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by jsz0 14y ago
it certainly isn't "the biggest thing to happen to the iphone since iphone" If you look at the changes between previous models it really is. Just about every single component has been upgraded. There have never been this many changes at o
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by jsz0 14y ago
increasingly becoming trailing indicators of where the mobile industry is going They are however very good implementations of where the industry currently is.
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by jsz0 14y ago
I definitely fumble my Galaxy Nexus on a regular basis. I can't quite accept I am unable to reach the top of the phone from my normal bottom grip so I stretch and stretch and try to balance it on my palm.
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by jsz0 14y ago
Just about every single component was changed or upgraded. So that's pretty big. In previous generations of iPhones they only focused on one or two parts. 3G/cellular improvement, 4/screen & design, 4S/speed & camera, 5/LTE cellular
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by jsz0 14y ago
I think they should ditch the idea of docking devices and just focus on making good low power / inexpensive computers. If you're already paying for the screen, battery, enclosure, etc why not just throw in the cheap SoC and make it a standa
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by jsz0 14y ago
I've given some thought to the iTunes problem. I think the best solution is to break it up into smaller apps. The tricky part is no one wants to have a dozen different apps installed separately so iTunes would have to still be distributed
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by jsz0 14y ago
HP deserves to get roasted in the court of public opinion on this one. Absolutely pathetic. This is the type of stuff no-name Chinese fly by night companies do to make a quick buck hoping they can trick consumers into buying the wrong thing
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by jsz0 14y ago
Couldn't disagree more. I greatly prefer native clients and will be way more inclined to use a service that offers/allows them. Here's why: 1) I don't like having all my eggs in one basket. I have multiple browser windows each with multiple
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by jsz0 14y ago
Can you split windows? Use tabs? Can you change color profiles? Yes to all though you can only split windows horizontally. Terminal is a really good app. iTerm2 is great too but a little slower than Terminal in my experience.
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by jsz0 14y ago
I assume they mean memory will be integrated into the CPU package itself? If that provides for faster RAM, smaller computers, and greater power efficiency I would find it to be an acceptable trade-off. I've found over the years my RAM needs
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by jsz0 14y ago
The solution is to take some control back from the carriers and OEMs but Google won't do that because it's Android's main selling point to carriers and OEMs.
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by jsz0 14y ago
Reflashing a phone is scary and weird when you do it the first time, but it's really not hard and the community support is quite good. You're right -- it's not hard. Just annoying and possibly risky. A lot of these ROMs are alpha/beta qua
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by jsz0 14y ago
In most cases the price is determined by what the market is willing to pay. Think of a consumer that goes out of their way to buy $29 Apple headphones. Clearly they have decided this specific model/part is valuable to them for whatever reas
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by jsz0 14y ago
The question is just when we officially start treating iOS as the minority OS, the one we develop for last. About 55% of iOS devices are iPhones. The other 45% are iPads and iPod Touches. On Android I don't think anyone knows the exact nu
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by jsz0 14y ago
I would like a taller iPhone because my only compliant about the size is how cramped the screen gets when I have the keyboard open or use apps that happen to have both a toolbar and a nav bar. Otherwise I think the physical size of the devi
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by jsz0 14y ago
It may be that since many people continue to refer to the 'new iPad' as the iPad 3 they decided it just doesn't stick so why bother?
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by jsz0 14y ago
I'm trying to figure out when I fell out of love with SmartPhones. They were really exciting back in 2007-2009 when things were progressing so quickly but now almost any of them are 'good enough' and basically do all the same things more or
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by jsz0 14y ago
It's Apple's store I think they can decide to sell whatever they want and the consumer can decide to goto a different store (platform) if Apple isn't meeting their needs.
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by jsz0 14y ago
Interesting theory but I'm not sure why the results would be much different than when Google pushed G+ on hundreds of millions of GMail users. It helped them put some numbers on the board but I haven't seen any improvement to the (lack of)
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by jsz0 14y ago
You can definitely patent the specific things that makes it better and perhaps even arrange a bunch of things that, by themselves, would not be patentable into the right order to make one bigger thing that is patentable.
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by jsz0 14y ago
Apple did a really good job making Samsung's prior art claims look like straw grasping. Samsung screwed up the time-line on the Diamond Touch device which of course did not use a multi-touch display anyway. They claimed prior art on a bounc
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by jsz0 14y ago
Just to drive the point home: a device with a touchscreen and few buttons was obvious - at least to the millions and millions of happy PDA users. Yet somehow they look so different you could never confuse them for an iPhone while Samsung
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by jsz0 14y ago
Apple can't really win on market share or their business model would be impossible to sustain on anti-trust grounds alone. The iPod was the only exception/fluke and IIRC there were some rumblings from the EU about it. The Bush DOJ was too '
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by jsz0 14y ago
I can't see it as a step backwards when it provides great functionality to hundreds of millions of people. I doubt iMessage would be anyone's sole IM platform, and in fact the OSX client supports AIM XMPP as well, so it's really more of an
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by jsz0 14y ago
Your phone number is associated with your Apple ID. So I'm guessing they just reverse lookup the number you're texting to determine if iMessage can be used. It can definitely be reserved engineered. Just text any number from an iOS device a
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by jsz0 14y ago
that exist merely to lock people into Apples 'garden' You don't think providing good features to users or creating a competitive advantage has anything to do with it at all? I agree lock-in is part of the equation in large part because Ap
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by jsz0 14y ago
The security problem here is the person who gave you the phone thought removing the SIM erased all their personal data/accounts and it definitely does not.
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by jsz0 14y ago
If you use Dropbox you can have it just automatically transfer your photos or iPhoto/PhotoStream. From there it's in your camera roll which any application can access.
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by jsz0 14y ago
then why bother writing about it? I think these stories are coming from people who had a perception using the iPad this way was impossible (for their needs) until they actually try it out. Then it's sort of a revelation and they want to s
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by jsz0 14y ago
I think this is an issue of FRAND vs. non-essential patents. Motorola has to license certain patents at reasonable costs. Apples design and non-essential patents have no price controls. They can ask for whatever they want. It's more similar

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