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2muchcoffeeman
16y ago
iTunes is not a great piece of software, but it does some pretty nice things for you. Backups of your phone, store integration, fairly powerful play list manager, syncing. All in one place. Over the air updates are nice I guess, but how wou
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2muchcoffeeman
16y ago
I used to do the same thing. I was always disappointed. And then I got mad because I just wasted several hours of my life.
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16y ago
Adding non functional touches that serve little purpose is not what Apple tries to do though. Their little touches all add to making things better for the user (at least they hope it does). Contrast this to live wallpapers. I have only seen
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2muchcoffeeman
16y ago
You can call staff in as needed, stick to the agenda and then let them leave when they are not needed anymore. Of course the bigger question is, why are you having meetings that produce nothing?
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16y ago
The author says he was using his phone and the GPS often. If they wanted to track your moves and you have turned on the GPS, why doesn't it just, y'know, use the GPS data? Instead Apple tries to track your moves using cell towers? Seems lik
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It's a hierarchy. Apple > Users > Devs > Partners. I think all their actions when viewed through this filter make sense.
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16y ago
Apparently 270K iOS devices per day as of Oct 2010 and 366K iOS devices per day as of Jan 2011. http://www.gadgetvenue.com/366k-ios-devices-activated-day-01... http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20110415/tc_pcworld/googlebr... Other report
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16y ago
The free market did decide.
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Maybe Samsung is barely making any money with those prices in an attempt to compete in the tablet market.
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"Removing the relic USB means Apple can say to users, whatever you plug into this thing just works." I think it is more about getting people used to what Apple thinks the future of personal computing should be like. It's like the PADDs on S
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16y ago
I have heard similar arguments before. There is no need to invoke supernatural causes. Maybe the authorities at the time made a mistake. Current authorities & governments make mistakes all the time.
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16y ago
You don't have to convince anyone, we just want to see your research.