A recent poll of 700 teens said that only 11% will buy a watch. Poll didn't say if these were already iPhone owners. Considering that this is a huge market for Apple, it doesn't look too good. I don't know of any Apple owner who wants one.
Posts by Gis Bun
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Apple Watch shipments: Pick a number, double it. Hey, it worked for them
Dead Steve Jobs' wage-fixing pact in Silicon Valley was news to us, claim Apple directors
Microsoft's Project Spartan browser is HERE (unless you build apps or run VMs, that is)
Microsoft dumps ARM for Atom with cut-price Surface 3 fondleslab
Snowden dump details Canadian spies running false flag ops online
You have to take anything Snowden the Traitor says with a grain of salt. Let him rot in Ruskieland.
Canada isn't a sub-set of the US but maybe sometimes guinea pigs. after all McDonald's pizza [remember that?] was first tested in Canada before entering the US [the pizza logo used was created by a Canadian].
Make up your mind: Microsoft puts a bullet in Internet Explorer after all
Ransomware holds schools hostage: 'Now give us Bitcoin worth $129k, er, $124k, wait ...'
Bitcoin is popular with the randsomware scums. But if the exchange continues to decline, they will ask for more.
Many randsomware gives you 72 or maybe 96 hours to pay up or the data is never recovered.
As well, I would not trust any system that was infected with malware [let alone randsonware] even if it got a clean bill of health. Once you are infected, that's it.
Remember when SP3 for Win XP came out? Many couldn't upgrade and they were cursing Microsoft for it. But people found out that a piece of malware was still lingering in their system even though malware scanners said the system was clean.
Taylor Swift snaps up EVEN MORE pr0n domain names
Apple boots Windows 7 out of Boot Camp
Saving money
Just another way for Apple to save money. Toss out support for Windows 7 - the most popular OS - and they are left to support Windows 8.1 [since I'm sure they won't actually support Windows 10 until the retail release (not the RTM date)].
Really dumb for Apple since some Apple buyers will hold off on buying a new model because they do need Boot Camp with Windows 7, unless they want to use a third party product.
Redmond's Patch Tuesday to kill off the Windows FREAK show
Stuxnet Redux: Microsoft patches Windows vuln left open for FIVE YEARS
Sysadmins: Step away from the Big Mac. No more Heartbleed-style 2am patch dashes
Use to work at a small place. For workstations, I'd let WSUS do the work. Servers [about 8] were done manually with a batch file after downloading the updates manually. All the servers had the same OS. I would generally do the workstations late in the Patch Tuesday week [if light] or the Monday after but only after consulting with various forums and sites to see if any issues are cropping up.
Servers were done later in the month.
Revealed: Facebook Boss Zuckerberg's One Weird Trick When Hiring
Samsung-Microsoft deal will bundle Office 365 with Android Knox
Re: The note 4 is king of bloatware.
Meanwhile, Google invades your privacy, Microsoft [so far] hasn't. Remember when Google admitted [or maybe not in those words] that they were electronically reading your email to send keywords to their ad/spam services so they can show you on the same page as the Email about drug dealing an ad from a local drug dealer?
Or remember when you created a Gmail/Google account, it automatically created a Google+ account without telling you?
'Hi, I'm from Microsoft and I am GOING TO KILL YOU'
Obama criticises China's mandatory backdoor tech import rules
Apple: We could expose our WHOPPING 12 INCH iPad - but it's not real
NXP snaps up Freescale to form new chipzilla
Windows XP's market share grows AGAIN!
Sick of Chrome vs Firefox? Check out these 3 NEW browsers
If I'm not mistaken, the 3 big browsers in the 90s [at least part of it] were IE, Firefox and Netscape.
Even with "Spartan" Microsoft said that IE will be kept alive [more for corporate sites]. A chance of a backport to Windows 7 is possible - I guess depends on how well it does and how much Windows 7 users are left.
Google looks to scrape away scumware, as only it can
Ha!
They can start by cleaning up their own ads in Google's search engine. If you search for "Hotmail support" you will find three scammer ads. They can't help you and yet one charges between $100 and $200 per incident. And what will they do? Who knows. I know a novice who almost got hit when she tried them.
Ugly, incomplete, buggy: Windows 10 faces a sprint to the finish
Spartan on Windows 7? Microsoft is 'watching demand'
Turn your head and cough (up your details), HealthCare.Gov has sprung a leak!
