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Post by 16s »

ramy_d wrote: post #7
aresant wrote: post #2

On the topic of Apple he is spot-on, but the fact is Apple's PR team is untrained because Steve Jobs IS the apple PR team - every semi-crisis / etc he addresses personally. I expect that with critical mass unfolding Steve will come to the rescue, but it illustrates how entirely and completely dependent on Steve Apple is - it's not just product design or inspiration . . .

out of curiosity, does steve hold it differently or does he use a bumper?

Someone holds it for him, but they are of legal age, do not work sweat shop hours (they work in shifts) and they pay taxes.

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Post by balac »

sprout wrote: post #38
dieterrams wrote: post #22

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True. But the people making that analogy are attempting to transfer the life-threatening gravity of faulty cars onto, well, an antenna. The gross unfairness goes both ways.

Apple started the war by making their design decisions out to be things of monumental consequence. When you portray your each and every device as a mind-bending magical artifact that will change your life, I think it's fair to look at the shortcomings through the same lens. That said, I wish we could just stop dissecting each and every Apple product. I'm tired of hearing about it. It's a piece of engineering, it has…

I find it odd when I hear people saying they are sick of hearing about apple, and then proceed to talk about apple even more... its a cycle.

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Post by Berls »

sprout wrote: post #38
dieterrams wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True. But the people making that analogy are attempting to transfer the life-threatening gravity of faulty cars onto, well, an antenna. The gross unfairness goes both ways.

Apple started the war by making their design decisions out to be things of monumental consequence. When you portray your each and every device as a mind-bending magical artifact that will change your life, I think it's fair to look at the shortcomings through the same lens. That said, I wish we could just stop dissecting each and every Apple product. I'm tired of hearing about it. It's a piece of engineering, it has…

Couldn't agree more. I'm tired of the whole Apple form/function mantra. Too often it's just a pretentious way of saying "That's so pretty." I'm not sick of hearing (or not hearing) about Apple. I'm sick of the religion and the fawning and the lack of serious criticism.

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Post by binaryfinery »

cookiecaper wrote: post #54
philiphodgen wrote: post #48

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My totally technically illiterate wife will return her iPhone tomorrow. I canceled my order. We will wait for the next iteration. Interestingly we have owned Toyotas forever but for the next car purchase we will look at other manufacturers as well rather than default to a Toyota. For phones, the same is true. The replacement for my 3GS may or may not come from Apple. Before, it was a given that I would stay with Appl…

Why? Toyotas are great cars. The acceleration thing is complete BS.

And a really good way to syphon US dollars to help pay down the Japanese national debt. Not like we need profits to stay here.

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Post by AlisdairO »

commandar wrote: post #68
AlisdairO wrote: post #58

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There's no good reason why Vista shouldn't have been able to run on 1GB ram laptops. It was so slow on my parents (new with vista) laptop that it made me want to scream using it. They upgraded to 2GB, and it was still pathetically slow until SP2 came out and fixed it. It works pretty decently now. Clearly, there was something wrong with Vista.

Growing pains with a new memory manager. Vista has always been fundamentally solid as long as you had the hardware to match.

More than 2GB of ram, back when vista launched, for a consumer grade OS? Seriously? That should be a launch-blocking flaw.

I'm not suggesting that their underlying architecture was irretrievably broken, I'm saying that it just wasn't ready for consumers when it was released, and it thus deservedly acquired a bad reputation.

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