Posts by Paul M 1

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Hang on Jim, I thought the whole point of astroturfing is that you are supposed to look like a normal punter...

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Sean Baggaley...

You are one of the most prolific of Apple apologists on the Reg comments board but you do at least normally make a coherent, if somewhat puzzling case for Apple's behaviour. So please answer my original question...

The statement quoted *is* true. If you want to sell a subscription that works with an iOS app, you must use the App Store and you cannot make it cheaper anywhere else. That does not mean you are *only* allowed to use the App Store since if that were the case the second part of that sentence would be redundant , wouldn't it? Just to be absolutely clear, let's rephrase it as "you must enable the App Store subscription function" instead so there's absolutely no "confusion".

Please tell me how such an arrangement can be to the benefit of anyone other than Apple.

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"There are much better ways to achieve the goal of creating applications that keep their state remotely instead of scraping a solution that combines all this rubbish..."

Such as?

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"an awesome phone OS that's smoother than Android " by using modern hardware to power an OS with the same capabilities as the iPhone Version 1.0. I'd be very worried if it wasn't smooth.

"more open than iOS" - come again? I mean, it's actually very hard *not* to be more open than iOS but it looks to me like Microsoft are trying very hard.

And a quick note to the Reg - if both the MS and Apple fans think you're out to get them, you must be doing something right :-)

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Yes yes yes yes yes ... [ad nauseum]

Why do they all think that a 16:9 ratio is suitable for anything other than a TV?!?

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Maybe set up the Dalvik iPhone app so that it can share a directory in iTunes and copy the apps directly in?

I'd love to see it...

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"Microsoft remains a $62bn company that's been reporting record levels of growth."

But that's in spite of Balmer, not because of him.

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"Did you get the sarcasm?"

Sorry - you cant mix ranting with sarcasm.

But seriously, do you think saying the same thing in every post is productive?

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I am surprised that people seem to accept these Windows Phone 7 performance claims so readily.

I have not used one and am happy to accept that it is fluid and smooth etc. as you say. But if I'm not mistaken, it is running an OS with the capabilities of the original iPhone (i.e. no app data sharing or multi-tasking) on hardware similar to an iPhone 4. Under these circumstances I would be shocked if it didn't fly.

I'll reserve judgement on whether MS have learned from their mistakes until they release a fully functional Phone OS.

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Symbian etc - yes that's true. I probably should have stressed I was talking about use in smart phones where the user has wider choice of software to install and run - iPhone excluded of course ;-)

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Scorchio,

I always wonder about people when I see them replying to a number of posts in a thread repeating essentially the same thing.

However, you seem to be saying two things - there is no conspiracy theory and if there is it's exactly what you would expect a state to do.

Well firstly regarding conspiracies, would a normal suspect for sexual assault (as I don't believe those charges correspond to the British definition of rape) be kept in solitary confinement and have limited access to their legal team and others?

Secondly, whilst it may be what we expect of states, nevertheless they must be held to higher standards. Even in war there are laws that must be followed. Just because the enemy engages in illegal conduct does not justify us doing the same.

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Personally I prefer to call it D-flat.

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Yes, of course it's just a web browser.

And the web is just a bunch of HTML, right?

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I suspect the OP meant to say

"Ubuntu has probably drawn more NORMAL people to open source than any other open source project."

which I think is more likely.

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Yeah, and you could even format a floppy disk at the same time without your whole computer locking up :-)

As this is a Windows article and people are getting nostalgic about OS/2, let me just say that my initiation into the GUI web was Mosaic running on OS/2.. Them were the days [sniff]

Re. And the Golden Non Sequitur Award goes to...

Ok, let's try a syllogism instead then...

Premise 1 - Using a proxy for Internet banking is a bad thing

Premise 2 - Opera uses a proxy

Conclusion - Therefore using Opera TO SURF THE INTERNET is a bad thing

Nah, you were right in the first place. Let's stick with non sequiturs

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Is there some alternative London Underground that you all go to while I have to use this crappy one every week day?

London Bridge Jubilee Line at 8:00 in the morning. 80% of people are reading Blackberry/iPhone/etc screens, books, Metroes or real newspapers.

Please remind me again why this is a uniquely bad idea?

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That's a bit elitist, isn't it? With the alternative entertainments around vying for attention I'd say any reading is a step in the right direction. Yes, even [chokes back the taste of sick] Dan Brown

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are you seriously suggesting that Jobs has banned Flash from iDevices to save us all from adverts?!?

Not only but also

In fact, Microsoft originally only created a JVM for Windows NT. IBM actually created one for the Win 98 line as well as for Win NT.

I may be wrong but I think they still do them for Win and Linux as well as AIX, iSeries and zSeries machines.

So really, Stevie J is very very wrong.

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That's fair enough but what is the vertical resolution of your PC screen? More than 600 pixels I reckon.

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You know zef, this would have been a perfect opportunity for you to say nothing and let people think you a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

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I read this a lot. While the iPhone was definitely released before it was done, at least it offered something new that people wanted. These Windows phones are offering iPhone 1 featured in an iPhone 4/Android world.

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And it's already happening with Amazon and others getting ready to unveil their Android stores. But Steve J thinks this is a bad thing for some reason.

Look, let's use the man's own definitions. If he thinks Windows is open then for exactly the same reasons so is Android:

- they run any application you want to load onto them

- you are not restricted as to where you get software

- they run on whatever hardware the manufacturer has provided etc etc

All of which (except for the hardware bit) is also true of OS X so I see a bit of a contradiction here. And even within Apple's own hardware range there is enough variation in size and capability to mirror the fragmentation (or shall we call it "variety"?) of Android hardware.

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You might want to Google "non sequitur".

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All OSes have their particular strengths (and weaknesses). For things like VMS I would suggest that a particular problem can be the availability of software packages for that platform. Certainly the commercial software systems that I work with are very back-level on their VMS support. The vendors just don't put the effort in for the "minority" systems.

Truth is with Linux (and Solaris etc) you are generally going to be able to get the software you need.

It's an old joke I know

...and the oldies are the best. But I think you'll find that since they, along with the rest of Fleet Street went with digital typesetting that their spelling is no worse than the others'.

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Although I don't disagree with the key points of this, bear in mind that all of the examples you've given where JS doesn't cut it are graphically intensive and other than certain genres of games, most common apps are not that demanding.

I doubt anyone is planning on replacing their video editing software with a web-based application any time soon (although I believe they *do* exist) but that doesn't mean it isn't good enough to make serious inroads into the most commonly used software.