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by arn 14y ago
The physical object is real (but non functional), and relatively cheaply obtained apparently.[1] The fake part is placing the image on the screen making it look like it works. Why? People love posting fake apple stuff to fool people. 1. ht
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by arn 14y ago
There generally isn't one thing, but more a gestalt. But relatively easy to fake, the nonchalant - oh it works too - just tagged on at end, coming from just a guy on youtube. It also shows nothing specific. (others noted that iOS doesn't ev
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by arn 14y ago
Because its fake
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by arn 14y ago
This is certainty fake (in my expert opinion). At least the turn on bit of it. Otherwise seems a dummy shell/mockup.
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by arn 14y ago
that's precisely the point. there is no empirical evidence behind the vast majority of comments like these. Are you being purposefully vague? No empirical evidence of what ? I'll counter that there is overwhelming evidence, but I'll sha
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by arn 14y ago
I understand the comment. Of course the thought has crossed my mind. But I'm not so sure there's any evidence to support it. Your post is vague enough that I have a hard time parsing it. No evidence for what? That there is such a thing
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by arn 14y ago
So I presume that the person who made this knows it's "illegal" to use the pacman name and doesn't care. So that's fine, its not like I am not going to report him to whoever owns the ip. The previous example, a) it wasn't clear that the aut
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by arn 14y ago
This is illegal too. I didn't bother posting again because it seems more obvious. In the previous example, many probably didn't know it wasn't an official port. (author added disclaimers later)
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by arn 14y ago
Microsoft's version of Retina is called ClearType Full HD Display. Non retina is called ClearType HD Display.
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by arn 14y ago
Yes, if you stop innovating, then another company can innovate their way to your marketshare. No argument there. The argument is that you see initiating a lawsuit as a sign that a company is not innovating. A lawsuit and a company's ability
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by arn 14y ago
I don't think it comes down to a simple reason. But I certainly don't think it's because they filed a lawsuit. You seem to be of the opinion that you can't sue and also innovate. This is obviously false. The engineers arnt being pulled from
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by arn 14y ago
Or that losing a key look and feel lawsuit means the competition can copy you without fear, losing your distinctiveness. I don't think its that black and white but suggesting the lawsuit, and not the lawsuit outcome, is somehow responsible
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by arn 14y ago
Big distinction is that Apple lost their big court case with Microsoft in the 90s.
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by arn 14y ago
This entire trial was a farce. The jury foreman admitted that they "skipped" prior art because "It was bogging us down." They later went back to it. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044427040457761...
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by arn 14y ago
Why are PDAs suddenly that weird uncle you never talk about and only see at birthdays? Because they ultimately failed in the market. There was a reason that the Blackberry and Treo type devices became popular. They worked better than th
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by arn 14y ago
It's flawed though, which is why it doesn't make sense. There are tons of doodle jump alikes. In fact doodle jump was a clone of an existing iOS game (papi jump). We aren't complaining about imitating gameplay. Can you show me a PAC man cl
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by arn 14y ago
his comment is nonsensical. it doesn't have anything to do with anything. not sure where he got to pacman.
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by arn 14y ago
Don't you think there would be a problem if Freedos renamed itself to "MS-DOS"?
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by arn 14y ago
...still an issue. being a "clone" is far less offensive than taking someone's name and artwork. If it was just a clone called "HTML Jump" with original graphics, but the same gameplay, there would be no outrage. Imagine if app.net called
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by arn 14y ago
But it wasn't (all) about the money. It was personal. http://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/20/from-steve-jobs-biograph... "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to r
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by arn 14y ago
if it's not copyright infringement, it's trade dress infringement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress either way, he's in the wrong. and the name is trademarked.
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by arn 14y ago
It's one thing to make a Doodle Jump-like game. But this is being called the trademarked name Doodle Jump, and you've copied the artwork straight from Doodle Jump. Seems certain this isn't an official licensed version. In which case, you
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by arn 14y ago
Apple changes up the featured sections once a week. And big game companies do seem to have contacts within Apple to help coordinate launches. Frequently big games will be launched on Thursday morning to coordinate with the featuring chan
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by arn 14y ago
There is really no possible fact checking on this. This is a 100% anonymous post. Unless you happen to know someone who works in this particular department at Apple.
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by arn 14y ago
sure, I guess I didn't bother qualify the post, because I wasn't lumping MacRumors in with the "casual Apple-fan blog" in my mind. That's perhaps why we didn't post it.
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by arn 14y ago
The flip side is, is it such a crime for blogs to publish these things that seem obviously fake? Even when they qualify it? We're not talking the New York Times here. We're talking Apple-fan blogs. If I forward you a link by email of some
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by arn 14y ago
fwiw, they didn't just submit to reddit and wait. They also submitted it to (at least some) sites directly. Doesn't look like any dedicated rumors sites actually published it. Getting fake rumor submissions is a daily occurrence for rumor
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by arn 14y ago
The original interview is actually an interesting read: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/feisty-nathan-myhrvold-defends-... "If what you’re doing to help the world is you’re working for a Internet company that is a non-profit in the sense tha
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by arn 14y ago
I read this story today which makes it sound like, at least in this one case, the truth may be closer to alpine's take. http://www.sfgate.com/sports/ostler/article/Missy-Franklin-s... "Chinese 16-year-old Ye Shiwen astounded everyone with
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by arn 14y ago
But some people don't eat meat for health considerations. Perhaps they like eating meat, but want to live longer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pescetarianism#Health_considera...

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