Posts by Paul E
148 posts • joined Thursday 18th June 2009 07:43 GMT
Re: Pushed into a corner ...
The point of the DOJ case is that all the charged publishers colluded to change the way they charged for ebooks at the same time to a method favoured by Apple which gave Apple a guarantee that the books could not be sold for less elsewhere. If they did do that they yes, in the eyes of the law, they did "do wrong".
Re: Hardly surprising
If they could get away with a sorry I am sure they would bite your hand off. Its the other constraints and possible fines that the DOJ would insist on as part of any agreement that is the part they are obviously not willing to accept.
Hardly surprising
Apple must be seen as the ringleader who got all the publishers together and got them all change their conditions in Apple's favour so any deal with the DOJ would, I suspect, be rather severe so probably worth their day in court in case they can get away with it.
Not selling anything yet..
Its not an ad for as product its the ad for the ad for the produce.
Convergence
Which is better. Carrying a phone and a tablet or carrying just a tablet that has a connected, but otherwise fairly dumb, handset?
I can definitely see the appeal having the one larger main device but having a less obtrusive way of using it as a phone.
Posted in Nokia HERE iOS maps app review
Road naming
Does appear to be that a common problem with HERE is roads often taking names from nearby buildings. e.g.
http://here.net/52.1948737,0.1352692,18,0,0,normal.day
Where the station road in Cambridge is shown going along what is a private access road to some large houses and the real station road is labelled after an office block.
When signing up for wifi at our local library
You have to agree some terms that I suspect include this sort of activity so though not explicitly covered I suspect libraries can easily cancel access for those who abuse their wifi access.
Street name problem
Just looked at the web version of HERE and it names the street opposite after the flats it is next to not the actual road name it should use. Same happens on the station road where the according to HERE station road detours around a road that is the name of building on station road.
Re: It wont lure me away...
You still keep your local copy so what's the problem. As you can download as well as upload from music manager you consider it as a free insurance policy against losing your local copy.
I was going to trademark 'Amnesia'
But forgot all about it.
yep..
Up as being £199 http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/chrome/devices/landing-acer.html#utm_campaign=en_GB&utm_medium=ha&utm_source=en_GB-ha-emea-gb-bkws&utm_medium=oa
Re: 50 quid cashback at Comet
The £50 cash back is from Acer themselves direct and not through the retailer. The main risk on cashback is forgetting the window in which you can claim it.
50 quid cashback
on this at ebuyer at the moment.
El Reg gets a name check...
http://ipkitten.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/beloff-baked-apple-roasted-britons.html
"By now the fire was catching hold and the smell of melting plastic was plainly detectable, but the point of no return may well have been when Mr Carr produced an article from the highly respected online forum The Register (motto: "Biting the hand that feeds IT") commenting on the statement published by Apple,the headline of which read (or perhaps screamed) “APPLE: SCREW YOU, BRITS, everyone else says Samsung copied us….. But we will apologise because the judge said we had to”. While that in itself was not accurate (Apple was not required by the Court of Appeal to apologise) this probably simply confirmed the conclusions which the judges had already reached regarding the overall impression created by the statement. So a well-timed can of petrol, thrown on to the bonfire by Mr Carr, ensured that the nicely warming bonfire turned into a total conflagration."
Re: Countries are all hypocrites
"was the court battle not there first."
No the UK case was first. When it did not look like it was going apples way they decided to file in germany even though the courts there should not have accepted it.
but
The german case they quoted covered exactly the same patents so they can't play the copy card there and not with the UK judgement.
Re: "It's not at all accurate"
"my iPod could differentiate between me being on one side of a road or the other.
Particularly in the Bloomsbury-Kings Cross-Euston area of London"
Which side of the road is the beret shop on there?
