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by mrich 14y ago
According to this Wikipedia article this is not true: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_wars Nokia started suing Apple in 2009. I do not consider them a smartphone incumbent. After some back and forth between the two companies Apple
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by mrich 14y ago
Consider for a minute how much tech is in the iPhone that was not invented by Apple. They were standing on the shoulders of decades of telecommunications and computer science research, perfected an existing invention (there were touchscree
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by mrich 14y ago
This quote from the article describes the business model of many financial firms quite well: "Essentially, JPMorgan has been operating a hedge fund with federal insured deposits within a bank," said Mark Williams, a professor of finance at
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by mrich 14y ago
Apple won big in smartphones, but Android has a bigger marketshare. Competition between all smartphone vendors have made the customer the biggest winner in any case.
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I would not call the Galaxy SIII an awful product. According to many reviews it is the best smartphone available on the market.
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I wonder what Apple uses for development internally - I suppose they have clusters for fast compilation. Sucks if you are an external developer who needs to build large codebases, if this Mac Pro is the best you can buy.
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Dolphin Browser also uses this to slide in the bookmarks from the left side and it makes for very rapid browsing - you don't even have to type in parts of Urls anymore.
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by mrich 14y ago
Has this always been the case? No, Apple gradually made all these countries available. Terms of use have to be drafted and reviewed by lawyers for each country. This will take time. Why go through all that trouble and wait months if you can
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by mrich 14y ago
It is good to see an unbiased article admitting that iOS can learn from other platforms.
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I agree, I think this will also be the reason why iOS popularity will fade over time. Either they adapt and make their OS more powerful, or people will move to alternatives that let them do more quicker. Simplification was a good selling po
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by mrich 14y ago
This very much. iOS users are regularly amazed after seeing the ease of typing with Swype, and are disappointed it is not possible on a regular iPhone/iPad.
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by mrich 14y ago
Apple advertises their retina display with "you can't see any pixels". The S3 nearly has the same ppi (306 vs. 320), yet people complain about how they are somehow able to distinguish the subpixels? Something does not add up here.
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by mrich 14y ago
Would buy, if I didn't love my S II so much :)
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Cook is running Apple well and should be applauded for implementing changes that make Apple a modern company with social responsibility. But in the end he will be judged on whether he can come up with new, innovative products and lead them
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by mrich 14y ago
Many of the large investors (Accel, DST) selling more shares, valuation of $100 billion for a $1b profit company? Bubble about to pop, smart money is getting out.
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by mrich 14y ago
I have been working on getting a quite complex C++ code base (3M+ LOC) with heavy template use to compile on clang. Along the way, I have found many violations of the C++ standard that GCC silently accepts, several obscure GCC features that
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by mrich 14y ago
The post was made on the Enterprise servers forum. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3715366 If your company sells software to businesses, the standards are a little higher. Either you make sure such a bug cannot slip through by testin
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by mrich 14y ago
It sounded defensive to me. "name a single case where ZDNet has broken a story we cared about" sounded like ZDNet should have shut up about this very important issue. It doesn't matter that they are not the first reporting it, their readers
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by mrich 14y ago
I find it interesting how Apple is defended when they make security blunders, while Microsoft was heavily slammed back in the day. It is simply inacceptable that a user basically reported the issue on their support forum and didn't even get
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by mrich 14y ago
The S II does not look cheap to me. The plastic backside prevents the phone from being slippery, which is a big problem with the iPhone. Dropping it on the ground is also no problem, the plastic is perfect in absorbing that. After a couple
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by mrich 14y ago
I wonder how exploitation rights are handled. Can any company just send robots up there to mine it? Or will there be a remote war fought on the asteroid over the resources?
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by mrich 15y ago
Let's not act like he would have cared about this while he was alive. Apple's products and services always place family-friendlyness over any kind of free expression.
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by mrich 15y ago
Please read my answer again, and you will find differences between Microsoft's and Apple's approach to security that answer your question.
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by mrich 15y ago
Microsoft had its security Waterloo 6-8 years ago, and they have dramatically improved and changed their development practices since then. I once read that they have one whole building of engineers dedicated to security (sorry cannot find t
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by mrich 15y ago
How long will it take to change the mindset at Apple to think about security before shipping? Microsoft did their job years ago, now Apple has to follow. How long will it take for Mac users to learn that viruses are indeed a threat on all k
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by mrich 15y ago
Thanks for your insights, but this makes me wonder: how much PHP code is there to make a rewrite unfeasible? At least the public part shouldn't be so big, are there huge administrative interfaces that somehow can't be separated?
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How ironic would it be if Apple couldn't implement something because of a ridiculous patent?
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Modern C++ code is multithreaded, threading is now finally part of the standard. While C++ is showing its age, and the refusal to cut any old features at all sure is no advantage, it is still the language to beat for performance and especia
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by mrich 15y ago
Objective-C with ARC comes pretty close.
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by mrich 15y ago
It's quite sad when you have to pay premium money for a device and still aren't able to do the things YOU want with it. For all the things Apple did for usability, this is one big letdown.

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