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by cooldeal 15y ago
I know the moving control panel, network properties etc. led to a lot of annoyances, but in terms of the actual window handling, taskbar, start menu, how was it terrible? The search box on the start menu was itself a huge leap over XP. That
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Huh what? The UI has been pretty much the same since Windows 95. Meanwhile OS X changed the scrolling, and lost scrollbars and a whole bunch of other changes in Lion that people aren't very fond of. The public seems to have gotten along ver
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>Apple itself keeps saying that Fortune 500 companies are buying large quantities of iPads. They can't all be for consumption. Why can't they all be for consumption? The IDG report refers to business communication, which I am guessing i
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>Somewhat wrong, there exists right a segment of folks whose only computer is either a smartphone or tablet Who are these people? And no, tweens and non working folks don't count, they wouldn't buy Office apps for their iPad or iPhone a
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Mountain Lion drops support for several older Mac models (Updated)(tuaw.com)
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by cooldeal 15y ago
I honestly can't get if that's sarcasm or the poster really believes such things. I think Poe's law applies here. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poes_Law
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Apple granted injunction, Motorola phones with slide-2-unlock at risk(engadget.com)
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by cooldeal 15y ago
It is useless to argue with nirvana. He is like a conspiracy theorist. He made up his mind that the iPhone 4 and 4S have the same antenna design and would rather declare PC World and Consumer Reports and you anti-Apple liars rather than adm
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>I'm critical of John Gruber on many topics You seem to be a bigger fan of Apple than Gruber is, to the point of always accusing people of hounding Apple, I wonder what topics you're critical of him about. >(EG: Just this weekend I
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German court dismisses Motorola's patent lawsuit against Apple(engadget.com)
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Google's Foray Into Hardware Will Be A Total Disaster — Here's Why(businessinsider.com)
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Protests against iPhone factory conditions planned Thursday for Apple Stores(gigaom.com)
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Apple Supplier Conditions to Be Targeted by Protesters - Bloomberg(bloomberg.com)
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>The difference is in expectations Why should MS be held to the expectations of Linux users?
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Designing Windows 8 or: How to Redesign a Religion(gizmodo.com)
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by cooldeal 15y ago
I think WP8/W8 integration is rather overblown, but the difference in approaches seems to be that Apple and Google are scaling up phone OSes to a tablet OS, whereas MS seems to be scaling down a desktop OS to a tablet, while simultaneously
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>Again, the video is plain dishonest. It compares the free Gmail with the paid 365. Why do we need to assume Microsoft's Hotmail banners are not based on page content? It was just a news article that a lot of people found interesting, i
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Don't bother submitting news like this. It will be falsely flagged like your other post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3544173 Enough of those flags and your account will be hellbanned for the crime of posting Microsoft-centric news
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Evidence of Google fanboy bury brigades on HN
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Windows Phone 8 Preview
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by cooldeal 15y ago
I think the big difference is that Google is using the money from it's monopoly search to artificially subsidize maps below cost. OSM and Wikipedia etc. are doing no such thing.
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>I think it's interesting that anti-Google posts are reflexively upvoted. Ten years ago that would have been Microsoft. Ten years ago? How about now? The hate for Microsoft around here is so bad that winsupersite.com (the premier inside
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Gruber makes a lot of money from RSS ads($6500/ad), thus the more he plays to his fan base, the more money he makes. http://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>Where do the 700,000 Android phones that get activated every day get made? Is Google blameless because they dont make it themselves? But..but..but...as we are tirelessly reminded by some folks here, Apple takes most of the profits of t
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Android Malware May Have Infected 5 Million Users (yro.slashdot.org)
2 points by cooldeal 15y ago|1 comments
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Because MS subsidizes the Kinect for XBox and makes back that money whenever the buyer buys Kinect games. MS gets no such cut of Windows programs that's why the real hardware cost is reflected.
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by cooldeal 15y ago
How is that relevant? Did I say Winsupersite was popular? A bad Alexa rank causes the site to be banned on HN?
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>Speaking of speculation, you have ZERO backing for your conjectures about why posts from Winsupersite get buried or simply don't make the front page Try submitting a story from Winsupersite, it will be instantly dead. That either means
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by cooldeal 15y ago
> it's very easy to see Nokia's best possible scenario is to sell just enough phones to cover the production costs while keeping as much of Microsoft's money as possible. I can't really think of a dumber strategy than this.
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by cooldeal 15y ago
News in the sense, something new to report on. Anyway, two reliable sources say March 18th. BGR and Winsupersite. Looks like Winsupersite is banned on HN (too many fanboy flaggers?) http://www.bgr.com/2012/01/25/atts-q1-2012-roadmap-nokia-

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