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Posts by Giles Jones
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Murdoch machinations mean Microsoft must rename SkyDrive
Egad! Could Samsung be cheating in Galaxy benchmark tests?
Confidential Microsoft brief: 'We're TOAST if we fight Google on price'
They're toast anyway simply because they can't create their own ideas any more.
Windows Phone strategy is just "Do what Apple do", so their platform is too restrictive and locked down.
Tablet computer strategy is "Try to do what Apple have done, but retain some Windows compatibility for enterprise".
Windows strategy is "Make Windows relevant as a tablet OS, screw the desktop users".
XBox strategy is "Shoot first, then see what Sony does, then copy Sony".
Clueless, unoriginal and more u-turns than David Cameron.
Quantum: You know how EVERYONE's moved to the cloud? Yep... us too.
First look: iOS 7 for iPad
Re: I like clean and minimalistic but..
True, that's why many OSes defaulted to a nice blue background. Although there is evidence that blue makes your brain think it is daytime and so sleeping is affected.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-07-08/news/ct-met-night-light-sleep-20120708_1_blue-light-bright-light-steven-lockley
Inside Intel's Haswell: What do 1.4 BEELLION transistors get you?
62,000 fewer shops: Welcome to the High Street of 2018
Smartwatch face off: Pebble, MetaWatch and new hi-tech timepieces
LG beats Samsung to OLED flexi-TV with hella pricey 55-incher
Hardware hacker unifies 15 retro consoles in format frenzy
iPads in education: Not actually evil, but pretty close
Apple buys indoor mapper WiFiSLAM
BlackBerry Z10: Prices pruned despite eager iPunter interest
Re: No pent up demand from current BB owners?
New platform and does it have lots of apps? now I know that a phone could realistically get away with just having a browser these days, but people like apps due to notifications and other integration with the device.
So no matter what the technical merits of a platform are, it needs support from software makers.
Samsung: Never mind Steve Jobs, let's snap off a piece of stylus biz
Re: But seriously
I think he meant "if your tablet can't be used with fingers then you're doing it wrong". So having a UI designed such that you can't touch things unless you use a pointy stick is bad design.
Obviously supporting a pen or stylus as a drawing device is useful, but it should be an optional extra just like using a Wacom tablet for drawing is optional.
Apple blocks Java on the Mac over security concerns
Car dashboards get Nokia HERE without a phone in sight
'We are not concerned about your patents at all' - Jobs
Microsoft has never really been a visionary company in terms of technology. They are or were the visionaries of how to do business though. Of course being in the right place at the right time was lucky for them, it's not hard to sustain a business when you had a monopoly on the business desktop.
Microsoft proposed the tablet computer in 2001 which was a good idea, they just didn't have the right idea about technology and how to bring that vision to the masses.
If you look at the history of the Microsoft tablet you'll see that everyone in the company who opposed the idea just didn't understand it or didn't like it. Probably more obsessed with how much money it would make rather than how good it could be. That's proof of a huge lack of future gazing.
Samsung set for compensation talks over staff death claims
Re: Unlike Apple subcontractor Foxconn ...
Stop trying to distract people from the problems at Samsung.
Google are evil and so it seems are Samsung. This is how they can keep making big profits and not give a stuff about the little people.
Apple on the other hand have a good record at auditing suppliers and publish the information:
http://www.apple.com/uk/supplierresponsibility/auditing.html
Dotcom's Mega smacks back: Our crypto's not crap
Ballmer now flings out work rivals, rather than chairs, claims ex-Microsoftie
‘Anonymous’ hacks Oz Uni’s email to protest bulk iPad buy
Re: Pretty good deal for Apple
Have you not seen the interactive textbooks for the iPad then?
There's not really any equivalent for any other tablet.
Cheapest way to get textbooks too apparently:
http://www.cultofmac.com/185222/why-your-ipad-is-almost-always-the-cheapest-way-to-get-your-textbooks-back-to-school/
UK falls behind in global graphene patent race
Inside the new climate row as Mystic Met Office goes cool on warming
Re: Not the Met Office's fault.
How else do you explain the extreme weather we've been having?
Floods almost every single year and in places not built on flood planes.The weather in the whole world is getting more unpredictable and crazy. Landslides, floods, droughts and so on.
You can choose to ignore it, but perhaps you will come around to climate change when it affects you directly.
Reuters rubbishes report rubbishing cheap iPhone rumor
New York's Chelsea gets free Wi-Fi courtesy of Google
Sir James Dyson slams gov's 'obsession' with Silicon Roundabout
Ubisoft probes sudden rash of hijack attacks on gamers' accounts
Hey, Apple and Google: Stop trying to wolf the whole mobile pie
Micron struggling to get its flash surfboard up on the crest
Kickstarted mobe charger 'kicked to death by Apple'
Cheaper, slimmer Google Nexus 7 rumored for Q1 2013
ICANN'T believe it's not Apple: Vatican wins domain-handout lottery
UK gov probes Comet crash: Public, private sectors LOST £257m
The 30-year-old prank that became the first computer virus
Windows Phone 8 must be Microsoft's priority one, two AND three
Re: Developers Developer Developers????
Deprecating gives you the chance to move, these platforms still work they just won't get extended.
You're always fighting against the language barrier on any platform, every smartphone platform is now using a totally different language.
Perhaps if people hadn't moaned about the original iPhone being limited to Apple apps only then this while app ecosystem wouldn't have appeared in such a dramatic form and the mobile web would have developed?
Hearts, minds and balls: Microsoft's Windows 8 Surface gamble
Re: Running Windows software
They didn't have a touch optimised UI. Windows 8 adds the touch UI that will fully work well with Windows store apps.
Obviously legacy apps are different matter, I guess in future computers will be split into two categories. General use and creative workstations, the simple touch screen interfaces won't cut it for Photoshop, video editing, CAD and sound engineering purposes.
iPod daddy: Ousted iOS chief Scott Forstall 'got what he deserved'
Prisoner found with phone + charger in anal cavity
Bash Street bytes: Do UK schools really need the Raspberry Pi?
Kids learn science but aren't necessarily going to be scientists, they learn maths but most likely aren't going to be mathematicians or statisticians. They learn history but aren't going to be historians or archaeologists. They learn RE but aren't necessarily going to be priests or bishops and so on.
So what's wrong with them doing some coding when they probably won't all become programmers?