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by jpxxx 14y ago
While a tragic piece of news for stock market analysts, that's not Apple news. :3
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by jpxxx 14y ago
TL;DR: Exceeded guidance, no blowout. Mac sales are static, overall iPhone sales softening as the lineup ages, iPads surging, iPod continues to dwindle, miscellaneous sales remain miscellaneous. + stock buyback next year + dividends being i
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Hooray! Now can they also buy BusyCal so that there's at least one non-braindamaged method of talking to Google CalDAV servers on a Mac?
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Not just Windows developers. Microsoft Office for Mac v.X was released on November 19, 2001. It ran without incident for a decade on the latest and best Macs that money could buy through July 20, 2011. This was not by happenstance.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Awesome! Now if Google can just distribute it beyond the initial five launch nations, create meaningful product support, rework a half million third-party applications, and answer growing malware concerns they'll have a sweet two-month sale
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by jpxxx 14y ago
According to a forum-goer who reported it to Apple, they are aware Turbo Boost isn't properly being initialized during Windows boot and will be issuing a firmware update.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
No, it's not offensive at all. But software can cast a net across seven billion people and there are plenty who would be upset at the idea of even the slightest innuendo. It's irrational, it's not fun, and it's kind of a sad commentary on h
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by jpxxx 14y ago
It know it's one of those irrational "the things you can't say on TV are the things you can't say on TV" kind of situations, but sexual innuendo and financial software don't mesh.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Every consumable can be replaced - just not necessarily by you. Every structural component can be replaced and installed according to manufacturer recommendations - just not necessarily by you. Replacement parts are available for a seven y
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I can buy that his convictions informed how and when Apple communicated with both customers and suppliers. His insistence on quality as he defined it certainly showed up in Apple's products and services. But I don't think it's the full stor
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Those aren't values, they're PR techniques. This whole non-event is made entirely out of image vapor and really shouldn't be hard to handle. They've got a top-notch environmental story regardless of what sticker is on what webpage. They're
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I've done that quite a bit, but only to make printer discovery on the network actually happen. Are you saying you can use it to share out printers as well?
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Agreed. It's one of those "we'll figure this out later" things from the late 90's without any real programmatic constraints that led to a mishmash of pointless and unexpected behavior. I personally can't come up with a good reason not to ju
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by jpxxx 14y ago
[opinioneering] Applause! You brought a tear to my eye. After living a luxuriant Apple-only lifestyle I've had to start supporting PCs again. Re-entering the Junkspace that is Windows has been punishing. UI completely untouched since 1995.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
#ifdef SURPRISING_AND_DELIGHTFUL_AND_HARMLESS_AND_ADDS_NO_COGNITIVE_LOAD_TO_THE_USERS_EXPERIENCE_WHATSOEVER
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by jpxxx 14y ago
For debugging of course.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I have on good authority that their return rates reach 40%.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Here's the discussion I want to have: Intel has spent at least $500M to date on their Ultrabook concept, while only selling an estimated 500,000 units across all Ultrabook vendors globally. This implies that a $1,000 per-unit subsidy is fai
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Intel ultrabooks - Numbers not good, says analyst(news.cnet.com)
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Seven years, all models everywhere. Special considerations possible in the state of California.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I love me some Apple, but drama does occur. Off the top of my head: - silent DVD-ROM read errors causing perma-botched upgrades, even though everything should be CRCed and nothing throws any errors at any point along the way - pathologicall
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Unfortunately your commentary was only valueless, so sit tight at 0. It takes actual work to make something properly inflammatory - you gotta earn the negative scores.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Macs have never really been appropriate for embedded computation, and it doesn't come up much in practice. I work with people who work with lab software which is happily running OS X 10.2 Jaguar. It's no different than the XP box in the cor
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I thoroughly agree with this. If they know what they have to replicate, they can do it in style. I can't find three significant points of conceptual difference between Windows 8 Metro and iOS.... available mouse pointer.......... ummm.....
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I think so. Maybe it all works well on wall-sized touchscreens where you're standing up, but it does not work with vertical glass sitting down.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
After wrangling with some HP TouchSmarts, I agree. The hitboxes suck, the on-screen keyboard is fatiguing after a few sentences, and playing a game with touch only sounds like work. Eventually you forget that your PC has a touchscreen. Even
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Microsoft is not composed of morons, their engineering is world-class, and they're not out to ruin their business or their product line. And the problem isn't Windows 8. I'm guessing: The Windows 8 Desktop side will be top-notch, comforting
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by jpxxx 14y ago
This is easy to say as someone who has never managed a product, but I feel silent self-update is table stakes for consumer-facing products at this point. Requesting permission to update throws a significant amount of users. They're typicall
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by jpxxx 14y ago
My personal gripe with the entire world of streamers: neither the Q or the Apple TV do anything out of the box - you first need to hunt down a HDMI cable. That alone throws half the customer base into a frustrating situation, incurring a kn
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by jpxxx 14y ago
As an enthusiast, I agree, DLNA is a good idea with many real-world working implementations. But it's also been out in some capacity for just about a decade while garnering no real tech cachet, no real customer awareness, comes with a meani

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