rednukleus

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by rednukleus 13y ago
You speak as though Windows and Linux dont exist. Over 90% of the market use those operating systems. Did I misinterpret your comment, or do you really live in that much of a bubble?
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Spain is extremely price sensitive at the moment. Android has around a 90% marketshare in Spain - largely driven by inexpensive Android phones. Windows Phone is gaining traction, and Apple are not even in the top 5 manufacturers.
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by rednukleus 13y ago
There is a shocking amount of anti-hacker sentiment on this forum. There are so many people here that are desperate to make money out of the big new closed ecosystems that they are only too eager to badmouth open alternatives at every turn.
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Oh I know its coming, but I'm still not 100% convinced its going to work. I cant think of any smartphone game I would want to play on my TV, other than games I wouldn't want to play on my smartphone. There just no overlap. I would
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by rednukleus 13y ago
> I cannot even think of one mobile title that measures up to even an average DS game. I more or less agree with this. The major problem to me though is the input mechanism. Touch works for casual games like Angry Birds and Candy Crush,
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by rednukleus 13y ago
> But we all know essentially how this will end: Prism isn't going away and Edward Snowden's fate is grim. That's a very defeatist attitude. I'm sure that there are better arguments for upvoting or not upvoting these
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Because in the long term it is not working against their best interest. If I know that a store will not try to sell me stuff that is a poor match to my needs, then I know I can trust that store. When I go into a store that tells me to buy a
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by rednukleus 13y ago
I don't think it is unreasonable for an Apple salesperson to try to sell the Apple product, but I think its even better if they choose and are allowed to recommend competitors when they have the more appropriate product. I was just cur
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Wow, impressive! More high margin places should operate like that.
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Some PCs have a good resale market too. Thinkpads hold their value well enough to use the same technique.
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Out of curiosity, if a customer came in to buy a $1,500 machine, but what they really need is a $200 Chromebook, what would you do? EDIT: thanks for the down votes, but its an honest question. What if the customer comes in, and the solution
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Corporate types like to be able to read documents sent to them via email on the train or in the pub. I have seen an impressive number of edits done to documents and long emails typed on blackberrys by people in the pub in the past. The proc
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Glad to see them succeeding, but personally the privacy of my web searches doesn't bother me - as long as they aren't being passed along with personally identifying information. I'm far more worried about emails, messaging,
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by rednukleus 13y ago
You still can't run OS X on non-Apple hardware can you? I'd love it if they changed that.
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by rednukleus 13y ago
I was always impressed that Microsoft let you use Windows in a virtual machine on another platform at all (not all their competitors do). But then I realised that it made business sense for them.
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Aha, looks like I misinterpreted your original comment. I knew one of us was being dense - turns out it was me.
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by rednukleus 13y ago
So in what sense do you think they are spreading themselves too thin?
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by rednukleus 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. How does making the Xbox hurt Windows Server or Windows Phone?
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by rednukleus 13y ago
> If you are running OS X desktops, why bother with it? If you are one of the small minority of people running OS X in a business environment then of course Microsoft's vertical integration is less useful. But well over 90% of busi
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Can you recommend a Top 5 ambient albums for working? EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions!
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by rednukleus 13y ago
What are the default apps like in OSX 10.9? I absolutely hated the calendar, notes etc apps in 10.8, have they improved as much (visually) as the iOS default apps?
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by rednukleus 13y ago
There was a significant group of vocal "Apple Users" who have spent a great deal of time over the last couple of years slagging off WP and Android for "bad design" and "stealing". It's to be expected that
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by rednukleus 13y ago
I think for many people it will be a beautiful black cylinder on a cluttered desktop. For people who need to use expansions this will take up a significantly larger footprint than a machine that allows for internal expansion. For those that
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by rednukleus 13y ago
I assume he is referring to the strange decision to make the thing so small (and beautiful) at the expense of any internal expandability. So professionals are going to have all sorts of hard drives and external graphics cards and optical d
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by rednukleus 13y ago
> consider defense of the 2A and gun rights to be one of the most critical issues of all Would you mind explaining your position on this?
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by rednukleus 13y ago
> hardware choice is far from the biggest issue with this sort of freedom This might be why we differ. To me it's a huge issue - that I can continue to buy from a range of hardware manufacturers, and install my own OS and software.
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by rednukleus 13y ago
I can see the logic in that point of view. For me the big thing is lock-in. Google let me transition off their services easily, and I can also use their products on a wide range of hardware. Microsoft is somewhat "open" in this re
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by rednukleus 13y ago
I wouldn't choose to work for Goldman Sachs, for ethical reasons. I wouldn't buy an app from a guy that was rude to me when I met him, out of spite. I don't do certain things because I don't want to support certain compa
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by rednukleus 13y ago
> An app like this is going to make significantly more money in the Apple ecosystem More money possibly, but its hard to imagine it is not worth the cost of porting these types of apps - and that's what is relevant. Unless it is an
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Thanks for the response. So it is an ethics thing with you. Personally the idea of supporting Apple over Google is alien to me, but is interesting reading other people's perspectives.

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