Posts by RichyS

Bit pricey frankly

It sounds like the speaker quality is very good -- but that being so, you really need two of them to get stereo. Having such a good mono system seems a bit pointless. As such, we're really talking £520 for a single room set up.

For that money, there must be better alternatives. I'm thinking of something like an Apple Airport Express and a pair of active speakers. Something like this: http://www.superfi.co.uk/index.cfm/page/moreinfo.cfm/Product_ID/2543

Hook up with Apple's excellent Remote app for iTunes (other apps and media management applications are available), and you've got something at least as capable, probably sounding as good, and half the price.

Blind Droidtards

But there's no getting away from the fact that the Galaxy Tab looks almost exactly the same as an iPad. That's all the judge is saying.

There are plenty of other ways of styling a tablet -- HTC, Asus and Acer seem to have managed it (Lenovo and a few others less so), why can't Samsung?

If you Droidtards can't see the uncanny resemblance, then you're the idiotic ones, not the judge.

Dear Andy Rubin

So, this is the definition of open.

Are we going to get a new tweet?

Spotlight

Never found a problem with Spotlight in OS X.

Very fast when coming up with a response, and in day to day operation it doesn't slow your computer down by constantly indexing (I'm looking at you Windows Search for XP) due to low level kernal hooks.

I have a Win7 laptop too -- though waaay better than XP's woeful standard search, it's still not nearly as fast (or easy to organise) as Spotlight.

Just redesign you tablet. Not that big of a deal

Do Samsung not have any stylists? Other manufacturers can make tablets that don't look almost exactly like an iPad (notably Sony, HTC, and Asus). So why can't Samsung?

VGA not that 'ultra'

Are VGA ports really part of the Intel spec? Really?

I can't remember the last time I saw a projector without an HDMI port. At least HDMI is intelligent and we don't end up with the bizarrely squashed presentations that you often see from widescreen lappies plugged into 4:3 projectors.

Nice screen, but

No one bought the Dell Streak. What makes Samsung think people will buy this?

Do people now suddenly want something a little bit bigger than a smartphone, but a little bit smaller than a tablet? I doubt it.

This has fail written all over it in glorious high resolution.

Not that similar

This isn't that similar to a MacBook -- there are plenty of laptops out there that look more like one. Not in the way that a Galaxy Tab apes the iPad, anyway.

And more importantly, which idiot at Samsung decided to not copy Apple's keyboard layout? Who thought having an off-centre keyboard and trackpad was a good idea? Take him out and shoot him, frankly.

How exactly

The reason why Amazon can sell the Kindle so cheap is (wait for it) because it's cheap. If HP can't get the bill of materials for the OuchPad much below that of an iPad, then how exactly are Amazon? I bet HP buys a tonne more components than Amazon ever do.

But wait, they can subsidise it with content! Again, how? What content does Amazon have access to that Apple don't? It's essentially the same music, books and films from the same media companies as Apple. So, I don't suppose the wholesale price is going to be much different. And we know that Apple doesn't really make much profit on the content -- it's used more as a reason to support their hardware business. So, how is Amazon going to reverse this model, while still keeping the content competitive withApple? Answer, they can't.

The only thing I can see the, doing is some sort of subscription pricing. But then, surely the network operators would be more successful selling tablets today, if this is how people wanted to subsidise a tablet...

Has this Forrester researcher actually done any sums?

Sounds like a good thing.

Sounds like a good thing to me.

The problem with universal IDs, is that once somebody has managed to attached personal data to it (e.g. registering with your name and address for a service via your iPhone), someone somewhere now has good information to attach to your UDID.

Your UDID now has some real value, and I can see the someone somewhere flogging this information to other developers/advertisers/dubious characters. UDID being trackable across all apps means a pretty good picture of usage can be built up. Forcing devs to roll their own means there will be many different methods of tracking usage, and this data is of substantially less use and value.

Charitable

That is a very charitable confusion.

If Google had nothing to hide (and nothing to fear, etc.), then why not simply set the new support resource free on the public fora? That way you get the best of both worlds.

Unless El Goog have something to hide, of course.

Why?

The only good thing about the OuchPad was WebOS. Why ruin that with Android?

Stop this nonsense forthwith

Personally, I couldn't give a shit whether the system procured was open source or not. All I hope is that the system provided the best fit in terms of capability for lowest cost (best value, in other words).

OSS is not intrinsically better or cheaper than proprietary. This article seems to advocate positive discrimination towards OSS; which IMHO would be a very Bad Thing.

Really?

They are both shown at the same height, but not the same proportions. The Tab is clearly narrower than the iPad, as one would expect with the silly 16:9 (or is it 16:10 -- whatever) aspect ration of the Tab.

Have a look at the rest of the photos in the submission, and I don't think you can argue that Apple's lawyers are purposefully misrepresenting the Tab's shape and size.

Ah, well, I'll file this under 'more Apple click-bait'. I guess it worked...