Posts by VinceH

" with everything bar the sheep wanting to kill, poison, and/or eat you (and I'm not so sure about the sheep)"

Okay, so it's set in New Zealand rather than Australia, but... Black Sheep

Re: Way to go!

"Is this a common trait among Samsung users?"

Having a sense of humour? Why, yes, I do believe it is.

(Withdrawn and posted again without the silly mistake. Oi, Reg, EDIT OPTION, PLEASE!)

Re: Sales training

" I also see that nowhere in any of the write-ups of this story is there mention made of the manual training the staff how to discuss and clarify the customers' requirements from a computer before taking over the conversation. Ho hum."

I'm not sure any sales people do anything like that anymore - if they ever really did in the first place. I think it was really just IT literate third parties that would-be buyers went to for advice, ie people like us.

And in an Apple store, it's even less surprising. It's not as they sell different platforms, so if you're there looking at tablets they're hardly going to weigh up your needs and recommend something by Samsung.

Re: I'd like

" Always baffled me how Apple could assert that a phone which had significantly more features than the iPhone was somehow a clone at the same time..."

Easy. They look at the better device and realise that's how good they ought to have made theirs, and then conclude *that* is what's being copied.

Re: Seriously?

" (Posting before the "This innvoation has to be protected against theft!!11" ovine spongiform encephalopathy hits)"

Don't worry, that only happens when the ludicrous patent in question is one held by Apple.

Re: Fair trial?

Hammers? iPhones?

*dreams*

Re: Win Win for everyone

"Motorola are now in on the act. So those who think Google are nice people who don't sue people or try to restrict competition should think again."

I have thought again. And my thoughts were "Awww, shame, poor Apple."

Closely followed by "HA HA!" in the voice of Nelson Muntz.

Re: lazy reporting

What if you put the vacuum on a train?

Re: Do you find

Moreso. I've never had any of their iPhones shitting in my garden.

Re: This is where it gets ridiculous...

" " the reality is that they aren't _that_ special" - they are to ther general public."

That's an interesting typo - Freudian, even. You probably meant "the" but given what most Applytes I know are like, "their" would be a good fit.

Re: @toadwarrior

" But Amazon won't deliver to a new address unless you re-enter your credit card details. So if your account is breached, there is little hackers can do."

Well, that's some small mercy, then, given what I discovered last year:

http://misc.vinceh.com/2011/04/potential-security-issue-amazon/

Re: A quick heads up

I do hope there will be sacrifices.

Specifically, virgin sacrifices.

Even more specifically, Virgin Media sacrifices.

Okay, that'll just be one sacrifice, but still!

Neutrinos are not dangerous

Really? Have you ever run into a gang of them in a dark alley after they've had far too much to drink?

"what's the advice for those of us who haven't rooted our phones and thus aren't actually able to remove the "operator installed" apps."

Don't allow the Facebook app to upgrade to anything beyond the version that came with the phone - and hope it's a version that doesn't do insidious things like this.

Re: I could get a TiVo...

I don't object to paying a little more for a better service - which the TiVo should be, in theory (but may not be in practice from some comments I've read).

However, as a V+ customer, I am becoming more and more convinced that they are reducing the quality of that service in order to make the TiVo offering seem better - and that's why, rather than thinking about upgrading, I'm actually thinking that it might be time to cancel.

Re: Not any more

" Cutting your nose off to spite your face, now thats clever."

He's only doing that if he thinks Apple's products are superior, but from what he said he doesn't - and he's not alone.

Re: Spot on

If Richard's mothr-in-law is anything like my stepfather, that won't work. He'll just be told he must have done something wrong.

I think it's The Hulk, shaking a fist at us.

"Hulk mad! Hulk left on moon!"

Re: A new low

Based on "one incident by a redneck" where it's actually two incidents in two separate stores, and involving at least three Apple employees.

If it really was just "one incident by a redneck" then that would suggest a stupid "Genius" - but that it's more than one incident in more than one store suggests the problem is higher up the chain. It might not be Apple's actual policy, but it's certainly a problem somewhere in Apple.