Snowden leaks latest: NSA, FBI g-men spied on Muslim-American chiefs
Free Windows 10 could mean the END for Microsoft and the PC biz
Free. Sort of....
A reminder that it is free for the life of a device. How many computers do you know last 10 years? Those with Windows XP or Vista [maybe 30% of the market share] will at one point upgrade their systems which require a new system. Windows 8.x only managed around 15% in it's 2 years of existence. A lot more Win XP users running older systems.
[Plus you will have dumb manufacturers such as Acer which won't support Win 10 on older hardware, so those may also buy a new system.]
And remember that this is just for an expected year.
Microsoft is telling about 65% of the market share that you can upgrade for free. That is huge. When Vista finally dies in 2 years there will be a decent rush to get away from it and grab a Windows 10 new system.
LEAKED: Samsung's iPhone 6 killer... the Samsung Galaxy S6
Killer? Maybe not but....
The majority of the specs [if true] meet or exceed what the iPhone 6+ has.
If you look at recent Apple adds on the iPhone, they seem to be promoting the "health" features - something that was in the S5 already - and a bigger phone - something that the S4 and S5 had already. Yes they promoted a thinner phone but after you add a case/cover to protect it [from bending!] it isn't as thin as it was.
The iPhone 6 series also have been hit with numerous OS bugs and issues such as upgrades, warmth, Wi-Fi issues, etc. [Let's not forget the U2 album issue!]
Apple WINS iPod antitrust fight, jury nixes BILLION-dollar payout bid
Screwball ruble closes Apple's Russia store, whole kit and caboodle
LA schools math quiz: $500 Chromebooks or $700 iPads for students?
Can't stop Home Depot-style card pwning, but suppliers will feel PCI regulation pain
PCI DSS is a joke [maybe was]. Look at all the breaches and these companies were PCI approved.
I worked at a place. Though not involved, I would see credit card information lying around. It was ridiculous. I could of walked home and sold the information on the Internet. Problem was that version 2 said under a certain number of sales, PCI DSS wasn't a requirement.
There was so many holes in our security and the IT manager couldn't care less.
APPLE set to Air PLUS-SIZED iPAD – claims mag
Kim Dotcom Dotcan remain on bail, despite Fed protests
IDC: iPad sales crash incoming ... Win 8 killing 2-in-1 typoslabs
nonsense!
In April 2013, IDC said that tablet sales would be at 410 million by 2017.
In August 2013, Forrester research announce [or predicted] that tablets will become a mainstay of households in developed markets by 2017, with 60% of online consumers in North America and 42% in European owning one by 2017. Or by percentage, roughly a 25.6% increase compounded annually to maybe 381 million by 2017.
So who do you believe? These so-called research companies don't know their butt from their elbow. Not saying they are wrong this time but look what they said just over a year ago: huge sales in tablets!
These same companies predicted sales in netbooks at 130 million in 2013. Manufacturers stopped manufacturing them in January 2013.
Frisky patent WAR: Samsung seeks to BLOCK Nvidia graphics chips from US market
Ah. The law suit "wars" between Samsung and Apple seem to have died down a bit. So now Samsung is going after NVidia [not "Nvidia"].
Some really dislike patents. I don't. If you spent hundreds of millions on something, don't you deserve to go after someone who steals your technology for nothing? If you say no, try being in the R&D peoples' shoes. All that hard work stolen from you.
That said, you have some like Apple who try to block the sale of items that aren't even related to the lawsuit but are throwing a Hail Mary and maybe the judge would agree.
Azure TITSUP caused by INFINITE LOOP
Download alert: Nearly ALL top 100 Android, iOS paid apps hacked
Fake antivirus scams: It's a $120m business – and alleged ringleaders have just been frozen
Microsoft warns of super-sized Patch Tuesday next week
Re: With Microsoft you don't get situations like the BASH mess...
The same number of times the Chrome browser has been updated. As a matter of fact Chrome get updated in some case more than once a month.
Wasn't it the Chrome browser that set a browser [and probably an app record] for the most vulnerabilities fixed [something like 156] as well as non-security fixes [about 130] in a single update. You call that secure?
Not to be outdone, every time I open Firefox, there seems to be an update.