* Posts by Toothpick

264 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jun 2010

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Samsung ships two smartphones for every one Apple sells

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The headline...

... is misleading. Samsung SHIPS and Apple SELLS. Two totally different things.

Judge GIVES APPLE THE FINGER in multitouch iDevice patent case

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Meh

Anna Leach writes Apple story headline PARTLY WRITTEN IN CAPITALS shocker. More at 11.....

New Mac mini: Business in the front, party at the back

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Re: Lack of connectors on the back plate.

And where are the connections to my cassette recorder. Do I need an adapter?

Apple's skinny new iMac line: Farewell, optical drives

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Stop

@ Big Willy

Steady on. Who took the jam out of your doughnut?

BT and Virgin sue over £10m state-funded Birmingham broadband

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Re: Clearly Illegal

Why does the public sector feel the need to keep bailing out the private sector?

It's politics. A government would rather throw money at a failing project than see it fail. For example railway franchises. A franchise in trouble half way through its term? Chuck money at them. Keep the shareholders sweet. Failing bank? Can't let that happen. Chuck money at them and keep the shareholders sweet.

Notice I've said "A Government". Because across all political hues, they are all as bad as each other.

Android apps get SSL wrong, expose personal data

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Re: Woah...

Why would a walled garden not give me power and functionality?

You appear to be saying that only Android can handle a smartphone.

Astroboffins map GIANT MASS of dark matter

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WTF?

Big Bang Batter ?

sounds like a pr0n flick

Retailer leaks iPad Mini price list starting at £200

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Re: Off the scent?

Popular does not mean better. Windows is popular but a lot of people on here would consider Linux or OSX better.

"what does an ipad do that no other device does?"

I can plug my IPad into a docking station and use it in music production. It has Animoog and Korg software synths on it that are available via MIDI.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I am unaware of any other tablet that has this flexibility.

Google readying on-device malware scanner for Android

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Re: iPhone has no malware

I would have thought the majority of software developers would develop for the platform that would give them the best possible return for their efforts.

Android may be the dominant platform, but if developing for it doesn't pay the bills, then why bother?

Maybe they are not so clueless after all.

Ballmer aims chair at Apple after Windows package miss

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Mushroom

Re: Linux et al

"What kind of twat signs his posts"

What kind of twat signs in as an AC to post that kind of fuckwit comment.

T

That horrendous iPhone empurplement - you're holding it wrong

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"I believe even Nasa has to take special counter measurements to take pictures of the sun!"

No special countermeasures - they just shoot at night

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Paris Hilton

Will Adobe....

Or a third party be offering a Photoshop plug-in to replicate the effect?

Paris - as she likes plug-ins

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Re: Lack of 'Real World Testing'?

Oh, and you're talking bollocks about antennagate too. Do other phones lose their cellco connection completely if you hold them normally while making calls?

No, they don't.

O yes they do. My HTC desire did it regularly. That's why I got rid.

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 review

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Stop

Stylus = fail

Looks like an Obviously! post posted as an AC

Pair face £250k fines for spamming mobes with millions of texts

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Megaphone

Pity

They can't do anything about those crappy PPI and "have you had an accident in the last three years?" adverts on tv.

Tim Cook: 'So sorry for Apple's crap maps app - try Bing or Nokia'

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Meh

Re: Is Tim Cook sorry enough to...

some of that can go to the 'Chinese slaves" who produce phones for other manufacturers.

iPhone 5 'jailbroken' ... before most fanbois even have it

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Mushroom

The usual upvotes and downvotes

Every article on here connected with mobile phones degenerates into a slanging match between iPhone users and S3 users. As far as I'm concerned both will have their strengths and weaknesses and boils down to personal choice.

Are you happy with your choice of phone?

Yes - well fuck off and stop bashing other people for their own individual choice

No - well fuck off and buy a new one.

Ttfn

Samsung slams Apple patent jury, wants new trial in US

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Re: What happens if....

It was an honest question - thank you.

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What happens if....

There is a retrial and the jury still find against Samsung. Is there a higher court Samsung can go to?

Apple weekend iPhone 5 sales miss forecasts

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Re: No they are idiots

She makes me queue as well :)

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Re: that all

I think I have deciphered your post.....

You are comparing the sales of the Samsung Galaxy S3 against the Apple iPhone5? But over what period of time?

