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by snom370 16y ago
It's a bit easier to move around your home with a phone, so I'm guessing this is going to be used more frequently just because it's more convenient. Same with Skype now that the iPhone supports multitasking.
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by snom370 16y ago
On the following slide, he listed a bunch of open standards (SIP, SRTP, ..), which they presumably use. If they hold true to their word (remains to be seen), other handset operators will be able to build similar support into their handsets.
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by snom370 16y ago
The difference is that the quality of the 3G video calls was usually really crap, and most people thought that it cost a lot of money (well, in some cases it did). Just look at Skype, it's really popular, also with video calls. Video confer
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by snom370 16y ago
I don't have to search for wifi at home or in the office, and that's where I spend most of the time. Even so, I'm pretty sure Apple has thought this through, making it quick and easy to discover if someone is online, and even invite them th
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by snom370 16y ago
For the Emacs-heads out there, I would give Aquamacs a try if you haven't. I bought TextMate and tried using it for two months, until I realized that I never managed to get indenting to work exactly the way I liked (the Emacs way), and I re
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by snom370 16y ago
I got a big, used HP LaserJet for cheap and I love it. One cartridge will last 10K-15K pages, prints 24 ppm, and it prints duplex, even on A3 paper.
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by snom370 16y ago
True, it didn't _have_ to change anything, but since it was there, there was no pressure to make dedicated applications and user interfaces that worked well with touch. With a stylus, you can use normal desktop applications even though it's
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by snom370 16y ago
I'd say desktop syncing is a really great part of the ecosystem, since it means that I can buy a new iPhone and be completely up and running again in less than an hour. Upgrading the software is a breeze, which is something you can't say ab
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by snom370 16y ago
When I want a keyboard, I have it with the external iPad keyboard. What I don't want is a half-assed multitouch implementation in OSX, and a half-assed mouse+keyboard implementation in iPhone OS, which is most likely what you'd get if Apple
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by snom370 16y ago
Still, Apple's good at making stuff people both want _and_ use. I didn't expect my mother to start using Mail and Safari on her iPhone. I only bought it for her so she could have a phone+ipod, and because she never figured out how to use T9
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by snom370 16y ago
At that point, the good work ethic is to say "look, this isn't working. What can we do to part on good terms?". It's a lot better than saying "screw you guys, I'm going home!" :)
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by snom370 16y ago
With all the publicity this story has gathered? I certainly wouldn't. Then again, Woz was the guy that placed professionally crafted signs reading "Warning: Do not use over populated areas" and put them on airplane lavatories, so I wasn't s
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by snom370 16y ago
Had I lost my iPhone prototype, having Woz go to the effort to make a t-shirt and take this picture would absolutely have made my day. Anyone who knows anything about Woz knows that this was done with a good heart.
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by snom370 16y ago
True. So what we'll need to do is to run the iPhone OS virtualized under Linux. Or perhaps using an ARM emulator. :)
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by snom370 16y ago
They mentioned it in one slide, did they mention it anywhere else? That was my point.
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by snom370 16y ago
Apple _is_ playing the resolution game, but they're not in a hurry. That's why there was no resolution bump on the 3G or the 3GS, even though better displays were available at the time. By doubling the resolution, they avoid a whole lot of
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by snom370 16y ago
You could also ask what's the obsession with MicroSD cards, right? It takes up less space in the device, and in a year all operators will probably support them, so what's the big deal? EDIT: Don't forget that the SIM card takes up quite a b
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by snom370 17y ago
Same boat here. For me, this is a really touch choice. I like the SDK and I think the iPhone OS is by far the best mobile OS out there, but I'm not sure I want to back this horse. When Microsoft was the Evil Empire it was easy to stay away
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by snom370 17y ago
Exactly, which is why it would be nice to see companies that try to not just copy the iPhone (and now the iPad), like most cell phone companies have tried to do the past couple of years. Likewise, it took the OLPC project and then Asus EEE
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by snom370 17y ago
The whole review is a collection of small oversights and bad decisions. This is what makes the difference between bad, good and great products. When people wonder what makes an Apple product great, it's the attention to detail. They didn't
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by snom370 17y ago
I guess that is one reason why the front display is made of quite thick glass (it seems) and the back is made of aluminum. You would need to give it quite a beating in order to damage the batteries.
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by snom370 17y ago
A lot of people who understood technology thought that the iPhone would flop. It was too expensive, wasn't a business oriented smartphone, and Apple was a newcomer in the cell phone industry so how could anyone think that they would displac
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by snom370 17y ago
I watched the keynote and can't say that I heard it repeatedly dwelled upon. Where was it mentioned?
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by snom370 17y ago
I would never be able to replace my laptop with an iPad, simply because I'm a software developer. But I'd certainly buy it as a portable mail, web browsing, movie and ebook device, which just happens to fill all of my parents computing need
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by snom370 17y ago
"Caught up with" being the key point here. You don't always get to 70% market share by playing catch-up.
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by snom370 17y ago
Sure, but the point is that in the beginning, they were arguably great at developing software _and_ building a server farm that worked. My main point was that until you hit the "enterprise" server stuff, you have the capacity to be both a g
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by snom370 17y ago
Nope, he had only 10 hours a week to build it, and he made the Rails framework so he would be able to speed up development and meet the deadline.
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by snom370 17y ago
At a certain point you're talking about SANs, FibreChannel routers, HVAC systems, UPS, virtualization, etc etc, and keeping up to date on all of this knowledge is a job in itself. So a guy spending most of his time doing "big IT" sysadmin
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by snom370 17y ago
So you've simply replaced crappy DRM with working DRM?
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by snom370 17y ago
Still, this doesn't account for the case where the CPU and the watchdog signal is working, but the algorithm isn't. Pure software malfunctions, have happened on commercial airliners, where there are quite stringent FAA requirements regardin

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