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by jsz0 15y ago
I remember reading somewhere that the profit ratio is about 1:10 for Macs vs. PCs so in your scenario Apple made twice as much money in your cafe than the PC OEMs did. That's exactly why HP is getting out of the consumer PC business. You mi
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by jsz0 15y ago
For one thing it was Apple's exclusivity with AT&T that opened the door for Verizon to push Android which played a vital role in its success. Things are a bit different with the iPad being that it's offered in both CDMA and GSM and the
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by jsz0 15y ago
Is this a practical example of how Google's strategy with Android is just a bit anti-competitive? Neither Palm or HP could have seriously considered licensing WebOS to compete against Android because neither has a gigantic advertising busin
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by jsz0 15y ago
The thing I don't understand about this deal is if the patents are as valuable as Google claims why did they only pay (effectively) $9B for them? Motorola hasn't really been on the bleeding edge of cellular technology for about a decade. Go
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by jsz0 15y ago
You're probably right. Motorola's own phones do not use a Motorola designed radio and haven't for many years.
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by jsz0 15y ago
Nintendo should hedge their bets and do both for now. As I see it there are 3 possible outcomes: 1) Dedicated gaming hardware/software sales decline 2) Dedicated gaming hardware/software sales remain flat 3) Dedicated gaming hardware/softwa
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by jsz0 15y ago
The difference is social media cannot be controlled. TV news can. It's a valuable tool for governments to have at their disposal in a time of crisis. Especially in the era of media consolidation a government might only need to influence a f
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by jsz0 15y ago
and my OS is now two versions out of date, since Apple stopped supporting it. No machine that shipped with Leopard is unable to run Lion. Only the Mac Mini 1,1 and MacBook 1,1 from early 2006 with 32bit processors are unsupported.
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by jsz0 15y ago
How would Apple know about a new iOS device or Mac signing into your iTunes Store account? It learns of the device the first time you successfully login on the device. Besides doing some sort of pre-registration or requiring an iTunes Store
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by jsz0 15y ago
Over 100 identified issues with 2.3 on the Droid X: (58,000 views on the Motorola forum) https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/51997?tstart=0 Both Motorola and Verizon admit to the problems. Say a fix is coming this month perhaps: ht
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by jsz0 15y ago
The problem with Android is you really have no clue what to expect with different devices. Your phone seems to work well however mine reboots several times a day and commonly has a dead battery by 2PM. I'm sure if I went and bought some oth
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by jsz0 15y ago
I've been using Lion since the early DP releases and I've never had auto-termination kick in. I tend to leave apps open for very long periods of time. GarageBand has been running for at least 2 weeks and it's still running. I know it's been
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by jsz0 15y ago
It's a shame that both Windows MCE and Windows Home Server never lived up to their potential. Possibly we can add WM7 to that list in a few years too. I can understand why he's leaving. It must be horrible to develop these really good produ
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by jsz0 15y ago
That's part of democracy isn't it? We might be better off if we only let highly educated people vote and only after they passed a series of intelligence and psychological tests but we don't do that. As long as essential spending was covered
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by jsz0 15y ago
I have an easy solution. Let's make your federal income taxes look less like a bill and more like an order form. So for example some portion of your income taxes are pre-allocated for essential services (say 50%) and everything else is your
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by jsz0 15y ago
Not anymore. iOS5 has OTA updates. (the last beta update was pushed OTA)
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by jsz0 15y ago
Mysterious battery drain seems like a really common problem on Android phones. Sometimes my Droid X lasts till 6PM -- sometimes it's dead by 1PM. More or less the same usage patterns. When it dies early in the day the phone is definitely wa
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by jsz0 15y ago
It's frustrating how little progress has been made. In a lot of ways I feel like the problems are getting worse not better. For the average person who has very low expectations and a high tolerance for pain it may not be a big issue but it
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by jsz0 15y ago
Most people have a motive for lying. I don't really see that here. What does Apple have to gain by suggesting FaceTime would be an open standard? Did lines of people show up to buy iPhones because FaceTime would be an open standard? I doubt
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by jsz0 15y ago
There's always the option of using an external optical drive. With the TB display you could simply plug it into one of the USB ports and have it docked on your desk ready to go. The slim/portable optical drives out there are no huge burden
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by jsz0 15y ago
The US actually hit the debt celling back in May. The government has been using accounting tricks for the last 2.5 months to pay all the bills. Of course revenue is still coming in but with an estimated $1.2T budget deficit for 2011 that's
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by jsz0 15y ago
Hulu or no Hulu Apple does need to re-think how they sell video. The important difference here is Netflix and Hulu can replicate the beloved channel-flipping experience with a new twist. The reason people pay outrageous cable/satellite bill
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by jsz0 15y ago
I could never get into multiple virtual desktops either. No matter how carefully I arrange my windows into different spaces I always end up with a scenario where I need to re-arrange windows to fit whatever task I'm working on. Ends up bein
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by jsz0 15y ago
I think the assumption here is that if you have multiple displays you would rarely need full screen apps in the first place. It's definitely a feature that works best on a laptop display. The best alternative I can think of is to full-scree
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by jsz0 15y ago
From Apple's patent filing: Some portable devices use one or more accelerometers to automatically adjust the orientation of the information on the screen. In these devices, information is displayed on the display in a portrait view or a la
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by jsz0 15y ago
I agree the flat cap isn't going to be the end of this. It just happens to be the easiest solution right now and the heavy users are low hanging fruit. As for the 50Mbit on a 150Mbit bonding group -- that's he magic of oversubscription. It'
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by jsz0 15y ago
Municipalities are also funded by the monopolists. Most people aren't aware of this but for example when Comcast goes into Centerville, USA and is granted an exclusive cable franchise they kickback some money to the local government, called
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by jsz0 15y ago
It utilizes the same pipe insofar as it uses the same cable HFC plant/infrastructure to deliver the signal to your home. On the wire however typically VoD services on set tops do not use the same DOCSIS channels as cable modems delivering I
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by jsz0 15y ago
I'm sure Google will fill in some of the gaps and improve functionality over time but without some radical changes I don't think Google+ is different enough from Facebook to make much of an impact. If they're lucky they can be the Pepsi to
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by jsz0 15y ago
In the case of cable Internet you're dealing with a shared medium. Your ISP may have a 10Gbit uplink in their headend but that does not extend to your home. In reality with 4 channel DOCSIS 3 bonding the speed available "on-the-wire" is abo

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