RShiki

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by RShiki 14y ago
No but they used to make 13" MBP with nvidia chipsets rather than intel's crappy ones. Even the 11" MBA used to have nvidia chipsets. It is a new trend with Apple to downgrade the integrated gpu (compared to the competition, and their own p
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by RShiki 14y ago
"Linux kills everything that cannot differentiate." Yeah, and Windows differentiated by offering an insane level of backward compatibility which makes both developers happy (they don't have to maintain and patch their apps as much) and user
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by RShiki 14y ago
> If they have a feature/smart phone why would they want a 7 inch tablet? Yeah you're right, why would someone want something that can achieve 9 hours screen-on battery life when they could just be content with killing the phone battery
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by RShiki 14y ago
I don't know when it has been introduced, or even if it was always there and I didn't notice, but iBooks also supports continuous vertical scrolling and it IS much faster than looking at an animation that shows a page turn or a slide. The d
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by RShiki 14y ago
Point taken, and I'm not really hating on Apple either so I don't really think of you as "defending" them, I'm just stating my thoughts about their strategy. Apple completely changed the way I look at mobile devices. My first smartphone and
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by RShiki 14y ago
"I also don't think the kind of people that buy Android devices are the same people that buy iOS devices." Really ? I used to own an iPad 2 and an iPhone 3g. Because they were much, much better than the competition at the time. I sold my iP
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by RShiki 14y ago
I don't see the point of a rear camera on a tablet. The kind of people who have enough spending income to afford a tablet usually own a smartphone, or even a feature phone, that has a rear camera. Why would you want a crappy rear camera on
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by RShiki 14y ago
The entry level, 16gb iPhone has a profit margin that is bigger than average, but not huge. The 64gb iPhone on the other hand.. it's like printing money. The markup doesn't even begin to compare to what the bigger storage actually cost to A
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by RShiki 14y ago
It's not sold at a loss, but with a very low profit margin. At a loss would mean that they're actually bearing the cost of manufacturing the device even after they got your money, which is not true. They also get a much higher profit margin
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by RShiki 14y ago
LTE isn't even available yet in my country and it's not the third world, but France. 300 euros is cheap for a smartphone like the Nexus 4, in comparison, the Samsung Galaxy S3 is 500 euros on amazon.fr and it's the cheapest price you can ge
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by RShiki 14y ago
Laptops have gotten nicer but it's still rather hard to find a 19" desktop monitor with a nice DPI.
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by RShiki 14y ago
> This is the first time I've seen that outside of dedicated chargers and Macs (I assume of course that some PCs do this as well but I haven't seen one yet). My Asus motherboard can do that with the right software/driver installed and
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by RShiki 14y ago
> it sells premium products at premium prices, and it never discounts. I fail to see what's premium in a tablet that has an inferior screen compared to the cheaper alternatives. Apple won the 10" market by virtue of literally doing ever
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by RShiki 14y ago
Even if it's a nexus device it's pretty different from what we were used to with stock android : it's a blend of both the phone and tablet UI. Some apps are using the tablet UI, while others use the phone UI, and the launcher itself is base
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by RShiki 14y ago
> Its all over the Internet Explorer thing happening again. But with IE at least you could tell your users to download a better browser if they want to use your app. You can not tell your users, "Buy another phone to use our service!"
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by RShiki 14y ago
Yeah. Kies is slow as hell (more than iTunes on windows.. it says a lot, because iTunes on windows is not a shiny example of good software.) and TouchWiz is slowing down Android, sometimes destroying the battery and is otherwise a design si