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0gre replied to the Apple board. 3 hours ago

Re: A Ramble

It's deferred payment.

When you buy a fridge from Sears, you can pay it off twice as fast and save money, or even refinance it with another company.

The nature of the obligation is massively different. Look at the exit [more]

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0gre replied to the Apple board. 11:55 PM

Re: Android Approaching Monopoly Status...

With the agency model the publisher sets the price, not the retailer. That's been ruled illegal in many, perhaps most industries.

In which industries is the agency model illegal?

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0gre replied to the Apple board. 11:36 PM

Re: What a flatter iOS7 could look like

I haven't seen "folds" on a virtual map, so I can't comment.
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The map folds was an hypothetical example, but there is a pointless virtual crease in the OSX contacts app and fake pages on the contacts app [more]

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0gre replied to the Apple board. 8:44 PM

Re: What a flatter iOS7 could look like

(It is a wordy article)

Gemmell doesn't argue against skeumorphic design (and nor does Ive in the quotes), he argues against pointless design artifacts.

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Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can’t [more]

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0gre posted to the Apple board. 8:21 PM

Android Next

As I previously mentioned, this year's big Google IO event was all about services. The "Next" version of Android is the current version... the major upgrades in Android are major overhauls of core Google services and improved applications [more]

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0gre replied to the Apple board. 5:18 PM

Re: 50,000,000,000 apps

So who was the lucky winner, I'm sure it must have been someone here...

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0gre replied to the Apple board. 3:14 PM

Re: Google IO Coverage

More on improvements to Maps:
-- http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/google-maps-adds-bett...
-- [more]

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0gre replied to the Apple board. 3:00 PM

Re: Google IO Coverage

Have to see what they look when you actually use them, but it seems Google has done an amazing job kicking their best services up about 3 notches. Nobody is going to touch Google Maps or Search products in terms of functionality for a long time. [more]

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0gre posted to the Apple board. 2:38 PM

Google IO Coverage

All Things D covers Google IO
http://allthingsd.com/20130515/live-at-google-io/?mod=ATD_fe...

Big bits so far, presented more in order of how [more]

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0gre replied to the Apple board. 1:44 PM

Re: Random Notes... Last First Edition

I'm curious how you came up with that. If you do the Family Plan with unlimited data, it's $150/month for 3 phones on T-Mobile. It looks like it would be $210 if you get 3 single-line plans, but is there a reason you would do [more]

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0gre replied to the Apple board. 1:36 PM

Re: Android Approaching Monopoly Status...

But do you really think this is a big issue for Android users?

The Apple Insider article is obviously biased and quotes F Secure who sells security software for Android.

This is what Android Authority says: [more]

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0gre replied to the Apple board. 1:12 PM

Re: Android Approaching Monopoly Status...

What you didn't highlight that I think is a bigger deal is from the F-Secure page.

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According to F-Secure Labs' latest Mobile Threat Report, Q1 saw the first Android threat distribution outside of apps via email [more]

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0gre replied to the Apple board. 1:02 PM

Re: Android Approaching Monopoly Status...

Open wins, every time.

This isn't a matter of open versus closed. Open software itself is not any more or less secure than closed software. Linux on servers, BSD on servers, both do amazingly well security wise.

The problem [more]

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0gre replied to the Apple board. 3:30 AM

Re: What a flatter iOS7 could look like

Steve's icon curved corners and 3D
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I find it unlikely the curved corners will go. The iPhone has exactly one shape etched into it's face and that is a rounded cornered icon symbol on the home button.

People [more]

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0gre replied to the Apple board. 2:41 AM

Re: Random Notes... Last First Edition

It could easily be people who were on AT&T or Verizon as well and jumping ship to T-Mobile for the (potential future) cost savings.

For me, T-Mobile doesn't make sense, it's $170-190/ month for me to have 3 phones on Verizon (depending [more]

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0gre replied to the Apple board. 9:34 PM

Re: In other happy news

To you anything that doesn't say "Apple is soooo cool" in the headline is a "hit piece."
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In my very simple view of things, I reserve the term hit piece for stories where the journalist clearly ignores normal [more]

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0gre posted to the Microsoft Corp. board. 4:04 PM

Need a New Ad Agency

Is is just me, or is Microsoft's advertising just terrible?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q...

[more]

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0gre replied to the Apple board. 2:01 PM

Re: About Samsung's "5G"

Oops forgot the link http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/14/samsung_5g/

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0gre posted to the Apple board. 2:01 PM

About Samsung's "5G"

From a site that does a little more than breathlessly parrot Samsung's PR piece.

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The South Korean giant managed to achieve that data transfer rate through two kilometres of air in the 28GHz radio band, thanks to [more]

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0gre replied to the Apple board. 1:29 PM

Re: In other happy news

No, "take on" is the euphemism for "compete with".
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The two game centers aren't competing with each other any more than the HDR on a Galaxy S3 is competing with the feature on the iPhone. No one [more]