The iPhone 5 has sold 5 million in 3 days. The S3 has sold 20 million in 100 days. Here's a link:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/iphone-5-sells-5-million-in-first-three-days-more-than-33x-samsung-galaxy-s3-sales

If the iPhone continues to sell at this rate, it will overtake the S3's sales about a week on Wednesday. I don't think it will sell at this rate, but I am sure it will overtake the S3 well before 100 days.

haha lol

Apple demands $707m more from Samsung

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Mushroom

"But I don't see why somebody who admittedly didn't read the article, but instead jumped straight to the comments section to spam it with his personal thoughts & no meaningful insight would get any thumbs up from El Reg readers?"

Because s/he slagged off Apple. As I've said before you will get upvoted for slagging off Apple, slagging off Microsoft, or even better, slagging them off in a single post. It doesn't matter if the comments are unsubstantiated . Add in heaps of praise for Android and just watch those upvotes come flooding in.

Apple's brilliant plan to fix iOS Maps: Get YOU to do it

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Re: Jobs

If Jobs were still alive, this map app would not have made it into iOS6. His philosophy was either "this is great" or "this is shit" with no grey area in between. I think he would have said the latter.

Fanboys order 2m iPhone 5s in 24 hours

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Joke

Re: Jobsian Cult

"Now, I am pretty much guaranteed a protest by mentioning that Android is more like the "Muhammad Phone", and I am pretty sure that any Reg hacks who use that term would be stoned within hours".

Considering some of the garbage stories that have been on here, I think some of the hacks are already stoned.

Windows Phone 8 stands a chance as Apple, Android dither

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Re: Contact cards

No it's not just you.

Talk about anything except Android and Linux in a favourable way, you will get downvoted.

Google offers tool to bridge Android and iOS app dev

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Re: I was thinking of writing a tool

Don't forget to patent it

iPhone 5: skinny li'l fella with better display, camera, software

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Mushroom

FUGLY iOS

Please tell us then what, in your opinion, is an OS that looks like a 2012 OS?

Come on. Let all the El Reg readers and commentators know.

I know, and probably everyone on here knows, you will not reply. Why? Because you are expert at slagging stuff off (always Apple), without substantiating your "argument".

So come on. Why do you think iOS is ugly? Why do you think iOS is a joke, and what OS should we all be using?

The iPHONE 5 UNDERMINES western DEMOCRACY: 5 reasons why

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Re: If Apple stopped making phones

"What would Obviously! do all day?"

Day 1 - take down all the Steve Jobs & Tim Cook posters from his bedroom wall.

Day 2 - search for another manufacturer to attack when a story is released on here.

Day 3 - look for up and coming stories about said manufacturer.

Day 4 - get the 'comments' ready using the usual recipe of verbal diarrhoea and bad spelling.

Day 5 - getting excited now. Can't sleep because tomorrow the story will hit.

Day 6 - GO GO GO.

Day 7 - Rest. Got to get an early night as it's school tomorrow.

UK.gov blacklists Fujitsu from future contracts - report

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Re: Based on poor performance in the past

Then why do they still keep giving Capita contracts?

Probably because there aren't that many outfits that can handle the size and/or scope of Government contacts. Whoever gets the contract may be the best of a bad bunch.

Foxconn: We're not FORCING interns to make iPhone 5

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Headmaster

Re: "W O W the dimwitted are still banging about about OH SO LAST FCKING DECADE IdoitPhone?"

Can't spell Bandwagons either.

May I suggest a spell checker ?

Why is the iPhone so successful? 'Cause people love 'em

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Re: Oh, for heaven's sake....

True if you compare an iPhone with a £10 PAYG with £10 call time included.

Not true if you compare an iPhone with a premium model from another manufacturer.

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Trollface

Re: Many people wear their ignorance as a badge of honor

And you posting as an AC is certainly ignorant. Daren't you post your trolling under your real handle?

Overpriced toys? Top end smartphones are expensive. Taking Samsung and Apple as examples: the S3 16GB and Iphone 4S 16GB both sim-free from Amazon, there is a fiver difference in price at about £480.

Yuppies? These were around in the 80's. There is another poster on here who has a fixation with the 80's. You aren't him are you ?

The world's first Windows Phone 8 hands on – what's it like?

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FAIL

Have you even picked up a Galaxy SIII? They're not made of plastic.

Yes they are - Polycarbonate. A "nicer' plastic, but plastic just the same

Apple hoards LTE patents to deflect Samsung attack

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Re: stuff apple

I'm sure you posted practically the same in another thread.

