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by Nerdfest 14y ago
I think this is one of the most disappointing verdicts since the OJ trial.
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by Nerdfest 14y ago
As someone else has pointed out, it's an irrelevant protocol until it's made an open protocol. This will join the pile with FaceTime, iBooks, etc, that exist merely to lock people into Apples 'garden'. People should want to use your plat
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by Nerdfest 14y ago
I think it's Apple playing catch-up with Android for the past couple of years. The MPB is a big jump ahead for Apple with that screen though.
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by Nerdfest 14y ago
... well, you know, except for the size, and those extra buttons. Of course, that takes us back to a black rectangle with rounded corners.
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by Nerdfest 14y ago
The good news is that this article is from an antitrust lawyer with contacts in the Justice Department. The abuse has gotten so bad that even they can probably see it.
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by Nerdfest 14y ago
"Serving at the pleasure of the King" is an expression all iOS developers should be extremely familiar with.
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by Nerdfest 14y ago
I think a lot of people are getting a little sick of Apple's arrogance.
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by Nerdfest 14y ago
most industries have some thought for their customers, and are not so dictatorial. They will at least give some advance warning of feature removal. Feed readers are far from dead, and I find there are more people than ever using them, mainl
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by Nerdfest 14y ago
I think most people who want to buy an iPhone have already bought an iPhone.
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by Nerdfest 14y ago
My SO will go to huge lengths not to boot into Windows (She a Linux user) because of the pain of the update process. It was a big part of the eventual move to Linux only on a few machines. The Linux update process is fast, and rarely requir
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by Nerdfest 14y ago
There are lots of other ways to wiretap people, but most require a warrant, as they should. Microsoft can just comply with their request. Time to move to a SIP client that supports encryption (Jitsi.org).
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by Nerdfest 14y ago
I think there are 3 main reasons for it. 1 - It's a fantastic phone. 2 - The Apple faithful already have their 4 and 4Ss. 3 - Ship-jumpers: Apple is pissing a lot of people off.
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by Nerdfest 15y ago
Many people will avoid a platform that doesn't provide Android compatibility for the same reason they'd avoid Apple ... single vendor lock-in.
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by Nerdfest 15y ago
Number 2 for me is the big one. PL/SQL (and any other SQL dialect I've worked with) is an exceptionally poor choice of languages for implementing business logic in.
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by Nerdfest 15y ago
In the case of the iPhone, Users are not allowed to install certain applications either.
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by Nerdfest 16y ago
I have to say that this is nice to see .. normally the Android/Apple discussions are mired in blind fanboy-ism, but people here seem objective and reasonable. Android's lack of polish in areas and Apple lock-in to iTunes, Androids flexibili