User: hepresearch
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Re: How does it make sense that...
The 810 is slightly larger, and thus has a little more space inside. The 810 also has 8 radios, while the 820 must carry 14... yes, it is quite easy these days to cram lots of variable oscillator transistors onto a single main chip, but the radios that must attach to them to make them useful are still large enough to take up a lot more space than the chipset. So, naturally, the 810 has more internal ...
Re: Reactions...
Okay... well, I apologize for my misunderstanding. I am sorry for having portrayed incorrect information. I am feeling, well, rather ridiculous and silly at the moment. I think I need to take a little break for a while.
Re: Did I stutter?
Well, it is a very sharp-sounding one-syllable word... maybe he thought you were about to sneeze? :D
Re: Reactions...
P.S.
Oh... and once they get that accomplished, they can go right back to doing business with Google in terms of maps, search, email, etc...
They don't have to kill Google, and probably don't want to even try, but they certainly could get Google to drop Android if it serves their escape from a massive lawsuit and trouble... 99% of Google's revenue is from internet-based operations anyway, so dropping Android would not be a big deal for them in the big ...
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Yeah, I understand that it is odd to see Apple segregating Google away from them... increasing proprietary operations did get them in trouble in the past. However, I believe that there is only one remaining scenario which explains the behavior while still allowing it to be rational: it is a powerplay by Apple in preparation for a direct strike on Google... not to destroy Google, but to get them to divest Android.
I have explained this theory before ...
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Sorry if I wasn't all that clear... I am not defending the app. I am pointing out that Apple did that which is percieved to be the unusual, in a good way, in that they ARE taking responsibility about it. All I am saying is that, for a whole bunch of people who bash Apple for always doing business in shady ways and not taking responsibility for past mistakes (of which I was once among the complainers ...
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Well, hindsight is 20/20... and some people will never be happy with any decision that someone else makes regardless of whether it is good or not...
I personally think that Apple is doing this now because they are getting ready to take a swipe at Google directly, and that they feel that they are running out of time to get themselves off of dependence upon various Google services, which they must not be dependent upon in order to snap the ...
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MarryTheNight said:
You got a point but neither side is better than the other. iPhone users behave in exactly the same way, sometimes even worse.
Understood... and yes, I know because I have had even worse arguements with iPhone fanboys (who often engaged in personal attacks, cheap insults, and lying in order to get their way with as little provocation as simply seeing that I had posted something pro-Android in the Android forum) in other forums than I ever had ...
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I can already hear the clamouring Google fanboys lining up and champing at the bit to take a crack at Apple over this. If a company whom you dislike is successful, and you continually verbally assault them for their success, and continually call those who buy those products "sheep", then what sense is there in doubling down and hitting them harder over their apology and admission of fault? Would it not be better to acknowledge their honesty, ...
Re: Well, I own both of them....
Confrontation can be a symptom of bias, but it is not the definition of bias. Trust me... I have dealt with bias in many different applications in the past, and bias is not identical to confrontationality. Bias is often the cause of confrontation, though. Bluecoyote was, at the very least, overly zealous in his efforts, but then again I was nearly as zealous in my opposition once. Confrontation is sometimes necessary when one is zealously ...
Re: America the land of your choice.
Thanks for the empathy... it is a process, and I suppose that if someone has the patience to make it through the process without going totally batty then they are in the right frame of mind. I'm no expert on that, though. I am hoping that the help I need to fix this comes through sooner rather than later. It has already been explained to me why this happened, and I can understand that, in difficult ...
Re: America the land of your choice.
It is nice to live in America - a land of wide prosperity and many many choices... but not when your government puts you on the no-fly list, seizes your checking account, blacklists you from legal employment anywhere in the nation, blacklists you from entry into new business-related contracts of any kind, bars you from even just volunteering your time at the local library just because they are publicly funded... all just because I worked a particular job seven ...
Re: Well, I own both of them....
I dunno... the opinion of a developer who has to deal with all of the major ecosystems, and each of their unique nuances, comes across as fairly convincing to me. Besides... let he who is totally objective and unbiased cast the first stone... ?
How "objective" and "unbiased" are you?
Re: Development
I used to think the same thing you do now... I used to argue intensely with Bluecoyote, and did so for a couple of years... but in my case, he turned out to be absolutely right in all the ways that I hoped he wouldn't be, and I paid a price for not listening to him earlier. Besides, he is a cross-platform developer, and I'd like to hear what he has to say about the subject rather than ...
Re: If Android makes a new OS...
If the "industry leader" is defined by which phone has the best specs and features, then your are correct... but the profits from this market tell us a different story about the definition of an "industry leader". If anything, this is proof that specs and feature availability are not the trait that defines "industry leadership" in this market, and that someone HAS figured out that consistency defines that role, even if that requires a technological lag to preserve ...
Re: Development
Thank you for sharing. Very interesting perspective, indeed. I can now totally see what you mean, and you are right. Sorry it took me so long, so many months, to figure that out...
I know that I gave you a hard time back in the day about our disagreements over Symbian, but now I feel bad about it... it took getting burned up one side and down the other, by reality, to wake me up. I ...
Re: If Android makes a new OS...
I never said that Apple doesn't care about money... in fact, if you read between the lines, you will see that I pointed out that they really do care only about money in the end. I cannot possibly forget it when it is in my face all the time.
They have found a genius way to make loads of money on a minimal investment, because it caters specifically and especially well to "convenience-based" and "social" consumers (who are a ...
Re: If Android makes a new OS...
If you are looking for the power and functionality of a laptop to be crammed into a mobile phone, then yes, the iPhone doesn't measure up at all... not even close. However, if you are just looking for a mobile phone that doubles as an internet browser, music and video player, camera and camcorder, a GPS, and a mobile assistant, and does all of these basic essentials really really smoothly and well in a nice package, then the ...
