relatively little reward. I doubt adding the offline capability would cause a rush of new PC purchases, especially after the Xbox/PS versions are out.
Arrogant d-bags raging on the Internet because they create a product not marketed to their demographic.
Apple's share of the smartphone market is the best it is have ever been.
http://i.imgur.com/EVirL7S.jpg
One more headscratcher from Cupertino
Apple was the first company to incorporate BLE into their devices, a competing standard that is now incorporated into Android 4.3. Don't ever plan on seeing NFC in an iDevice. BLE takes less power, connects faster, has a higher bandwidth, and a longer range.
B) there's nothing all that elegant about utilizing the latest technology in your gadget.
Look at how fingerprint readers were incorporated into laptops, and compare that to the iPhone 5S. That is elegance at its very definition.
I think the benefit of this is that it would prevent small children from buying stuff.... if the parent is smart enough to set up the finger print authentication before giving the phone to the kid.
Yes, iTunes purchases can be configured to use the fingerprint.
Capacitive sensors can be hacked if you just have heat and a tiny bit of moisture. AKA, wax fingerprint copy, and you just lick it once.
Yes, but not this one. This doesn't read your fingerprint, but rather tissue underneath the skin. Your wax copy of the outer skin won't work.
Now people can access you iPhone when you are unconscious or dead.
Unconscious? Yes. Dead? No. This reads living tissue under the skin. Can we stop with the "chopping off your hand" junk now?
We'll have to wait to find out exactly what they're referring to, but if implemented well this should be resistant to fingerprint lifting. Only the outer layers of your finger's skin touch objects. You'd have to have somebody else touch a sensor like this one and then try to recreate the capacitive map.
You are correct, this is immune to fingerprint lifting. "Sub-epidermal skin layers" means it reads living tissue under the skin.
Did someone just imply that fingerprint scanners are a new technology? I was under the impression that it was not a secure technology and thus not used widely. Maybe new for Apple but I've got a couple old junk notebooks with fingerprint scanners here somewhere...
Two big differences. 1) This reads living tissue under the skin, which is more secure than a simple fingerprint that can be found anywhere. 2) This is integrated into something you touch already, the home button. It doesn't add any additional steps for the user.
Another example of Apple taking an old idea and applying it in a very elegant fashion.
"But, honestly, if some bad guy has your iPhone and your fingerprint, you've probably got bigger problems to worry about."
Surely if they have your iPhone, they already have lots of copies of you fingerprints smeared all over it?
This technology doesn't use a fingerprint, it actually reads living tissue under the skin. The technology seems very similar because of how you use it (put your thumb here), however it is drastically different.
So no, your fingerprints on the screen won't work. They don't match the living tissue this reads.
This technology reads the living tissue under the skin. You can't just take an outer-skin fingerprint from the screen and authenticate with it. You also can't "chop off someone's hand", as this reads living tissue under the skin.
I was told today that nothing someone saw "wowed" them. I asked what has "wowed" them since 2007 when the first iPhone was announced. No reply.
Smartphones will continue to get faster, better battery life, and more usability features (Touch ID). This isn't a bad thing, just the reality of a use case that has been played out.
So the iPhone 5S is the incremental upgrade any objective observer would have predicted.
Actually if the A6->A7 jump is anywhere near what they put in their graphs, it is much more than I predicted. The A6 is still #1 in terms of graphics performance and web browsing (glbenchmark and sunspider scores).
First, Apple releases a tiny 7" tablet, against Jobs recommendation when he was alive. Now they come up with a cheap iPhone, further eroding Aple's premium image. What's next, sell iPhones at Walmart??
Jobs said they wouldn't make a 7" 16:9 tablet. They made a 7.9" 4:3 tablet that has 34% more screen area. I would expect Slashdot to understand basic geometry and know that these aren't equivalent form factors.
Samsung has a smoother path to the commoditization of the mobile market, because they are already span the entire market.
I have bought 4 of the Samsung S390G for my kids because, at $20 with no contract, they are a great value. Sorry if that sounds like an ad, but at that price, and with a MicroSD slot, it was the obvious choice for my kids' next music/video player, even if they never even activated the phone.
There is no money to be made in $20 no-contract devices. Apple has more profit from smartphones than every other manufacturer (including Samsung) on earth combined. They don't need to race to the bottom.
I probably won't ever purchase another android phone because they are all far too large for my taste.
Your argument falls apart when it becomes clear you have no idea what you are talking about. High end Android phones are available in every size, including the same weird aspect ratio as the iPhone 5.
16:9 is a weird aspect ratio?
> iPhone 5 was a radical new design
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2012/09/iphone5Comparison.jpeg
Yeah that's FREAKING RADICAL, MAN!
Different form factor and replacing the glass back with a unibody aluminum shell was pretty dramatic. When you cherry pick one picture that only shows a portion of the device, yes it is harder to see.
Not innovative enough for a new model number huh?
Not sure why Innovation is tied to model numbers? But anyways the Apple 'S' releases have traditionally focused more on software (Siri, bio metrics) than major hardware redesigns. Not sure why Apple would want to do major 4S->5 redesigns every year.
Samsung panics and rushes out some thrown-together POS and the only thing it's going to accomplish is make whatever overpriced, walled-gardened bauble Apple finally rolls out look like the Second Coming in comparison. This is so bone-headed of them, it almost feels like 'sung and Cupertino are colluding. When the iWatch does come out, best wear some wading boots if you'll be around fanbois, as the excretions will be record-setting.
There were dozens of MP3 players out before the iPod, dozens of tablets before the iPad, and dozens of smartphones before the iPhone. None of these companies were "colluding" with Apple.
Apple doesn't do things first, they do it *right* first. Then the Asian copycats come out.