Sorry ITC not FTC
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20121007194355579
"He ruled that injunctions are definitely available at the ITC for standards-essential patents, and that there is zero evidence of any wrong behavior by Samsung. Furthermore, the judge told Apple, which had claimed that the amount Samsung asked for licensing was too high to be a FRAND offer, that Apple can't unilaterally decide what is or is not a fair price. If it had objections, it could negotiate, which Apple failed to do, or there is a mediation process at ETSI it could have used, which it also apparently failed to do. Instead, the ruling says, the court battles are about negotiating a lower price."
This is the same apple who where told off by the FTC judge in his interim report because rather than negotiate with samsung or go to arbitration they went straight to court to complain it was too expensive?
Re: Cheap Chinese Knock-offs
Indeed. A year or so ago all the cheap tablets were very slow but as ever moore's law has come to their rescue and now the difference in performance between these as 'branded' tablets is between 'good' and 'better' instead of 'bad' and 'good'.
Re: Double dip
Given the speed they replaced the ipad it will probably only be a few months before they come out with a retina replacement.
Actually I wonder if the problem with adding a retina display is scaling? I believe on the ipad the resolution is roughly twice that of the original ipad in each direction so scaling is simple. However with the ipad mini you would probably only be able to get a 1.5 times increase in resolution in each direction so how do you scale? I would expect in that case for text to look wonky at least.
I do feel that
by sticking to their 4:3 aspect ratio they have removed one of the main reasons why people are going for the other 7" tablets. At what I assume in an inch or so wider it drastically reduces the ability to put it on a pocket and carry it with you. If its not portable you might as well go for the ipad 2 which has the same internals.
Re: Larger Display?
And the 4.74 inch width they end up with means a less pocketable device than the 3.43 of the others thus removing one of the main reasons why people are buying 7 inch tablets.
1 in 10
I work on the 1 in 10 assumption. For every 10 items hoarded one will be needed at some point but that as you can't tell which one you have to keep all 10. Thus though I know the majority of the items hoarded will not be used I accept this as without them I would not have the few items I need when I need them.
You can almost hear the cogs grinding...
trying to figure out how to turn the notices into apple adverts.
Posted in MYSTERIOUS GREEN GLOW seen on iPhone 5s
You don't want light to leak out
otherwise there will soon be none left.
My Prediction for the iphone 6
is that it will be made wider to allow room for a extra column of widgets.
The iphone 7 will then get taller to allow another row of widgets like the iphone 5.
repeat.
Re: Lack of 'Real World Testing'?
"Basically to get the attenuation you would have to grip the phone like some crazed ape - in the REAL world all phones will get affected like that."
Can you clarify how the typical grip of a phone differs between an normal ape and a crazed ape?
Re: Lack of 'Real World Testing'?
"1: The "Antennagate" bollocks was bullshit of the highest order: EVERY bloody phone suffers signal attenuation to some degree if you cup it in your hands"
But SPECIFICALLY the way the antenna are on the outside of the iphone meant that holding it such that you fingers bridged the gap caused a drastic reduction in reception, hence the free bumpers to get round the issue. Yes all phones attenuate when you cup your hands around it but this was an instance where the design of the phone created a failure method that was found out immediately after the phone was released but which Apple were apparently unaware of from their testing. To me that gives the impression that they did not get enough people to test it before it was released.
Lack of 'Real World Testing'?
To me this has got very much the same ring to it as why the original holding it wrong reception problem did not come to light until after the phones release.
The main reason being, I suspect, insufficient 'real world' testing.
You can put your phone on a stand in a special chamber and be happy with the reception and you can take nice pictures on test patterns till the cows come home. But its only in the hands of real people just using the device that this sort of things come to light.
Is this down to Apples near paranoia about stopping leaks that they are not able to do as much real world testing with their phones before the release that possibly other manufacturers?
except
tests have been done to show its a lot worse on the iphone 5 than the 4S
http://www.itproportal.com/2012/10/01/purple-flare-test-iphone-5-vs-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-vs-htc-one-s/
To be accompanied
with apple adverts saying how clever they are to have picked the size of the device one assumes.
