Posts by andreas koch

I wonder

how much they had to pay Apple for the licence.

Samsung kitchen appliances

All very fine, and no doubt very useful.

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But:

Have they got iPad docks on the fridges? What? No? Then you can't possibly want that.

Lets face it, Samsung (and everyone else, really) has had it. Every thing nowadays has to have at least Apple compatibility, if its not Apple itself.

The whole technology sector will become an accessory supplier for Apple. You buy an iPad, and then the accessories follow: iPad compatible washing machine complete with app that sets the washing cycle according to a picture of your dirty washing (which you snapped with your iPhone). Apple compatible oven: "Siri, check my weight (on the iPhone compatible bathroom scales) and make up a menu for me tonight and set the oven accordingly."

Docking station on the kettle that downloads how many skinny soy-milk lattes I've had today (gathered from the pay-by-iPhone app) and refuses to boil water for another cuppa if I don't shoot a video of using decaf, because the doctor's iTunes advisory told me to cut the caffeine.

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This paints a bleak* picture, but so did Orwell's "1984", and we have got more cctv around now than even Big Brother could watch.

I've heard people referring to a 3.5mm headphone jack as an "iPod plug". . . phew, come on.

Even though I don't think it will happen, there is a certain dynamic towards it; the more devices go compatible, the more Apple stuff will be bought, and the more pressure will be on other manufacturers to join. I just hope it's not going to be as bad as my dystopian nightmare.

At the moment I feel a bit like my mum and dad must have felt during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. The end of the world as we know it might be near, and it can go either way - - -

*Or, for Apple fans, an wonderfully carefree iLife.

If they're clever,

they won't look for other customers. In 2 years time there will only be the need for production of Apple products anyway. By dropping all the losing companies now and concentrating on the right product, Foxconn could get an edge over competitors that will go down when all other companoes fail.

You remember the 21st century fast food franchise wars?

I'll go and have dinner at Taco Bell* later . . .

*Or Pizza Hut, if you saw the European version of "Demolition Man"

I'm missing an argument in all these 'copy' lawsuits

Has Samsung ever branded their devices intentionally in a misleading way? Like, not put their name on it and have a logo on the phone/tab/package that an unwary customer might mistake for an Apple logo? I seem to remember that the 'German court tab comparison picture' had the 'Samsung' logo removed from the face of the tablet* , but usually you can't miss it.

Well, all the Samsung devices I've seen had Samsung written in bold capitals on front and back. I don't think that a customer could mistakenly pick the wrong one.

So, if this is about misleading design and lost sales, then it's a no-brainer in my opinion: The customer is aware what he or she bought and obviously made his decision.

Does Apple actually believe that a customer enters a shop, asks for an iPhone and gets given a Samsung Galaxy and doesn't notice? Or says something like: 'oh, must be the same thing...' and that's it?

*Which I would have regarded as cheating.

Logging in twice, having to...

Why is it that I have to log in again after posting something on "The Register" to post on "Reg Hardware"?

All posts (regardless of where they were posted) are shown from both parts of the site, wherever I log in and check "My posts"; would point to me that they're held in the same db.

So, in short: Why two separate logins?

Paris, 'cause she, too, wonders...

Why do they bother?

...it'll only get banned anyway.

If you photoshop the grey vertical (if you hold it landscape) lines away, and the Samsung logo on the front and the back, and present it portrait and add a 'square*' button and make it look just like an iPad then it looks just like an ipad to any jury that has been promised a free ipad after the 'right' verdict.

Round 4 (or is it 5, or 6?)

* I'm pretty sure I saw that on a Playstation controller before there were iPhones.

Cheeky Sony again, copying the gloriuos Apple design before it even gets out.

Shame on them.

Of course Android is on the decline!

Is there any Android for an iPhone (pbuh)? No. There.

iPhone! (pbuh) Yes! 5!!! Please, soon!!! Oh, Apple!!!!

Bah, humbug.

Thanks, guys.

I really wondered about it, because i hadn't heard it all that much. But then, I never actually remember hearing it back in Germany, and I only moved to Britain a few years ago. Probably an Anglo-Americanism that escaped me before...

Is 'App Store' really trademarked? Wait, I used to work for Xerox, and they trademarked 'The Document Company'; so same thing there.

Oh well then, 'App' is a term. I'll survive it.

Just.

Apple will have no problems

Projected iPhone5 sales of 8 billion units at a profit of about 125$ each and on top of that another 6 billion new iPad S sales at just under 100$ will make a revenue of more than 1.5 trillion $ in the 4th quarter. This will enable the company to buy into a significant amount of the US and provide the correct legislation for continued expansion, profit and well-being for all.

@ Neil Barnes - What puzzles me

Nope, you're not.

See my post above, you are a member of a dying out species.

Sorry.

@ lemmac

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Hmmm, sounds just like a pc... i'm sure they were quite successful. That was back in the days when software was called software though so i guess its only 'apps' that face the problem you mention?

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No, I think the problem is that some script kiddies that call themselves developers can't be bothered to make flexible software.

And they don't need to, either: I've come to the conclusion that the "walled garden" is what the majority of people really want. They don't want to adjust their screens, their memory, install GPS drivers or such. They want a thing that works.

Even better would be a thing that works by itself:

My proposal is the iLifeTunePodPad.

Here's what you have to do: After you buy it in the Apple store, your banking info will be stored with the AppleBank who easily and without need of your time will transfer all money movements to your new AppleCount. There is no need for new credit cards, as payments will mostly be to AppleFiliate companies anyway and anything else is not really needed. The rent for your ApplePartment will automatically be paid and adjusted as well as your Utts (these used to be utilities, like water, electricity, gas), which are now supplied through the UttStore.

The iLifeTunePodPad will wake you in the morning to go to work at the right time, will send the right messages at the right occasion to the right friends, and mark photos of the child that you will have with your iPartner correctly with the right name: Steve or Stephanie. With its built-in body monitor it will also inform the right people to start the correct recycling procedure at the end of your usefulness.

People would love it! As long as someone tells them to, that is...