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11 posts • joined Thursday 28th February 2008 10:30 GMT

John
Jobs Horns

I'll tell you what else I think ....

@ Steve Kelly

... And the shops will be sold out in the first half a day.

Apple ARE taking the piss, absolutely, but what do they care when fanbois will be rocking up anyway.

Suckers!!!

Mmmwaahhh, ha, ha, haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

John

Backhanders

I'll bet you the school (or the headteacher) has been offered a commission by Apple, or a reseller, for any units sold.

John

Kids these days

"while younger players will get to game the way their dads did. "

But will they want to?!

Never mind the colour bleed and bluriness, I've shown my 11yo son the games I used to play using a C64 emulator, and he thinks they are totally lame with awful graphics, and 'No thanks - I don't want to play'.

John

@ AC 21:34

<YAWNS>

There's always one.

John

Can't wait for the useles stats to come out!

Wow, with this you can store 437,500 songs, or 2.5million photos or 104 days worth of video!

Amazing!

I better start snapping ... or downloading.

John
Flame

Copyright?

As an owner of a few half successful website businesses, this doesn't make me happy at all. Does this mean that people can read more than a 2 line snippet and no longer need to visit my website? The current snippet is important as it perhaps gets potential customers hooked enough to visit. From there it's MY job to get people to stay, look around and perhaps buy from me.

Why the fuck should a SEARCH ENGINE, provide more than they need to, and potentially turn my customer away before they've reached the door?

John
IT Angle

Human Rights

This is surely not possible under some human rights law, and surely EU law will squash this. You cannot charge for a toilet when there are no alternatives.

John
Flame

3mp camera is better?

Ummm, since when did more megapixels mean better quality?

John

Funny

I use version 0.2.149.30 and it didn't work for me. I can see the normal URL in the address bar. Not Phished.

John
Thumb Up

They can do whatever they like

It's their homepage, their browser, their company.

They can break the 'rules' whenever they like, why is this story upsetting people?

John

Geography not your strong point?

@ AC above ...

Ummm, that would be the MIDDLE East where the cables were cut.