Posts by imaginarynumber

Re: Apple invented everything...

@Lotaresco

"The weak spot for Microsoft was that it decided to run telephony in the application layer. This meant that any problem with the OS would result in telephony being lost....

Symbian provided a telephone which could function as a computer. The telephony was a low-level service and even if the OS crashed completely you could still make and receive calls. Apple adopted the same architecture, interface and telephony are low level services which are difficult to kill."

Sorry, but if iOS (or symbian) crashes you cannot make calls.

In what capacity were you evaluating phones in 2002?

I cannot recall ever seeing a Windows Mobile blue screen.It would hang from time to time, but it never blue screened.

Re: Of course they didnt invent it, but made is so much better

"What Apple did is instantly obsolete all the "special web page" stuff that had been previously required. "Pinch to zoom" with the multi-touch capacitive screen was the game-changer. And Apple had to have that so you could connect to the various WiFi networks that were starting to become available."

My 5" HTC Athena shipped with Opera's multi-tabbed HTML browser (and even had Flash support). Oh and my earlier HTCs had WiFi back in 2004.

Windows Mobile didn't support multi-touch but it did support double tap to zoom and swiping before the iPhone was released.

"I can't help thinking that if these women have fingernails that mean they can't select a date from the sliders they are likely to face wider problems than that with any capacitive touch screen device unless they use some kind of stylus."

Some of the Nokia Lumias had super sensitive screens that would allow you to use a finger nail rather than the fleshy part of your finger. They even worked with standard gloves.

Re: Comparison Off

AFAIK the chip was only required for communication, not charging.

It would be illegal for a 3rd party to design their own chip. They have to licence them from Apple.So yes anyone is free to make accessories, provided that they pay Apple. So it ain't free..

My leads were only used for charging and there is no evidence that they were dangerous.

Erm... W10M does have sat-nav.

Re: Microsoft support will get buried tonight...

Tried to upgrade my Vaio Z11.

Used the system tray upgrade icon. A couple of hours later it told me that I had a DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE. Eventually rolled back to 7.

Now the icon tells me that my machine is not compatible and invites me to view the compatibly report, which, erm has a big tick and tells me that I am good to go...

Re: I hear a very small violin playing...

"There are virtually no moving parts on an iPhone. The only thing that can go wrong is the user mistreating it. 100% of the time"

Jesus wept.

Who told you that? Timmy?

And new devices are new regardless of in house testing. They are new because they have not been (or the components used therein) owned by other members of the public.

Regarding refurb units being more reliable than "new" products- can you explain why they often have shorter warranties? If they are more reliable then shouldn't they have equal or longer warranties?

Re: Hasn't hibernatation always sucked?

My only gripe with hibernation (on my Vaio Z11 with W7 and 6Gb of RAM)) is that it takes significantly longer to come out of hibernation than to boot from cold. That said it has not failed in over 6 years.

Re: losing an opportunity

"I would wager that a Nokia/WebOS combination would have blunted Android growth, and gave iOS run for it's money."

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Nokia's Symbian was the market leading smartphone OS (by market share) until the middle of 2010, at which point Android usurped them. iOS has never been the market leader.

Re: I smell fish

"Apple know how their phone backup system works, and clearly the FBI do not."

Then why can't Apple explain how a phone that had been within range of a "trusted" Wifi network on numerous occasions had not backed up for ages? It seems likely that iCloud back ups had been turned off by Farook ages ago. Are Apple able to override user preferences and force back ups? Sounds like a backdoor. Perhaps that is why the Chinese insisted that Apple move their customer accounts on to Chinese state owned servers...

"The remote wipe is a command sent from an Apple server, and is thus quite easy for Apple to block."

Are you suggesting that the FBI can phone Apple moments after an incident and ask Apple to block access to an AppleID/iCloud without needing a court order? If that is the case then yes the FBI messed up but it would imply that Apple aren't as concerned about customer privacy as they would have us believe.

