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901.
by tvon 17y ago
He said he tried to call Apple's main line, which kind of sounds like the worst possible way to go about it, in fact it sounds like an intentionally ineffective way to do something so you can say you tried to do it. It sounds like a lame e
902.
by tvon 17y ago
I see your perspective, but the guy is an iPhone engineer, I don't think having lost a prototype at a bar in a very public way can possibly add anything to his resume or make him stand out more in a positive way. I could see someone maybe
903.
by tvon 17y ago
Wrecked, no, but the dude was unnecessarily abused and humiliated for, as far as I can tell, shits and giggles and ad exposures.
904.
by tvon 17y ago
I think it's more that you need to get a lot of publicity to get justice in this country. edit: scratch that, publicity only works because it has the potential to bring more powerful groups to your aid.
905.
by tvon 17y ago
Seems kind of... excessive. Granted, I guess if you want to see someone's email correspondence, this is the only way to do it.
906.
by tvon 17y ago
Providers with regional monopolies are always the worst companies. They have something you want and you can't get it from anywhere else, so they behave as you'd expect them to behave. To maybe over generalize a bit...
907.
by tvon 17y ago
I believe he's referring to Woz being shown the device being "no big deal", not firing the guy. Of course, this leads to the question of why the guy was still fired... though it's quite possible/likely the firing didn't cross Jobs' desk.
908.
by tvon 17y ago
I don't follow Android phones that closely, but the HTC Incredible[1] and HTC Evo[2] both look very nice, I'm not sure of the details but it looks like the Incredible is Verizon and the Evo is Sprint...? [1] http://www.engadget.com/2010/04
909.
by tvon 17y ago
Yeah I may have flown off the handle a bit on that one...
910.
by tvon 17y ago
Who, Adobe? edit: call me when Adobe makes Flash an open spec that they do not control. The outrage over Flash is really starting to make me laugh. Adobe reaps what Adobe sows and they know it.
911.
by tvon 17y ago
Nothing new here if you've read any of the other posts covering the story.
912.
by tvon 17y ago
Good name for a Boxee box.
913.
by tvon 17y ago
Not to sound insensitive, but who cares about JWZ's code signing problems?
914.
by tvon 17y ago
I don't follow, Apple doesn't control H.264, HTML5 or even WebKit. Or do you mean, pushing those items over adopting Flash? Even so, that's not Apple controlling the web platform, that's just Apple making sure Adobe doesn't control it.
915.
by tvon 17y ago
Apple wants to control their platform. Microsoft wanted to control all platforms. There is a difference. Or to put it another way, when I have to buy an iPhone to collaborate with people around me who have iPhones, then you'll have
916.
by tvon 17y ago
Hmm, I may have replied to the wrong comment, or misread it. I only meant to say that the device wasn't stolen from Apple campus, not that it couldn't have been stolen at the bar.
917.
by tvon 17y ago
IIRC it was confirmed that the engineer was at a bar because he had updated Facebook (via the phone) mentioning the delicious German beer he was drinking (hence the German airline offering him tickets to Germany).
918.
by tvon 17y ago
My first naming scheme revolved around monkeys, I had spacemonkey, funkymonkey and.. I forget the third. That one didn't scale well. For a short while I used characters from children's books (mom is a librarian who loves children's books),
919.
by tvon 17y ago
I think it's more accurate to say they are pulling off products nobody has been able to pull off before.
920.
by tvon 17y ago
People are scared to touch their computers, that's why they don't upgrade anything.
921.
by tvon 17y ago
I guess a Dell engineer was drinking at a bar when a bunch of product renderings fell out of his pocket.
922.
by tvon 17y ago
Why? You can specialize in one thing and still be critical. Gruber is clearly a fan of Apple (and other companies), but it's not as if he doesn't criticize them when he feels it is appropriate, e.g. he has been very critical of the App Sto
923.
by tvon 17y ago
Gruber isn't an "any other company" pundit, he's an Apple pundit.
924.
by tvon 17y ago
Confirming information as true in a situation like this is pretty insignificant once the information has been widely reported as fact. Besides, getting someone fired by reporting "tagged" information that they willfully gave to you is not e
925.
by tvon 17y ago
doh, thanks
926.
by tvon 17y ago
I'm not really concerned with enforceable legality so much as what Apple's current stance is as a means of predicting any response if this project grew.
927.
by tvon 17y ago
and why does Django look massive here: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby%2C+java%2C+python%2C+... but not here: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby%2C+django&l= ?
928.
by tvon 17y ago
It might make more sense to skip AMD and just get NVIDIA. It would put them in an interesting position with Intel and Tegra seems like some hot tech these days (at least based on the headlines I skim it does).
929.
by tvon 17y ago
I'm curious if there is any sort of EULA or click through licensing that prohibits this, or if there was any low level DRM that needed to be hacked around. Apple has a history of trying to thwart efforts to run their software on other hardw
930.
by tvon 17y ago
They'd be better off just making a better phone through HTC.

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