Posts by thesykes

Two wrongs...

Samsung are suing over patents that everyone agrees are essential and cannot be used to sue competitors.

Apple are suing because somone is using similar packaging and rounded corners.

And how much money is this wasting?

yeah... right...

"No one buys a phone 'cos it's marginally better at recognising voice commands – we're a very long way from when that matters."

Which is why Apple don't promote Siri at all in the adverts for the iPhone 4S... oh... wait...

What?

"the first to use Google's new Play online shop."

Funny... that icon on my phone clearly says Play Shop... and replaced the Android Market a couple of days ago.

utter crap

Has the author ever worked in an office? Does he really expect people who have to use an office productivity suite every day to do on a 10" screen? The one thing most users always want is a bigger screen, not smaller. Add to that small things like no numeric keyboard or function keys on the official Appe bluetooth keyboard, no iPad mouse... Does he expect users to have the iPad raised up to an ergonomically suitable position and still use the touchscreen? Take your choice folks, hunched shoulders with it on your desk or screaming shoulders as you navigate around your spreadhseet at eye level.

Last thing... price.

Cheapest iPad + keyboard + dock = £481.00 (as per Apple online store)

Laptop capable of running Office = £300 from Dell (no reason for Dell, just a quick look for a price)

So, £181 for a smaller screen, poor ergonomics and no support for any other business apps. The author did remember that people use a whole array of applications that will never run on an iPad?

Tablets must have a purpose, but, creating word documents and excel spreadsheets aren't something I would want to do on one. The fact that the vast majority of business-critical software (databases, HR, accounting, sales, CRM) will never work on any type of tablet means that they are just not suited to the type of work us minions have to do... they remain, at present, the preserve of managers who like to pose.

Heard a taster of some of the songs on the TV ad for the album.... truly awful

solutions looking for a problem?

Voice recognition and gestures? On a TV?

Kinect is a clever bit of kit, but, whilst it's great for playing a certain type of game, navigating through menus and options is a complete pain, using a controller to to do the same thing is far easier.

Voice recognition? How many people have used it other than when they get their new phone, just to see if it works? Not many... for a couple of reasons... no matter how good it is, it's not perfect and you look a tit doing it.

Is it really easier to change to BBC1 by telling everyone in the room to be quiet and then clearly saying "TV.. Channel.. BBC1"? I bet I can press 101 on the remote quicker.

Got a sore throat? Broken arm? Stuck on the same channel for the night then!

Finally... put your fancy TV next to one of Samsungs latest OLED screens and tell punters it's worth a grand more because you can talk to it, and the majority will just look at the picture and laugh at you... unless Apple have somehow managed to develop a screen that looks better?

how much did the devs pay you?

This is utter junk. 19mb download for something that doesn't work and does nothing that is shown in the video.

the wonder of statistics

It's all very well saying that, in its entirety, a market has generated $x billion... but.. without a little quantification, that is pointless.

It may be that only a small percentage of apps on iOS are actually making any money at all, and an even smaller number making huge profits.

If so, you could say that, ignoring the top 10% of money-making apps, 90% os iOS apps are making a pittance, if anything at all. Of course the same probably applies to those apps on Android making money.

Finally, taking revenue as an indicator of profitability is just plain wrong. I'm sure that the annual turnover in the motor industry is huge, but, there are several, very large, motor manufacturers who could show you bank balances with lots of red figures on them.

what's the point?

Ignoring the top apps makes this survey pointless. Do it properly, or don't do it at all..

You drop you phone, it breaks! Not to worry, send it off for repair and put your sim into your old phone sat in the drawer, no problem, people will still be able to contact you... oh... wait...

OK, you make it to the end of your contract, you get your PAC code and move over to another network, but (I know, this is very unlikely) not an iPhone. Normally you'd throw your old sim away, sell the phone or, pass it on to a relative, who can just pop in a new sim and they're away. But, it the iPhone now has no sim to replace, how do you transfer a new phone number onto it? How helpful will Apple be to someone who has bought the phone second-hand, from who they have received no money?

This looks like an iPad?

Were Apple's lawyers on drugs when they looked at it and thought "hey, that's a dead ringer for our shiny toy".