Re: Hopefully
My point was not that his judgement would stop oracle appealing as they almost had to to try and save face but that he built the decision in such a way that it would be very hard to turn over on appeal. hence all the bits about explaining clearly the theory behind and API knowing that it would be put in front of appeal judges who had less computer knowledge than he has.
Hopefully
the extra mile that Judge Alsup went to to try and make his verdict appeal proof will pay off.
Re: Tipping point for Apple?
i know a number of people who have work iphones and own their own S3. They only use their iphones for business calls now and use their S3's the rest of the time. One used to use the iphone to check his mileage but can't even do that any more. If apple may win the battle in the enterprise but it does not mean they will win the war.
Even in the enterprise I think it faces a greater threat from windows 8 than you think. For more business use I don't see a lack of apps is an issue for windows 8 mobile. How well a phone.Integrates with a companies windows infrastructure is possibly considered more important that being able to install angry birds or 101 farting apps.
Re: Comparison
But the punters will not get the majority of those phones for three weeks or so I don't thin the difference at the end of 2 months will be as great as is implied by your statement. That is not taking into account all the other android phones that are being sold compared to the limited range of iphones.
Re: soft demand?
How it clear they could only make 5 million?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57506722-94/android-activations-hit-1.3m-per-day-says-googles-schmidt/
Re: Only 5 million iphones?
5 million sounds like a lot till you realise that android activations are currently running at 1.3 million a day. So what we are saying is that in this peak period of iphone sales they have sold the equivalent of 4 days of android devices.
Re: Alternative title
I would more use the word 'Herd' or even more appropriately "Shoal" than bunch as I think it more closely resembles the way they behave. No analyst wants to go out on a limb and suggest anything other than the accepted norm. If they predict the same as everyone else and are wrong they can point to the fact they were not the only ones that got it wrong.
Re: Uhh...
As others have pointed out multiple times:
A) the web maps does not have as many features and the app
and
B) any like to a map from a webpage or another app with bring up the apple maps and you have to resort to copy and pasting to get the same location up in the google maps webpage.
Re: soft demand?
"Everything I have read/heard says they were sold out everywhere, how do people conclude there is soft demand?!"
I assume they are referring to both those sold on the day and those preordered. The hardened apple follower will get theirs on the day so I assume this refers to a decrease in the preorders compared to expectations.
Re: It's no really an issue is it?
Well I guess it depends how large the batch is?
Can we stop with the "Crushing Defeat" line on the US case
given that it has not been ratified by the judge and is by no means certain. See:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120923233451725
With this interesting titbit about the foreman primarily responsible for persuading the rest of the jurors.
"And what we see is the foreman being asked if he is chosen for a jury whether he will set aside all he knew of patent law from his own experience and just follow the court's instructions and judge based solely on evidence admitted at trial. He answers yes. That, of course, is exactly what he did not do, judging from interviews he and another juror gave to the media."
But...
Tomtom maps do not have all problems that apple are having, e.g. tomtom satnav do know where stratford upon avon is. What it looks like to me is either problems importing the data or, more likely they are just using tomtom data for the roads and are getting the data on places from somewhere else.
Obviousness?
I do feel they could possibly get to a situation where initially a patent is not thoroughly tested for 'obviousness' and that this is stated as such in the patent. Anyone who disagree''s with the obviousness of a patent should be able to say to the patent office "I believe this patent is obvious and should not have been granted" and in that situation the patent office should investigate thoroughly. That way they would only have to do in depth investigation of disputed patents rather than a limited depth on all patents.
But
those look like proper technical patents not just ones saying how a window should bounce and the like so are probably too complicated for the ITC to figure out if they have a case or not.
Re: Every time
But EVERY TIME they release and iphone it happens and you would have thought they would have learnt by now how many they need to produce.
Re: Every time
Should have bought from Samsung...