"The case really looks like it's either the FBI trying to cover up their incompetence and then ending up in really hot constituiinal water by mistake, or a deliberate attempt to subvert the rule of law."

I find it hard to believe that the FBI's lawyers would have worked on the assumption that Apple's lawyers would have forgotten to highlight any possible operational errors.

Re: How did the ferals solve crimes without phones?

If smartphones represent little more than shortcuts to finding forensic data than what is the big deal about encryption in the first place?

Mind you I think that you may well be the first person I have seen that has suggested that the FBI's requests be declined as part of a weight loss program.

Someone running iOS 9.3 beta 3 was trying to fix a bug that stops the time being displayed in the status bar at the top of the phone.

It seems that he tried various dates and eventually scrolled back to 1/1/1970.

"I think most posters here need to read up on "Tax Incidence" and do a little less public showing of greed and envy."

And when MegaGlobal Incs are able to pay for the right to avoid so much in taxes it impacts upon smaller firms that are less able to comptete.

These smaller firms are more likely to be more labour intensive and accordingly employ more people

Re: Always the same argument

Company X may well have looked at the research papers, thought "oh that's clever, how we we do the same thing in a slightly different way?".

IF company X believes that it has acted legally then it would have no incentive to cover its tracks

Re: Getting Tough

"Don't you know that nazi was an abbreviation for National Capitalist"

Erm, you mean the political party that rejected both free market capitalism and Marxist socialism?

They could have called themselves the National My Little Pony Party, it doesn't follow that they had an equine fetish or that they wanted to elevate the position of those with pink manes

No need to reply, it is pretty clear from your tired post where your political allegiances lie (which is your prerogative). For the record, I am a "none of the above" kinda guy (rightly or wrongly).

IF Apple are concerned about security then it is correct that they explain the potential dangers to users. If they have grounds to believe that the public will fail to understand those risks then, sure, pull all domestic apps that install root certificates.

IF Apple respect privacy, then give developers tools that not only allow them to block adverts in Safari (already done) but that also allow them to block adverts in apps (including iAds).

Indeed.

I will hold off for the Intel based Surface Phone

Re: that'll be £55 please

That still doesn't explain why the refund cost in the UK is lower than the price that Apple sell the product for.

AFAIK, in the USA the refund is higher than the RRP.

IMO a receipt should only be necessary if the customer is asking for a refund in excess of the RRP. Some people do pay more than RRP.

In the absence of a receipt Apple should be willing to pay the cash equivalent to the price that they sell it for.

Re: Not Just Notifications (Maybe)

He might well be telling the truth, apparently the code also crashes several apps such as twitter and whatsapp.

The Apple "fix" only seems to help resolve issues with iMessage and not the apps.

Re: Hang on a sec

The Vaio Pro 13 had similar (and better) specs and cost the same as the MBA but weighed significantly less.

It did have a shorter battery life , unless you added the sheet battery which resulted in it weighing as much as the Air, added a few mm, cost a bit more but did result in a longer battery life than the Air.

Oh and it had a full HD touchscreen.

Re: Idiot proof - no ports that can be compromised...

"No USB...So no danger of rootkits and the like via those ports"

Did you read the article (you know, like the bit where they bemoan the fact that it only has one USB port)? Or did you just jump into iDefence mode?

As an update.

I was able to communicate with people on different carriers today but still unable to send texts to my GF's O2.

if I reboot I can send/receive texts BUT if I try to resend one of the earlier failed messages it puts the kibosh on everything again and I need to reboot.

V odd

Re: Eroding market share is irrelevant

"do you think that Apple can somehow keep the current iPhone pricing, but sell cut down iPhones to the low end market without cannibilizing the high end market or eroding the market perception of Apple as a premium brand? "

Erm.. they did just that earlier in 2014 when they resurrected the iPhone 4 in emerging markets such as India.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/09/apple_pulls_iphone_4_from_sale_in_india_after_just_four_months/