Can anyone translate because trying to read this is really hard going

Now Apple wants Samsung S III, Galaxy Notes off the shelves too

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Paris Hilton

Apparently.....

Samsung are suing Apple over 4G.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/news/a403489/samsung-planning-to-sue-apple-over-4g.html

I wonder if this latest Apple salvo will be used as a bargaining chip against Samsung? Samsung keeps its current lineup of phones, Apple gets whatever is necessary for 4G and both cases are quietly dropped.

Paris: because she gets whatever is necessary

Pirate Bay founder arrested in Cambodia

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WTF?

What's he been arrested for?

Having a shag whilst not wearing a condom?

Amazon flings open doors to Android Appstore in Europe

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Joke

Re: Combining Stores

"but which store would you put the combined search app in?"

iTunes or the Apple App store

Apple and Google in talks to end patent war?

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Meh

Re: Did no one yet mention...

Or....

Some lawyer looked at the Apple patents and told Larry Page.....

From this article we don't know who contacted who.

Why the Apple-Samsung verdict is good for you, your kids and tech

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Meh

@AC 15:23 - The Jury....

The author writes "The jury must interpret the law from first principles".

The jury's job was to interpret the evidence not the law. It is in the UK, I assume it's the same in the USA?

Apple's patent insanity infects Silicon Valley

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Re: Invention != Innovation

Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are readily available to markets, governments, and society. Innovation differs from invention in that innovation refers to the use of a better and, as a result, novel idea or method, whereas invention refers more directly to the creation of the idea or method itself. Innovation differs from improvement in that innovation refers to the notion of doing something different (Lat. innovare: "to change") rather than doing the same thing better

From Wikipedia

Apple, Samsung blast away in patent case closing arguments

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Re: too easily shocked @Toothpick

My bad - I thought there was.

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Re: too easily shocked

But didn't the iPhone come with one thing that none of the others didn't have - an app store?

All of a sudden here was a smartphone, like Fitz says, above was easy to use (an iPod with a phone in it), and regular Joe Public wanted to use. And they could add their own music and apps to it - easily.

Google loads Moto Mobility cannon, fires patent shells at Apple

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Re: If Apple get a ban on anything that looks like something else...

Can "usage" in a Science Fiction film / series be counted as prior art?

I'm not a lawyer, but the "fiction' bit in science fiction would indicate not.

Anyone clarify?

HP to take one more stab at consumer tablets

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Meh

Re: Try to find a niche, why not a "workstation tablet"?

I can't see HP (or any other manufacturer) cranking out a Linux tablet. Its specific target audience is too narrow and I'm not sure what you mean by "professional".

Android / iOS succeed because apps are readily available from a (mostly) central source. Not sure about a Linux store?

Samsung's Wang was up 22 hours a day, had no time to copy Apple

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FAIL

Re: Dodgy argument...

iProducts

iCrap

iRubbish

iRetina

iRipOff

iJunk

iCrapware

iWankers

How long did it take you to come up with these hilarious iNames?

"I built my first portable MP3 player wih a tiny laptop hard drive back in 1993 - this certainly predates the iPod - sorry Apple...."

Why didn't you patent it then ?

Yet another troll with a massive chip on their shoulder.

Apple granted patent for in-cell touchscreen display tech

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R&D

Surely, any company (Apple included) who has poured a lot of time, money and manpower into their R&D should be allowed to patent that development and benefit from it.

Vodafone and pals can't kick the habit of cheap mobe prices

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Buying your phone up front

For once I completely agree with Obviously!

US judge gives RIM its $147m back in patent spat

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WTF?

Re: Better yet...

This is not just about rectangles with round corners, although it's this facet of the case that is always quoted on here, and indeed on other forums because it gets the most amount of people frothing at the mouth.

My understanding is:

1 Samsung had a touchscreen phone

2 It was rectangular with rounded corners

3 It had square icons that may be described as 'dull'

4 Apple release iPhone

5 Samsung release new phone that is rectangular with rounded corners

6 Samsung change its square icons to colourful (less dull?) rounded square cornered ones like the iPhone

7 Changes certain icon designs to look similar to iPhone ones.

8 Samsung packages this phone in a similar way to Apple (phone is presented at top of box rather than buried in the box)

9 Samsung packaging changed to look similar to Apple.

Like I said, this is MY understanding of why Apple and Samsung are in court. I'm sure this is a simplistic account and others will correct me if I'm wrong.

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