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* Posts by Beelzebub's Granny

6 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Nov 2011

Windows 8: Sugar coating on Microsoft's hard-to-swallow tablet

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WTF?

Use of screen space

I don't understand why Microsoft keep doing this. Look at the last image in the review, of the Xbox live games screen. The sign in text has "achievemen..." rather than "achievements". There's enough space there to put the full sentence.

And on the same screen, off to the right is 20+pixels used up by showing you what's on a different 'page' or screen. WHY? They do this on the Windows Phone as well. Why buy a phone with that screen size if you only use 90% of it, and leave 10% for something else that you aren't looking at?

Sorry, pet peeve with Microsoft at the moment.

Oh, Windows 8 Metro - dire.

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Apple TV stock shortage sparks new gadget rumour fever

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Gimp

No sane company would do that

Apple are in the business of making money (pots of it), and to stop selling one of their products just to drum-up marketing hype would seem to go against that ethos.

Mind you, this is Apple. They're not above that sort of thing.

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Angry iPhone users bring antitrust class action against Apple

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Facepalm

I call BS

Why should Apple provide free use of their servers, free bandwidth, free hosting, free marketing, free update mechanisms etc. to people who choose not to pay the annual development fee? The 30% developers give to Apple covers those costs. Apple aren't a charity, and I don't see why "Waaaaaah! I want to download some apps from somewhere else, which is entirely possible, but I want to do it while using iTunes, but not iTunes, if you get me, and I don't want to use Apple", has any legal basis.

I can't get an Android app onto my phone using my toaster. Should I complain to Tefal?

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iPhone 4S is for failures who work in coffee shops - Samsung

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Yes

And what of it? Samsung have released an advert that takes the piss out of iPhone buyers. Why can't an iPhone buyer take the piss out of Samsung?

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Mushroom

Pish

If the only thing Samsung have got in their marketing arsenal is to parody Apple, they're short of a few ideas.

Apple should release a parody of Samsung's advert showing no one queuing up to buy the Samsung S2, or whatever it is.

Yes, the shiny new S2 has 4G. Where can I use that?

It has a bigger screen? Brilliant! What's the resolution? Would it be classed as a 'retina' display, or will I still be able to see all the pixels in those God-awful battery/signal icons at the top of the Android UI? Ah, 800x480. Crap.

What else does it have? A promise that the latest and greatest versions of Android will run on it and be released the moment Google releases it? Thought not.

Do I need to upgrade my phone every few months to make use of a new bit of technology? Do I need to get a Samsung now because it does 4G, then get an HTC in six months' time when that one has 4G and NFC? How about a year from now, should I get a Google phone because it has 4G, NFC, a diamond pattern on the back, and makes a decent cup of tea?

In conclusion, piffle.

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Groupon stock dives below IPO value as Black Friday nears

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Meh

It's also shite

Far from being tech stock, it's a bag of shite.

The offers are crappy, and there have been many a story told of how small businesses have lost money on orders through Groupon. Groupon's response? *whistle*

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