Posts by JDX

Apple get away with it fine in iOS. Unless MS are alleged to use their position in desktop computing unfairly they are fine.

Note that MS don't have anywhere near a monopoly on browsing on Windows anymore, which surely puts them in a safer position against claims they are using their IE-desktop dominance unethically.

It'sa closed platform, there is nothing illegal with that. Closed systems have been around forever... games consoles don't even let you install software on them that's not approved centrally (without some messing about).

Re: It looks nice

>>I'm not despoiling my fast, simple and beautiful machines with such an intrusive and bloated stack.

It would be terrible to use all those CPU cycles to make your life easier, I agree. What are they thinking, that computers exist to automate tasks or something?

Re: Song Great, Film Crap

The last couple of films have just been generic Bourne clones IMO.

Re: Is the love mutual?

You mean your OS can't run 32 bit apps in 64-bit mode? That's pretty tragic.

Re: seriously?

>>from a company that sells 5 million £500+ phones in three days?

When they sold 5 million phones in 3 days, their share price dropped. Last earnings release, they broke records but share prices fell because it wasn't as amazing a new record as predicted.

No. I wouldn't watch it.

Re: Off Topic, regarding "Retina"

I haven't bought into the hype... I think the retina resolution on the iPad3 and MBP is already TOO HIGH. So while Apple probably did well to raise it higher than it was, trying to beat Apple isn't worthwhile... focus on adding more visible features.

That sounds about right to me.

>>Um...how do you know it's Android fanboys? Seems like you have your own set of irrational prejudices...

You really didn't see the sarcasm?

Re: Hey Tim

Maps with cruddy data that you can avoid with a different app or using Safari.

Vs

Getting hundreds of millions of people to uninstall in some unsupported fashion to an earlier version. Cue hordes of bricked devices and mass hysteria!

Idiot.

Re: A rather small collection

How does a polar bear get blown off course?

You're clearly a tasteless trucker who just wants as much meat for his £2 as possible.

Re: satellite broardband sucks is why

It sounds like you speak from ignorance to me. Lag and speed are totally different. If you were playing an online game, a 56k modem might be far superior than satellite. If you were downloading a 1Gb file then things are reversed.

>>Uhm, isn't that a case of the iPhones GPS not being able to figure out exactly where you are rather than the maps application not knowing where places are?

Surely there is no excuse for GPS not getting your position to within 1m these days?

Yes thieves need a sticker to guess you're not in during the hours 9-5 when there is no car on your drive and the lights are turned off.

Re: Why?

Never mind the "why IT?" issue, why is this even reported as news at all? McDonalds fires someone for not following the rules - bombshell.

@Graham

You've been watching too much TV. the USA might on average have wider roads but they still have narrow 1-lane roads and busy cities... if a car can self-drive in a city then that's pretty much the ultimate test.

Having good maps is all well and good but people don't need that. Just two squishy eyeballs is all we need to navigate these fiendishly difficult tasks.

Sure on a 1-track road with passing places it will be SAFE - it will not drive into the oncoming car but will slow to a safe stop. But it MIGHT not know what to do, however then you would simply take over; nobody is suggesting these are not going to allow human intervention.

So I imagine the car would safely slow to a halt and then you sort it out until the other guy stops honking at you.