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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
The 16 GB iPhone 4 is €659 with €15 per month for 12 months plan on Vodafone in Greece. I understand that the size of the respective markets is vastly different and that strategically sacrificing margins for market share is more justified f
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Well, the iPhone is 600-700 euro in Europe, too, but carrier plans are also cheaper than those in the states, as I would guess are in India. Things indeed look very unfair if you don't factor in subsidies and factor out taxes and duties.
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Sure it does: http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/04/24/ipad.has.nativ...
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
As is every technological and scientific achievement humankind has ever reached and is relying upon. Replace nuclear reactions with, say, human flight and your statement remains just as valid. I don't see many people crying out for abolishm
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
I know I'm probably nitpicking, but there is a lot of difference between regulators probing the company and Apple being concerned about it. A lot of poking an probing is business as usual for companies as big as Apple.
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
The physics and physiology of radiation exposure seem to be quite complicated. I can't really answer your question, I'm very far from qualified to do so, but again _according to Wikipedia_ the short term effect of 0.2 Sv per day, let alone
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
I guess you are right, but it's just as dishonest to present the situation as completely out of control and use Fukushima as an excuse to paint nuclear power as completely unsafe and dangerous. Which is what mainstream media has been mostly
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Yeah, he does that on the day he is shipping the device that represents the direction in which the entire industry is heading, the device that is the harbinger of the post-what era in question.
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Yeah, don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen. Remember the iPhone parodies from 3 years ago ("it's a shaver, it's a cheese grater", "introducing iRack", etc)? None of those managed to hurt Apple's brand or the sales of Apple produc
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
But that was not because the iPod had no wireless, neither because it had less space than Nomad. I hope we can all agree, with the benefit of hindsight, that the reason for the slow uptake of the iPod was a combination of it being Firewire
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
OpenGL 3.2, huh? Well, I guess it's better than nothing, but had a faint hope Apple will skip ahead to 4.0 or even 4.1. Next time around it seems.
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Considering it had been in development for at least, what, two years, there is very little chance, and absolutely no excuse, for this next version of FCP to not be Cocoa. And if it is Cocoa it certainly is going to be 64 bit.
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Oh come on, no sane person is arguing that Elop went the Microsoft route _because_ he's a big shareholder. The reason people bring up the issue of the stock he owns is to point out that not only his decisions at Nokia are mostly consequence
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
More importantly, regardless of whether they said small or smooth, the fact that they didn't give a number or at least a ballpark number (e.g. 'more than 1.5 mil") for the sell-out is indicative of sales not being all that good.
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
The article mostly talks about a supposed confirmation by some analyst person that Apple will add NFC support to the next batch of iOS devices. The payment service seems to be basically conjecture. If the part about NFC is true, and especia
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
But we are not talking about the Cold war era Soviet block. Bulgaria is an EU member and I'd like to believe that in the EU sane people cannot be thrown in the loony bin for political reasons. Based on this and his barely coherent ramblings
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
You had to jinx it ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2112128 ), hadn't you. :) I'm almost like you - I haven't been exclusively a Mac user, but I've always had and used one Mac or another ever since the Mac SE. And I'm fairly confide
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Enough with the "Oh gosh, Steve Jobs is not going to live forever! Run for the hills!" quiet (and sometimes not so quiet) hysteria. Whenever Steve Jobs stops working for Apple, for whatever reason, there will certainly be a drop in Apple's
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
I can tell you one thing for sure, you'd be hard-pressed to find a Theora or WebM capturing equipment, if there is any at all. Most consumer grade cameras record to h264 or h262 and pro cameras generally work with proprietary uncompressed o
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
I don't think anyone can give you a clear answer, given that the effects of coffee depend on complex mix of factors, like caffeine metabolism, metabolism in general, brain chemistry, and so on. However, it is known that stimulants generally
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Google are not making the iPhone YouTube app, Apple are.
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Google are not removing video tag support, they are removing the h264 codec. h264 is pretty damn well established and is actually a standard without the quotation marks, and an open one at that.
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Well, great for you. It does not invalidate the article conclusion, and I quote: "The Nexus S feels half-baked. It's not an iPhone-killer, and in my opinion it's not a must-have phone..."
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
OK, how representative do you think is a survey in which " 43% percent [of the respondents expect from iPad 2] a CD/DVD drive". To me it seems that either the methodology of the survey is wrong (loaded questions, etc.), or the sample is sla
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
On the other hand all the content on the apple.com homepage has been replaced by the announcement. This is something that Apple do only for big launches.
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
This book is an awesome introduction to OS X programming for rubists. There is one additional thing I'd like to see (in this book or in another) and that is a good demonstration of hotcocoa, which hopefully will reinvigorate the interest in
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Well, it looked plenty for very small values of plenty, from where I stand. There were some very well reasoned arguments against the restriction - arguments like the fact that many libraries and game engines require the flexibility that s
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
The thing is most of the complaining about this was not the constructive "hey, Apple have you considered so-and-so", but rather the whiny "waaaa... Apple are Nazis" kind. And as you point out there is no evidence that it is the complaining
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
OK, I stand corrected. I'm stuck with a 3G. Probably my example of downgrading from a beta to the current release is no good either - it will likely still work with the system you described, but it is not indicative of the ability to arbitr
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
edit: my experience seems to be irrelevant - things have changed; see ben1040's post bellow. My statement that Apple haven't done all they could have done still stands though. [strikethrough] That has not been my experience, although I ad

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