"Don't Be Evil"
How long did that last, then?
Hint: Check date of IPO...
301 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Feb 2007
Jeez, what a bunch of whiners and confused commenters.
What needs to happen is for the LICENSE fee to be required of Apple, and set by arbitration. Just like grownups do.
So much of what Apple and Samsung BOTH do are just skirmishes for market share and profits, and have nothing to do with actual technology.
Yes, it was about 20" x 30" x 14" high, and it held .....
... 48K bytes in 1969, hooked up to the Choate School's new PDP-8 with FOUR teletypes, and a high speed paper tape reader (300 chars per second) and punch (50 chars per second). The main CPU had 12K bytes of CORE memory.
To start it up, you had to use the front panel keys to toggle in a boot loader to read the startup from the tape drive, which then booted from the Disk...
Wow
I have had a number of cheap chargers and cables. Several of them blew up when plugged in, or within a few days. I always plug them in first, BEFORE I hook up my Nexus or iPhone etc to them.
At least Amazon give your money back cheerfully
You should always keep in mind that many people want a handset they can operate easily with one hand. The iPhone 5 is at the limit of that, really.
When out shopping, carrying things, holding a child's hand, etc, you want to be able to work the phone with one hand.
I rarely see this mentioned.
Super large batteries only really are found in two-handed phones. If you have battery life figures for one-hand phones, please show them.
I love Apple products and design, but they are CROOKS, along with most other large corporations and super-rich asshats.
As long as the rich can steal from the American people, especially with tax breaks invested in our competitors oveseas, things will get worse and worse.
Stop the rot now.
Not counting OS, etc, how much personal storage do you really need? How many songs and videos do you really keep?
Personally, with Netflix etc online now, there is ever-declining need to actually save movies. Not to mention I can listen to songs again and again, but watching the same movies over and over is a drag. Perhaps 1 TB is more than enough?
I have an Apple Fusion drive (128 GB SSD plus 1TB disk) and it's about half full, mostly movies. The 128 GB SSD is mostly operating system, applications and work files - I don't bother to keep movies etc there.
1) there are 25-50 versions out there, terrible for App makers (me). I make one iOS version and it always runs on all iPads and iPhones.
2) The number of detected mobile malware attacks continues to skyrocket. McAfee counts over 36,000 mobile malware threats—almost entirely targeting the Android OS [in 4th quarter 2012]. - PC World
3) Google Chrome has just been updated, and is still crap at HTML5 and does not offer a full-screen mode.
I hope Google gets it act together and stops allowing so many, many different incompatible versions of Android. They only hurt the brand.
Windows is such a total pain, people are just finally feeling like they own Windows 7, somewhat. Moving to Windows 8 is like asking people who haven't slept in 40 hours to wake up and get out of bed and into another bed which is only slightly better.
Feck Off, they will say.
The primary problem is funding. The USPTO does only a tiny fraction of searching for prior art when reviewing software patents. And god forbid they trust the applicants.
Several Apple patents are clearly shown to be prior art in videos from the 1970s Architecture Machine Group under Nicholas Negroponte, yet the USPTO appears to have ignored these. For example: page flipping as part of my Master's Thesis; The Spatial Data Management System (SDMS) 1978
Many other examples of current software patents can be seen to have appeared in the 1970s at MIT and other universities and research groups.
The USPTO gets pressed over and over by rich companies to award patents, and they "let the courts decide" with the results we see today.
The system is broken.