Re: 'Work in Progress'
Hahaha... you are so right! I don't hear from hardly anyone out here who doesn't love the iPhone because... well... I live in this happy little Apple-ville where everyone who didn't have an iPhone before seems to now, in the last two years, have acquired an iPhone. It reminds me of that commercial on TV these days... its as if the neighbors come to the door and say, "Are you ready to purchase your new iPhone today? ...
Re: Review was overboard on the ubiquitous design
I agree with you on most of your comment... I think that the hardware under the hood only matters as much as it is needed to run the OS, and the screen quality only matters up to a certain point (after which, it ceases to add further functionality... and then contributes only to the aesthetic value), but I agree that the OS is pretty darn important. The reason that iPhone folks always insist that iOS is so much ...
Re: 'Work in Progress'
I have no doubts that Apple will improve it very soon. I don't even think "it will take [them] a while". Either way, they probably already have poor poor MapQuest beaten hands-down...
None of my friends or family who got the iOS 6 update, or the new iPhone 5, have reported anything but glowing praises thus far, and the maps situation has not been reflected in any negative comments in our end of the boonies out here in ...
Re: "Everything about the iPhone 5 is leagues ahead of the competition"
The truth hardly matters any more... Apple has already won this battle 'a priori' because perception IS the new "reality", and the victor always gets to re-write history to satisfy their future needs and immediate utility.
At this point, in terms of my past point-of-view (Nokia/Symbian fan for quite a few years), I have already been beaten. Anything non-Apple that is new and modern, which could replace my old Symbian devices (which I sold to pay the bankruptcy attorney ...
Re: Superior Hardware?
Just out of curiosity... why in the world do you have a Galaxy S III and a One X when you have an iPhone 5? Did you not have an iPhone 4S previously? Did you also simultaneously own a Galaxy S II and an Evo 4G, or something like them, back then, too?
I guess I can understand it if you are running a mobile tech consulting business (which I did from 2008 to 2010) or cross-platform developing ...
Re: yea but.....
Alright... and for the sake of full disclosure, I cannot legally enter any contract with a mobile phone carrier... I am legally unable due to my status with a certain federal agency. So, I did not buy a phone... I bought a Nokia N800 - a Debian-Linux-based Maemo tablet from, yes, four or five years ago. Yes, five-year-old technology isn't all that "cool" these days, but my point is that I am free. I have a ...
Re: yea but.....
It doesn't matter what year it is... your free/penny lunch is merely an illusion. As with anything driven by sudsidies, you only think you are getting an epic deal, and only because someone else is footing the credit. It will always end the same way; millions of people learning that you can get something for nothing, and then being surprised and mortified when the illusion finally collapses. The free lunch is unsustainable in the long term ...
Re: But....
My point exactly... you do not see it. When you buy a GS3 for a penny, you do not immediately realize that your possession of the device (after 'buying' it for a penny) is contingent upon a well-masked debt to the carrier on which you have chosen to operate. Yes... a GS3 for a penny sounds like such an amazing steal, but the $350 credit extension is not always the best deal. Contrary to common public ...
Re: 12:01am...
Haha... and now with $350 subsidies on smart devices, it must seem even more lopsided to the average consumer. Now, it costs me $50 to get a decent clamshell phone whereas I can get an Android or WP device, or an iPhone 4, for free on contract. The cost of feature phones is still exactly where it was for the last decade, but the smartphone has been made just as affordable, if not even more so, than ...
Re: No
Hmmm... interesting. MetroPCS and Leap getting the snub from Apple?
Re: 12:01am...
hmmm... so, why not wait a little longer and get an S4 in February instead of settling for an iPhone 5 now? Oh... yeah... import bans pending, no doubt... I almost forgot!
Re: Disappointment
Haha... yes, my helpless ignorance does indeed bleed through uncontrollably to some level... I suppose that is part of how I got to the point where it is not legal for me to be employed in the United States or its territories. As Ron White has wisely observed, "You can't fix stupid..."
Re: pushing iOS 6 to a 3GS?
I hope you are right. That would be nice for people like my brother, who just wants to keep his 3GS running...
Re: How about CDMA AWS (1700)?
If true, then this is the first time I have ever seen a phone support all GSM, all US CDMA, all important (non-AWS) 3G, and most US and overseas LTE bands all at once... I think someone took a hint from the idea of Nokia's big move to support pentaband 3G on the N8 a couple years ago, and then put that idea on steroids! That makes this the first truly cross-interface-compatible global phone that I have ever ...
How about CDMA AWS (1700)?
Related question... just figured I'd ask since the specs say it supports CDMA 2100, which is IMT CDMA in Asia? If the international version loses this from the Verizon/Sprint version, then perhaps it is actually the AWS CDMA (as used by Leap and MetroPCS) that is supported? Just trying to make sure...
Re: pros / cons
Fair enough.
Re: Disappointment
I should have known when it read "The Onion reports..."
It's definitely distasteful, but it's total fiction, thank goodness...
Re: pros / cons
Yeah... and how helpful is that to 90% of the world?
Re: Disappointment
As much as I dislike Apple, I sure hope this is just a joke... trying to confirm...
Re: Disappointment
The real question is... how many people would STILL buy an iPhone if it WASN'T the epic status symbol that it is now?
Re: Big Error?
Looks like a factor of ten error... a.k.a. "the extra zero".
540 hours - 22.5 days sounds much more reasonable to me.
Re: Introduced in 2009
Only if you don't mind instantly doubling the thickness of, and hiding the excessive good-looks of, your iPhone...
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