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by cooldeal 14y ago
How does that help if the tablet does not have a full USB port that is powered? Fiddling around with another power adaptor and cable is pretty annoying.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
As I posted in the other story that got flagged off front page, the new TV ad is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mSckyoAMHg The good thing about the keyboard covers is that Windows RT supports mouse input unlike the iPad and a track
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by cooldeal 14y ago
The new TV ad is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mSckyoAMHg The Surface RT does some things better than the iPad. For example, it has a MicroSD slot and a full USB port. The side-by-side multitasking view is pretty nice to put a chat
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I think it did help. They have 100K+ apps in the Windows Phone Store.
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Samsung official cites serious chip rift with Apple -- report(news.cnet.com)
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Alan Cox to Nvidia : You Can't Use DMA-BUF Because It's GPL(linux.slashdot.org)
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Apple's US Injunction on Samsung Galaxy Nexus Lifted(thenextweb.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>I'm starting to really tire of this trend where developers lock away even power user settings (like the ability to decide what fucking plugins run in your browser) in the name of "security". That train has already left the station, wit
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by cooldeal 14y ago
> Take the text away that usually specifies an action (like 'download', 'submit', 'buy now') and all you have is a rectangular coloured box. I guess that is the part of the point, to have actionable text which describes what happens if
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by cooldeal 14y ago
The problem with Notch was that it was impossible to find out exactly what he was ranting about when he is fine with accelerating the demise of the PC by having his game run on the locked down iOS but not releasing it in the Windows 8 deskt
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by cooldeal 14y ago
No, they had to kill it because the iPad wouldn't run browser plugins. They then transitioned to a plugin free HTML5 mobile web to help all developers.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
While you're correct, I think such a message after installation and use will make it feel a little like nagware(a bit like how Windows prompts you to activate it) even if its a one time.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
The headline doesn't seem awful considering the actual screen which speaks for itself. http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/how-mu... Also, it's not a traditional donation in the Mozilla Firefox sense because you cannot d
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Actually, there has not really been a huge shift in the API or the dev tools. I had meant dev tools as in the API and SDK code written by Microsoft. There is no big change in the app developer facing dev tools, but internally the kerne
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Phones need a much more limited set of apps than a desktop or laptop. Many(not all) people just use the phone functions plus Facebook, Maps, Twitter and a couple of other apps and other use cases are covered by web apps. Multiple studies ha
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Microsoft had already announced previously that the SDK will be out at WP8 launch, there will be 100K+ WP7 apps available in the store at launch. The API and dev tools went through a huge shift from Win CE as the kernel in WP7 to the NT ker
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Groklaw has been pretty much heavily biased right from inception. It's just that you're noticing it now because it's no longer in alignment with your own biases in the Apple case.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Is the maps pic real or faked? I doubt the Android one looks anything close to the iPhone one, let alone a pixel perfect clone that looks copy pasted. http://i.imgur.com/npHlR.gif
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I have a Touchpad with Android on it too :) I would disagree on the "reputable" part. Which reputable sites are they distributed on?
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by cooldeal 14y ago
An unlocked iPhone 4 is still around $400. That's not really low end.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>If you want to package them with your device, all that they require is that you talk with them and ensure you pass the compatibility toolkit. >OEMs do not pay Google in exchange for bundling Google Apps Do you have a reference to t
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>but access to the Google apps is indeed free It certainly is not free. Either the OEM who sold the device to you paid off Google for your access(i.e included in the hardware cost you paid the OEM) or you have to violate copyright(along
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Android is free As I noted in another comment in this story, this is wrong. AOSP is open and free, but it is not very useful without access to the half million apps in the Google Play store, Maps, Navigation, Youtube, Google Now etc. &
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Actually you do, unless you're Amazon. For access to the Google Play store, GMail, Maps, Navigation, Youtube etc. etc. Those are neither free nor Free. http://www.reghardware.com/2011/09/21/andy_pad_chief_admits_... It's very telling that
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Notch doesn’t hate Windows 8, he’s just confused(withinwindows.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>..or is it like MSN.com that will only work in Windows 8 and IE10 Not sure if this is sarcasm, but this is another example of of some posters on Slashdot, here and some other place who seem to have last used MS products over a decade a
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by cooldeal 14y ago
A better article than this agenda driven Charlie Demerjian rant. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/02/lets-take-another-l...
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>There are limits to the amount of due diligence companies should have to do to ensure that people know they are clicking on ads. There are also limits on disguising search results as ads. >For the rest, there's not much short of an
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Headline: Walled garden wins over PC plus Web.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
> ..they allow you to install any 'app' of the internet. It is available on the little icon next to the browser bar Apple's already dragging its feet on things like HTML5. Jobs' memo about deprecating Flash for HTML5 was 2.5 years ago,

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