Posts by Shagbag

LOL

fruity fanbois troll.

It's Political Grandstanding, that's all

The fact is: successive Governments from either side of the House have failed to stop Tax Avoidance. It's been going on since the Middle Ages and it will continue to go on. The fact that this Government and the previous Labour Government have totally failed to stop it say it all. MPs are wasting their time 'grandstanding' in PACs and should be in the House passing legislation.

Full props to Troy Alstead (CFO of Starbucks) who told the MPs to, effectively, 'fuck off, it's none of your business' when asked about Starbucks' Dutch operations. He knows: 'there's nothing you can do because what we've done is perfectly legal - that's why it's called Tax Avoidance and not Tax Evasion. Try and stop us - you can't. Decades of successive Governments have all tried and failed. Yours is no different.'

the user is trying to do something moronic

PEBKAC.

US-Centric. The rest of the world can ignore this article.

Those insane Yanks have done it agin.

Convicts

Of course, the minister concerned still has his job. That's the way it works "Down Under". They promote mediocrity and incompetence and then let it stay there.

Lost the Plot

Going from a device with no moving parts to one with moving parts?

Going from a device with no noisy fan to one with a noisy fan?

WTF? This is sooooooooooooo retro, I'm staggered to believe it.

This is further proof that Apple have lost their way since Steve Jobs died.

Tim Cock is not doing a good job and should be fired.

Misleading Title

The title lead me to believe this was a story about Apple.

Apple hoisted on their own petard

serves 'em right, the Patent Jihadis.

But will Tim Cock and the rest of the Apple board get 72 virgins when they go? 72 virgin donkeys perhaps?

Android is winning. People allover the world have spoken with their £££s... and they want Android!

While the Jihadi Apple Corp. continues to lose respect from all good people, Android is gaining in stature. And market share.

Meanwhile, Microsoft clutches its Win8 bog-brush and continues to work hard cleaning public lavatories.

Android WIN!

Agreed

AND perhaps the media should stop idolising the guy and reporting anything and everything he says.

"practically sold out"

"Practically". I love that. It reminds me of Larry Ellison's quote "We're number one in applications, behind SAP". ie. they're not #1, they're #2.

The same goes for this quote. "We practically sold out of iPad Minis." ie. They didn't sell out of iPad Minis. That's all that can be inferred from the quote.

Congratulations!

Full congratulations to the author. He/she has been very generous to Apple and in no way apologises for their product.

Never has an Apple product (ie. the iPad Mini) been so unkindly received by the media and the tech community.

This review is the personification of King Canute.

Re: Anyone else notice...

Yes, because that's what they were told to say and that's what the Court case was about.

One of the tragedies is Apple's implicit (and the Media's actual) attribution of the soundbite "It is a cool design" to the iPad.

If you read Judge Birss's judgement - he wasn't talking AT ALL about the iPad, he was talking entirely about the Registered Design, in particular, the diagrams in Appendix A of the judgement.

The perversion is, If you look at those diagrams, even the iPad, iPad2 and iPad3 don't conform 100% to the Registered Design. Apple was (counter) suing over the Registered Design which, in law, has nothing to do with their iPad models. Sadly, that didn't stop the media (incl. El Reg) from swallowing the soundbite.

Judges are not stupid. To be a judge you do, actually, have to be very intelligent and understand the law. I believe Judge Briss QC selected his words very carefully to justify a 'policy decision'. He new the media would lap them up and this would deflect attention away from the decision he was making on the grounds of policy: to grant in favour of Apple would be to grant a patent on a rectangle with rounded corners and thereby set a dangerous precedent that would hinder competition.

Re: 50 quid cashback at Comet

Comet are offering £50 cash back after you purchase one of these.

Not really. I just thought I'd throw it in to highlight the riskiness of 'cash-back' schemes.

Opinions are like...

If ever there was an example of the cliche, the media's love affair with Linus Torvalds exemplifies it. Here we have yet another quote which is merely the personal view of one man.

Yes, opinions are like assholes. Yes, everyone has got an asshole.

Why not quote these facts instead?

There's two sides to every story.

We've heard Tim Cock's. Now let's hear Forstall's.

just where is all Vodas profits going?

to its shareholders.

Re: 400 quid?

Me too. Buy the Nexus 4 and blow the money saved on Chaz and Dave LPs.

I had a Lumia 800

I tried WinPho 7 and I kinda liked it - until I tried to use it as a temporary storage device. It was shit. Then they announced WinPho8 won't be compatible with WinPho7 handsets. I felt violated.

If someone wants to give me a WinPho8 I'll gladly test it out. But there's no way I'm going to stump up my own £££s to buy one. Once bitten...

Not a patch on my wife in the morning

Her guts would give that a run for its money.

Samsung more successful than Apple? Apple throwing it's toys out of the pram in the UK Court

OMG. Just what is going on in Cupertino?

I bet Steve Jobs is spinning in his grave over where his company is being taken.

Re: Say what you want about Dyson

...mine hasn't.

While the 'cyclone' tech stuff still works, it's the other non-design stuff (hose, wheels, etc.) that continues to split, fall-off, break, etc.

I've been through two Dyson vacuum cleaners and I'm still not convinced of the £££ premium they cost. Bosch currently make better value gear.

the BBC had a story on it on their homepage...

...after Microsoft gave the BBC Journo's Surface Tablets. To keep.

This is industry standard. Remember the 'Celebrity' 'Changing Rooms' of the 2000s? The one where the 'Celebrity' got a free new kitchen/bathroom/whatever they wanted just so long as they lent their 'celebrity' to the camera crew?

It's the same at the BBC. People are people. You scratch their back, they'll scratch yours. BBC journo's are no different (apart from a shared predisposition to voting Labour).

Apple dumping on their fans. Again.

£100 more expensive than its nearest rival and no GPS.

It won't stop the 'fruity' fanbois from buying it though. Idiots.

Ouch!

AsApple wanted the war and I dare say they're going to lose it. LMAO. Britain, Germany, Netherlands.... and then there's the US Appeal Case.

Samsung can't lose. They have a fast turnaround-to-market model. As reported elsewhere, they've already re-coded TouchWiz so it no longer infringes on the Patents Apple claims it did. And what's Apple done? Release an iPhone 4S with a big screen and a failed Map app and now a non-retina display iPad Mini. Jesus-H-Christ. So much for any claim to 'innovation'. Since Steve Jobs died Apple has been on a slippery slope. They've reached the top (in stock market capitalisation) and so it's all down-hill from here....